Ambush in the Temple

## Technical Information

### Description

Arriving in the village of Yamu, Bayek pays a visit to his old friend Menehet at the temple. Menehet explains that Yamu is preparing for a religious festival meant to attract tourists to the village. The tour of the temple is interrupted by the arrival of Menehet's children, playing a game of hide-and-seek into which Bayek is recruited.

## Historical information

### Date

48 BCE

**Ambush in the Temple** was a virtual representation of one of Bayek's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.

## Description

Bayek visits Yamu's Temple of Sekhmet to catch up with his old friend Menehet.

## Dialogue

Bayek entered the courtyard and found Menehet waiting.

* **Menehet:** *Bayek! What good fortune. I thought it would be years before we saw you again!*
* **Bayek:** *Hail in peace, Menehet. How is your family?*
* **Menehet:** *The children seem to grow larger by the minute! My wife and I have our hands full. And you? Is there any news of--*
* **Bayek:** *None.*
* **Menehet:** *I forget myself... There are so many things in your life best not spoken of. Forgive me.*
* **Bayek:** *I see by your garb that you've been promoted.*
* **Menehet:** *Ah, yes. The High Priest, in his grace, made me his second. And my rank is not the only thing he has changed. You must see the temple!*
* **Bayek:** *You will give me a tour?*
* **Menehet:** *Of course, of course! At the moment of your pleasure.*

Bayek agreed to the tour.

* **Menehet:** *Ready to see our beautiful temple?*
* **Bayek:** *After you, Menehet... or is it "Servant of the Goddess"?*
* **Menehet:** *"Menehet" will do for one as good as family.*

Bayek followed Menehet into the temple.

* **Bayek:** *This is far from the sorry ruin of my last visit.*
* **Menehet:** *Yamu now plays constant host to ceremonies showing our "rustic" way of life... which attract **many** visitors with more gold than sense.*
* **Bayek:** *A description well suited to Alexandrians. How does this sit with your faith?*
* **Menehet:** *I confess that my thoughts are sometimes uneasy...*

A temple worker gave Bayek a bowl of offerings, which he took, and knelt in front of the pool within the temple. Bayek noticed some kids hiding behind a column. He smiled, and shook his head, placing the bowl into the pool. The children then came from behind him, 'attacking' Bayek.

* **Bayek:** *Oho! Vanquished by a gang of ruffians, silent as (ghosts)!*
* **Child 1**: *Uncle Bayek! Uncle Bayek!*
* **Child 2**: *Hello, Uncle!*
* **Menehet**: *Jewels of my life, why have you left your mother's side?*
* **Child 3:** *Pick me up, Uncle Bayek!*
* **Bayek:** *See now, there's no need to attack a man from behind when outnumbering him four to one.*
* **Hasina:** *You told us to... secure every advantage possible over a dangerous foe.*
* **Bayek:** *Yes, yes, yes...*

Bayek roared in jest which scared the children, laughing, away.

* **Bayek:** *And I am very dangerous!*

Hide well, for the Wanderer stalks your path!
Bayek and the children played a game of hide and seek. Menehet offered Bayek some hints.

* **Menehet:** *Hasina loves to look at the sky. I think I saw her on her way to the upper floor. Soris might be bothering the sacred animals outside. He often plays at being a gladiator. I have told the children over and over that they are not permitted to play in the temple, but they never listen.*

Bayek discovered Nailah hiding behind of the columns.

* **Nailah:** *You found me. Your turn to hide!*
* **Bayek:** *Come away from there, Nailah. You're getting in the priests' way.*

Bayek continued to search for the other children. Nailah followed him closely.

* **Bayek:** *Nailah, are you following me?*
* **Nailah:** *You might get lost with me. It's a big temple!*

Nailah kept following him.

* **Bayek:** *Your father wants you to go home.*
* **Nailah:** *And I prefer to stay with you!*

Bayek and Nailah traveled to the backyard.

* **Nailah:** *Are you going to sleep at our house again?*
* **Bayek:** *Not this time, but I do hope to pass by and visit your mother.*

Bayek and Nailah discovered Soris standing in front of a cage containing a hyena.

* **Soris**: *Beast, you will meet your end at the hands of the mighty gladiator, Soris!*

The cage broke and the hyena escaped.

* **Bayek:** *Soris! Stay back!*
* **Soris:** *HELLLLLP!*

Bayek killed the hyena and together with Nailah, they continued their search.

* **Nailah:** *Do you want to hear a secret?*
* **Bayek:** *Not if its about your father.*
* **Nailah:** *Awww.*

He and Nailah traveled upstairs.

* **Nailah:** *My sister always sneaks up to the temple roof at night to look at the stars. But don't tell anyone -- the priests would be so angry!*

They discovered Hasina standing at the edge of the roof.

* **Bayek:** *Hasina! You must come down from here.*
* **Hasina:** *This would be a good place to watch the stars!*
* **Bayek:** *Only the priests are permitted here. You know that.*
* **Hasina:** *Yes, but I want to see--*
* **Bayek:** *Hush, come down now. We can watch stars from the riverbank.*

Bayek and Nailah went down to the second floor and continued to look for the other children.

* **Nailah:** *My father is never at home these days.*
* **Bayek:** *Why not?*
* **Nailah:** *He has too much work with people coming from all over.*

Bayek discovered Keba in a well and jumped down.

* **Bayek:** *Keba? What in the name of the gods are you doing down there?*
* **Keba:** *I wanted to hide, but now I can't get back out... I'm scared.*
* **Bayek:** *Stay calm. I will help you out of there.*

Bayek destroyed the reed fence blocking a tunnel leading out of the well, and escorted Keba out.

* **Bayek:** *This way, through the tunnel.*
* **Keba:** *Thank you, Uncle Bayek!*
* **Bayek:** *Go straight home to your mother. She will be worried.*

Keba returned home.

* **Bayek:** *That's the last of the children.*

Bayek found all the children. He returned to the courtyard, where he found a man confronting Menehet.

* **Man:** *Look at this! Fraud abounds in your market, and you claim you can do nothing?*
* **Menehet:** *The dealings of the market are beyond me. Speak rather to the offending merchant.*
* **Man:** *Priest, you have proven as false as your mummies!*

The man walked away in a huff.

* **Bayek:** *Menehet! Your brood is delivered safely home.*
* **Menehet:** *Thank you, friend.*
* **Bayek:** *What did that fool want with you?*
* **Menehet:** *Some visitors, having purchased religious objects, are angry when our village has no more dead cats to sell them. Though not a merchant, I am often the means by which the aggrieved snuff their anger.*
* **Bayek:** *This matter needs a firm hand.*

## Outcome

Bayek was reunited with his friend Menehet. He played a game of hide and seek with his children before returning them home. He also discovered from Menehet that there was a problem at the market, with fake religious products being sold to visitors, causing Menehet some distress.