A Deadly Custard
This round, you've been tasked with baking a Traitor's Sponge – a rumoured favourite of the Empress. Your ingredients are arrayed in front of you. The usual: flour, eggs, milk, butter... and a small ornate silver box. Inside is a fine, grey-brown powder. This must be... a traitor?
Gazebos spring up in the centre of London. The smell of cake winds through the streets. The Lady Pockets, alongside her enigmatic butlers, is holding a baking competition – and you've been entered as a participant. Never mind that you didn't apply. Never mind that your rivals are more suspicious than a mouldy macaron, or that nobody will tell you what you're competing for. If you want answers, you'll need to stay in the game – so get set and ready to bake.
This is a FATE-locked story.
Author: Kate Gray
Artist: Paul Arendt
Editing and QA: James Chew,
Luke van den Barselaar
It was originally published as an Exceptional Story in February 2025.
The story can be unlocked from The Fate page
for 45 FATE points.
It can not be reset.
No notable rewards or tie-ins are recorded for this story.
