Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows is Jacob's first outing with Maxwell Roth, leader of the Blighters, who invites him to dinner at the Alhambra Music Hall and proposes they hurt Starrick together. Roth's first idea is to blow up a dynamite shipment at St Pancras station.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Maxwell Roth
- Region
- The Strand
Storylines
Part 1 of 4 in Sequence 8: The Joys of Freedom
Found in
- Alhambra Music HallThe Alhambra Music Hall is Maxwell Roth's theatre on Leicester Square in the Strand, the Blighter leader's base and the stage for Jacob's final showdown with him. Several of Jacob's memories with Roth start here.
- St. Pancras stationSt. Pancras station is a new railway terminus in the Strand. In Strange Bedfellows, Jacob escorts Maxwell Roth there, blows up a store of explosives and steals a Templar train.
- The StrandThe Strand is London's shopping and theatre borough, a busy, well-off district full of parks, shops and easy pickpocket targets. The Templar Victor Lynch rules it in 1868, and it holds the Alhambra Music Hall, Scotland Yard and St. Pancras station.
Good to know
- Sequence 8, memory 1 of 4; global story order 33; played as Jacob Frye.
- Giver: Maxwell Roth.
- Region: The Strand (the Alhambra Music Hall and St Pancras station).
- Optional objectives: use the moving train; destroy all dynamite by igniting it.
- Roth's doorman, Lewis, checks Jacob for weapons at the back entrance.
- Roth's plan is to destroy the explosives, not steal them, which surprises Jacob.
- Roth promises to hold off any reinforcements while Jacob works inside the station.
- Follows Motion to Impeach; Triple Theft comes next.
Objectives
The Alhambra's front door is closed to you, so go round the back and show the invitation. After the toast, drive Roth's carriage to St Pancras. From a nearby roof, jump onto the incoming train to get inside the station. Ignite the dynamite crates the Blighters are loading, then grab the driver of Starrick's train and make him take it down the line to where Roth's men wait.
Who Roth is
Roth trained gang leaders for Starrick before falling out with him. He talks about freedom and chaos, calls Jacob the bravest man in London and says all he wants from the alliance is fun.
Outcome
Roth's men take the locomotive at gunpoint, and Roth drives it away himself, telling Jacob to visit again. Evie had told him not to go; he told her he wouldn't.
Tips
The optional objectives describe a route: ride the moving train into the station instead of climbing in, and set off every dynamite crate. Grab the driver from behind and keep him calm; he agrees to stoke the engine once he sees the blade.
- 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.
- Maxwell RothMaxwell Roth is the showman and crime boss who leads the Blighters for Crawford Starrick. In Sequence 8 he invites Jacob to the Alhambra Music Hall and offers an alliance against Starrick, and his story becomes the game's darkest look at what Jacob could turn into.
Related missions
Image: UbisoftStoryFinal Act
Final Act ends Sequence 8 at the Alhambra Music Hall, where Maxwell Roth stages a masked performance for Jacob. You steal a mask to get in, deal with Roth's decoys and corner him above the stage.
- Story
Fun and Games
Fun and Games has Maxwell Roth take Jacob to one of Starrick's weapons workshops to rig it with dynamite. It turns into a rescue when children are seen walking inside just as Roth's Blighters move to light the fuses.
- Story
Triple Theft
Triple Theft is a kidnapping tour of London with Maxwell Roth riding along: Jacob grabs three of Starrick's people, an art procurer at the National Gallery, a security chief in St James' Park and a police informant inside Scotland Yard, and delivers them to Roth's boat.
- Image: UbisoftStory
A Bad Penny
A Bad Penny ends Sequence 6 inside the Bank of England. Jacob joins a guided tour, interrogates the guard captain and bank manager, and reaches Philip Twopenny in the vault before his men can finish the robbery.