KEEBLERS

By Chriss Granniss (wakizashi@aol.com) (10 November 1995)

Description

I'm sorry. It had to be done. With apologies to Nabisco:

Banished to the Mundane World long before the Sidhe returned, this offshoot of the Immortal Elves of Arcadia were forced to improvise their own hold on Glamour: they found in in tasty treats.

The Keeblers are bakers of the first order, and use their unique abilities to advance the glamour of their race. However, due to the usefulness of these Changelings, they have been hunted by those who would ravage their Glamour for their own personal gain. A man, known only as Claus, captured and enslaved an offshoot of the race, and moved them to the Arctic.

The race is good natured and always willing to share their Glamourous confections with the rest of the world. They suffer less the ravages of banality than do their cousins, the Sidhe, because they have maintained an active hold over the mythology of the humans: Marketing!

The Keeblers have sold their Fae souls to Nabisco, and derive support and Glamour from their keepers. In return, they use their special magics on the company's cookies and other confections.

The one major source of strife in the race is over the creation of Chachos. It is not a foodstuff that would normally be associated with the Keeblers, but the younger generation of Keeblers feel that this new food will be just the thing to liven up the group's Glamour. The elders disagree and cling strongly to EL Fudge and the other traditions.

Appearence

All Keeblers are short and have pointed ears. In their Fae form, they smell of baked goods. There are few, if any Unseelie Keeblers. Keebler Magic is used for good, and in the wrong hands...

Seemings

Childling: Often called stirrers, these kids are generally fat from tasting the batter and gorging themselves on the glamour-infused confections.

Wilders: They are usually gawky and questioning, always trying to make new forms of food to infuse with Glamour.

Grumps: These are the wise elders of the Clan, such as EL Fudge himself. They are stocky, wrinkled and grumbly, but have a good heart and a finesse with cooking that the others can't touch.

Lifestyles

Keeblers prefer to live in trees set up for them in the Nabisco secret cooking lots. Those Keeblers who are not associated with Nabisco usually find a hollowed out tree and live there.

Affinity

Cookies

Birthrights

Make Baked Goodies: All Keeblers can create, at will, any confection they can imagine. These specially created goodies can be used as tokens to enchant a mortal for as long as the mortal is eating the cookie.

Explain Magic: A Keebler can undercut some of the effects of Banality by explaining it as Elfin Magic and giving the Banal person a cookie. This cuts the person's Banality by 1 or 2, Storyteller's discretion.

Frailties

Short: All Keeblers are under 4 feet tall. They also suffer a -1 Stamina due to years of eating nothing but cookies and cakes.

Quote

"Yes siree, that's Elfin Magic. Want a cookie?"

Outlook

Boggans: They work hard; too bad they don't turn their attention to pastries

Eshu: Good for a story, and always appreciate a good meal.

Nockers: A vile folk who only eat cookies made by machines.

Pooka: These untrustworthy brutes steal cookies! Watch them carefully.

Redcaps: They eat garbage. What do they know of fine food?

Satyrs: They are too interested in erotic foods. We don't make oyster cookies.

Sidhe: They left us to fend for ourselves, and now are back. Let them eat cake!

Sluagh: Ugh! Not in my tree.

Trolls: We have a long and honorable relationship with these giants. Their Jolly Green cousin is especially favored by us.