Women's March
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Women's March was a virtual representation of one of Arno Dorian's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.
Description
As Théroigne de Méricourt participated in the Women's March on Versailles, Arno and a team of Assassins were tasked with protection the march and keeping it peaceful.
Dialogue
- Bishop: 1789. Paris is starving, and the price of bread just tripled. Working-class women are about to change the course of the revolution.
As a woman looked towards a crowd of protesters, her husband grabbed her and slapped her bottom.
- Husband: Mind your business, sweetheart.
Théroigne de Méricourt pointed her pistol at the husband.
- Théroigne: And you mind yours, citizen.
- Bishop: Théroigne de Méricourt. She was the 18th century Joan of Arc - and she didn't take no for an answer.
Théroigne was seen stopping a cart loaded with food and pointing her pistol at the driver.
- Théroigne: That bounty could feed a hundred starving poor. Or one nobleman.
- Driver: Villainous whore! Find a brothel and make yourself use-
Théroigne pulled the driver off the cart and hijacked it.
- Driver: Woah!
Marie Antoinette was shown dining at the Palace of Versailles.
- Bishop: While Méricourt was fighting to keep Paris fed, Antoinette and the royals were throwing parties.
- Antoinette: Bring us more of this cake!
Théroigne was shown gathering a group of women.
- Théroigne: Let's tell the royals that our families must eat too!
- Bishop: For the Templars, this march isn't about bread, it's about royal blood...
As the crowd marched, Templar thugs infiltrated it.
- Crowd: Bread! Bread!
- Templars: Blood! Blood!
- Bishop: This bread march really ignites the revolution. Protect it, and keep it peaceful.
Arno set out to protect Théroigne and the march.
- Bishop: Okay, Initiates. Keep Méricourt and her Amazon alive. Powerful people don't want this march to happen.
- Théroigne: We must march to Versailles!
Citizens! Haven't you had enough?
Stand up for your rights, citizens! - Guard 1: Who are we looking for, anyway?
- Guard 2: Théroigne de Méricourt! I told you a hundred times...
- Bishop: Heads up, Initiates! Check the roofs for snipers.
Arno escorted Théroigne and her ally to a crowd of women being held back at a gatehouse.
- Bishop: You have to take out the gatehouse captains, or this march will never make it out of Paris.
- Théroigne: Kings and nobles pay no tax, while we shoulder the burden for them! We must band together, citizens!
Citizens! We rally to be heard by the King! We do not want violence, we want the King to see how his citizens live!
Come on, citizens! Let's show the King what it means to be hungry!
We ask for food, and they feed us grapeshots! Forward to Versailles, citizens!
Citizens! No more delays! To Versailles! Open this gate!
The King awaits, citizens! Break down this gate!
We speak for the hungry! We speak for the shivering! We speak for Paris! - Crowd: We're with you, Théroigne!
They can't stop us!
Arno killed the first captain.
- Bishop: One down, two to go, Initiates.
Arno killed the second captain.
- Bishop: Just one more captain in the way.
Arno killed the last captain.
- Bishop: Nice one, Initiates. The gatehouses are clear. Ah, of course. The last line of defense. Fucking cannons. Get over the wall and spike the cannons before the crowd breaks through the gate.
- Guard 3: Whiff of grapeshot at a bunch of ladies? Easiest fifty francs I ever earned.
- Guard 4: Aye. Should be a piece of cake.
- Guard 5: That powder dry? I don't want another misfire on my hands.
- Guard 6: Dry as a bone, sir.
- Guard 5: Where's this damn crowd? Said they'd be here by now.
- Guard 6: Maybe the gate captains held them up some.
Arno spiked the first cannon.
- Bishop: One cannon down.
Arno spiked the second cannon.
- Bishop: That's two.
Arno spiked the last cannon.
- Bishop: And that's the last cannon! Méricourt leads this march all the way to Versailles. Nice work.
Outcome
The Assassins protected Théroigne de Méricourt during the march, and kept it free from Templar influence. The march continued to Versailles, after which King Louis was forced to move to Paris.