Monteriggioni Tunnels

Monteriggioni Tunnels was a virtual representation of one of Ezio Auditore's genetic memories stored in the Abstergo Cloud and relived by an Assassin hacker in 2023 through the Animus.
==Description==
In the tunnels beneath Monteriggioni, Ezio tried to catch Seraphina before she could escape.
==Memory Animus Feedback System==
*Catch Seraphina
**Pursue Seraphina
**Find the key
**Take the key
**Pursue Seraphina
**Chase the bandits
**Pursue Seraphina
**Defeat the bandits
**Pursue Seraphina
**Defeat the bandits' commander
**Open the door
**Pursue Seraphina
*Leave the tunnels
**Leave the tunnels
**Activate the beacon
==Dialogue==
Ezio entered the tunnels that ran beneath Monteriggioni through a secret passage in the Sanctuary.
*Ezio: Seraphina has a head start, but she does not know these tunnels like I do.
Ezio advanced through a tunnel until he reached a room sided with several cells. He entered one of them and discovered an old piece of paper inside a chest.
*Ezio: An old note. The paper is faded. It seems to be a list of prisoners, from when these tunnels were used as a jail. Some names I recognize. Others I do not.
He left the cell and climbed the nearby stairs, spotting through the grated ceiling Seraphina and several bandits who walked in a passage above him.
*Seraphina: Should we not have ensured Ezio was dead? We do not need him on our scent like a dog.
*Civilian: Signore (Sir) Ezio rests with his ancestors.
*Seraphina: I hope you are right.
*Civilian: Fear not. My men have been exploring these tunnels for weeks. There are more than enough of them to stop him, should he have survived.
Ezio followed the group until he reached a small room with a locked door. He found its key inside a storing case and used it to clear his way into the upper corridor.
*Ezio: I can still move when I need to.
Ezio continued through the passage, his path eventually interrupted by a large gap in another room.
*Ezio: Ah! This is too far even for me to jump. There must be another way across... Or some way to bridge the gap.
Ezio turned a crank nearby to lower one of the platforms that hanged above the chasm, breaking its lever. He then reached an upper passage in the room, where he saw another crank, which lowered the other platform when turned. He descended back to the lower floor, unlocking a door with a key that laid about to reach his initial position. With the platforms lowered, Ezio managed to traverse the gap and continue his pursuit of the bandits.
*Ezio: These tunnels are old. It is a pity they have been overlooked for so long.
Ezio reached a vantage point from where he spotted one of the bandits looting the room below.
*Ezio: This one is unaware of me. A fine target for my blade.
*Matteo: I'm not going back to Rizzo empty handed. If there's anything valuable down here, I'm taking it with me. "It could be dangerous, Matteo." Pah–tell it to someone else. I want to be rich.
Ezio air-assassinated the mercenary and resumed his path onwards, reaching another room from where he could see his targets walking through another passageway.
*Civilian: Come on, we must keep moving.
*Mercenary 1: We're right behind you.
In the next room, Ezio found a note in what seemed to have been a pantry.
*Ezio: A note from a servant. The paper is old, almost falling apart. "Three crates of apples, two wheels of cheese"... It's just a shopping list. Times were easier back then–but maybe it always feels that way.
Ezio then unsheated his yataghan to destroy some wooden beams which blocked his path to the next room, where he spotted Seraphina's group once again.
*Mercenary 1: Matteo wouldn't listen. He wanted to search for "treasure".
*Mercenary 2: What we already took from the Villa wasn't enough?
*Mercenary 1: Not for him.
*Mercenary 2: Then good luck to him. Seraphina says the Assassin could be right behind us.
*Civilian: Calm yourself, codardo (coward). He is just one man–
*Seraphina: –who just happens to be a Master Assassin.
*Mercenary 1: Please, Seraphina. You have the treasure you need to find the Kerukeion in Venice. You say eternal life shall be ours. Until then, trust me to handle our escape.
*Seraphina: You better, or these tunnels will be our doom.
