Edward kisses the lead singer of Concrete Blonde, Dawn catches his eye, and virginity is a memory for them both. (NC-17)

Carr phones home.
Edward traumatizes the shit out of Bella.

Alice returns to Sunnydale to kick her brother in the jaw. On her way, she forgets to wear her seatbelt and flies into Chris. Whoops.

Lindsey and Phaedra test the post-apocalyptic canoodling waters.

For once, Tara's the one acting normal. Bad Willow. Bad Buffy.

Spike gets over his fear of reciting poetry in public, and with Bella's help, realizes he's acting waaaaaaaaaay funny.

Chris meets a cute lil' hunter... that could kill him in under five seconds. Provided there's a shotgun somewhere around here.

Xander says no more mister nice zeppo and makes Anya angry. Rawr.

Pryce. Wesley Wyndham Pryce. O_o

Eric has gotten ...cute? Oh, God, help... Kate's taking advantage.

Dietre and Marius meet and talk about David.

Faith Lehane. Feinting. I never thought I'd see the day. Dean has no idea what's going on.

It was more than a little disconcerting that while in Bella's company Edward's eyes had bled back to onyx. If he didn't work on his self-control, and fast, Sunnydale and the Cullen family were going to be at serious odds.

He'd excused himself from Tunes, hopped into the Volvo, and driven out of town, the opposite direction from what was now home. There was a smattering of forest--small, here, Alice was right as usual and anything worth hunting would be a longer drive-- and he'd found a few deer. One was all he really needed, though.

Like shooting fish.

Eyes back to topaz, or at least much closer to it than they had been when he'd left the music shop, Edward drove back. He smiled to himself-- he hadn't even told Bella most of the idea he had. Only the part where he got out of there for an hour and let her not get fired. Only the part where he bailed himself out of what could amount to serious trouble.

How was it possible, he wondered, for two people in the same town to have their minds closed off to him? He understood about Dawn's blood; it was different, and that was why he was drawn to it. That and the raw hunger he'd felt. But Bella...

... Bella could make him fall off the wagon. Over and over. And get crushed by the wheels as the wagon ran him over.

He pulled into the same parking space he'd been in before, noting with amusement that night was falling. It would be dark, very soon.

Edward opened the door to the shop, listened to the bell ring, and smiled at Bella, who stood behind the counter. Immediately, he closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, and his smile widened, no teeth showing.

"Time's up," he said.
( as the day grows dim, I hear you sing golden hymns )

...what the cast does in its down time...

Vampires


Spike
Lives: in a crypt.
Drinks: blood with a straw
Enjoys: looking at Eleni's clevage; kitten poker; flowering onions; watching Passions with Joyce and/or Giles; dry wall.




Angelus
Lives: in his old mansion.
Drinks: while listening to Manilow
Enjoys: being queen; removing his nose.




Phaedra
Lives: in a hotel room. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Drinks: diet coke from cans, hoping they're laced with Jack Daniels. Or sprite, which gets spat out when she laughs at Queen Puppet.
Enjoys: being ironical; throwing bananna trees; sexin'.




Jesse
Lives: ...somewhere.
Drinks: on occasion.
Enjoys: being bathed in the sink.





David
Lives: in a hush house on the island Lestat gave him.
Drinks: tea.
Enjoys: singing 'i'm a little teapot;' tweed, candy.





Merrick
Lives: for rum.
Drinks: rum.
Enjoys: swimming in rum.





Lestat
Lives: For being amazing and adored, mmmmkay?
Drinks: Jesus. Beat that.
Enjoys: Standing in the middle of Wal-Mart; preening in front of the mirror; listening to his greatest hits on CD; meandering around New Orleans and scaring tourists.





Dru
Lives: In her head.
Drinks: Nah. You really think she needs to?? C'mon.
Enjoys: Her dollies; flogging; stars; and daisies.





Nicki
Lives: For crazy. Breaks for it, too.
Drinks: He can't drink. Rub it in, fucker.
Enjoys: Having hands; the violin; Aerosmith; sitting on a stool in the corner; skipping merrily.





Saerian
Lives: yes! He does! Take that, Phaedra!
Drinks: at every available opportunity.
Enjoys: making the 'how you doin' face; women;, cigarettes; women; drinking; women; sinning; women...sometimes burping the alphabet; making eyes at the Conduit.





Lindsey
Lives: Somewhere. Shhh, he's hiding, remember?
Drinks: Not nearly enough. Drunken Lindsey=hillarity, I'm thinking. Plus now, he can drink blood.
Enjoys: Drawling at people; Angry sex; Mailing himself to outer Mongolia.





