Charles Darwin's London Stories
Charles Darwin's London Stories are side memories in which the naturalist, a friend of the twins since the Starrick's Soothing Syrup affair, asks for help as his enemies turn from argument to threats. You protect a fossil, destroy toxic flowers, tear down smear posters and finally rescue Darwin himself.
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- Charles Darwin
Good to know
- Giver: Charles Darwin, 1868.
- Six memories, from The Berlin Specimen to Darwin's Orchid.
- Darwin first meets Jacob in the main story while investigating the factory making Starrick's Soothing Syrup.
- Darwin's Orchid comes from The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy pack.
- Florence Nightingale joins the final memory of the main thread, A Struggle for Existence.
- Darwin is voiced by Julian Richings.
- Most memories can be played as either twin; The Berlin Specimen is where Darwin first meets Evie.
What the stories are about
Darwin says he enjoys a hard debate, but the attacks on his work have become threats against him and his colleagues. He tells the twins that men tried to buy all his research on condition that he work only for them, and he turned them down. The memories follow that campaign: a stolen fossil, a hallucinogenic plant in a Westminster park, newsboys forced to display slander, and caricature posters of Darwin as an ape. Along the way the twins tell Darwin a little about the enemy they have fought all their lives, and he encourages them to keep going.
Memory list in order
1. The Berlin Specimen. 2. An Abominable Mystery. 3. Defamation. 4. Cruel Caricature. 5. A Struggle for Existence. 6. Darwin's Orchid.
How the main thread endsSpoilerShow
In A Struggle for Existence a corrupt policeman takes Darwin away on Templar orders. The twins and Florence Nightingale free him, and he leaves to recover with his family on the Isle of Wight, already planning his next book.
Before the London Stories
Jacob first runs into Darwin outside the Soothing Syrup factory in Unnatural Selection, where the naturalist is stuck at a locked gate. They wreck the distillery together, and Darwin later points Jacob at Richard Owen in On the Origin of Syrup. That shared work is why Jacob tells Darwin he is in his debt when the stories open.
- 1The Berlin SpecimenThe Berlin Specimen is the first Charles Darwin memory: Darwin asks you to meet a German colleague at Charing Cross station and bring him and a valuable fossil safely across London. Blighters are already searching the crowds for him.
- 2An Abominable MysteryAn Abominable Mystery is the second Charles Darwin memory: a plant no botanist recognises is making people in a Westminster park delirious. You investigate the flower beds, follow tracks to a cart full of the plants and then use their pollen against pursuers while driving Darwin to a safe disposal spot.
- 3DefamationDefamation is a short Charles Darwin memory: Darwin asks you to fetch him a newspaper, and you find a Blighter bullying the newsboy. A foot chase follows, and the thug's leaflet shows that someone is paying to spread attacks on Darwin.
- 4Cruel CaricatureCruel Caricature is the fourth Charles Darwin memory: posters showing Darwin as an ape under the slogan "We are not apes" are going up around London. You tear them down, catch a billposter and follow the trail to an underground print shop that you blow up.
- 5A Struggle for ExistenceA Struggle for Existence is the fifth Charles Darwin memory: Florence Nightingale tells you a policeman has hauled Darwin away, and the two of you go after him. You kidnap the officer for answers, then fight through a Templar hideout while Nightingale treats Darwin.
- 6Darwin's OrchidDarwin's Orchid is a short Charles Darwin memory from The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy: a rare orchid from Madagascar is waiting for Darwin at the docks, and a rival has sent thugs to take it first. You race across the river, grab the flower off a boat and bring it back.
- Charles DarwinCharles Darwin helps Jacob destroy the Soothing Syrup distillery in Sequence 4 and then gives the Charles Darwin London Stories, in which the twins protect his work and reputation from Templar-backed attacks.
- Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale is stationed at Lambeth Asylum in 1868. In The Lady with the Lamp she treats Clara O'Dea and asks Evie to recover the supplies needed to replace the counterfeit tonics flooding Lambeth after John Elliotson's death.
- Richard OwenRichard Owen is the naturalist and Darwin rival Jacob chases down in On the Origin of Syrup. Rammed through traffic in his own carriage, he gives up the name of the Syrup's creator: Dr John Elliotson of Lambeth Asylum.
Related missions
Image: UbisoftStoryOverdose
Overdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.
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On the Origin of Syrup
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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The Lady with the Lamp
The Lady with the Lamp brings Evie back to Lambeth after the asylum's closure. When Clara O'Dea collapses at the asylum doors, Florence Nightingale takes her in and gives Evie a list of medicines to fetch from a peddler and a besieged pharmacist.
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend is a Charles Dickens memory from The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy: Dickens and Darwin ask you to collect their rich friend John Hammon from a railway station and keep him safe. He then drags you into a scheme to test the woman he is meant to marry.