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DnD 7-12-20

As we approach, we see Hellmuth outside waving to us. He says we need to celebrate at the new restraurant "the Best Cliff Bar." We go to the bar. As we enter the bar, we are greeted by the waitress. We order a table for 6 (the team + Hellmuth) and are told to wait for 5 minutes. Devorin says he will go to the bathroom, trying to stealthily check out the bar. We get in a bit of a fight with the chef after Devorin shits on the floor and complains. We all order whiskeys at the restraunt. We tell Hellmuth about our adventures and catch him up. A man named Fernando takes our order for the drinks. A few moments later, a lady walks up to our table and takes our order. We are confused, as it has already been taken. We order once more. Fernando brings our drinks and Balric asks him to re-pour. He refuses, so Balric spashes it in his face and demands another. Tommy says we should go to the The Stinky Druid instead. The woman waitress, Rei, brings us 6 ales. It is the wrong order. Devorin finds a theif emblem note under the table that says "the meat pies are to die for." Devorin walks over to a drunk dwarf and chats with him. He repeats a bartender's, joke: This family is trying to play Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate, the big towns, with its new act. The father says "We have this great act." It's a family act -- wife, daughter, son and dog. To show off the event to a potential booker, the father walks over, pulls down the son pants and start sucking. The wife and daughter jack off the dog, the son starts fucking the dad, the dog starts fucking the wife. Then all five stand up and say "Thank you!" What do you call this act? The Aristocrats. We try to leave but Hellmuth keeps pulling us back. Fernando, the waiter, comes back and asks us what we want to drink. We had ordered about 20 minutes ago from the female waitress and still hadn't received the food. Tommy walks up to a bar patron and chats with a man. Davric gets up and whispers to Rei about something. Ameria gets up and joins Tommy in talking to another bar patron. Balric turns invisible and heads back to the kitchen. He notices that the cooks are mainly Kobolds, which is odd. Davric returns to the table and Rei brings the pies. Hellmuth, who had gathered with Devorin and the dwarf, notices the food and rushes back -- pushing the others back too. The group begins to try the food. Ameria and Tommy are skeptical. THose who eat - Balric, Hellmuth, Davric and Tommy - experience a great sensation and think it is the greatest thing ever made. Ameria, who succeeded on the constitution save, eats but remains skeptical. Fernando comes and checks on us, asking how the food is. We compliment the food, but Devorin demands his to go. 50 gold pieces is the bill. Davric asks the waitress to draw a card from the Deck of Many Things. It is the devil (flames). Hellmuth pays the food for the first bill. It is 50 gold and 50 tip. Balric casts mage hand and sleight of hand to steal the gold back. He succeeds. The two waiters come back and sing a birthday song for Devorin. Devorin casts the golden butt plug again, badly injuring the chef. Hellmuth jumps up and attacks Devorin with his battleaxe because he recognizes what happened. Balric gets up to "assist" the chef. He pours the poison Pale Tincture down the throat of the chef, stopping his breathing. He whispers "serve Belial well." Devorin tries to use panache to stop Hellmuth. It fails. Tommy casts Hideous Laughter on Devorin, making him collapse in laughter. Ameria checks on the chef and finds that he is now dead. Davric tries to talk Hellmuth down but fails to calm him down. Hellmuth continues to chop at him. Devorin tries to hide under the table. Davric tries to persuade Hellmuth down but fails again. Hellmuth begins flipping tables to find a hiding Devorin, and he finds him. Balric moves away from the fight to the back, casts disguise self and looks like a bar patron who already fled outside. Devorin finally shakes off the laughter. Guards rush in and hell "stop fighting." They begin to restrain Hellmuth, Davric, don't see Devorin, Balric is hidden, and Ameria is outside. Devorin steps out and tries to explain the situation, but Ameria steps forward and explains her perspective of what happened. Meanwhile, back in CoF headquarters, Balric passes a handsome man in his 40s on his way in and then finds Tobi's mask on a dining hall table.

We don't know what happened to the barmaid who drew the "The Devil" card from the DoMT.

Idea: Say I used a healing potion from Damien, it must have been rotten. Your honor, Ameria cast some sort of spell on the man before I tried to heal him. Demand investigation into my friend's death.