Assassin's Creed Walkthrough Denouement: Abstergo Labs

Desmond is up and immediately asks “what the hell was that?” An unseen speaker who is obviously not a voice actor asks “How many” and Vidic responds “at least a half dozen.” The Templars will dispatch teams to each of the sites indicated on the holo-globe. Vidic is about to dispose of Desmond until Lucy cock blocks him by suggesting they may need him if there is
something unexpected at one of the sites. The unseen non-actor agrees. Dr. Vidic and Lucy leave the lab with Desmond left alone to wander.

You are now free to explore the same old laboratory. It is more exciting now because after that final mission, Desmond has learned the eagle vision technique. Pressing the head button unveil a mess of pentagrams, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and mathematical symbols. It’s the same symbols used again and again to show that something is demonic or made by aliens or made by demonic aliens. I’m surprised these glyphs aren’t build into the DirectX graphic libraries so game designers can just drop them in when needed.

If you look at the wall in Desmond’s bedroom there are the most complicated set of symbols. Shocked, Desmond whispers “is that blood? Who the hell were they keeping here? And what did they do to him?” Then, the camera zooms into the central design and the credits roll.

Highlights from the Credits:

• Jade Raymond is, no surprise, at the top of the list
• Daniel Bisson is credited as the Interactive Cinematic Designer which means he is the man we should thank for giving us at least some control of Altair while Al Mualim rambled on about the new world order.
• Dr. Paul Cobb and Dr. David Nicolte are the history consultants who missed the fact that they put a dainty Gothic church where there should have been a big fat one Romanesque one. Or that a Muslim character had a European style funeral.
• Robert De Sable is played by Cedric Dumont. I think he may actually be a French actor. Then why is his accent so bad?
• The voiceover actors for each language the game was translated
  into are listed. The Japanese version was done with only four actors.

Now that the credits are over, Desmond is still surprisingly
un-chaperoned in this super secret, super high tech lab. This opportunity means it is time to do what every person left alone should do, snoop. Start by infiltrating the Animus’ terminal and read through Lucy’s email. The important highlights being the access code to the conference room, a penile enlargement email masking a secret transmission to the assassins, and questions over her friend Nancy Nilop who inexplicably disappeared.

If you climb into the Animus and select memory 7 there is a file attachment. Opening it reveals that after Al Mualim was killed, Altair
reestablished the Assassin’s Guild. As expected, Altair got “one ring” fever and never destroyed the Piece of Eden due to its overwhelming power. Oh and because that holographic globe looked so awesome it was a regular fixture at company all-hands-meetings and cocktail parties. 

Warren Vidic’s desk laptop is more interesting because it explains how Desmond was able to pick up the eagle vision. There is a phenomenon called the “Bleeding Effect” in which the users of the Animus inherit the memories and skills of their ancestors. The email exchange on this computer indicates that the subject just before Desmond went crazy and smeared his blood all over the walls due to prolonged access to the animus. Other emails are inconsequential to the plot but cute none the less. One implicates Abstergo in a water fluoridation scandal. There is no mention, though, as to how this is affecting peoples precious body fluids. The emails even get a bit cheeky when they mention that the last movie studio was shut down due to the increased interest in videogames and rampant piracy. Finally, there is a news report that refugees were pouring into Mexico after the collapse of the American economy. Keep in mind this game was developed in Montreal (cute Canada, real cute.)

The game’s plot gets real interesting,
though, when you head into the conference room. The laptop sitting on
the conference room table is the secured laptop of Vidic – referred to as “Project Lead #9.” There is only one email but it give a bigger picture of all the other operations Abstergo is working on besides the pieces of Eden.

Abstergo is examining an ancient artifact that controls time (could this be a tie-in to Prince of Persia Sands of Time). There is another reference to the Holy Grail saying that it never existing and is likely just another fabrication by the guy who claimed to be Jesus fooling people with the Pieces of Eden. Abstergo’s ultimate plan for the Pieces of Eden is to strap it to a satellite that will beam its special powers down on earth’s inhabitants causing mind control on a global scale.

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