Vincenzo
Lives: For accidental bleeding
Drinks: On the job.
Enjoys: Layin' on ur tablez.





Edward
Lives: With a lot of adopted siblings that aren't really adopted, and are all so pretty it's kind of disgusting.
Drinks: Mountain lion and grizzly, preferably. Or, y'know, Summerses....why do they taste metallic? NOM NOM NOM.
Enjoys: Giving himself monster guilt trips, dazzling people, being shiny





Jasper
Lives:
Drinks:
Enjoys:





Humans

Anita
Lives: in an odd orgy of man-flesh with Richard and Jean-Claude. There's biting.
Drinks: I'm not going there.
Enjoys: Collecting stuffed penguins and deleting this unflattering picture.




Buffy
Lives: in a house with no windows...there were windows once. Then this game started. Now, not so much with the windows. They keep breaking.
Drinks: Beer. Or with Spike.
Enjoys: Quality time with Mr. Gordo; ice capades without the irony; kick-the-Spike.



Xander
Lives:in the basement
Drinks: while listening to country music, the music of pain.
Enjoys: thinking about Willow and Tara...eating sammiches.






Willow
Lives: for the learnin'.
Drinks: no coffee. She is forbidden.
Enjoys: watching MacGyver; fighting static cling.





Faith
Lives: for hitting things.
Drinks: and eats off of Saerian's plate.
Enjoys: Freeloading. Smacking people. Deflowering Xander.





Dawn
Lives: with her big sis.
Drinks: coke. But not too much, or else she's cookoo for cocoa puffs.
Enjoys: squeeing; flaunting her girly parts; groping rabbis; GLEEE.





Niks
Lives: For stealing Spike's Sex Pistol's albums.
Drinks: Waaaay more than she's telling us. Seriously. Lookit her outfit.
Enjoys: Cultivating a nicotine addiction.





Wes
Lives: For Jenga, ancient artifacts, and dead languages.
Drinks: Until he curses and calls Illyria a smurf.
Enjoys: Being Head Boy; laughing at Angel wearing his pink motorcycle helmet; pie.





Lilah
Lives: For evil plots.
Drinks: Often. If you worked at Wolfram & Hart, you would, too. Whole place is an AA meeting waiting to happen.
Enjoys: Sparkly things. Pouting.





Tara
Lives: in her own world with pretty flowers and many rainbows, and probably a nude Willow.
Drinks: herbal tea - it's Earthy.
Enjoys: Willow, magic, and Willow and Magic. Oh, and a nice warm bath.... with Willow and magic.






Eric
Lives: With a big dog named Sancho. Waaaait for it....
Drinks: With a big dog named Sancho.
Enjoys: Hitching Sancho to a sled, which lasts for all of five minutes before the dog runs away, because he is afflicted with ADD.





Kate
Lives: For watching "Alias."
Drinks: Like a champ.
Enjoys: Sarcasm and guns.





Anya
Lives: With Xander, and yay for sex!
Drinks: Despite the fact that she's over 1,000 years old and still gets carded.
Enjoys: Exchanging money for goods and/or services; making money; comparing people to money; money.





Gwen
Lives: Very well. You can't afford her.
Drinks: Despite the heavy risk of electrocution.
Enjoys: Frying eggs using only her hands; jump starting cars; making people nervous.





Dietre
Lives: In an alley like a hobo, or on Eric's couch.
Drinks: In the corner at social gatherings. Usually something ends up broken. Usually someone's face.
Enjoys: Angsting in all its forms. Playing piano. And Obsessing. So much obsessing.





Cordy
Lives: In LA, with a phantom roomie. No, seriously.
Drinks: More often since starting work with Capt. Broodypants.
Enjoys: Passing judgement on fashion victims; long stretches of time without visions; gossip; clothes.






Bella
Lives: With Police Chief Swan.
Drinks: Nah. I not think so.
Enjoys: Pouting; eternal damnation; seriously testing Edward's patience; extreme sports; being part Albino.





Dean
Lives: In the Metallicar.
Drinks: Like a champ.
Enjoys: Being objectified; chasing after his baby brother; vibrating hotel beds.





Jo
Lives: Here and there and everywhere.
Drinks: She works in a bar. What do you think?
Enjoys: Hitting boys with shotguns; shooting evil things in the butt with salt; getting tied to things by possessed Winchesters.





Riley
Lives: That is classified information.
Drinks: When the work drives him to it.
Enjoys: Putting chips in vampires; tiny blondes with attitude problems; flamethrowers.





Weres and Shape-shifters

Carr
Lives: AT the bar.
Drinks: see above.
Enjoys: Looking like he's done something very wrong; being a wookie.





