Travell, both astral and mechanical

Air Date: ?/12/2003

Monday, 9:00pm, Off home.

(I kinda lost track a little here I think)

Tuesday, 11:00pm, Off home.

Organising with Arden/Lucy to travell astralrally and kick some tracking demon booty.

Contacting Arden's coven, our little group is sent to a rundown old house which is the order's coven. Inside it isnt furnished and holds bugger all except for bookshelve upon bookshelf of Watcher material.

The order have arranged a necklace to allow locating people in astrally and also a silver cord to anchor people together. Jayde, Michael and Lucy/Arden are going.

Everyone lays down and some dull newage chanting sets them drifting off to sleep.

When everyone wakes up they are outside the house again. The lighting is really odd and the house looks much older and better maintained.

Jayde looks round and notices that Lucy/Arden is quite blurry here. Plus there is an odd thing with moving hair and morphing clothes. Weird. Michael is draped in shadow here and he twitches and turns in his sleep. Naturally Jayde is stylishly dressed in fashionable clothes which also lend themselves to fighting. Oddly enough, her fingernails are black and very long and sharp.

Lucy/Arden consentrates and rants about bars (the drinking kind) and maliable realities. She/he does a spell to wake michael who wakes with a bang and suddenly the shadows dissapear.

Looking around there doesnt seem to be anything overtly bad until Lucy/Arden turns around and everyone spots a huge monster cricket type thing on their back. Jayde does a leaping kick and kicks it off. Arden/Lucy screams in pain as it comes ripping off. It unfurls wings and flaps up into the air before some talons appear and it dives in to attack our little group of heroes.

J,M,LA run to the house and slam the door. Lucy offers that that is definatly the tracker and that here in this realm, it is vulnerable. Jayde looks around and grabs a firepoker. The thing flies in through a window and Jayde goes to work. The bloody thing seems to have some sort of hard armor, but Jayde is strong and it retreats outside again. Listening, it can he heard scrambling round on the roof.

Checking out the house, its definatly 'old school'. The kitchen stove is wood fired, there is no fridge or modern appliance. The bedroom has a 4 poster bed and there isnt any plumbing in the bathroom.

Forgoing any comments on the pad, Jayde grabs the lace curtains from the bed. The plan is simple, net it and bash it.

Heading back out, our heroes lure it into the house and the tussle is on. It goes for Jayde and slices her arm, the guys manage to net it and then Jayde starts to smash it to little bits.

After checking that it is really dead, Lucy examines it more closly and says that this kind of tracker needs something personal to initially find the link, although no idea what that could be. Also she adds that its time to split.

Heading back outside, people laydown and there is some chanting, followed by a quick scene change and we're back in the real world, although Jayde's arm is still bleeding.

Quickly patching it up and explaining what happened to the coven, our group splits and heads back to the abandoned factory.

Lucy says that the tracker was obviously 'employed' by someone to find them but that there was only one was a good sign.

Everyone pops off to sleep.

Wednesday, 9:00am, Factory sleepout.

Michael and Jayde talk about tactics. Time to get a new car after ditching Arden (pre road trip). They debate telling Arden's order about Lucy and decide to dob on him to his Mum. Michael will call in some favors that will hopefully keep some police attention off their backs. Jayde considers pretending to like Gemma to get some info on mary. Having agreed, they split up.

Wednesday, 10:20am, Visiting Gemma in hospital.

Everything is going pretty well with Gemma. Jayde pumps her for info on the attack that killed Alex. Apparently it was a vamp nest and it was pretty well organised. The theory is that the vamps were pointed to the council by someone (pick a group) who hates the council.

Having dumped out the business info, Gemma tries to be all helpful and nice again. She wants to organise something for Jayde and the council to get back on track and fighting Evil(tm), but Jayde says that that isnt a good idea.

Speaking of the Council, Jayde asks Gem about Virginia. Gemma says that she hasnt really talked that much to her, but that shes an american and could do with a little relaxation.

You shoudl know if im evil (Im not sure who said that about who).

Gemma suggests moving, maybe even to LA, but Jayde doesnt seem convinced.

Gemma is going to do some research into auras as some of them seem kinda screwy at the moment.

