( colligo ¬ get collected ) → network.

Asaph get that off my pda right now.

So, I'm pretty sure I'm planning a wedding. I mean, there are bride magazines on the kitchen table and I have a gorgeous ring. I only wish I knew who I was marrying. I'm fairly certain we live together, because there are men's clothes here too, but no one else has come home. I'm getting worried and I don't even know if I should be.

I probably should have paid attention to this thing a little sooner but I was sort of lost in this massive house for a few days.

Seriously. I think I'm a princess or something. This place is crazy big. And is anyone else naturally blue but able to look like everyone else? Because I

Anybody figure out anything new about this situation?

I must say it is disconcerting to fall asleep next to one Loki and wake up next to another.

Still, he is pleasant enough. There are worse people to be stuck with. Even if he does swear a lot

You know, this sucks. No offense to Clint at all. The poor guy has to deal with my growing cravings.

[Filtered to Spike]
Where are you?

To be honest, this actually isn't that bad. Willow is really nice and we're still in my apartment, so I've still got Escher and don't have to worry about him.

I really want to do something to help, but I'm the first to admit that I'm sort of useless in a fight. I mean...don't get me wrong. I'm great at getting threatened and punched in the face, and I know how to make a Molotov cocktail, but there's actually not a lot of situations where that comes in handy.

Still...I want to help. Is there something I can do? I don't want to sit back while people are getting hurt, but I don't want to be a liability either.

( Willow )
On the mostly useless note, I wanted to ask you something.

Back home, there was this time when I sort of made a magic barrier with some mountain ash, and I was wondering if maybe that meant I could learn to do magic. And could you maybe teach me. I want to be able to help more.

What do you think?

( Erica )
You're okay, right?

( There's a sound like electricity hitting something and dissipating and then a small explosion. Sounds of fighting can be heard. There's a sharp gasp and Neria speaks. )

By the Maker...what are you creatures? Why couldn't I remember you before? ( another crackling of dispelled electricity, and Neria sounds frustrated but determined. ) It is no matter. You will die all the same.

( There are more sounds of fighting, heavy breathing and metal hitting something. Occasionally there's a loud blast of fire or cracking like ice shattering as Neria uses various elemental spells against the Silents she's fighting. There is the occasional pained sound as a Silent gets a hit past her shields )

I swear by Andraste, I will not allow you to go free and harm others! ( there is more fighting and then one of the Silents speak )

What will you do? We are many, and you are alone and weak.

( It's quiet for a moment, save for Neria's breathing, and then she speaks, sounding resolved )

I may alone...but I am by no means weak. ( a pause, then very quietly ) Maker guide me...

( Suddenly there is a huge explosion of magic, then the PDA cuts out abruptly )

How long have we been back to normal? Two weeks? Shit

Oh that is a relief.

I cannot express my relief at having my magic returned to me. It was as though a part of my very spirit had been ripped out

( Loki )

( Frigga )

( Alistair )

( Willow )

So since I can't seem to kick undead ass right now, it's a few days until Thanksgiving.

Who wants to come for dinner?

Willow, Tara, I am not taking no for an answer. Sookie, Melinda, are you in?

Anyone else?

Spike, you are helping. No is not allowed from you either.

All you adults are stupid. Really really stupid.

You're all bickering and worried about your stupid grown up problems and ignoring everyone else.

And meanwhile someone KILLED MY SISTER. My twin sister. What kind of stupid adult kills a ten year old and no one else notices or says nothing?

So I'm gonna take my baby sister and look after her, cause it's pretty clear nobody else is good at it.

I hate you all and you're all stupid.

( Voice Post )

Well I'm not against spending a weekend in an exotic location but this is not what I would have in mind.

(annoyed sigh)

Hello? Who else is on this? Buffy?

It appears that Lily was sent home. I'm not entirely sure when, but I tried calling her today to find out that her PDA has been disconnected and when I apparated to her flat, her name was gone from the door. I suppose this is for the best, even if it means that what awaits her back home is death. At least her and James will be together; even if they are dead back home.

Two full moons in one month has left me feeling rather worn out. More so than usual. Although, the Wolfsbane which Willow has brewed for me seems to help with that as well. Normally I am quite useless a few days after the full moon, but I feel almost like myself again this time around. I daresay, her potion may be more potent than Severus'.

I can't sleep. I keep dreaming of waking up in the ground, and clawing to get out. Everything is so confusing. I can't think.

