The Cake of Lies

Wondrous item, rare

This chocolate cake covered in cherries, with a singular candle on the top of it, appears exceptionally delicious to all who perceive it. However, its tasty exterior merely hides the dark deception that lay inside it.

As an action, a creature that is holding the cake can set it down at an unoccupied spot within 5 feet of itself, and tap the candle on the top of the cake, which causes a flame to begin to burn on the top of the candle's wick. All creatures within 30 feet of the cake other than the one that activated the candle, as well as any that would know the cake is a lie (such as the allies of the creature that activated the candle), must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, or be compelled to come closer to the cake, and use its action to try and bite into the cake. A creature that bites into the cake becomes poisoned until the end of its next turn, takes 5d8 poison damage, and is aware that the cake, is, in fact, a lie.

Creatures that are aware the cake is a lie can use their action while within 5 feet of the cake to snuff out the candle, and pick up the cake.

The cake can be bitten into 8 times, after which point, the candle disintegrates, leaving nothing remaining of the cake.