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{{Era|Memories|ACO}}
{{Era|Memories|ACO}}
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{{Memory_Infobox
{{Memory_Infobox
| name = The Baker's Dilemma
| name = The Baker's Dilemma
| description = ''[[Teta]] the baker has asked Bayek to rescue her [[Sasobek|taster]], for without his services, she can bake no more cakes. He was taken prisoner by city guards near the [[Memphis]] garrison.''
| image = ACO The Baker's Dilemma 1.png
| description = ''[[Teta]] the baker has asked [[Bayek]] to rescue her [[Sasobek|taster]], for without his services, she can bake no more cakes. He was taken prisoner by city [[guard]]s near the [[Memphis]] [[Memphites Barracks|garrison]].''
| appearance = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''
| appearance = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''
| type = Side, Level 23
| type = Side, Level 23
| previous = [[Mortem Romanum]]
| previous = [[Mortem Romanum]]
| next = [[Taimhotep's Song]]
| next = [[A Dream of Ashes]]
| source = [[Bayek]]
| source = [[Bayek]]
| location = [[Memphis]], [[Egypt]], {{Wiki|Ptolemaic Kingdom}}
| location = [[Memphis]], [[Ptolemaic Kingdom]]
| date = 48 BCE}}
| date = 48 BCE}}
'''The Baker's Dilemma''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Bayek]]'s genetic memories, relived by [[Layla Hassan]] through the Portable [[Animus|Animus HR-8]].
'''The Baker's Dilemma''' was a virtual representation of one of [[Bayek]]'s genetic memories, relived by [[Layla Hassan]] through the Portable [[Animus|Animus HR-8]].
==Description==
==Description==
A local [[Teta|baker]]'s [[Sasobek|taster]] has been imprisoned by the [[Ptolemy XIII|Ptolemies]] for non-payment of taxes.
A local [[Teta|baker]]'s [[Sasobek|taster]] has been imprisoned by the [[Ptolemy XIII|Ptolemies]] for non-payment of taxes.
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==Dialogue==
==Dialogue==
Bayek travelled to one of the markets in [[Memphis]].
Bayek travelled to one of the markets in [[Memphis]].
*'''Teta:''' ''Feastday breads! Fresh feastday breads! Breads in all shapes and sizes! Bread in the shape of the Double Crown! I curse Ahmes the fruit-seller, eater of his own shit. The finest bread in Memphis! Favorite bakery of [[Cleopatra]], the Queen! May the life and mind and memory of Ahmes the fruit-seller be forgotten. Coriander-seed bread! Date bread! Two loaves for the price of one on feastdays! May the liver and lungs and stomach of Ahmes the fruit-seller putrefy into ash. Feastday breada! Buy a fresh loaf for your sweetheard!''
*'''Teta:''' ''Feastday breads! Fresh feastday breads!<br />Breads in all shapes and sizes! Bread in the shape of the {{Wiki|Pschent|Double Crown}}!<br />(whispers) I curse [[Ahmes]] the fruit-seller, eater of his own shit.<br />The finest bread in Memphis! Favorite bakery of [[Cleopatra]], the Queen!<br />(whispers) May the life and mind and memory of Ahmes the fruit-seller be forgotten.<br />Coriander-seed bread! Date bread! Two loaves for the price of one on feastdays!<br />(whispers) May the {{Wiki|Canopic jar#Use and design|liver and lungs and stomach}} of Ahmes the fruit-seller putrefy into ash.<br />Feastday breads! Buy a fresh loaf for your sweetheard!<br />(whispers) May Ahmes the fruit-seller's {{Wiki|Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul#Ka (vital essence)|ka}} be deprived of nourishment in the grave.<br />Brighten your children's eyes with bread in the shape of a fish!<br />(whispers) May Ahmes the fruit-seller's heart be eaten by—''
Bayek approached the baker.
Bayek approached the baker.
*'''Teta:''' ''Hello, friend! Bread for your sweetheart?''
*'''Teta:''' ''Hello, friend! Bread for your sweetheart?''
[[File:ACO The Baker's Dilemma 2.png|thumb|250px|Bayek agreeing to help find the taster]]
*'''Bayek:''' ''No, thank you. Why do you speak a curse under your breath?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''No, thank you. Why do you speak a curse under your breath?''
*'''Teta:''' ''The magician who sold it to me said I must recite it two hundred times a day. Since I cannot recite while I sleep, I do it while work. Though it is hard to get any baking done without my taster!''
*'''Teta:''' ''The magician who sold it to me said I must recite it two hundred times a day. Since I cannot recite while I sleep, I do it while work. Though it is hard to get any baking done without my taster!''
*'''Bayek:''' ''What happened to your taster?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''What happened to your taster?''
*'''Teta:''' ''Gods blast the regime! They arrested him for not paying the tax on spices! And now I am out of cinnamon!''
*'''Teta:''' ''Gods blast the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|regime]]! They arrested him for not paying the tax on spices! And now I am out of cinnamon!''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Looks like you need more than a magician.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Looks like you need more than a magician.''
Bayek set out to find Teta's taster.
Bayek set out to find Teta's taster.
*'''Bayek:''' ''The regime presses even a poor baker so hard? Helping her would be a strike against Ptolemy, however small. And her bread smells delicious.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''The regime presses even a poor baker so hard? Helping her would be a strike against Ptolemy, however small. And her bread smells delicious.''
With [[Senu]]'s help, Bayek found someone held in a cage on a carriage.
[[File:ACO The Baker's Dilemma 3.png|thumb|250px|Bayek following the carriage]]
With [[Senu]]'s help, Bayek found the man in a cage on a carriage, in transit.
*'''Bayek:''' ''Could that be the man the baker is looking for?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Could that be the man the baker is looking for?''
He approached the carriage.
He approached the carriage.
*'''Bayek:''' ''You are the taster?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''You are the taster?''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Yes, I am he.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Yes, I am he.''
Bayek attacked the soldier riding the carriage. He carried the taster out of the cage.
Bayek rescued the man and carried him out of the cage.
