Rifts

I wanted to ask you something. Which is... what's your name? This article title is conjecture. Although the article subject is canon, no official name for it has been given.

300px|right|The Abstergo Phone Records Rifts appeared to be breaks in the programming of memories within the Animus, which could be seen using Eagle Vision. Each of the ten rifts were found on key landmarks throughout Rome, and concealed Clay Kaczmarek's cluster puzzles.

Rifts were the equivalent of Glyphs, but instead of revealing a second Truth video, they simply relayed the message "The miracle is in the execution" over the apparent ultrasound of an unborn child, along with the inclusion of an executable file.

Unlike Glyphs, Rifts could not be seen or accessed without the use of Eagle Vision. Ezio Auditore da Firenze had to grab the edge of a Rift, whilst using Eagle Vision, and climb into it.

Various hidden messages such as coded numbers and letters, music notes and Morse code appeared in the Rifts, which when deciphered, explained Abstergo Industries' rise to power.

Locations

Centro DistrictAntico DistrictCampagna DistrictVaticano District

Rosa in Fiore

On the outside north wall of the brothel on the second floor wall.

Palazzo Senatorio

On the back of the Palazzo, near the roof, towards the end of the free-running path.

Pantheon

Inside the Pantheon, on the wall right above the main entrance. Ezio could obtain this cluster by entering the Pantheon through freerunning up the wall nearest the entrance and then walking around and jumping on it.

Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Montesant

On the western tower near the left dome.

Colosseo

At the very top, northern side of the Colosseo, just west of the view point. It was on the outside wall, and Ezio could use the Colosseo's buy landmark sign as a point of reference, as the rift was almost exactly above that.

Acquedotto Claudia

Near the small town where Leonardo frequently was located, on the north side of aqueduct. Ezio could climb onto the top of the aqueduct and then drop down over the side to reach it. It was very close to the Borgia tower but on the opposite side of the aqueduct.

Aventino

On the Borgia tower facing north towards the city.

Caserma di Alviano

East side of the wall, on the outside of the perimeter, facing the aqueduct.

Castra Praetoria

In the inner courtyard where Octavian de Valois was assassinated, on the eastern wall.

Castel Sant'Angelo

On the actual cylinder of the castle, on the south side where the top of the outer wall was closest to the cylinder, near a haystack, right below a circular window.

Puzzle types

Rifts retained some of the puzzles included in Glyphs, such as the rotating pictures and image-finding puzzles, but also included several new ones.

• Chess: Desmond was shown a chessboard with all corresponding chess pieces, as well as a riddle that told him which piece to use and where to move it.

• Decoding: Desmond was given a variety of images and a riddle, of which he could alternate between with a screen containing a two-layered rotating wheel that contained symbols, acting as a code sheet, as well as 2 rows of 4 boxes bearing changeable symbols that acted as a code entry box. By reading the riddle, he could search through these images for the hidden object that revealed the "correct coordinates" located in a single image, and, when the correct coordinates were found, Desmond could rotate the wheel to break the code.

• Sound wave matching: Desmond was given an audio recording and multiple sound waves. By selecting the correct sound waves to match the one shown on the screen, he was allowed to listen to the audio tape and/or move on to the next puzzle.

• Quarantine zone: This puzzle was always the last puzzle of every rift. Desmond was shown a black screen with a relatively small circular crosshair that revealed red, blinking dots as well as a background image. These dots emitted beeping sounds, increasing the closer the crosshair was. All dots had to be "activated" in a certain amount of time, and if any of the remaining dots were not activated, the puzzle was reset. These dots remained in the same area every time, even after the puzzle had been reset. After completing this puzzle, Desmond was given a video clip.

Cluster puzzles

Cluster 1

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Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by selecting the five images of aristocrats not doing any sort of work. File:Cluster 1-1--article image.jpg

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by moving the pawn at E2 to E4. File:Cluster 1-2--article image.jpg

"They become increasingly aware of our existence. We can no longer rely on the divine right of the aristocracy to maintain control. We need a new system, something much more subtle."

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by hitting A or Cross to "activate" the blinking red light found here: File:Cluster 1-3--article image.jpg

Cluster 2

123456

"The individual intends only his own gain, and he was in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."

