Assassin's Creed IC

[jack]

GAMEMASTER

The two Crusader COs should be in the city. I do NOT want both of them simply roaming about, and I do NOT want them together. One may be in the fort and one in the city, but try to keep them apart unless they are in the fort.

All Assassins with the exception of Sevrin and Sellen should be making their way to the Guild. Sevrin and Sellen should both be in the guildhouse now. Also, both of them MUST know Jalaar, as they are stationed in Tyre.

Jalaar

Jalaar paced in the guild office. He had been on edge since the Crusaders arrived. Thankfully, there were only a few Templars. Teutonics and Hospitaliers wouldn't knoqw them on sight, but Templars were a totally different story. They would instantly recognize his people. He glanced up as two of the Assassins stationed in Tyre walked in.

"How have your assignments fared?"

The leader smiled.

"Excellently, Jalaar. The Templar's leader is named Richard. He apparently has a personal grudge against the Order, as does the Hospitalier leader, Frederick. However, there are many guards on the streets. Thankfully, we went unrecognized. Also, I made contact with the informer network. They are now aware that we are conducting an operation in town."

"Good man. The two of you can catch some sleep."

Jalaar continued pacing as the two left the office. Those Assassins needed to hurry up.

[Huka]

Al Tabib walked through the crowds, his head bowed, and arms crossed, looking like one of the many scholars who journey through the city.
Utterly silent, passing the guards on reflex, and soon entering a alley. Wet footsteps echoed in the alley.

Behind a pair of lowly thugs walked into the alley from behind with old swords in hand and a more larger walked out from being a crate in front of the assassin with a heavy hammer in hand and a wicked smile.

"Well, well. Look what we find in our alley. A scholar with money no doubt." He chuckled, trying to look intimidating.

But Al Tabib was anything but intimidated by such fools, a effort to had him laugh dryly.
"Get out of my way, dogs. I have a important meeting to get to, yesss." He hissed,his hidden blade sprung of his bracer and stroke.

[Wax™]

With his sword drawn and two of his most trusted Templars following close behind Richard marched through the city looking through alley ways and on roof-tops, a few moments ago he let the rest of his Templars know that the Assassins were conducting an operation, this was perfect, this was his chance to catch all of them at once, Richard stormed into the area by the docks and halted looking around, he spotted hooded man wearing white clothing, even if he did not his other affects he could still be an assassin.

"There!" Richard roared and pointed to the man with his sword, his two Templar Knights left his side and gripped the man by the arms swinging him around to face Richard before dragging him along, Richard used his free hand to grip the mans hood and rip it off.

"Please I dont know! What are you doing!" The man cried out, the rest of the people in the square either ran off or were hiding behind barrels, they knew about Richards reputation and the man was a menace.

"Put your sword at his throat" As he said that one of his Templar Knights did as asked while Richard searched the man ripping clothing and affects to find any evidence of Assassin work, having been unsuccesful for the second time today he griped the man and dragged him forward with his shirt, the two other Templars letting go.

"I'll be wathing" As he said that he threw the man by the ground, the man scurried what things of his he could before running off into a near-by alley, Richard looked around and saw everyone either hiding or watching him before he let out a powerful roar.

"GET BACK TO WORK!"

[z]

Sellen had been trying to keep herself unnoticed, hanging on the building tops, and in groups of Scholars moving from the churhes. She was probably the youngest Assassin in Tyre, being only the age of eighteen and she was rather skilled at her job. She dropped down into an alleyway and looked around.
She had become rather good friends with some of the cities vigalaties, and a group of them stood off on the side of the docks. When they saw her they waved, and she did the same with a smile on her face.

She walked over and stood with them, her black robe could mark her as an Assassin but still, it might be unnoticed.

"How are things, boys?" She asked, leaning on one of them whom seemed gigantic compared to her.

"Same Ol' same ol' Sellen" One of them said with a smile. And that is when the commotion on the Docks started, the Man had... Templar knights? Oh this was not good. Sellen backed up slightly, and a hand clasped her shoulder as one of her guardians nodded with a smile, showing he and his comrades would help her.
She kept her hood down and did not look directly at the Templar, backing behind one of her bigger friends and putting a hand on his back.

