Night of the Living Fieries

The Night of the Living Fieries is an iconic event that occurred during the first session of the Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign, set in the Velmaverse continuity. The event is remembered for it's completely unexpected turn of events and it's bizarre happenings which trans-folded during it.

During the first session of the campaign, the party met up in the town of Saltmarsh during a thunderstorm. As Asreal walked into the inn of 'The Snapping Line', he gazed upon it's many occupants, dazzled by one thing, everyone there looked like the famous chef Guy Fieri, aside from the bar maid, a half orc bard in the back and a large hooded figure sitting at the bar.

(To understand the time skip here read the 'First Session' on the GOS page)After the party had fully met each other in the cellar of the tavern, the head chef Gordom Ramsea, shouted for the bar maiden Hanna to come back up as there was trouble brewing in the tavern itself. As the party reemerged from below, Schgloop headed straight toward where the sound was coming from, thinking that he was being summoned. The rest of the party tried to hold him back whilst Hanna and Rob went into the main room. The entire tavern was quiet as two ruffians had entered, not making a sound and glaring around the hall with grimessing looks on their faces. They began interrogating the other patrons, asking for the whereabouts of the strangers in the tavern. On this night of all nights, it was pretty clear who was a stranger and who wasn't, as stated before, everyone looked the exact same, looking like a town of Guy Fieri clones. The two ruffians were clearly twins with one noticeable difference with one bearing an eye patch over their left eye. Gordom started the get mad, swearing at them to just "F*CK OFF!" This didn't go down well with them and so one of them grabbed the head chef by his head and slammed him into the counter. This started a long fight with Gordom eventually using his cleaver to hack off one of the ruffian's phallus. At the same time, the half orc bard who was playing in the corner before she got out her falchion and began to fight off one of the ruffians as well. The party eventually left their hiding and began to fight alongside them. However, to top it all off, the most unusual thing that happened during this fight was with the horde of Guy Fieri's, whom quite suddenly began to feast upon the various halflings whom revealed to be there as well. To add that for some reason, all of the halflings on this particular night also shared this curse and looked like either the famous hobbits Meriadoc Brandybuck or Peregrin Took. They were all caught off guard, with each Fierie boasting how "absolutely delicious" they were and praising the Lord KB before they feasted on another. Before long all the halflings had been eaten and truly made the scene a more horrific site. After Gordom had finished with the ruffians, even he decided to take a slain halfling and bring him into the kitchen and created the recipe for "Merry & Pippin Pie". It was later revealed to the party properly that they had all arrived on a night that happens every couple of years where all the locals of the town of Saltmarsh turn into the iconic TV chef Guy Fieri and two famous hobbits from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Merry and Pippin. In reality this event/twist was not expected at all (tbf most D&D games have that trait) and was a great introduction to a D&D campaign. Note to any up and coming dungeon masters, prioritize above all else to always have some good laughs. After all it's only a game and you'll always remember them the most, at least that's the case with our group.

Also to the team at the Friendship Onion. So sorry that you had to read that...