The Jacobin Club

The Jacobin Club was a virtual representation of one of Arno Dorian's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.

Description

Having assassinated Lafrenière, Arno returned to an unwitting Assassin Council.

Dialogue

• Trenet: Four hundred armed noblemen, Honoré! If it weren't for General Lafayette-
• Mirabeau: Enough, enough! The room is fogged with your bluster! All hot air and no action. Yet here's a man with good news, I think. Arno, what did you learn from the silversmith?

Arno placed one of Germain's pins on the table for Bellec to inspect.

• Bellec: Poison. They're catching up.
• Arno: Germain made that pin, and others like it, for a man named Lafrenière.
• Mirabeau: Are you sure?
• Arno: Certain.
• Mirabeau: Grand Master de la Serre spoke highly of his loyalty. Hm, very well. I suppose the course is clear, Arno. Find (Mister) Lafrenière-
• Arno: I have done so already, (Mister). He is no threat.
• Bellec: What are saying, pisspot?
• Arno: I had a lead on Lafrenière. I followed it, and I killed him.
• Quemar: Unthinkable!
• Bellec: What the hell were you thinking?
• Trenet: I've never heard of such phenomenal hubris!
• Beylier: How dare you defy the Creed?
• Trenet: The arrogance of it is just astounding!
• Quemar: Bloody-handed murder!
• Beylier: What gives you the right?
• Bellec: The next time you circumvent the Council, I'll rip you a new arsehole!

Mirabeau interrupted and silenced the Council.

• Mirabeau: While this Council admires your zeal, it is not your place to choose your own targets. You should have reported your findings to us.
• Arno: Forgive me, Mentor. I believed I had found the man who ordered (Mister) de la Serre's murder. When I discovered further evidence that suggested he was about to strike at the Brotherhood in force, I took action.
• Quemar: Believed? Suggested?
• Arno: I am... no longer certain of Lafrenière's motivations. In his memories, I saw him writing the letter that would have warned (Mister) de la Serre of his betrayal. When he spoke of his impending attack, he mentioned a club in the Marais - not one of our safehouses.
• Mirabeau: What do you make of this?
• Arno: I cannot say. I would like to investigate further.
• Beylier: I don't like this. The boy is a gifted Assassin, but I fear he is obsessed with a private vendetta. Let another follow this lead.
• Arno: We don't have time! Whatever Lafrenière was planning, it happens tonight!
• Mirabeau: He did ask permission this time, Guillaume.

Beylier groaned skeptically.

• Mirabeau: Go then. See what you can learn. But no more rash action, hmm?
• Arno: Yes, Mentor.

Arno reached the Hotel de Beauvais.

• Arno: This is the place. What was Lafrenière so interested in?

Arno saw a prisoner being escorted into the club.

• Rouille: Get him upstairs. Quickly.

He then noticed Aloys la Touche entering the club.

• Arno: La Touche, old friend. You do get about, don't you?

Arno tailed la Touche in the club.

• Guard 1: What's going on in the back room?
• Guard 2: Dunno. And if you're smart, you'll let it lie.
• Guard 1: What's that supposed to mean?
• Guard 2: Just that some folk don't like other people prying into their affairs. Savvy?

As Maximilien de Robespierre spoke to the club members, la Touche met with his fellow Templars.

• Guest 1: How late you think they'll go tonight?
• Guest 2: Lord knows. Get these politicians talking and they never shut up.
• Guest 1: I guess I'd better put some coffee on then.
• Lévesque: How much longer must we wait? I do have other business to attend to.
• La Touche: Just a little longer. The Grand Master wants the politicos thinned out before we begin.
• Le Peletier: I trust we'll finally learn the meaning behind our recent... activities?
• La Touche: All will be made clear.
• Lévesque: I don't like it. The plan is still too vulnerable - and let's not forget Lafrenière is still out there somewhere, waiting to burn us all at the stake.
• La Touche: So, you haven't heard then?
• Lévesque: Heard what?
• La Touche: Lafrenière is dead. Hours ago, in fact. Assassins.
• Le Peletier: That seems... convenient.
• La Touche: Ah. That's the thing about Assassins. Point them at a Templar conspiracy and they ask no questions. They go right for the killing. Predictable that way.

The Templars laughed.

• La Touche: Come, we'll fetch the Captain and get started.

Arno tailed la Touche to the interrogation of the prisoner.

