PLEASE READ CHANGES TO THE MOD!PLOT The original mod!plot had Wesley dying again. Considering we've been hemorrhaging players (and honestly, Wes fits better than I'd expected) and other things, Freddie and I worked out a few minor changes to the mod!plot.
Wesley will not die permanently. He will die, but he will also return due to the doorway spell cast by Maricha and her companion.
Previously killed characters are allowable now.
Fred is the only exception to this; her soul was "lost" when Illyria took over, therefore Fred is not salvageable
There will be a surprise in store for the people of the Pod, and I don't mean the clothes.
I just posted the next step of the mod!plot right here. Please make sure you read it so you know what's going on!
Characters WILL BE affected by this. The Watchers should notice the Slayers are getting restless again because the new surge of magic is triggering a new wave of dreams. The Slayers will be HAVING a new set of rough dreams, though not as bad as the first thanks to the herbal potion Giles has been giving out. If your character is sensitive to big-time mojo being performed (for example, Kali and Shiva are hellgods, they'd feel it as well) then your character will know something's up. This was NOT a subtle spell, folks.
This will also step up the pace of the surprise; I will speak to the players myself about it, and we should see the next phase launching in the next couple of real-time weeks. Once that phase wraps up, there'll be a decisive defeat of the bad guys, and they will spend a month or so, game time, licking their wounds, in which case the good guys will be dealing with the fallout and the mods will be formulating another plot to help move things along.
NEW PLAYERS We will be including several back-from-the-dead characters right off the bat.
bowlingshirts is Allen Francis Doyle, and we will also be adding a Cordelia. Because the current step of the mod!plot opens it up, we are allowing dead characters to return. This will be a permanent situation. The only exception is Fred, as stated above, because of her special situation.