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The Past -

“The First” nev­er hap­pened. Al­though, Buffy and friends did even­tu­al­ly take the Sun­ny­vale hel­l-­mouth of­f-­line. It’s nice and peace­ful there now.

Buffy Sum­mers was and re­mains the on­ly slay­er to have re­tired in the non-dead sense of the word. In her mid-thir­ties The Re­formed Coun­cil ab­solved her of all slay­er du­ties. Buffy & Faith had dom­i­nat­ed so to­tal­ly that hav­ing one slay­er go make ba­bies and be a soc­cer mom was doable. Af­ter many years of peace­ful home life Buffy died of old age sur­round­ed by friends and fam­i­ly, awwwwh.

Wil­low’s mag­i­cal pow­ers rank her with the likes of Mer­lin, Akhnaten, and Lilith. Re­spon­si­ble for nu­mer­ous Earth al­ter­ing events; such as pre­vent­ing sev­er­al wars, stop­ping var­i­ous and sundry de­mon­ic “end-the-­world” plots and even shut­ting down an in­ter­di­men­sion­al in­va­sion. Through­out ev­ery­thing Wil­low re­mained anony­mous, al­ways on the side­li­nes, al­ways al­low­ing oth­ers the cred­it. A feat un­de­ni­ably hers is the per­fec­tion of techoman­cy or use of mag­ic with tech­nol­o­gy pri­mar­i­ly the cast­ing of spells over, through and on com­put­er and com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­work­s. Af­ter Buffy’s re­tire­ment Wil­low be­came even more reclu­sive and cast pow­er­ful wards to en­sure her pri­va­cy. In the past, many claimed to have seen Wil­low or rec­og­nize her hand­i­work but the on­ly ver­i­fi­able ap­pear­ance was at Buffy’s wake. Where, in­ter­est­ing­ly enough, she showed no signs of phys­i­cal or mag­i­cal weak­ness de­spite qual­i­fy­ing for the “sil­ver dis­coun­t”.

Spike. Well he did­n’t burn up in flames of mar­tyr­dom. Nev­er ac­cept­ed by the “good guys” and no longer evil he led a lone­ly and trou­bled ex­is­tence. Spike was there kick­ing ass along­side the slay­ers un­til Buffy re­tired. He was the one to put down An­geli­cus af­ter An­gel lost his soul yet again. Sad­ly, Buffy nev­er for­gave him for dust­ing her first love and he be­came even more bit­ter and spite­ful to­wards slay­ers and scoo­bies. Spike crashed Buffy’s wake where his drunk­en rant­ings forced Wil­low to pop open a can of mag­i­cal whoopass. Af­ter that, lit­tle is known of Spike’s wan­der­ings. The Re­formed Coun­cil be­lieves and hopes he has fi­nal­ly been al­lowed to rest.

Giles led the ref­or­ma­tion of the Watcher’s Coun­cil. It is now called The Re­formed Coun­cil and is not as bas­tard­ly. Made in­to a vam­pire by An­geli­cus, killed short­ly there­after by the slay­er.

By the time Buffy’s re­place­ment slay­er made the scene the forces of evil were ready to go of­f. The du­al slay­ers and oth­er an­ti-de­mon forces slowed their resur­gence to a creep. That worked like but­ter un­til the last decade of the 21st cen­tu­ry when one of the slay­er’s went done gone. She’s not dead as no re­place­ment slay­er has ma­te­ri­al­ized. Af­ter some crazy spells The Re­formed Coun­cil has di­vined she is cy­ro­geni­cal­ly frozen and in or­bit. Whether put there by vamp­s, a gov­ern­ment agen­cy, or cor­po­rate in­ter­ests and what the hell for they re­main at a com­plete loss.

