Honestly though I am wilding about how much of a win Dinner With The Devil was for the Mighty Nein
Like, everyone knew this was a political battle going in. That was the entire pretense, everyone knew it. This wasn't a dinner party, this was a battlefield
And Trent was very prepared. He had time to plan out his bullshit story to enact the most physic damage on his precious little boy. He has home team advantage. He has all his props and implied threats. He has his two henchman prepped and ready for this.
But dude is so used to fucking, respectable and hidden dagger type politics with people who have very set and conflicting goals and who battle by the very specific and unspoken rules of political engagement where breaking even one of these could result in social backlash by the most powerful mages in the world-
-Only to, immediately and suddenly discover that the Might Nein give negative shits about his political game because they brought their own card baby!
You lose control before anyone even takes a fucking seat. These people are too amazed by the concept of an elevator to even pick up on any of your actual threats or implications, play an extremely stressful game of musical chairs, before half of them start mean-girling your most trusted acolyte, and when you try and read the mind of the main mean girl literally all she is thinking about is how hot her friends tits are
Then when you start to say how you totally masterminded everything and planned all of this the dumb one is genuinely so confused about this entire thing that she makes you lay the entire thing out, which makes it very clear that the logic of this makes no sense, and yeah, sure, Caleb is shaken but its starting to be very clear that none of these other people are buying it, and they seem to know the backstory already so you can't actually pull your cards out because despite your prodding them seem to be a very united front. If anything you're people are significantly more shaken by this whole thing than they are, because they're mainly concerned with eating their meals before they get kicked out
Then when you go to leave the one guy who was actually trying to be cordial for this whole thing, thanks you for dinner, says you are a wizard of immense skill, and then completely calmly suggests that you should really try and find someone who will mourn you when you are gone, and you read his mind and he is being so deadass honest about that fact that it actually does physic damage
You follow the group out in the guise of an hour. The main mean girl one immediately flips you off and yells "Fuck you Professor Thadeus!"
The other, secondary mean girl is apologizing to your main henchman, saying her hair really is great, and that she's forgiven for all of the murders.
You scry on them after the fact. There is maybe five minutes of total conversation that has anything to do with you, and then they start to obsess over a random comment you made about their boss hiring tomb raiders and spend their entire night making a conspiracy board about something with nine eyes and a dead guy they knew six months ago, giving zero shits about you or anything you've said or done
