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1 - Morgan Le Fay
2 - Erzsebet of Bathory
3 - The Skinwalker
4 - Robin Hood
5 - Baba Yaga
6 - Cuchulainn
7 - The Headless Horseman
8 - The Wendigo
9 - Black Annis
10 - The Bean Sidhe
11 - Rawhead and Bloodybones
12 - The Rusalka
13 - Baron La Croix
14 - The Huldra
15 - Tzar Koschei
(Brief explanations of each at the bottom, for anyone unfamiliar)
1) How does 12 propose to 3?
How does the Rusalka propose to the Skinwalker? Offer him the skin of a water-dwelling creature, I think. Which could actually work, though I doubt the Skinwalker would be faithful enough for the Rusalka's liking, and shapeshifters are hard to drown.
2) If 4 approached 7 in a bar, how would 7 react?
If Robin Hood approached the Headless Horseman in a bar. Excuse me. *snickerfit* Anyway. A bar is the wrong place to use arrows, and since the Horseman can't be killed (again, anyway), Robin would want to be real polite. Not that I think it'd do him any good.
3) Both 5 and 9 express an interest in 14, romantically. Who does 14 choose?
Both the Baba Yaga and Black Annis express a romantic interest in the Huldra? Well, the forest wife and Baba Yaga share a heritage, sort of, but Baba Yaga tends to be a lot crueler. Probably Black Annis. Not because she's any nicer, but because she takes care of business well away where the Huldra needn't watch.
4) 1 and 6 have a lover's spat, and hook up with 11 and 13, respectively. Afterwards they realise they still love each other, and propose a foursome to their new partners. How do 11 and 13 react to this proposal?
Morgan le Fey and Cuchulainn have a lover's spat (um, not exactly surprising, all things considered), and hook up with Rawhead and Baron La Croix, respectively. So Morgan/Rawhead and Cuchulainn/La Croix. Um. Wow. Then they propose the foursome, or possibly Morgan does, though Cuchulainn was fairly damn lecherous too. Rawhead is bewildered, and La Croix enthusiastically agrees, I think. And then they hijack a human party and turn it into an orgy, possibly with cannibalism involved on Rawhead's part.
Basically, humans? Don't be in range!
5) 2 and 10 get involved in a barroom brawl. Bodycount?
The Bean Sidhe and Erzsebet of Bathory in a brawl. The Bloody Countess and the Herald of Death. Um. Bodycount? Pretty frikking high!
6) 7 and 14 must fight a duel to the death. Who wins?
The Headless Horseman and the Huldra in a duel to the ... well, to the defeat, anyway, since I'm not sure either can die. But the Huldra has a slight tendancy to make weapons wonky around her, and is pretty damn vicious to boot, so I think she comes out on top.
7) 9 and 11 are bounty hunters, and 4 is their prey. Does 4 escape, and how?
Black Annis and Rawhead are bounty hunters, and Robin is their prey. Hmm. Well, my first instinct is Robin's toast, but both Rawhead and Annis prey primarily on children, and Robin is no child. Quite possibly he is able to destroy them and make his escape.
8) 1, 3 and 15 are wrongfully imprisoned on a prison planet. Do they join forces to escape, or backstab each other until none can get free?
Morgan Le Fey, The Skinwalker and Tzar Koschei are wrongfully imprisoned. And with the possible exception of Morgan, none of them are any damn good at cooperation. But if they could manage it, with a sorceress, a shapeshifter and a man who cannot be killed without travelling back to Earth to find where his soul is buried ... I don't care how good security on the planet is, they haven't a hope against these three.
9) 1 is the referee. Evens and Odds. Fight!
Referee = Morgan Le Fey (who *will* kick ass if you cheat, unless you manage it in a spectacular fashion)
Team Evens: | Team Odds:
Erzsebet of Bathory | The Skinwalker
Robin Hood | The Baba Yaga
Cuchulainn | The Headless Horseman
The Wendigo | Black Annis
The Bean Sidhe | Rawhead and Bloodybones
The Rusalka | Baron La Croix
The Huldra | Tzar Koschei
Analysis - Evens has a lot of woman-power including a female vampire/serial killer, a Herald of Death and two vindictive nature spirits, plus a cannabalistic spirit and two heros, one semi-divine. Odds has a shapeshifter, two hags, a boogeyman, two deathless men, and the Baron, who likes to party old-school. Um. I haven't a clue which side would win, but I think I would like to be well, well away from the battlefield!
10) If 7 had 11's job ...
If the Headless Horseman had Rawhead's job? Headless Horseman as an urban boogeyman. Well. The whole 'horseman' thing might be a problem, but other than that he should fit right in.
11) If 12 and 2 were placed on opposite sides of a conflict at 9's behest ...
If Erzsebet and the Rusalka were on opposite sides of a conflict thanks to Black Annis' machinations? Presumably she wants them to take out all the parents so she can eat the kids, since Erzsebet liked killing and torturing women, and the Rusalka liked to seduce and usually kill men. And it would work as far as Erzsebet was concerned, but the Rusalka isn't into wholesale slaughter. Neither, really is Annis, so in the end they'd have to get together to get the Bloody Countess back under control.
