Front Lawn and Entrance Hall (Pre-Game)

[Ryo Asuka]

You all begin to arrive to the large estate. Around you are other people in various colored cloaks. You walk across the red carpet and notice that the double doors to enter the building are locked tight. Above the door is a flat screen television that is currently off. On either side of the room, you see side tables with intricate vases below paintings of cloaked figures. The door to the outside is still currently unlocked for more guests to arrive. Outside is a magnificent lawn and garden are for people to sit and talk. The garden has a variety of plants and a few benches to sit on. There is also a large fountain and a gate surrounding the front lawn.

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Sephiria walks straight into the middle of the room and surveys all the other people in from of her. She purses her lips together as to talk and then stops, sighing at the unease of the people in the some position as she.

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

After finding that after a few minutes nobody was responding to this girl who walked into the center of the room, Karma chuckled and walked into the center to introduce himself to her, speaking loud enough to ensure that everyone heard what he was saying.

"Well, I suppose you want the rest of us to introduce ourselves to you first, since you put us all at a disadvantage to ask for your name first, seeing as you tried to initiate discussion between us all before. A very cunning ploy for a fellow assassin. However, I don't like ploys that I don't make up myself. It's a pleasure to meet you..."

After saying this he looked over the girl for a few seconds, gave a smirk, and continued.

"Miss Sephiria Arks, I presume?"

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Even though she knew it was a dig at her, she had no surprise that someone knew her name. She took the man's hand, "And you are?".

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

"Eh, I'm just some arrogant kid trying to sound cool in front of a bunch of great assassins. But if you must know my name, it's Karma Akabane. I apologize if this comes across as devious, but you shouldn't ever shake hands with a fellow assassin."

After saying these words, Karma smirked and slashed the hand he was shaking Sephiria's with at a sharp diagonal angle, with some of Sephiria's blood following the motion. He quickly pulls out a knife from his red cloak as well in his other hand.

"Forgive me, but I had to make an example of that situation. You see, the assassin that thinks that they are above another always falls first. I had hidden some small blades on my hands before I came here to prove this exact point. You also thought that your reputation as an assassin made you clever, but some upstart assassin you never heard of just cut your sword hand down with nothing but trickery. Now, if you still desire attack with your cutlass, consider that I just wounded your most dominant hand, and you are already at a disadvantage. So, I'll let you take a free swing at my hand, if you are willing."

After saying these words, Karma extended the hand he used to cut Sephiria.

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Sephiria glanced at her hand and grabbed a tissue from her suit pocket to wipe it with.

"I think I'll decline your invitation, you see this is just a little gathering to introduce ourselves and not to test our skills, if you were so willing to make yourself seem higher than me, then well done, truthfully I don't care about your pitiful remarks". She then placed the tissue back in her pocket and took a step forward towards the man, she smirked and then it seemed that she had vanished for a second but actually a trail of virtual images were left for a few seconds going around the the man in front of her which led to her new position on a bench on the side of the room.

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

Karma chuckled and walked over to where Sephiria was seated and sat next to her.

"Well, I must say I do appreciate you having such a calm resolve. I almost thought I was going to lose my whole hand there!"

After saying this he turns his head directly at Sephiria.

"But, in all honesty, you are taking this whole situation rather well. Doesn't our whole presence here strike you as strange? Why would a bunch of assassins meet in this one place? Although, I am fairly new to being an assassin, so I wouldn't know much about this type of criminal underworld. I hate to admit it, but I can be a bit of a child at times. However, I'm sure we'll become fast frenemies."

He also reveals his hand he shook Sephiria's with, revealing a very bloody mess he got from clutching the small knives in his hand.

"Heh. I'm such a fool. Got another one of those tissues?"

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

"Unfortunately I do not, but there are sure to be facilities around here somewhere that do... I've learned to take all scenarios calmly, if you are uncalm then people may get the better of you". Sephiria glances at the other assassins crowding in the room.

"We'll find out soon enough why we are held here, and then we can react accordingly. Though if anything is sure this is to do with the assassin program you must of signed up to yourself, hm?".

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

After hearing that she had no tissues, Karma shrugged and got up from his seat.

"Yeah, it sure will be interesting to see what exactly our host has in store for us. I'm sure things will get very entertaining once he arrives. Well, I'm not very good with large crowds, so I guess I'm going to head away for now."

Karma leaves Sephiria and walks over to the front lawn to get away from all the people in the entrance hall, and he sits down on the fountain.

[Giorno Giovanna]

*Kazuo walks into the garden area*

"It doesn't seem that anything here is abnormal, maybe this is just an alternate world."

*spotting a group of people draped in coloured cloaks Kazuo jogs over to them*

"Hey guys is this the..." He pulls out a card and attempts to read it out "The Assassin's pledge?  Jeez what a lame name"

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

After sitting on the fountain for quite a while, Karma noticed a young man walk right past him to ask everyone else for directions. After snickering at this, he decided to follow the young man inside and answer his inquiries.

"If this place isn't the Assassin's Pledge, then it seems we'd both be in a spot of trouble. The name's Karma Akabane, and I'm a fellow assassin. It looks like you're very unfamiliar with your surroundings, since you're already asking for directions. Such a trait is not very befitting of an assassin. Are you, perchance, not from around here?"

[Giorno Giovanna]

"I guess you could say that I'm not from around these parts."
The boy fans his face with his invitation subtly indicating that he is in fact meant to be here.

"Quite the place we got here huh?  You'd have to kill to get this place."
Kazuo chuckles while pulling out his mobile and begins to fiddle around with his app.

"By the by, name's Jiyu, nice to meet you.  I'd shake your hand but you seem to be having a bit of an issue containing your bodily fluids."

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Sephiria watch the two way battle of remarks in front of her and s******s. Once she composed herself again she decided to comment, "His own fault you see".

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

~Okay apparently a completely innocent word isn't innocent on this site O.o~

[Giorno Giovanna]

The boy lifts his phone towards the red haired man's face and takes a picture

"Did something happen?"
   
    Kazuo puts his phone down and looks to the new face

"You implying something Ms...  I'm sorry I didn't catch your name"