If there were Templars here she was going to have a big problem in escaping... She could always try swimming, but the Templars might be able to find ways to drown her then... So she thought and thought and chose that her speed and free running would have to help... Maybe a more skilled assassin could help her if he saw? Oh how low of a chance that was... If these men saw her face she was going to have a problem conducting her buisness of not only flirting on with her targets for information.... But everything in general.

'Oh God.... Don't let me die today...'

[Wax™]

Richard walked around the docks with his two Knights standing by his sides the whole time, he watched everyone carefully and his Knights watched the roof tops, there was an Assassin around, some say he would be able to smell it, but these days there were always Assassins around him, and he dis-liked that, he stepped up apon a crate and yelled at the top of his lungs under his Red helmet with the gold cross.

"Let this be an example to the rest of you... If you are hiding something from me! If I see anything suspeciouse... I will find you... I will hurt you... And I -will- then dismember you" The Grizzly Templar would not really dismember the people he captured, that was more of a line to scare the general populace, that is when he spotted a young and skinny figure in black robes hiding behind a group of men as if she was scared to see him, William lifted his sword and brought it up to point at the men, his Knights looked up and nodded.

"Bring that woman to me!" He said, he looked up to the Guards patrolling the walls on the docks and gave them hand-signals to keep their eyes on the men, William stepped off the crate and waited for his men to grab the Woman and drag her over to his position if nothing roudy happened.

[Spartan 999]

Nikolai watched the events at the dock unfold, his dark clothing well suited to the cold mountains he had grown up in blending well into the shadows. He drew his crossbow, concealing it under his cape as he silently loaded it. He aimed, and fired.

The crossbow bolt thudded into the neck of one of the Templars, and he fell forward with a crunch. Nikolai whistled, catching the leader's attention.

Nikolai waved, waiting for them to do something.

[Wax™]

Richard did not even bother to look back in the dirction of the whistle he stormed forward and drew his sword with his right hand pulling it out of the sheath and lifting it quickly at the man directly infront of the young woman in the black clothing, his sword would slice quickly up the larg mans chest, not mortally wounding him but enough to put him unconsiouse due to the pain, Richard would then lunge forward and grip the younger woman and attempt to drag her away, he would lift his sword and put it up against her throat in an attempt to stop anyone following.

"You follow me she dies" Richard roared, meanwhile Richard's other templar was choaking on death before he slowly fell limp, Richards other knight drew his sword and gripped the dead Templar lifting him up and carrying him away with Richard.

[z]

"No... No No NO..." Sellen whispered, gripping onto her friends back as the knights came towards her. Her hood had been down and she had left her sword back at the Guild base, but she still wore her robes and had her knives and hidden blade on her.

"No No No No No!" The Knights brought her to the leader and she watched as her friends were being cut by the sword
"No!" Tears came to her eyes and she began struggling, sword to her neck or not, she was quick, but not strong enough to break the madman's grip.
She kept struggling until one of the other knights came and seized her around the ankles to help Richard take her away.

She couldn't reach her knives, and couldn't flick her wrist enough to draw her blade...

...Oh how much trouble she was going to be in...

[Wax™]

With one of his knights gripping the girls legs he gripped her arms and held them tight together while he wrapped his other arm around her with the blade still at her neck, the Templar sanctuary was close-by the docks were practically next door it was now only a matter of time, as Richard stormed through the crowd he occasionally stopped to kick down people and push them out the way with his shoulder.

"Your friends killed one of my men little miss... You will be next if you do not cooperate" The large templar growled as he continued to storm through people with the Girl as he got in sight of the sanctuary and two other lesser Templars came running to defend the two.

[jack]

Jalaar was awaken from his thought as someone pounded on the street entrance to the Guild. They were shouting something. He dashed down the stairs and opened the door, admitting a man clothed in the robes of a merchant.

"Jalaar!! The Templars! They--they--"

Jalaar almost hit the man.

"Calm down! What did the Templars do?"

"They got Sellen! She's been discovered at the docks!"

Jalaar swore. He turned to a table that had a pen and paper on it, and quickly scrawled a note. He repeated it twice more, then handed one of them to Habrim, the merchant.

"Take this note and give it to any Assassin you find. Quickly!"

Habrim fled the Guild, and Jalaar quickly locked the door behind him, then dashed upstairs. He handed a copy of the note to each of the two Assassins present and sent them on their way.