Oz
Lives: in a van down by the river. Wait...
Drinks: until Doyle calls him 'My Little Bam-Bam.'
Enjoys: mimicking Kenny from Southpark. Animal crackers and hummus, but not together.





Jason
Lives: At the Circus of the Damned, functioning as an appetizer for Jean-Claude.
Drinks: Wait... is he even legal?
Enjoys: Taking off his clothes; flirting; taking off more clothes...





Mao
Lives:
Drinks:
Enjoys:





Demons

Illyria
Lives: Wherever she wants. You gonna tell her no?
Drinks: To wash down the petrie dishes.
Enjoys: Smurfing things. Hitting Spike. Dying everything in sight blue.





Chris
Lives: Somewhere. He's in stealth mode.
Drinks: Beer, apparently. When he's in the mood for foreplay.
Enjoys: Faith's ass; snarky comments; driving buses; being amorphous.





Ben Glory
Lives: Shoved in a meatsack, thanks very much.
Drinks: People's brains. Bwa hahah!
Enjoys: bubble baths; minions; mimosas; slinky outfits; hating herself himself...





Furry Friends... okay, okay. Furry Friends that are not were-animals

Miss Kitty Fantastico
Lives: With Willow and Tara, her two mommies.
Drinks: Never, EVER, anything that Spike puts in her bowl. She learned that the hard way.
Enjoys: Snuggles with her two favorite witches. Yarn. Hiding under the bed. Avoiding being mailed to Abu Dabi.





Sancho
Lives: With Eric, and for recon.
Drinks: Whenever he can. Water. What were YOU thinking, huh?! Sancho never knows when Eric will take him somewhere where there is no water, or Milkbones, so he loads up when he can.
Enjoys: Snaussages; growling at small animals (but not chasing them because Eric told him to stay); 'people food'(but Sancho doesn't really know he's a dog... so...); food...ooh, look, a kitty!

Locations and Street Names
Here's a list we've made to help with the game, or use as reference for where things are. Please comment if you feel there's something we missed.

Residences
-Summers Residence: 1630 Revello Drive
-Saerian’s house—across town from Buffy’s: 10 Lakewood Lane
-Xander and Anya’s apartment:
-Wes’s apartment: 718 Virginia Street, Apt. D
-Angel’s mansion: outskirts of town
-Cullen house: 994 Ryder Lane; outskirts of town, opposite direction of Angel's mansion

Hotels and motels
-Phaedra’s Hotel: The Sunnydale Inn—Spring Street
-Lindsey and Carr’s Hotel: The Blue Moon Motor Inn-near the mechanic's on Quinn St.

-Restaurants and shops
-The Magic Box: North Main St.
-The Espresso Pump: South Main St.
-The Americana Diner: North Main St.
-The Doublemeat Palace: outskirts of town (opposite direction as Angel’s mansion); River Rd.
-Moe’s Butcher Shop: corner of Acker Ave. and Quinn St.
-Starbucks: 6th St.
-Mechanic/body shop: Quinn St.
-April Fool’s (clothing store): 6th St.
-Vieux Carré, a jazz bar in an alley off River Road
-Cafe Tres Chic, North Main
-Tunes (music shop where Bella works), 56 South Main

Schools and Municipal Offices
-Sunnydale High School/the Hellmouth:
-Sunnydale Elementary and Middle School (same location, different buildings):
-UC Sunnydale—FAR outskirts (you need a car to get here)
- Police station/jail: 110 N. Main
- Fire Department: 56 Magnolia
- City Hall: 117 N. Main

Cemeteries
-Restfield- where Spike’s crypt is
-Sunnydale Memorial Park
-St. Vincent’s
-St. Sebastian’s
-Sleepy Tyme Graveyard

Parks
-near Lindsey’s hotel—Sutherland Park

Bars and clubs
-The Bronze: badder side of town; 8th St.
-Willy’s Place: (The dive bar Anita and Phaedra go to—badder side of town); 17th St. and Marsters
-The Court Jester: South Main

Other
-Warehouse (Angelus/Phaedra thread)- corner of Marsters and 10th, near the docks
-Docks: Hallet Street
-Bus station: 7th
-Sunnydale Hospital: 5th Ave. and Webster Rd.
- Parking lot (where Gunn often leaves his truck): Magnolia St., off of 4th

*Note: North and South Main are the same street, just different sections. Picture it as forking or curving slightly at some point.