Ezio continued to follow the bandits through the tunnel underneath them until he reached a larger room, where he descended lower through a gap and found another key inside a cabinet. He then crouched to enter another room where he unlocked a treasure chest full of coin with the key.
*Ezio: This will help with rebuilding Monteriggioni, but for now there are more pressing matters at hand.
He returned to the upper levels of the room and swinged on the bars pinned to the wall to launch himself to the other side of the gap. Ezio continued onto the next room, where a hole on the floor allowed him to peek into the tunnel below. A bandit stood underneath him next to a closed gate, with Seraphina and the remaining mercenaries watching him from the gate's other end.
*Seraphina: We can't stay here.
*Civilian: Why not? You still think Ezio is alive?
*Seraphina: I'm sure of it.
*Civilian: Come now. He was tired, outnumbered, and his best years are behind him. The men I sent to meet him were killers, every one of them. He cannot have survived.
*Seraphina: The Assassins are unlike any enemy you've faced before. I expected your men to delay Ezio, and give us time to escape. Let us not delude ourselves bu hoping for more.
*Civilian: I hope you're wrong, but Rizzo won't pay us if we perish in these tunnels, will he?
*Seraphina: Exactly. We are to return to Venice with the treasure. Nothing else matters.
*Civilian: Then what do we do about Alberto?
The man stuck behind the door started to panick.
*Alberto: Yes, what about me?
*Seraphina: Another distraction for Ezio. Leave him.
*Alberto: Leave me? Comandante (Commander), no, get me out of here!
*Seraphina: What we took from the Vault is worth more than all our lives.
*Civilian: So you say. Alberto, how did you get in there in the first place?
*Alberto: I got lost when we fled into the tunnels. I just... followed them and ended up here.
*Seraphina: And now he's trapped.
*Civilian: It's true. Those bars are too strong to bend.
*Alberto: Perhaps with a lever, you could force them apart? Or maybe there's a loose brick in the wall?
*Seraphina: Enough. We're wasting time. Ezio could be here at any moment.
*Civilian: We don't know that.
*Seraphina: But it is not a risk we can take.
*Alberto: Don't listen to her, Comandante (Commander)!
*Civilian: Quiet! Let me think.
*Seraphina: Then do it quickly. We're running out of time.
Ezio air-assassinated Alberto.
*Ezio: You're mine, bastardi (bastards)!
*Seraphina: Run! Run!
Seraphina, the bandit's commander and the other two bandits started fleeing through their tunnel, while Ezio kept up with them by traversing his, freerunning across various obstacles in the way.
*Ezio: Your end is at hand!You will not get away from me!
Ezio eventually reached the point where the two tunnels connected each other by a climbable wall.
*Mercenary 1: He's catching up!
*Ezio: I have you now!
Ezio quickly climbed the wall and continued through the tunnel, when the bandits suddenly close a wooden gate in front of him, separating them from the Assassin.
*Ezio: Do not think this will save you from my justice.
*Seraphina: My father and brother deserve justice! Those of us on the right side of knowledge have squared ourselves against you.
*Civilian: Seraphina! Come, we must go, our escape is at hand!
As Seraphina's group left the gate, Ezio found a crack in the wall next to it and climbed into it to reach an elevated passage on the other side. From there, he eavesdropped on the conversation of the group, who walked on a tunnel below.
*Mercenary 1: Fear not. We will not fail you.
*Civilian: You better not. The city above waits like a flesh feast ready to be devoured.
*Mercenary 2: We are hungry for riches, sir.
*Civilian: Then let Ezio serve as the primo (entrée). Our victory is at hand. My men have prepared a carriage to take you to Venice... and your ascension.
*Seraphina: Excellent. Take what you want from the city to appease Rizzo and meet me at our rendezvous. Hermes shall rise again.
*Civilian: Hermes shall rise again.
*Ezio: Not if I have anything to do with it.
