First Animus Data Fragment [Radio]

[shirley_templar]

[When the radio clicks on, the first thing listeners might notice is the whistling of the wind, as though the person on the other end is very high up somewhere. Really, Desmond just needed to process everything, after waking up in the city. He hadn't even though to get his hand looked at, so shocked was he by what was happening.]

So uhh...I'm supposed to be dead. Someone wanna shed a little light on why I'm not? I mean...I got the whole "Welcome to the back of a Giant Turtle" spiel from the guys in that Welcome Center place, but...they wouldn't answer why I'm not a corpse right now.

[He coughs.]

I mean...I don't wanna sound ungrateful or anything, I'm glad I'm alive or whatever, but...there was a good reason why I was supposed to be dead.

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[shirley_templar]

I'm not even sure how it all works. I just know that they hook an IV in my arm, it reads my DNA, and they zero in on specific parts of my DNA that are associated with people in the past, like Ezio Auditore.

[Desmond hops out of the pile of hay, shaking a few errant pieces off of himself, before he starts walking down the street.]

Oh, I just jumped off of the building I was up on. There was a pile of hay close enough to break my fall. My ancestors call it a "Leap of Faith".

[lasergrenades]

...That sounds both incredibly cool and completely terrifying. Sheesh. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

[She frowns at the radio at his answer, pausing for a moment before she replies.]

You learn how to not die jumping off buildings from your genetic memory trips? How high can you get?

[shirley_templar]

Right? You know that side-effect I mentioned? It's called "The Bleeding Effect", and is basically my ancestors' memories bleeding into my own. The upshot being that I learn their skills really quickly.

Well, Ezio once took a swan-dive off the top of the Vatican in Rome. I've only done it a few times myself, and never from that high up. I did once jump off a construction crane on a building so I could parachute onto the next roof over. Didn't wanna get caught breaking in, heh.

[lasergrenades]

Are you sure these guys didn't have superpowers because that sounds, uh, a little bit impossible. Not that I don't believe you it's just... wow.

[Then again, this was Keeliai. Nothing had to make sense here.]

What were you breaking into?