Murder at the Palace!

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Murder at the Palace! was a virtual representation of one of Jacob and Evie Frye's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.

Description

Jacob or Evie met with Frederick Abberline infront of the Buckingham Palace, who told them of a palace guard who has been murdered.

Buckingham Palace

Dialogue

• Abberline: There has been a murder at the palace. I need you to be careful with this one. Anti-royalist pamphlets have been cropping up and tensions are high. The Queen is very nervous about security. This way!

Jacob or Evie follows Abberline to up to the second floor of the palace, outside the Queen's study.

• Abberline: Here we are. Good luck! God save the queen and all that!

Jacob or Evie enters the room and investigates the body, which starts the investigation.

Queen's study

Clues

• Guardsman's body - A member of the Palace Guard slumped in a contorted position, eyes and mouth wide open. The body shows no signs of violence.

• Guest list - A list of eminent invitees to the investiture to be held this evening. The quee
• Vase - A priceless vase, lying broken on the ground. Signs of a struggle.
• Window - The window is broken. The broken area is large enough to allow access to someone.
• Letter from Scotland Yard - To her Majesty's private secretary Sir Henry Ponsonby: "Dear Sir Henry, I am troubled to have to write concerning a disturbing situation that has recently occured. Yesterday, we were informed that a young boy had been abducted, and we have rushed to bring this to your attention, and through you, to the attention of Her Majesty, as you think necessary, for we fear the boy's disappearance may be connected to a possible attempt to disrupt this evening's investiture ceremony at the palace. "Please be assured, Sir Henry, that we are doing everything possible to locate this child, one Arthur Doyle." Doyle's address is appended.
• Vault - Marked by deep gashes as if someone attempted to break in.

Dialogue

• Queen Victoria: Please leave the room for a moment. No one is permitted to see me open the safe.

Jacob or Evie leaves the room and the door is shut. Behind the room, the Queen talks to herself.

• Queen Victoria: You cannot imagine that someone was after the Scepter? I must see it! I ordered the Scepter with the Dove to be brought from the Tower for tonight's event! Oh! Thank heavens! It is untouched!

The Queen reopens the door.

Interrogations

• Queen Victoria (body): The poor man! I arrived to find him here, dead as you see him. He gave his life to defend my person.
• Queen Victoria (vault): Only I know the combination. The vault contains the very precious Scepter with the Dove which I've chosen to be used in tonight's knighthood ceremony.
• Queen Victoria (event)L This evening I will knight several industrialists that have worked to end the practice of child labor. All of London's luminaries are invited.

Artie's Yard

Clues

• Evidence wall - Drawings and texts linking various clues and anomalies throughout the mysteries that have been solved and the resulting penny dreadfuls. The final scrawled message is unfinished: "Leading to... Raymo –".
• Blank paper - A sheet of apparently blank notepaper.

Interrogations

• Buck (Artie): Artie's been in a state. Thinks there's some sort master criminial on the loose. Then this morning, he's gone!
• Buck (evidence wall): Come to think of it he had been going on about the Queen and all for the last day or two. Seemed to think she was in some sort of trouble.
• Dooley (Artie) - He said he was on to something. Said everything had hidden clues.
• Dooley (evidence wall): Y'know, when he thought somethin' was important, he'd write it up in invisble ink. Lemon juice, like.
• Dooley (Henry Raymond): I did see Artie's friend, Mr. Raymond. He'd just come from Purlock Publishing with his new penny dreadful. Seemed very excited about it. I never liked him much.
• Dooley (blank paper): He'd use smoke to read it. If you have a way to make smoke, you can see what it says.

Clues

• Blank paper - Written in invisible ink: "Purlock Publishing... Henry Raymond... It's all connected... Follow the clues!

Purlock Publishing

Clues

• Dynamite crates - Empty munitions crates clearly marked "Prescott Munitions No. 408."
• Map - A plan of Buckingham Palace. The queen's study is circled in black.
• Gallery proof - A typeseller's gallery pool for a pernny dreadful, "EXPLOSION AT THE PALACE!" With some descriptive text: "Attack at the heart of Britain!" "Buckingham Palace in flames!" "Will the queen escape?" The book is written by Henry Raymond.
• Anti-royalist pamphlets - "Down with the Monarchy!", "An End to our Suffering under Victoria!", "The Queen must pay for her Sins!"

