An Engaging Egyptologist
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An Engaging Egyptologist was a virtual representation of one of Arno Dorian's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.
Description[edit | edit source]
Arno received a letter from the Assassin Council, instructing him to assist Jean-François Champollion in recovering a stolen rubbing of the Rosetta Stone.
Dialogue[edit | edit source]
Arno read the letter from the Council.
- Letter: The Templars have procured a rubbed transfer of the missing section of the Rosetta Stone. Friend of the Brotherhood Jean François Champollion informs us that this rubbing contains sensitive information concerning the Assassins. However, the rubbing has not yet been translated. Understanding its importance, the Templars have split the rubbing into three sections. Champollion knows their whereabouts. Go to Champollion near the Luxembourg Gardens and use him to help you recover the three-part rubbing before the Templars learn its contents.
– The Council
Arno found Champollion at the Luxembourg Gardens.
- Champollion: Capital! I'm here, my friend! The three parts of the rubbing are scattered, awaiting the translators. I want to help, Arno. I can distract the Templar guards at each encampment. Follow me, and we'll recover those rubbings in an instant!
Arno followed Champollion to the first encampment. There, Champollion distracted the guards.
- Champollion: You there! You men! I know what you're up to! What's gotten into you? Rubbing stones like children! Have you no dignity?
- Guard 1: Who in hell are you?
- Champollion: I am one who understands the importance of antiquity. I have read the crumbling texts, I have delved into the rituals of the ancients, I know secrets undreamt of!
- Guard 1: Shut up, you ranting idiot!
- Champollion: Idiot, am I? We shall see, my dear fellows. We shall soon see!
Arno stole the first part of the rubbing. He then followed Champollion to the next encampment, where the latter distracted the guards.
- Champollion: Gentlemen! I am convinced that the same hieroglyphic-phonetic signs used to represent the sound of Greek proper names were used in hieroglyphic texts long carved long before the Greeks came to Egypt!
- Guard 2: Bullshit!
- Champollion: These are articulated in the same way as the cartouches carved under the Greeks! The discovery of this decisive fact is due to my work on pure hieroglyphic script.
- Guard 2: You don't know your arse from a cuneiform tablet!
- Champollion: I could prove this to you quite conclusively, but it would require going into lengthy detail. Good-day!
Arno stole the second part of the rubbing. He then followed Champollion to the last encampment, where the latter distracted the guards.
- Champollion: I have a tale to tell you! Come, come listen to my tale of adventure and woe!
- Guard 3: What's he on about?
- Champollion: I have followed the course of the Nile from it's mouth to the second cataract, and I have seen sights unimaginable!
- Guard 3: Like what?
- Champollion: Egyptian monuments dating from Roman and Ptolemaic times. Temples, palaces and tombs of the pharaonic era!
- Guard 3: Describe them, please!
- Champollion: I shall write it all down, gentlemen. You can purchase it and read at your leisure.
Arno then stole the last part of the rubbing.
- Champollion: Well done. I shall translate these myself and report the results to the Brotherhood.
Outcome[edit | edit source]
Arno stole back the rubbing of the Rosetta Stone, denying the Templars the opportunity to study its information on the Assassins.