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Avalon Aurora said:
I noticed it while betaing but didn't think there was the best place for the commentary of this sort, but dual wielding crossbow pistols? When you are having trouble with aim to begin with? Really? o_O
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Fire them one a time and accuracy won't suffer too much, I suppose.

Still, a compressed air gun firing wooden rounds is probably better.
 
You made a mistake by using 'where' instead of 'were'. One denotes a location and the other a state they are in.
 
Avalon Aurora said:
He got them from the council. Can you see them ever going for something more high-tech when they have a low-tech ancient option? I have a feeling though that after the after-action report, when Giles hears that he went for dual wielding them, rather than using the second as already loaded extra ammo thingy backup (since crossbows can be difficult to re-load), Hiver is going to be in for some rough training sessions and a big lecture.
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I might not have been clear, That is what the SI did. Aim and fire one and then aim and fire the other instead of wasting time with reloading. I'll adjust to reflect this better.
 
Coeus said:
Oh I like that, jumping by geting killed. it would have a great impact on the character to. He'd wake up in a new world screaming like a lunatic, which might atract unvanted attention, que more sceaming!!! Even better if it's played for comedy :D
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It also gives the character a tendency to stay the longest in the least deadly settings. Comparing to SWTG I could imagine a sequence of really short "visits" to slapstick comedy universes where he gets killed before he even has a chance to find out where he is :p
 
Coeus said:
Oh I like that, jumping by getting killed. it would have a great impact on the character to. He'd wake up in a new world screaming like a lunatic, which might attract unwanted attention, queue more screaming!!! Even better if it's played for comedy :D
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So for the appropriate perversity of the universe after he spends months/years as a vampire/demon hunter in Buffyverse something happens, he slides and ends up in the house of containing an adorable looking little 10 year old blond.
 
Honestly, I made that suggestion for the idea of Hiver having to deal peacefully(she would be able to tear him apart with both hands behind her back) with an extremely powerful vampiric being after spending a good deal of time fighting them. Also that world has magic users so he could pick up a few more tricks.
 
That world also has some slapstick violence. And I was still in the SWTG mindset, so I was equating slapstick violence with ridiculously lethal for people from outside that world.
 
hpackrat said:
While the compressed air stake launcher is nice, its no better than a regular crossbow in that you can't reload quickly. At least with a repeating crossbow or repeating slingbow, you can fire off several shots in quick succession even if the things are bulky.
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There are semi-automatic airguns. I see no reason why a stake gun couldn't be the same. And the stakes don't have to be sizable-- the requirement seems to be "must pierce the heart" so a four-inch 12mm stake should do the job just fine. It would probably have to be a custom job, but a veteran paintballing group probably would know someone who could build such a device.

Pump action, like a shotgun, is also an option.
 
Given how the Watcher's Council appears at least partially competent in this fic, and how vampires are a global problem, I suspect something as simple as incensce smoke has been tried.

Maybe it gives the vampires a cough. Or, if 'pure' enough, a combination of skin rash and asthma attack. Basically, nothing lethal (otherwise, every Watcher would be using it), but maybe annoying to inconvenient. If it works at all. Like was set earlier, drinking holy water is useless and fully bathing in it has some effect for a couple of hours.

Has there been a mention of paintball guns filled with holy water bullets? Not quite as big a noise problem in the night, most advantages of firearms, though not quite as lethal as a good heatshot.
 
Would holy water retain its effects if mixed with some king of bonging agent to make some kind of stick gel. It would make more effective than water that can be wiped off.
 
Im still hope for the cross symbol laser pointer that I showed earlier. Depending on how effective it is it could be anywhere from infinite range laser razor whip to causing a vamp to flinch. If all it does is make them flinch its still a great thing as all it takes to crowd control a mob of vamps is to swing your hand back and forth.

could still mount the thing on the bottom of a gun as well
 
Avalon Aurora said:
Also check if you can get a sun-lamp that unleashes similar light to that of the sun, and a portable power source, and see if it is effective against vampires
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It isn't, we find out that the fact that the sun turns vampires to dust is due to some mystic mumbo jumbo during the Pylea episodes.
 
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    • "Ow..." I groaned from my spot on the ground, as I watched Buffy lop the head of the big green demon that threw me almost five meters.

    I felt my chest slightly and then grinned. "No broken ribs. Things are looking up."


    Buffy walked over. "You ok?" and offered me a hand which I took, and she pulled me to my feet easily enough.

    I nodded. "Yep. Thanks to my armor, I think. I will have a couple of bruises, but it'll be ok. Need to remember to get Xander and Willow some as well."

    Buffy frowned but I put my hand up. "Sec, got to call it in," and she rolled her eyes as I triggered my radio.

    "HQ, this is Slider. We ran into a new type of BU in grid 12. Around two and a half meters tall, horns on its head and a shell on its back. When Paladin took of the head, it melted into green goo."

    "Got it, Slider." I heard Willow answer. "Logging for later research. HQ, out."


    I had been reading the council's 'field manual' for their demon hunting teams. When an unknown monster is discovered, they are to call in to their HQ and find out what it is and how to kill it before they engage. After finding that out I started to insist we started to do the same.

    Buffy was resistant as she thought it wasn't needed, but Giles saw it as a good idea. Honestly I think he enjoys working with someone that is on his side when it comes to organizing things.


