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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoyHealinghand" data-source="post: 53238" data-attributes="member: 1127">Joy's Diary - Nonus 10 (morning-part 2)We were shown into a large hall.  There were four guards, Lord Nasser on a small dais and an aid/noble wearing a shield with a bird (dove?) symbol.  Cobbe managed to tell us that Lord Nasser was not evil, but that there was evil next to him (the noble, who Toiva thinks was Lord Azim), on the balcony above him and in the corner to our left.  I could only see the noble, who was trying to tell the Governor that we should not be allowed to have our weapons.  Before we could even argue with him, an arrow flies into me from the balcony above Lord Nasser, and the female from the rooftop the other night (how did she get out of jail?) appeared standing there holding a bow.  She was a very good shot.  The arrow just barely missed my heart.  I didn't tell the others, but that shot came very close to killing me instantly.  Thankfully, The Lady was watching out for me.  I hope that She wasn't paying so much attention to me that She forgot to look out for Alexander, because during the fight that ensued, the evil priestess (she was wearing the triangle within a circle symbol), who appeared in the left corner with three hell hounds (I will have to remember to tell Mother that can they breath fire), did something and Alexander screamed and I could see something terrible and magical happening to his arm.  I tried to dispel the magic but I couldn't get The Lady's power to move right.  I had also tired a moment before to deafen the priestess, but that didn't work either.  I could blame it on the arrow, but maybe I just wasn't good enough and Alexander paid the price.  I rushed to him while the fighting went on and tired to heal him, but his arm just kept shriveling.  By the time it stopped he only had a stub left, and he had lost consciousness, even Cobbe's attempt to cure disease didn't help--not that I thought it would.  Everyone fought really well.  I did have to hurry to Toiva and use The Lady's power to heal him, but in short order the hounds were dead and Toiva rushed to chase the fleeing priestess.  When I followed them into a small room behind one of the tapestries, all I could see was Toiva and blue/black floating disk of magic. Toiva said that the priestess had gone into the disk, and he followed her.  Before I could do anything he was back telling us that he knocked the priestess out, but was not sure she was dead.  He had had to come back because one of the bone demons was there and had attacked him.  I left Galena and Toiva in the room and went back to see what was happening in the main room.  What I saw was Lord Nasser with an arrow in him, Liana with bow in hand and the guards coming after Liana.  I used The Lady's miracles to frighten the guards away from Liana.  In the chaos, Lord Nasser started to leave, but Liana wrestled with him, and I tried to help.  When Arin showed up, I left to check on Alexander.  Toiva and Galena come out of the room and Toiva put Lord Nasser to sleep.  They told us that the portal was gone, and they are not sure if the priestess is dead, but the portal did lead to a fortress in hell (!) where there was also an incubus.  I healed Lord Nasser's arrow wound and everyone else as much as I could, and we carried Lord Nasser and Alexander to the temple surrounded by Lord Nasser’s entire guard.  In spite of our papers from Lord Victor, they didn't believe us that something had been controlling Lord Nasser's mind.When we got back to the temple the high priests didn't believe me when I told them that we had just fought a priestess of the tr... evil gods!  Can you imagine?! Well, I told them in no uncertain terms that I knew what I was talking about and if they were going to call me a liar then they could follow her to the hell plane where we chased her and find out for themselves.  I just left them there for the others to deal with and took Alexander to the hospital.</blockquote>

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