I went out to dinner with my surprise houseguest, Cristoff, and actually had a rather pleasant time. He's a little snide at times, but he has a very interesting family history. And I had a lot of time to hear about it, since I could not fall asleep no matter what I tried last night. I finally gave up and talked to Cristoff much of the night. After ( Read more... )

I arrived in Sunnydale mid-morning, and drove right to the Magic Box to meet Ms. Raiden. Anya seemed a bit put out that I wasn't there to help with the last minute Valentine's Sale customers, but she was running about so energetically that she didn't really seem to need my help. Gwen showed up about a half an hour later with some very ancient ( Read more... )

Well, we've been researching the Gaki nonstop, except for during work and sleep, to no avail. I can't seem to find any more information in the books at hand, although I have a volume specializing in Asian demonology on backorder. I hope Wesley is having better luck studying the amulet that the Gaki gave Dylan. I wonder if it might possibly be a key ( Read more... )

I spent some time yesterday researching the Gaki that Wesley asked about. The information I found was sketchy, but it seems to be the Asian equivalent of our vampires. Only instead of blood, they have the power to drain a person of energy...and in some cases, their soul. Now, Wesley did not see fit to tell me why he wanted the information, but ( Read more... )

Well, I'm somewhat amazed, but Destiny called this morning and said that she'd taken care of the problem with the chemistry lab. She sounded delighted with herself, as she should be, and said that she was eager to report back to Doyle. Apparently she had another vision yesterday, which was specific as to the lab in question, as well as a single ( Read more... )

I was correct about Destiny having had a vision earlier in the week. Happily, she believes the events depicted are not imminent. I looked up everything I could find on the missing key last evening when I got home. While Destiny's description was vague, it may well be the artifact in her vision. I found some information on a key purported to induce ( Read more... )

Well, two days on the new job and already there's a discrepancy in the inventory. Apparently a small group of items came in last week, and one of them, a small key of Roman origin, is missing. According to the description, it is not a particularly valuable specemin, except from the historical perspective, so it's unlikely that someone stole it. And ( Read more... )

The spell went off as intended, thank heavens. We performed the spell while Buffy and her team kept Seth occupied and off-balance. Tori did most of the difficult work; her intimate knowledge of the ancient spell used to imprison Seth the first time made her the ideal practitioner for the task. It was a bit touch and go when Ethan nearly turned East ( Read more... )

Wonderful! I spoke with the head of the anthropology department at UCLA about being unavoidably detained this week, and they assured me it wouldn't be a problem. This morning? I received a call that there is a departmental meeting tomorrow at 1 pm, and if I am unable to attend I will lose the position. I'd better tell Destiny and Gia to be ready to ( Read more... )

We have been researching Egyptian magic for days, but so far have not come up with anything that seems powerful enough to send Seth back to hell or otherwise contain him. Ethan explained to me as much as he understood about the statue from which Seth was released. The magic necessary for a vessel to imprison him is extremely difficult, and there ( Read more... )