Masters all, they did not work, but ruled from on high.
[Paintings 1,3,4,8,10]
Moving away from the sovereign and his crossed brow, the people take two steps forward.
[Move king's pawn from E2 to E4]
[stylish templar cross, central above text]
They became 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.
[found red spot]
- Animus: Quarantine lifted.
The individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
[Adam Smith signature]
[Circular puzzle]
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.
[Circular puzzle]
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 this whole mercantile system; not the customers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to.
[Circular puzzle]
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.
lo [x17]
The workforce increases. Brother right beside brother.
[Pawn F2 to F4]
[found 2 red spots]
- Animus: Quarantine lifted.
Missing -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... .-.. --- ... - -.. -. ..- -- -... [DARKNESSLOSTDNUMB]
[Abstergo file] Access denied
Washington sits above the green, in 1944, keeping a cool head. Below the right 1, is the standard bearing 48. Behind, there is a company whose power is growing.
[Bunch of images]
[Locate Abstergo flag atop the left turret of the Mount Washington Resort]
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
[Abstergo file] Access granted
[Abstergo industries letterhead]
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 they 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 directin. 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.
As a concession, a small piece is sacrificed for the greater good to come.
[White pawn F4 takes black pawn at E5]
[found 2 red spots]
- Animus: Quarantine lifted.
These intelligent workers have no self-control.
[Photographs 2,3,5,9, 10]
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
[circular puzzle]
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.
Alan Turing set out to solve the plight of the workers: M = (Q, Γ, B, Σ, Δ, Q0, F) where Γ = {2, 3} Σ = {G}.
[Pawn G2 to G3]
Abstergo phone records
June, 1954
[amplitude puzzle]
- N: V. It's N. I need Turing done today.
- V: Aren't we jumping the gun? You've already had him arrested and sedated.
- N: He still refuses to follow the directive. He's actually trying to invent one of those infernal things, instead of merely faking it for the newspapers. If he succeeds... you know what the mass unemployment generated by his robots will mean? Idle hands. We need to do this for the good of the people.
- V: What about Keynes? He trusted Turing.
- N: It's the greater good we're talking about here, V. Plus, a childless worker sends a bad message. We can't have them all stop reproducing.
- V: Fine. It's your call.
- N: I want it done like we did Harry Dexter White when he tried to warn the Soviets.
- V: All right.
- N: Be poetic about it. Maybe something from the Bible. Turing always was theatrical.
[found 2 red spots, over image of Alan Turing in front of bus]
- Animus: Quarantine lifted.
Democratic nations were built, each led by a powerful vizier (known today by a different name), who made a move to block the Templar advance.
[Queen D1 to E2]
[Abstergo file] Access denied
From a bolt of electricity, governments fell.
[bunch of pictures]
[Locate lightning bolt at ITT Corporation former headquarters]
Correct coordinates found
[Cipher puzzle]
[Abstergo file] Access granted
[RESTRICTED HANDLING CLASSIFIED MESSAGE letterhead]
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 internatinal 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 an 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.
[Henry Kissinger signature]
[found 2 red spots, over following message bracketed by two red templar IHSV insignias:
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.]
- Animus: Quarantine lifted.
Important men befriended russia as the iron curtain was blown apart. but the most influential comrade stayed out of the spotlight.
Although his piece represents a savior, his selfserving actions reveal him as a counterfeit.
Fire, water and earth are contracted, with the complacency of the people, away from the people.
Making use of that created by 3, the center behind the scenes waited for citizens united to wed the u.s. to the templars' will.
B8-c6 6c-8b. our moves are echoes, they are not our own.
Watch! move fast! shift from 1st to 2nd. 0-60, don't think.
They listen to us with these vehicles that are faster than race cars.
The dark horseman approaches! messenger and fool, she can hear you along the straight and narrow. but once on the adjacent slope, observe the whites of her eyes.
A product that we make without hands or machines.
With each passing day, the people get stronger. freedom ascends, heralding a revolution.
+ 64 squares, all ranks and files, every move anticipated. every response engineered. abstergo created it. it’s the company’s game, there is no way out. + h. act ii, sc.2 192. abran los ojos. tuam libera mentem. the king. f2. your move.