Season Details.

Episode 1: "Gifts"

• Pilot: Dreams
  Splitting from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and the calling of a new Slayer. The old cast guest star.

• Scene 1: Gifts
  Jayde and Gemma are getting ready for university, but fate has a surprise for them, as they meet an old friend of the family and a destiny is revealed.

• Scene 2: In the Dead of Night
  After a stressful day and night, Gemma returns home and has some surprising revelations in her dreams.

• Scene 3: Scooby gang
  Jayde, Gemma and Jonathan come to terms with their new fate as a group. Casey is acting weird and Mary's curiosity gets her in trouble. Mary joins the gang and hijinks ensues.

• Scene 4: A dream come true....
  Jayde a vivid dream which seems to haunt her through out the day. What does it all mean? Strange events continue when an angry Buffy appears looking for Faith.

• Scene 5: Friend or Foe?
  An angry Buffy confronts Conrad. The Gang find out a little more about the watchers, Faith, Conrad and what the future might hold.

• Scene 6: Possession is nine tenths of the law
  While waiting for Buffy's return, Gemma and Mary make some uncomfortable discoveries about Conrad. Buffy returns and some form of confrontation looks inevitable.

• Scene 7: Dealing with the Devil..
  A deal is struck with Buffy and with Conrad about going to rescue Faith.

• Scene 8: Whispers..
  A faintly heard conversation.

• Scene 9: Rescue
  Launching a rescue of Faith and against the watchers....

• Scene 10: A Glitch in the plan...
  Glitch returns with bad news about Wulfrum&Heart.

• Scene 11: Dealing with Faith
  Faith recovers and they deal with her return. Twins meet Arden, has Leda returned, Jayde recieves her first punch.

• Scene 12: Leda's return
  Jayde finds some weird vamp activity, a knife and some papers. Leda returns from the dead. Faith moves towards the dead.

Episode discussion

I needed some characters and an idea that would get them working together. Hmmm.

The base idea behind this episode, that Faith is used by the council to make an army of slayers was such an Evil idea that I just know the players would have to act together to stop the council. I figured that they would probably rescue Faith, but I knew they would have to do something.

I am of the opinion that for the Buffy verse to work as a '1 slayer' universe, then a slayer can only pass on the gift once (thus when Buffy dies in Joss's universe, no other slayer is called because Buffy's death called Kendra). Still if I were the council, locked in an eternal battle against evil, what the Hell, I'm sure I'd give it serious thought to testing the idea, especally with Faith being such a loss (either against the council or rotting in prision). So, big nasty Council, going to kill helpless little Faith. How evil can you get? :)

Armed with an idea that would force the players to act, I tried to build the characters around the Buffy-esque idea. This lead to the Clueless/Cordie/origional Buffy like charcter of Jayde, the Willow/series Buffy like character of Gemma. Around them I created their family, Leda and David next. Then came Stella and DMS was imported from another game. Personal experiance sucked in Mary and Casey (initially as NPC's).

Taking those characters and their backgrounds, I hunted around for players, errr, I mean actors. This game was mostly to get Rachel into roleplaying and so naturally she would be one of the twins. Her close friend Kate was tagged for the other. Once the main characters were selected, I chatted to Richard and Ken. Ken tagged Mary and Richard made up Jonathan (well maybe made up is too stronger word, maybe imported is a better word ;).

Once the characters were choses and the first Episode plotted, then I could plot the rest at my leasure. As you see, the first episode took almost 3 months to run. During that time, the season expanded out to 5 major plots, 2 meta plot ideas and some minor inter episode cut scenes. With that gathered together, it was time to launch the game.

I hope you enjoy it....

Fiction

The Faith idea behind this episode is not a new one as quite a few people I have chatted to have had this idea independantly and written stuff around it (it's quite obvious when you think about it). Still, some people have taken this idea and used it for great effect, the most powerful story I have read so far being the dark and adult story the 12th sister by Rowan.

Lawyers take note: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel and all characters related belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and fox.