| 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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[enthusiast]

[she tilts her head slightly, folding her arms.]

No? Masyaf castle is an abandoned fortress in Syria. I toured it six months ago.

[gigantor]

Must be nice to tour something like this voluntarily, I mean–– architecture like this doesn't really exist intact anymore.

[Which seems like, on second consideration, all the more reason to think that there was something otherworldly about this place.]

[enthusiast]

It is common, in my time. Our cities are built on the ruins of older empires, so if one searches hard enough, one can find the entrances. My husband, in particular, is fond of exploring ruins.

[gigantor]

[Wait wait wait...]

Uh, your... time?

[enthusiast]

[slight head tilt]

1513, messere. You appear to be from another date, like Desmond.

kjdf woops. forgot they already went over the time period thing already fff sorry

[gigantor]

I'm from 2008. [He'd found out about the different time periods earlier, but hadn't known that there'd be so dramatic a gap.]

Wow. [Floored, he puffs out a breath.] Almost five hundred years' difference.

asdljas ahaha i forgot too

[enthusiast]

[She nods.]

A lot can change in five hundred years, even if people stay the same... I'm sure you'll have many interesting things to tell me.

it's cool, we made it work B)b

[gigantor]

The big ones are spaceflight, the internet and modern medicine. [Smile. Hey, talking about this iskindafun.]

Everything else is pretty much politics and war.

we're superstars B)

[enthusiast]

Modern medicine would be quite extraordinary to see... I can only imagine how much has changed. And politics and war –– it seems that men have changed little since ancient times.

[She ponders for a moment.]

"Spaceflight" and "internet"... these words elude me. What do they mean?

[gigantor]

They haven't. [He shrugs.] Medicine's gotten incredible, though. Scientists in 2008 have cured most of the major infectious diseases in the world.

[Pause.]

The internet's kinda hard to explain if you've never seen it, but it's basically a messaging service capable of delivering information to anywhere on Earth in seconds. People use it to share news and send messages. [Pause, as he ticks off a finger.] Spaceflight's exactly what it sounds like-- Crazy as it sounds, men have walked on the moon since 1969.

[enthusiast]

[Eyebrows up]

Really? That's amazing –– I never would have thought we would reach such heights. And does everyone have access to this internet?

[gigantor]

Most people in the developing nations do, yeah.

[enthusiast]

Are not all nations "developing"?

[gigantor]

They are, but some are definitely better off than others.

[enthusiast]

That seems to be true of our time, as well.

I would hope that books have not been replaced by this internet entirely.

Oh god late, I'm sorry. Life has been bananas for me. |8;;

[gigantor]

They haven't, [he reassures her.] I mean, the internet's convenient, but nothing replaces a good book with pages to turn, you know?

s'okay, it happens! I've been there too.

[enthusiast]

I do know. [smile] I couldn't imagine there being anything else. A life without books is a life lacking! God knows how many years of my live have been spent turning pages.

[gigantor]

[Sam's impressed. Sofia's booklovin' easily surpasses his own. He smiles, too.]

Were you an educator back where you're from?

*life has, good god fingers get it together.

[enthusiast]

Not quite -- a book seller. I had a shop in Istanbul. I wanted to bring education to the people there, as it has always been a city of strife and struggles. Books have a democratizing effect on people, I think.

[gigantor]

Sounds like a promising idea. [He stuffs his hands into his pockets, considering Sofia with a tilt of his head.]

Did it help?

[enthusiast]

[She smiles.]

I think it did, for what it was worth. I certainly managed to print and circulate a number of books that had been lost for hundreds of years.