Mun just finished AC2 (Please no spoilers for Brotherhood/Revelations)

[gene_killer]

Okay, first, this is really fucking weird. Like you're in the Animus or something. But yeah...

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

That... person... woman? Minerva talked to me as if I were in the vault and not Ezio. Never mind the six-hundred year or so gap. So yeah, now not only do I have to worry about Vidic and the Templars hunting me down, but now the Earth's magnetic field or something is dying and we're going to be one big barbeque now?

...Are you sure I'm not back home in the hospital from a drug overdose-induced coma and this isn't just some feverish hallucination as I cling to life?

...Yeah, didn't think I'd be that lucky.

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Good thing this is my AC2-era account B)

[assassino]

You know, I didn't understand any of that, either. We may be confused, but at least we are in good company, hmm?

:D

[gene_killer]

Yeah, no kidding. And then there's Subject 16 and what he stumbled onto...

I feel like I owe you an apology though. I feel like it's my fault you got dragged into this whole Vault thing.

...Also, this is really weird, talking to you and all. I'm more used to being... sort of in your head.

[assassino]

How is it your fault? I did it hundreds of years before you were even a thought in some man's mind. You could not have known.

But you will get used to that part soon enough. There are many opportunities, in places like these.

[gene_killer]

Still... [He chuckles a bit.] I mean, you were right there, and she was talking to me. At the very least it was rude.

Yeah, I hope so. Bad enough I'm seeing things outside the Animus. I'd like to enjoy these sorts of chats. You and Altair taught me a lot. You've actually saved my life several times over.

[vendicarsi]

[He's sort of wondering why you know his name.]

Have we met somewhere before, signore?

[assassino]

Let the fault of rudeness be on her, then.

Oh? How have I saved your life?

[gene_killer]

The Animus - the thing I used to see what happened to you - it has a 'bleed effect.' I experience things that happened to you as if it were happening to me. I essentially get trained in the heat of battle without having to worry about getting stabbed and stuff.

[gene_killer]

[He scratches at the back of his head awkwardly.]

Sort of. Remember the Vault? ...Yeah, I'm Desmond.

1/2

[vendicarsi]

You...? But you are just... [Wow, how does he say it without being rude?] ...a person.

[vendicarsi]

Ah, my apologies, signore. It is just...

I was expecting something a little different.

[That awkward head scratching is contagious, brother.]

[gene_killer]

Don't apologize. I'm with you a hundred percent. Hell, I was a normal bartender before Abstergo - an organization controlled by the Templars - kidnapped me and put me through Altair's life.

Like you, I didn't choose the be an Assassin but was forced into it.

...Oh, and I'm a couple hundred years or so in the future to you.

[vendicarsi]

[This news renders him virtually speechless; there are so many questions he wants to ask, but where to even begin?]

Hundreds of years? [That's... something.] But how are you able to witness all these events? That woman in the Vault... I am certain she was talking to somebody else. To you.

[assassino]

I am not quite sure I understand, but if you have learned to fight because of it, that is good.

[gene_killer]

I don't really understand either, but yeah. You've really saved my ass.

[assassino]

[chuckle]

You're welcome!

[gene_killer]

There's this machine called the Animus. It reads genetic memories or something. I can relive the events of my ancestors by using it.

...I guess that makes you my great great great great... great grandfather, and Altair yours.

I have no idea how it works. I can barely use my cell phone, but yeah. Apparently she knew I was going to be going through it, left that message in your memory and I just went back and remembered it.

[gene_killer]

Not to mention it was interesting to see Leonardo Da Vinchi. In my time, he's known as one of the greatest inventors of all time.

[assassino]

So I have heard from a few others from your time... and I assure you Leonardo would be flattered to hear it.

[vendicarsi]

[Sheesh, he's gonna have kids? Seriously? Well, he probably shouldn't be too surprised about that, considering how many women he's been with, but still. Damn.]

And that woman, Minerva, her message... were you able to understand its meaning?

[gene_killer]

Yeah. Not at all what I expected. Here I thought of him as some stuffy old guy with a long beard. Kinda nice to see he was a normal person too.

[gene_killer]

Not even a little bit. I've got friends working on figuring it out, and they think that if something isn't done, the poles are going to switch, and literally turn the world upside down.

I don't get it. At all. All I know is that the Templars are trying to control people, and I can't let that happen.

[vendicarsi]

And the world will burn.. [That much he was able to understand.]

No, whatever it is the Templars intend with the Apple must not be allowed to pass. It will be a long fight, Desmond.

[gene_killer]

Yeah. And the Templars are too blinded by ambition to realize that there won't be anybody to control if something isn't done.

So I'm learning. But don't worry. I'm not going to shy away from it. After all, I had some of the best teachers in history; you and Altair.