#RPGaDAY2020 BUFFY SEASON
13B: REST
“Well, what about the rest of the note?”
“What rest of the note?”
“The part that says, “P.S. This is a trap”?”
When She Was Bad
Downtime in-character, including gaps between seasons.
(Okay, not the relevant use of the word above, but it’s from the first episode of Season Two...)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is a mix of standalone and serialised stories and doesn’t try to thread all the way through a season. Episodes that don’t end on immediate cliffhangers tend to assume the rest of the week has gone by after the day or two the previous episode covered, giving time to heal bruises, do schoolwork, and have that semblance of a normal life that keeps getting interrupted by monsters of the week.
The biggest downtime is the summer breaks between seasons, when high school and university are on vacation and the long days prevent much vampire activity.
The gap also allows adjustments to the status quo, and the first episodes back often settle things before the new season starts proper an episode or two in.
Buffy only gets a few summers where relative normality are likely. Between Seasons One and Two she’s in L.A. avoiding her trauma, Two and Three she’s in L.A. avoiding her trauma under an assumed name, Three and Four is probably normal but moving to college, Four and Five is probably the most normal as she seems to stay in Sunnydale and has a consistent boyfriend, Five and Six... y’know, and Six and Seven Willow is away among other things.
We’ve had twelve episodes already like Buffy Season One. We have nineteen more prompts, if we include some two-parters that gives us a Season Two. So...
2.01 Crashing
Shelly returns to Fenmore after a summer away following the fight with the Undying to find the Sentinel not yet up and running, journalism majors looking to join, the radio station doing the news thing live, and a masked killer stalking Welcome Week.
“So nice to be back.”
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