Buffy The Vampire Slayer

[Ruby]

"High school or hellmouth? What do you mean 'or'? As if they aren't the same thing."

IC Details

• Game focuses on a small group of high school seniors.
• Set in Fall of 2016.
• The storyline revolves around creation of an artificial hellmouth, and a new Slayer.
• Vampires will be the primary monster, but a few others will be in the mix.
• Set in small town Midwest United States.

OOC Details

• RP standard will be Casual to High Casual.
• Reasonable posting rate: one post every week, at least.
• Character Sheets in the OOC for review.
• Post only approved Characters Sheets in the Characters Tab.
• You are assumed to be an adult by submitting a character for this game; please act like one.
• Any supernatural beings are open for application, so long as we can fit them into the Scooby Gang and/or school.

[Helo]

Interested. One of my favorite shows as a kid.

[FantasyChic]

I'll toss my hat here. Love the show.

Do have a question though. Going to assume there is one slayer. Is that up for application? Only wondering what I should be moving my interests towards. Perfectly fine playing a normal person or perhaps a spellcaster like Willow

[Ruby]

I'll toss my hat here. Love the show.

Do have a question though. Going to assume there is one slayer. Is that up for application? Only wondering what I should be moving my interests towards. Perfectly fine playing a normal person or perhaps a spellcaster like Willow

@FantasyChic

One slayer, yeah, and I'll keep them a GM character due to story. Though unlike the show (at least the early seasons), the rest of the gang will have to deal with evils directly.

[Helo]

@Ruby so would it be like the events of the show never happened or somehow the world has gone back to only one slayer at a time? Is there a town shaped hole in the middle of California?

[Ruby]

@Ruby so would it be like the events of the show never happened or somehow the world has gone back to only one slayer at a time? Is there a town shaped hole in the middle of California?

@Helo

Not never happened, but at a certain point the timeline was "corrected" by a Supreme Being; no Buffy, no Gang, no Hellmouth under Sunnydale. The storyline to this game deals directly with the consequences of that act by that Supreme Being. Buffy, Angel, Spike, etc, may be referenced, but more like legends from a lost, last, age than actual people from an actual fixed point in history.

[Plank Sinatra]

I would hate myself for not joining this. Count me in.

[Ruby]

I'll toss my hat here. Love the show.

Do have a question though. Going to assume there is one slayer. Is that up for application? Only wondering what I should be moving my interests towards. Perfectly fine playing a normal person or perhaps a spellcaster like Willow

@FantasyChic

Spellcaster works just fine. Realize that you'll likely have all the freedom in the world for this character type. The Hellmouth causes funky physics, so while magic may have existed once in pre-history...your character will have very much been making it up as they go along. Say they started toying with magic just as many kids do trying to make fantasy reality.

Because of the Hellmouth, the shit actually works. But only in the area of the town. Fly to New York City, and no magic. Come home, and once again magic.

Your character will literally have to write their own book of magic, even if they can somehow get their hands on a book of primordial magic...like by stealing it from the private stock of a Watcher, or just finding the right PDF online. Lots of options for character, and even universe, crafting in this setup. So just be aware of how open ended this game is likely to be on that front.

[Krayzikk]

I would hate myself for not joining this. Count me in.

@Plank Sinatra

Pretty much in the same boat. If I can get a good concept formed I'm in.

[Ruby]

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Pretty much in the same boat. If I can get a good concept formed I'm in.

@Krayzikk

Let me know if you require any assistance, or just want to bounce ideas off me. I'm pretty open to concepts for this.

[Helo]

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Not never happened, but at a certain point the timeline was "corrected" by a Supreme Being; no Buffy, no Gang, no Hellmouth under Sunnydale. The storyline to this game deals directly with the consequences of that act by that Supreme Being. Buffy, Angel, Spike, etc, may be referenced, but more like legends from a lost, last, age than actual people from an actual fixed point in history.

@Ruby

So they wouldn't have Giles's watchers diaries then but old scoobies might be mentioned in a more obscure folklore type book? And I guess most importantly did Andrew ever release Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyres?

[Ruby]

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So they wouldn't have Giles's watchers diaries then but old scoobies might be mentioned in a more obscure folklore type book? And I guess most importantly did Andrew ever release Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyres?

@Helo

His diaries do, indeed, exist. As does that video. That video can actually be found on YouTube.

[Plank Sinatra]

So what's the status on things that Angel brings into the canon? Do Wolfram & Hart or TPTB have any particular sway on the world at this point, etc etc.?

[Ruby]

So what's the status on things that Angel brings into the canon? Do Wolfram & Hart or TPTB have any particular sway on the world at this point, etc etc.?

@Plank Sinatra

Wolfram & Hart have the same sway they had prior to Angel, which is a lot.

TPTB always have sway; it's in the very name. Considering the "reset" didn't result in a hellverse, the Watchers postulate from that fact as evidence that TPTB may have been behind it. They know, mostly from Giles work, that reality was "tweaked"--they're just unsure how exactly and to what consequence. And if not them, something as powerful, or hard as it may be to imagine, something yet more powerful. Whatever the power level, something not inherently evil.

So, yeah, both of those elements of the universe are still factors.

Anything else Angel brought into the universe, and you'll need to ask specifically. (Like with TPTB and Wolfram & Hart.)

[Plank Sinatra]

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Wolfram & Hart have the same sway they had prior to Angel, which is a lot.

@Ruby

So did LA go to Hell?

EDIT: I guess since it's the last part of the franchise that was ever televised, it probably wouldn't be, I just want to clear it up because the Senior Partners taking revenge on LA is a major moment and I want to make absolutely sure that it's not going to need to factor into backstory.

[Ruby]

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So did LA go to Hell?

EDIT: I guess since it's the last part of the franchise that was ever televised, it probably wouldn't be, I just want to clear it up because the Senior Partners taking revenge on LA is a major moment and I want to make absolutely sure that it's not going to need to factor into backstory.

@Plank Sinatra

Technically, yes. Practically, no.

Technically yes, though no one would remember it, unless they were outside space/time. Some beings are, and some of those beings could, conceivably, share that knowledge through something like visions, or Giles' diaries.

Practically no, because none of the PCs will have access to such a vision or those diaries, unless it's set up specially for a certain PC between that player and the GM.

[Krayzikk]

So while I'm mulling a concept over, I wanted to ask; how small is the town intended to be, and how long before the game starts is this artificial hellmouth opened or is it happening after the game starts?

[Ruby]

So while I'm mulling a concept over, I wanted to ask;

@Krayzikk

Shoot.

how small is the town intended to be,

@Krayzikk

It's not tiny. It has pretty much one of everything you'd think a proper town should have. It has a mall, it has several movie theaters, and it's own school system comprising of several elementary schools, and two middle schools/junior highs that feed into the one high school. There's even a Community College, and not far outside the town, a state university. So not quite a city, but a very large town--about the same as Sunnydale.

and how long before the game starts is this artificial hellmouth opened or is it happening after the game starts?

@Krayzikk

The hellmouth has been opening for the past decade. Only in the past year has it gotten big enough for weird shit to start happening. It hasn't finished opening yet.

[Krayzikk]

Riiiiight, opening not opened. Been an eternity since I watched Buffy, switched over to Angel once I got to the jumping off point and haven't gone back yet.

That's all I needed to know for now, thanks.

[Ruby]

I'm gonna start on an OOC tonight, hopefully finish it tomorrow or the day after.