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======================================================================Other: story======================================================================When Buffy Summers and Willow Rosenberg empowered potential Slayers theworld over, they radically changed the balance of power in the warbetween good and evil.  Suddenly the Vampires and Demons were overwhelmedwith Slayers, it seemed that the very existence of evil on earth seemed inperil.  Eventually however the forces of darkness started to respond, DemonShamans and Warlocks all across the face of the world began opening portalsto shadowy and nefarious planes, summoning reinforcements.  At the same timeVampires began to sire more and more humans, the kill-count rising as theyreplenished their numbers as fast as the Slayers cut them down. Meanwhile, approximately eighteen months after the Sunnydale Hellmouth wasclosed, Buffy Summers and a small group purportedly succeeded in sealing upthe Hellmouth in Cleveland.  And as the battle raged on all around theworld, the watcher's Council attempted to rebuild in the wake of thedevastating attacks upon their organisation by the First Evil.  Without acohesive leadership however the council broke into several quasi-independentfactions, each claiming to be the true watcher's council in petty rivalryand each made mostly from retired watchers or those pulled straight from theacademy.  Rivalling these groups was the faction under Rupert Giles, which,while run significantly differently from more classical council factions,did have agents that performed basically the same functions as watchers, andclaimed more slayers under it than any other faction. While this was occuring the conflict between good and evil had escalatedfrom skirmishes to a war on a grand scale, extreme and violent in naturespilling over constantly onto the civilian population.  Vampires were nowkilling thousands, innocents slaughtered as bystanders in the battles betweenthe Slayers and the Vampires and Demons.  The whole affair was becominginadvertently violent and public.  An incident in London drew the public eyewhen a Vampiric gang retaliated against a Slayer by killing her family witha car-bomb in the main streets of the city. Just as governments and other organisations all over the world werestretched to their utmost limits trying to suppress the knowledge of thesupernatural from exploding across the face of the earth, somethinginterfered.  Some entity or entities of great power, travelled to southernCalifornia, and resurrected the town of Sunnydale, folding the very fabricof time to recreate the town exactly as it existed in 1999.  Nobody knowswho or what it was that brought the town back, except that it must've beenincredibly powerful.  There are rumours that it was done by the Wolf, Ram &Hart, and others that it was done by The Powers That Be, whatever the truth,the Entity seemingly vanished once the deed was complete, leaving the newlyresurrected town for the taking. People came from all over the country to settle in Sunnydale, the town beingrecreated with all it's property intact, but no longer with any owners,thusly property prices were the lowest anywhere in America and it did nottake long for people to start taking advantage of this fact.  And as thehumans flooded in above ground, so too did the Demonic underground, drawn bythe alluring emanations of the newly returned Hellmouth. And thus it was, that vampires, demons, and those that fought them from allover the world began to congregate in Sunnydale.  Intentionally or not thebeing that remade Sunnydale spared the rest of the world the terribleconflict that had been brewing since the power of the slayer was shared.But it came at a price, the battle that would have taken place all over theworld, instead took place in one small Californian town.  With so manyslayers, the vampire and demons were by far more aggressive and recklessthan they had been before, the use of guns, bombs, and unstable destructivemagics becoming more and more common place in the battle between good andevil. This is the situation into which you have entered, a furious war ragesaround you, all the more intense for the small battlefield.  But it is a warwhich must be fought, it is a battleground that must be maintained, lest thewar escape this little town, and consume all the world. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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