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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 21769" data-attributes="member: 903">Interview with Nasser (story)Going directly from Lord Victor’s mansion, the Champions traveled across town to the palace of the governor of Sazon.  It was a tall structure with intricate carvings and gold leaf done in the standard over-the-top gaudy style of Sazon.Cobbe used his diplomacy and the first letter from Lord Victor to get them an almost immediate audience.  After waiting a few minutes, they were directed into the throne room.  A large room two stories tall, it had balconies on the other three walls and tapestries below them showing General Zenon, the Sazon hero of Alexander’ day, a map of the ancient Sazon Empire, and a map of ancient Sazon itself at its height.Sitting behind a desk on a raised dais was Governor Nasser along with an advisor in a fine white robe beside him.  The guards immediately tried to take the weapons of the Champions, but Alexander and Toiva convinced the governor that they had only the interests of Sazon at heart given their rescue of the Great Library.  Nasser seemed distracted and uncertain.The Governor did not believe them that members of the guard were actually devils or that these creatures had been responsible for the deaths of townspeople the night before.  He assumed those deaths were due to dwarven infiltration of the city.Cobbe detected evil as the governor spoke, and found several presences.  One of them seemed to be the white-robed man and another was on the balcony above.  He was relieved to find that Nasser himself did not seem to be evil.At that moment, a woman appeared on the balcony above the governor and shot a well-aimed arrow at Joy.  It was the same assassin they had sent to jail yesterday!  Joy managed to dodge just enough so that the arrow missed her heart but still seriously wounded her.Meanwhile, a woman in a large black robe came from behind the edge of a tapestry beside the dais and brought with her several large dog-like creatures spitting fire.  The woman had a prominently placed silver triangle symbol and carried a staff that glowed with a black radiance.The guards, confused at this turn of events, surrounded Lord Nasser and tried to keep everyone away from him.  The man in the white robe fled through a door opposite the priestess.  The Champions had other things to worry about.</blockquote>

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