[Willow, Faith, Tara, and Anya]
Spike really is on our side right? His chip is broke. He could try to kill me, or give me to his girlfriend. He might even put me back in that coffin. I'm keeping the daggers close.

Okay, so, as I'm pretty sure most of you have seen by now, there's a beginning of a plan being formed and it looks like we're going to need to step in and help out a bit. So I figured that it would probably be best if, unlike the science types, we were all on the same page to start with. So here we go.

1. We can't make it rain. If we do, like Cordelia said, it might get into the water supply and that would be of the bad. So that's out.

2. We can amp up the wind and try to get the toxin out that way, but if we're going to go with that, we need to figure out the best direction to send it in and make sure we're not going to be spreading it even further at the same time.

3. I'm also thinking it might be a good idea for some of us, again like Cordelia said and wow, quoting her twice in one post is kinda scary and pretty sure a sign of the Apocalypse or something, to help magically reinforce the safe places folks are going to be heading to for shelter. Sure, the gas is probably going to be filtered out by ventilation systems but, well, there are all kinds of crazy folk on the street right now and we don't want them suddenly busting down doors and stuff.

And that's about all I've got, so far. I can help with any of those things, though I'm thinking that the whole wind idea - if that's what we go with - is probably where I'll be most useful. Tara is with me, and so is Loki. So not a negotiation when it comes to those two.

Anyone else who wants to help out with that, feel free to speak up. The more, the merrier. Otherwise, help with securing places in a magical fashion or, if you have other ideas, offer them up. We just need to figure something out ASAP so we can do what we need to do because I don't know about you, but I am one antsy Willow right now and that never bodes well for anyone.

Okay. Enough is enough. I know I'm not the only person in this city that this gas can't hurt and I definitely know I'm not the only one of us who is bothered by the amount of people - local and non-local alike - who are being hurt by it. So to quote a pretty amazing, tiny Antichrist the way I see it, it's time for a plan.

( Cut to spare the friends list. )

I didn't mean I thought Kitty was trying to stop me. I let it get to me, whatever is happening to everyone, it got to me. I didn't know what I was doing, and she was trying to stop me.

I thought she was someone else. I didn't mean hurt her. I swear, I didn't.

It has been nearly a month since I have been turned human. While I can harness my magic like this, I can only do so to affect minor aspects of the world, and it takes an excessive effort that leaves me completely drained.

I appreciated speaking with both of you earlier, and I thought, maybe, if you were willing, that we might work on figuring out how I could access my magic without feeling so drained each time. It seems that this might be a much more permanent long lasting aspect of my existence than I had hoped it would be.

I have been trying those methods we discussed during our first meeting, but I do not think I am well practiced enough for them to be successful on my own.

I've just realized that not only is the Full Moon tomorrow night, but August of 2012, has two full moons, which I suppose is rather ironic considering there are actually two moons here. So, the full moon is tomorrow night as well as August 31st. It is because February has less than thirty days that it creates the potential for one of the following months to have two full moons and it just so happens to be this month. It's a good thing that I have begun to brew my own Wolf's Bane. It's not as strong as Severus', but it is better than nothing. Of course having Sirius back will make the full moons somewhat easier again.

Yesterday was Luke's first birthday, which was quite the sense of déjà vu, considering I recall Harry's first birthday back home and they are essentially the same person. Of course the only thing missing was James.

Are there any good stores for the occult here?

It's a little bit of a hobby for me that I feel would be good to pick up again.

Thank God that honesty bullshit is over. Compulsive honesty may be even worse than an evil demon making us sing our feelings. And I was getting tired of pretending not to be here.

That said, I'm proposing a blanket ban on discussing any information I may have revealed under the influence of truth serum. Especially if that information is particularly earth-shattering. Maybe if we pretend it never happend long enough, we'll start to believe it ourselves. Could happen, right?

What'd I miss? Feel free to lie, because you can do that now.

The next local that realizes who I am and says 'bored, now' whenever I walk by is getting turned into a rat.

Right, so does anyone know where I can get a decent hair dye? My roots are showing.

Oh, well, hello there Colligo! Fancy seeing you again. For the umpteenth time. And just in time for things to be all wonky too. Looks like I am one lucky Willow today.

Seriously, Asaph. Take me or leave me. Make up your mind. This gal is getting a little tired of the back and forth already.

Oh bloody hell!! I knew I shouldn't have gone to work tonight. Not only did I drop an entire box of incense all over the store room floor, but when I tried to clean it up, the spell backfired and now the entire storeroom bloody reeks!

