Gingerbread Steves

Stub-class article · First seen: s13 · Last seen: s14
Gingerbread Steves
Portrait of Gingerbread Steves.
Character
StatusDead
First seens13
Last seens14
FactionCandy Cottage household

The Gingerbread Steves are the wiki’s name for the “four gingerbread people, each about six feet tall, armed with a rolling pin” who guarded the candy-cane cages in the basement of Uncle Nibblecheek’s Candy Cottage in session 13 [1]. They attacked when Terry came down the ladder, and the party killed all four; as they fell, the survivors cried out for “Steve”, which gave them their name here [29][30][8][9]. With them dead, Hugo broke open the cage of the bubblegum boy, Asger [33]. In session 14 Nibblecheek took the gingerbread Terry for one of his own creations [21].

Overview

The Gingerbread Steves are four gingerbread guards in the dungeon beneath the Candy Cottage, standing between the candy-cane cages that hold a boy of pink bubblegum and a huge skeleton gripping an axe [6][1]. They have no names of their own; the wiki’s name for them comes from the cries of “Steve” as each one fell [7][8][9]. They are Uncle Nibblecheek’s work, and the last obstacle to freeing Asger.

Appearance and demeanour

Gingerbread people about six feet tall, each armed with a rolling pin [1]. They fight as a pack and shout to each other; the one who seems to lead calls “get it boys” [10]. A limb cut from one turns into inanimate gingerbread, and the dead crumble into piles of it [11][12][9][13]. The last of them begged for its life and then offered to say where treasure was hidden [14][13].

Abilities as played

They hit with rolling pins, the first with advantage “since it’s near an ally” [15]. A natural 20 hit Terry for 10 bludgeoning damage and sent him into his shell [16][17]. Three of them went for Vasquez together and took him to four hit points [18]. They burn: Ruin’s fire did 21 to one [19]. Hugo’s reckless natural 20 for 18 chopped one in half [20].

Relationships

  • Uncle Nibblecheek: their maker, who tells the gingerbread Terry “it’s all magic just like I created you” [21].
  • Asger: the caged boy they guarded; he had been set to work in the kitchen and then locked up [22].
  • Bubba Walker: the cottage’s other guard, at the kitchen door upstairs [23][24].
  • The party: Terry, himself gingerbread after the rolling-pin trap, tried “I’m just a turtle” and “I’m also made of gingerbread.” on them to no effect [25].

Disposition towards the party

Hostile guards. They turned on Terry the moment he came down the ladder and fought until they were destroyed [26][13].

Notable quotes

“And between the cages stand four gingerbread people, each about six feet tall, armed with a rolling pin.” — Nick (DM), [1]

“Get him, Steve!” — Gingerbread Steves (Nick, DM), [8]

“Wait, I’ll tell you where the treasure is.” — Gingerbread Steves (Nick, DM), [13]

“oh it’s all magic just like I created you” — Uncle Nibblecheek (Nick, DM), [21]

History in the campaign

Session 13: Bubba Walker and the Gummy Sarcophagus

Main article: Session 13

Under a rug in the cottage’s living room lay a hidden hatch, and below it a sugar-glazed dungeon [27][6]. Terry went down first, into the middle of four gingerbread guards, who turned on him [1][28]. The party followed one by one. Hugo’s natural 20 chopped one in half, Ruin’s blow brought down the next, and Hugo’s opportunity attack cut down a third, already burned by Ruin, as it ran at the party shouting “Get him, Steve!” [29][30][31]. The last begged for its life, offered to tell where the treasure was, and was run through the back [32]. Hugo then broke open the cage of the bubblegum boy [33].

Session 14: The Gummy Mummy and Aurelian Eldwythe

Main article: Session 14

Terry, still gingerbread, passed himself off to Nibblecheek as one of the “new recruits fresh out of the oven” [34]. Later he and Ruin posed as new apprentices, and the hag, taking Terry for one of his own creations, said that “it’s all magic just like I created you” and asked why Terry was not guarding the child [35]. Nibblecheek’s surrender later undid the party’s transformations [36].

Status

As of session 23. All four destroyed in session 13 [29][12][9][13]. No gingerbread guards were seen again.

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 13, line 1342: "four gingerbread people, each about six feet tall, armed with a rolling pin".
  2. ^ Session 13, line 1358-1364: The first rolling-pin blows, with advantage "since it's near an ally"; a natural 20 on Terry for 10.
  3. ^ Session 13, line 1586-1614: A severed limb "just kind of turn into inanimate gingerbread"; the leader shouts "get it boys"; Hugo's natural 20 kills one.
  4. ^ Session 13, line 1776-1829: The other three die: "No! Steve! Steve!", "Get him, Steve!", "Wait, I'll tell you where the treasure is.".
  5. ^ Session 14, line 466-803: Terry passes as a gingerbread recruit; Nibblecheek to the gingerbread Terry: "oh it's all magic just like I created you".
  6. ^ Session 13, line 1340: Inline citation.
  7. ^ Session 13, line 1777: Inline citation.
  8. ^ Session 13, line 1798: Inline citation.
  9. ^ Session 13, line 1818: Inline citation.
  10. ^ Session 13, line 1597: Inline citation.
  11. ^ Session 13, line 1586: Inline citation.
  12. ^ Session 13, line 1776: Inline citation.
  13. ^ Session 13, line 1829: Inline citation.
  14. ^ Session 13, line 1822: Inline citation.
  15. ^ Session 13, line 1358: Inline citation.
  16. ^ Session 13, line 1362-1364: Inline citation.
  17. ^ Session 13, line 1390: Inline citation.
  18. ^ Session 13, line 1597-1605: Inline citation.
  19. ^ Session 13, line 1791: Inline citation.
  20. ^ Session 13, line 1607-1614: Inline citation.
  21. ^ Session 14, line 802: Inline citation.
  22. ^ Session 13, line 1845-1847: Inline citation.
  23. ^ Session 13, line 102: Inline citation.
  24. ^ Session 13, line 1852: Inline citation.
  25. ^ Session 13, line 1353-1355: Inline citation.
  26. ^ Session 13, line 1352-1358: Inline citation.
  27. ^ Session 13, line 1289-1293: Inline citation.
  28. ^ Session 13, line 1352: Inline citation.
  29. ^ Session 13, line 1614: Inline citation.
  30. ^ Session 13, line 1776-1777: Inline citation.
  31. ^ Session 13, line 1791-1818: Inline citation.
  32. ^ Session 13, line 1822-1829: Inline citation.
  33. ^ Session 13, line 1839: Inline citation.
  34. ^ Session 14, line 466-480: Inline citation.
  35. ^ Session 14, line 792-803: Inline citation.
  36. ^ Session 14, line 1270-1281: Inline citation.
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