War Is Coming Communications.

My wish this time might be for money. Last one was to be able to create weapons. Medieval type weapons, used to fight evil stuff and all that. So I'm thinking money would help, so I can pay for whatever materials I might need as time goes on. And of course to buy some games, or a nice car. Ohhh, or better.. a motorcycle! I've been really wanting one of those lately. I'd wish for my dad but the baubles unfortunately don't work like that.

Buffy was sent home again.

Anyone seen my dad Angel around or talked to him recently? I can't seem to reach him. At all. I know phones weren't always his thing but he would at least have picked it up once by now Wanted to see about some more talking or sparring Instinct tells me he's been sent back. But I'd rather be sure. Other option is that maybe he was on a hunt but there haven't been any assigned lately as far as I know. And he hasn't been part of any rescues, and I know it isn't camp since he already went to th

Just.. if anyone happens to see him, let me know? Starting to lean toward "Seal sent him back" reasoning, though. In which case I will need drinks. Or maybe go hit the bag at a gym for a while, or make another weapon device enhancement. Or something, whatever can get my mind off this. This is, what, the second, third time he came and went via Seal? Or fourth time? I've stopped counting.

So...I don't know about anyone else but this whole thing is making me kind of antsy.

What should we be doing here? Because it feels like we should be doing something.

Okay, I'm a little confused. Did Wolfram & Hart send me here? And if so, why? I'm pretty sure they don't have a branch in Kansas.

Not that I'm complaining if they decided to give me a vacation from Casper here, but... feels like I should be doing more than typing on my BlackBerry and trying to figure out why nobody in LA will answer my damn calls. Can I fire Eve? This seems like the kind of thing I should be able to fire her for.

I've never been able to be so open about who I am, I'm not really sure what to think about it just yet. It's a lot to take in.

[Anya]
I was too busy over there wigging out when you asked me before, but..I didn't fully forget. The last thing I remember from home was killing the Mayor.

All right, patrols. Who wants 'em? I know some of you probably prefer to be alone, but I'd suggest pairing off. Let's figure out who's available and ready and get some sort of schedule going, here.

The next time I say I'm going on a vacation after, you know, saving the world and dropping my town into a crater, I'm going to specify a vaction from all things weird.

Now that that's said, Buffy + Scoobies, sound off! Because I refuse to believe I'm in bizarro land alone.

Right so it's bad enough that I totally just lost my favorite pair of boots, and missed an audition this morning thanks to some rotten egg smelling demon mess, but now, I seem to have lost my apartment.  My wonderful rent controlled apartment.  Which, has some awesome features by the way, not the least of which is my very own ghost bed!  So while I appreciate the kidnapping and impending sacrifice and or demon spawning going on here, someone needs to just point me the way home. 

Also, replace my jacket which totally got destroyed on the way here.

Least I was able to get inside the warehouse before the sun could toast me

Either I was teleported here from LA or I fell through a portal to another part of the US...

The mysterious guy who helped me get set up with this apartment Thanks, mysterious guy. I owe you one.

I've never been much for the typing but I can't hole up in my apartment forever. Baby steps, right?

It's a nice apartment. I used to live in a house...and oh God I promise I'm not actually this boring. I'm a bit out of practice.

Let's try this again: my name is Buffy Summers, and this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me, days weeks some amount of time later I'm still reeling and that's saying something. I used to kill six impossible things before breakfast, but I guess you know all about that feeling, huh? I'm not the only one with the strangeness here, this time.

So. Hi.

Oh dear god, I just found Twitlight on two different channels. WHAT THE HELL?

You know what this calls for?

THE TWILIGHT DRINKING GAME!!!

Including such hits as:
* Take one drink ever time a vampire myth is ruined- for example: no fangs, hangs out in the daylight etc.

* Take one drink every time Bella tells Edward that she trusts him.

AND

* Take two drinks every time Edward insults Bella.

So when you think YOUR relationship is dysfunctional, watch this movie, get supremely drunk, and feel much better!

I know we've got this whole apocalypse situation that we completely need to be concerned about, but it's St. Paddy's. Anyone wanna get plastered?

When you're ready I assume we can go kill a dragon.

Like I said. If you prove a liability, if you've proven a liability in the past. On your own head be it. I won't pick you up, I won't defend you.

If you're capable, willing to try and won't shut down at the first sign of trouble. Then lets go kill a dragon.

So Maleficent isn’t just a one media kinda bitch. Back a ways, the Final Fantasy guys did a game with Disney called Kingdom Hearts. It turned into a series, but I only played the first two. Maleficent was one of the main villains, sort of the leader of the Disney side of villainy. She was also a boss you fight twice in the first game, once in her human-ish form and once as a fucking dragon.

Now some people think this isn’t going to come to a fight. I don’t really believe that. So it stands to reason that if we have to fight her, and even if by some miracle we don’t have to, we should know what she can do. Well, we covered the dragon thing but we also have lots of other ground to cover. I don’t know much about classic fairytales or Disney movies, but I can tell you about the video game. There were two fights with her, one in her human form and one in her dragon form.

FIGHT ONE
TELEKINESIS. Oh god, the telekinesis.
FIRE MAGIC. Obviously, but not breathing it. She turns into a ball of it a couple times during the fights and sort of explodes a couple times to do damage if you’re in close.
DARK MAGIC. I mean dark in the elemental sense, not the moral sense. Void/space/gravity, for those that don’t play as many video games. She seems to be able to use this to mimic some other elemental effects. Or maybe combine it with them.
MINION SUMMONING. This could have just been the game being a game, but thinking about it, she mentioned minions to me back during the first banter I had with her before I knew who she was. So maybe not.

