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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 21770" data-attributes="member: 903">The battle (story)Galena immediately cast a web to block the entrance of the balcony with the assassin, while Cobbe and Toiva engaged the hell hounds.  Alexander tumbled past the beasts to the priestess herself and attacked her.In the midst of this, Liana felt a strange pressure on her mind and heard a now trusted voice in her head telling her that Lord Nasser and his advisors were not her enemy and that she should not attack them.  Since this good advice did not include the hell hounds, she attacked them.  Arin positioned himself opposite her against one of the monsters and looked threatening enough for her to sneak attack the beast repeatedly.As the others fought the hell hounds, the priestess swung her staff at Alexander and hit him in the right arm.  To everyone’s surprise, he yelled in pain and collapsed as a black energy engulfed his arm.  Both Joy and Cobbe could see that his arm was shriveling before their eyes as he writhed on the floor.As Toiva and Liana continued to beat on the hell hounds, Cobbe moved to attack the priestess as well.  In the midst of this, he tried his cure disease on Alexander but to no avail.  With a cry, Joy ran up and tried to dispel the magic that seemed to be attacking him.  She was able to heal his wounds, but the arm continued to wither at a frightening rate.Galena summoned an Arrowhawk to attack the assassin, but the web was empty.  Frustrated, she had the summoned creature shoot lightning bolts up the corridor in case she was there invisible.After standing in combat against Cobbe for a few moments, the priestess saw that she was overmatched.  Though she hit him with the glowing staff, his limbs did not rot as Alexander’s had.  Perhaps it took a mighty blow to call forth the power of death in the staff.  The hell hounds were all defeated by now, and she looked to retreat.  As Galena cast haste on Toiva, the Triad priestess fled back through the door behind the edge of the tapestry she had entered from.A shadowy figure behind the curtains of the right hand balcony had tried to control others besides Liana, and Arin tried to subtly indicate to Cobbe that there was an enemy there, but the paladin was more concerned with getting Lord Nasser out of there.  Even as he moved the there, Liana heard her friend tell her that Nasser had turned on them and should be killed.  Pulling out her bow, she shot the governor, but only wounded him.Meanwhile, Toiva and Galena followed the priestess.  She went into what looked like a waiting room.  It was sparsely furnished by Sazon standards, but had a glowing portal in the middle of it.  As the hasted Toiva moved into the room, the priestess stepped into the portal.  On his action, he followed her in.Inside, he was suddenly in a much more imposing fortress of iron.  The priestess was nearby and still badly wounded.  Also in the room were two devils.  One of them looked like the tall bony one they had fought the night before, while the other looked male but inhumanly beautiful.  Risking attack from the devils, Toiva used his second action to swing his two-handed sword at the priestess.  She went down at the strike, and Toiva fled back through the portal with his last action.Convincing Liana to stop her attack for now, Cobbe and the others hustled the confused Governor Nasser from the throne room as the cowled figure in the balcony slipped behind the curtains and disappeared.Outside the governor’s palace, the Champions were met with a large force of guards in the livery of the city led by their captain.  After some discussion, Cobbe and Toiva convinced them that the governor could be in danger and agreed that the Captain of the Guard and an escort should go with them back to the Temple with Lord Nasser for his own protection.Alexander, now without a right arm, was taken from the palace to the infirmary in the Temple complex for such healing as could be found.  Joy felt that someday she would be able to restore his arm, but that it was beyond her power for now.  Alexander settled into a bed.“I am reflecting on the blessings of the Lady” he said bitterly and then lay there quietly.  Joy stayed with him and sang songs to try and encourage him.</blockquote>

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