The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

[metagame]

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust

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[privatedomicile]

[Ah, the desert. Just like home. Not that Jesse feels particularly at home here given it's the Nekiya and there's a big castle nearby.

This is clearly a differnt sort of thing, so Jesse is going to approach somebody at the market.]

Yo. What place is this? I'm new, just got outta the desert.

[metagame]

"From the Red Lands you say?" The merchant appears puzzled. "This is the capital city... the City of the Specter. How do you not know?"

[privatedomicile]

I'm from Albuquerque.

Is there like, a mayor here?

[metagame]

"Alpukurke?"

The merchant isn't going to press further. Foreigners and their strange cities... And walking from the Red Lands no less! This man is clearly crazy.

"No, there's no mayor."

What even is that?

"Perhaps you speak of the Pharaoh?"

[privatedomicile]

Yeah! That's the guy! We in Egypt?

[Wait, who does he know from Egypt? ...oh shit, Atem.]

Where's the Pharaoh live? The bigass palace?

[metagame]

What's an Egypt...

"The Great House? Yes; of course, where else would he live?"

[privatedomicile]

You never know, maybe that's just where he works and he goes to a smaller house to kick back and chill.

Thanks, keep it real, man.

[With a wave goodbye to the merchant, Jesse is gonna start heading towards that Great House.]