| Opening Log

[shadowqueen]

Everyone's waking up at once, covered in bits of rubble, temporarily without abilities and with a lurking headache. The castle looms around them, irrepressibly gray, huge and silent. The only noises are the people, rustling as they extract themselves from their sarcophagi and look for exits along the arching walkways.

Better take a look around, and see if anyone else knows what's going on.

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[kaderp]

Oh-- it's how I was raised! [and he doesn't seem to think of it, given how he has a tendency to walk on top of things rather on the ground. He does hop back down, though, to head towards the stairs.]

There weren't many stairs where I grew up.

[guiltapalooza]

[She follows him to the stairs at an easy pace, glancing down to check before taking them.]

And that was... the circus?

[kaderp]

[Kadar scrunches his face, repeating the word back to himself.]

I do not know what a circus is, but I do not think Masyaf is one.

[guiltapalooza]

Oh. I think I'll skip the explanations. [That could only lead to awkward.]

Is that in the Middle-East?

[kaderp]

It is near Jerusalem and Damascus. [it doesn't really seem like it's the middle of... the East.]

[guiltapalooza]

So, yes. I wonder how they've been getting people from such different places. [Slight frown.]

--Hey, it looks like there aren't more stone coffins down here. Maybe we're getting somewhere.

[kaderp]

[Kadar perks, jumping a few steps forward to clamber on top of the nearest obstacle and get a better look around.] I hope so! If this place really was nothing but coffins, I think I'd be even more confused.

[guiltapalooza]

I don't know if it's possible to be more confused, [she sighs, eying his clambering around.] Considering we have exactly no answers right now, we're already in the pits of no information.

[kaderp]

We have some information. [he doesn't sound very bothered by it.] We know we were brought here by some means that aren't simply normal kidnapping, or there wouldn't be so many of us from so many different places. We know that whoever brought us here has the ability to put is to sleep, or we would remember being brought here, and we know that most of the people here appear to be allies.

[he stands tall and offers her a grin.] And we've got this huge castle to explore for more information! I think we're doing all right.

[guiltapalooza]

It's not that you don't have a point, I just... like to have names and faces to go with the baddies I need to pummel. Or more accurately, stand back and occasionally assist in pummeling.

[They're just about to the bottom of the stairs, and Willow's looking around carefully, skeptical that nothing has attacked them yet.]

[kaderp]

Oh. I don't usually have names for individual people... [he sounds a little distracted, he peers around the area cautiously, movements changing to something far more stealthy as he doublechecks the area.]

I think I prefer not having that much involvement. [it's a smile that has a few extra layers, this time, before he gestures.] I still don't see anyone I could call an enemy here.

[guiltapalooza]

[Wow okay, this guy is clearly not as clueless and derpy as he puts across. Both the words and the actions belie that.]

Not have that much involvement, as in... what? How does that work, exactly? [Usually there's some grandstalking and talking when Willow has to face off against enemies.] Personally, I'm waiting for the spooky monsters. Castle like this, they must be around here somewhere.

[kaderp]

Oh, I'm an Assassin. [it's a good thing when he's from, okay? and sure, maybe he shouldn't just admit it, but it seems like there's no Templars here and it doesn't quite occur to him that maybe not everyone will think being an Assassin is a good thing.] It is better not to know your target anymore than you need to, for your own safety.

[he pauses, then considers. monsters? ... monsters? like the kind he always thought might stalk around Masyaf at night, lit up and on fire and waiting for people to let them in?] You believe in monsters?

[guiltapalooza]

--An assassin? [She stops short and stares at him, trying to see it and failing. So it kinda fit, a little, but he was so... cheerful, and friendly. Willow was finding it hard to reconcile, though okay, maybe that was shallow of her. But hey, assassin! She was excused!]

Oh, uh, yeah. Monsters. I've seen plenty of monsters in my day, even spoken to most of them. But assassin is... new. Very new.

[kaderp]

[Kadar excuses her surprise at just being unused to Assassins in general. that's not unusual at all. Of course, he hardly looks-- or acts-- like an Assassin when he's not actively in battle. And even then...]

Well, that is good! The more we stay in the shadows, the better. No one will see us coming. [he sounds a little less like an Assassin and more like a ninja fanboy.]

What sort of monsters?

[guiltapalooza]

[Ninja fanboy is right. Willow officially has no idea what to make of him.] Uh-huh. Somehow you just aren't what I picture when I think assassin. --Which I'm sure is the point, but still, it's a little... funny.

All kinds of monsters. Vampires, ghosts, one particularly memorable hell goddess. The list is too long to recount.

[kaderp]

Funny? [Kadar has an expression not unlike a sulk, at that, but it washes off his face relatively quickly.] You simply have not seen an Assassin at work.

A... Goddess? [the concept of vampire is a little beyond him, and while ghosts are more on his level-- a goddess?] From hell? Truly?