Dialogue

• Jacob or Evie: He's planning an explosion at the palace! It must be evacuated!

Jacob or Evie make their way back to the palace.

Buckingham Palace

Dialogue

• Palace Guardsman: There's at least a hundred people here for the knighthood ceremony. The Queen will use the Scepter with the Dove for the knighting. She'll arrive precisely at one o'clock.

Jacob or Evie warns the party quests and the Queen to evacuate, but no explosion occurs.

Memory Palace

Interrogations

• Artie (why evacuate?): Look beyond the obvious, beyond surface appearances.
• Douglas (why evacuate?): Nothing but a showman. So many people makes everything more dramatic!

Clues

• Dynamite crates - Empty munitions crates clearly marked "Prescott Munitions No. 408.

Interrogations

• Stalwart citizen Raymond: I found the same clues you found! I knew there was to be an explosion and I led you here to save everyone. I'm as mystified as you are that nothing happened.
• Criminal mastermind Raymond: Seems to me you've created the perfect diversion, haven't you?
• Terrorist Raymond: You've helped me herd all those dreamy people to certain death! We shall hear the explosion presently.

Criminal mastermind Raymond is accused.

• Raymond: Quite right.

Clues

• Scattered papers - "I always get what I want." Written by a left-handed man.

Interrogations

• Mrs. Ashton (diversion from what?): I brought him his invitation to the knighthood ceremony. The one with the special scepter.

Clues

• Newspaper - Several articles. One about the coming ceremony wherein the queen will use the storied Sceptre with the Dove to knight an industrialist.

Interrogations

• Colonel Asquith (diversion from what?): Never trust a man who tells you what you want to hear. He's after something!
• Kidnapper Raymond: While you were chasing all those people around, I absconded with the queen, A hefty ransom is now due.
• Master thief Raymond: A man like me can take anything he wants. Even the queen's most beloved item of all her Crown Jewels: the priceless and symbolic Scepter with the Dove.
• Murderer Raymond: I needed you to distract everyone so that I could quietly assassinate Her Majesty the Queen!

Master thief Raymond is accused.

• Raymond: The Scepter with the Dove, taken with your help! What could better display my genius?

Interrogation

• Curtis (how was it stolen?): No one questions you when you wear a uniform!

Clues

• Spider - A large distinctive spider, curled up in death.

Interrogation

• Artie (how was it stolen?): I suspect the solution will turn on geometry.
• Safe cracker Raymond: I am a fellow of many skills. Cracking a safe is but one!
• Observe Raymond: I simply watched the queen open the safe when you arrived!
• Coerce Raymond: I threaten the queen with her very life. She told me the combination in a thrice!

Observe Raymond is accused.

• Raymond: Quite right.

Interrogation

• Raymond (normal outfit): The dead guard was I! The spider venom allowed me to fake my death. I had a perfect view from where I lay.
• Raymond (guard's outfit): I have stolen the queen's most prized possession, the Scepter with the Dove! Think of it! I have out-foxed you! The most cunning detective in Britain. I mocked you by leaving clues for you at every turning point! Now I have the Scepter, proof positive of my superiority!

Jacob or Evie is woken up from the memory by Abberline.

Outcome

Jacob or Evie climbs up to the roof to confront Raymond who is holding Arthur hostage. While one of the twin holds Raymond at gunpoint, the other climbs up to assassinate him.

• Evie: I suppose this means our detective days are over. But what about you Artie?
• Arthur: I'm glad I survived Mr. Raymond's insanity, but sadly he won't be here anymore to write more books!
• Evie: A great loss, I'm sure.
• Arthur: I'm quite serious, Miss Evie. Me and my friends waited every week to read the next number and find out what happened next!
• Jacob: Why don't you write some yourself.
• Arthur: A fellow would have to very clever indeed!
• Evie: Sounds like you'd be in your own element, my dear.
• Jacob: "The Gruesome Whitechapel Murders, by Artie!"
• Arthur: I shoudl think I would use my full name. "By Artie... Conan Doyle."
• Evie: I'd use 'Arthur'. Sound more of a serious fellow.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - The Dreadful Crimes