File:AdamSmithsignature.png —Adam Smith

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by turning the first, inner ring left four times, the second and first rings right twice, the third and first rings left three times, and the fourth outer ring left four times. File:Cluster 2-1--article image.jpg

"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."

Puzzle 2: The first and third rings were linked, as were the fourth and first. Desmond turned the combined first and third rings right five times, the second ring right five times, the third ring left four times, and the combined fourth and first rings left twice to solve the puzzle. File:Cluster 2-2--article image.jpg

"A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of the whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to."

Puzzle 3: The third ring was linked with the second as was the fourth with the first. The puzzle was solved by turning the first ring right three times, the second ring right four times, the combined third and second rings left five times, and the combined fourth and first ring right once. File:Cluster 2-3--article image.jpg

"A country that makes provision to increase in inhabitants, whose situation is good, and whose people have a genius adapted to trade, will never fail to be gainers in the balance, provided the labour and industry of their people be well managed and carefully directed."

A string of letters appeared.

"lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo lo"

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by moving the pawn at F2 to F4. File:Cluster 2-4--article image.jpg

Puzzle 5: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the two blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other light before the cursor filled up with red. File:Cluster 2-5--article image.jpg

Cluster 3

12345

"Missing -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... .-.. --- ... - -.. -. ..- -- -...

Morse code translated: DAR KNESS LOSTD NUMB

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by selecting the area shown below (revealing a hidden Abstergo emblem). File:Cluster 3-1--article image.jpg

Hidden messages

(The ciphertexts were decoded using the Vigenère cipher, as hinted at by the relevant quote, using the key IMF - letters highlighted in red on the hidden quote. IMF was an abbreviation for the international monetary fund, which was created by the men featured in this puzzle after the Bretton Woods conference - held at Mt. Washington hotel, also featured in this puzzle).


Harry Dexter White. Remember this name.

"I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago" —John Maynard Keynes

"Le Chiffre indéchiffrable." (Vigenère cipher)

lqgb dnlpjv otczyzuja mwm fmm zje rwwzyqqw = "Debt ridden countries are the new frontier".

"How can I adopt a creed which, preferring mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the send of all human advancement?"

Rqpgxqqeqizikxzjpzkwmczyuawmbfxqwuasmkfvpfkqsbdftnfvw = "Jekyll Island Club duck hunt more paper money and a central bank" (the secret meeting leading to the creation of the Federal Reserve).

"It would all be done in secret, the Assassins would never know until it was too late."

"Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoise may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system."

Wzjwrypq rpquzaaqpjilfmmzj kqxamwgbwmexcdj = "One of them he provided the necessary pressure."

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by entering the symbols below as the passcode. File:Cluster 3-2--article image.jpg

MESSAGE FROM ABSTERGO INDUSTRIES

July 22, 1944

Fellows, rulers, welcome.

I deliver this speech to you as, several floors below us, a silent revolution begins.

Ranny Olds and Henry Ford. As many of you know, these founders gave us the assembly line, the device we have used to control both (those indoctrinated into the worship of our money (?) ) capitalists and workers (slaves (?) ) alike. But I dream of a future in which such ugly chains will no longer be necessary. In 1910, our founders designed the Plan, it falls to us to see it through.

But, what of the Communists, who intend to spread the bread so thin that everyone will starve? It is our duty to (neutralize (?) ) save them and their followers. We must ensure that the continue to eat, to reproduce, to be productive members of society. That is our burden, to shepherd those beneath us through life, and we must embrace it, even if (force is required (?) ) they themselves do not.

H. and S. brought on the turmoil and fear necessary, now we must strike fast to ensure development continues in the proper direction. We will appear to concede ground to the workers, remember the successful ruse of Rockefeller's dimes, but soon there will be no ground we do not own.

In 1937, we founded this Company, this enterprise, with a purpose. The time to nurture it to fruition is upon us.

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by moving the white pawn at F4 to E5, taking the black pawn and putting the white pawn into the black knight's path. File:Cluster 3-3--article image.jpg

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the two blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other one before the cursor filled up with a red outline. File:Cluster 3-4--article image.jpg

Cluster 4

12345

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by choosing the five pictures that showed a robot or computer with a human operator.

File:Cluster 4-1--article image.jpg
A string of words appeared.