*'''Bayek:''' ''Teta the baker asked me to bring you to her.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Teta the baker asked me to bring you to her.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''My beautiful Teta! Now I can see her face again before I die. I am weak with hunger and with love. Will you carry me to Teta?''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''My beautiful Teta! Now I can see her face again before I die. I am weak with hunger and with love. Will you carry me to Teta?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''If I must.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''If I must.''
[[File:ACO The Baker's Dilemma 5.png|thumb|250px|Bayek carrying Sasobek back to Teta]]
Bayek carried Sasobek on his back.
Bayek carried Sasobek on his back.
*'''Bayek:''' ''Can you walk?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Can you walk?''
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*'''Sasobek:''' ''I have not yet been brave enough to confess my love for her! Also, I am a wanted man.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''I have not yet been brave enough to confess my love for her! Also, I am a wanted man.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''I can see that. You did not pay your taxes.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''I can see that. You did not pay your taxes.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''It has nothing to do with taxes! I'll tell you everything when we get back to Teta. Teta, beautiful Teta... Her face is like the sun! Teta, my love, I am coming to you!''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''It has nothing to do with taxes! I'll tell you everything when we get back to Teta. Teta, beautiful Teta... Her face is like the [[sun]]! Teta, my love, I am coming to you!''
Bayek carried Sasobek to the market.
Bayek carried Sasobek to the market.
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Hurry! Not much further until I can see my love again!''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Hurry! Not much further until I can see my love again!''
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*'''Teta:''' ''You brought back my taster!''
*'''Teta:''' ''You brought back my taster!''
Bayek put Sasobek down.
Bayek put Sasobek down.
[[File:ACO The Baker's Dilemma 6.png|thumb|250px|Bayek learning of the attempt to poison Taimhotep]]
*'''Bayek:''' ''This man has something to tell you.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''This man has something to tell you.''
*'''Teta:''' ''Well?''
*'''Teta:''' ''Well?''
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*'''Teta:''' ''What?!''
*'''Teta:''' ''What?!''
*'''Bayek:''' ''What?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''What?''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Lady Taimhotep loves our cakes and bread. For five years, we have delivered them tot he [[Temple of Ptah|Great Temple]]. But yesterday, I overheard a guard say that this week's cakes had been poisoned!''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Lady Taimhotep loves our cakes and bread. For five years, we have delivered them to the [[Temple of Ptah|Great Temple]]. But yesterday, I overheard a guard say that this week's cakes had been poisoned!''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Have they been delivered?''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Have they been delivered?''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''I... I don't know. They'd be in the [[Memphites Barracks|garrison]], if not.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''I... I don't know. They'd be in the [[Memphites Barracks|garrison]], if not.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Then I will have to move quickly.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Then I will have to move quickly.''
Bayek turned to leave. Teta and Sasobek continued to converse.
*'''Teta:''' ''This... This is all too much for me.''
*'''Teta:''' ''This... This is all too much for me.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Would you like to sit down?''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Would you like to sit down?''
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*'''Sasobek:''' ''Of course, love.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Of course, love.''
*'''Teta:''' ''Hush!''
*'''Teta:''' ''Hush!''
Bayek travelled to the Memphites Barracks, where the cakes are held in. He descovered several stashes of cakes in the main hall.
[[File:ACO The Baker's Dilemma 8.png|thumb|250px|Bayek finding the cakes]]
Bayek travelled to the Memphites Barracks, where the cakes were held. He discovered several stashes of cakes in the main hall.
*'''Bayek:''' ''A basket of cakes. I got here in time. Now to make sure they will not poison anyone.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''A basket of cakes. I got here in time. Now to make sure they will not poison anyone.''
Bayek destroyed the baskets and headed to another room, where he discovered the rest of the baskets.
Bayek destroyed the baskets and headed to another room, where he discovered the rest of the baskets.
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Bayek destroyed the baskets.
Bayek destroyed the baskets.
*'''Bayek:''' ''That is the last of the cakes. Taimhotep is safe now.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''That is the last of the cakes. Taimhotep is safe now.''
If Bayek returns to the couple at the market.
*'''Bayek:''' ''I found the cakes and destroyed them.''
*'''Teta:''' ''The lady Taimhotep is safe.''
*'''Bayek:''' ''And what about you?''
*'''Teta:''' ''We will go to the High Priest and tell him of this plot. He is a kind man. He will understand we meant his wife no harm.''
*'''Sasobek:''' ''Medjay... This terrible situation has brought about one good result.''
*'''Teta:''' ''In the {{Wiki|Flooding of the Nile|Season of Flooding}}, we will be married!''
*'''Bayek:''' ''Happy news! May you both prosper.''
If Bayek approaches Ahmes.
*'''Man''' ''She sells bread, I sell fruit. There is no reason for competition. I have heard Teta cursing me, but so far my liver seems fine. I do not know why Teta hates me so much.''


