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Dastardly Deeds

Dastardly Deeds

Completed all Basso Jobs in The City

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How to unlock the Dastardly Deeds achievement in Thief - Definitive Guide

You will get this achievement for completing all 25 Basso Jobs in the City.

These are the jobs you will get from Basso:

- Sick Willy (available as soon as you end your first meeting with Basso)
- Beauty Within (available as soon as you end your first meeting with Basso)
- Medical Misery (available as soon as you end your first meeting with Basso)
- Writing Wrongs (available as soon as you end your first meeting with Basso)
- Machinations (available as soon as you end your first meeting with Basso)
- A Stroke of Madness (available after completing chapter two)
- The Disappearing Poet (available after completing chapter two)
- Taking a Fence (available after completing chapter two)
- A Lady's Bequest (available after completing chapter two)
- Watch Your Step (available after completing chapter two)
- Saving Face (available after completing chapter two)
- Carnivalesque (available after completing chapter two)
- Casing the Cargo (available after completing chapter four)
- Poor Protection (available after completing chapter four)
- Shark Bait (available after completing chapter four)
- Fit for a Queen (available after completing chapter four)
- Long Drop Full Stop (available after completing chapter five)
- The Path to Riches (available after completing chapter five)
- Eyes on the Prize (available after completing chapter five)
- Check, Mate (available after completing chapter five)
- A Grave Matter (available after completing chapter five)
- The Rule of Thumb (available after completing chapter six)
- The Tinker's Trinket (available after completing chapter six)
- The Witch of Stonemarket (available after completing chapter six)
- The Point of No Return (available after completing chapter six)

You can also wait until you have finished chapter six and then do all Basso jobs in one go (as I did). Just go to Basso, talk to him and accept all he has to offer. The jobs will appear as white dots on your map. After completing the first jobs you can go back and accept the next ones - just repeat this until you have done all 25 jobs.

Edit: As reported by scntyboy - if you plundered ealbiters cabinet the first time you entered the area the job "poor protection" will not be available from basso. BUT the game does give you credit for it.

The achievement will pop right after you've finished the last job.

If you are having troubles with any of these jobs I can recommend this link: http://guides.gamepressure.com/thief/guide.asp?ID=24029
This is a well written guide with pics which should solve your problems :)

If you prefer a video-guide you should check out the YouTube channel of "First Try Gaming". http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLslrHWn5Idtd-yvhkkEn73...
All credits for the vids go to them!!!
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19 Mar 2014 10:51

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If, like I did, you plundered ealbiters cabinet the first time you entered the area the job "poor protection" will not be available from basso. BUT the game does give you credit for it.
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By scntyboy on 24 Mar 2014 00:23
Thx for the information. I will add this to the solution!
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By LizardKingv666 on 24 Mar 2014 07:40
I did as well, and the mission was never there to accept. I assume I will get credit for it
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By Kanchanaburi on 14 Sep 2015 17:17
Mine hasn't popped.
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By beets101 on 15 Jan 2016 12:47
Strange. Have you checked that all missions appear in your questlog?
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By LizardKingv666 on 17 Jan 2016 13:24
This one glitched for me on ‘The path to Ritches’. I picked up the document but the job didn’t complete. The objective marker just sits on the window of the shop and doesn’t move. facepalm
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By Swebbie Jr on 26 Aug 2018 19:59
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There are a total of 25 jobs available from Basso which are available throughout the game. The first jobs become available from him after completing Chapter 1 (speak to him in the Crippled Burrick). The final few jobs do not become available until after completing Chapter 6. You can quite happily wait until Chapter 6 and collect/do all the jobs then - you will not miss them just because you did not pick them up as soon as they became available.

These jobs all generally involve simple robberies around the city itself. Half the time, the biggest challenge is actually figuring out how to get to your destination. The map and objective tracker are definitely your allies in this!

For specific jobs, there's an excellent detailed guide covering all of the jobs at GamePressure: http://guides.gamepressure.com/thief/
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22 Apr 2014 20:47

Basso, pretty much your only ally/friend in this game can be found- depending on what point you are in the game- in the City's taverns; The Crippled Burrick or The Siren’s Rest. He differs from other NPCs in that he offers you a set of small side jobs that you can complete to earn some quick gold. These jobs require you steal a particular item for his request-tees from areas located all around the city. These are basically fetching quests, no matter how varied they may appear to be. There are a total of 25 jobs that you have to complete.

Fortunately, you don't have to go back to Basso in order to claim credit for competing each Job; you will automatically complete it as soon as you've picked up the requested item. The difficulty in these quests however comes down to figuring out how to gain access to these particularly hidden areas in the hub. Therefore, you will want to abuse the use of your focus ability in order to locate blue highlighted objects that you can interact with, whether it be a rope-arrow pint, a trap you can disable to open a gated window, a hidden vent, and so forth.
 


List of all Jobs is as follows:
Unlocked to you upon completing Chapter 2:


  • Sick Willy
  • Beauty Within
  • Medical Misery
  • Writing Wrongs
  • Machinations
  • Carnivalesque

Unlocked to you upon completing Chapter 4:

  • Shark Bait
  • Fit for a Queen
  • A Stroke of Madness
  • The Disappearing Poet
  • Taking a Fence
  • A Lady’s Bequest
  • Watch Your Step
  • Saving Face
  • Casing the Cargo
  • Poor Protection

Unlocked to you upon completing Chapter 5

  • Long Drop Full Stop
  • The Path to Riches
  • Eyes on the Prize
  • Check, Mate
  • A Grave Matter

Unlocked to you upon completing Chapter 6

  • The Point of No Return
  • The Witch of Stonemarket
  • The Tinker’s Trinket
  • The Rule of Thumb
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You will first meet Basso, Garret's associate, right after leaving the Clock Tower and following the objective marker after Chapter 1. Once you have spoken to him via a cutscene, you can now visit him in between Chapters and collect side jobs. He will usually have multiple jobs available at once, so simply accept them all and they will be stored in your journal under the Objectives tab.

