Maniculum Tournament 2024
Welcome! This is where you can vote on who won the Tournament of 2024. Each quest is listed separately, with the text of the quest and the characters each co-host chose. Select whether you feel Mac or Zoe had the best team and/or justification for said team, or whatever criteria you feel like using.

This poll will remain active until May 13, 2024.
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Quest #1
As the royal wedding begins, it turns out that both Princess and her betrothed have fled separately and are being played by shapeshifters. The party is tasked with tracking down the two and bringing them back to the castle.
-- SkredlitheOgre

Zoe's Party:
  Virgil (Gesta Romanorum)
  Laeg (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
  princess (“King Constant")
  Thorolf the Elder (Egil's Saga)

Mac's Party:
  Chulainn's dog (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
  “Sam" (Historia rerum Anglicarum, William of Newburgh)
  Antonina (Secret History)
  Lady de Muldemaerec (“Yonec")
Clear selection
Quest #2
Darkness covers the land. The wastes are spreading. The crops are failing. Black squirrels eye you curiously as you ride through the tangled forests. But a King’s gotta eat. Your challenge is to hunt down a beast of legend for the King’s Feast, and to gather a selection of herbs from the only gardens that still flower in the lands of Faerie, and then to cook and prepare the same in a fashion that will delight the King. Roll up to three times to see by what criteria he will judge the meal. Some possible ones might be… spiciness, deadliness, artistic merit, creepiness, swallowability, exoticism, salt content, will eating this get me high?, texture, as an accompaniment to mead etc. etc. choose your own if you like lol. Choose the beast you’ll hunt btw.
-- kingingreen

Mac's Party:
Kvedulf (Egil's Saga)
Tyrker the German (Saga of the Greenlanders)
Tyb the Dear (Tournament of Tottenham")
Brangelina" (Dolorous Knight")

Zoe's Party:
Jonathan the Garden-Keeper (Gesta Romanorum)
Thorfinn Karlsefni (Saga of Eirik the Red)
Asgerd (Egil's Saga)
Clear selection
Quest #3

Someone somehow has been stealing the blue parts of Puzzle initials in the kingdom. While this scarcely damages the readability of the texts, it does annoy the owners of said books, who want them back. The cause of this theft is someone known as the “Caerulecator", a blue-colour-obsessed scribe who despises all rubricators and thought people will appreciate the colour blue more when he has taken them away. How will the party apprehend the Caerulecator? will they retrieve all the blue parts of puzzle initials and put them back in the correct manuscripts? 
-- A. C. Esq

Zoe's Party:
Prokopios (Secret History)
  snarky kid (Divided Horsecloth")
Starfish King" (Great Tang Records)

Mac's Party:
Basil II (Embassy to Constantinople", Liutprand of Cremona)
  Avignon J. Bird" (Little Bird")
  naga maiden (Great Tang Records)
  astrologer (King Constant")

Clear selection
Quest #4
Treasure Chest Party Quest: In a stinky tavern the group gets a quest to get back an old pirate's magical eyepatch. They must first cross a sea where pirates are waiting for them to steal the treasure map. When they get to the treasure island they must fend off skeletons who wield swords and magical spells. After that is a treacherous hike to the big red X on the treasure map, notable dangers include poisonous flowers and rabid elephants. Once the treasure chest is dug out it is guarded by a creature from the outer planes which wants to outriddle them.
-- altchester

Mac's Party:
  Eirik Bloodaxe (Egil's Saga)
  Arinbjorn (Egil's Saga)
  Focus the carpenter (Gesta Romanorum)
  goat-eyed doctor (Gesta Romanorum)

Zoe's Party:
  Leif the Lucky (Saga of the Greenlanders)
  “Dean" (Historia rerum Anglicarum, William of Newburgh)
  Gill (Second Shepherd's Play)
  non-goat-eyed doctor (Gesta Romanorum)
Clear selection
Quest #5
After spying on his wife in the bath against her warning, a local duke has discovered his wife is a melusine. Understandably, this has driven a considerable wedge between them. The duchess in particular seems upset at this development ‘after all she has done for the region’. You are tasked by the people of the duchy with finding the fey laws of divorce/annulment, or stave off the separation against all odds. Should they separate, any covert boons the melusine has bestowed on the land will fade.
-- HipsterWizard

Zoe's Party:
  King Æthelstan (Egil's Saga)
  Cú Chulainn (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
  Bishop Cairnech (“Death of Muircertach Mac Erca")

Mac's Party:
Guildeluec (“Eliduc")
  unnamed lesbian (“True Judgment of Nial Frossach")
  King Haakon the Good (Egil's Saga)
Clear selection
Quest #6

The date is fast approaching when one of your young vassals is due to wed the heir of the neighbouring kingdom, to cement an alliance between the two regions. As is the custom in their lands, on arrival in their domain your young vassal will need to venture into the depths of the royal burial mound, retrieve the sword laid to rest there, and present it to the head of their clan in return for their blessing for the union. Given we do not know what will be encountered within this burial mound, it may be wise to send a royal escort. One minor wrinkle, a knight errant has set up camp along the only road between the two realms, dressed as the Goddess of Love and issuing challenges to all passers by to prove the worthiness of the subject of their courtly love. The party could go the long way round, but that would add weeks to the journey (and that route is also infested with ‘scorpions', whatever those are…)
-- cheapsweets

Zoe's Party:
Sakya youth (Great Tang Records)
Guigemar (Guigemar")

Mac's Party:
Pompey the Great (Gesta Romanorum)
William Laudun (Courtier's Trifles, Walter Map)
fainting princess (Guigemar")

Clear selection
Quest #7
You must woo Percival (specifically the Perlesvaus version (specifically Mac and Zoe’s reading of the character))
-- The Fourth Frank

Mac's Party:
Constantine the Great (Life of Saint Nicholas", Jacobus de Voragine)

Zoe's Party:
Dindrane (Perlesvaus)
Brad" (Dolorous Knight")
Concobhair (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
Clear selection
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