((OOC: The note reads: Find your way to the Guild with all possible haste. One of us has been discovered. Jalaar.))

[Huka]

Al Tabib emerged out of the alley, unnoticable stains of blood on the bottom of his robe, wiping the rest off of his bracer. "Next time, go for the lower right of the neck arterty. Less blood, hmm." He mused to himself before a man nearly bumped into him.

"Who bumped into Al Tabib!?" He groaned. Looking down, he saw the man is a assassin contact, in a hurry and a wild look in his eyes. "What bewilders you, messenger?" He asked.

Recognizing the few details of a Assassin's robe, the messenger have a letter to Al Tabib.

"A novice perhaps." He said before sprinting off with incredible speed, jumping off a crate, and onto the buildings, rushing to the Tyre headquarters.

It didn't take long before he was dropping into the bureau from the roof enterance.

"Jalaar." He sung.

[z]

Sellen stopped struggling as the Templars carried her along.
"I'm going to die aren't i?" The young blond haired girl said, tears still staining her face and her voice shaking.

Sellen gulped and watched the two lesser Templars walk with them, staring at the stone road below them and the crowd as she passed.
She noticed a few of her known friends in different guilds. Thieves, and The Mercenaries watching wide eyed. Sellen closed her eyes and bit her lip.

'Don't let me die... Dont let me die'

[jack]

Jalaar looked up as Al Tabib entered. The man spoke, and Jalaar stopped pacing.

"Al Tabib, Sellen has been discovered near the docks. We cannot wait for Nikolai and Sevrin to show up here, or we may be too late."

Jalaar called the Assassin messenger in, and gave him orders.

"Tell Sevrin and Nikolai to meet us in the safehouse a street over from the Crusader lines. Al Tabib and I are going to do some scouting."

He turned to Al Tabib.

"Follow me. We're going to find Sellen, and, if possible, save her."

Jalaar grabbed five lengths of black cloth from his office and concealed them in his robes, then headed out.

[Wax™]

Richard stormed into the HQ of the Crusaders and took a right and two lefts, once he reached a certain room he nodded for his other Knight to drop the girls feet, once he did Richard would adjust the way he was holding the girl and grip her wrists and hold them against the wall.

"Chain her arms and legs up" Each one of her wrists and ankles would be chained to the wall with one and a half meter of chain giving her enough freedom to move and scratch her ass, once she was chained to the wall he would continue.

"Search her for any affects I dont care how thorough you search her just do it!" He stepped outside of the room and yelled down the hall.

"I want all of my men on full alert and get the local guard to put their best guards around this place NOW! I DONT WANT ANYONE IN OR OUT!" Richard turned to the girl and smirked before moving back furthur into the room, he sat down on a chair exactly three meters away from the girl, well out of arms reach.

"You are going to tell me everything... I dont care if it is what you had for breakfast or what color your blood is I want to know it all!" Richard demanded as his best hand that is still alive searched her.

[Spartan 999]

Nikolai tapped on Jalaar's shoulder as he passed, making him stop and half-draw his sword in alarm. Nikolai smiled blandly at him, and Jalaar rolled his eyes at Nikolai. When the other Assassin set off, Nikolai followed him discretely, watching.

[jack]

Jalaar glanced to his side as Nikolai tapped him. Jalaar stopped and ducked into a nearby alleyway.

"I trust you received my message, Nikolai?"

Jalaar glanced around uncomfortably. He was very nervous about one of his people being captured and did not like it at all.

[Spartan 999]

"No, actually." Nikolai said noting the nervousness of Jalaar. "I saw what happened and made my way here."

[thenether]

"Sir!" Adhelm said as he walked into the room where Richard was "I... what's going on here?" he said, bewildered that they had a young girl chained up, his eye's wide in surprise. Then they hardened "With respect, we're meant to be crusading for the holy land. Not torturing young girls!"

[jack]

"So long as you know what has occurred, that is enough. We must rescue Sellen, with or without the other Assassins' help. I have given orders to meet in the safehouse near the Crusader lines. Al Tabib and I are going there now. Come."

Jalaar set out once again, now followed by Nikolai and Al Tabib.

[Wax™]

Richard slowly turned his head as his XO entered the room a small smile appeared on Richard's hardened face untill he questions his doings, Richard pushed himself out of his chair and frowned before approaching his XO standing atleast two meters away.

