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The Promised OOC Catchup Post
OOC Catch-Up Post!
previously, on (bleep)!
The previous game was set in Thirlestane Castle, in Lauder, Scotland, UK. The remains of the Watcher's Council, those that survived the Bringers, anyway, were slowly making their way up to Scotland and Thirlestane, which had been renamed The Citadel. The head of the Council, a very unfriendly and stick-up-his-bum man named Richard Ainsley (who was and is a shared NPC between the game mods and his son, Patrick W. Ainsley), was not fond of Buffy or her Watcher Rupert Giles, and there would have been several clashes between them as they struggled for power over the reforming Council as well as the training of the newly awakened Slayers.
Patrick Ainsley is a Watcher, son of Richard Ainsley, and disowned by his father for the most part. Giles feels vaguely fatherly towards Patrick, and now that everyone is working together in the same space, he will try and stand between Richard and Patrick.
The game had just gotten on its feet, and the biggest happenings were people still showing up at the Citadel and having reunions or planning sessions for setting things up.
In particular:
*Riley Finn had arrived in Lauder, and had taken a room at one of the local inns. Currently on an extended solo mission for the black-ops military group he worked for, his orders were to maintain silence except for status reports and a list of personnel currently at the Citadel. He began his investigation at Lauder Cemetary, looking for fresh graves and recent deaths to make sure that there were no vampires or demonic threats in the area before reporting back to his superiors. While at the cemetary, he met...
*Spike, the vampire with a soul, who had survived the Los Angeles Apocalypse. During the fight he had gotten separated from the others on Team Angel, and he was wandering now, taking some time to himself before trying to find Angel and the others. When he got wind of Buffy and the others, he headed to Scotland and met up with ...
*Patrick Ainsley, whom we've met before, and who invited him into the castle.
*Andrew was also at the Citadel, and also ran into Spike. Andrew was currently undergoing Watcher training under...
*Rupert Giles. We all know Rupert's story, but he meets...
*Davan Collins, a relatively new addition to the Citadel. He'd just arrived a few days before we moved, and he is a cursed immortal. Davan has had encounters with Giles and Spike, and has offered his help to Giles with cataloging and translating some of the older manuscripts that the Watchers possess. Davan's arrival coincided with...
*Beth Holden, who arrived at the castle as a demon hunter who had been awakened as a Slayer. She had already been in the country because she had family there, and when she got the news of Buffy and co. camping out at Thirlestane, she made her way over to the castle immediately.
Those are the main things that we brought along with us. The collected threads for Spike and Riley, and Spike and Andrew, probably still have references to Lauder and/or Thirlestane in them, but that's mostly because we haven't gone back and re-written the references.
Mostly what has changed is the venue and the eventual over-arching plot:
The venue has changed from Scotland to Los Angeles. No, Los Angeles is not in Hell; our canon ends with the TV shows. I know there's been canon after that for both shows, but for the purpose of the game, Buffy Season 7 and Angel season 5 is as far as our canon goes.
Spike, Ainsley, Giles, Riley, Davan, Andrew, and Beth are all coming from the old game, but we are assuming that instead of going to Scotland, they've gone to Los Angeles. Instead of the castle, it's the old Wolfram & Hart building. There may be some tweaks in the current bios to reflect what happened--for example, I'm going to be tweaking Beth's biography to have her family in Los Angeles instead of Scotland--and make it a little easier to fit everyone in the new framework.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask them, and those of us with transplanted characters will answer as soon as we can.
previously, on (bleep)!
The previous game was set in Thirlestane Castle, in Lauder, Scotland, UK. The remains of the Watcher's Council, those that survived the Bringers, anyway, were slowly making their way up to Scotland and Thirlestane, which had been renamed The Citadel. The head of the Council, a very unfriendly and stick-up-his-bum man named Richard Ainsley (who was and is a shared NPC between the game mods and his son, Patrick W. Ainsley), was not fond of Buffy or her Watcher Rupert Giles, and there would have been several clashes between them as they struggled for power over the reforming Council as well as the training of the newly awakened Slayers.
Patrick Ainsley is a Watcher, son of Richard Ainsley, and disowned by his father for the most part. Giles feels vaguely fatherly towards Patrick, and now that everyone is working together in the same space, he will try and stand between Richard and Patrick.
The game had just gotten on its feet, and the biggest happenings were people still showing up at the Citadel and having reunions or planning sessions for setting things up.
In particular:
*Riley Finn had arrived in Lauder, and had taken a room at one of the local inns. Currently on an extended solo mission for the black-ops military group he worked for, his orders were to maintain silence except for status reports and a list of personnel currently at the Citadel. He began his investigation at Lauder Cemetary, looking for fresh graves and recent deaths to make sure that there were no vampires or demonic threats in the area before reporting back to his superiors. While at the cemetary, he met...
*Spike, the vampire with a soul, who had survived the Los Angeles Apocalypse. During the fight he had gotten separated from the others on Team Angel, and he was wandering now, taking some time to himself before trying to find Angel and the others. When he got wind of Buffy and the others, he headed to Scotland and met up with ...
*Patrick Ainsley, whom we've met before, and who invited him into the castle.
*Andrew was also at the Citadel, and also ran into Spike. Andrew was currently undergoing Watcher training under...
*Rupert Giles. We all know Rupert's story, but he meets...
*Davan Collins, a relatively new addition to the Citadel. He'd just arrived a few days before we moved, and he is a cursed immortal. Davan has had encounters with Giles and Spike, and has offered his help to Giles with cataloging and translating some of the older manuscripts that the Watchers possess. Davan's arrival coincided with...
*Beth Holden, who arrived at the castle as a demon hunter who had been awakened as a Slayer. She had already been in the country because she had family there, and when she got the news of Buffy and co. camping out at Thirlestane, she made her way over to the castle immediately.
Those are the main things that we brought along with us. The collected threads for Spike and Riley, and Spike and Andrew, probably still have references to Lauder and/or Thirlestane in them, but that's mostly because we haven't gone back and re-written the references.
Mostly what has changed is the venue and the eventual over-arching plot:
The venue has changed from Scotland to Los Angeles. No, Los Angeles is not in Hell; our canon ends with the TV shows. I know there's been canon after that for both shows, but for the purpose of the game, Buffy Season 7 and Angel season 5 is as far as our canon goes.
Spike, Ainsley, Giles, Riley, Davan, Andrew, and Beth are all coming from the old game, but we are assuming that instead of going to Scotland, they've gone to Los Angeles. Instead of the castle, it's the old Wolfram & Hart building. There may be some tweaks in the current bios to reflect what happened--for example, I'm going to be tweaking Beth's biography to have her family in Los Angeles instead of Scotland--and make it a little easier to fit everyone in the new framework.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask them, and those of us with transplanted characters will answer as soon as we can.