Gingerbread House

The Gingerbread House is a magical cottage located in the Wonderlandian province of Motherland. It was built by a sorceress during the Great Famine of 126, a wicked woman filled with evil intent, but these days it is the gateway to a candy-themed pocket dimension which has been affectionally dubbed “Confection Country.”

Purpose / Function

The building’s original purpose was to lure hungry children to the door, so that the opportunistic crone inside might survive the famine through cannibalism. And yet, after some early success, the wicked sorceress was bested in a contest of wits by the future Queen Gretel and her twin brother Hansel. After that, it lay abandoned and empty for a great many years—lost in the forest.

Alterations

Upon the home’s rediscovery in 146, a now-adult Hansel decided to turn this place full of bad memories into some place for his less fortunate countrymen to enjoy. Together with his elven husband, and with funds donated by his sister the queen, Hansel made the cottage “bigger on the inside”—creating a pocket dimension made of all the sweet foodstuffs he could think of, and then adding an amusement park on top of that.

 

Selected rides include:

 
  • Confection Country Carousel, where guests can ride upon the backs of unicorns made of cotton candy
  • Molten Brownie Mountain, a thrilling roller coaster where guests try to outrun the chocolate lava pouring forth from the caldera at the top of Mount Brownie
  • Gummy Bear Jamboree, a relaxing boat ride through Lollipop Forest with a Gummy Bear Guide who will sing you songs and tell you dad jokes along the way
 

And at the center of it all is Castello Gelato, a brightly colored fortress meant to look like a bowl of ice cream with towers made out of waffle cones.

Architecture

The exterior of the Gingerbread House is made mostly of gingerbread, of course, and embellished with candy canes, gumdrops, melted chocolate, and other assorted goodies. It appears from the outside to be a modest two-room cottage with a gabled roof.

Defenses

The house will disappear for a time if anyone dares to eat a part of its exterior. The amount of time it is gone depends entirely on how greedy the culprit was. When it returns, it returns as it was before—with any guests who were stuck inside blissfully unaware that anything happened at all.

 

Until, that is, they go home and realize that days, weeks, or months have passed.

Tourism

Admission to the Gingerbread House is free, though the popularity of the place and the bottleneck of getting guests through the front door requires that reservations be made in advance.

Founding Date
126
Alternative Names
Hansel’s House, The Witch’s Folly, Confection Country
Type
Cottage
Parent Location
Owning Organization

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Jul 4, 2024 21:10 by Haly the Moonlight Bard

Whole new meaning to don't eat fairy food.

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Jul 4, 2024 21:38 by E. Christopher Clark

hahaha, yep!

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Jul 5, 2024 12:53 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

'Until, that is, they go home and realize that days, weeks, or months have passed.' Well, that's horrifying.   I am going nowhere near the Gummy Bear Jamboree either. *shudders*   I love that Hansel has turned this place of trauma into a place of joy and fun. :D

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Jul 5, 2024 16:30 by E. Christopher Clark

Yeah, I scare myself sometimes with the scary stuff that just pops out of my brain. Like, "Where did that come from?!"

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Jul 7, 2024 01:11 by Chris L

I want to live in the Molten Brownie Mountain! I love the detail that it slips out of time if someone eats a piece of it!


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Jul 7, 2024 12:28 by E. Christopher Clark

I would also love to live on the slopes of Molten Brownie Mountain, so long as I had a good freezer where I could keep the ice cream that I long to dip into the mountain's chocolate lava flows.

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Aug 3, 2024 13:34

Love the idea of wanting to turn this place from a traumatic experience into something that betters the lives of others. The rides do sound lovely, if not delicious, though it being free admission does make me wonder what the prices inside must be as well to keep up maintenance.   I'm now curious if they do kept any sort of memorabilia or a small display of the house's history, seems like the type of thing you would see in these places converted into an attraction.   Very imaginative take on the gingerbread house concept!

Aug 3, 2024 14:05 by E. Christopher Clark

Ooh, I love the idea of like a lobby display of the house's history. And you make an excellent point about how they afford the maintenance. I will have to think about that!

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