"Apples oranges pears cucumbers radishes carrots spinach dates wood juniper steel aluminum water rain shanty village town city country spring summer fall winter to walk to sing to dance to play to eat to smile to cry to laugh to kill to see to know death regret love"

Puzzle 2: The first, inner ring was linked to the fourth, the third to the first, and the fourth, outer ring to the second. The puzzle was solved by moving the combined first and fourth rings right once, the second ring left four times, the combined third and first rings right four times, and the combined fourth and second rings right once. File:Cluster 4-2--article image.jpg

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence."

"I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain."

Puzzle 3: Most of the hints were a red herring. All Desmond needed to focus on was the fourth line, so the puzzle was solved by moving the pawn at G2 to G3. File:Cluster 4-3--article image.jpg

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by selecting the first two boxes. File:Cluster 4-4--article image.jpg

Puzzle 5: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the two blinking lights shown below, then quickly activating the other one before the cursor fills up with a red outline. File:Cluster 4-5--article image.jpg

Cluster 5

1234

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by moving the queen from D1 to E2. File:Cluster 5-1--article image.jpg

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by selecting the area shown below where the angel held a lightning bolt, revealing a hidden current of electricity, as well as one Abstergo logo and an incomplete one.

Advice: "Since none of these photographs contain rain, I'd search for a stylized lightning bolt." File:Cluster 5-2--article image.jpg

Hidden messages

H. K. masterminded it. (An Abstergo logo could be found on the car door)

Chile, 1964. The people cheered his name until 1973.

Salvador Allende wanted the people to own Chile's corporations.

"We would like your economic program to succeed and we will do our best to help you."

Argentina 1970s: 30,000 people Disappeared in the raids.

"Nature shows us basic order and hierarchy are necessary." - Augusto Pinochet

Coup d'etat.

"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

Mossadegh wanted oil profits to go to the people.

Hired Actor. (on the first three rioters in the far right picture)

Iran, 1953.

Shah Pahlavi, Sha'baan Ja'fari and SAVAK take over to terrorize citizens and protect capitalist oil interests. But was that their only motive?

Caesar cipher messages

LUXJ = "FORD"

ATOZKJ LXAOZ IUSVGTE, AY HGTQY, IGX IUSVGTOKY ZXGTYLKXXKJ ZNKOX IUXVUXGZK JKHZ ZU ZNK GXMKTZOTK VAHROI. = "United Fruit Company, US banks, car companies transferred their corporate debt to the Argentine public."

SUXK ZNGT ZNXKK ZNUAYGTJ QORRKJ. = "More than three thousand killed."

GRRKTJK CGY MUOTM ZU TGZOUTFROFK ZNKS. = "Allende was going to nationalize them."

YKVZKSHKX KRKBKTZN. = "September eleventh."

SGQK ZNK KIUT USE YIXK GS. = "Make the economy scream."

EYE TEA TEE pronunciation of the letters "ITT" = "CNN"

The puzzle was solved by entering the symbols shown below as the passcode. File:Cluster 5-3--article image.jpg

RESTRICTED HANDLING: CLASSIFIED MESSAGE

Subject: South America

If we are to ensure the Company's success, Company agents must be able to move freely from country to country and maintain power within all of them. A global international order must be implemented.

Re: Argentina

Tell the Capitalists that if they help ensure the Junta remain in power, we will pass all their corporate debt on to the Argentine people. That will ensure they crush any popular revolt. I want the trade unions destroyed if we are to move forward.

Re: Chile

The free market must be allowed to prevail. F.'s visit last year helped things along, but now all public companies need to be sold to the private sector, ideally on the cheap. The price of bread and other staples must rise. I want to ensure the people remain marred in poverty and unable to resist.

Any traces of this plan should appear to implicate the U.S. government. The Company's involvement must remain hidden.

For successful examples of a similar opening of the markets, look no further than the 1953 liberation of Iran and the 1954 liberation of Guatemala.

File:HenryKissingersignature.png

(Henry Kissinger)

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the three blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other two before the cursor filled up with a red outline. File:Cluster 5-4--article image.jpg

Hidden message

"Wages should be (lowered to keep the middle class subservient to us (?) ) left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of (a popularly elected government(?) ) the legislature."

There were also two Templar symbols, one on each side of the message.

Cluster 6

12345

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by selecting the area below, revealing a hidden Templar emblem.

Advice: "Blown apart" seems strange. Maybe there's some sort of reason 16 picked that phrase? And what about the ending? I don't see any spotlights in the images, but maybe something less literal? File:Cluster 6-1--article image.jpg

Hidden messages

Gorbachev, 1990: Man of the Decade. Brings democracy to Russia. Establishes the Constitutional Court.

August 1991: Declared the White Knight of the people, Yeltsin stands up to Communist threat! Gorbachev loses popularity!

December 1991: Secret meeting called in the Belavezhskaya Forest. Yeltsin unseats Gorbachev, becomes leader of Russia!

1992: Russian economy opened to elite oligarchs, private companies.

1993: Parliament Disbanded by Yeltsin as he seizes control of Russia! Decree 1400! Constitutional Court disbanded!

1993: 2.5 billion in aid from the U.S. Congress to Yeltsin after he disbands Parliament!

Perestroika: The dream of a democratic state led by the people.

Musical scores

Below Perestroika picture: "Bretton Woods began it. The IMF delivers."

Forest picture: "The most favorable condition for reform is a weary public."

Puzzle 2: The passcode was 20, 27, 33, 13. File:Cluster 6-2--article image.jpg

LETTER TO BORIS YELTSIN

10 DOWNING STREET

Mr. Yeltsin,

I am writing this letter to encourage you to act. One rarely finds oneself in such an opportune position. Gorbachev does not have our interests at heart. He is moving far too slowly to privatize, and my deep fear is that he has no intention of doing so at all. I understand that you have expressed similar concerns. With that in mind, here is a proposal to remedy the situation.

Several of my top advisors at the Company maintain a monetary connection with the Communist old guard. They tell me that a riot might be easily incited while Gorbachev is away. If you were to repel an attempt to seize parliament in front of the media, it could very well tip the scales of power in your favor.

Telephone me at No. 10 and we shall talk further.

File:MargaretThatchersignature.png

(Margaret Thatcher)

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by selecting the three boxes shown below: File:Cluster 6-3--article image.jpg

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by moving the knight from G1 to F3. File:Cluster 6-4--article image.jpg

Puzzle 5: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other two before the cursor filled up with a red outline. File:Cluster 6-5--article image.jpg

Hidden messages

1999: Yeltsin ensures his protégé, Vladimir Putin, follows his lead.

Musical scores

Apartment bombings start Czech war and elect Putin all planned by Abstergo.

Cluster 7

12345

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by selecting the five images below, showing the energy industry at work.

File:Cluster 7-1--article image.jpg

Audio speech

Man 1: "The capitalists think we run these companies for profit. The fools."
Man 2: "Those "fools" work for you."

Man 1: "Optional slavery in exchange for pieces of paper. Doesn't that strike you as foolish?"

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by selecting Chief Justice John Roberts' left hand, revealing a hidden Templar ring.
Advice: "16 is definately not in the running for a marriage anytime soon, so that word "wed" stands out a bit. I don't see any weddings, but maybe there's something else up there wedding-related." File:Cluster 7-2--article image.jpg

Audio speech

Man: Democracy must die to ensure the stability of the world. Capitalism will end it.

Hidden messages

Justice Kennedy: "We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption (in Government)."

Justice Alito: "I believe very strongly in limited government, federalism, free enterprise, the supremacy of the elected branches of government, the need for a strong defense and effective law enforcement, and the legitimacy of a government role in protecting traditional values."

Justice Roberts: "Congress may not prohibit political speech, even if the speaker is a corporation."

Justice Scalia: "Indeed, to exclude or impede corporate speech is to muzzle the principal agents of the modern free economy. We should celebrate rather than condemn the addition of this speech to the public debate."

Justice Clarence Thomas: "We don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that."

Don Evans: "It is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital." CEO of Tom Brown Inc. Oil, U.S. Commerce Secretary (2001-2004).

Paul Wolfowitz: When it comes back to the test of whether we are doing our job or not, it's whether we're promoting development, not whether we're promoting democracy." President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005).

Donald Rumsfeld: "Scour the department of defense for functions that could be performed better and more cheaply through commercial outsourcing." Chairman of Gilead Sciences, U.S. Defense Secretary (2001-2006).

Condoleezza Rice: "The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such." Chevron Board, Hewlett-Packard Board, U.S. Secretary of State (2005-2009).

Dick Cheney: "We have to make America the best place in the world to do business." CEO of Halliburton, Vice President of the U.S. (2001-2009).

George W. Bush: "I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in." Director of Harken, President of the United States (2001-2009).

GILD $7.45 2001, $84 2007.

Row, row, row your BOAT.

Number messages

On the George W. Bush picture was a message with the words "We the people..." marked as "1 2 3". The way to decode it was by relating each number to a word on the U.S. Constitution and taking the first letter of that word for other messages.

230, 129, 213, 218, 251, 261, 194, 35, 11, 263, 9, 261, 203, 214, 225, 77: 192, 153, 67, 20, 280, 241, 143, 20, 251, 221, 114, 254, 159, 121, 81, 279, 47, 61, 169. = The final frontier: Destruction as profit.

24, 4, 113, 2, 77, 30, 46, 10, 37, 81, 58, 187, 167, 198, 99, 56, 100, 181, 124, 81, 11, 9, 166, 3, 77, 42, 200, 101, 223. = Contractors ran the war for profit. (There seems to be an issue with this decoding, when decoded it actually reads Comtractors instead of Contractors.)

251, 280, 53, 107, 181, 254, 274, 133, 183, 24, 223, 214, 9, 291, 284, 259, 267, 234, 136, 255, 279, 203, 129, 88, 162, 8, 28, 79, 102, 147, 48, 204, 202, 192, 41, 225, 263, 242. = Iraq was auctioned off to the highest bidders.

101, 270, 156, 264, 50, 262, 94, 301, 192, 295, 263, 284, 168. = It is so ordered.

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by entering C, M, Z, K as the passcode. File:Cluster 7-3--article image.jpg

Letter from the Supreme Court of the United States

WASHINGTON D.C. 20543

December, 2000

RE: Privatization

S.,

I have convinced Sandra to join the majority opinion. The enticement of retirement under a Republican president tipped the scales. Although the ruling will differ from our previous decisions on Equal Protection, it will not call attention to our actual goals. With Sandra gone, we can pave the way for the key majority member of the Order to be seated. As discussed, W. will prove the perfect distraction. I have no doubt he will restart animosities with Iraq. Let him, it will give C.'s contractors more work. When the time comes, I will make sure W. is given Roberts' name.

With Roberts on the court, it will only be a matter of waiting for the right case. After the destruction of Campaign Finance laws, the Company will be free to elect anyone they choose to the Senate, the House and, eventually, the Presidency.

Soon, our hopes will be realized. Government will no longer derive its authority from the people, but from us, their protectors.

File:328px-Antonin Scalia Signature.svg.png

(Antonin Scalia)

Puzzle 4: To solve the puzzle, move the knight from B1 to C3. File:Cluster 7-4--article image.jpg

Puzzle 5: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other two before the cursor filled up with a red outline. File:Cluster 7-5--article image.jpg

Audio speech

The capitalists will do whatever we tell them to. We print the dollars they worship after all.

Hidden messages

"It will undoubtedly cripple the ability of ordinary citizens, Congress, and the States to adopt even limited measures to protect against corporate domination of the electoral process." - Justice Stevens

Cleanup of Deepwater Horizon contracted out for billions.

Cluster 8

1234

Puzzle 1: The first, inner ring was linked to the second, the second to the fourth, outer ring, the third to the fourth, and the fourth to the first. This was where things got tricky, but the solution was simplified by moving the combined first and second rings left once, the combined second and fourth rings left four times, and the combined fourth and first ring right twice.

File:Cluster 8 P1.jpg

"Good evening and welcome to television."

Letter from Abstergo Industries

Research Division
September, 1985

Dear S.,

Research had progresssed far more rapidly than expected. We already have a working prototype capable of mimicking P.O.E. capabilities across a network, albeit at a far lower intensity. Testing will commence locally on Subject 4 between his Animus sessions, as per our plan. If all goes well, deployment will occur worldwide.

Your dream is about to become a reality. Soon, capitalists and workers will be locked in a closed loop that is safe and prosperous for humanity. No more war, only desks, cars and TV sets. We will protect them and keep them safe, forever.