12) If 5 was transported to an AU where they were 8's slave?
If the Baba Yaga became the Wendigo's slave? Two cannabalistic spirits living together. Baba'd serve up the adults, and snack on the kids, and together they'd depopulate the entire area!
13) If 4 was 1's boss ...
If Robin was put in charge of Morgan Le Fey? She'd eat him alive! The roles would be reversed within a day, and he'd be doing whatever she said. I mean, he's a hero and everything, but she's Morgan.
14) 10 and 4 are locked in a closet together. Results?
Robin and the Bean Sidhe. In a confined space. At the very least he comes out of it deaf, and most probably mad as well. It just doesn't pay to be a hero around here!
Finally - 15) 7, 9 and 6 meet each other unexpectedly in a forest on a dark, moonless night. What happens?
The Headless Horseman, Black Annis and Cuchulainn meet in a dark forest. Cuchulainn comes out covered in blood, and alone. In his case, while it still didn't pay, being a semi-divine hero at least had its benefits!
The Characters/Figures:
(Googling each will usually get you some pretty fascinating stuff, but for a brief description ...)
Morgan Le Fay - From Arthurian Legend. Also called Morgana, depending on the version. The half-sister and sometimes lover of Arthur, who bore him a son, Mordred. Morgan was a sorceress, who in some versions was a student of Merlin's, having conned lessons in magic out of him. Also a seer. In folklore, she has also become a member of the fairy courts, sometimes viewed as an Unseelie Queen.
Erzsebet of Bathory - a real woman, one of the most prolific serial killers in history, long, long before the term was used. She was a Hungarian noble in the 16th century who is said to have tortured, raped and killed somewhere between 50 and 650 victims, mostly young women, with the help of her servants. She passed into legend after her death, and even before, with stories circulating that she was a vampire, that she bathed in the blood of her victims to retain her youth and beauty ...
The Skinwalker - a kind of North American shapeshifter, mostly men, who could change into animals by wearing their skins. In some of the darker versions, they can steal a person's skin and thus their identity, devouring the victim in the process.
Robin Hood - um. Everyone's heard of him, right? English folk hero, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, living in Sherwood forest with his merry men during the Crusades and the reign of Richard the Lionheart? Yup. Him.
The Baba Yaga - a slavic witch or hag, who flew around in a giant mortar or cauldron, lived in a house on chicken legs with skulls around it, and ate children. However, she could sometimes part with wisdom for those on quests, provided they were very, very polite.
Cuchulainn - Irish mythical hero, hero of the epic Tain Bo Chualigne and the Ulster Cycle of Myths. Semi-divine, son of the god Lugh, possessed of great strength and stamina, and cursed with the battle-fury that sent him into a berserker rage during battle, a curse which cost him a brother and a son. He died heroically and tragically, in true legendary fashion.
The Headless Horseman - From the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the undead Hessian who hunts Ichabod Crane. Has, I believe, passed into folklore as a rural boogeyman figure, but I'm working off of Wikipedia for this.
The Wendigo - a north american cannabalistic spirit, associated with famine and hunger, with the breaking of taboos, and with evil men who do so, and become the wendigo for it.
Black Annis - an English hag, the blue-faced crone with iron claws who steals bad children and eats them (hags apparently did a lot of that).
The Bean Sidhe - literally the fairy woman, the Bean Sidhe was a herald of death for the Irish high families, who would wail and keen around the house when a family member was dying, even if that family member was on the other side of the world. Also shown in the film 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People', which scared the crap outta us as kids.
Rawhead and Bloodybones - originally an Irish boogeyman, who spread to Britain and the southern states of the US in particular. He can appear as anything from a crouching rock-like thing, to a burned man, to a dog covered in scabs, to a bloody skeleton. Usually appearing near water, he rewards good children and drowns naughty ones, or transforms them into things to be thrown away.
The Rusalka - a Slavic ghost or water nymph, who lured men to her watery lair with her beauty, either to drown them or bring them down to live with her until she tired of them. Rusalki also liked to dance and play games with men and children near the shores. Sometimes the spirits of suicides or pregnant women, others nymphs or natural spirits.
Baron La Croix - an actual Voudun deity, the Baron La Croix is of the same family as the Baron Samedi. He is the spirit of excess, the spirit of death, who says that we should live to the full, because death is inevitable. I kinda like him.
The Huldra - a Norweigan spirit, literally a forest wife/woman. She is a creature of the forest, often seductive, occasionally homocidal, though also know for acts of great kindness to those who please her, or are kind to her in return. She has great strength, and influence over the eficiency of weapons, particularly hunting weapons. Also associated with some changeling stories.
Tzar Koschei - Also called Koschei the Deathless, he is a creature of Slavic folklore, often described as a skeletal old man, whose soul is stored in a needle inside an egg inside a duck inside a hare inside a chest under an oak on an island (phew!), who cannot be killed until the egg is shattered.
