So! Asking for a bit of GM help^^
I need ideas for a full roleplay session, a "dinner with the devil" 8-hour session, we eat in real as my players role their characters having an amiable dinner with... Chammady.
A bit of backstory. We're in book three, just before entering Delvehaven. My players are a bit obsessed with security, and they've played throughout the AP without even making it public that there WAS a sorta revolutionary group named "Children of Westcrown" in the city, much less their identities.
Nonetheless, they made some waves, and as planned the siblings took note of them. Last session, they won the Hellcaller Cup, and Chammady, of course, went and congratulated with them.
Of course, they felt safe: they usually take part in heroics only when under the effect of Alter Self.
Unbeknownst to them, though, Chammady had a Ring of True Seeing (not an unreasonable assumption, given that she's very rich and lives in a city that's a veritable snake den), so what she saw was a Fetchling, a Tiefling, a Vishkanya and a human trying desperately to seem unassuming.
These were the PCs that had been constantly, if unknowingly, meddling with their plans - so she was very interested in them.
That's why, of course, she invited them for a pleasant dinner.
Enough for the backstory: onto my plea.
I need ideas for the dinner.
My players have surmised that she's a very powerful player in Westcrown, and they suspect she's not entirely friendly.
I'd like the dinner to convey the feeling of being in the lion's den. A very pleasant, very well mannered lion, but one you have to be careful around all the same, and which could chew your head with no forewarning. Tension should be the focus of the evening.
This should be, at the same time, a priceless chance to glean information about the enemy and a situation in which everything they say might destroy every chance they have of righting the wrong in Westcrown. On my side, it is the chance of making them learn a bit more about the "enemy", something that the original AP does not do very well.
Building the emotional foundation, so to speak.
So, ideas:
What should be the dinner's setting? How should I set the tone? Ambient, location, dishes, everything that comes to mind that might help me set the tone I want.
What should happen during the evening? Any specific events which might be cool to have happen during the evening, I don't know a serving boy listening in who is discovered and punished, things like that? Or events which might give the PCs some Info about elements which will become relevant later?
Should Vassindio be there? Should they have a chance to speak of him?
What should Chammady talk about? Obviously she wants to gather as much info about them as she can, but maybe she wants to broach other subjects. Maybe she even offers to help about things the PCs need, to set herself as a benefactor preparing for the inevitable backstab.
I guess what I'm asking boils down to this:
If you were DMing a dinner between Chammady and the players at this point in the AP, what would you do?
