#Abstergo

[sparrovv]

HI IM ALIVE. yeah crazy i know anyways here’s some late AC1 week thats kinda sloppy but you know what. It gives it ✨ character ✨

Prompts 1-6

Eagle

Eden

Blood

History

Enemy

Alliance

[the-moon-will-not-sing]

[zachfett]

Assassin's Creed (2007, Ubisoft Montreal)

Bought this last week on Steam, I'd only ever played an hour or two of it long ago on Xbox 360.

I'm really enjoying it (except when Altair randomly decides to jump off a wall to his death) and it holds up well, though it does have very noticeable LOD pop-in and low quality shadows, unfortunately.

[altairz]

Just this morning I replayed the Abstergo massacre. I made screenshots for you, maybe something will work as a template for future art. P.S: Instead of killing Cross, I decided to just run after him, I was too sorry, even Rebbeka called him poor (

I'M MONSTER 😭

[abstergo-industries-hr]

Hey, uh, Abstergo,

I know we’re supposed to use this for professional stuff, and we’ve gotten into trouble for not doing that, but I need help with something.

I showed up to work this morning and this was at my desk. I don’t get it—it looks like a salad with knives on them. Did I miss something? I mean, I guess I was an hour late but I got into an argument on Reddit and I had to win that.

Are these even real knives? They look….OWWW! I NEED A BAND-AID!!! OWWWW!!

- Intern Jaxon

He really is the dumbest person here.

- Intern Aliyah

[subjxctseventeen]

ac gays do we think abstergo would rainbowwash their logo for pride month yes or no

[leadengineerabstergo]

Tbh, I didn't expect to be working this late. Alex went home so it's just me.

We heard about the, uh, problem that is happening recently and are working to fix it. I think I almost have it as well.

~Rupert

[grandpriestofthealpaca]

Ok I didn't find anyone talking about that maybe it is obvious maybe I am crazy or maybe I haven't looked hard enough but

bullfrog in captain laserhawk is an hybrid something they say is engendered for a specific purpose, is also an assasin a character from a group that goes back in time to get information and he has the power to make bubble that show the past

I believe the frogs were made to have Abstergo built into them (they were probs made by the Templars)

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Idea #85: The Old Guard, but make it Assassin's Creed

My brother has always been a big fan of Assassin's Creed, but I never gave the games a shot until recently, when it seemed a natural progression from all the Crusades research I've been doing for The Old Guard fic I want to write but probably never will. Once I realized Isu bullshit could be a perfect explanation for TOG immortality, this (incredibly self-indulgent) crossover was born.

Or: What if Merrick Pharmaceuticals was a competitor of Abstergo Industries?

Just imagine it:

Pharmaceutical research is an expensive, cut-throat business. Viagra is a $2 billion dollar a year industry. Humira, the blockbuster drug of 2018, sold nearly $20 billion in the US alone. So I imagine if you're a pharmaceutical CEO of limited morals and great ambition, it might seem like a better idea to steal ideas from your competitor who seems to hit it out of the ballpark every time instead of pouring billions of dollars into what may turn out to be an unfruitful venture.

Enter Hugh Merrick, father of Steve Merrick and founder of Merrick Pharmaceuticals. Needing a blockbuster and desperate to get one over on Abstergo, he hires a hacker to slip into Abstergo's servers and find him the ripest, juiciest plum they can sometime in the early 2000s, before the (modern) events of the games or the 2019 TOG movie.

The hacker comes back with the schematics for the Animus.

The idea of genetic memories seems absurd, but Hugh figures that if Abstergo has been using the Animus since the 1980s to get ahead, there's no reason he can't do it too - all he needs is a single Piece of Eden and all his problems are solved.

Hugh builds the Animus and has the hacker go back into Abstergo's systems looking for a candidate to put into it. But finding someone with Assassin blood seems dangerous - they're likely to be an assassin too and could be dangerous if they try to escape, plus the Templars killed off nearly all of them. Templar descendants are out because most are Templars themselves and if Hugh's plan is to succeed he heeds to stay off their radar for as long as possible.