==Outcome==
==Outcome==
Bayek helped the baker to rescue her taster. He discovered a plot to poison Taimhotep and was able to stop it in time.
Bayek helped the baker to rescue her taster. He discovered a plot to poison Taimhotep and was able to prevent it.


==Reference==
==Gallery==
<gallery position="center" widths="180" captionalign="center">
ACO The Baker's Dilemma 4.png|Bayek on the carriage carrying Sasobek
ACO The Baker's Dilemma 7.png|Bayek infiltrating the barracks
</gallery>
 
==References==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''


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Latest revision as of 02:40, 25 May 2026

The Baker's Dilemma was a virtual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description[edit | edit source]

A local baker's taster has been imprisoned by the Ptolemies for non-payment of taxes.

Dialogue[edit | edit source]

Bayek travelled to one of the markets in Memphis.

  • Teta: Feastday breads! Fresh feastday breads!
    Breads in all shapes and sizes! Bread in the shape of the Double Crown!
    (whispers) I curse Ahmes the fruit-seller, eater of his own shit.
    The finest bread in Memphis! Favorite bakery of Cleopatra, the Queen!
    (whispers) May the life and mind and memory of Ahmes the fruit-seller be forgotten.
    Coriander-seed bread! Date bread! Two loaves for the price of one on feastdays!
    (whispers) May the liver and lungs and stomach of Ahmes the fruit-seller putrefy into ash.
    Feastday breads! Buy a fresh loaf for your sweetheard!
    (whispers) May Ahmes the fruit-seller's ka be deprived of nourishment in the grave.
    Brighten your children's eyes with bread in the shape of a fish!
    (whispers) May Ahmes the fruit-seller's heart be eaten by—

Bayek approached the baker.

  • Teta: Hello, friend! Bread for your sweetheart?
Bayek agreeing to help find the taster
  • Bayek: No, thank you. Why do you speak a curse under your breath?
  • Teta: The magician who sold it to me said I must recite it two hundred times a day. Since I cannot recite while I sleep, I do it while work. Though it is hard to get any baking done without my taster!
  • Bayek: What happened to your taster?
  • Teta: Gods blast the regime! They arrested him for not paying the tax on spices! And now I am out of cinnamon!
  • Bayek: Looks like you need more than a magician.

Bayek set out to find Teta's taster.

  • Bayek: The regime presses even a poor baker so hard? Helping her would be a strike against Ptolemy, however small. And her bread smells delicious.
Bayek following the carriage

With Senu's help, Bayek found the man in a cage on a carriage, in transit.

  • Bayek: Could that be the man the baker is looking for?

He approached the carriage.

  • Bayek: You are the taster?
  • Sasobek: Yes, I am he.

Bayek rescued the man and carried him out of the cage.

