[IC] A Twist Of A Knife, The Birth Of A Legend.

[kalinsovrin]

As shadow got to the top of the wall he looked out over the city to try and spot the building that he was looking for. he found it and then started his climb back down the wall again. the pain in his shoulder was getting worse so he sighed and made up his mind to stop at the guild and see if they have any thing he can use to stop the blood.

[The Slenderman]

" Follow me youngling" Celaena said after she stripped off from disgraceful beggars attire and then changed into her red silk dress and slipped on her mask and cloak and then finally picked up her weapons " What is your name?" Celaena asked the young child

[Eklispe]

Leon carefully followed the strange pair from a distance, if Celaena was leading the small child to her base of operations for some reason then Leon could find it, which could be helpful for a number of reasons.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena saw guards running back to the castle without even advancing towards her and the child, that was good Westfall must have called them back anyhow she continued to make her way to the guild, she thought the others did well and survived this surprise attack by the King, had the others made it to the guild. She had worried this would be the outcome but soon enough she would find out.

[RomanAria]

Aery nervously followed after Celaena. "My name is Aery Tailor." The lie was a good one, and wasn't entirely a lie. She ran a small mending business in the city, usually involving her sitting by the fountain, doing baskets of mending and gathering talk from the local folk. A copper for a side-seam repair or a patching, two coppers for a fitting. Then all the money she earned, after she'd replenished her stock of patches and threads, was spent on two-day-old bread and distributed to the poor street urchins that roamed the city. They'd pick fewer pockets that way, and maybe fewer of them would starve. She sighed, realized Celaena had gotten a ways ahead of her, and trotted to catch up. "Where are we going, Lady Celaena?"

[The Slenderman]

"Oh just to my Guild south of the city Aery, If you would be so inclined to join" Celaena said to Aery as a lone guard came out rushing out at them with a dagger, Celaena pivoted on her heel, the movement putting herself behind the attackers dagger arm. Her trailing foot had barely touched the ground before Her most used sword, was drawn and in a flash had severed the hand holding the dagger. Once her trailing foot contacted with the floor she pivoted on that heel as well. The second pivot put her on the opposite side of his assailant. Celaena's lead hand wrapped around his throat and the edge of her blade soon protruded from his chest, blood stained. She withdrew her sword from his body and as he fell to the floor. The movement was fluid and without hesitation. From the time the dagger reached her Silk dress it'd only taken the length of one breath until the assassins corpse hit the floor. She exhaled and turned to regard the body. "I've dropped my Dagger, that is unnacceptable." She proceeded to reached down and pick it up, She let her hand grip it slowly and placed it back into her Dagger sheath. "Quick Aery, lets go" She said as she straightened her self and then continued to walk to her guild.

[RomanAria]

Aery watched the whole process in awe. She was fast with her needles, and when she had to be with her daggers, but never so fast as Celaena. As good as her reflexes were, she'd not even realized a guard was coming at them until Celaena had already killed him. "My god, will you teach me to do that?!" She asked as she trotted to catch up with Celaena. She had every intention of seeing what this assassin's guild was all about. Maybe she could find some other poison recipes from other assassins. It would be quite educational, she was sure. And maybe even fun.

[The Slenderman]

"If I find you worthy" Celaena winked and then looked around to see if there were any more guards about, she seen two guards on a rooftop and 1 about 7 metres away "I'll let you handle this one Aerys.. If you can" Celaena smiled at her while nodding her as if to say go and tear them apart. Celaena was not far from her guild now it was only 30 metres away now and yet there were still many problems from lone guards and thieves, Celaena felt a tug at her coin purse and hissed at the source before dismissing the pickpocket, after all it was only 800 gold in that large coin purse, she had over 30000 gold coins at the guild so 800 gold won't go amiss.

