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The Good Roman was a virtual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

Description[]

Vitruvius' surveying tool is missing and work on the aqueduct has ground to a halt. It won't be long before the Romans start scapegoating the Siwan workers.

Dialogue[]

Bayek visited the Lumber Depots situated south of the aqueduct, where he heard a conversation between two workers.

  • Man 1: Stop pissing off the foreman! Last thing we need is to get shipped off to the aqueduct!
  • Man 2: That place is the bowels of Hades. I saw cousin Houi yesterday he said the Romans will start making examples of people soon, cut a few threads.
  • Man 1: Romans! Ha! Sometimes I wonder if we made the right decision coming here... Faiyum was not so bad.

Bayek approached both men.

  • Man 2: The foreman sent a guard to check on us? We were not complaining! We were working hard!
  • Bayek: I am not a guard, I am a Medjay from Siwa. Does he treat you badly? The work here looks back-breaking.
  • Man 1: No! Compared to the Siwans up at the aqueduct we are revered like pharaohs!
  • Man 2: I would not go that far.
  • Bayek: Are there problems at the aqueduct?
  • Man 1: Some snooty engineer, Vitruvius. He is working our countrymen to death. And now the Roman army is involved. Which is never good...
  • Bayek: I will see what is going on, seni (friend).

Bayek headed up north to the aqueduct, where he found a group of soldiers preparing to punish a worker.

  • Roman soldier: Maybe the lash will loosen your tongue.

The soldier raised his weapon, but a Roman man stepped between him and his victim-to-be.

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Vitruvius preventing the soldier from executing the worker

  • Vitruvius: Enough! My workers are not to blame. Send me some soldiers with half a brain, or we'll never find my dioptra.
  • Roman Soldier: General Agrippa will hear of this! A Roman standing up for Egyptians! Pathetic!

The soldiers made to leave the place.

  • Vitruvius: Tell Agrippa I need real soldiers who will help me find these thieves! Now scuttle back to your wine you sacks of uselessness.

Bayek addressed Vitruvius.

  • Bayek: Are you the one responsible for working my people to death?
  • Vitruvius: Your people? They are my people, I'm keeping them alive in the face of increasingly bad odds. But who are you, my Egyptian friend?
  • Bayek: Bayek of Siwa. Protector of these people.
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Bayek offering to assist Vitruvius in his search

  • Vitruvius: Well Bayek of Siwa, I am Vitruvius and contrary to popular belief not all Roman are your enemy. If you would help your people, then help me. Our tools have been stolen. My surveying tool, the dioptra specifically. Without it construction has stalled on the aqueduct. The General's idiots believe my workers are to blame.
  • Bayek: Maybe I can look for this... dioptra?
  • Vitruvius: With it, this elevated river would flow into the farms of Cyrenaica. Talk to Dedi up at the construction site. He used it last. Fortuna go with you, Bayek of Siwa.

Bayek climbed up the construction site and found a man on top of the aqueduct.

  • Bayek: Are you Dedi?

Dedi attempted to flee.

  • Dedi: Hades' fiery crotch! I did not take it, please do not kill me.
  • Bayek: Dedi, wait!
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Bayek chasing after Dedi on the aqueduct

Bayek pursued after him across the aqueduct, eventually to a dead end.

  • Bayek: Calm down, I won't hurt you, just tell me where the dioptra is.
  • Dedi: It was lunchtime and my wife brought me a fresh roasted chicken leg for lunch which was nice as it has been an eon since I had...
  • Bayek: Sounds delicious but get to the part about the master's tool? Your lunch won't solve this crime...
  • Dedi: Oh I see. Well I left the dioptra in the cave and when I came back it was gone. Scrobbled away by wolves, spirits or worse!
  • Bayek: What does this dioptra look like?
  • Dedi: Like a brazier, made of three parts. A bit you see through, a bit you measure with...
  • Bayek: I will find it, just try not to die of fright before then.
  • Dedi: Please find the dioptra. My head looks so much better attached to my shoulders!

Bayek made his way to a cave, where Dedi had claimed to have lost the dioptra parts in. He climbed up a cliff in order to venture deeper into the cave, finding that it was occupied by a group of bandits.

  • Bayek: A bandit den. Well at least we know it was not spirits that stole the tool.
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Bayek discovering one of the tools

He recovered a dioptra stand on a table.

  • Bayek: Looks like a piece of the dioptra.

Bayek headed further up the camp and found another piece.

  • Bayek: Part of the missing surveying tool.

Bayek went out of the cave and headed up the mountains where he came across a ruin. He eliminated the bandits and recovered a part from one of them.

  • Bayek: Another piece of the tool.

After collecting all the pieces, Bayek mused.

  • Bayek: I should return to Vitruvius, before the Romans make an example of Dedi.
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Bayek returning to Vitruvius with his tools

Bayek climbed down the mountain and returned to Vitruvius.

  • Vitruvius: You have it? You have my dioptra?
  • Bayek: I found it in a bandit camp above the aqueduct.
  • Vitruvius: Really? Some of my workers complained of hearing whispers from there, believed it was haunted. I was sure it was just superstitious nonsense.
  • Bayek: I dealt with it. Nothing will haunt you now, living or dead.
  • Vitruvius: Excellent and now General Agrippa has no more reason to bully my workers. He's become more ambitious since Flavius returned from Siwa and it is not a welcome change. Thank you Bayek, you saved my... our people's lives. I am in your debt.
  • Bayek: Fortuna smile on you, Vitruvius. Your work will help a lot of people in Cyrenaica.

Outcome[]

Bayek helped the engineer Vitruvius to recover his dioptra tool, allowing him to resume work on the aqueduct.

Trivia[]

  • This memory may be completed by Bayek prior to Playing with Fire, providing an alternate dialogue.

Gallery[]

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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