taken PBs:
Male

Abraham, John (David Talbot)
Ackles, Jensen (Dean Winchester)
Blucas, Marc (Riley Finn)
Brendan, Nick (Xander Harris)
Butler, Gerard (Cardoc Wallace)
Craig, Daniel (Eric Wolfe)
Denisof, Alexis (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce)
Gascal, Sascha (Dietre Abendroth)
Hunnam, Charlie (Jason Schuyler)
Kane, Christian (Lindsey McDonald)
Ledger, Heath (Chris)
Lowell, Chris (Jasper Hale)
Marsters, James (Spike)
Padalecki, Jared (Sam Winchester)
Schmid, Kyle (Marius)
Ulliel, Gaspard (Edward Cullen)



Female

Acker, Amy (Illyria; may still be used as a PB for Fred)
Alba, Jessica (Honey in the Sunshine)
Beckinsale, Kate (Phaedra Romani)
Benson, Amber (Tara Maclay)
Browning, Emily (Bella Swan)
Cook, Rachel Leigh (Alice Cullen)
Dawson, Rosario (Merrick Mayfair)
Dushku, Eliza (Faith Lehane)
Gellar, Sarah Michelle (Buffy Summers)
Hannigan, Allyson (Willow Rosenberg)
Lee, Amy (Crystal Darkin)
McGowan, Rose (Anita Blake)
Romanov, Stephanie (Lilah Morgan)
Tal, Alona (Jo Harvelle)
Trachtenberg, Michelle (Dawn Summers)
Tyler, Liv (Niklas Thompson-Wright)
Winslet, Kate (Jesse Reeves)

PBs used for previously-played canon characters* (holy alliteration, batman)

Bellucci, Monica (Eleni, The Vampire Chronicles)
Bloom, Orlando (Nicki de Lenfent, The Vampire Chronicles)
Caulfield, Emma (Anyanka Jenkins, BtVS)
Fimmel, Travis (Lestat de Lioncourt, The Vampire Chronicles)
Gordon-Levitt, Joseph (Armand, The Vampire Chronicles)
Kramer, Clare (Glory, BtVS; character is deceased)
Landau, Juliet (Drusilla, BtVS</a>)
Leto, Jared (Asher, Laurell K. Hamilton series)
Phoenix, River (Daniel Malloy, The Vampire Chronicles)
Weber, Charlie (Ben, BtVS; character is deceased)
Wilde, Olivia (Pandora de Romanus, The Vampire Chronicles)

*If you are picking up a character that was once played by someone else, you are NOT bound to use the same PB. This is simply for reference.

We do ask that you not use actors from ATS or BTVS if they may come into play in this game. For example, please do not ask to use J. August Richards just because we do not yet have a Charles Gunn. Everyone else is fair game, including Firefly cast members (with the exception of Gina Torres, Summer Glau, and Adam Baldwin, who had featured roles on ATS.)


Graveyard
used PBs from original characters: These PBs can never be used again, as their characters are the intellectual property of writers either no longer involved in the game OR the character they represent was written out of the story line.

Argento, Asia/Luna and Lusa von Bern
Myavi/Mao
PittMichael/Tristan Aberdeen
Scabbia, Cristina /Charlie
Townsend, Stuart/Saerian/Sean Mullen
Ulrich, Skeet /Vincenzo Quinti
Way, Gerard /Cavan Darling

No power in the 'verse can stop us
SPECIES and ‘VERSES

Facets is a combination of ‘verses, including creatures like vampires, demons, slayers, werecreatures, and others. Please remember that this is only a rough summary of each ‘verse, and sometimes it’s good to pick up a book

Anne Rice vampires cannot be killed by a stake. They can only be killed by fire and sunlight. They also cannot have sex, and they do not eat. They must rest, at least, during the day. Really ancient vampires, like The First Brood, are most likely unkillable and may be able to walk around during the day.

Laurell K. Hamilton vampires can be killed--they have to be staked(as in the heart being removed), beheaded, and burnt to ashes. High-caliber guns will work just as well as stakes, though the bullets must be silver(as well as the stake). Holy objects hurt them when wielded by someone who believes.

They have animals to call (ie, Jean-Claude's animal is the wolf), can have human servants, and tend to be specific types of vamps. (ie, Jean-Claude and Belle Morte’s line are incubi/succubi). These vamps can (and DO) have sex. Do your research. There are also Master Vampires for specific cities--these have more power and mojo than regular vamps.

Hamilton werewolves and wereanimals are part of clans. Each clan has specific traits. There are pretty much were-everything: Hamilton has werewolves, wereleopards, wererats, and even a wereswan. Again, do your homework.