    Not that it always works like that...no time to call things in beforehand and wait for confirmation, if you get jumped on patrol like in this case. Then we call it in after, get it logged with as many details as possible for later research.


    "All done." I said and turned back to Buffy.

    She nodded. "I don't want Xander and Willow on patrols. Guarding the outside in the sun during raids is one thing...But patrolling? I know Willow is starting to get all Witchy with Miss Calendar and Xander is doing that training thing with you and Giles...But I don't want them patrolling."

    I shook my head. "I notice you didn't object to me patrolling. Normal human here, with minor magical talent" I rebuked her with a small smile. "But that's beside the point...It's their choice. We couldn't keep them from helping if we wanted to. I just think we should make sure they don't get themselves killed while they do it."

    She frowned and crossed her arms while walking along. "I still don't like it."

    I shrugged. "Honestly? Neither do I. They are too young...hell, I am too young. And so are you...But it needs to be done and they seem insistent on being involved."


    Buffy sighed and was about to say something, before a pair of suckers jumped out of the bushes and attacked. I pulled my water pistol and sprayed one before I stepped in to dust him. He was drifting in the wind in about five seconds after attacking.

    Fighting something in hand to hand in a fair way is not the way to survive when it's multiple times stronger and faster than you.

    I glanced at Buffy who was playing with hers, kicking and punching, so I leaned against a gravestone and looked around, providing overwatch. Might as well let her have her fun, she is much easier to deal with when she has killed something in the last five minutes.

    Soon enough that vampire was also drifting in the wind, so I called in a pair of vampires dusted in sector 14, age unknown.


    Buffy was smiling when she walked over again and I eyed her for a moment. "You would think that after your patrolling the town for almost three year, they would learn to avoid attacking small blonds, from evolutionary pressure if nothing else. Either way...So how are things?" I asked and she blinked.

    "How do you mean?" she asked and I shrugged.

    "Well, you do got a number of things putting pressure on you. Angel leaving when we found out the way to break his curse, your mother finding out about the real world and last year of High school started a few weeks ago."

    She sighed and crossed her arms again, leaning against the other gravestone "I miss Angel and mom...well, she is wigging out. She worries and we fight...doesn't want me slaying."

    I nodded "Can't blame her for wanting you safe."

    Buffy nodded. "Yeah...but at the same time she knows enough to know that I can't quit it. As much as I want to, at times."

    I shrugged. "Well, be thankful you don't have Kendras job. You keep the Hellmouth secure...The Council is sending her all over the world. Last I heard from Giles, she and her Watcher where somewhere in Japan hunting Kappas."

    She blinked "Japan? Why don't I get to go to Japan?" and I just shook my head.

    "Kappas live in swamps." I answered and pushed myself upright from the gravestone, before stretching a little. "Personally I don't think tenting in a swamp sounds like a great time. Either way, let's finish another graveyard and then call it a night. You got school tomorrow."



    AN// Big thanks to SakSak for betaing this part :)
     
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    • bastur2 said:
    Does your character remember that the mayor is one of the bad guys?
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    Yes. But also know there is not really anything he can do about it atm. The Mayor is a hundred year old dark mage with enough power to turn into a demon...and he control the entire town.
     
    bastur2 said:
    Yes, but it would be much easier to deal with him before he get his invulnerability this year.

    At least he should have spend some time planing how to kill him.

    Another buterfly is that fayth didn't show up... Did she died as a potential?
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    Not true. If he's too overconfident from thinking that because he can't be killed, he's unbeatable, they can pull a Judge on him. Cut him into pieces, stick the pieces into boxes, and then ship them to different parts of the world.
     
    The Mayor's a public figure with a schedule and minimal, if any, security. Set up with a Barrett a few hundred meters away from him giving a speech or something and put several rounds of 50 BMG through his chest and skull. Alternatively, swipe a rocket launcher like Xander did from the OTL and ambush him when he gets into his car in the morning. Or rig a car bomb, for that matter.

    Buffy and the Scoobies fought evil like it was a game. You? You should be fighting it like it's a war.
     
    Narf the Mouse said:
    Congratulations. Police, SWAT and Military are now after you.

    Your "best" result is that the Initiative "kills" and recruits you. You are now working with and for morons.

    Edit: Much worse morons than the Council.
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    The same police that are ever so effective at doing anything to the death rate in Sunnydale? Ahahahahaha no.
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    A Barrett (along with just about every other .50BMG rifle on the planet) is really expensive and not something he's going to find at the local gun store in mid 90s California; he'd have to special order it, and unless he's go a lot more money saved up then I think he has, he'd need something like 10K from the Council to cover all the costs. This is also just about the worst way to use it; political assassinations are high profile, and the state police and possibly the FBI(not sure how the jurisdiction on that works) will get involved, which will end badly. Either the actually competent investigators will arrest him or they'll get eaten by the locals and bring even more attention to bear on Sunnydale.

    Though I suppose if you're trying to break the masquerade and get the army to either occupy Sunnydale or evacuate it and turn it into a free-fire zone, this could be a good start.
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    I wouldn't particularly mind if the masquerade was broken for this purpose, though as far as the Barrett goes I'll admit I picked "biggest gun I knew of" on the theory that against an immortal magus there's no such thing as overkill. Still, Xander's stolen rocket launcher would have sufficed to handle the mayor's car. And considering that Buffy used that IN PUBLIC to engage a demon who was publicly incinerating people, and not a single Fed showed up to investigate this use of a destructive device... yeah.
     
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