[VOICE POST]

[sasstastic]

Could anyone fetch me a cane and a pair of sunglasses? I'm assuming this one of those Island things.

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[sasstastic]

When are you from? Late 20th century?

[stillpretty]

1999, uh huh. You?

[sasstastic]

I'm a time traveler.

[stillpretty]

Huh. I haven't met one of those yet.

[sasstastic]

Now you have. There are a few of us around.

[stillpretty]

A few of the same one or a few different time travelers?

[ She feels like both could be possible on account of time traveling. ]

[sasstastic]

Both! There's a younger-looking fella, floppy hair, bow tie, goes by the Doctor. He's me but older.

[stillpretty]

What, did you de-age?

[sasstastic]

I change. It's an alien thing.

[stillpretty]

Not the weirdest thing I've ever heard.

[ Even before coming here. ]

Where from?

[sasstastic]

Long ago and far away. One of the advantages of time travel.

[stillpretty]

Traveling must be fun. Until now I couldn't even leave Sunnydale.

[sasstastic]

... Sunnydale?

[stillpretty]

It's in California. It's where I'm from. I mean, I lived in LA before that but we moved to Sunnydale and there's a whole host of reasons that I really need to get back there even now.

[sasstastic]

I know of a Sunnyvale, must be one of those differences between universes.

[stillpretty]

Other universes sound pretty lucky.

[ For not having to have a place built on a Hellmouth. Moving right along- ]

Sunnyvale's a place here, too. Just, you know, in addition.

[sasstastic]

Why the hurry to get back?

[stillpretty]

Hey, you never know. The world might end without me.

[ She says it like it's a joke. ]

[sasstastic]

Nah, you'd be returned to the point in time you were taken from. Things would get too unstable otherwise, too volatile.

[stillpretty]

I come from a place like's a big fan of volatile instability. Normal rules don't always apply.

[sasstastic]

I don't mean just your world. Trust me, nothing will end while you're gone, unless you're meant to be gone. If you remember dying, for instance, it might end while you're gone.

[stillpretty]

Only once and I got better.

[ A brief beat. ]

I just mean Sunnydale's a little.. different. You know, nevermind. You're probably right. [ She really doesn't have to go into this, it's best to just avoid it. ]

[sasstastic]

Tell me about it, I love different. Keeps me from getting bored.

[stillpretty]

It's not a good different.

[ She's obviously not too keen to say. Even if this place is strange, the Hellmouth's a lot more dangerous on top of the weird. Now that it's out she can at least say something that's on public record though. ]

It's probably got the highest rate of unexplained deaths of anywhere, for example. Twelve cemeteries within city limits and it is not a big city.

[sasstastic]

[ The Doctor sounds pretty oblivious to Buffy's reluctance, he sounds pretty chipper. Trouble is fun for him. ]

I'd say underground alien invasion. But yours being a different world, name like Sunnydale, cemeteries. Guessing vampires. Maybe werewolves and zombies too, just vampires would be too dull.