The Doorway: a panfandom game

Guys, Buffy's gone. She's been here longer than any of us

[Sam Merlotte]

Is it all right if I miss my shift tonight, I - I mean, I understand if you need me there and I can come in, but I'm - I don't know. Never mind. I'll come in.

Okay, I propose going to Six Flags on Sunday in Jackson, NJ. Because that's the best way to end a spring break in which all I did was catch up on all the things I can do that did not include anything on college, which is something I could have done at home anyway but SIX FLAGS. My parents would be super duper wary of all the rides, so I'd never get the chance to go during a spring break back home.

But how do I survive without knowing how the Kingda Ka experience is like?!

RSTF+HP WORLD+ABBIE MILLS

So thanks to Illyana, we've got a sketch of our mysterious werewolf. I'm sending copies of the sketch to all of you; you should have it in your inbox now.

Now that we know who to look for, hopefully it won't be long until he's caught. And if anyone recognizes him, let me know. I'd like to be able to put a name to the face.

By the vapors of Valtorr!

The storm is over, but something tells me there is still an ill force in the winds. Though I can't say why.

[Filtered to Xmen and friends]

So strictly speaking, how much should we be keeping an eye on this?

[Filtered to House of Life / Sanctum Sanctorum / Next Avengers]

By the Vapors of Valtorr, this cold does not seem to be shaken by the movings of medicine nor the Mystic Arts. Yet objects seem unaffected, so I'm deputizing Kyttora as Sorcerer Supreme until I feel better and will be meditating on the Ethereal Plane until I can refocus myself.

You're welcome to join me.

So. I went out and I bought the biggest pot I could find.

And usually, as you all probably well know, I make cookies or brownies, but I'm going to try my hand at soup. Just bone broth, like, maybe with some vegetables? And I'm going to try to make as much as I can.

So, if you're feeling poorly and you would like a bowl delivered sometime today, let me know and I will try to make certain that you get one.

And I will do a smaller pot with vegetable broth too, cause I know some people don't like the chickens.

[Buffy]

You aren't sick yet are you?

Filtered: House of Life / Next Avengers

Sadie, Dr. Strange, just... how big and powerful a person could you put into a pocket dimension? Like a really large powerful jail cell. Locked, could be unlocked - but not by anyone - and communicated with. This Judge may not want to give Earth our day in court, but then... I doubt most planets he judges have much say so in getting one. And if nothing else, even if he would not listen, it would buy us time.

[Filter: Zoe Sage, Sam Merlotte, Severus Snape, Sydney Sage]

I've prepared the backroom of Widdershins for tonight. There is a place for Zoe to stay, contained. Sydney you will be welcome to be there, I've asked Sam to be around for the early part of the evening until we have a better idea of what we're dealing with. And Severus, if you are willing to be there - your expertise might be helpful.

Zoe, you should be there at least an hour before sunset, please.

[Filter: RSTF + Ianto Jones, Rose Tyler, & Jack Harkness]

I want to thank everyone who has volunteered for extra patrol tonight.

If you can make time in your schedule, please come by Widdershins today. Our research team has worked to put together a profile of the types of werewolves that we might be dealing with, and since there does seem to be some correlation between popularity of source material and individuals pulled through the tesseract - we've focused on popularity of source material to pull out some of the more likely possibilities. Keep in mind these are at best educated guesses. We don't have enough evidence from last months attack at this point to know one way or the other. We should have a better idea after tonight, but our goal is to keep anyone else from getting turned tonight if we can.

There are 9 tranquilizer guns. Piper has provided a selection of stunning potions which will also be available. Take what you are comfortable using. Our preference, is to stun, not kill. There are a number of werewolves who are unaware of what they are doing when they are in the wolf state and if that is what we are dealing with, we don't want to kill someone who may be able to protect themselves and others during the full moon in the future.

If you are not comfortable patrolling, stay inside tonight. If you want to stay inside and work on this problem we will be at Widdershins all evening.

Any questions?

[Filter: Lilah]

I'll be at Widdershins all night tonight hoping a teenage girl isn't going to turn into a werewolf. Please stay in?

(ooc: posted ~4-5am ish on March 4th because Sam didn't really sleep)

FRIENDS & FAMILY OF SAM & VERONICA*

Veronica went back through the tesseract last night, so over the next few days I'm going to be moving back into the tower. Room 1908, if you're looking for me.

None of the rest of you are allowed to disappear, alright? As useless as it is to say that, I know.

CULLEN

Do you think you can cover this week's class by yourself? I can be available for answering any questions, I'm just going to be a little preoccupied. Otherwise we can cancel it if necessary.

(edited after this)
TEAM FREE WILL

We have another problem.

Filtered: Sadie Kane

Have you considered trying to graduate early? You know more than enough to be going to college or somewhere else.

Filtered: Sadie Kane, James Rogers, Kamala Khan, Illyana Rasputina

Everyone's been trying to reach out to White Event people. SHIELD, SWORD, X-Men, Avengers, anyone who knows anything to help them. We only hear about some of it, but I thought we could look for teenagers, people who wouldn't want to talk with cops or adults who think they know better. We're more like their peers, and if we find them, they may be willing to talk.

I don't know whether I believe the NYPD is retraining 22,000 cops based on the lesson Patrick Swayze's character Dalton from the movie Road House, but it's not bad advice: be nice, don't take things personally. And it's enough reason to watch the movie. If anyone wants in, it is Patrick Swayze.

Who just scored a two cashmere scarves, a pair of leather gloves, the most adorable winter hat ever, all on 80% off clearance?? Yep. That's me. I love after season shopping. We'll just see if I'm here long enough to wear them next year.

