The Devil You Know: A Comedy of Bad Decisions
The poor choices of desperate people have always been a fertile ground for comedy as well as for tragedy. The Devil You Know gives us Nanton Vellay, a merchant with political ambitions and considerable liabilities who signs conflicting bargains with two separate fiends in order to eliminate both his debts and the rival who is blackmailing him. In nearly any city the play should have been a great success, but in Neverwinter the story—and some of the names—called unwanted attention to a cult of Asmodeus that had infiltrated the town's government and business elite. In the early hours of a Sunday morning after the second evening show, the Hot Spring Theater mysteriously burned to the ground, and Marlowe claims to have barely averted several attempts on her life before making her way south to the relative safety of Waterdeep.
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