"Crusader! You best remember who you are speaking to? Do you remember why we were posted here after thie third great crusader?" Before the man ever began to speak Richard continued his sentence.

"We were POSTED! Here to hunt down and eliminate the Assassin threat, and this THREAT, can take many shapes and sizes... For this instance perhaps a young girl... NOW! If you dont want to be in the chains after her you will hold your tongue and speak things of importance to me, and I dont spose you noticed one of my best Crusaders dead in a pool of his own blood in the corner there?" Richard Absently pointed to the corner his frown now larger and his face quite red under the Crusader Helmet.

Richard turned back to face the young girl and moved over to a lit fireplace on the far side of the room inside would be a series of pokers and branding tools and next to the fireplace is a bench with a large variety of tortuing tools.

[thenether]

"Sorry sir, it was just shock, I'll try to watch my tounge next time. I came to ask if you needed anything." Adhelm said, but his thoughts were on what was happening to the girl. "Pray tell me, did the girl kill him?"he pointed to the dead crusader in the corner, then he looked at the girl again, could she really be dangerous? Then Adhelm looked at her, partly with sympathy, you don't want to be on the wrong side of the grandmasters torture tools.

[z]

Sellen watched the Templars go about arguing... The Assassins were never as argumentative as this, they would have spats every now and then but it was never THIS bad...
She gulped noticing the torture components next to the fireplace.

"You won't get very much out of me, i'm only a Junior..."

She froze for a moment.

"And my mother... Is a Templar by the name Lenna Marreh..." Sellen bit her lip and jumped a bit as one of the helmetless crusaders reached into her robes, "Searching" her.
She lifted what room she had with her knee and hit the man dead in the nose, and within a second a wall of swords was at her neck.
Sellen held her breath and felt all her weapons and thin leather armor being taken off of her person.

[thenether]

Adhelm laughed, "Well sir, I've seen feral cats squirm less, and leave less marks." he said as the templar jumped back, "May I try sir?" he said "I can try to get something out of her" He looked at her "We won't hurt you if you tell us what we want, I won't anyway" he said, throwing a glance towards the others, and being clear he believed torture would not work.

[Wax™]

Richard nodded over to his XO, before moving back to the fireplace, he looked at the young Assassin now with most of her clothing and affects removed, the only thing keeping her covered would now probably just be a thin robe and nothing more, Richard shook and turned his head back the fireplace before rmoving a metal prod from the fire, it was red hot on the end, on the end was a cross, the heat was intense enough to keep a cross shaped scar on the young lady.

"You may proceed Crusader... Do NOT hold out on her" Richard looked to his helmetless Crusader and gestured him over, the man was holding his nose as hit bled before stuffing a few ripped bits of cloth up his right nostrel.

"Give me that wrist weapon" The helmetless man handed it over to Richard and Richard inspected it for a moment, it took him a moment to work it out for he had never seen one this close, he activated the blade and watched as it slid out with extream velocity, Richard smiled before putting it on the table, he then looked back to his XO watching.

[thenether]

"I won't hold sir" he took the torture device and walked over to her. "Listen to me clearly, for failing to answer will have... consequences. What is your name and who sent you here, how many of you are there. The quicker you answer the better. I don't wish to harm you, but in the lords name I shall should you not tell me what I wish to know." He lifted the prod "You know i'll do it."

[Wax™]

Richard gripped a flat paddled club walking over to his XO and yanking the hot metal prong out of his hands and shoving the flat paddled club into them, he still had his frown and he looked to the young woman again.

"This is for branding them XO... You should know... Hit her with that a few times... I dont care where just get me my information" Richard walked back over to the fireplace and put the hot metal prong back in.

