Sequence 5: The Perils of Business
Sequence 5 is about who controls London's transport: Jacob partners with omnibus owner Pearl Attaway against Starrick's Millner Company, while Evie follows Kenway's clues to the key of the Shroud's vault. Seven memories, and completing them unlocks The Perils of Business achievement.
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Good to know
- Playable twins: Jacob for the Attaway memories, Evie for A Room with a View and The Lady with the Lamp, either twin for Breaking News.
- Main targets: Malcolm Millner, who runs Starrick's omnibus company, plus a duel with Lucy Thorne.
- Contains seven memories, from A Room with a View to End of the Line.
- Bell's voltaic bombs and Florence Nightingale both arrive in this sequence.
- Achievement: The Perils of Business (complete Memory Sequence 5), 20 Gamerscore or a bronze trophy.
What the sequence covers
Henry reports that Starrick has added an omnibus firm to his railways. Jacob burns Millner's buses, steals his combustion engines with Ned Wynert's help and goes after Millner on the Thames. Evie climbs the Monument and St Paul's to find the vault key, then helps Nightingale treat Lambeth after the asylum closes. Bell joins the twins to sabotage Starrick's telegraph transmitter.
Memories in order
1. A Room with a View. 2. Friendly Competition. 3. Breaking News. 4. The Lady with the Lamp. 5. Research and Development. 6. Survival of the Fittest. 7. End of the Line.
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Lucy Thorne takes the vault key from Evie at St Paul's. Millner's dying words lead Jacob to overhear Attaway with Starrick: she is his cousin and a Templar, and she used Jacob to clear a rival. Jacob kills her at Waterloo station and sends the engines to Charing Cross, and a grieving Starrick orders more Templars onto the streets.
Where it happens
Locations include the Monument to the Great Fire and St Paul's Cathedral, Lambeth Asylum, the Thames docks and Waterloo station, with the engines finally delivered to Charing Cross.
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A Room with a ViewA 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. - 2Friendly CompetitionFriendly 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.
- 3Breaking NewsBreaking News has Alexander Graham Bell test his new bombs on two Starrick thugs outside his workshop, then sneak into the Starrick telegraph station to wreck its transmitter while you protect him. It is where the voltaic bomb enters your kit.
- 4The Lady with the LampThe 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.
- 5Research and DevelopmentResearch 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.
- 6Survival of the FittestSurvival 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.
- 7End of the LineEnd 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.
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Charles Darwin's London Stories
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Charles Dickens's London Stories
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Epilogue
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Karl Marx's London Stories
Karl Marx's London Stories are five side memories in which the exiled philosopher asks the Frye twins to help London's working people rather than the comfortable citizens they have already helped. You shield his union meetings from police spies, expose a dangerous factory, stop a grieving worker's bomb plot and guard a rally.