01 - To Suffer Without Dying | Sequence 11 AC IV: Black Flag Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
After you start, shake the cage to draw the guards' attention. This will allow your unexpected savior to liberate you.
Once you are free, go deeper into the area. Climb onto the wall on the left of the stairs. On top, you will find a hay cart that you need to hide in.
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE- sabotage three alarm bells
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE- visit the two old friends
In this mission, you do not need to sneak. Still, moving quickly among covers should make the mission faster and easier. Right next to the cart that you are in, there is the first alarm bell. Once of the guards patrols the area next to the cart . Deal with him. Then, watch the remaining ones and, when all of them are facing away, sabotage the bell and return quickly into the thickets. Move in the bushes, along the wall on the right of the entrance. If anybody notices you along your way, kill him quickly from the bushes when he comes close.
If you move along the wall on the right, you will quickly reach the second bell. Hide in the bushes shown in the screenshot. Next to you, there will a guard walk by. Deal with him. Around the bell, there are three more, including one patrolling the area. When all of them are turned away from you, just like in the screenshot, run into the thickets next to the bell. The soldiers farthest away may spot you while you are running. This is going to be advantageous to you, after all, because you will have the opportunity to deal with him, while in the thickets, after he comes close. If you remain undetected, lure him your way after the guard returns to the well. Then, deal with the patrolling one. When it comes to the soldier at the well, you can ignore him. Sabotage the bell and get to the other side of the wall.
Keep directly at the wall. After several meters, you will reach a cage with the first one of your friends inside. Past the cage, go ahead and avoid all of the soldiers on the left.
You will reach a tree to climb up. Then, jump onto the wall.
Walk along the right side, then turn left.
You will find a descent to the yard here. Keep an eye on the patrolling soldier and run down, when he turns away. Then, hide in the thickets immediately.
There are four soldiers and an alarm bell here. Lure them, by whistling, to clear the entire area. Once all four are dead, deal with the alarm to complete the optional objective. Then, enter the prison.
In the prison itself, there is no need whatsoever to keep silent. Keep running ahead, while killing the guards along the way. There are few and far between here.
In the first big hall, you will find Vane. Talk to him to complete the second optional objective. Then, continue along your path, until you find Mary and Ann. Once the nearby guards are dead, a cutscene will start.
Go to the exit
Go with Mary towards the exit. After a few, exceptionally slow meters, you will watch another cutscene, in which the pirate girl will die. Afterwards, you will only need to reach the exit, and from there, the boat. The area outside is clear so, you should not have any problems here. You can carry Mary's body to the boat, or not. If you have actually carried her body to the boat, the final cutscene will show you placing the body in the boat. Still, this does have no bearing on the rest of the mission, or the storyline whatsoever.