I love this game's idea of "subtle"

[theweaselking]

Lorenzo de Medici: "I need some corrupt guards killed and I need it to look like an accident."

Me, walks up to guard in crowded market and grabs him in a headlock, dragging him towards a well: "HELLO do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour HAHAHA SNEAK ATTACK TOSSED YOU DOWN A WELL!"

Guard: [faint muffled splash, glub, blippy interface noise of combat ending because all enemies are now underwater and sinking]

Me, doing a victory dance on the lip of the well, in his best Ducky voice: "Guard go down the hooooooole"

Crowd of 40+ civilians: [shocked stares]

Me, drawing a sword, shouting: "He was drunk and fell in on his own. I was never here."

Crowd of 40+ civilians: "He was drunk and fell on his his own. What assassin? We will probably never notice the dead body in our water supply."

Me, running off, shoving people and tearing up "wanted" posters with my face on them: "Yay!"

Lorenzo de Medici: "Excellent work, here's a bonus for keeping it quiet."

(Assassin's Creed 2)

Comments

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Well, this is the order of assassins who decided they needed a really distinctive uniform.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Which, incidentally, matches perfectly with heavy black monk robes, skimpy women's prostitute outfits, rich people, poor people, young people, and old people, enabling you to seem a perfectly average part of any crowd and not suspicious at all. *Without changing your clothes or mannerisms*.

Except for the FUCKING minstrels. THEM? They can immediately see you from any distance, immediately recognising you as "that dangerous man who we should definitely get in the way of, call attention to, and sing about". Bards, man, they're awful.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Don't they have a well they can fall into?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Since I've been replaying the Assassin's Creed games, I got to the mission in Revelations where a much older Ezio needs disguises for him and his team to sneak into the Topkapi Palace in Constantinople. And the decision is made to dress as minstrels. Which means your mission is to beat a group of Italian minstrels into unconsciousness, and Ezio takes particular glee in it.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Although this game DOES have my favourite magical item of any game, ever: The Medici Cape. It's a cape in the Medici house colours, marking you as a favoured member of the house. It has a simple magical property: The guards in Florence are no longer able to see crimes you commit.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the ugliest t-shirt in the world from Zero History.

[corwinofamber.livejournal.com]

Interesting -- That's also my own definition of "subtle"... >;-)