• Rouille: Come on, speak up!
  I need an answer, friend.
  It's a simple question. Just tell me what I want to know.
  Tick tock, mate.
  No need to make this any harder, eh?
• La Touche: Have you finished?
• Rouille: Near enough. Now, here's the thing. I can go on like this all day. But you... You've got an hour left in you. Two at the most. Half if I bring out the sharp bits. So why not skip the endgame and go directly to mate? Tell me where it is and all this can be over.
• Prisoner: Luxembourg....
• Rouille: What was that?
• Prisoner: Palais du Luxembourg.
• Rouille: You are a smart man.
• La Touche: Rouille? Clean up your mess. It's time.
• Rouille: Be right there.

Signalling his men, Rouille had the dying prisoner thrown out of the window.

• Rouille: You heard the weasel, boys.

Arno tailed la Touche and Rouille to the meeting.

• La Touche: Did you really throw him out the window?
• Rouille: Trash belongs in the gutter.
• La Touche: Sloppy. Someone might have seen.
• Rouille: Who? My boys are watching the whole place. They'll deal with any good Samaritans.
• La Touche: They'd better. The Grand Master won't be happy if the whole plan comes unraveled because of one dead peon.

The meeting began.

• Rouille: You were right. King Louis has been talking to all sorts he shouldn't have. Plotting against the [[French Revolution|Revolution] out of one side of his mouth while he promises to support the Constitution out the other.
• Germain: Good. I trust you can get this information into the proper hands, Monsieur le Peletier?
• Le Peletier: Of course, Grand Master. With this evidence in hand, the King's conviction is certain.
• Germain: You've done well, Captain. Marie?
• Lévesque: The price of grain is higher than ever, Grand Master. Our agents are in place to divert the shipments to our docks. They await only your command.
• Germain: Good... Starve them. Through famine and fury they will see their false masters for what they are... But do it gradually.
• Lévesque: What you're asking will take at least a year, Grand Master. If not two.

Hiding in a storage room, Arno listened in on the meeting.

• Germain: The Great Work requires patience, my friend. If Paris must suffer a while longer so the world might be remade, then so be it.
• Rouille: Why not just kill him and be done with it? One of my boys, a knife, a dark hallway... easy peasy.
• Germain: We want a condemned man, Captain, not a martyr. Have patience.
• Le Peletier: Respectfully, Grand Master, patience is all well and fine, but the longer we wait, the greater the chance of discovery.
• La Touche: The Assassins already found Sivert and le Roi des Thunes.
• Germain: Sivert and le Roi already served their purpose. Their destruction, while inconvenient, is no obstacle. And the Assassins have already proved useful when properly led.
• Rouille: What about the de la Serre brat? She could be dangerous if she manages to rally the old guard.
• Germain: That situation will be resolved.
• Lévesque: How so?
• Germain: Mademoiselle de la Serre will soon be on her way to l'Hotel Voysin, eager to speak with Monsieur Lafrenière. Sadly, Monsieur Lafrenière has nothing left to say.
• Arno: Élise...

Arno began to make his escape from the club.

• Rouille: Clever, Grand Master. But you've had your brush with the Assassins as well. Respectfully, you won't always be so lucky.
• Germain: Quite right. I shall leave the execution of our work to you good ladies and gentlemen. For my part I will retire to the Sanctuary and await the final phase. Will that satisfy you Captain?
• Rouille: I'll see the watch tripled.
• Germain: Very well. May the Father of Understanding guide you.

The guards noted Arno's presence.

• Guards: Stop him! He's a royalist spy!
  Find the spy!
  Don't let the spy escape!
  The spy's still here!
  Catch him!
  Watch the exits! The spy will be making a run for it!
  Seems we have a spy, boys!
  No spy's escaping on my watch!

With Robespierre's speech over, the guests discussed it.

• Guest 3: Lovely speech.
• Guest 4: Quite. The man's a visionary.
• Guest 5: Abolish the death penalty? Next he'll be saying we should do away with branding!
• Guest 6: Perhaps we should start sending criminals off to the tropics, like the British.
• Guest 5: Hah!
• Guest 6: That will turn some heads at the Assembly.
• Guest 5: If Mirabeau will actually yield the floor.
• Guest 6: True enough.

Arno escaped the club.

Outcome

Although initially scolded for his assassination of Lafrenière, Arno was allowed to continue his investigation. By eavesdropping on a Templar meeting, he learned of a planned ambush on Élise.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Unity