Playing It by Ear
Playing It by Ear sends Evie and Henry into the Kenway Mansion, now a Templar house, following Eagle Vision clues in Thorne's notebook. You hunt for Edward Kenway's keepsakes and solve a piano puzzle that opens a secret room.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Henry Green
Storylines
Part 6 of 7 in Sequence 4: A Quick and Reliable Remedy
Found in
- Kenway MansionThe Kenway Mansion is Edward Kenway's old London home on Queen Anne's Square, now owned by the Templars. Evie and Henry search it for the Shroud of Eden in Playing It by Ear, and Evie returns in 1888 during the Jack the Ripper expansion.
- Queen Anne's SquareQueen Anne's Square is a garden square in the City of London best known as the site of the Kenway Mansion, Edward Kenway's last home and Haytham Kenway's childhood house.
Good to know
- Sequence 4, memory 6 of 7; global story order 13; played as Evie Frye, with Henry Green.
- Location: the Kenway Mansion in Queen Anne's Square.
- Optional objectives: find all 7 pieces of Kenway's memorabilia; complete the piano puzzle without a false note.
- The notebook mentions a Shroud of Eden said to heal the gravest injuries.
- Lucy Thorne is searching the house at the same time.
- Follows Cable News; Overdose is next.
Objectives
Read the notebook with Eagle Vision to reveal an arch with a ship sculpture, St Paul's Cathedral, an underground entrance and a compass. Ride with Henry to the mansion, find a way past Thorne's patrols, and sneak inside. Search the rooms, then examine the piano: Eagle Vision shows notes on the wall, and playing them opens a passage beside a cabinet. Grab the golden disc and document from the hidden room, then turn the Jackdaw's wheel to open a hatch into the sewers and escape.
Kenway's memorabilia
The seven pieces are a model of the Jackdaw on a hallway desk, a pair of pistols in an alcove right of the front door, crossed sabres in the opposite alcove, a feathered tricorne, a blood vial, a second ship model and a map of Jamaica. The tune on the piano is the chorus of the shanty Lowlands Away.
What happensSpoilerShow
Thorne hears the music and nearly catches the pair; Henry seals the door just in time. The document is a history of the London Assassins pointing to vaults and a hidden key, and it confirms Kenway had found a Shroud. Evie invites Henry to keep doing fieldwork with her.
- Evie FryeEvie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.
- Henry GreenHenry Green is the head of the Assassins in London when the Frye twins arrive in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. He runs a curiosity shop in Whitechapel that doubles as the Brotherhood's bureau, introduces Jacob and Evie to their key allies and works alongside Evie on the search for the Shroud of Eden. His birth name is Jayadeep Mir.
- Lucy ThorneLucy Thorne is Crawford Starrick's second-in-command and the Templars' expert on Pieces of Eden in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is Evie Frye's rival through the search for the Shroud of Eden and the target of the memory A Thorne in the Side, set in the Tower of London.
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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The Crate Escape
The Crate Escape is Evie's first lead on the Templars' new Piece of Eden: Lucy Thorne is expecting a shipment at the docks, so you raid her cart, open the chest and flee in a carriage chase while Jacob drives badly on purpose.
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A Case of Identity
A Case of Identity opens Sequence 6 with Jacob chasing a name in a letter: Plutus, Starrick's banker, and a meddler called Mr Dredge. You infiltrate the Royal Exchange to kidnap Dredge and find out what he knows.
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A Room with a View
A Room with a View follows the Kenway clues to the Monument to the Great Fire and then the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, where Evie solves a disc mechanism to find the key to the Shroud's vault. Lucy Thorne is waiting, and the memory ends in a fight with her.