The Nutcracker's Curse

Princess perlipat was cursed with ugliness by lady mouse rink. The king's clock maker, drosselmier, decided to use his ingenuity to build traps to get rid of all the mice. Lady mouserink accidentally killed her nephew and turned him into a nutcracker. Drosselmir determined that princess perlipat could only be cured with a supernaturally hard crackatuck nut.