Chaos Theory: A Buffyverse RPG

Who: Shiva, Kali, Open
What: Approaching the Pod
Where: LA County Jail, Pod building
When: Week Five, day one
Notes: Initially, the thread had been in Week Four, but in waiting for another player that eventually had to be removed, the thread got delayed, and is now set on the last day of Week Four and the first day of Week Five

Shiva had countered his wife's musical selections with Jailhouse Rock, Sixteen Tons, and A Hard Day's Night as they'd broken him out. Perhaps it'd been an unjust use of his magic, but by the time Shiva and Kali had left the Los Angeles jail, the cops were singing along and waving at them as they'd left.

He had not had this much fun since Woodstock, and he remembered that with great fondness. There had been more than enough music and dancing, more than enough happiness--both genuine and drug-induced--to keep him sated for three decades.

Back in the park where this had all started, Shiva stopped in his running long enough to take off his boots, tie them together by the strings, and sling them over his shoulder. Barefoot suited him much more, and he shook his head at Kali. "We really must introduce ourselves; if they are searching for demons, then they are well on their way to discovering us," he pointed out. "Shall we show them who we truly are, or save that for another day?"

Who: Beth Holden, Buffy Summers
What: Bumping into each other
When: Week Five, Day Six
Where: training area, the Pod
Status: Closed but Active

Beth had always done well with knives, so long as she didn't actually have to throw them. Skinning a carcass? No problem. Slitting a demon's throat and bleeding it? Also not a problem. Cutting particular organs out? Again, not a problem.

Throwing a knife and hitting a target? That's where Beth's problem lay.

Elena had suggested she find something physically taxing to exhaust herself during the day, and combine the tiredness from that with the herbal potion Giles had been handing out to help push the Slayer dreams to the back of her mind. So far, it had been working, although today's exercise--working on knife-throwing--was not getting her anything except frustrated.

Growling, she walked up to the target and yanked out the four knives she'd been using, and carried them back to the throw line. Someone had been smart enough to put up a couple of glass enclosures so no knives went astray in the throwing, but even so, Beth looked both ways before taking the knife by the blade and tossing it at the bulls-eye, which was hidden by a crudely drawn face with a shock of blond hair and a pair of uneven fangs.

That had been Tabby's suggestion; make the target someone you didn't like too much, and it'd make the practice fun. Of course, not as much fun as it would've been actually stabbing Spike in the face, but it was enough fun to balance out the frustration. Three more knives flew in quick succession, but none of them were hitting between the eyes. Maybe she should've started with some of the smaller knives, but the Bowie and the skinning knives were the ones she was most comfortable with, so that's what she'd started with.

Who: Andrew and Ainsley
When: Friday afternoon
Where: POD
What: 'The time thing'

( He totally hadn't been waiting for the weekend like a kid waiting for christmas... )

Who: Riley Finn and Spike
What: It's a surprise
When: Week Five, Friday Night
Where: The Pod, the car, and the Marina at Marina del Rey

- - -

Riley had rented a convertible. It was only a twenty minute drive, but Riley didn't want to walk the roughly twenty-five miles. So he rented a big black convertible for the ride. The sun had just gone down, and both bottles of liquor he'd bought earlier were in a bag in the back seat, along with a couple of glasses and a pack of cigarettes for Spike.

Parking in the Pod's parking deck, Riley took the elevator up from the garage to the top floor. Someone had posted a list of names on a blackboard, and Riley followed the arrows down to the far end of the corridor, and pounded on the door with the gold "Spike" nameplate on it. "Open up, blondie bear," he sang out.

Who: Ainsley and Andrew
What: First Meeting
When: Week Five, Day Four (noon)
Where: Library

Who: Wesley (Open to everyone)
What: Homecoming Time
When: Week Five, Day Two (afternoonish)
Where: the Pod, formerly known as Wolfram & Hart

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"Everything's changed," he said to the woman on his arm. Marsha was looking around eagerly, taking in the new lobby as Wesley looked around and tried to re-orient himself. He'd imagined that when Marsha told him the building was still standing, that it would've been exactly the same as he remembered it. But it wasn't. The stairways were in different places, the style of the lobby was different, the plants and small trees were gone, even the elevator doors were stainless steel now instead of warm wood paneling.

"That's okay," Marsha murmured, rubbing her hand over his forearm. "You said Angel had an office here once upon a time?" she asked again, keeping her voice quiet as she directed his thoughts with her questions.

"Oh, yes, he did. Perhaps we'll start there. Harmony had a desk on the same floor, then there was a stairway with a landing up to the office. Hopefully that's still the case, if Angel is still here."

"He is, Wesley, we checked, remember? The driver came in last week and asked... some young girl that was running about, identified herself as a Slayer, whatever that means, and said that Angel was still in charge."