The bandits passed through a gate and closed it behind them, allowing Ezio to pass to the next room through his tunnel. He saw Seraphina and the commander go up the room full of other bandits and disappear behind another wooden gate. The Assassin continued through the tunnel, eventually reaching a weapons room, where he saw a weapon cache next to a crate. On top of the latter there was a note and a handful of ornate throwing knives.
*Ezio: "What are we to do with these tiny knives? They are scarcely fit for slicing a salami. If we are to take this town we need swords, not these trickster's tools."
Ezio picked up and stored two knives on his holster.
*Ezio: Now these, I can use.
Ezio proceeded to the next room, spotting a bandit trying to open a locked door on a lower floor.
*Mercenary 3: Curses! Will this lock never open? I can almost smell the treasure behind this door. If only there were a key...
Ezio used a throwing knife to kill the man, descending onto the cell's floor and unlocking its door by using a key lying nearby. Afterwards, he continued onwards to the next room. Two mercenaries patrolled the floor below, stopping underneath a box hanging from the ceiling. Ezio used another knife to cut the rope of the box and kill the enemies.
*Ezio: That is the problem with these old tunnels. There are all sorts of accidents waiting to happen down here.
Ezio got down from his vantage point and climbed a ladder to reach the room in which he had seen Seraphina leave.
*Mercenary 4: I'm reporting you for insubordination!
*Mercenary 5: Ah, the hell with you.
*Mercenary 4: Did you hear what I said?
*Mercenary 5: Yes, and I don't care.
*Mercenary 4: The commander certainly will.
*Mercenary 5: The commander can go to hell with you.
Ezio swiflty neutralized the bandits in the room. He approached the closed gate and found another note close to it.
*Ezio: "Though we are bound to different masters, we share the same goal, and the same enemy. Obey her as you would me." It is signed 'R'.
Ezio then looked to the wooden gate.
*Ezio: There has to be some device that will open this gate.
Ezio approached the gate and turned a round lever placed by its side to open the gate and allow him passage to the room to where Seraphina had fled. He heard the commander shouting orders to his subordinates.
*Civilian: You. Stay here while we make our escape. Lock the door behind us.
Ezio turned around a corner and stood face to face with the commander.
*Civilian: Too late, Assassin! You want Seraphina, you'll have to go through me.
*Ezio: That, I can do.
Ezio then defeated the commander in battle, as well as the other enemies which had come to his aid. He looted the key to the locked door that he guarded and unlocked it. He walked through the corridor behind it until he reached a blocked door, with no sight of Seraphina.
*Ezio: She escaped. But the trail is not yet cold.
Ezio then crouched to pass through a small passage next to the door, using his sword to clear the way, ending up on another room, with a door that lead to the interior of a watchtower. Ezio mused on his mission while climbing all the way to the top.
*Ezio: Oh, Monteriggioni. I failed to protect you once before. On my honor, and the memory of my uncle Mario, I shall not fail you again.
Ezio reached the highest level of the watchtower, finding Claudia staring with dismay at the city below, from which fire erupted and screams could be heard. Ezio approached his sister.
*Claudia: The city burns. Seraphina and her bandits have done their work well. How could I have been so blind?
*Ezio: The fault is mine, dear sister. I have failed you and Monteriggioni.
*Claudia: This desecration of our home cries out for revenge.
*Ezio: That, I will not fail at. I heard Seraphina and her men talk of Venice and their patron there, Francesco Rizzo. It is there that they have taken our stolen family treasures.
*Claudia: Then why do you waste your time here with me? Let Antonio know you are coming, and then on the road to Venice with you. Bring back what is ours and show our foes the Auditores are not to be trifled with.
*Ezio: You will see to Monteriggioni?
*Claudia: This will not be my first time rebuilding the city, brother. Go, and may the spirit of vengeance go with you.
==Outcome==
Ezio drove the bandits away from Monteriggioni, with Seraphina escaping to Venice to report to her patron, Francesco Rizzo.
==Notes==
==References==
*Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR
Category:Memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze
fr:Les tunnels de Monteriggioni