Fish Out Of Water

Fish Out Of Water was a visual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description

When a merchant complains of being shaken down by a fisherman for destroying his nets, Bayek smells something fishy.

Dialogue

While in the Moon Curser Village, Bayek came across a merchant and a priest in a hut.

• Dennu: A little sunstroke will not stop me, I must have justice!
• Priest: You must rest, neb (sir)!
• Dennu: And every minute I keen like a sick infant, that cheat has my father's ring.

Bayek approached the merchant.

• Dennu: They fuss like clucking hens!
• Bayek: How did you end up here, neb (sir)?
• Dennu: A fisherman on the road to Swenett, said I tore his nets and set the soldiers on me! They took everything I owned.
• Bayek: The soldiers stole from you?
• Dennu: Recompense for the injury. As if nets are worth my father's ring! The Steward should do something, but I waited all day in the sun to see him.
• Bayek: A suspicious scheme indeed.
• Dennu: And the road is busy, many head to the desert west of the village. More will fall foul of it!
• Bayek: I will talk to this so-called fisherman.
• Dennu: And I will go again to the Steward. One way or another justice will be done.
  The Steward must listen, or others will be in danger.

Dennu resting in the village.

Bayek headed north, where he found a couple of fishing nets. He overheard a voice.

• Hagiel: No! My nets! You've ruined my livelihood. Will no one give me justice?
• Soldier 1: Another troublemaker.
• Soldier 2: Pay for the damage, neb (sir). Or face the cells.

The soldiers attacked Bayek, who eliminated them. Bayek approached the fisherman.

• Hagiel: Please, it's not what you think! Please!
• Bayek: I think that you and the soldiers are working together. Extorting travelers on the road.

Hagiel and the soldiers ready to rob another victim.

• Hagiel: Ah, so it is what you think. But I am as much as a victim as the merchants.
• Bayek: How so, a ratty little thief like you?
• Hagiel: Ratty? No, the steward is to blame! He holds my family captive, threatened to kill them if I did not go along with his scheme.
• Bayek: Your family?
• Hagiel: My cat! Lord Furface is all the family I have. Most pay up without a fuss, those that don't the guards convince. And the steward takes all.
• Bayek: I do not want to see you here again.
• Hagiel: No! No, you won't. A man can always get a new cat.

Bayek speaks with Hagiel.

The merchant left the area.

• Bayek: The merchant puts his head in the lion's mouth, I must find him first.

Bayek travelled north to the estate, where a man nearby commented on a murder that had taken place.

• Man 1: The steward goes too far! I turned a blind eye to his corruption because he let me be, but this is murder.
• Man 2: Dennu was no threat, he just wanted his father's ring returned.

Bayek approached Dennu's body.

• Bayek: Why would they do this? He was no threat.

Bayek finds Dennu's body.

He investigated the merchant's body and found a threatening note.

This is your doing, meddler

This man is dead because you meddled in affairs that do not concern you. I will face you at the shipyard if you have the balls to try and come for me.
Steward Hestorikas

• Bayek: This man was murdered as a warning to me?

Bayek headed to the shipyard. With the help of Senu, he identified the steward amongst his guards.

• Bayek: The steward's oppressive reign is about to end.

Bayek confronts the corrupted steward.

Bayek assassinated the steward.

• Bayek: You should have protected these people, now you will answer to Osiris.

Bayek investigated the steward's body and recovered the merchant's ring.

If Bayek had not visited the afterlife yetIf Bayek had visited the afterlife

• Bayek: His father's ring. I wonder if there is a way to return it to him.

• Bayek: His father's ring. Perhaps if ever I venture into his afterlife, I can return it.

Outcome

Bayek assassinated the steward behind the plot to steal from the Egyptians.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Origins – The Curse of the Pharaohs