Wesley gave an impatient jerk of his head as they waited for the elevator. "No, I meant if Angel's office is in the same place."

Marsha didn't say anything to that, just followed Wesley onto the elevator once it arrived. When the doors opened again, the layout was the same as Wesley had remembered it, but that was all that was the same.

There were young girls, from teenagers up to young adults, milling around the landing. Some were laughing and talking, others jostled around him and Marsha to get to the elevators, even more were jogging up and down the stairs to the landing, going God only knew where. "Good Lord, it's true," he murmured, half-shocked. "I can't believe Angel is letting his building be overrun by the Slayers, especially after how shabbily Buffy and Andrew treated him over the last Slayer we captured."

Marsha quietly slipped her hand off his elbow and faded away into the woodwork--literally. Her body melded with the wood grain so that she was completely invisible, observing Wesley in the "new" enviroment.

Wesley was looking around, looking for a familiar face and hoping to see one sooner rather than later, because the sudden appearance of so many new faces, when he'd been expecting quiet and familiarity, was making him a bit light-headed. He hadn't even realized that his friend Marsha had disappeared, because he was rather too busy gaping at everything and everyone as he wandered over to what had been Harmony's desk, and took a seat behind it.

All her unicorns were gone, there was no sign of her pink feathered pen, even Angel's #1 Boss mug was gone. He ran his fingertips over the desk blotter, trying to pick up vibrations of what had gone on before, but the noise of the Slayers rambling in front of him was too much. He moved out from behind the desk and just stood at the base of the stairs, looking around curiously.

Who: Wesley Wyndham-Price, Marsha Clellan, Edna
What: Wesley says goodbye to his new friends and gets ready to return to his old friends
When: Day Two, Week Five
Where: Clellan Estate and limousine
Status: Complete

( The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things...  )

Who: Andrew and Spike
Where: Around the POD building.
When: Saturday afternoon.
What: failed avoidance, mostly.

( Running, jumping, climbing trees )

Who: Riley Finn
What: last boating lessons
When: Week Five, Friday morning
Where: Marina Sailing, Marina Del Rey, CA
Status: complete

( Captain Finn )

Who: Giles and Ritchie
What: Finally getting started on the maps
When: Week Five, Day Four
Where: the POD
Status: Closed but Active

Busy weeks made Giles break out into hives and suffer migraines.

But this was going to be a bit of a relief. The blueprint and mapping project had been something that Giles had been wanting to do since they'd arrived. He had no idea what was housed in this entire complex.

Suspiciously enough, they'd found everything that they needed. They needed training space, and found a gym with showers. They'd needed extra living spaces, and miraculously, another floor of apartments with nameplates had appeared. They'd needed holding cells--but they'd been here already, or so Giles had been told. Kitchen, cafeteria, library spaces, all there when they were needed.

Fleetingly he wondered if he should invite Ethan along on this trip; having a warlock of Ethan's skill and degree would likely be a benefit if they ran across anything that needed defusing, however Giles was vaguely reticent to involve Ethan quite yet. He'd also briefly considered having one or more Slayers come along for extra muscle, but he had decided against that. Explaining to Ritchie what was going on was going to be enough of a challenge without having to explain Slayers, Chaos warlocks, and the connection to the hell dimensions that had been housed on one of the floors here and could possibly still be active.

He'd be severely shocked if Ritchie decided to stick around after a couple of floors. Checking the wall clock, he picked up the small bag of things he'd packed, and left the library. They'd agreed to meet in front of the lobby elevators, and head down to the holding cells together. best place to start was the ground floor, after all.

Who: Giles and Angel
What: Long-coming sit-down
When: Week Five, Day six
Where: Angel's office, POD
Status: closed, but active

This had been a long time coming.

Giles had not really sat and talked to Angel since... Jenny's death, really. They had worked together when the situation called for it, exchanged phone calls and information, but that was the extent of it.

Angel going over to Wolfram and Hart, that had been a shock. For Buffy's sake, more than anything else, he hoped that it had been a rumor, that he hadn't gone into the jaws of evil to do their dirty work. But finding him there, in the big office, that had been a shock.

The amulet had been enough of a surprise; no one had asked how Angel had gotten hold of it, although now he was certain that Angel had gotten it from the people who had used to use this building.

And now, though? He had the benefit of hindsight. The amulet came from Wolfram and Hart; it was possible Angel had been paying the price for the use of the bloody thing. But Angel had shown them all how wrong they had been. Rather, Angel had shown Giles how wrong he was.

He wasn't certain that he was ever going to trust Angel as deeply as he did others; he wasn't certain he could even look at Angel without remembering the cut of metal into his skin, the feel of his own hot blood coursing down his body. But he owed Angel several big apologies, one of them for that very thing.

