AC Mirage Harbormaster Investigation – Confiscation Warehouse and Coin, Corruption and Tea Walkthrough

Harbormaster Investigation Overview

Investigation type: Karkh Bureau investigation, one of the two starter cases in Karkh
How it starts: Visit An Old Friend at the Bazaar after meeting Roshan at the Karkh Bureau
Mission: Coin, Corruption and Tea
Cases: An Old Friend, Confiscation Warehouse, The Harbormaster and Kong’s Stall
Target: Al-Kullulu, the Harbormaster
Key characters: Roshan, Kong and Luca
Other starter case: The Al-Anqa investigation (Of Toil and Taxes)
Unlocks: An invitation to the Grand Auction and a clue toward the Order leader in Karkh, Al-Pairika the Treasurer

When Basim arrives in Karkh for the first time, he meets Roshan at the Bureau and walks with her to the Bazaar. Here, you can either investigate the Bazaar as the heart of corruption or first visit An Old Friend, who might know more.

There are two cases before you can get to Al-Kullulu. Unusually, a third case, Kong’s Stall, is revealed after you assassinate the Harbormaster.

1 – An Old Friend – Retrieve Kong’s Tea Leaves

Case Text:
“My friend might have information about the seizing of goods.”

Basim’s old friend Kong is in the north of the Bazaar. Follow the quest marker to his stall and a cutscene starts.

Find the Warehouse With Kong’s Tea

Kong might have information about the seizing of goods, but first he wants you to retrieve his tea leaves. The mission marker guides you east, not far from Kong’s stall, to a small warehouse in a restricted area. The stolen goods, Kong’s tea, are inside this well-guarded house.

Get Inside Through the Window

Climb up to a roof next to the warehouse. On one side, there is a barred door on the second floor. As usual with barred doors, there is also a window you can throw a knife through. Look around the outside of the house to find the window on the second floor. Use a throwing knife on the oil flasks to kill the guard and blow open the window at the same time.

Climb into the house. On the second floor is a shelf you can pull towards you. The two boxes of tea are hidden behind it. Before you pick one up, unbar the door. Then grab a box, exit the house and jump over to the adjacent roof to escape with the goods.

As soon as you arrive back at Kong, a cutscene starts. He tells you about the Confiscation Warehouse and that the Order member for this investigation is called The Harbormaster.

2 – Where Is the Confiscation Warehouse in AC Mirage

Case Text:
“Kong mentions someone confiscating his wares and requires my help.”

Open your investigation menu and make sure this investigation is active. The game gives you 3 hints to find the Confiscation Warehouse:

Hint 1: It is near the east gate of Karkh, which leads out of Baghdad.
Hint 2: It is near some cranes that can be seen from a high vantage point.
Hint 3: The merchant outside Kong’s stall calls you over when you leave.

The merchant is Luca. Give him one Merchant Favor Token and he tells you the location straight away.

To find it yourself, open your map and head over to the east gate of Karkh, Tabik Gate, which leads out of Baghdad. The Confiscation Warehouse is north of it.

3 – Find Information About the Harbormaster

Inside the Confiscation Warehouse, you have to find 3 clues about the Harbormaster. With Eagle Vision, they glow in bright orange.

Sneak Into the Confiscation Warehouse

You can sneak inside through a hole in the perimeter wall. Use the long grass all around the camp for cover.

All 3 Harbormaster Clues

Clue 1 is in a camp on the east side of the warehouse, on ground level: a fragrant letter on the table. It reveals that the Harbormaster’s name is Al-Kullulu.

Clue 2 is in the building with a barred door near the main entrance. It has a guarded second-floor entrance. Take out the nearby guards and sneak inside. Downstairs, a soldier stands in front of a table with a note. Pick it up and the center case in the investigation tab is uncovered.

For Clue 3, exit on the ground floor and climb up to the neighboring building. On the roof, a zipline takes you to an open window. Climb inside to find the last clue. This makes the Harbormaster your next assassination target.

4 – Assassinate the Harbormaster Al-Kullulu at the Harbor Camp

Case Text:
“The Harbormaster is at a blockade.”

Open your map: the mission marker shows the Harbormaster on the northeast coast of the Karkh District. At some point the marker disappears, so use Eagle Vision and send your eagle up to focus on the location called The Harbor Camp. The whole camp is a restricted area.

Harbor Camp Key and Access Points

With Eagle Vision, you can mark all the guards and see that the Harbormaster is standing on the roof in plain sight, facing the water at the back of the building.

A guard with a key walks around in the courtyard. It opens the Harbormaster’s locked building door, if you choose that route.

At the main entrance, there is a group of people you can blend into for social stealth, but there is no obvious use for it. The obvious access point is the building by the water, with a nice passage to the Harbormaster’s balcony. There is also a hole in the outer wall with just one guard.

How to Assassinate Al-Kullulu

The best access point is the ground-level hole in the outer wall. Slide through and you are relatively safe on the other side. There are five guards in total. The first one is easy to assassinate and is not visible after the kill. You can take out two of the remaining four by shooting down a bag from a crane and pick off the last two one by one.

Then climb up the building to the small roof next to the Harbormaster’s balcony. From there, whistle to lure him and assassinate him from above.

If you don’t want to kill the armed guards, use smoke bombs instead. By the time they know what happened, you are already on the roof above the balcony.

After the assassination, another case of the investigation is revealed: Kong’s Stall. Kong promised to get you into the Grand Auction, after all.

5 – Kong’s Stall – Grand Auction Invitation

Case Text:
“Kong promised to get me into the Grand Auction.”

Return to Kong at the Bazaar. If you don’t remember where his stall is, follow the marker on the HUD or the world map. Kong gives you an invitation to the Grand Auction.

This closes the Harbormaster investigation. Return to the Karkh Bureau to debrief with Rebekah. Basim now knows that the Order is looking for a rare hairpin and is trying to buy it at the auction.

If you haven’t done the second starter case yet, continue with the Al-Anqa investigation. Otherwise, it is time for the Order leader in Karkh, Al-Pairika the Treasurer.