Here’s a video I found of FIGHT ONE. There’s some cutscene stuff at the beginning and end. If you just want to see the fight, you’ll want to skip ahead to about 3:29, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to watch the bits before it to get an idea of her personality.

FIGHT TWO: THE DRAGONING
FIRE BREATH.
TOUGH HIDE, AS IF SHE WERE SOME KIND OF GIANT REPTILE.
THE DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITY OF A GIANT REPTILE.
VERY BIG CLAWS AND TEETH.
REALLY FUCKING BIG. Sensing a pattern here?

Here’s a video of FIGHT TWO. The fight starts at 2:39, but again, not a bad idea to watch some of the stuff before it. In fact, watching it gave me a couple of ideas…

FIGHT PREP
It’s going to come down to a fight. I know people want to hope it won’t, but it always does. So what can we do to try and prepare? I had some thoughts.

ANTI-FIRE STUFF: In the game, there’s accessories you can equip that protect against fire damage. Can we mimic that in reality? I’m thinking enchanted armor, or clothes, or whatever works best. Magic-types, can this be done? If so, what do you need and how long do you need? This is probably going to be pretty vital, so if you need special stuff or whatever, I’m sure a lot of us would be willing to pitch in on getting it.

SPECIAL WEAPONS: In the movie, the guy uses an enchanted sword. In the game, you’ve got the Keyblade, which is a kind of…it’s best to think of it as a magic sword shaped like a key. I could try and explain it better, but it’s sort of silly and only makes sense in a Disney thing. I don’t know if special/legendary/magic weapons are necessary or not, but it probably wouldn’t hurt. I happen to have one, but it’s all mace-shaped and I’m thinking bludgeoning her to death shouldn’t be plan A unless we have a damn good way to immobilize her and keep her that way. Anybody else have any? And again, magic-types, how feasible would it be to whip up some more?

GETTING HER VULNERABLE: On this post Lois said something about not being able to kill her in human form. Bad news. EDIT: Hal suggested making her transform. That’s part of why I picked the second video. There were shorter ones without the cutscene bits, but that one kind of gave me an idea about the “make her transform” thing. The guy in the thing uses a dark Keyblade (again, don’t ask) to “unlock her heart”, which is…more silly Disney stuff, but it got me thinking. What did that do? Power overload, it seems like. But it also seemed like she wasn’t forced to change, like she just went FUCK IT I AM FULL OF DARK LET’S TAKE OFF THE KID GLOVES. So he “unlocks her heart” and all of a sudden she’s having a powergasm and flipping out like a kid on Christmas. So maybe we could push her into it somehow, dicking with her emotions or making her feel like she’s already won or something. Thoughts?

…Wow, that got longer than I thought it would. Huh. But here you go, folks.

ETA: Okay, so after talking to people I realized we should also have a list of people willing/able to fight a dragon. If anyone has experience in the field of killing dragons, we'd really love to hear from you. I'll add names to this list as I get 'em, so keep them coming.

DRAGONSLAYERS
Hal: Mostly swords, muskets, more modern if needed.
Kevin: Maces, swords, some staff work.
Mal: Guns and swords.
Spike: Swords.
Anakin: Lightsabers.
Allison: Bows.
Charlie: Pyrokinesis.
Elle: Electrokinesis.
Robin: Sword and bows.
Harry: Sword.
Captain Becker: EMD and other guns.

fuck fuck FUCK I saw him again. In town. Jerry.

I fucking knew this was fucking going to fucking happen. I fucking KNEW it.


[Amy, Ginger, Charley]
I hope you don't need reminding to be extra fucking careful.

Apparently there is a call for something fun to do. And this weekend is the release of fun movies. Who wants to go see Warm Bodies and then have some drinks after, say Friday night? I'd offer Thursday but, you know, happily taken girl would like to spend time with her incredibly handsome boyfriend that night.

[Guy]

Come over? John is out of town and I can't leave Toby for long but I can't let you near that place aga would love to throw some positive vibes in the air with this man I'm quite crazy about.

[ooc: purposely not filtered against Dark so he can see everyone being damn happy whether he's here or not!]

I'm gonna go to the complex gym for another workout in about ten minutes. Anyone feels up for a bit of sparring, I'll be around there if they want to practice.

Might be heading out to the movies on Friday night too. That new one with James Bond looked interesting. There's also that one with Arnold also. Get to the choppah Do it NOW!

What do you guys think about re-organizing a bit? I keep thinking about how unprepared we all were during that big round of demon attacks a few weeks ago. I feel like we should be finding better ways to use our time and skills to help out more around here.

I wanted to know what you guys think of re-organizing as a sort of teaching center for the people that show up here? I mean, there's the hunter camp already, but that's not held that often and not everyone goes. This would be more local. I'm not saying replace the hunter's camp, because Bobby is the best there is for that anyways. But we can cover the basics. What the general situation with Lucifer is, how to recognize a possessed person, the most basic defenses, that sort of thing. Enough to keep non-fighters alive. We can still keep on with the patrols and hunts as well, I'm just trying to think of more ways we can get involved.