Morgan Sets the Table for Jonah

The banquet fight began with the worst possible etiquette. Morgan, still under the hag influence, treated the party like ingredients instead of people. Jonah became the focus of the meal, not as a guest but as something to prepare. The trance did not make Morgan into a different person so much as bend the already unsettling edges of his humor and hunger into something the hags could point at an ally. Darius chose the other side. He joined the party against the hags, greatsword in hand, grounding the room with simple violence while the banquet tried to turn everything into performance. The hags moved through the encounter with the confidence of hosts who had already decided what everyone was for. Then the imps appeared. Their arrival made the fight stranger and more crowded, and even their deaths left questions behind. Fallen imps dropped unusual pouches, small physical leftovers from a room that had already blurred illusion, combat, and treasure into one unstable mess. Jonah resisted the first attempts to reduce him to helplessness. He avoided being blinded, then used Sanctuary to make himself harder to carve out of the room's story. That mattered because Morgan's trance made rescue more complicated than simply winning. The party had to survive the hags, manage the imps, and not let Morgan's charmed violence define him past the spell. The banquet had offered dinner. What it served was forced social horror with initiative attached.