New Species Event - Mass Interaction Log

[lucetimods]

Who: Anyone!
What: All in here
When: Today, Tomorrow, Until April 2nd
Where: Anywhere in Luceti!
Summary: People in Luceti wake up as something they weren't before. An elf, a gremlin, a vulcan, or perhaps a mermaid? Try living in someone else's shoes... if they can even wear those.
Rating: Not recommended for those with weak constitutions, raging hormones, shipping goggles, or people just too cool and attractive for this kind of thing.

No need for LJ Cut! Mass action style stuff all around town. You can use this if you don't want to make a post. Or you can make a post anyway. Have at!

Comments

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[No breath. Not even a twitch in reaction. That's... Well, yes. He should have expected that. But it makes it no less strange to receive confirmation that this is in fact a very ... fake Buffy.]

You're Buffy, but at the same time, you're not. At least for the duration of this experiment.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

I have to be Buffy while Buffy's not here.

[ another awkward slice of her programming. she was briefly used to trick the local demon crowd into thinking a slayer was still in sunnydale when the real buffy was dead. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[...Well, that's new to him.]

Why is Buffy not 'here'?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ the buffybot has been slipping in her stealthy be-buffy-summers routine but only to those who buffy herself trusts immensely. ]

She's dead. They need me because she's dead. [ ... ] I wasn't made for this.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[...] But she isn't dead. Not here, in Luceti. [Is she referring to when Buffy had died in her own world, then?]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

She's...no, she's not. [ a chink. like a little finger-hold that could let the programming split apart and let buffy back to the surface. it's been like this all day. little slivers of being her again -- the shift shifting back and forth. ]

But I'm still here.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

Then you shouldn't be here if Buffy is alive, correct? Do you have a ... set objective while she is around?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

Spike is my set objective.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

...And you have no secondary objective.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

To be Buffy and to love Spike. That's it.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

What if you had failed both objectives?

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

[ ...her jaw opens and shuts -- working soundlessly. there are no files for this. no protocols. no answers.

her eyebrows rise. ] I won't fail.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

But Buffy isn't dead and Spike is gone. You cannot complete your objectives.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

Spike is gone only until I find him again. A good girlfriend would never stop looking.

[ buffy is more than a little afraid of all the explaining and apologizing she's going to have to do after all this. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

But ... you're not his girlfriend.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

...Of course I am.

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

Are you Spike's girlfriend, or is Buffy Spike's girlfriend? [This distinction seems necessary.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

I'm Buffy and Spike's girlfriend. [ ... ] Have you seen him?

[ the program seems to be looping. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[This is very disheartening, and it shows in the way his boyish shoulders slump. His tone is flat.]

...No, I haven't.

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

If you see him, will you let him know that I am very, very worried about him?

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

Of course. I will somehow let your not-boyfriend know that his not-girlfriend is looking for him when he is not even in this world. [There is ... so much sarcasm there.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You're very kind.

[ buffybot is impervious to your sarcasm, albert. ]

[myswornduty.livejournal.com]

[He had a feeling that was going to happen. And he's feeling very childishly sullen over that fact.]

Indeed. Now please be on your way.

[When in doubt, clam up.]

[roboslaying.livejournal.com]

Okay!

[ and...she will be leaving now. there will be profuse apologies later, albert! ]