#RPGaDAY2020 BUFFY 17B: COMFORT

#RPGaDAY2020 BUFFY SEASON

17B: COMFORT

“I move pretty fast. You know, a man’s always after - ”
“Conquest?”
“I’m a conquistador.”
“Are you sure it isn’t comfort?”
“I’m a comfortador also.”
Restless

Comfort for the characters. (See general thread for comfort for the players.)

We rarely see our heroes get to relax in-character, usually around the start of an episode before the status quo gets disrupted or at the end when it’s more or less restored. They get quiet days in between episodes but as an audience we’re not here for that. The most we see them having fun is when they get to have adventures on their own terms.

You can have longer hanging-out scenes at the table, as the players are partially creating the heroes and their actions and also partially the writers’ room jamming. Cut away for pacing, drama and irony.

We very rarely get an episode which is mostly a nice time for the characters. There are some with mild threats and/or where almost everybody has a week off to deal with life stuff.

The Prom has Buffy make good on her promise to give everybody else a nice night by quickly demolishing the MOTW. And even then it’s also the episode where Angel breaks her heart.

Amends has everybody doing low-key holiday preparations except, again, Buffy and Angel.

There’s also finding comfort in the moment, blowing off steam mid-episode.

And there’s also comforting each other. One of the ways to regain Drama Points is Support Your Local Hero, where a White Hat helps somebody through an emotional crisis.

2.05: Think Happy Thoughts

Caitlin sees someone die in a vision, can’t help him, and her insight goes on the fritz. Now she can only see nice things, anything dangerous is just a blank. And there’s only so much the gang can deduce from a blank.

“I know I have to fix this. I just... don’t want to.”