Sunday 27 December 2020

15 Buffy hooks from Hayley Williams's Petals For Armor

For Hayley Williams’s birthday, using song title from Petals For Armor as Buffy The Vampire Slayer plot hooks. Possibly a bit influenced by the video trilogy, though it skews scarier.

Simmer
A potion needs to be brewed at midsummer, and nobody particularly wants to be in the kitchen during a heatwave. And that’s before the Hideous Sun Demon turns up.

Leave It Alone
Seriously, why do people keep doing archaeological digs around a Hellmouth? What did they unearth this time?

Cinnamon
Someone at the college craft fair is making cakes that mess with people’s emotional states.

Creepin’

Sudden Desire
Someone cast a love spell. But who?

Dead Horse
Christmas special! Krampus you can handle. Evil elves, sure. But what can you do against Mari Lwyd, the horse skull that will invade your house and raid your fridge if you don’t defeat it in a singing contest?

My Friend
One of the gang is hurt / stricken / cursed and the slayer reflects on the danger her life puts those around her in. Despite the reasonable argument that everybody would be long dead without her, she needs some more help getting out of this funk.

Over Yet
The gang has to stop a prophesised threat... and this one isn’t conveniently Hellmouth-adjacent so they need to go on a road trip and then an overland trek to get to it in time. Expect something in between The Blair Witch Project and National Lampoon’s Vacation.

Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris
Valentine’s Day, and the campus formal attracts a heartbroken ghost.

Why We Ever
One of the gang takes a hit from a mystic energy blast and wakes to find it’s ten years in the future, and the slayer and her followers are commemorated on a plaque describing how they died heroically a week after the day they left.

Pure Love
One of the gang meets the perfect partner and finds their life turning into a Hallmark Christmas movie. Which is nice, but definitely weird.

Taken
Who kidnapped every under-twelve in the city? Did somebody not pay a musician who helped with a rat problem?

Sugar On The Rim
Our heroes have to stop a vampire ensconced in a really fancy nightclub. How are they even going to get in?

Watch Me While I Bloom
The Queen of the May arises. And plans to destroy modern technology.

Crystal Clear
A vampire mystic has done something strange, and now nobody in town has a reflection.

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