Unearthing the Truth

Unearthing the Truth was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.

Description

Sokrates asked Kassandra to recover information that turns the people against Kleon.

Dialogue

Kassandra spoke to Sokrates in Perikles' Residence.

• Kassandra: I should've stayed. Someone needed to stop Kleon.
• Sokrates: Fools look backwards in times like these, and you're no fool. For now, we work to save Mytilene.
• Kassandra: So that's what all this is? Some kind of plan?
• Sokrates: Ever since I heard Kleon speak of Mytilene, I've known something was wrong and have been taking steps to find out just what.

Tell me your plan.Kleon should die.

• Kassandra: Your plan sounds promising...

• Sokrates: One of my students is posing as a guard at the akropolis. Apparently, Kleon is hiding something there, and has been meeting others in secret.
• Kassandra: That's a bold move.
• Sokrates: Desperate times.
• Kassandra: If you believe there's something at the akropolis that will help, I'll find it.
• Sokrates: I expect you'll find the proof you need of his offense.

(If players choose "What if the plan doesn't work?")

• Kassandra: What if the people don't turn against Kleon?
• Sokrates: They will. I'll be speaking in front of them soon. With your help, we'll show them the man behind the facade.

(If players choose "I'll find the proof.")

• Kassandra: Where do you need me to go?
• Sokrates: To the westen section of the Akropolis Sanctuary.

(If players choose "What other information do you have?")

• Kassandra: Anything else you can tell me about where to look?
• Sokrates: What I know is Kleon's always loved the Statue of Athena.
• Kassandra: Sounds like a good place to start.

(If players choose "I'll go now.")

• Kassandra: I'll find something at the akropolis that Kleon won't be able to deny.
• Sokrates: Good. I'm headed soon to speak in front of the people at the Pnyx. If you find anything that can help, meet me there.
• Kassandra: I'll be quick.

Kassandra departed and headed to the akropolis. She identified a heavily guarded sector near the gate.

• Kassandra: This looks like somewhere Kleon would come.

Kassandra sneaked into the house in the sector. She read a note on the table.

• Letter to Kleon:
  Kleon,
  Your personal effects have been moved and hidden like you asked.
  I'll keep the key safe until further notice, and continue patrolling the Parthenon.
  Polemarch Phaelos
• Kassandra: So to get the key, I need to find the commander, Phaelos.

She found a shovel on a fence.

• Kassandra: This shovel looks recently used.

At the door leading to garden, she found some muddy tracks.

• Kassandra: Muddy tracks. Probably came from someone in the garden.

Kassandra headed to the garden and found a chest.

• Kassandra: Looks like someone dug here.

Needing the key, Kassandra travelled to the Parthenon to look for Phaelos. After killing him, she looted the key from him and returned to the garden. She unlocked the chest, recovering a papyrus.

• Kleon's Papyrus:
  Kleon,
  After the attack on Mytilene is a success, we'll have no problem or shortage of men for your next targets.
  We'll have the ships ready as soon as any vote passes.
• Kassandra: Sokrates was right. This is exactly what we needed.

Kassandra left the sanctuary and travelled to the Pnyx. She met with Sokrates.

• Sokrates: Good, you're here. The people are waiting for me to speak.
• Kassandra: You should be able to use this to your advantage.

Kassandra handed the papyrus to Sokrates, who read it.

• Kassandra: It's just what I could find about Kleon. Mytilene is just the first of many places he wants to wipe out.
• Sokrates: With the sway he has over the polis, he'd get the votes for death every time.
• Kassandra: Then it's up to us, right now, to change their minds.
• Sokrates: So you'll join me?

I'll join you.I'm no speaker.

• Kassandra: Talking to the people may not be enough. We need to show them why following Kleon is wrong.
• Sokrates: I'm surprised to hear you suggest such an idea.
• Kassandra: "Desperate times." Isn't that what you said?
• Sokrates: So I did. Follow my lead and respond as if you were one of Kleon's supporters, not mine.
• Kassandra: I'll do my best.

Kassandra joined Sokrates on the stage, beginning the "debate".

• Kassandra: But Sokrates, Kleon is a man of the people.
• Sokrates: Tell me, if you harm someone with a sword, are you not responsible?
• Kassandra: I am.
• Sokrates: What if you hire somebody else to harm another? Are you still responsible for that harm?

I am responsible.Of course I'm not!

• Kassandra: Yes, I'd still be responsible!
• Sokrates: You are lamost too insightful, and you're completely right. If someone should be hurt by any means, and we play role in that hurt, then we are still responsible.

• Kassandra: Thats ridiculous! I'm not harming the person - someone else is!
• Sokrates: Would the person not have been safe from harm otherwise?
• Kassandra: From me at least, yes.
• Sokrates: Then you admit you bear responsibility for that harm, for you have still participated in it even if indirectly.
• Kassandra: I suppose I do.

• Sokrates: We have agreed that we may harm another, even if not by our own hands.
• Kassandra: That's right.
• Sokrates: So let me ask you another question - who should you trust? The many, or the one who has more expertise?

I decide with the crowd.People with expertise know better.

• Kassandra: The majority is always right.
• Sokrates: And who is informing the majority?
• Kassandra: I suppose we're following the one at the top.
• Sokrates: And if you found out the person "at the top" had lied to the people you follow, what would you do?

• Kassandra: I follow the one with expertise. Surely they know better than I do.
• Sokrates: Then your decision is based only on what another says.
• Kassandra: It's all I have to go off of.
• Sokrates: And if they lied?

I'd still follow the leader.I'd find someone new.

• Kassandra: People who lie to me don't deserve my trust.
• Sokrates: Nor should they! After all, if someone lies to you a single time, what's to say they would not do so again?
• Kassandra: yes, you're right.
• Sokrates: So you agree that someone who lies to you is not worthy of leading?
• Kassandra: Of course.

Sokrates turned to the crowd.

• Sokrates: O Athenians, would you not also agree that you can have responsibility for harming another, even through someone else?
• Civilian: I would!
• Sokrates: And would you follow someone you found out had lied to you for their own again?
• Civilian: Of course not!
• Sokrates: Above all things, therefore, I beg and implore you hear these words. The one you currently follow is lying for his own gain.

The crowd began gossping to each other.

• Kassandra: Kleon has lied to you in order to get votes needed to attack Mytilene. And we have proof he'll do it again. Should the ship arrive in Mytilene, the people stand no chance of surviving. Now that you know the truth, you can take back your decision.
• Sokrates: Another vote must be called! The lives of those people are in your hands, too. The ship must be stopped!

The crowd nooded and cheered in agreement. Kassandra followed Sokrates off stage. (Depending on the choices made in the debate dialogue, the following dialogue will differ)

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• Sokrates: That probably could have gone better. But, even so, I believe the people are unable to deny the proof we presented.

• Sokrates: That was a great display of rhetoric. The people will be unable to deny what they heard.

I hope so.It did seem to work.

• Kassandra: All we did was talk.
• Sokrates: What we did was far more. We used proof and a clear argument to bring forth an outcome that will not just hurt Kleon, but hopefully save countless lives.

• Kassandra: But was it enough?
• Sokrates: I believe word of Kleon's misdeeds will be shared throughout Athens. Its citizens love the city and what it stands for. Nobody wishes for it to fall.

Outcome

Kassandra helped Sokrates to recover proof of Kleon's corruption. They gathered and gave a speech a the Pnyx, convincing the Athenians of Kleon's spreading of lies to gain power and votes.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey