User:DanChan123

Hey guys! I'm DanChan123 from Vancouver, British Colombia! I'm 19 studying at UBC for a marketing major. 

This is simply a brainstorming sandbox/outline for a game idea. Please DO NOT commit plagiarism.

Historical Event Ideas:

- First Opium Conflict (1839)

- First Opium War (1839-1842) - Assassins are defeated and Canton is taken.

Interesting Links

John Francis David - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Davis

Tuanku Abbas - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuanku_Abbas

Background Story

Prologue ~ United Kingdom Embassy, Beijing - TBA

TBR

Outline A

Sequence 1 Memory 1 ~ Singapore, Singapore (British Empire) - 6 April 1839 ~ Anglo-Chinese Opium Conflict

~ Bartel Noltes, Born an orphan around September 1803, in Guangzhou (Canton), China- Dutch-Chinese Assassin - Chinese name Zhu Shao Ying (Zhu) - Ethnically Han Chinese - Learned English in an Anglican missionary's church - Arrived in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1810 as a stowaway - Was adopted by Dutch Assassin Herbert Noltes, an important assassin during the Napoleonic Wars - Herbert killed in 1815 by French Templars under Napoleon's regime - Began training as a Novice in 1816 - Full fledged Assassin by 1838 - Sent to China on a diplomatic mission to contact Eastern Assassins involved with the Opium plot and the Ring of Eden.

~ The Situation: The British Empire, backed by the Knights Templar, threatens The Imperial Chinese Qing economy by drawing independent Chinese consumers into the drug trade of opium. The legality of the trade was in intense debate... in 1838 the Qing government executed many opium traffickers, and the money of the Chinese people was blown off to the British East India Company; the Qing economy was losing money fast. But the Templars have a greater plan. Western powers backed by the Templar order have seized control of a vast majority of the Far East, but they want the jackpot: China's golden ports. The Eastern Assassin's have discovered a terrible plot to seize Canton for the British and the Templars. The Western Assassin's have learnt of this news, and Bartel Noltes became the first of the sub-order to be sent on the mission to stop these Templars. But this is not a field trip... Bartel returns for his birthland.

• Bartel, personating a Dutch opium trader, sails the Aalscholver (Dutch for the Cormorant), into Singapore.
• The Mission: Gain information on the "Opium fleet," and assassinate the fleet general in order to stall the operation and allow the Assassins to investigate

~ The Opium Fleet: A fleet of Templar-sponsored merchant ships in preparation for the Templar's mission to get the Qing government to take the bait and illegally break the opium trade, allowing the British to invade Canton with the support of its peers. 

• Bartel rescues an Assassin Novice and spy from British guards, whom take the Novice for a stowaway.
• The Novice gives Bartel the basic information on the Opium fleet and the gained information, and tells him that another Novice was supposed to meet him at the dock rendezvous point.
  • The Novice suggests smuggling, but Bartel sees differently since the ship loaders are British soldiers.
• Bartel goes to an inn to search for the imprisoned colleague, whom is on the mission to find the Opium fleet's captain's location.
• From a bartender/innkeeper, Bartel learns that the novice was taken away by British police earlier that day, and brought to a district courthouse.
• Bartel sneaks into the courthouse, and discovers the Novice dead. He loots the body to find an envelope. The door behind him suddenly swings open, and he is then surrounded by British soldiers, led by Templar and British governor of Singapore, Sir Samuel George Bonham. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bonham)
  • Bartel knows Bonham as a British Master Assassin who was present in the meeting in 1838 that prepared to send him to the Far East. He is angry that Bonham had broke the Creed tenet: "Never Compromise The Brotherhood."
  • Bonham tells him that he knew he'd come all along, and that he was tasked by the Templars to get rid of the threat of an Western Assassin ambassador to the Templar influence in the Far East. 
  • When Bonham asks Bartel for information, he does not listen and threatens to kill Bonham, but he is knocked unconcious and locked up in a dockside prison in Singapore's Changi district. 
• Bartel conspires with his cellmates, who are pirates. One of the pirates is a Burmese Assassin Apprentice named Munah Dara, who served a Malaysian Assassin and pirate named Tuanku Abbas. Munah has hidden lockpick tools within the pile of hay he sleeps on. Munah claims the guard is high in the prison, making escape tough. Bartel uses his Eagle Vision to determine the right time to pick the lock and escape. Bartel and Munah make their escape, though telling the rest of the pirates that they will come back for them. 
• Bartel is caught by guards, but Munah saves him.
• Bartel and Munah reach the outside of the prison. Bartel must find the Captain of the Opium Fleet, while Munah must save the prisoners by conducting a night attack.
  • Bartel reads the letter recieved, and finds that the letter is a letter addressed to the Order of Assassin's in Singapore confirming an invitation to Templar James Hocomb, a Templar spy. At that time Hocomb was selected on a mission to India where he recieved a message to send to the Captain of the Opium fleet.
  • Bartel decides to use the night attack on the prison as a distraction for him to enter the building and assassinate Hocomb and retrieve his message. 

Memory 2

• The story shifts to Munah.

~ Munah Dara, Born to a family of Burmese fishermen in 1808, Rangoon, Burma, teenage Munah Dara fought as a soldier for the Burmese Empire against the British east India Company during the First Anglo-Burmese War. His family was killed in the war, and Dara held a grudge gainst the Westerners forever. In the late 1200s, Dara became involved with Malay pirates. His fearsome personality and ideologies against Western expansion eventually caught the attention of Malay Assassin pirate, Tuanku Abbas. With permission from the Order, Munah became Abbas' Apprentice Assassin. Munah was captured in 1839 after a failed pirate raid. Prior to the incident, Abbas' had instructed his fellow pirates to "sail for the shipwreck with crimson sails of the coast of Singapore if you run into trouble." The island is a secret pirate haven and Assassin outpost that no vessel dares to go to since those who do have "never returned."

• Munah sneaks into the docks and onto a British merchant vessel. He sneaks past British dock guards and boards a rowboat. He continues to row past the surveillance of the British naval coast guard. 
• Munah reaches the island and sees the shipwreck with crimson sails in the distance. He is taken in by the pirates and meets Abbas. Abbas allows Munah to guide his ship, the Kren Merah, or Red Crane.
• Abbas leads an attack to bombard powder reserves surrounding the prison. A fight begins on the docks, and the city security is alarmed.
• Munah attacks the guardhouse with the Red Crane. After succeeding, Munah sneaks into the prison and frees his fellow pirates, who start a fight in the prison against the guards.