[RomanAria]

Aery sized up the situation. The guard was watching them... no, he'd started walking quickly in their direction. He opened his mouth, probably to call out and arrest them, and Aery, after carefully calculating trajectory and impact time, took three running steps and jumped, swinging her arm around the guard's throat and tackling him to the ground. She wasn't very big, but the guard hadn't been braced against her impact, and she'd gotten moving pretty fast in those three steps. While the man was still winded (for he'd hit the ground hard) Aery yanked a needle out of her belt pouch and plunged it into the side of his neck. His eyes went dark immediately. "Good night." She whispered. But then she had a slight problem. The guards on the rooftops had heard the commotion and spotted them. One of them brought a loaded crossbow up even as the other raised an alarm trumpet to his mouth. After a millisecond's deliberation Aery grabbed one of her throwing disks ((think a miniature frisbee with a razor's edge)) and threw it at the guard with the crossbow. It cut the side of his neck in a glancing blow, severing the jugular and killing the guard within seconds. Then she spun 180 degrees and threw her second disk at the trumpet guard. That one remained imbedded in the guard's throat even as he fell to the cobbled street. Turning back to Celaena, she just barely caught a glimpse of the pickpocket. A boy of about ten, one of the leaders of a pickpocket gang she often gave food to. She hadn't seen him around recently; apparently, he hadn't had good fortune. "Eya, Tazz! Don' you go annoyin' my lady!" She grabbed his wrist. He was taller than she was, despite being a scrawny street boy. "Aery? Wha' you doin' wiv one a' the purty types?! Yer not... Royalty, are ya?!" He tugged on her grip, but only gently. "I'm no more royal than you are, Tazz! It don' matter why I'm wiv a lady, jus', don' take her coin! She's not a forgivin' one!" She let go of Tazz's wrist, slapped his hand away from her purse, then opened it and counted out twenty-five copper coins, which she tied up in a spare handkerchief and handed to him. "I'll have more for you t'morrow. What're you thinkin', tryin' to steal a lady's purse? The shopkeepers, they'd see a grubby urchin wiv' a purse o' gold, an' they'd know you stealed it! An' then it's the prison for ya if yer lucky, an' more'n likely life in the mines or in the lumberyard! Now scat, an' don' you go tellin' everyone who I'm keepin' company with lately, ya hear me?" She shoved him lightly, and the boy thankfully took the hint and ran. She turned back to Celaena. "My apologies, Lady Celaena. I try to better their mannerisms, only, they only even try to work at it when they know I'm around, and the rest of the time they forget everything I've taught them. He's a nice lad, takes care of a group of a dozen younger than seven, just him. They're always hungry, because they can't fight for food, except what they can steal from the average folk. He's fast enough to do well on his own, but he takes care of all the little ones. They call him "Papa" and act like a little family, the older ones looking out for the younger ones, and all trusting him to take care of them. I don't know why he does it, but he doesn't hurt them or beat on them, or sell them to slavers or brothels, so I help him however I can."

[The Slenderman]

"Hmmm" She grasped the coin purse then smiled and took out a couple of hundred Gold coins and gave them to Aery "Go and buy some "Supplies", say to the shopkeeper 'The White Eagle' and they'll take off seventy-nine percent of the price, I own most of the shops around the guild, but you make sure you give me the full amount back once your pulling in your own money. " She said and pulled up her cloak's hood and then wandered to her guild to drink some more wine, she did love that wine even though she had to steal it from the castle every 3 months it was still worthwhile and amazingly tasty.

[User]

Charles walked slowly towards the guild, he had finished his latest "prject" and was looking to use his abilitys for a greater good. he stepped into the square where he saw gaurds falling to their knees "Amatures" from there he set out to find the boss.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena saw the guild was opened and drew her dagger and stalked into the guild, who would go into the guild she thought and she then stalked to her masterbedroom and opened a trunk which had her wine in it, she then cranked it open, satisfied that no one was in the guild apart from her, she began to drink the wine, she admired the child proving her worth, the child reminded Celaena of her younger self, she lay on the bed in a sitting position her head on the headboard, she closed her eyes for a minute and wondered the others where.

[RomanAria]

Aery gasped at the amount of money that Celaena gave her. She'd always been fairly affluent, with a weekly allowance of two gold pieces. Out of that, one was more than enough to provide for her urchins, and the other one she saved for special occasions that required her to buy dress clothing and cosmetics. The first thing she bought on her trip through the town was a journal and box of graphite sticks. Using that, she created an itemized list of what she was buying for whom. (I'm assuming that the division of coins is: Coppers are the baseline, then 10 coppers make a silver, and ten silvers make a gold piece. So 100 Coppers make a gold piece.]

