Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Einherjar candidate: Lola Montez

Lola Montez
Also known as Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert (1818-1861).  She was an Irish-born, India-raised woman who returned to England and began a career as a (supposedly Spanish) exotic dancer, thrilling audiences with her scandalous and erotic “Tarantula” dance.  She enthralled the king of Bavaria and became his mistress (and he made her a countess). She was also a courtesan whose circle included James Alexander and Franz Liszt.  After the 1848 revolution in Bavaria, she left that country and subsequently moved to San Francisco in time for the gold rush there, and then subsequently to Australia for that country’s gold rush.

Wit: +3
Combat: (-2) (even though she did once use a bullwhip to attack a newspaper writer who had given a bad review of one of her performances)
Moxie +10 (really!)
Artistry +5 (She was way ahead of her time—even way ahead of Gypsy Rose)
Charisma +8 (She charmed her way into the best salons in Europe, the royal palace of Bavaria, and at least four marriages)

Female, Sane, Dishonorable (she did lie about being Spanish, after all)

If “I Have Gained Powers!” passes, her special power is that if the Valkyrie who owns her is engaged in a Skirmish with another Valkyrie, then the male, sane Einherjar (if any) who is owned by that other Valkyrie and that has the lowest Wit score is treated as if all of his non-binary statistics were “0” for the purposes of that Skirmish (any male, sane Einherjar owned by the other Valkyrie who are tied for lowest Wit score will all suffer this effect).

Comments

Hix:

21-11-2007 04:23:34 UTC

You seem to be misunderstanding the Skirmish rule.  A Valkyrie is never in a skirmish against another Valkyrie.

spikebrennan:

21-11-2007 04:37:42 UTC

Ah.  Maybe the effect should simply be to zero out the male, sane Einherjar owned by a different Valkyrie who has the lowest Wit score and that would otherwise compete for the challenged statistic.