W. V.

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by selecting the four boxes shown below (1st, 5th, 8th and 9th boxes) or the combination of three boxes (2nd, 4th and 5th boxes) : File:Cluster 8 P2.jpg

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by moving the king from 1E to 2F. File:Cluster 8 P3.jpg

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other four before the cursor filled up with red. File:Cluster 8 P4.jpg

Audio speech

Cluster 9

1234

Puzzle 1: The puzzle was solved by selecting the five images that feature visible wires.

File:Cluster 9 P1.jpg

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by selecting the four boxes shown below. File:Cluster 9 P2.jpg

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by moving the bishop at 1F to 2G. File:Cluster 9 P3.jpg

Puzzle 4: The puzzle was solved by activating one of the blinking lights shown below, and then quickly activating the other four before the cursor filled up with a red outline. File:Cluster 9 P4.jpg

Audio speech

Man 1:
Man 2:

Man 1:

Cluster 10

1234567

Puzzle 1: The first, inner ring was linked with the third, the second with the first, the third with the second, and the fourth, outer ring with the second. The puzzle was solved by moving the combined first and third rings right twice, the combined second and first rings right twice, and the combined fourth and second rings right five times.

File:Cluster 10 P1.jpg

"O brave new world. What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Puzzle 2: The puzzle was solved by selecting the five images that show children. File:Cluster 10 P2.jpg

Audio speech

Man:

Puzzle 3: The puzzle was solved by selecting the area shown below to reveal a hidden eagle. File:Cluster 10 P3.jpg

Hidden messages

On the page with the multiple pictures, the hidden messages under them were all elements from the Periodic Table.

LiOBAlFKCaArMnVFMgMgPSBSiFCa. = "Chemistry will open it."
HHeKCaBArNPPVSiKFCaHMgMgHeScCaSiPCaMnPSc. = "Abstergo owns it all but not you."
MgBHTiBCaOBAlCaOBFArVPArCaOMgBKKSFBLiBKPCSHSBAr. = "Leave them their worthless pieces of paper."
CaOBFArLiPSiCaArPMgFKKMgFSSFSiN. = "Their control is slipping."
CaOBBeFLiCaHCaPArKLiHSiCaLiArScKOFCa. = "The dictators can't crush it."
CaOBPMgFNHArLiOKLiHSiCaNaFMgMgFCa. = "The oligarchs can't kill it."
CaOBLiPScArCaKLiHSiCaKCaPSFCa. = "The courts can't stop it."

BeBLiBAlHeBArScCaMG = "December 21, 2012"

Puzzle 4: The passcode was 89, 5, 334, 21. File:Cluster 10 P4.jpg

Letter from Abstergo Industries

Abnormal Brain Activity Discovered in Children, Aged 3 Months to 18-Years-Old and Adults, Aged 19-30.

Abstract

Several recent studies conducted by internal marketing teams revealed that: "Entertainment sales are dropping, protests are mounting. The economy is in turmoil. All market research indicates that the system should be stabilizing, but, instead, we're seeing the opposite."(1) In response, our team set out to discover the cause of the declining efficacy of Abstergo's control methods.

Past studies of bilateral brain activation during television, film and video game have shown the characteristic ARAS patterns induced by Abstergo's signal patterns. Our study was conducted on a range of test subjects (30 subjects, aged +-10 to +-30), who viewed TV programs while resting-state fMRI scans were conducted.

In contrast to previous studies, 80% of test subjects showed heightened cortical brain activity. Detailed scans using our prototype dMRI machine revealed an increased rate of neuronal development (+-30% over that of older age groups). Such a marked increase does not fit Darwinian models. Further studies are required to define the ultimate outcome of this abnormal evolution.

1. Abstergo Quarterly Marketing Report, 04/17/12.

Puzzle 5: The puzzle was solved by selecting the first and last boxes as shown below. File:Cluster 10 P5.jpg

Puzzle 6: The puzzle was solved by moving the king anywhere, so long as it was off the board. File:Cluster 10 P6.jpg

Puzzle 7: The two circles below showed the beginning and end points of a large swirl made up of blinking red dots. Desmond had to "activate" every last dot in the chain to continue. File:Cluster 10 P7.jpg

Trivia

• Even after completing the present-day segment in the Colosseum and falling into a comatose state, Desmond was still able to hear the voices of the modern Assassins after completing the final Rift. However, the game would not conclude with Desmond in free fall, but in an ordinary loading screen still featuring him.

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