A Spoonful of Syrup
A Spoonful of Syrup starts Jacob's investigation into Starrick's Soothing Syrup, a cheap tonic leaving its users dazed. You chase a street seller, tail a silent distributor and kidnap the distribution boss from a fight club to find out where it is made.
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Storylines
Part 2 of 7 in Sequence 4: A Quick and Reliable Remedy
Good to know
- Sequence 4, memory 2 of 7; global story order 9; played as Jacob Frye.
- Optional objectives: remain undetected; steal the plan undetected.
- Henry says the syrup is the only medicine left on sale in Lambeth.
- The distribution boss runs a fight club at the Southwark Foundry.
- The title plays on A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins.
- The distributor speaks in single words and gives a worker until tomorrow to return stolen money.
- The syrup seller says the deliveries run every day between the gasometers and the asylum.
Objectives
Break up a quarrel between a syrup seller and a customer whose husband is barely conscious; the seller pulls a knife and runs, so tackle him. He points you to a daily run between the gasometers and the asylum. Find the distributor and follow him to a Starrick Brewing Company factory without being seen, then pickpocket his papers. They point to the foundry fight club, where you kidnap the boss and drag him outside.
Tips
Patience pays here. Keep to cover while tailing the distributor and only move in for the steal when nobody is facing you. The kidnap ring shrinks if you walk slowly through the crowd at the fight club.
Outcome
The boss gives up the distillery, the large building beside the brewery, which is where Jacob heads in Unnatural Selection.
Why the syrup matters
A woman confronts the seller because her husband drinks nothing but the syrup and has gone simple-headed on it. The seller insists it is made from the finest ingredients and pulls a knife when Jacob steps in, which starts the chase.
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On the Origin of Syrup is a carriage interrogation: Darwin points Jacob at his old rival Richard Owen, and you hijack Owen's coach and drive it recklessly until he names the man who created Soothing Syrup.
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