you're in the jungle, baby / you gonna die

[lucetimods]

Who: All draftees
What: Fighting the Third Party... and perhaps the wildlife.
When: June 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th. (Characters will be pulled out at 11:59 of the 6th.)
Where: An as-yet unmapped by the Malnosso tropical rainforest.
Summary: Here are your details. Try to stay alive, won't you?
Rating: Anywhere from PG to R.

No cut for you. Most of you will know how this works by now; if you don't, follow the lead of the others, or perhaps look to the last draft's fighting post for ideas. Don't forget to use your handy dandy character tags. Go forth and conquer thine enemies!

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[consultmybooks]

[He looks sidelong at Kennedy.]

How much has Buffy told you?

[simplestgift]

A...gateway to some sort of...

[Okay, he doesn't really get it, and/or is afraid he'll sound crazy if he says it and gets it wrong.]

[consultmybooks]

Hell dimension.

...a hell dimension. Or possibly all of them. we were never certain, just that the world would end if it ever opened.

There was also one in Cleveland, but we never seemed to get around to it.

[simplestgift]

More than one hell? Why would such a thing be...

[He doesn't get around to finishing that sentence.]

[consultmybooks]

[...it could just be Kennedy's Anglican nature acting up at such words.

Or he could have seen something. Giles decides to be sure.]

Kennedy?

[simplestgift]

Yes?

[consultmybooks]

Besides the obvious, everything all right?

[simplestgift]

Why?

[consultmybooks]

You went quiet. I thought you'd seen something. Someone.

[simplestgift]

...More than one hell. Hell was made for fallen angels, wasn't it?

[Grell is not a god. She just thinks she is.]

[consultmybooks]

...so they say.

Maybe one of them does. Maybe more.

Demons and angels in my world are entirely different entities.

[simplestgift]

Perhaps. Or perhaps you simply see them in ways most people cannot. Fallen angels believing themselves equal to God.

[Like Grell.]

[consultmybooks]

Didn't one particular angel start this whole mess in the first place by believing himself equal to God?

[...and then he catches on.]

...even if they don't think themselves equal, per say, I suppose they believe themselves entitled to a degree of familiarity.

[Grell once proudly declared that she served God, and he believes she values that role.]

[simplestgift]

Forgetting their place.

[consultmybooks]

[...yet again, Giles marvels at how impossibly odd it is to talk to a truly religious man. One day, he might tell Kennedy this.]

Perhaps she is.

How would you come up with a lesson that sticks, then?

[simplestgift]

[Actually, Archie has become more religious since coming to Luceti, like someone taking hold of the railing during a storm. In fact, he lightly touches the silver pendant hanging from his neck--a gift from Horatio for his most recent birthday. Never one for symbolism before, but when comfort is needed...]

You know who I mean, then?

[consultmybooks]

[So has Giles, this time around - enough to worry over what he believes to be his inevitable fate to suffer in hell when he finally leaves here, enough to trust that his friends will be safe in heaven when they finally die, enough to wonder if it's too late to redeem himself so he can't be with them.]

Red hair, goddess of death, unhealthy fixation on a certain pirate?

...Buffy called me in to set some protections on House 7.

[simplestgift]

Then Jilly should be safe? I-I asked Horatio to look after her when he can, but there isn't much he can do.

[consultmybooks]

My housemate put up a barrier that will...considerably delay Grell, if not stop her, when she decides to make a move.

But my spell will warn anyone inside the house when she gets within one hundred feet.

[simplestgift]

And Horatio lives just down the way if she needs to run. I don't think Grell would harm him.

[consultmybooks]

...no, I don't think she would. Not without...incentive.

...we've spoken before, in the past. Grell and I. She doesn't mind me much, and she doesn't know I'm friends with Buffy or that I know Jack.

[simplestgift]

She and I have spoken. When she heard I'm friends with Jack...she acted strangely. But she was nothing but charming, if a little...[Creepy?] I can't explain. Then she said once that she would like to be friends, but she and I were on opposite shores. But when I talked to her after that, she seemed charming again.

[consultmybooks]

An odd duck, for a goddess. If it weren't for Buffy telling me that she had proven violent, I'm not sure I would have believed it.

She had her...[creepy?] odd moments, but I'm not one to judge in that regard.

[simplestgift]

I still don't believe it, half the time. We only have Jack's word for it.

[consultmybooks]

Buffy seems to think that there's a threat involved.