The hacker returns with Abstergo's list of people who may be useful if all other avenues fail. It contains a list of people who were peripherally involved during the invents that interest them - mainly high-ranking courtiers close to Popes Alexander VI and Julius II - and their descendants. They might know things about events of Ezio's time.

Enter Joe and Nicky.

For the past few hundred years, their primary cover identities involve being the children or grandchildren of their previous cover story, all the way back to their first deaths. There are fewer questions and you get to "inherit" all your old stuff.

This method has worked quite well for them - until Merrick learns that their "ancestors" were part of the court of Pope Julius II from 1497 (when he was still Bishop of Ostia) until his death in 1513. Nicky was his private secretary, Joe was a court painter, and contemporary sources suggest they were highly placed enough to know whatever Pope Julius II knew about Ezio's apple. Such as where Ezio might have hidden it.

It's not an unreasonable plan, except for the pesky fact of Joe and Nicky's immortality. After all, the animus is designed to draw on genetic memory, not the subject's own memories. And even if it can be used to view memories laid down in their own genes 500 years ago - which is doubtful, - there's a high likelihood of it killing them - and if Hugh were to learn of their immortality, things would only get worse for them. But they have little choice once they're captured and brought to Hugh's secret research bunker somewhere north of Inverness.

What follows is a largely self-indulgent stroll through the more interesting episodes of Joe and Nicky's life together.

Nicky's first go in the animus is a jumbled, confused mess as Hugh's tech minion learns the ropes as she goes. Nicky ends up hopscotching through his early memories - for instance, a memory where he's learning how to use a sword as a young squire jumps to him using the same move during the Siege of Jerusalem. That strand of memory continues on for a bit until another interaction gets him sent into the memory of another battle/training session/conversation with the person in question and so on.

Joe's first time in the animus goes a little better, as Hugh realizes that his minion needs to learn how to program the animus before they put their most valuable subject into it, and so let's her learn with Joe. Hugh's minion (who is really beginning to regret taking this job) succeeds, pulling Joe into the genetic memory of one of his ancestors: al-Kahina, an Amazigh religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. There should be suggestions of a Sword of Eden somewhere in events, but since they don't share Precursor knowledge, Hugh's not interested in letting the memory play out.

Nicky's second session gets them to the time period they want, but his memories have next to nothing to do with the PoE. The same holds true for Joe, when his second session puts him through his POV of that time period. And though Hugh has his minion take them up and down every memory of that time period searching for the smallest hint of anything that might point them in the right direction, there's nothing to find.

Or, rather: Nicky and Joe did meet Ezio once or twice, in waiting rooms or reception areas or the like, but they spent that time talking about art, or the weather, or philosophy - nothing about politics, or Ezio's travels, or PoEs at all.

Otherwise, most of Nicky and Joe's memories of early 16th century Rome involve Joe's rivalry with Michelangelo, who among other things persisted in flirting with Nicky even after he made it clear he wasn't interested. (Joe was, among other things, responsible for getting Michelangelo the commission for David in Florence to get him out of Rome and away from Nicky.)

There's some Vatican politics as well - Nicky's part in organizing the Swiss Guard, Joe's in organizing the Vatican Museums, and the removal of the Borgias from power - and some global politics - the 1503 dispensation for Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, etc. But most of their memories are largely Joe and Nicky being Joe and Nicky in the High Renaissance (and rather hating their jobs, as neither of them particularly like working for Julius II but were blackmailed into it to avoid being labeled as Ottoman spies.)

This goes on for several days until Hugh orders his minion to start looking for the memories of other "ancestors" - essentially, to refine the animus and her technique while he gets his hacker to find better candidates for the animus. And if this accidentally destroys Joe and Nicky's minds in the process? So be it. The plan was always to kill them at the end of their usefulness anyway.