From there, you will see that all jobs related to Basso have a solid white circle next to them, while story and client jobs have different icons. You can tap in order to track which job you want to start focusing on. Most of Basso's jobs usually require you to traverse around The City and steal valuable loot from different people or different locations. After the main requirement is achieved, the job will be complete. Below, you will see a list of all Basso's jobs; there are twenty-five jobs in total.

  • Sick Willy: Steal Sick Willy's golden watch
  • Beauty Within: Steal the hand-mirror
  • Medical Misery: Steal the medication bottle
  • Writing Wrongs: Steal the Thief Manuscript
  • Machinations: Meet Ector in his workshop
  • A Stroke of Madness: Steal the painting
  • The Disappearing Poet: Retrieve the poet's last pieces
  • Taking a Fence: Steal everything in the fence shop
  • A Lady's Bequest: Steal Lady Christina's testament
  • Saving Face: Steal lord Alderly's bust
  • Casing the Cargo: Steal the Watch census
  • Shark Bait: Plunder Eddy Levack's office
  • Fit for a Queen: Retrieve Comfort's necklace
  • Long Drop Full Stop: Retrieve Basso's Pen
  • The Path to Riches: Steal White Sail's Documents
  • Eyes on the Prize: Steal the telescope mechanism
  • Check, Mate: Steal back Basso's chess piece
  • A Grave Matter: Steal Grandpa's ashes
  • The Rule of Thumb: Steal Jeb's scissor
  • The Witch of Stonemarket: Steal the ritual knife
  • The Point of No Return: Steal Stumble Gate Store loot
  • The Tinker's Trinket: Steal the Thief-Taker's Trinket
  • Watch Your Step: Deactivate all the traps
  • Poor Protection: Plunder the Eel's Stash
  • Carnivalesque: Meet Vittori at the Siren's Rest
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You will first meet Basso, Garret's associate, right after leaving the Clock Tower and following the objective marker after Chapter 1. Once you have spoken to him via a cutscene, you can now visit him in between Chapters and collect side jobs. He will usually have multiple jobs available at once, so simply accept them all and they will be stored in your journal under the Objectives tab.

From there, you will see that all jobs related to Basso have a solid white circle next to them, while story and client jobs have different icons. You can tap in order to track which job you want to start focusing on. Most of Basso's jobs usually require you to traverse around The City and steal valuable loot from different people or different locations. After the main requirement is achieved, the job will be complete. Below, you will see a list of all Basso's jobs; there are twenty-five jobs in total.

  • Sick Willy: Steal Sick Willy's golden watch
  • Beauty Within: Steal the hand-mirror
  • Medical Misery: Steal the medication bottle
  • Writing Wrongs: Steal the Thief Manuscript
  • Machinations: Meet Ector in his workshop
  • A Stroke of Madness: Steal the painting
  • The Disappearing Poet: Retrieve the poet's last pieces
  • Taking a Fence: Steal everything in the fence shop
  • A Lady's Bequest: Steal Lady Christina's testament
  • Saving Face: Steal lord Alderly's bust
  • Casing the Cargo: Steal the Watch census
  • Shark Bait: Plunder Eddy Levack's office
  • Fit for a Queen: Retrieve Comfort's necklace
  • Long Drop Full Stop: Retrieve Basso's Pen
  • The Path to Riches: Steal White Sail's Documents
  • Eyes on the Prize: Steal the telescope mechanism
  • Check, Mate: Steal back Basso's chess piece
  • A Grave Matter: Steal Grandpa's ashes
  • The Rule of Thumb: Steal Jeb's scissor
  • The Witch of Stonemarket: Steal the ritual knife
  • The Point of No Return: Steal Stumble Gate Store loot
  • The Tinker's Trinket: Steal the Thief-Taker's Trinket
  • Watch Your Step: Deactivate all the traps
  • Poor Protection: Plunder the Eel's Stash
  • Carnivalesque: Meet Vittori at the Siren's Rest
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You meet basso after completing chapter one. He is marked on the map by a bird icon. Outside main chapters, you can talk to him and he will offer you additional jobs. New 3-4 jobs appear after completing each chapter so you should visit him after returning to clock tower.You can have unlimited amount of active missions, so you should accept them all. These missions are simple and often require you to steal one specific item. There are 25 of them in total. To track specific mission press (by default) f1, then click "objectives", choose mission, and press "track" at the bottom. You can also track how many you completed in statistics "overall" tab.
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25 Apr 2023 00:00

I received this trophy before chapter 7 of the story (when you need to steal the ring from Orion). Try to visit Basso after each chapter and take tasks from him. When you take the last task and try to talk to him, he will say something like “I have nothing for you, you have already robbed the whole city completely.”
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02 Mar 2014 13:38

Basso's orders can be completed after completing the storyline. You can take them all at once and they will all be marked with dots on the map.
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11 Aug 2014 17:28