| 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]

[... where is he. he is not in the temple, and wherever he is, it's distinctly alarming and he'd prefer not to be here at all-- but he can see light. He considers, pushing on what might be the door-- nope. Punch. No, but now his hand hurts. He grumbles a little to himself before violently shaking the-- whatever he's in-- and when it finally falls over, he sits in the rubble for a second, blinking.

...well, at least there's light now, but what's going on?]

[guiltapalooza]

Oh Goddess, there are other people in these things? [Willow's shocked voice comes from close nearby, where she's just emerged from a stone coffin of her own.]

Are you alright?

[kaderp]

Y-- yes! [he stands up a little hurriedly-- oh, that's a dizzying-- and offers her a smile. be strong, be strong! even if she's European and you don't know her.] I'm all right, under the circumstances! And you--?

[guiltapalooza]

[She gives him a shaky smile back.] Um... kind of. Physically, yeah, I'm okay. [He seems a little normal to know about magic, just based on first impressions, so Willow holds back on that problem for now.]

I'm Willow.

[kaderp]

I am Kadar. I don't suppose you know where we are, or-- how we got here? [because he is definitely in the dark about all of this.]

[guiltapalooza]

No clue, [she confesses, brushing off some rubble and stepping out into the room proper to have a look around.] And usually I'm up on these things, so... feeling kinda flummoxed.

[kaderp]

[oh, she talks so strangely! definitely European, then... he nods a little, regardless.] The last things I remember-- do not lead to my arrival here. It's-- ['scary', but he can't say that.]--alarming. I want to know who is responsible.

[guiltapalooza]

I don't know either, but I want to find out. [There's a bit of steel underlying her tone, there.]

What do you say we go take a look around? No way am I sitting by the coffins like a sheltered flower.

[kaderp]

That sounds like a good idea. [he checks himself for his weapons, in case they run into trouble-- he's pretty discreet about it, and he makes sure his hood is up and properly in place at the end.]

I'd like to find out who brought us here.

[guiltapalooza]

[Willow's so used to watching her friends do the habitual weapons check that she doesn't even think anything of it. For her part, she doesn't have any weapons to speak of: she relied on her recently departed magic for that.]

Right. So, we're on a mission. A mission to find the culprit. First step: find a door. [Setting off now to look for one, though, the room is so huge this is going to take a while.]

[kaderp]

[Kadar considers for a moment.] Up or down? [with all the ledges and stairs in the room, it feels like a prudent question. it'd be silly to explore one way without looking at the others.]

[guiltapalooza]

Down? [she hazards.] It looks like mostly more sarcophagi up top, but I can't tell what's down there where the floor drops off. [She nods toward the other end of the room.]

[kaderp]

[Kadar nods, and then jumps over the climb onto the edge and peer down a little more curiously. His freerunning skills, if nothing else, are still relatively intact, even if he's really not sure his mind is.]

It looks safe. [he's hardly going to let a girl that isn't a Assassin go first and possibly get harmed, after all.]

[songulen]

Y'all right, boy?

[kaderp]

--Yes! [Kadar stands up, hurriedly, rubble falling off his robes as he checks on his weapons and his hood.] Just-- dazed.

[songulen]

Whoever stuck ya in there sure did a piss-poor job of it, but good. Bad enough no one knows what's goin' on, but least we don't hafta look after anyone beyond gettin' them out.

[kaderp]

Yes! We should-- [he fumbles a little, doing his best to think quickly. it's a little hard, when his head hurts, but-- he's been trained to think under pressure. it takes him a moment, and he's still a little slow, but that's something.]

--Find others. Group together-- there must be someone who knows something.

[songulen]

If there is one I haven't got my hands on them yet, and I'm gonna make damn sure I do. Ya got a name, boy?

[kaderp]

I am Kadar! Kadar Al-Sayf. [he's a little skittish.] Have you-- you woke up in the same fashion?

[songulen]

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti.

Wouldn't be talkin' to ya if I didn't!

[kaderp]

I-- see. This place is-- [strange? unusual? inconceivable?] Unlike anything before. I don't understand how I have come to be here... [repeating yourself is going to get you off to a great start, Kadar.]

I was in the temple a moment ago...

[songulen]

[Turkey waves that repetition away.] Yeah, ya told me. So what about this temple of yers?

[kaderp]

Oh-- I was there on a mission. [a little guarded, but not at all hostile.] With others, but now I am here...

[songulen]

Picked up on that already. This top-secret or am I gonna have to pry it outta ya?

[kaderp]

It is secret.