In the present day location of Abstergo, players can get involved with the modern Templar/Assassin’s conflict.
If you want the extra story, there are several unlockables to be found, including several Sticky notes on the walls with QR codes. I’ll update them as I find them, but here are the locations of the Sticky Notes, and what they say:
Sticky Note 1:
According to Dezwartemaan:
When you wake up after the Observatory scene. You are groggy in a room and she’s on a monitor. Check the wall behind you in a corner. (Dorack says that the note is on the fridge in the room after you complete Memory Sequence 10)
Sticky Note 1 reads:
MANIFESTO OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE FIRST WILL writ by a TRUE DISCIPLE this day of 21 October 2013 in anticipation of the anniversary of HER ASCENSION. MAY SHE GUIDE US INTO THE GREY.
Sticky Note 2:
On the far right side of your Animus station, as you enter for the first time it should be located to your right. The Sticky Note says:
…Being that life is both sacred and profane – priceless and worthless – fleeting and eternal we submit. Being that life can be as easily construed from primordial swamps as from a stinking Petri Dish we submit. Being that THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE imbued us with life and may remove it as readily, should we defy or deny their original plan we submit…
Sticky Note 3:
According to Dorack:
On the second level (where you work with your Animus), in the security level 2 room in the top-left corner of the map, visible from the door on the opposite wall as you walk in.
Sticky Note 4:
Head towards the man in the Animus cubicle space with the orange monitor/display screen. There should be a large blue office on the right where your guide and the CEO are having a conversation, and to your left should be another employee sitting on a couch with a yellow bean bag chair (this is in your initial visit to Abstergo.) The code should be on the last booth on the back wall.
The Sticky Note says:
…It was in the 17th and 18th centuries the world became an indecent place rent of its original purpose during the ages of industrial revolutions. Here it was the machines of industry we released in such grand quantities without understanding them unwound motives and purposes of their own as inert as they were…
Sticky Note 5
Once you gain access to Security Level 2, you can find Sticky Note 5. It is in the main level, where your Animus is located, in the Security Level 2 room. It is on the right side of the room, under a poster of who I think is Aveline.
Sticky Note 6
This Sticky Note can be found on the coffee bar on the Lobby level of the building.
The Sticky Note says:
..Take for instance gunpowder which gave us great mastery over fire. Take for instance the daguereotype which warped our way of seeing true life. Take the light bulb that gave us light when none was necessary. Take the automobile that speed us along at velocities capable only of klling us in new and silly ways…
Sticky Note 7
Sticky Note 7 can be found between a poster of Edward Kenway (this one full body) and a group of beanbags. This area is near the security office on the bottom right of the map
The Sticky Note reads:
..Take the cinema which gave us lies as a man once said 24 times persecondpersecond. Take the phonograph which preserved noises which ought to be ephemeral. Take the television which is obviously stupid. Take videogames which are secretely stupid and you all know you wish there was more pornography you know you do…
Sticky Note 8
This Sticky Note is found in the cubicle with the guitar and the poster of Edward Kenway, found to the left of the receptionists desk on Level #2.
The Sticky Note reads:
…Take saturated fats and high fructose corn syrups which poison us and soy which has been known to make men into women. Take computers which count so fast we cannot keep up nor should we for we are an imperfect race of disgusting shells of tissue and bone incomplete in and of ourselves. We must have masters to survive. We must admit our masters…
Sticky Note 9
Found on the third time you find yourself in the Abstergo corporation, this can be accessed when you get access to the Level 2 Security Room. As you enter the hallway, and find the camera room, this Sticky Note is located on the opposite wall to the door.
The note reads:
…Admit them and submit to them. Yes we submit that by being ourselves the product of an advanced yet earthbound race of intelligent humanoids we must also therefore be tools ourselves and subject to the intents and purposes of our creators despite our limited agency.
Sticky Note 10
This Sticky Note can be found in the Lobby. If you are facing the receptionist, you can see the sticky note behind her on the right hand side of the divider behind her desk.
