Hmmm. I thought I knew the Oracle of Discord, but I was remembering them as a bunch of mysterious hooded weirdos standing around a “Well of Mimir” style hole in the Realm of Discord. Had completely forgotten the crystal pillars and that it was a cracked mirror sort of thing instead. Apparently I should re-listen to some of the podcast episodes, eh?
I will admit I took some inspiration for the Maiden’s metatextual backstory from the Teller of Tales (a fellow repurposed horror host) from episode 243, although other than that they’re pretty distinct. She’s also got a touch of the Bloody Mary urban myth about her, mostly because I was going to name her Mary In the Mirror until I did some googling and realized why that sounded so familiar. I haven’t been a squealing 10 year old in decades, who remembers that kind of guff? It’s not like Candlejack from Freakazoid.
She’s definitely not too hard to defeat (and even easier to drive off - she’ll usually dip out via Escape Plan ASAP), but still pretty durable for her relatively low health. If you can smash the Mirror itself the whole scene gets much easier, but d12 lieutenants are often pretty hard to finish off. Same goes for the minions, if you can keep scrubbing them off before they get to act there goes most of the support and damage output all at once - but you probably need two multi-target specialists to even have a chance to do it, since whoever takes out the first batch will be buried under penalties on their next action.
Still, as a collective whole she’s “worth” a difficult scene element, I think. Did okay in her one outing to date.