“Alright, alright, I-I-I’ve got something. It’s Latin, so bear with me. Uh, to revive the vampire they need his bones, uh... w-which they have, and, um, the blood... this is very unclear, of the closest person... uh, someone connected to the vampire.”
“That’d be me.”
“Perhaps.”
“We were close. We killed each other. It really promotes togetherness.”
When She Was Bad
(It actually turns out to mean near physically, and the episode also comments on the Hellmouth being closed, so we’re covering all the bases here.)
Buffy has a hard time letting people get close to her, and by slayer standards she’s unusually open. She only has the Loner Drawback some of the time. It’s one of a number of “good in a fight, bad in a relationship” Qualities and Drawbacks in the books. Love is a big one, available in both regular and Tragic varieties. It can all be very dramatic, and be used as a lever on the characters, with a stable couple being a rarity.
If the players are up for it, who will the characters get close to?
2:18: Negatives
Things are building to a final confrontation with the ancient vampire Draugr. Shelly calls in the slayer gang, Carli arrives and tells her Kim and Ana are both dead, and she feels she let them down by not dying with them. Willis gets badly beaten up in a fight with Draugr’s minions, and finally tells Madison how he feels.
“Well, if we don’t die, this’ll be awkward.”
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