Map Key of the Plague Year 4: Humble Pie

Map by Paul Haupt III 

A Throne raised up on a small dais, stone, covered in dust. Also a banquet table in the middle of the room, also stone and covered in dust. On the table are three pristine well decorated cakes. They look delicious, but don't say that. Let the players ask. Describe fondant on one butter cream icing on another, the third perhaps is indescribably, nothing on the surface could compare, a pastry of secret subterranean wonder.

Obviously, it's a trap.

But, before we get to that there is also a secret door (do not write adventures like this). The secret door is in the space behind the throne and the back wall. A successful secret doors roll will reveal a draft behind the throne. The door is unlocked when about the weight of a human is placed on the throne (or more). When there is no such weight, the door is locked.

opening the secret alcove reveals a magical war hammer, which hasn't been identified by my players yet so I am not going to say what it is, and 5 gold nuggets worth 100gp each.

Anyway back to the trap. The cakes are Humble Pies, 1hp mimics created by Zach from Zenopus Archives:

My players were not stupid enough to try and eat the cakes, but you could tell that they kind of wanted to eat the cakes anyway. Traps like this create a kind of longing for death in most PCs. In a way they are the most unfair of all traps. They are so obvious and ridiculous that they become seductive and intoxicating.