Wednesday, 11:50am, Travelling with the fool.

While driving to the police station, Arden suddenly rants...

"We're under life threatening conditions, being chased and tracked by spirts and hunted by sod knows who and I have an idea. I thin that you and I should take a day off and go into the city and visit the pier and go see a movie. Lets dissapear into the crowd and chill out for a bit." He looks over at Jayde, but just sees wide wide eyes. "Well it would help with the police. Being relaxed and normal, right?"

Jayde looks at him like he just gave her some leg warmers for her birthday.

Taking the wide eyed look of shock as a no, Arden expounds his 'it must be wednesday, im always an idiot on wednesday' theory explaining his apparent madness. He goes on to add that he

Jayde says its ok and tries to think of how to kick him out of the car and make it look like an accident.

Michael changes the subject by commenting that he chatted to some buddies and put the word out to the cops and that that should give them some slack.

Having some time to think, Jayde turns to Lucy/Arden, "Weren't you going to see Conrad before you got drunk and got inked?"

"Err, yeah, but I.."

The car stops and Jayde leans over and opens AL's door. "Great."

AL gets out and the car drives off.

Wednesday, 2:00pm, Off to see the wiz.

Doing a quick visit to the police and confirming their 'stalker Jonathan' theory, Michael and Jayde pack their kits and get a new car and head off to Sunnydale.

Once they are clear of Berkeley, Jayde rings Ardens mum and tells her 'thanks for the spell, oh and arden has people in his head.' Ardens mum seems somewhat keen to get Lucy out of her boys head. Jayde hangs up, smiling at a job well done. It feels just like school again.

Driving. No you arnt there yet.

Driving. No you arnt there yet.

Driving. No you arnt there yet.

Driving. No you arnt there yet.

Driving. No you arnt there yet.

Stopping for refreshments, Michael goes to buy donuts while Jayde is accosted by 'Red Cloud', an old indian dude. He says that Jayde's destiny is to goto the Wolf's den and...

Jayde interupts, "It's a casino, isnt it"

Red Cloud snaps "yeah. Yeah, it is. Now look, you head off in there. We're neutral ground and someone wants to talk to you. You'll find him inside. You're the slayer, you'll work it out. Oh and then come back here and Ill give you your Animal Guide. Ungrateful little.... kids today..." RC wanders off.

Jayde shakes her head and heads over the hill to the Wolf Den Casino.

Mmmmmmmmmm. Tacky.

Walking round for a bit, Jayde finds a slightly more upmarket area where people seem to not love bright flashing lights quite so much.

Looking round, Jayde finds an almost nice diner and notices a guy in a suit who is just watching her. Moving over to him, he introduces himself as Varaathg and has he got a deal for YOU!.

He represnts a different dimension to the one currently screwing with Jayde's life. His boss fears that the group who are playing with Jayde have made a deal with someone for sole access to this dimension. His boss wants to make a deal with Jayde for them to have sole access.

After some chatting, Varaathg says that what they are all really dealing with here is magic or life and thats what his group want. Obviously the best result would be total access for his dimension, but he gatheres that Jayde wouldnt want that, and that if they can agree to keep the 'incursion/farming' at the current level, but with sole access for his dimension and their assosicates then that would work out well for everyone.

More stuff just for their dimension and the earth gets a partner who obviously wouldnt want any apocalypse to break the deal, so less world threatening for the earth. Win win.

Jayde doesnt look sold.

V says that he's happy to make a generous deal with Jayde for access and that he does think that something can be worked out that will work for everyone.

He tells Jayde to think about what she wants from her end of the deal and that he'll contact her again in 3 days.

Jayde says 'like what?'

V answers, "Well, you have this problem with mary." He pats a pile of paper on the table. "I could provide you all the evidence you need to show to the council and details on what happened. But also think about what level of access you're happy with. Keep in mind that the less access, the less we can do for you, but think about what you want from the deal too. Obviously if you want things changed so you're the slayer and mary isnt, then thats going to take changing things round here which isnt easy, but while we're at it, you may as well work out exactly how you want things made, yeah?"

He excuses himself and leaves Jayde pondering.

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