For all its filth, the Ashen Cup is one of the best places in the city to hear what is happening before the wrong people officially deny it. Work changes hands here, rumors spread here, and private deals are made in curtained side rooms that never stay private for long. Anyone looking for shelter, trouble, or the next bad idea can usually find all three before finishing their cup.

An inn/tavern in the Bronze Citadel where the party met Nhalzura and later rendezvoused with Korrilla and others; it served as a social hub in Avernus for their dealings.

7e:T87b,The Blushing Mermaid is a luxurious tavern, inn, and festhall in Waterdeep’s Dock Ward, located on Net Street just above the noise and stink of Dock Street. From outside, it looks like a converted villa that has learned to smile with too many teeth. Inside, the place is all sound-eating carpets, gauzy curtains, black-veiled staff, scented lamps, warm amber light, and expensive little nooks where guests can drink, gossip, bargain, flirt, hide, or pretend they are not doing all five at once. Its famous central bath hall is the heart of the establishment: a heated, lavender-tinted pool where patrons lounge in warm scented water while food and drink are served by actual merfolk. It is decadent, absurd, and very Waterdhavian. The Mermaid’s real luxury, however, is not the wine, the private suites, or the rooftop garden reached by that unsettling bone-trimmed spiral stair. It is privacy. Nearly every room is rumored to have a hidden sliding panel, and the building’s lower levels connect to old smuggling tunnels leading toward the harbor. Officially, these passages are locked, warded, and used only by trusted staff. Unofficially, the Mermaid has recently become popular with a certain class of young, well-dressed patrons who arrive separately, leave at odd hours, and seem far too serious for ordinary revelry. They take private rooms, speak in careful voices, overpay the staff, and vanish through doors no one else seems to notice. In the Dock Ward, that could mean crime, romance, politics, rebellion, or all four getting drunk together in the same bath. An inn, tavern, and bathhouse in the Dock Ward with a lavender-tinted bath hall where mermaid servers operate; Talya discovered hidden underwater channels in the pool used for discreet bag exchanges. Shane later found a network of secret corridors running behind guest room walls during a lights-out event at the inn. An inn, tavern, and festhall in the Dock Ward with a lavender-tinted bath hall where mermaid servers work and where the party observed suspicious underwater bag exchanges in hidden channels. The inn also contains secret corridors behind guest room walls discovered by Shane.7f:T895,

The Blushing Mermaid is a luxurious tavern, inn, and festhall in Waterdeep’s Dock Ward, located on Net Street just above the noise and stink of Dock Street. From outside, it looks like a converted villa that has learned to smile with too many teeth. Inside, the place is all sound-eating carpets, gauzy curtains, black-veiled staff, scented lamps, warm amber light, and expensive little nooks where guests can drink, gossip, bargain, flirt, hide, or pretend they are not doing all five at once. Its famous central bath hall is the heart of the establishment: a heated, lavender-tinted pool where patrons lounge in warm scented water while food and drink are served by actual merfolk. It is decadent, absurd, and very Waterdhavian.

The Mermaid’s real luxury, however, is not the wine, the private suites, or the rooftop garden reached by that unsettling bone-trimmed spiral stair. It is privacy. Nearly every room is rumored to have a hidden sliding panel, and the building’s lower levels connect to old smuggling tunnels leading toward the harbor. Officially, these passages are locked, warded, and used only by trusted staff. Unofficially, the Mermaid has recently become popular with a certain class of young, well-dressed patrons who arrive separately, leave at odd hours, and seem far too serious for ordinary revelry. They take private rooms, speak in careful voices, overpay the staff, and vanish through doors no one else seems to notice. In the Dock Ward, that could mean crime, romance, politics, rebellion, or all four getting drunk together in the same bath.

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