AC Syndicate collectibles

R. White's Table Ale

R. White's Table Ale is a London table beer among the vintage bottles you sample for Cerevisaphile. Shaun questions what exactly it was unrivalled at.

Red Growler

Red Growler is a vintage beer bottle in Syndicate, sampled toward the Cerevisaphile achievement. Shaun uses it to share a brewing fact, then wishes he had skipped the beer.

Robert, Barnaby & Co. Amber Ale

Robert, Barnaby & Co. Amber Ale is a Gloucester amber ale and one of the vintage beer bottles you sample for Cerevisaphile. According to Shaun, it tastes of fish.

Rose

The Rose is one of the 30 pressed flowers Evie Frye gathers for Henry Green's herbarium. Its meaning is the obvious one: love.

Royal Letter: 13 June 1865

This royal letter is Queen Victoria writing to her son Bertie, the Prince of Wales, about the names he has picked for his new baby. She is not impressed.

Royal Letter: 14 October 1867

This royal letter is a journal entry in which Queen Victoria hears of a reported Fenian plot to seize her. She calls the idea foolish.

Royal Letter: 16 December 1867

This royal letter is Queen Victoria scolding the Foreign Secretary, Lord Stanley, for sending dispatches before she has approved them.

Royal Letter: 16 October 1866

This royal letter is Queen Victoria to the Prince of Wales about his wish to visit St Petersburg for the wedding of Princess Dagmar, his wife Alix's sister.

Royal Letter: 19 December 1867

This royal letter is from General Grey to Queen Victoria, laying out the full extent of the threats against her. Lord Derby's own warning follows in the same text.

Royal Letter: 21 May 1865

This royal letter is Mary Lincoln's reply to Queen Victoria's condolences. It is brief and grateful.

Royal Letter: 22 January 1866

This royal letter is Queen Victoria to the Prime Minister, Earl Russell, agreeing to open Parliament but protesting bitterly about it. She compares the ceremony to an execution.

Royal Letter: 22 May 1867

This royal letter is Queen Victoria's birthday note to Bertie, sent with the insignia of the Order of the Thistle. It also hands out honours to other relatives.

Royal Letter: 26 June 1867

This royal letter is Queen Victoria complaining to Lord Charles FitzRoy that people are trying to stop her servant John Brown from attending her at a review in Hyde Park.

Royal Letter: 27 April 1865

This royal letter is from Queen Victoria to her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, written while he was ill. She thanks him for writing when weak and pleads with him to follow his doctors.

Royal Letter: 29 April 1865

This royal letter is Queen Victoria's condolence note to Mary Todd Lincoln after her husband's assassination. Victoria writes as one widow to another.

Royal Letter: 6 February 1866

This royal letter is an extract from Queen Victoria's journal describing the day she opened Parliament, the ordeal she dreaded in her letter to Earl Russell.

Royal Letters

Royal Letters are 12 pieces of Queen Victoria's correspondence that Jacob and Evie Frye pick up in Westminster, mostly around Buckingham Palace. They mix her journal entries with letters to and from family, politicians and Mary Todd Lincoln, and collecting all of them unlocks A Life in Letters.

Secret of London #01

Secret of London #01 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in the Buckingham Palace area of Westminster. Open it and you take disc #01, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that promises to search for mad Maud wherever she lies, even under the earth.

Secret of London #02

Secret of London #02 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in the City of London. Open it and you take disc #02, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that has Poor Tom begging for food, drink or clothing and swearing he means no harm.

Secret of London #03

Secret of London #03 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in The Thames borough. Open it and you take disc #03, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that mixes a longing look for Maudlin with a cup of cockle soup and a slide into dotage.

Secret of London #04

Secret of London #04 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in the Buckingham Palace area of Westminster. Open it and you take disc #04, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that describes a sleeper who has not rested since the Conquest until the boy of love stripped him bare.

Secret of London #05

Secret of London #05 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Lambeth. Open it and you take disc #05, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that claims to know more than Apollo and to see the stars weeping in a wounded sky.

Secret of London #06

Secret of London #06 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in Lambeth. Open it and you take disc #06, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that pairs the moon embracing her shepherd with the queen of love and her warrior.

Secret of London #07

Secret of London #07 is one of Michel Reuge's music boxes, hidden in The Strand. Open it and you take disc #07, a key to Reuge's vault, along with a short verse that is a riddle of years spent raging and years locked away.