Chapter 4c: Wintermint

Wintermint’s studio is actually an amphitheatre. She’s not only an amazing dancer in her heels, she’s also an incredibly talented singer.

The party will find her during one of her rehearsals: she’s singing about music itself and how it makes the bourgeois and the rebels come together; and when it starts, she never wants it to stop; it’s gonna drive her crazy.

If the party waits for her to finish, she’ll breathlessly talk to them in her dressing room. The room itself has several paintings of other performers, all with a red slash through them. These are the women she has “assassinated” throughout the years (by which she means, she beat in the competition).

Wintermint, due to her attitude, comes off as someone who would do anything to win - even if it wasn’t totally on the level.

She knows the following (1st three points are the same as Raja):

Everyone knows La Bai Kai used Unseen Servants - part of her appeal was that she was able to Command so many at once. She doesn’t know anything about La’s “eomeoni”.

Carolina has been sick a lot this season and really is not a fan favourite anymore. Shame, because she and her lover - Pasta Pipe - killed it last season.

Pasta Pipe was a horror performer, usually summoning illusions of ghosts to really spook the judges. She died at the end of last season during an accident - her boat crashed at the Death Drop.

Raja is known for using a lot of jewellery and props in her performance - and would do anything to win.

Wintermint is an awful liar. If she tells a lie, her entire face goes red. Generally, that’s enough to make her fail a Deception (Charisma) check, but allow players to roll an Insight (Wisdom) check should they feel the need to validate their instincts.

DM’s Note: Wintermint is written as a red herring. There’s nothing to connect her to Latrice’s accident.

Should the party try to infiltrate her dressing room, they will find the bottom drawer of her vanity has a false bottom (Investigation (Intelligence) DC 15).

She has a set of old, rusted daggers and a vial of poison that has separated into a clear and milky layer. The daggers have a symbol of an assassin's guild on the hilt (perhaps one already in your setting) and/or a mask/symbol to tie to her to that type of organization(s) (such as the telltale black half-mask of the Night Masks in Faerûn).