Jossverse vampires can be killed by a stake, but if you are playing a slayer, ASK first. Ask the mods, AND the player of the vamp you want to take out. Just don’t be staking people right and left. We’d like to keep our main characters. Also, they can be killed by sunlight and fire (unless they happen to have found the Gem of Amara). These vampires, with the exception of Angel, also do not have souls.

Joss's wolves can have control of how they change and when they change, but it takes work. They can be incapacitated by tranquilizer darts or silver bullets. Their senses are different than those of 'normal' people. Oz was always able to smell Willow; Veruca and Oz were always able to sense each other.

Note: There are two canon slayers, that’s it, and Spike has not yet gone on his redemptive quest. Hell, he may not go at all. If you are considering an Angel character, or a late- BTVS series character, just run the specs by the mods. We’ll most likely allow it as long as you can explain it well.

Stephenie Meyer's vampires have reddish eyes, unless they are like the Cullens and choose to be 'vegetarians.' They CAN, and do, go out in the sun... though their appearance is generally so dazzling that they try not to do this. Some of them have special powers, like Edward, Rosalie, and Jasper... please do your homework. Also, please note that for original characters of this type, we will not allow all the vampires to have special powers. There have to be SOME that are, uh, normal, for lack of a better way to put it. They're very difficult to kill, but werewolves can do it; the method discussed is ripping them to pieces. They can eat, but don't need food at all and mainly just sit food in front of them to look like they're eating. They never sleep, and therefore never dream.

Meyer's wolves 'run hot,' in Jacob Black's words. Their body temperatures are always up around 108, and they can shift at will, with or without a moon. Usually just being upset will work. They tend to hunt in packs, and were created for the express purpose of hunting vampires. There is a pack hierarchy; there are alpha males. Again, please check into these things. Makes everything easier all around.

Supernatural vampires are a little different than anything listed above. They mate for life, for starters, and some are 'vegetarians,' but mostly they feed on humans. They can pick up your scent and track you for life. Dead Man's Blood (the actual blood of a dead man) acts like poison on them; a stake through the heart isn't going to cut it.

Werewolves are, in Dean's words, "badass." They are shapeshifters that cannot control themselves once they are in wolf form--no matter how much they want to. DO NOT come to us asking to be a werewolve from this genre with the capability of control. It just ain't possible. (For reference, see the season two episode 'Heart.') A silver bullet takes them down.

NOTE: This fandom has so many demons and other urban myths and ghosts and things that go bump in the night that it is almost possible to make up your own rules. For ghosts, though, and anything else that has been seen on the show, we will follow canon. If you don't, we'll get out the shotgun, the rock salt, and the lighter and torch your bones. You won't come back from it. Kisses.

the rules.
1. Original, non-canon characters will be accepted by the moderator at a rate of one per month. With so many different universes colliding, we need to keep track. Email us with your request, or, if you are already a player, make a separate post with “new original character” in the subject line. This rule is flexible.

2. All vampires, werewolves, demons, etc., follow the rules of their creator. *see later posts for more information*

3. You may play four cannon characters at a time. That means less than five. Four shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be FOUR. You may play a total of 4-5 characters. This number is dependent on your activity in the game, and what other players and the mods feel you can handle. If you post often as your characters, we're very apt to let you take up to five, possibly six... but you may NOT play more than four cannon characters at any time. A sixth character is dependent upon your keeping up with ALL your posting for ALL your characters, and this will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

4. To request a canon character, please email the mods and fill out an application. In your email, please put “Facets” and the name of the character you’re applying for in the subject line.

5. If you are bringing an original vampire character into the game, please ASK before writing that they are so-and-so’s fledgeling. Contact the player of the character you’d like to have sired your character. If you do not do this, we reserve the right to boot your character from the game.

6. Each character must post or reply to a post a minimum of once per week. If you cannot do this for a period of time, contact the mods and we’ll figure out a way to work that into the plot. Of course, we’d love you to post more often; the more you post, the faster the game moves!

7. You must interact with other characters--whether it's on the boards(where the formal role-playing will occur) or between journals. And we don't mean just one or two constantly, try to interact with more than that, this game is host to a variety of characters for a reason!

8. Moderator decisions are final. Don’t ask us to change them; chances are, if we’ve decided something, it could negatively impact the game for us to change our minds.

9. We want your input! This game is yours as much as it is ours. If you have an idea, let us know.

10. If you’re playing a canon character, and we feel you’re getting away from their true nature, we’re going to tell you. Please don’t take it personally—it happens from time to time. We’ll help you get back on track. We’re good like that.

11. You must be at least 15 years old to play. This game WILL contain slash (and probably porn). We’re not going to be responsible for warping really, really young minds.

12. Have fun!