Speaking of next year, I am officially accepted at NYU for fall semester. Right now I have this crazy desire to take like all the linguistics classes, but I'm not certain that 'reading ancient runes' has relevance outside of Sister of the Slayer Research Gal career? So probably should balance it out with some actual classes for actual skills for an actual career that pays actual money, huh?

To celebrate, I'm thinking it's been a really long time since I've done a movies/game/junk food night - so next weekend there will be cookies, popcorn, we can order pizza and we can do an awesome round of Cards Against Humanity if you want. I even ordered a bunch of fandom card sets because who doesn't want to play this pair?

Friends are totally invited, but anyone is really welcome. It's like a Potts Tower open house celebration of Dawn Summers getting her act together finally!

Ugh, hipsters. That's what we say now, right? This total airhead came into Widdershins tonight all glittery and whining about being a vegan vampire and HOW is she supposed to FEED ETHICALLY wah wah wah. By the abyss, can somebody stake her? Or I guess tear her apart since she's apparently one of the sparklies. It's kind of inappropriate if I kill our customers.


[RSTF's Sams Winchester and Merlotte, Dimitri Belikov, & Faith Lehane]

A little spit goes a long way. Sorry it took so long to get a result-- I was reconstituting my scrying mirror. Sam and I can totally take a lot of stuff, but it wouldn't hurt for us to bring some backup to check this out. I know we just had a patrol together last night but I'm not sick of your company.

You know I would just like to say I've kind of liked not seeing a bunch of protesters every time I visit the tower.

I would be a fan of them not deciding to picket again.

A reminder, for anyone who is interested, that there is a book club that meets in the Stark Room of Sam's Bar & Grill every other Tuesday night. This coming Tuesday is our first meeting for this month and there is still time if you are interested, to get involved. This month's book is The Empathy Exams By Anthony Doerr and we'll be discussing the first half. If you need a copy, I can hook you up with a copy from NYPL.

[Filter: RSTF]

As you all know by this point, Zoe Sage was bitten by something last week during the full moon. At this point it is somewhat unclear exactly what, but I know where all of our minds are jumping and from the description she and Angel have provided it is certainly a possibility.

Those of you who have werewolf expertise in your particular worlds - let's talk about what the options are and see if any of them might match with what Angel and Zoe saw. Sydney, I suspect you are already doing so - but if you can help us by keeping a close eye on Zoe and let us know of any changes to the bite or to Zoe herself, that would be incredibly helpful.

If it is a werewolf, there's a possibility we won't know this for a month, but it does lead to the question of what kind, from what world, and how many we are dealing with. We already have vampires from multiple worlds in this city - and likely further abroad at this point - so a werewolf opens up new potential difficulties.

Until we know exactly what we're dealing with we should be cautious in drawing conclusions as much as is possible. If we draw conclusions too quickly we may miss what it actually is.

[Filter: Lilah]

I'm sorry I've been out so much recently, but I've missed you and I'd like to remedy that with dinner if you're willing.

( Damon Salvatore )

Hey. Thanks.

( RSTF Magic & Research )

Hey, guys. My friends and I could use some help with something. In our world, sometimes new vampires end up kind of bound to the vamp who sired them. As in, they feel compelled to do whatever that sire says. This is a problem for a couple of my friends and we need a way to fix it. There are a couple of ways we know of to do it, but they're really not idea solutions for anyone involved, so I'm hoping if we all put our heads together, maybe we can come up with something else.

( Rupert Giles )

Hi, I guess you probably know this, but my name is Bonnie Bennett. Wesley told me I used to work at your magic shop, when I was here before. I don't really remember my time here, but I'm back and I was hoping I could maybe have my old job back?

( Elena and Caroline )

I think we need a girls night soon, just the three of us. What do you say?

( Davina Claire )

Hi, Davina. We haven't really talked much, but I hear we have some mutual, um, acquaintances. I'm Bonnie, I'm a witch, too, so maybe we could get together and talk magic sometime.

(ooc: this post is backdated to a little while before Zoe's post!

[Filtered to RSTF members, Goku, and Zoe]

I've got a kid with a bite on her arm. Looked like some kind of werewolf, maybe? I was a couple blocks away when he attacked, couldn't quite catch him.

We got her patched up, but Wes, if you're around, we could use you on this. Or anyone else with expertise on wolf-like species. I can't tell from the bite mark what exactly this guy was, and I'd like to figure out if or when she's gonna turn.

You know, if you would have told me 2 years ago that I would still be in New York and that I would be a married woman making a good clip towards a degree, I would have told you it was crazy. Totally, incalculably nuts. I didn't think I'd ever be able to get this chip off my shoulder. But would you look at that...mostly chip free.

Private to Wedding Guests
I want to thank everyone...for everything. Things have been so hectic so I've hardly had a minute to catch my breath, but know that I can't ever stop thanking you for making an already special day just that much more special.

Okay, no more sappiness from me, but I love you all.

Private to Sam

Favor to ask of you, husband of mine.

Today is the 29th anniversary of the Challenger Explosion. It's something we were still teaching our children about a hundred years from now, in my world. Being here feels a little like living inside a history book. But I hope those other pivotal catastrophes I learned about in school might still be preventable.

[ HERC: ]
Raven still won't talk to me. I'm worried about her.

Also, I've been watching the show. There was a new episode tonight I haven't watched yet, but I think I'm going to.

WOOHOO SNOW! Sorry to anyone who hates it but I LOVE IT!


ETA: Oh I guess I should add, since they're closing down roads and freaking out and stuff about how much snow it is... If someone gets stranded somewhere, let me know and I'll teleport you out.