Necessities List

Tazz's Family Hardbread x 10 boxes, total 2 coppers Mage-charmed Water Purifying Drops x 5 bottles, total 1 gold Assorted fruit x 1 carton, total 2 coppers Hard Cheese x 10 Wheels, total 1 silver Flea-banish charm x 1, total 1 silver Assorted size clogs x 13 pairs, total 6 silvers 5 coppers Children's dresses x 4, total 1 silver Children's breeches x 8, total 2 silvers Children's shirts x 8, total 2 silvers Long children's breeches x 1, total 5 coppers Long children's shirts x 1, total 5 coppers Assorted Loincloths x 26, total 4 silvers 3 coppers Mending kit x 5, total 5 coppers Medicine kit x 5, total 2 silvers 5 coppers mage-charmed antiseptic ointment x 3 tubs, total 3 gold Total: 5 gold, 5 silvers, 3 coppers Personal use Cotton leggings x 2, total 1 silver Long cotton tunics x 2, total 1 silver Rawhide hairties x 10, total 5 coppers Short cotton tunic x 1, total 5 coppers knee-length skirt x 1, total 5 coppers Water drops x 1 bottle, total 2 silvers bread x 5 loaves, total 1 copper Total: 5 silvers 7 coppers

Weaponry

Tazz's Family Assorted daggers x 20, total 2 gold Slings x 3, total 3 silver Long dagger x 1, total 3 silver Total: 2 gold 6 silvers Personal use Embroidery needles x 5 sets, total 1 silver throwing disks x 5, total 5 silvers sling x 1, total 1 silver poison x 1 bottle, total 3 silvers

Total: 9 gold 8 silvers. (notebook was one silver)

[Valkyr]

Dallas stopped as he spotted the woman around the corner of a building. The woman was conversing with a young girl. He had arrived just in time to watch her hand the child a large amount of gold before departing. He looked at the girl. Interesting. Not a very common appearance for street urchins. Not to mention the guard bodies lying around her. He turned away and stalked after the woman who was still walking. Finally, he watched as she slipped into one of the nearby buildings. He paused outside at the door. This might be it. Either it was her favorite tavern or the guild. Both would be fine as long as he got a chance to talk to her. He waited for a moment then approached the open doorway. He stared in the dark, empty building. He raised his fist and knocked on the door three times, hard enough for most nearby people to hear it. He crossed his arms and decided to wait to see if the woman heard him before entering.

[User]

having not found anyone charles serched tje guild, he found a master bedroom with a woman on it "Fresh meat" opening his satche she brought out a scalpale and a butchers knife and stood over her.

[kalinsovrin]

Shadow made his way through the city until he found the guild building. with one look he was taken back to the past times he had been here. he shook his head and then walked on by the guild. he had put himself on bad terms with the guild head and thought that he should stay away for a while longer just in case she still wanted to kill him for the way he had treated her when she tried to train him years ago. he had been stuck up and didn't think he could lose. typical for his age but when he was almost killed he learned that he could and would one day die on a mission if he was not better trained and more careful. the pain in his shoulder was only getting worse. he pulled the fabric out of the wound and checked it. he could see the bone almost. this told him the reason the pain was so bad. the wound was much worse than he had thought. he ducked into an ally and climbed to the roof. he took out the small bag he hid in his cloak and then got out some thread and a needle. he had to fix the wound quickly or he would bleed to death before he could get to his target. he set to work on his quick fix for the wound.

[Kurai Assassin]

Katya crouched atop the church spire looking around for any commotion. she needed to get to the guild before it became dark. she vaguely knew the way. making her way to the bottom she pulled up her pure white hood, so that no one could get a distinct look at her features if something was to go wrong. moving into one of the side alleys in the city she quickly started to pick up pace. making it to the guild she looked about, noticing a man butchers knife drawn and scalpel in hand she drew her dagger and slowly crept her way over to him. "I suggest you drop your weapons if you value your life fool." she said placing her dagger at his throat. She suspected him an intruder, no one in the guild would attempt to Assassinate the Grand master.

[The Slenderman]

"I'll give one chance to kill me 'Doctor' " Celaena heard some one say 'fresh meat and opened one eye before noticing a man wielding a knife and a woman behind him holding a blade to his neck, she stood up and pushed against the knife softly with her chest " try it." She then walked away disgusted at that attempt on her life " Next time you try that you will my little child friend, knock him( users character)out and dump him in the sewer."

[User]

a smile crept along his face as he spun his knives back i nto his coat "Guess it was worth a try, heard you were back in town." he turned to the girl "Please put the blade down, Im not in the mood for killing a child"

[Kurai Assassin]

"Yes, Ma'am. what shall i do with him now" Katya asked Celeana. was the remark she just made advice or and order or was it simply a threat to the man before her