A typical assassination goes something like this. First, you receive your mission from your leader at the assassin hideout in Masyaf. Make your way across the kingdom to the city where the target lives. Enter the city stealthily by climbing walls, creating a diversion, or blending in with some monks. Find the Assassins' Bureau for advice on your target. Climb up to high-altitude view points to open up the map and show investigation targets. Complete investigation targets and any of the optional Save Citizen missions in the area. Investigation activities include interrogation, pickpocketing, eavesdropping, assassinations, and time-trial challenges. Once your investigation is complete, return to the Bureau to get a feather, which you must coat with the blood of your victim. Once you've taken out the target, the chase is on and every guard in the city will be looking for you.
