Assassin's Creed Walkthrough Memory Block Two
After jacking into the Animus again, we are back into the
third crusade. Altair is amazingly still alive after being stabbed by his boss
and is standing in front of his desk. Al Mualim says that Altair sees only what
he wants him to see and that he was just sleeping the sleep of death. Altair
was stabbed so that he could find his peace within and stop being such a
dickweed. Mualim could have just taken away his weapons. He didn’t have to stab
him with his magic “fake dead” knife. Altair is now “reborn” and has to earn
all his weapons back. Like Samus progressing through every Metroid, Altair gains
more and more abilities as he gets further.
The first step to regaining Altair’s rank is to ferret
out one of the guild’s traitors. Head
out of the main library and out to the courtyard. Before descending into the
city of Masyaf, Altair is
stopped by a fellow guildsman who volunteers to show him the ropes of an
assassin investigation. Altair cuts him off like an asshole. How did a jerk like Altair ever secure
the chance to pass on his genetics to Desmond?
Follow the icons on your map
to find the conversation target. Sit on the nearby bench and listen to the
busybodies surmise that the basket maker is in on the scheme. You are prompted
to pickpocket the Basket Weaver. This should prove tricky considering flowing
robes don’t usually have pockets.
Find the Basket Weaver by looking at your map. It will be identified by an icon that looks like a hand reaching into a pocket. Well a hand reaching into a rectangle. When you get there listen to a
woman complain about her deficit of baskets. When the conversation is over,
follow the man lock on to him and when prompted press the arm button. You will steal an incriminating letter from his 12th
century fanny pack.
The letter implicates Masun in the attack on the HQ. When
you find him, he is standing on a balcony yelling loudly to whoever will listen
about the evils of Al Mualim. This guy is in the dark ages, he should really be
complaining about a lot more. Such as, the lack of sanitation, restrictive
social classes, and the uneven distribution of wealth. Al Mualim is small
potatoes compared to that. Anyhow, punch him a few times and he concedes that
he works for the Templar Knights and opened the gates because he believes it
was right. Submitting to Altair, Masun is brought in front of Al Mualim and
freely admits to his crime. Strongly refusing to repent, Al Mualim stabs Masun
with a blade much longer and deadlier than that “fake dead” dagger he stabbed
Altair with earlier.
Al Mualim then gives Altair that
sword saying that he earned the right to wield it. He then tells Altair that he
has a list of nine men who must die because their political standing corrupts
the land. I guess we just found out who Joseph McCarthy’s distant relative is. Rubbing
out these nine will restore Altair’s full rank. The first kill is in Damascus.
When the speech is over, there
is a mini animation of Altair examining his newly acquired Assassin’s blade. As
pointed out by N’gai Croal in his November 1st Vs. column, this little
animation is quoting Link’s item obtaining animations in The Legend of Zelda
games.
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