Vampires and the cures that love them

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Just to keep everyone in the loop: the alchemy part of the cure will be done tomorrow. I believe everything else is being done on Friday.

It occured to me that if Angel keeps having total improvements with each part of the cure he'd simply fight even harder to not drink human blood. So what I'm going to do is say that, like Alfred with the antitoxin, it will take a symptom away (In Alfred's case, the broody coma) but it will not give him a wholesale improvement.

Also the symptoms that remain will continue to get worse until Friday.

I'm still deciding which symptom and may not figure that out until I see the alchemy in action, but just to give y'all the heads up that that's how it's going to go. He'll get an improvement of a sort, but there'll still be a downward spiral that makes it clear this poison will kill him if he doesn't take the cure.

Comments

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Okay, great. I was starting to get a little flaily-spazzy about if others began to think that Al's version of alchemy was the mysticalmagical kind you normally see, rather than the 'my fandom teachers more chemistry than YOURS!' kind.

They're kind of similar, actually, but the way alchemists work between fandoms, I've noticed, are reeeeally different. Hence flaily-spazzy.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Ahh, no. See, that's just the kind of difference we need! It lets us say it's close enough for Al to try (and explain why we don't get an NPC demon alchemist in) but far enough that, whoops, doesn't actually cure him. Darn. On to the next plot point!

So you're perfect.

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Yay, all sorts of awesome :D So I won't worry too much about that, then.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Nope. You may, instead, have a cupcake. If you'd like. =)

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

YAY CUPCAAAAAAKE But of course. It would be a sin against everything to refuse!

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Made 'em myself! =)