Here's the situation:

My player, a shapeshifted scion of the Amerind deity Raven, is in mortal combat with an NPC wizard. The wizard is on her last legs, realizes she is going to die (the scion was compelled that she didn't know her own strength, the power is new to her), and she casts her death curse. The wizard peers into the scions eyes, initiates a soulgaze, and then funnels herself through the link in an attempt to stuff her own soul into the scion's body. She doesn't have enough power to fully take out the scion, who can go all the way through with an extreme consequence and survive.

So, how would you model this? Right now I'm leaning toward the extreme consequence being an enforced aspect (in particular the player came up with "One Death Curse and She Thinks She's Tricia Helfer" (No. 6 from BSG if you don't get the reference)) and have the wizard partially inhabiting the scion's body, but I gather from reading other posts here in death curse threads that the wizard could make this a spell instead.

For right now I'm interested in gathering opinion, but if you have a specific numerical "how this crap works" to throw at me, go ahead.

If you take a consequence and your opponent uses the free tag to compel it, do you still get a fate point?

So I'm probably missing something, but since a hexenwulf is largely a human, are they affected by a threshold the same way that spirits and demons and the like are?

There is a serious potential in my next session this Friday for things to go from bad to worse to very very worse.  At the extreme end I see a fight of awesome proportions:

Side #1 (which has divided purpose):
2 wizards
a wizard's apprentice
a knight of the cross
2 s.i. type cops
a champion of an old god

Side #2
A white court assassin and master killer
What amounts to a grade-a wizard
His summoned creatures (2 nightgaunts from Lovecraft's Nightmare Lands)
a first rate swordsman with superhuman talents
four human acolytes.

If everything hops in the handbasket for a ride to the warm place, then the party is getting joined:

Side #3
2 ogres (minimum)
4 sylphs (minimum)
Perchange a middling Sidhe lord

Side #4
A bunch of red court vampires

Obviously if this goes the way it looks like it might, then I will be mandated to focus on where the players are at and just have the rest of it be background chaos.

Quesions:

1.  How would you handle that background chaos as background chaos?

2.  Any ideas on handling the simulation of the larger battle, other than handwaveology?

So D&Dism aside, what kind of action do you all rule assessments and declarations to be? I have thought about free, but of late supplemental seems more right as you are dividing your focus. What do you all use? Free, supplemental or standard/attack?

I started looking for Santa, but stumbled on this old thread:  http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,21066.15.html

I've been toying with Oberon in my own game, but wasn't sure where to go with him.  A few of the comments in here give me a good idea though.  Suppose Oberon, shown at various times to be wed to both Mab and Titania (unless I'm mistaken, if I am I apologize to the Bard fans), is in fact the King of both Spring and Fall.  He owns neither season wholly, and is not a tri-part being like the Mother/Queen/Lady division.  Instead he shares himself between his Queens, listens to the advice of the Mothers as he will, and at one time was father to the Ladies (who's to say he's not Lily's dad?)

This would be a slight reversal on the Persephone myth as well, or could be, depending on how strong or weak Oby is.

The vernal and autumnal equinoxes then would be his chosen time, perhaps when he goes wandering for a while and then finds himself in the court of his other Queen.  His Knights, if he has any, would be female, to balance the male knights who owe year round fealty to his Queens.

All this is how it was, only one year Oberon went wandering and never showed up at either court ever again.  His disposition is a mystery, and without his power present his knights eventually died, their power being subsumed by the queens (the spring knight returning to Titania, the Autumn knight returning to Mab).  They fey who called themselves his have since become Summer or Winter fae, or walked away and become wyldfae, only joining in when the Call is given.  In his absence each queen blames the other for their beloved's loss, even still.

Vernal magic would feel like summer magic, but have a hint of winter's ice in it, and vice versa for Autumn magic, I think, and for either knight to come back fully they'd need to seperate the power from Mab and Titania... perhaps most easily done by killing either Summor or Winter knight and taking their power.

Is it possible the Erlking is Oberon?  Yes, maybe even more than likely.  As the Erlking said
Edit: This thread also deals with autumn and fall courts:  http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,17813.0.html

I am trying to properly address Aspects for my City's theme's and threats.

I think I've got a handle on my themes, but the threat is giving me fits (in that silent growling kind of way).

So our threat for the city of Seattle is based on a tunnel that is going in out here, to replace a commuter bridge.  The city has an underground, and a similar situation with supernatural inhabitants infesting such, adding and modifying to suit.  Additionally some pretty nasty stuff lurks even deeper.

One of our themes is "The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions" - mostly because people in the city may do the most destructive things, but it's usually out of a misguided attempt to "help" or "make things right", which of course tends to muck things up.  Such people are always trying to take the moral high ground, etc.

So our threat (going with the 2 themes, 1 threat model) is "Crap, it really _is_ the road to Hell" to reflect that the tunnel will turn over bad nastiness every dramatically appropriate time frame.  That said, I am having a hell of a time coming up with an Aspect that defines this and how to compel it and invoke it...

Any input?