Friendly Competition
Friendly Competition introduces Pearl Attaway, the omnibus owner competing with Starrick's Millner Company. Jacob finds her beside a burning bus, protects her fleet from Millner's raiders and then blows up Millner's own omnibuses in his storage yard.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Pearl Attaway
Storylines
Part 2 of 7 in Sequence 5: The Perils of Business
Good to know
- Sequence 5, memory 2 of 7; global story order 16; played as Jacob Frye.
- Key characters: Pearl Attaway and Malcolm Millner, Starrick's man in charge of the rival omnibus firm.
- Optional objective: save Ms. Attaway's omnibus driver from his pursuer.
- Date in the memory: August 1868.
- Attaway first assumes Jacob has come to kill her and offers him a coin to go away.
- Millner's men plan to burn Attaway's stock with a flammable material called parkesine.
- The route schedule taken from Millner's rider carries a note ordering a man named Wiseman to the storage yard.
Objectives
Talk to Attaway, then drive one of her omnibuses while she rides behind. When Millner's carriages attack another of her buses, kill the thugs in the chasing carriage and then the rider of the lead carriage, which drops a route schedule with orders to report to the storage yard. At the yard, Millner's men are loading a cart with parkesine meant to burn Attaway's stock. Infiltrate, push the cart beside Millner's omnibuses and ignite it.
Things to notice
Guards in the yard talk about poisoning Attaway's horses because theft can be proven and poison cannot, and about a missing driver handed over to Millner.
Outcome
Millner's fleet goes up in flames, and Attaway declares Jacob hired before he can object, starting their partnership against the Millner Company.
The drive
Attaway tells Jacob she has received threats and that Millner has burned her buses. She is suspicious of his motives but delighted at a chance to strike back, and when the job is done she hires him on the spot and shuts her carriage door before he can say he does not work like that.
- Crawford StarrickCrawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- Malcolm MillnerMalcolm Millner runs the Millner Company, the omnibus firm Starrick uses against Pearl Attaway. In Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate Jacob Frye wrecks his business for Pearl and then hunts him on the Thames in Survival of the Fittest.
- Pearl AttawayPearl Attaway is the owner of Attaway Transport, London's leading omnibus company, and a secret Templar who hires Jacob Frye to ruin her rival Malcolm Millner in Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is the target of the memory End of the Line at Waterloo station.
Related missions
- Story
Survival of the Fittest
Survival of the Fittest is the hit on Malcolm Millner: with the engines secured, Pearl Attaway sends Jacob to the Thames to sink Millner's smuggling boats and kill him at the docks. What Jacob overhears afterwards changes everything.
- Story
Research and Development
Research and Development is a train heist: Pearl Attaway wants the internal combustion engines Millner is shipping, so Jacob breaks Ned Wynert out of a police convoy and uses a second train to rob Millner's cargo on the move.
Image: UbisoftStoryEnd of the Line
End of the Line ends Sequence 5 at Waterloo station, where Jacob has to reach Pearl Attaway's fortified train carriage before Starrick's men collect the engines. You free a hostage station chief, clear the crowd and find a weak point in the carriage roof.
- Image: UbisoftStory
One Good Deed
One Good Deed has Evie protect omnibus builder Ed Bayley in Southwark, where Blighters want to force him to build buses for them now that Attaway and Millner are gone. You fight off a chase, then steal his factory deed back from a gang leader.