della brown
Dangerous Lunatic
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~~Preface~~
When people told their past with stories and the foretold the future with stories the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller. This rp is semi-based on Jim Henson's Storyteller. So it helps to know some of his stories that happens in the show. The rest is old folk tales passed down through time. Each person is character from the story. The stories do not have to follow, so basically they will have a twist.
~~Rules~~
Please no god modding. Do not curse in every post. For risky scenes use a time skip. Break these rules and you are banned. There aren't many so there shouldn't be any problems. I would pay attention to what it says in the profiles for you may just miss something.
~~Posting & Profiles~~
When posting there must be at least three sentences that are well developed. You can use pictures, quotes, etc. Profiles will have its own page. The link will be below. If you are reading this the profiles will be posted on the profile page not sent to me.
~~Plots & Characters~~
The Soldier and Death
-Russian Folktale
The Soldier is coming from a war that has been going on for years. On his way he encounters three stranger, a whistler, a man playing a single drum, and an old man that plays cards and gives the soldier a sack. The sack is magic and can hold anything in it. The soldier goes to an inn and is told about the czar's castle and how no one enters it for the havoc of the devils that stay there at night. The soldier decided to go to the castle and challenge the devils at a card game. he beats the devils and traps them in his sack. When he releases them he takes one of the devil's foot. Years later he lives in the castle with the czar, but his son falls ill. He calls on his devil, who gives him a glass in exchange for his foot. The glass tells you where death is. If at the head the person will die, but if at the foot of the bed the person will get better with just a splash of water in the glass. Well one day the czar becomes ill and the soldier asks to take his place. When death comes to him; he traps death in the sack and hides him. No one can die now. Years pass and he releases death, but he is never allowed to die nor go to heaven or hell.
Hans my Hedgehog
-German folktale
A farmer's wife drives her husband mad with her desperate measures to have a baby. She says to him that she wants a child so bad, she would not care how he looked even if he were covered in quills like a hedgehog. That, of course, is what she gets: a baby covered in quills, as soft as feathers. His mother calls him 'Hans My Hedgehog' and she is the only one to love him; his father grows to hate him for shame. So eventually Hans leaves for a place where he can't hurt anyone and where no-one can hurt him.
Deep inside the forest, for many years Hans dwells with his animals for companions. One day a king gets lost in Hans' forest and he hears a beautiful song being played on a bagpipe. He follows the music and finds Hans' castle. When Hans helps him to escape the forest, then king promises that he will give to Hans the first thing to greet him at his castle - which the King secretly knows to be his dog. Instead, it turns out to be his beautiful daughter, the princess of sweetness and cherry pie. Hans and the king have made a deal that in exactly one year and one day his prize (the princess) shall be his.
A year and one day later Hans returns to the castle. The Princess of Sweetness and Cherry Pie says she knows what she must do. Hans asks her if she finds him ugly and she replies that he is not nearly as ugly as a broken promise. They are married, to the dismay of the entire kingdom. On their wedding night, the Princess awaits her husband in bed. He comes into the chamber with his bagpipes and takes a seat by the fire and begins to play the same beautiful music that saved the King a year prior. The princess is soothed by the music and dozes off. She wakes and finds a pelt of quills as soft as feathers on the ground before the fire. She sees her husband in the form of a handsome young man freeing the animals of the castle, to live with his friends in his forest castle. He knows she has seen him when he finds her slumbering on the discarded quills the following night. He tells her that he is bewitched and only if she can keep his secret for a one more night can he be freed and remain in the form of the handsome man. She agrees.
The next morning at breakfast the Queen inquires why her daughter is so cheerful. The Princess tries to resist but as her mother pries she gives in and tells her that Hans is bewitched. The Queen says that the only way to reverse it is to fling the quills in the fire. That night when Hans sheds his quills, she obeys her mother and burns them. She hears his screams of pain as if he were aflame and he runs from the castle. The Princess has a blacksmith make her three pairs of solid iron shoes and slips away in search of her husband. She wears the shoes to nothing and moves on to the second pair, with still no sign of Hans. When she is donning the third pair of shoes, she finds a river and reclines by it, taking off the shoes and rubbing her sore feet. She caught sight of her reflection and sees that her hair has grown white. She wept bitterly for her hair and her husband, forever lost. The next day she came to a cottage, abandoned, covered in dust and cobwebs. Then came the flapping of wings and she saw her husband whom she had so long searched for! He toasted a glass of wine to no-one, "to the beautiful woman who could not keep her promise. "She spoke to him and he became rigid and asked how she had found him. She told him. She told him all of the perils that she had faced and how she had walked the world and worn through three pairs of iron shoes. And then she flung herself into his embrace and with her confession of love and loyalty, he transformed into the handsome man, the spell lifted by her fidelity and affection.