Most cor­po­rate boards are aware of vam­pires and the oc­cult. Few ex­ec­u­tives “get it” when it comes to su­per­nat­u­ral blood­-­suck­er­s. Few­er still re­al­ize vam­pires are the low-end of the de­mon pow­er scale and there are big­ger bads to loose sleep over. They view vam­pire’s as just an­oth­er risk to plan for. Mag­ic, mys­tism, and oth­er oc­cult pow­ers aren’t line items on the bud­get. Cor­po­ra­tions try to ig­nore the para-nor­mal and when that fail­s, spe­cialy trained black­-ops units are sent in but of­ten do not come out.

Shaman­s, witch­es and oth­er prac­ti­tion­ers have lit­tle use for the mun­dane pow­er cor­po­ra­tions of­fer. And by ne­ces­si­ty near­ly all grav­i­tate to­wards a more or less ac­tive an­ti-de­mon life­style. Al­though, there have been a few no­table con­ver­sions to the dark side.

The To­day, 2104 -

You all live in or near the GBA which de­clared it­self NYE 2099 a short four years ago.

Soon af­ter it’s dec­la­ra­tion Mrs Pearl moved to the GBA and got a room at the HIB­H. She be­came Ju­li­a’s mu­sic teach­er when the pre­vi­ous up and dis­s­ap­peared. Mak­ing her the youngest and coolest teach­er at Ju­li­a. Since she has be­come one of the gang bul­lies that tries to pick on you seems to have bad luck; books fall­ing on them, trip­ping over chairs, pants slip­ping of­f.

Mi­ako­da is a cit­i­zen of Na­tion of All Tribes not the GBA. She at­tends Ju­lia but re­turn’s to Mi­wok Is­land over the sum­mer. She al­so lives at HIB­H. Shar­ing a room with two younger tribe sis­ters and Thun­der Feath­er their adult su­per­vi­sion. Wicked­ly smart, she snags top hon­ors in ev­ery shop tech com­pe­ti­tion en­tered. She in­stant­ly liked Man­nie for be­ing ev­ery­thing the solem tribe el­ders were not.

Man­nie was born in Co­lum­bia but raised in KH by his three adop­tive par­ents. This is on­ly his sec­ond year at Ju­lia be­ing schooled with­in KH pre­vi­ous­ly. Man­nie is very small and could bend in­to a pret­zel even be­fore get­ting stupid with Yo­ga. When he’s not watch­ing old movies on his hand­ie he’s scam­ming the se­niors or show­ing off one of his mag­ic trick­s. Best friends with Gun­der­son who of­ten car­ries Man­nie around on his shoul­der­s.

Gun­der­son had his legs blown off in Michi­gan. Last year the se­nior shop class’s project was to make cy­ber­net­ic legs for him. On grad­u­a­tion day Mr. Ochi, the shopteach, pre­sent­ed him with the ul­tra spiffy robo limb­s. Af­ter that Gun­der­son was called the “six mil­lion dol­lar dork” un­til he kicked one of the bul­lies in­to a week of trac­tion. Sad­ly, Mr. Ochi, Gun­der­son­’s and Mi­ako­da’s men­tor has since joined the miss­ing, as­sumed dead list. Gun­der­son lives with his moth­er in a small apart­ment near KH. He thinks you’re all gonna die, soon­er rather than lat­er.

Wendy the slay­er is on­ly 11 yrs old. She has a con­di­tion that mak­ers her very, very smart but will kick the prover­bial buck­et be­fore she’s 24. A bit of a brat, most­ly she just lacks the emoution­al wiring to re­late nor­mal­ly. You and Del­ga­to are her on­ly friend­s. Al­though, she thinks of you and treats you more like one of her pet­s.

Del­ga­do the watch­er is a soft­ware teach­er at Ju­li­a. Old­er, but nice enough. Dress­es fun­ny, very pro­tec­tive of Wendy. He’s al­ways busy and does­n’t hang out much.

You all know demons ex­ist, that Wendy’s a slay­er, that Del­ga­to’s a watch­er and ex­act­ly what all that mean­s.

It’s the Fri­day be­fore Spring Break, whoo hooo!