Practice What You Preach
Practice What You Preach is a memory in Assassin's Creed II.
Description
Ezio Auditore returns to Florence after two years. He travells to Leonardo da Vinci's workshop to have the codex page he took from Vieri de' Pazzi deciphered. While there, he asks Leonardo how he could obtain information on Francesco de' Pazzi.
Dialogue
The Techniques
Ezio enters Leonardo's workshop.
- Leonardo: Ezio...? You are still alive!
- Ezio: Look at this place! The past two years have been kind to you.
- Leonardo: But you are not the same at all, are you...?
Ezio agrees, but continues.
- Ezio: I was hoping you might be able to help me with something.
- Leonardo: Anything for you, my friend!
Ezio shows him the Codex page.
- Leonardo: Aha! You've found another! How exciting!
He takes the page from Ezio's hand and examines it.
- Leonardo: Hmmm. This one is tricky to break...
Clever in it's use of ancient languages. Maybe if I just...
Oh... Oh! It seems to be a manual of sort for different assassination techniques. - Ezio: May I see it?
- Leonardo: Wait! What's that?!
It's not so much a design this time... Just a series of sketches.
Hmmmm. What to make of all this...
Hoho! Of course! And why not! What an inspired idea! - Ezio: Can you make it for me while I try what's in that manual fragment?
- Leonardo: Take it, I'll have my assistant set up some dummies for you to practice with.
Eh, Vincenzo!
Leonardo calls his assistant over, and Ezio leaves to practice in the courtyard next to Leonardo's workshop. He learns three new assassination techniques before returning to Leonardo.
- Leonardo: I've done it! Come quickly! Look!
Take it-- try it!
He gives Ezio another hidden blade with armor plating for the bracer, which Ezio equips.
- Ezio: Thank you, Leonardo.
- Leonardo: Non c'è di che! (No problem!)
- Ezio: There's someone I need to "see" while I'm here. I cannot approach him publicly... Would you know a way-
- Leonardo: (quietly) La Volpe.
- Ezio: The Fox...?
- Leonardo: Sshhhhh!!
- Ezio: Capisco... (I understand) But do you know where a fox might roam...?
- Leonardo: Perhaps, near the Mercato (market) where the thieves dwell...
Sta attento, amico! (Be safe, friend!)
Outcome
Ezio learns three new assassination techniques, while Leonardo creates another hidden blade with armor plating for him.