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[Day 279] Video — Closed to Defense Force + Bonnie and Anya
[Baseball practice and the beach party are over or at least over for Kitty. The final pieces have fallen into place and they are as ready as they're ever going to be for this. No reason to drag it out.]

Who's ready to stuff a soul back inside a vampire?

Here's the plan. Listen up and you might want to rewind and replay it a couple of times. I'll make sure to speak with plenty of inflection to keep it interesting. We're going to have two primary locations.

The first is headquarters. Piper, Zatanna, Anya, and Bonnie are going to be preforming the spell. Kitty—the other one—is going to be there ready to phase them while they work just in case. We've also got a perimeter alarm I set up awhile back and some magic security fields, but I want some combat personnel on hand too. Sam, I'm volunteering you. We need you close to Rebecca in case we need to pick your brain about any last minute vampire knowledge. Tieria, it wouldn't hurt if you were there for advisory reasons yourself. Rebecca is going to be our main dispatch coordinator for this operation. Communication is key, right? Don't forget it. We're a team. We talk. It's a thing.

Now this is the part where some of you other combat kids who don't get a direct assignment step up and let me know you want headquarters protection duty. There is a chance we're not just dealing with Spike on this. Rose and Tyki both seem reluctant to let us have our way with him, and they are no joke. Rose is a vampire—strong, fast, fangs. You get the picture. Tyki can choose what he touches. It's a little like my phasing where he can be intangible but he has a lot more wiggle room when it comes to reaching inside someone and pulling things out. He's pretty close to indestructible and he has a blood-thirsty butterfly army. Which is actually true, not just a test to see if you're still listening. We don't know that there will be an attack but we want to be ready if there is. Also, no talking about the plan outside of this filter.

[Deep breath. She should have brought a bottle of water for this.]

The second important location is going to be the library. While this is happening we want to keep an eye on Spike. We've already got a special squad assigned to him and we'll need you to be there to keep him in line tomorrow night at fake-sundown. So that's me, Jack, Data, M'gann, and Wally. Jack is going to be taking point while we secure the area. Ianto is going to be running interference with anyone not involved who thought it was a good night to pick up a book.

That takes care of the mission, but everyone not volunteering to protect the headquarters needs to spread out through the rest of the sectors. We're just asking for trouble if we keep all of our efforts centralized, but you'll also be on call if something goes south on this spell. [It won't be needed to subdue Spike. She's confident her team can handle that, but if the spell has unexpected consequences or effects or someone else just decides it's a good night to make some trouble then they need to be ready.]

So, that's the plan. I feel like I need a lozenge. Who has questions? If I don't answer you Jack will.

(OOC: Plotting post/timeline of events. Everyone on the force should already know about this plan and has probably helped out in some way! Feel free to ask OOC questions over there if you feel a little behind! Jack may be jumping in!

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