Quimby's enchanting gourmet

Quimby's enchanting gourmet was an arcane conjuration and summoning spell dedicated to cooking a meal and to cleaning up a kitchen afterwards. It was also a spell of the Servant's Path in the paths of power system of magic.
==Effect==
It was a specialized version of the unseen servant spell, producing a magical force capable only of activities related to cooking and other kitchen tasks, such as measuring and cutting ingredients, carrying pots and pans, stirring and turning foodstuffs as they cooked, adding a garnish, and even minding a fire and washing dishes. It was just as strong as an unseen servant and just as dexterous as the mage who cast it. It appeared within of the caster and was under their control, but could be left unattended provided it was cooking something the caster had once seen prepared or had prepared themselves, enabling the caster to focus on on other things. If there was some catastrophic interruption, it would pause to seek the caster's advice.
It functioned for at least an hour, or longer according to the caster's capabilities. It could be dispelled by the caster at will or by dispel magic, or else destroyed by attacking it or by forces that affected the area it was in.
==Components==
As well as verbal and somatic components, the spell required as material components a block of wood and some string, and previously a drop of the caster's blood.
==Usage==
It was more often used by sedentary or retired wizards and sages. Though it was incapable of brewing potions or other enchanted beverages, it was sometimes put to use creating simple poisons, and once served as a bartender. For example, the mage Landraf the Grey regularly employed it in the kitchen of his home in Ravens Bluff, where he was served by several unseen servants. He dubbed it "Quimby" and it delivered meals and bottles of wine to him.
==History==
Quimby, a mage of the city of Procampur in the the Vast who lived some time prior to the late 9 century DR,As Quimby's enchanting gourmet appears in Jaluster's Orizon, and Jaluster died at the fall of Ascalhorn (Hellgate Keep) in 882 DR, this implies that Quimby and the gourmet were in existence some time prior to that date. was a devoted gourmand but an impatient cook. For aid in preparing fine meals, Quimby modified the unseen servant spell to create Quimby's enchanting gourmet.
Due to its narrow usefulness, it was not often studied by adventuring mages and remained a rare spell into the 1360s DR.
In the month of Eleasis, of the , the city of Ravens Bluff's Ministry of Art and Wizards Guild jointly declared it illegal to cast a number of spells including Quimby's enchanting gourmet within city limits due to a raging unnatural storm at the time called the Soulstorm. These spells had an even chance of either not functioning or summoning a creature of the Outer Planes. In addition to threatening arrest for those that broke this decree, it was declared that breaking this prohibition would result in a permanent expulsion from either organization. Later, when the planes-traveling Tower of the rakshasa Nimlimm Dinarr appeared outside the city, the wild magic around it would transform a fire burst spell into Quimby's enchanting gourmet, and vice versa; countless spells were swapped in this way.
==Sources==
A copy of Quimby's enchanting gourmet could be found in Jaluster's Orizon, the last traveling spellbook of the mage Jaluster (died 882 DR).
The spell was also stored in the ring of wayfaring, one of the Seven Lost Rings of Mhzentul (1250–1340 DR).
This spell was likely one of a number found in the pamphlet Volo's Guide to All Things Magical published in 1359 DR, which detailed a number of forgotten spells, and quickly spread to the mages of the world.
==Known Users==
* Landraf the Grey, a mage of Ravens Bluff
* Andros Canterbury, an inventor mage of the Vast's Underdark
* Dostrealt, a blind drow mage aboard the spelljammer Erevan's Clutch.
* Rouarthek, a drow mage of the Vast's Underdark
==Appendix==
===Notes===
===See Also===
*Nimodes' unseen butler
===Appearances===
===References===
Category:Conjuration spells
Category:Quimby's spells
Category:Wizard spells