Re: Challenges: a cure for the silence?

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, danspector@w... wrote:
> Since the list was dead silent yesterday, I thought I'd throw some
> challenges out there, using D.R.E.G.  (Dan's Random Episode 
Generator).
> For everyone who's forgotten, this is basically pulling two cards 
out of
> a deck and using them to get the number of an episode from 1-100,
> covering the first 5 seasons.  (Ignore the face cards, and treat 
tens as
> "0".)  Then I took a look at the B/W in the ep, and came up with
> ep-related challenge ideas.
>
> First, I got a 2 and a 10, so that's ep 20, "The Dark Age".  Even 
though
> this is primarily a B/G ep, there's plenty of stuff to work with:

Hmmm...  Well...  As you said, that's a B/G episode, AND set when 
Willow still had her crush on Giles.  So, with Buffy and Willow 
crushing on each other, too...  I'd really better not go there.  
Could get messy  :)

After all, I have enough problems being unable to keep Faith out of 
the picture  :)
> 1.  "Anywhere But Here, Buffy's version":  in "Becoming, Part 2", 
Willow
> is able to work the spell restoring Angel's soul before he gets the
> sword out of Acathla.  So Buffy doesn't have to send him to Hell, 
but
> without her guilt over that, she has trouble dealing with the 
Angelus
> issue, and with Angel not falliing in her lap tortured and 
dependent on
> her (as he did in S3), he's able to break it off with her, 
convincingly.
> So they're over, and Buffy's down, but still in Sunnydale, so 
Willow
> arranges for the gang to go on the "ideal vacation" Buffy 
mentioned in
> the "anywhere but here" game:  a beautiful Caribbean island, where 
the
> water's "way too blue".  Cordy and Xander are there (it's Cordy's 
money,
> after all), but Oz is off with the band, so B/W are unencumbered by
> guys.  
>
> Will Giles come with them?  Will there be some evil on the 
island?  Will
> Xander (having just realized his feelings for Willow, and being 
glad
> Angel's out of Buffy's life) make a move on one of the girls, or 
will he
> try and set them up so he can stay committed to Cordelia?  Will 
Gavin
> Rossdale turn up to massage Buffy's feet, or will Willow have to 
do it?
> <g>  (Remember, Willow also likes foot massages, per "The Killer 
in Me")
> Will Buffy and Willow have passionate sex on the beach that 
makes "From
> Here to Eternity" look like a Shirley Temple film by comparison?  
You
> decide. 

Have a scene in mind, but nothing more than that, yet.  
> 2.  "Anywhere But Here, Willow's Version";  post-"Prophecy Girl",
> Cordelia's parents suddenly change their vacation plans from St. 
Croix
> to Tuscany and Cordy, desperate for an excuse to avoid art and
> buildings, claims she's really bonded with Buffy and Willow and 
wants to
> spend the summer with them (figuring that Sunnydale may be dull, 
but at
> least there's a beach).  
>
> Unfortunately, her excuse doesn't work, and Mr. Chase, flashing 
that
> ill-gotten money the IRS will eventually nail him for, simply 
invites
> Buffy and Willow along on the vacation.  Hank Summers (who will
> eventually, you remember, move to Spain) is glad to spend the 
summer
> working at his firm's Florence branch (perhaps he brings the 
secretary
> he eventually hooks up with) and agrees to escort Buffy, while the
> Rosenbergs let Willow be "independent" and go on her own.
>
> Does Willow rent a scooter and run into John Cusack over ziti?  
Does
> Buffy encounter The Immortal (and, please, slay him)?   Do the 
Chases
> think Cordy's a lesbian and is in love with either Buffy or Willow 
(due
> to her strangely insistent request)?  Run with it.

Already plan on dealing with the Immortal in the next part of The 
Bonding Thing.  Oh, keep in mind that Angelus and Spike never 
actually SAW their mysterious adversary...
> 3.  "Putting that demon into Angel was pretty brill, Will"good
> version:  Willow saved Buffy's life, which leads Buffy to look at 
her in
> a whole new light.   OR
>
> bad version:  Eyghon and the Angelus demon destroyed each other, 
and
> without the demon, Angel's just a corpse.   Can Buffy forgive 
Willow for
> "killing" Angel?  Pour on the angst.

Well, Angelus not being able to handle Eyghon would be straying from 
canon a bit TOO much for me.  However, I've always had an idea about 
why Ethan set Buffy up like that.  Slayers are, after all, 
demon/human hybrids, themselves.  So, Ethan would set her up knowing 
her inner Slayer would take out the invader.  But, we'd now have, on 
the surface, something it took Faith and the First Slayer to bring 
out of Buffy in canon.  How does the still shy Season 2 Willow deal 
with a hungry, horny, preditory, territorial Buffy?  :)
> 4.  "Maybe you should consider a career as a Watcher."   Willow
> overcomes anxiety and the prospect of a crap dental plan to 
dedicate
> herself to protecting Buffy, with or without Giles's consent.   So 
now
> Buffy is more than a best friend (and maybe more), she's Willow's
> duty/destiny/calling.  What happens when Buffy can't kill Angel?  
What
> happens when Buffy runs away?  What happens when Faith shows up?  
What
> happens when Willow discovers the Cruciamentum?  What does the 
Council
> do when they discover a civilian interfering in their work?  Beats 
me,
> but take a shot.
>
> Breed, little plot bunnies!  Spawn fics!

Oh great...  Now I have an Anya Vs The Plot Bunnies idea...

E



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