Fearnot
-German Folktale
The adventures of a boy who goes out into the world to learn what fear is, accompanied by a dishonest but loveable tinker. He faces many dangers without learning to be afraid, only to learn that fear is at home: the fear of losing his sweetheart. The story starts with him going to get buttons for his father who is a tailor, but on his way home the village bullies play a trick on him by dressing as a woodle, but Fearnot beats him with the button sack. He returns home only to be casted out to learn what fear is. He sets off and meets Mr. McKay who says he can scare Fearnot, but only fails. They travel together and Mr. McKay does it soley for the forty shillings that Fearnot has. Then they got to a pond that holds the three daughters that drown men that decide to dip their feet ecspecially at night. Fearnot sees the daughters and begins to play his violin. As they drag him into the water their father hears the instrument and asks where he got the singing bird from. Fearnot tells him it was from Ireland. The creature gets up and leaves the pond and has remained in Ireland ever since. The town rejoices and throws many feasts and gives many gifts to Fearnot. Mr. McKay then takes Fearnot to a castle where death lives. No one ever survives the night. A man with no legs challenges Fearnot, but is beaten. He challenges many things with trickery. Fearnot winds up winning and he finds the room of gold. He and Mr. McKay are now rich, but Fearnot has not learned. When goes back home he hears of his sweetheart being in a deep slumber ever since he left. He fears she will die, and finally shudders. When he shudders she awakes.
The Luck Child
-Russian folktale
An evil king sets out to kill a 'luck child', the seventh son of a seventh son, whom it is prophesised will one day be king. Despite the king's repeated efforts, luck each time saves the boy, who ultimately exiles the king to a life as a ferryman, marries his daughter and inherits his kingdom.
A gryphon with a golden feather is a character that almost eats Lucky.
A theif/killer is another main charcater that helps Lucky after wanting to kill him when he sees the terrible note that the king writes. The fair princess, the queen, and the ferryman are also characters that are needed.
Sapsorrow
-German Folktale
There is a king, his dead wife, and his three daughters. Two are as ugly and as bad as can be, but the third, Sapsorrow, is as kind and as beautiful as her sisters are not. There is a ring belonging to the dead Queen, and a royal tradition that states that the girl whose finger fits the ring will become Queen as decreed by law. When Princess Sapsorrow slips on her dead mother's ring for safekeeping, the King finds out and must marry her according to the law. The princess goes into hiding, becoming a creature of fur and feathers, known as a creature called the Straggletag. She lives thus for years, working in the kitchen of a handsome, but arrogant, prince. On the night of the ball, she turns into Sapsorrow once more and captures the heart of the prince, leaving him naught but a single slipper as she runs off into the night. The Prince scours the kingdom for the girl whose foot fits the slipper, and agrees to marry the Straggletag when hers is the foot it fits. This breaks the spell and they become wed.
A Story Short
-Celtic Folktale
Storyteller tells of a harsh time when he was forced to walk the land as a beggar. Finding himself in sight of the castle kitchen, he picks up a stone and fools the castle cook into helping him make soup from a stone, by adding it into a cauldron of water and slowly adding other ingredients to improve the flavour. When the cook realises he has been swindled, he asks that the Storyteller be boiled alive. The King, as a compromise, promises to give the Storyteller a gold crown for each story he tells for each day of the year- and to boil him if he fails. The Storyteller does well at first, but on the final day he awakens and can think of no story. In a panic he roams the castle grounds, running into a magical beggar who turns him into a flea...and at the end of the day when the King calls for his story, the Storyteller confesses he has no story, and instead tells the King the true tale of his adventures under the magic of the beggar that day.
The Three Ravens
-German folktale
After the Queen dies, an evil witch ensnares the King, and turn his three sons into ravens to rid herself of her rivals. The princess escapes and must stay silent for three years, three months, three weeks and three days in order to break the spell. But after she meets a handsome prince, this is suddenly not so easy, for her stepmother has re-married, and to the prince's father. Not to mention she has a child that is hidden from her by the evil witch.
The Heartless Giant
-German folktale
A heartless giant, who once terrorised the land before being captured and imprisoned, is befriended by the young prince Leo who, one night, sets him free. His older brothers go after the giant to capture him, but do not return, so Leo sets off to find the giant himself. Once found, Leo decides to find the giant's heart, but this is no easy task - it sits in an egg in a duck in a well in a church in a lake in a mountain far away. No easy task indeed.
The True Bride
-German folktale
A Troll had a daughter, but she left straight off. So the Troll took another to replace her to wait on him hand and foot. Her name is Anja, and she has no father and she has no mother, so the Troll is her other. Setting her impossible tasks, then beating her with his "contradiction stick" when she invariably fails, she wishes one day. Her wish is heard by the Thought Lion, a wondrous beast all in white, who completes her impossible tasks for her. When she finds her true love, he disappears one day, so Anja sets out to find him...bewitched in the hands of the Troll's evil daughter, the Trollop...
