Curing the Vamp

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

I figured it'd be a good idea to pull together all the possible cure suggestions so we can brainstorm them into a coherent whole.



Here's what we've got so far:

1) Part of the cure will involve something the UK gang has to get from Knockturn and/or Diagon Alley (so Angel is not going to be completely better until the UK gang gets home later this week)

2) Bel will suggest the demon alchemist route but for whatever reason won't be able to get his hands on a demon alchemist. Al will somehow step in to do what he can.

3) Lana has access to a healing serum that Lex Luthor made out of Clark Kent's blood

4) Steal underpants

5) ???

6) Profit!

My brainstormy thoughts:

Both teams are going to find out that Slayer's blood cures Angel but that they have no access to such blood. So at that point I think the Fandom and UK teams would need to start brainstorming how they can MacGyver up something that they'll hope will be close enough for government work. Mix in #1-3 and maybe toss in a Halliwell spell over it to cover the bases maybe? Also, how will the teams know to bring all their pieces together?

I dunno.

Thoughts?

Comments

[janet_fraiser]

Can we try to sex you back to health?

Is there a particular element to a Slayer's blood? Get a minute sample of it and maybe Janet could isolate that particular element and synthesize it?

(Lalalala, ordinary high schooler here, lalalala. Pfft, right.)

Anyway, it wouldn't work ordinarily, I'd think, but if you toss in a Halliwell spell to cover the bases/add magic, it might give it the right about of supernatural oomph.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Hmm? I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about.

I was pondering the concept of things like Slayer's blood. Like maybe a vampire hunter is a close idea, or maybe it's "Chosen One" (which Clark would qualify as, but I don't know if Chloe or Lana know that yet).

So if we're starting with a base of something like Slayer's blood, it then becomes a matter of adding things to it to get it even closer to what's needed.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

*volunteers for the healing sex*

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Dammit, too bad Anakin's not around, since he's a chosen one.

WAIT.

One could argue that The Charmed Ones are chosen ones...

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Oo! Good point!

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Yay caffeine :)

And what about our superheroes? Peter, The Tick, Artie?

Perhaps a combination of blood donations from all those people?

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

I thought that from the beginning, but I wasn't sure, it could be a last attempt type thing, plus the part whitelighter thing might help even more there right?

So we get blood from any one that's remotely 'chosen'?

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Entirely possible. Plus allows for various RP opportunities!

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

And maybe Tick & Artie can finally meet :)

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana's a Chosen One too, if you go with the whole possession/stones theme they dealt with in season 4. ;)

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Oh there ya go! Why don't we go with that then instead of the serum? That way we're getting more interaction out of it than you basically playing by yourself as you write home to Lex.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Also, made a looong list in the last UK thread of all the possible Harry Potter stuff-- one of the things was a blood-strengthening potion; maybe technology can do stuff too?

Also, I don't know if Nat's mentioned this, but FK canon has vamps being effected by curare and strychnine to help stop and start the heart. She may want to have to do some nasty things to Angel to keep him hanging in there.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

That's an idea. It's later in canon than I'm playing her, but we can *handwavey* that she's overheard Lex and others saying she's a Chosen One, but didn't really know what they meant. And when the others start talking about needing "Chosen Ones" she can volunteer the information she's overheard.

(I haven't actually *seen* much of season 4 yet, so I didn't even think of it till you started talking Chosen Ones. ;) *rolls eyes*)

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Why do I suddenly think a 'Chosen Ones' club is needed next semester?

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

We should all go into the library and put it on our library applications - just to make Janet crazy.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say I bet Janet regrets not making that list now ;)

Here's a thought: If we want a way to include more people what if we also apply a very broad definition of "Slayer"? That way anyone who's fought a vamp, a zombie, or a snow monster could also donate if they wanted to.

Obviously they don't count as Slayers as much as an actual vampire Slayer does, but that'd be the point of including the alchemy, the UK MacGuffin, and the spell.

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Ha that's such a good idea! even if I do fear most of the library people

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

It'd be really interesting if Walter was asked. Because y'know...vampire hunter being asked to help save a vampire's life. A little ironic there...

[demonbelthazor]

Bad-assed chicks from other worlds who might qualify to be slayers if they were from this one? Like, say, Callisto and Aeryn.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Bridge-mun won't be around until the evening, but canonically his psychic abilities come from his parents' exposure to cellular enhancers, so he's probably got funky "special" blood.

[demonbelthazor]

If you want additional angst and a chance for Angel to be awake for awhile, there's a Po3 spell that will transfer the poison from Angel to a poppet (a little vampire doll, hee). Trouble is the poppet will come to life and start biting people in the ankle, giving them the poison. The only way to reverse it is to reverse the spell and put the poison back in Angel, woe!

[fh_jackass]

If we go with such a broad definition of "Slayer" then we start to get into "why didn't they do that in Season 3 Buffy?" I know - magic, McGuffin, etc, but it still feels too easy.

I personally like the idea of using "Chosen Ones" from other canon, or possibly synthesizing Slayer blood in some way. I think we should need a sample of actual Slayer blood for that, but we can get that from Andrew/the Council.

Although if Slayer blood is synthesized from regular blood, then we could gather blood from people who have slain vampires in order to give it a little more of a boost. So we could work in the broad sense of "slayer" that way.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Well 'cause Faith was around and then Buffy offered herself to Angel without telling anybody. And because they had proper Slayers and because magic in Jossverse always works at the speed of the plot.

I'll grant that it's fairly broad but to me the flip side is that if we can get any proper Slayer blood then why aren't we getting more? Why not take a drop of Slayer blood and magic up more of it? Answer: because then we can't RP out anything else. It puts all the fun in the hands of those talking to Andrew, and those who could have the ability to make more Slayer blood.

If we didn't have volunteers I'd say let's go for it, but I'm reluctant to back something that shuts out people who could otherwise contribute.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Heh - no vampire puppets unless Angel himself can turn into one ;)

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Walter's one of the ones I was thinking of =)