  • Bayek: Teta the baker asked me to bring you to her.
  • Sasobek: My beautiful Teta! Now I can see her face again before I die. I am weak with hunger and with love. Will you carry me to Teta?
  • Bayek: If I must.
Bayek carrying Sasobek back to Teta

Bayek carried Sasobek on his back.

  • Bayek: Can you walk?
  • Sasobek: I am too weak even to stand!
  • Bayek: Really?
  • Sasobek: My strength comes from the beautiful Teta!
  • Bayek: Does she know you feel this way about her?
  • Sasobek: I have not yet been brave enough to confess my love for her! Also, I am a wanted man.
  • Bayek: I can see that. You did not pay your taxes.
  • Sasobek: It has nothing to do with taxes! I'll tell you everything when we get back to Teta. Teta, beautiful Teta... Her face is like the sun! Teta, my love, I am coming to you!

Bayek carried Sasobek to the market.

  • Sasobek: Hurry! Not much further until I can see my love again!
  • Bayek: This man is heavy. Too good at his job, I suppose.

Bayek carried Sasobek back to Teta.

  • Sasobek: Teta!
  • Teta: You brought back my taster!

Bayek put Sasobek down.

Bayek learning of the attempt to poison Taimhotep
  • Bayek: This man has something to tell you.
  • Teta: Well?
  • Sasobek: Teta, I love you!
  • Teta: What?
  • Sasobek: And I uncovered a plot to poison the lady Taimhotep, beloved of the High Priest!
  • Teta: What?!
  • Bayek: What?
  • Sasobek: Lady Taimhotep loves our cakes and bread. For five years, we have delivered them to the Great Temple. But yesterday, I overheard a guard say that this week's cakes had been poisoned!
  • Bayek: Have they been delivered?
  • Sasobek: I... I don't know. They'd be in the garrison, if not.
  • Bayek: Then I will have to move quickly.

Bayek turned to leave. Teta and Sasobek continued to converse.

  • Teta: This... This is all too much for me.
  • Sasobek: Would you like to sit down?
  • Teta: No! I need to think.
  • Sasobek: Of course, love.
  • Teta: Hush!
Bayek finding the cakes

Bayek travelled to the Memphites Barracks, where the cakes were held. He discovered several stashes of cakes in the main hall.

  • Bayek: A basket of cakes. I got here in time. Now to make sure they will not poison anyone.

Bayek destroyed the baskets and headed to another room, where he discovered the rest of the baskets.

  • Bayek: Another basket of cakes. These need to be destroyed too. I should check to see if there are any others.

Bayek destroyed the baskets.

  • Bayek: That is the last of the cakes. Taimhotep is safe now.

If Bayek returns to the couple at the market.

  • Bayek: I found the cakes and destroyed them.
  • Teta: The lady Taimhotep is safe.
  • Bayek: And what about you?
  • Teta: We will go to the High Priest and tell him of this plot. He is a kind man. He will understand we meant his wife no harm.
  • Sasobek: Medjay... This terrible situation has brought about one good result.
  • Teta: In the Season of Flooding, we will be married!
  • Bayek: Happy news! May you both prosper.

If Bayek approaches Ahmes.

  • Man She sells bread, I sell fruit. There is no reason for competition. I have heard Teta cursing me, but so far my liver seems fine. I do not know why Teta hates me so much.

Outcome[edit | edit source]

Bayek helped the baker to rescue her taster. He discovered a plot to poison Taimhotep and was able to prevent it.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

Assassin's Creed: Origins memories
Main Quests
The Heron Assassination - Homecoming - The Oasis - The False Oracle - May Amun Walk Beside You - Aya - Gennadios the Phylakitai - End of the Snake - Egypt's Medjay - The Scarab's Sting - The Scarab's Lies - Pompeius Magnus - The Hyena - The Lizard's Mask - The Lizard's Face - The Crocodile's Scales - The Crocodile's Jaws - Way of the Gabiniani - Aya: Blade of the Goddess - The Battle of the Nile - The Aftermath - The Final Weighing - Last of the Medjay - Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another - Birth of the Creed
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Special
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Siwa
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Hidden Tax - The Book of the Dead - Ambush in the Temple - Ulterior Votive - Lady of Slaughter - Birthright - Taste of her Sting
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Giza
The Planetarium - Precious Bonds - What's Yours Is Mine
Memphis
A Dream of Ashes - Blood in the Water - Odor Most Foul - Children of the Streets - Taimhotep's Song - The Baker's Dilemma - Mortem Romanum
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The Hidden Ones
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Duat
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