action + video

[antibadstuff]

ACTION; OTA (First Arrival)
[ As soon as Buffy wakes up, she doesn't hesitate to bolt up into a sitting position, knocking the stuff that was given to her into the side of the cocoon. She looks in all directions rapidly, her hand reaching to the scythe at her side. Definitely not the epitome of safe placement, but she's slept with dangerous things before. No big. What was slightly scarier was the fact that it was lined with silk on all sides. The last time she woke up in something like that.. But it was just a creepy pond coffin, not one six feet under.

But there's still no one there, which has Buffy on guard even more. Just finished saving the world for the umpteenth time from the biggest bad yet and went to go take the world's longest nap sesh... only to wake up shortly after in a little pond coffin. ]

Come on. Big bad, vanquished? No more Hellmouth? There are only so many things you can put me through without giving me a break for things like sleeping and not living out of a school bus, Universe.

[ Buffy quickly grabbed the bag of weird-looking balls and the little box, briefly looking at what was in there but not bothering to read it before putting it away (later sure, in safer areas), taking mʔ up in her other hand and hopping out of the cocoon. After nearly attempting to decapitate the hologram when it jumps up on her, she got the information from it and definitely wasn't buying that this was some kind of weird happy world where people were actually safe while under kidnapping. Time to explore and potentially find a place to store the threatening-looking scythe at her side before someone thinks she's the one with the bad intentions and get something much easier to conceal. Like a normal stake and sleeves that don't look like she was involved in the collapse of an entire city. ]

VIDEO; OTA
[ Once she was in a place that she felt was relatively easy to watch her back in, barring demons through walls (very hopefully barring), Buffy finally took a few minutes to read through the pamphlet and turned the video phone on. ]

Anyone want to tell me what the balls are for or am I just supposed to press the buttons and find out? Messing with things before you understand them? Historically not a good idea unless you're aiming for bad.

Also in desperate need of shoes and clothes. [ There's still a scratch on her forehead and blood on her shirt peeking out of the khaki-colored jacket on her shoulders. It looks like she got stabbed with something, but she seems to be doing remarkably well despite the bloodstains. ] And a way back, but it sounds like you're all out of that last one.

Comments

[gammavirginis]

[ Sigh. It seemed even if she specifically spelled out that she wasn't anything like the 'trolls' of other worlds, humans insisted on judging her as one. Should she just stop calling herself a troll? Maybe if she made up some other nonsense word. Like Sllort. Simple. Kind of gross sounding. Try workshopping that, maybe. ]

No+w that we've mo+ved past the po+int where its understo+o+d that I'm no+t go+ing to+ eat yo+ur babies o+r murder yo+ur friends, do+ yo+u have any o+ther questio+ns?

[antibadstuff]

[ Buffy's a very judgey person when it comes to non-humans, unfortunately. It comes with the job if you want have any chance of surviving it. ]

Sorry about the interrogation.

[gammavirginis]

I appreciate that. [ A sincere apology went a long way. Some people were incapable of it.

Lets change the subject. ]

What co+lo+r is the stro+ngest o+n yo+ur pendant?

[antibadstuff]

Uh. [ she goes through the box next to her to pull it out. ]

Blue, why?

[gammavirginis]

[ Looks up some stuff. She still doesn't have this stuff memorized. ]

Ah, I figured. Genessia seems to+ think yo+u'd be mo+st at ho+me in Everglade. That is the city that yo+u'd be mo+st likely to+ find things like Tro+lls. The kind yo+u're familiar with, that is.

[ And the kind she sometimes bought blood of to sate her appetite. ]

If yo+u do+ decide to+ go+ there, yo+u can meet the First Guardian there, Ted Satchel. He's a friend o+f mine, and pro+bably entirely human. I never asked him his exact species. He's currently o+n an idealistic crusade to+ abo+lish necro+mancy. Yo+u'll pro+bably like him.

[antibadstuff]

Let me guess: Everglade's got a whole vampire, demons, forces of darkness vibe going on?

[ There's a definite exasperation here. An entire new world and a little stone still picked her for the gig. Or whoever made the stone. Unless it's a magic stone, which it could be. ]

Necromancy is uh.. [ Ahaha. Well it's a bad thing but.. ] Generally not a good thing. What do Guardians do? Besides, uh, guard.

[gammavirginis]

I'm no+t entirely sure. I guess they're also+ kind o+f like city managers? And lawmakers, since that's what Ted did; pass a ban o+f so+rts.

Yo+u do+n't have to+ live in Everglade if yo+u do+n't want to+. [ More or less an unspoken 'yeah, pretty much' ] I actually decided just to+ stay in Genessia city despite having several co+lo+rs that direct elsewhere. A change can be nice.

[antibadstuff]

Not sure he's someone who's going to like me much. I'm told I'm not very good at following anyone but myself.

[ but she's very good at the leading thing at least, even if she has her faults. ]

It's better if I do. Trouble finds me if I don't find it first.

[gammavirginis]

Well go+o+d luck. Feel free to+ lo+o+k me up at wo+rk, as I said. Yo+u can also+ message me if yo+u find yo+urself in need o+f anything. There's no+t to+o+ much I can do+ to+ help, likely, but maybe I kno+w so+meo+ne who+ can.

[antibadstuff]

Yeah, thanks. I'll swing by.