Hugh's minion spends a day doing as asked - there's a few tantalizing glimpses of Joe and Nicky at the court of Kublai Khan in the 1270s - before she has an opportunity to act on the guilty conscious that's come to plague her.

The minion helps them escape - destroying the animus, wiping the records, and blowing the place sky high to cover the bloody swath they have to cut to get out of the secret research bunker. Amongst the casualties is Hugh Merrick, propelling his son Steve into position as youngest CEO in Pharma.

Joe and Nicky rejoin Andy and Booker - who'd been doing their best to cut their own bloody swath through anyone tangentially related to the mercenaries who kidnapped their brothers - and decide to turn their attention to tracking down PoE and destroying animus technology wherever it can be found, believing there are no peaceful uses for either. As a glad you escaped present, Booker tanks Merrick Pharmaceutical's stocks so badly the company never recovers, eventually going bankrupt.

As for the minion? Maybe she's a young Rebecca Crane prior to her recruitment by the Assassins and it’s her experiences with Hugh's animus that get her recruited by the Assassin Order. Maybe she's just a random OC who sets herself up with a new identity halfway around the world and watches gleefully as Merrick Pharmaceuticals and Abstergo Industries both eventually crash and burn.

Bonuses include: 1) Joe and Nicky being the most passive aggressive kidnapees in the history of kidnappings - on the face of things, going along with exactly what Hugh asks of them, but doing their best to focus on innocuous memories and figuring out how to purposefully make memories "skip" between similar episodes without Hugh ever noticing the glitch. Also, playing up the Bleeding Effect so that by day three they're only speaking in Medieval Italian; 2) Hugh being a better class of villain than his son. Immoral? Unethical? Yes, but in a sophisticated businessman way, not a jacket and hoodie, stab a man with a letter opener type way. For some reason I'm imagining him as Jean-Luc Picard, if Picard ever had a Mirror Universe alternate; and 3) Interludes of Andy and Booker searching for Joe and Nicky after they've been kidnapped. This should be part action-thriller along the lines of Taken, part buddy comedy, and involve an arc wherein Andy learns of Booker's deep unhappiness with his immortality and helps him come to terms with the feelings that would have otherwise eventually led to the events of the 2019 movie.

And that is surprisingly more than I thought I would have had. As always, feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you decide to do anything with it.

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[theknightgeek]

Companies during june:

[cute-details]

There was an attempt.

(Assassin's Creed Rogue)

[ac1week]

I cordially invite you to the second Assassin's Creed 1 Appreciation Week! A whole week of AC1 love starting on the game's 15th anniversary

welcome

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[sir-yeehaw-paws]

SEE YA WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA.

What happened to 'no combat' Shaun? ;)

[incognito-insomniac]

Like honestly the Abstergo plot line got so fucked up that I would genuinely enjoy all the newer AC games without any of it. I don't need some ruse to play a historical Assassin linked to a larger organization in the past. Like it can just be standalone, or even vaguely connected. But no, I need to jump out and be a modern person for like 10 minutes of each game for "reasons".

[abstergo-industries-hr]

Good morning Abstergo,

We’ve had an uptick in accident reports due to the new VR program in Engineering. For now, Clay has offered to handle all HR matters that stem from this new program while it’s getting settled.

By the way, Clay seems very interested in the technology behind this new program. We already call him the office tech wizard, so I’m sure he’ll be excited for any tidbits of information you can give him.

I hope our American employees enjoyed their Thanksgiving break and are ready to get back to work. And remember, our clinic is still offering flu shots, COVID shots, and genetic testing to our employees, all for free. (By the way, I got the genetic testing done last week, and it turns out I have “the most unremarkable genetic history they have ever seen!” That’s a good thing, right?)

Clay, Aliyah, why are you laughing?

Have a wonderful day everyone!

- Bree from HR

[scianvih]