The Serpentcoil Mountains have been crossed, and Helga’s Glance lies ten miles away. The mountains have given way to beautiful green rolling hills. Trees are starting to bud, and birdsong fills the air. Daffodils and early blooms nod in the cool spring breeze. The road is pleasant and the surrounding fields are mostly unspoilt and beautiful. There are anti-poaching signs posted, because these lands belong to Duke Flargle.

There is the smell of food cooking. It smells like roasted meat, and the baking of pies. It smells heavenly.

The team sees a huge stately gate in a stone wall on one side of the road. The gates are unguarded and the gates are open and decorated with white and pink flowers and ribbons.

As they stand at the gate, a few dozen people come running out. Most are covered in food. It looks like cake icing.

The avenue is about half a mile to the duke’s huge home. It is lined with beautiful trees.
The team encounters more people fleeing the party.
They will tell the team that they were there for the Duke’s wedding, and that suddenly the cake came alive and ate one of the waiters.

The cake was beaten to slush and stopped moving, but then the canapé table came alive and bit off someone’s finger. And then there was a roar and banging and crashes from the estate house. And some creatures that looked like zombies came out, which is when most of these people fled.

The team continue on and encounter more people running away.

They come to the gardens of the home. The house is a castle with a moat, and the gardens are beautiful, those that have not been trampled. The wedding was being held outside, and the lawns and tents have been shredded, chairs lying everywhere, and some people milling about.

Briar Silvercloud is there, healing the injured. He is covered in cake, but is still devastatingly handsome.


Briar was officiating the ceremony. He had the rings exchanged, and suddenly the cake came alive.

It ate one of the waiters. Luckily, the cake was killed, and the waiter was rescued from its insides. Briar has been doing triage on minor injuries, like bite wounds and a few missing fingers and toes.

A few people armed with knives and forks are hunting through the gardens for the finger sandwiches that may have gotten away.



Jemma is milling about in her splattered wedding dress.
When she put the ring on the duke’s finger there was a flash from the ring, and the all hell broke loose.

The Duke has taken his guards and rushed into the castle. He has no been heard from.

A cook reports that the kitchen and cellars downstairs have been successfully locked by the Duke.

The team can cross the drawbridge and enter the castle. One of the guards is posted at the door. He stops them and asks them their business. Briar comes with them.



Inside the castle, they look for the entrance to the cellar. The Duke and two of his men have barricaded the door and are trying to decide what to do. The Duke is bleeding from a cut to his head, and one of the men is unconscious and covered in gravy. The other appears to have a broken arm and is dripping gravy as well.
Duke mentions Duchess of Norfunk and her jealousy.
One of the cooks is unaccounted for and the Duke’s Steward, Helmsley, is down there too.

The duke promises 600 gold coins and the wedding gift of their choice if they will help.
The ring will not come off his finger.
A magic check shows that it is no longer maintaining the spell. It just activated it.


Monsters encountered so far:

Meat Zombies
Heads made of hamburger meat
Bodies made of ribs and ham bones.

Custard Cube
Like gelatinous cubes, but made of custard.

Spaghetti Snakes
Want to kill you

The party has searched all the unlocked rooms and has rescued Mr Gooba, a cook, and Helmsley, the Duke's valet, who has given them the key to the kitchens.