So he waited outside Angel's office, waited for him to come in so that neither one of them would have a chance to escape before they came to some sort of understanding.

Who: Giles and Emorie
What: He wants to meet Angel's group
When: Week Five, Day Two
Where: POD Garage
Status: Closed but active

Some of the individuals in Angel's group were very familiar to Giles; he knew Oz, of course, and Spike far too intimately for his own comfort. He knew Angel entirely too well, and he fully intended to have sit-down with Angel later in the week.

But there were also a great deal of new folk about, and Giles knew very few of them. Some were practicing warlocks, some were new Slayers gravitating to Angel's team, some were hunters.

He had ulterior motives as well; he wanted to learn more about Wesley. He felt great amounts of guilt over the way he and Buffy had treated Wesley, and personally felt even more guilty because he'd never attempted to really reach out to Wesley and repair those gulfs.

Roger Wyndham-Price was something akin to Richard Ainsley, had Richard had even an inkling of a heart, and while Giles knew Roger's parenting foibles, he'd never taken them into account. Perhaps it'd been why he'd taken an interest in Patrick Ainsley, trying to fix the past mistakes he'd made with Wesley.

Which had led him here, to this woman. Cordelia was gone, so was Wesley. So was Fred, and no one knew yet what had become of Charles Gunn. Which left Angel and Emorie Tilden as the two who had worked closest with Wesley while he was a part of Angel's team, and so that is what brought Giles to the garage, looking for the woman working on her car.

Who: Giles and Buffy
What: Bonding with his Slayer
When: Week Five, Day One
Where: the Pod
Status: Closed but Active

Giles had his hands full. There were four stacks of case files in his briefcase, at least half of them files on some of the newer Slayers who were having the worst of the dreams. The rest were research that he'd dug up, the recipe he'd found for the dream-dulling potion and how it works, and, lastly, a weeks' worth of the potion for Buffy in case she was having the dreams as well.

He also had a thermos of hot tea and a thermos of hot coffee, because he knew Buffy preferred coffee and he preferred tea. Lastly, he had a small present for Buffy, because he knew she'd been quite anti-social lately, and he wanted her to know that she was still first to someone and always would be.

Making sure everything was safely tucked into the briefcase, he knocked on Buffy's door and cleared his throat. "Buffy? It's Giles, I'd like to see you." Another cough. "Make sure you're all right."

Week Five
Monday Nov. 15th - Sunday Nov. 21st 2004

Moon Phases
First Quarter Moon - Nov. 18th
The waxing crescent moon is a time of light, and favors those working magicks for good, or white magicks. This is considered a time of great psychic power and excellent magick dealing with prosperity, new projects, growth, expansion, increasing health, new love affairs, increasing of knowledge and spirituality.

No Adds this week

Removals
slayednlaid
rosewillow
kaeo

Please take this moment to run the friender, just to make sure you have everyone on your list.

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Important Information

1. If you haven't already, please go here and make sure you have accepted the invitation to the storyline community, chaos_storyline

2. Considering that IJ gets a bit hinky with comment notifs, it might not hurt to check your threads and make sure you're caught up!

2a. To make that easier, I suggest a thread history. If you're HTML savvy, rp_tutorials has some great shells you can use (my history for Beth is here), or you can just make a list somewhere. THIS IS BY NO MEANS A REQUIREMENT. Just a suggestion that I've found makes my life easier and might make yours easier also.

3. Our birthday list is here. Please make sure you're on it!

4. At the moment, I'm not going to choose a third mod, mosty because I think things have settled down enough and we're in enough of a routine that Freddie and I can handle it. Should that change, I'll definitely be open to talking to a few of you and feeling out who'll be the new part of the trio (I'm so Jonathan. Y'all can fight over Warren and Andrew.)

5. TAGS Please remember to tag your posts. First and last name, unless your character is one of those with only one name (Angel, Spike, Lorne, etc.) as well as the week it happens!

Weekly Events

1. Get ready, because this is the week that a certain former Watcher re-enters the playing field!

2. Giles (rupert_giles) has discovered and is brewing a very bad tasting (at the moment) but effective herbal potion to take the edge off the Slayer nightmares. Any Slayer needing their help can contact them for the potion. It should be taken daily for a week, and then once a week thereafter.

3. Due to the need for Giles' concentration on the Slayers' problem, the blueprint mission has been delayed until this week.

4. Random characters will receive targeted gifts from Edna's clothing line. These are SPECIAL gifts, the traits of which will be explained in-game.

WHO: Kennedy & Maria
WHEN: Day one, Week Five - Afternoon
RATING: PG-13
WHAT: Lunch
WHERE: cafeteria
STATUS: In progress

*Changed to week five* :-)

( Salad, Burger, fries, Pie and shake… )