The Moonstone Mask is one of the most renowned festhalls in Neverwinter and across all Faerûn.
The Mask is known for it's discretion as well as its rarified delights.
Staff
The staff is composed only by females wearing glowing, moonstone-trimmed masks (hence the name of the establishment) and sheer black gowns. They are known as friendly and wise, as well as renowned players of many games. They never revealed their true identities and always wear their mask while working. This sense of anonymity makes them renowned confidants across the Sword Coast and beyond. All staff members also wear magical amulets that protected them against mind-reading and mind-controlling magic, and allowed them to send mental messages among the wearers of other amulets.
The cooks, on the other hand, are all males.
The current owner is the previous owner's, Ophala Cheldarstorn, presumed descendant, Liset Cheldar.
Description
The Moonstone Mask isa five-stored building. The first floor is the dining room, lit by a huge heart and by lanterns hanging from the sides of the grand staircase. The next three floors have the particularity of being soundproof, thanks to magic cast during the construction of the inn. Those floors are dedicated to rent their luxurious rooms to travelers and regular patrons. The fifth floor serves as the festhall. The roof has a landing platform for winged steeds and flying ships.
After the Spellplague of 1385 DR, the land around the inn broke free and started floating in the air, becoming an earthmote. To keep the earthmote in a fixed position, the owners of the Mask commissioned a set of heavy chains big enough to hold still a giant, and a floating, unstable bridge allowed patrons to access from the ground. Around 1479 DR, Liset Cheldar commissioned a magic portal to allow an easy and more confortable access to the Mask.
Defenses
The Mask is protected by its patrons, most of them Mintarn mercenaries hired by Lord Dagult Neverember.
Services
The Mask serves many kinds of meat meat dishes done to order, including singular hot pies made of boar and veal, bacon and kidney, seafood, or chicken liver. Its Daintyfish skewers dish is made using twenty little fishes called silverflashes. The Daintyfish is dipped in herbed butter and sizzled over a flame until they're crunchy. Likewise, the Mask offers and assorted menu of mussel-and-basil soup, chowders, turtle soup, octopus broth, mushrooms doused in an herb-and-garlic sauce, and scallions and fennel soaked in a parsley-and-mint chicken broth. For sweets, the Mask offers blackberry-and-apple pies, topped with cream and sliced almonds; palm-sized gooseberries, almond tarts, and when chocolate is available, strawberries in a chilled chocolate coating.
A sellboard allows people to offer jobs to mercenaries and adventurers.