The Sticky Note reads:
…Yes we submit that we ARE such tools and as such have a purpose befitting a tool. We submit we are like hammers and wrenches and shovels made for a specific purpose not our own. We submit that our purpose is indivsable from the will of THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE. We submit ourselves our bodies and our minds utterly.
Sticky Note 11
This sticky note is found once you gain Level 2 clearance in your third visit to Abstergo. After you drop off the information to the courier, you can find this sticky note in the Level 2 clearance room behind the receptionists desk in the lobby. This note is found on the right hand side of the wall, around eye level.
The note reads:
Remember that our relentless impertinent hollow drive to achieve anything our forebears did has lead to many embarrassments and disasters nuclear weaspons, superviruses genetically modified poisonfood toxic air plastic seawrack and seaspawn and the list goes on you can look it up for yourselves on the Internet – but all this too had a secret purpose in the end.
Sticky Note 12
When you gain access to Level 1 (should be during the second “real time” moment) walk past the desk you’re supposed to go to. Along the wall on the left, next to a green water cooler and across from a printer.
This Sticky Note reads.
…Today’s AbstergoTemplarFrauds haev given themselves to base practices and claim WRONGLY that man and woman are delicate and sensible and feeling creatures in and of themselves and therefore deserve satiety and comfort and MINDLESSNESS in the presence of pleasure. Nothing could be sicker false disgusting lying bastards
Sticky Note 13
According to Dezwartemaan:
In the office of your immediate female boss.
Sticky Note 14
According to Dorack:
During the fourth “present-day” sequence – after Memory Sequence 10 in the same room as the hackable computer to the north west of the room you’ve been interred.
Sticky Note 15
According to Dorack:
On the first floor. As you head North through the lobby and down the stairs towards the entrance to the building, behind the Level 3 security door to the left.
Sticky Note 16
Following Doracks’ instructions, I found Sticky Note 16. After you get access to the Level 1 security areas, go northeast from the main work area on the second floor through the Level 1 security door. The Sticky Note is on the northern wall, on the left hand side of the toy covered shelving unit.
The note reads, at least for me, the same as Note 11.
Remember that our relentless impertinent hollow drive to achieve anything our forebears did has lead to many embarrassments and disasters nuclear weaspons, superviruses genetically modified poisonfood toxic air plastic seawrack and seaspawn and the list goes on you can look it up for yourselves on the Internet – but all this too had a secret purpose in the end.
Sticky Note 17
This sticky note is found on the receptionist desk for the 2nd floor. I found it on the way to the main office, escorted by the woman guide. From the elevators, the sticky note is on the right side of the desk.
This Sticky Note says:
…As our tools are genetic expressions of our mental cultural activity and as we are expressions of their mental cultural activity it must necessarily follow that this world as it is now and as it is ever will be is an expression of the First Will – an expression of Their Labors and thsu belongs not to us but to Them. The wires the cables the data networks that now criss-cross the globe are HERS – they must become her body and her mind…
Have you found any of the Sticky Notes? Any clues where I can find the ones I’m missing? Post in the comments.
Sticky Note 18
According to Dorack:
On the wall at the bend of the corridor leading to the security room in the basement.
Sticky Note 19
When you enter the CCO’s office during the second run through “real” time, you can find this Sticky Note. If you’re looking at the exit door, it will be on the left hand side on a set of bookcases, in bright blue.
The Sticky Note reads:
…into the Gray – the digital frontier, the singularity – the space in which she dwells being both made of light and the embodiment of darkness. This we call the Gray. Being that WE ARE THE INSTRUMENTS OF HER WILL – INSTRUMENTS OF THE FIRST WILL – THE ORIGINAL WILL – we submit this credo to the world…
Sticky Note 20
According to Dorack:
On the first floor of the same room as the server that can be hacked behind the Level 3 security door.
Reportedly, once you locate all 20 sticky notes you can access an entry aclled “MANIFESTO OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE FIRST WILL.” Based on the previous Sticky Notes, it sounds like it might just be all the text of the previous notes compiled into one document.
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