Not only that, but I either left my keys in my flat or I lost them and when I tried to use a spell to unlock the door, I somehow melted the doorknob and now I can't get it to open. I have never had such bad luck.

( Filtered to Scoobies )

( Filtered to the Scooby Gang, AI Crew - minus Angel(us), and various other friends/associates of Willow's in the city. )

[Spike sounds very confused and very unlike himself]

What is this place? I must return home at once. Mother will surely be worried when she realizes I'm not there.

So I hate to be the little witch that cries we might have a problem but, well, we've gone through something like this in Sunnydale before. The whole bursting into song thing, I mean. And, okay. So Xander isn't here, so it's probably not the exact same thing but I figure I might as well ask since it's the easiest way to make absolutely sure.

Nobody has spontaneously combusted while singing and dancing, have they? Obviously not you, as in you you, because then you would be dead and not able to respond - unless you could, in which case good for you! But I'm more talking about people in the city. The locals and stuff. No one in flames while singing about deep, dark secrets or anything. Right?

The library was a nice touch. I won't be as nice to the next set of guards, though.

Two questions: Where am I and how do I get back?

Not that I'm complaining about somehow being alive again or anything (because no matter how much I said I wasn't scared, I'll be honest, I really didn't want to die), but...would anyone mind telling me what just happened? I'll admit, I'm a little confused, and those guards or whatever they are weren't very helpful.

Cordelia and Faith were both insisting I should, and I've run out of excuses not to.

( Wesley's answers )

Since it looked like everybody else was doing it...

( Things about me. )

A cat followed me home. Does anyone want it? They'll have to rescue it, Escher's got it hiding in the oak at the back of the house.

I appear to have somehow missed my own birthday. Of course seeing as how Sirius was sent home two days before, it's easy to see how that was possible. With the exception of having Lily and Severus around, these last few weeks have not been very different from home just before I was brought here. I suppose it works to my advantage that I am used to being virtually alone.

Does someone want to explain this? I don't get it. Did I die? I don't even remember the fight.

Where is this place? I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone and I'm turning into the Sixth Sense kid. If it's a dream, it isn't funny.

( Why The Bloody Hell Not )

Not that I want to show up being a Negative Nelly but do you think maybe you could make up your mind if you want me here or not, Asaph? It's just that the back and forth plays havoc on my magic and always leaves me feeling a little punch drunk. Which is great the first couple of times but gets a wee bit old after a while.

But hey! Look! I'm back! Now who is still around that remembers me?

I don't remember following any white rabbits and yet here I am anyway. Where ever here is. I'm stilling trying to figure this do hickey they gave me out. So is Colligo hell, an alter reality, or another dimension and who do I have to slay to get home?

I so need a shower.

Does anybody no now know where I can find a Temple? It's Saturday and my mommy and daddy are gonna be real mad if I don't go...

[ooc: posted earlier today as jessy fails at getting online at the right time to post things, clearly >>]

This isn't Sunnydale and I has a test today on subtric subtrack math and need to go home so I can take it and my mommy will be mad if I get a 0 cause that's bad so can someone please take me home now?

Glad to see you folks aren't walking into each other like idiots. Funny as it was, it got old quick.

Red, you and Sweets gonna be done shacking up any time soon? The customers don't think I'm nearly as nice as you two.

If you're from or have ever set a bloody toe in Sunnydale, California speak now or risk me coming and breaking down your door to make sure you're still here.

Even though I'm super glad I wasn't the one responsible for the whole 'let's all be invisible to each other' game, a part of me kinda sorta wishes that I was. That way I could just undo it and Tara and I could go back to snuggling and everything could go back to what in the heck passes for normal around here!

( Filtered to Harry Potter )

Willow, sweetie?

I stopped by the shelter today, and I really tried to pick up just one kitten. But...well...you'll see.

( They were just too cute )

Just look at them. I just couldn't separate them. They were so sweet together.

( Filtered to Lancelot )

Well I'm not going to make my curfew.

Buffy?! Xander? Giles? Someone please tell me that I'm not here alone. Come on Buffy, be here.

I would like to thank whoever removed the dagger.

However it would seem that I am now somewhere unfamiliar. An explanation would be appreciated. I have an appointment with Klaus and would like to keep that as soon as possible.

It's the Summer solstice today. Does it still count here? They'd be celebrating Alban Hefin back at home... I don't think people I miss

Oh Oh dear Willow? Sweetie?

I think we missed...a lot. Like a whole lot. Like a crisis.

We should probably check on people, once we manage to get out of bed. For more than five minutes. At the same time.