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roseembolism) wrote2005-12-22 11:58 am
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The White Witch in Other Settings
A little bit of winter cheer for the gaming crowd.
In a recent thread on rpg.net, someone asked how the White Witch from The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe might be handled in some of the classic game settings. These are the ideas that I came up with.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"In Buffy... I don't think anyone would blink if she was exactly the same."
As a matter of fact, in Buffy she would be the new vice principal, Ms. Jadis. In spite of her nickname of "Ice Queen", she would still be the fantasy of many a male student- and when she seems to warm up to a male Scooby, well, the obvious will happen. Expect scenes involving an ice skating rink, a hunt through a statuary garden, and frantic thumbing through the Hidden Notes of CS Lewis. And the Watcher confessing to being the only one in the group who hasn't read the Chronicles of Narnia.
Adventure! (1960's era)
"So what turned our guys into statuary?" Steele remarked casually, only the glint in his cold blue eyes betrayed his anger as he examined the pictures,.
Professor Silverback shrugged. "We're not sure what kind of device caused the calcification. We DO know that they were investigating this woman." He slid another photo across the table. Steele eyed the photo of the fur-clad woman appreciatively. "Nice mink."
"Calm down. We don't know much about Dr. Jadis, except that she was formerly a leading scientist in the T.A.S.H. organization- code name: the White Witch." Silverback hesitated "We...also think she may be a Stalwart. Abilities unknown." Steele considered the photo again in a different light, his smile gone.
"We don't know what she's up to, except leading meteorologists and experts in glaciation have been disappearing. And before his calcification, Carlyle managed to send a one-word message to us. Fimbulwinter."
"Fimbulwinter? As in Ragnarok?" Steele quirked an eyebrow upwards.
"Indeed. The gorilla slid a thick packet across the table to Steele. "We need to find out what she's planning. Assemble your Improbable Missions Team; they leave for Stockholm in the morning."
(The Man from AEON, episode 21: The Ice Queen Caper)
(Note: The White Witch in the 1960's should include: car chases, dwarf minions, an Ice-Age generator, poison darts, a calcification drug, gadget watches, a secret base on top of a glacier, a volcano under the base on the glacier, Persian cats, mink coats, dirigibles, a naive ingénue, monkeys, the Cold War thawing enough for a sultry Russian agent ally, and many scenes of scenic northern Europe.)
In a recent thread on rpg.net, someone asked how the White Witch from The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe might be handled in some of the classic game settings. These are the ideas that I came up with.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"In Buffy... I don't think anyone would blink if she was exactly the same."
As a matter of fact, in Buffy she would be the new vice principal, Ms. Jadis. In spite of her nickname of "Ice Queen", she would still be the fantasy of many a male student- and when she seems to warm up to a male Scooby, well, the obvious will happen. Expect scenes involving an ice skating rink, a hunt through a statuary garden, and frantic thumbing through the Hidden Notes of CS Lewis. And the Watcher confessing to being the only one in the group who hasn't read the Chronicles of Narnia.
Adventure! (1960's era)
"So what turned our guys into statuary?" Steele remarked casually, only the glint in his cold blue eyes betrayed his anger as he examined the pictures,.
Professor Silverback shrugged. "We're not sure what kind of device caused the calcification. We DO know that they were investigating this woman." He slid another photo across the table. Steele eyed the photo of the fur-clad woman appreciatively. "Nice mink."
"Calm down. We don't know much about Dr. Jadis, except that she was formerly a leading scientist in the T.A.S.H. organization- code name: the White Witch." Silverback hesitated "We...also think she may be a Stalwart. Abilities unknown." Steele considered the photo again in a different light, his smile gone.
"We don't know what she's up to, except leading meteorologists and experts in glaciation have been disappearing. And before his calcification, Carlyle managed to send a one-word message to us. Fimbulwinter."
"Fimbulwinter? As in Ragnarok?" Steele quirked an eyebrow upwards.
"Indeed. The gorilla slid a thick packet across the table to Steele. "We need to find out what she's planning. Assemble your Improbable Missions Team; they leave for Stockholm in the morning."
(The Man from AEON, episode 21: The Ice Queen Caper)
(Note: The White Witch in the 1960's should include: car chases, dwarf minions, an Ice-Age generator, poison darts, a calcification drug, gadget watches, a secret base on top of a glacier, a volcano under the base on the glacier, Persian cats, mink coats, dirigibles, a naive ingénue, monkeys, the Cold War thawing enough for a sultry Russian agent ally, and many scenes of scenic northern Europe.)
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(Anonymous) 2005-12-22 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Reverend Kinesys Responds
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Let's see -- Vampire: I guess she'd be a Tremere, trying to take over the mortal world by locking it in endless winter. Aslan would be a lion-shifter (shoot, what were they called again? the Simba?), and the kids would be his mortal kinfolk, whose blood ties them to the battle.
Werewolf: See above for Aslan and the kids, but here Jadis is a servant of the Wyrm who hates all living things and wants to spread death and ruin by provoking a nuclear winter.
Mage: Don't know as much about that system, but the Witch could be a rogue Verbena who's into blood sacrifice, some sort of techno-freak who wants to pave over the whole planet, or if you wanted more of a Golden Age feel, a wacked-out Son of Ether with a weather-control device.
Changeling: Well, this one's obvious. Jadis is an ancient and powerful unseelie Sidhe. Endless winter is merely the outward manifestation of her desire to crush the Seelie court as part of a misguided plan to bring back belief in faerie and put humanity under her dominion. Aslan et all are creatures out of the deep dreaming and the kids are the long-lost heirs to the seelie throne (though that does kind of remove the "Sons of Adam/Daughters of Eve" thing...)
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An obvious faction for the White Witch (in Mage and Werewolf) is the Weaver- locking the world into an icy stasis forever seems right up the Weaver's alley. And that would explain why nobody has died form the winter either- that would be too much of a change.
Narnia-in-winter as an Umbral realm has lots of possibilities as well.
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