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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 16633" data-attributes="member: 903">That night, the Champions prepared to undertake a meeting with Governor Nasser.  They spoke with the Priests of the Knight and the Lady at the Temple about gaining some kind of dispensation to take their weapons.  The priests explained that Lord Nasser was within his rights and the legal arguments to overturn the order would take months.They finally sent Liana over to Lord Victor’s mansion with a note asking for an audience.  She arrived there seemingly without being followed and entered through the side door.  After some discussion she convinced Victor’s seneschal to allow a meeting in the morning.Meanwhile, the others were using the crystal ball to spy on the demonic things they had seen in the meeting.  There were two types, one was tall and skeletal with a great barbed tail like a scorpion while the other was human sized but covered with chains.  Galena knew they were other-planar creatures but no more than that about their exact capabilities.  Finding the creatures, the party saw them attacking civilians in various parts of town.  Though the guards themselves did not seem to think it unusual that these monsters were patrolling with them, the populace caught outside ran in panic at the sight of them.  Some were caught and killed by the creatures.  Unable to watch this, the Champions prepared to attack the monsters immediately.They met Liana as they left the Library and went patrolling for the guard patrols.  The Champions met with success not far from the Library/Temple complex with one of the skeletal creatures and half a dozen guards.The devil put up an ice wall to separate Cobbe and Toiva from the others while Galena cast a web to try and immobilize the thing.  What she got was a web with a hole in it where the magic did not function on the creature (she missed the spell resistance roll badly).  Liana fired an arrow at the devil, but it just bounced off.  The guards, thinking one of their own was under attack, went after the Champions.  Toiva fought two of them beside the web, trying not to kill them.Lady Breda and Cobbe dealt with their section of the ice wall by going through it while Bacha jumped up and over instead.  The devil took the opportunity to try and charm Bacha, but he fought off the effect (no small feat considering his +0 will save).Liana and Alexander moved into the web to attack the thing while Galena tried a magic missile with also fizzled against the monster.  The devil attacked Alexander and hit him with the tail, draining his strength.  As the others moved into the web, Galena dispelled it.  Toiva ran in and crited the thing.  Alexander hit it, but his hands are not magical, so to no effect.  Bacha ran in and finished it.  The remaining guards ran away, presumably to get help.The devil’s body did not disappear, meaning it was physically on this plane.  The party gathered it up for evidence and went back to the Library to rest and recover.That night, Cobbe had a dream of Bacha meeting the Yakuni somewhere in the hills of the Empire.  Everyone realized that the Lady needed Bacha to be with his people so he left Sazon immediately to travel to the east and help refound Pella.  Cobbe wrote him a note saying he and the Yakuni had the permission of Lord Almer of Pella (that’s Cobbe) to settle in the environs of Pella.As the party left the Library in the morning, a little girl pulled on Galena’s robe and gave her a silver ring with a sapphire.  “You dropped this, Lady” she said.  By the time Galena had looked at the ring and back again, the girl was gone.  After some consideration, she decided to wear the ring though she does not know what it does.The Champions arrived at their meeting with Lord Victor with the body of the devil slain the night before.  After seeing that, Victor seemed eager to help.  He wrote them a note that would get them in to see Lord Nasser on his authority, and another deputizing them to investigate the corruption of the governor.  Putting his seal on both, he sent them on their way a little surprised at his cooperation.Legally and physically armed, the Champions went to the governor’s palace to confront Lord Nasser.  Was he an unwitting agent of the Triad allowing these devils into the city, or a servant of evil?</blockquote>

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