[thenether]

"I know how to torture, sir. having done it a few time's before. I have made many a grown made cry for mercy. I have been flogged for refusing to follow orders before. Yet... if I had gone back to then I would still have made the same choice. I'll get you the information, yet I'll try many approaches before trying to break her body. You have to trust me sir, I'll get you the information. Torture may break quaking heart, or it my strengthen their resolve." Turning away from Richard he looked at the girl "I offer you the chance to tell me willingly, but you may elect the way of pain as you wish." He raised the club and got a feel for it. "Truly the weapon of a brute, yet I know as well as any what damage it can cause" Just thinking of it sent shivers through his body. "no." he whispered to himself "But I must." he blinked several time's and staying off his own sadness at it,"forgive me" he said, then hit her with it, enough force to cause pain, but not too much damage. "Sir, are you sure that..." He stopped himself and forced himself to hit her again, then several more times. "How many of you are there!" he hit her again, but then his own pain and sadness got the better of him. "Sir, there is other ways to do this, I could..." he stopped himself again, he looked to Richard, and he was angry, Richard was insistent torture was the only way. "I can't, sir." He said letting the paddle drop "May god have mercy." He looked toward the girl, "I'm sorry, I just..." what could he say? was there really an excuse? "Let go of her." He said to the templars, they obeyed, unsure where he was taking this. "Listen to me, your going to be fine, the marks... they don't last long, what is your name?" He turned to Richard "Give me 24 hours, sir, If I haven't got anything out of her, then you may flog me and brand me a coward. Then you may do what you will to get the information, but just give me a chance. Please." Adhelm said, surely Richard would let him, the man can't seriously think only torture is the way? No, Richard was a soldier and tough, but he was fair, perhaps deluded by fear and anger, but fair.
He turned back to the girl "Please tell me your name. Are you hungry? I'm not going to hurt you again, trust me" his eyes were kind and he looked upset by what he had done.

[Wax™]

Richard was angry, too angry, he clenched his fists as two templars un-chained the girl, he growled under his breath and the and lifted both hands to remove his helmet, his face was young, too young for his age, he had two scars on his face one over his eyebrow to his right cheek-bone and another going over his lips from his nose on the left side of his face, he tucked the helmet under his right shoulder and grit his teeth.

"Crusader... You obviously dont know who you are anymore... You have 24 hours... And SHE is NOT TO LEAVE THIS FORTRESS! UNDERSTOOD!" Richard turned to his side and gestured for all other Crusaders to leave the room, he closed the door behind him and turned to his most trusted Crusader one rank under his XO.

"Gather all other Templars and prepare them in the main hall" Richard said with a small growl.

Richard entered the main hall and made sure his XO was not inside he grit his teeth and clenched his fists all his templars were shakey, they had not seen their Grand Crusader this angry since the Third Crusade.

"Crusaders! and Templars! Our second in command has showed weakness and mecy toward the Assassins we have sworn to eliminate... This fortress will be sealed off and will only open under my Command and the Command of the other Crusader Champions of the other factions... The second in command for the Templar order is not to leave this fortress for the next 24 hours if he is in the company of an Assassin, Templars! You are to to ignore the man's commands untill told otherwise." Richard nodded and stepped down.

"I want a man with the XO at all times" Richard nodded to his most trusted Crusader before he told one Templar to accompany the XO everywhere, the Templar did as asked and went off.

[thenether]

"In twenty four hours, if I haven't managed to get anything, then We are both going to have a big problem. I have saved you from your end for the moment." He was sadden that Richards reaction was so strong, and his previous comment on him not knowing who he was. "What's your name? What are you assassins? Why are you here? I swear on my honour, if you tell me no harm will befall you." He sat down on the chair before looking at the torture instruments. "They won't last. The marks I mean. I want to stop Richard from harming you, but I can't help you if you don't talk to me. I came here to crusade and safeguard the holy land, not to torture people."
He looked into the fire, perhaps he had forgotten who he was.

[z]

Sellen thought for a moment, counting up the Assassins she knew before the blunt instrument hit her.

"BASTARD!" Sellen snapped showing her teeth... Showing there was a fighting spirit under her scared look after all.
One of the Templars slapped her for the curse and she simply turned her head and spit into his eye. Her head hung and for a moment she drifted into unconsciousness. The next thing she knew she was on all fours on the floor and a smile came to her face as she stood, quickly grabbing a sword from the Templar's sheaths and spinning before holding it to the leaders neck.

"My mother was a Templar.... Taught me some things as a child...." She dropped the blade at the mans feet and held her arms out, either she would be tied and leaded away, or chained up... Either way... Who cared?

As she was left with XO she listened to what he said and sighed.

"I am saying nothing of my creed...." She looked away for a moment.

"My mother is a influential Templar in Italy... I am the daughter of Lenna Marreh... Born to an Assassin father, and a Templar mother..."