Dear Claudia,
I’ve arrived in Constantinople, and have decided to write you this letter as a clever means of narrative exposition without all the drag of pre-rendered cinematics because we kind of blew the whole budget on the intro sequence. I think it looked pretty magnifico, though.
Anyway, I am here to find a bunch of keys to open Altaïr’s secret library in the castle at Masyaf because all the answers are there (I’m sure!), but this might be a bit harder than I’d first thought. I mean, it doesn’t look like they’re anywhere on the docks, so I guess I’m going to have to get off this ship and actually go into the city and look for them.