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Playing with Fire was a virtual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan in 2017 through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description[]

General Agrippa is forcing Egyptians to work on a weapon of fiery destruction at the Citadel, and somehow the Roman engineer Vitruvius is involved.

Dialogue[]

Bayek infiltrated the camp situated outside the citadel, where he found a group of rebels held captive in cages. He approached one of them.

  • Bayek: Are you Kade? Your mother sent me to find you.
  • Kade: By Iset, is that you Bayek of Siwa? Let me out and I'll help you kill those Roman vultures.

Bayek unlocked the cage and freed Kade. He helped him free the other rebels, and Bayek helped them escape.

  • Kade: Egypt will not be your lapdog! Help me, Bayek!

They defeated the soldiers and left the camp.

  • Kade: We are free of those Roman tyrants.

Bayek spoke to Kade.

  • Bayek: The farm you came from, I saw what Flavius did. How he sucked the life from our people.
  • Kade: My mother Nenet? Is she alright?
  • Bayek: Yes. Praxilla took her to Balagrae.
  • Kade: Thank you, Bayek. You protect us even this far from the land of our ancestors.
  • Bayek: Why did the Romans bring you here?
  • Kade: To feed their hunger for war and conquest. They have ballista. We load it with a substance of hideous, burning devastation. Vitruvius, a Roman engineer up at the aqueduct invented it.

  • Bayek: Vitruvius? I know this man, I cannot believe he would make something like this.

They parted ways, with Kade heading off to Balagrae.

  • Kade: We are free of those Roman tyrants.
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Bayek confronting Vitruvius about the weapon

Bayek ventured north, and found Vitruvius in his camp.

  • Bayek: Vitruvius! We need to speak.
  • Vitruvius: What's the fuss, my friend?
  • Bayek: I believed you when you said you cared for the Siwans here. And all the while there are more at the citadel, forced to work on a weapon you created!
  • Vitruvius: It is not what you think. Walk with me and we'll get to the bottom of this.

  • Bayek: Then I will find this merchant of death. Go to your mother, she will be glad to see you safe.
  • They parted ways, with Kade heading off to Balagrae.

    • Kade: We are free of those Roman tyrants.
    (Players required to complete The Good Roman before proceeding with the memory)

    Bayek walked with Vitruvius.

    • Vitruvius: Please understand Bayek, I was not always so focused on architectural wonders such as this aqueduct. As a hotheaded youth I came up with many means of death and destruction. One of those was a Greek Fire of sorts.

    They mounted up.

    • Bayek: Greek fire?
    • Vitruvius: A substance with such potential for unspeakable suffering, I vowed never to produce it.
    • Bayek: Well the general is producing it, and forcing Siwans to arm his ballista for a war against their own country.
    ACO Playing with Fire 6

    Vitruvius requesting Bayek's aid to recover his formula

    The reached the cliff overlooking the citadel.

    • Vitruvius: Curse my pride, I should have burned my notes. General Agrippa must have found them.
    • Bayek: Then Agrippa must be stopped.
    • Vitruvius: Do what your conscience dictates, Bayek. But understand I cannot be part of a plot against a Roman General. No matter how I may feel personally. Recover the formula and I will destroy it. I will not have the immolation of Egypt on my conscience. Jove protect you. Bayek.
    ACO Playing with Fire 7

    Bayek fighting the Roman general Agrippa

    Bayek infiltrated the citadel anew, finding General Agrippa. He eliminated the general.

    • Bayek: All who ally with monsters and demons will die, General.

    He recovered a note from Vitruvius' body.

    Vitruvius' Formula

    Note from General Agrippa.
    My men believe they finally have a stable concoction based on Vitruvius' formula above. We plan to use test a batch on the fields near the Citadel. We have more than enough with the three stockpiles.
    NOTE DO NOT TOUCH the white powder. It is HIGHLY caustic.


    • Bayek: They used the formula. I should destroy the Greek fire stockpiles!
    ACO Playing with Fire 9

    Bayek discovering the fire stockpiles

    Bayek found the rooms containing the stockpiles and destroyed them.

    • Bayek: Vitruvius will want to know his formula is in safer hands.

    Bayek left the citadel and returned to Vitruvius.

    • Vitruvius: Bayek, did you find it, did you find my formula?
    • Bayek: Egypt will not burn today.
    ACO Playing with Fire 10

    Bayek returning to Vitruvius with his mission successful

    • Vitruvius: Or any day I hope. And General Agrippa?
    • Bayek: He did not give it up willingly.
    • Vitruvius: (Sigh) He was a good Roman. But he never understood that doesn't mean you cannot be a good man. Flavius fed Agrippa's pride and ambition with talk of empires. I fear the path his supporters have taken will end in many deaths.
    • Bayek: It will end with their own. But you are a good man Vitruvius. I have seen that in your words and deeds.
    • Vitruvius: I am trying to be. Thank you again, Bayek of Siwa, you are a true protector of your people.

    Outcome[]

    Bayek saved Nenet's son Kade, escorting him out of the citadel. He later helped Vitruvius to destroy the stockpile of weapons made using his formula and retrieved it for him.

    Trivia[]

    • This memory can be played prior to completing The Good Roman. However, players will not be able to proceed on following the dialogue scene with Kade until the former has been completed.

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    References[]

    Assassin's Creed: Origins memories
    Main Quests
    The Heron Assassination - Homecoming - The Oasis - The False Oracle - May Amun Walk Beside You - Aya - Gennadios the Phylakitai - End of the Snake - Egypt's Medjay - The Scarab's Sting - The Scarab's Lies - Pompeius Magnus - The Hyena - The Lizard's Mask - The Lizard's Face - The Crocodile's Scales - The Crocodile's Jaws - Way of the Gabiniani - Aya: Blade of the Goddess - The Battle of the Nile - The Aftermath - The Final Weighing - Last of the Medjay - Fall of an Empire, Rise of Another - Birth of the Creed
    Side Quests
    Special
    A Gift from the Gods - Incoming Threat - Here Comes a New Challenger - Phylakes' Prey - Lights Among the Dunes - Secrets of the First Pyramids
    Siwa
    Gear Up - Family Reunion - Water Rats - Hideaway - Striking the Anvil - The Healer - Prisoners in the Temple - Bayek's Promise
    Lake Mareotis
    Hidden Tax - The Book of the Dead - Ambush in the Temple - Ulterior Votive - Lady of Slaughter - Birthright - Taste of her Sting
    Alexandria
    The Accidental Philosopher - The Last Bodyguard - Higher Education - Serapis Unites - A Tithe By Any Other Name - The Shifty Scribe - The Odyssey - Wrath of the Poets - Symposiasts - Phylakitai in the Eye - Cat's Cradle
    Kanopos
    Old Times - Wild Ride - Blue Hooligans - The Weasel - The Hungry River
    Sap-Meh Nome
    In Protest - Thick Skin - Fair Trade
    Sapi-Res Nome
    Conflicts of Interest - Smoke Over Water - All Eyes on Us - Lost Happiness - Abuse of Power - The Tax Master - The Ostrich - New Kid in Town - Worker's Lament - The Old Library
    Giza
    The Planetarium - Precious Bonds - What's Yours Is Mine - A Gift from the Gods
    Memphis
    A Dream of Ashes - Blood in the Water - Odor Most Foul - Children of the Streets - Taimhotep's Song - The Baker's Dilemma - Mortem Romanum
    Saqqara Nome
    Rites of Anubis - First Blood - When Night Falls - A Rebel Alliance
    Faiyum
    Murder in the Temple - Feeding Faiyum - Curse of Wadjet - Rebel Strike - The Bride - Sobek's Gold - Forging Siwa - The Sickness - Fires of Dionysias - Demons in the Desert
    Faiyum Oasis
    The Champion - The Man Beast - Sobek's Tears - The Jaws of Sobek - Bad Faith - Shadya's Rest - Fighting for Faiyum
    Herakleion Nome
    Recon Work - Loose Cargo - Reunion - Predator to Prey
    Uab Nome
    Seven Farmers
    Atef-Pehu Nome
    The Matriarch
    Green Mountains
    Unseeing Eyes - One Bad Apple - The Good Roman - Playing with Fire - Taking Liberty - Halo of the Huntress - Carpe Diem - Shadows of Apollo
    Marmarica
    His Secret Service
    Kyrenaika
    The Flea of Cyrene - The Lure of Glory - The Mousetrap - Founding Father - Pax Romana - Cat and Mouse - Absolute Power - Are You Not Entertained? - The Smugglers of Cyrene - Dead in the Water - My Brother for a Horse - Here Comes a New Challenger
    Isolated Desert
    Plight of the Rebels
    Event Quests
    Antique Trafficking - Bandit Raid - Control Nuisance - Gather Materials - Lost and Found - Missing Worker - Stolen Goods - Recover the Merchandise
    DLC
    Ambush At Sea - Secrets of the First Pyramids
    The Hidden Ones
    Main Quests
    The Hidden Ones - The Land of Turquoise - Where the Slaves Die - The Walls of the Ruler - The Setting Sun - No Chains Too Thick - Sic Semper Tyrannis - The Greater Good
    Side Quests
    Klysma Nome
    Rise of Shaqilat - Howls of the Dead - The Ballad of Si-Mut and Gertha - The Killer Shadow - Shadows of the Scarab
    Madiama Nome
    Respect Thy Brother
    Arsinoe Nome
    Shards from a Star
    The Curse of the Pharaohs
    Main Quests
    The Curse of the Pharaohs - No Honor Amongst Thebes - The Lady of Grace - Cleansing Rite - Something Rotten - Soured Libations - Aten Rising - The Heretic - Blood in the Water - The King of Kings - A Pharaoh's Shadow - A Pharaoh's Heart and Name - A Pharaoh's Hemset - A Pharaoh's Ka
    Side Quests
    Thebes
    The Theban Triad - Master of the Secret Things - Perchance to Dream
    Theban Necropolis
    Burnt Offerings - A Sister's Vow - Idol Hands - Drowned Tools - A Motherless Child - Unfair Trade
    Thebes Nome
    Crocodile Tears - National Treasures
    Yebu Nome
    Losers Weepers - Fish Out Of Water - Laid to Rest
    Aaru
    Love or Duty
    Aten
    Gods or Creed - The Cat - The Ibis - The Hawk
    Heb Sed
    Follower or Leader
    Duat
    Shield or Blade - A Necessary Evil - Khepri's Amulet - The God's Spark
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