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HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN
You may remember Jenna bringing Sweet the demon in for "Once More, With Feeling"-style hijinks in Milliways. Well, you can't have that episode without "Hush."
Or . . . you can, but then you don't have "Hush." And that's sad.
The Gentlemen
There are seven of them. They do not walk, they glide; they do not speak -- (live) human voices destroy them -- and they are blueish-gray, bald, and wrinkly in appearance.
Giles renders them thus:
Giles could maybe get out more.
What do they want?
Specifically, human. They're gonna take seven, and they might take yours. Not in a chocolate-and-roses sort of way; we're talking scalpels and jars.
They are accompanied by foot soldiers who look (and act) like imaginatively rendered inmates of a Victorian mental hospital.
The episode
The Gentlemen show up in Sunnydale, and over the course of a night they steal the voices of every person in the town into a box. The town wakes up mute, and is placed under quarantine -- the official explanation is an outbreak of laryngitis.
Ensuing are hijinks of the wacky persuasion. Xander, panicking, calls Buffy. With no voice. Uh, yeah. Riley and Forrest are nearly destroyed by their own employers when they discover (a few minutes too late) that they can't use the security system's voice recognition software. Giles prepares a transparency presentation; Dr. Walsh uses Simpletext to give troops orders. A man on the street sells small whiteboards so people can converse through writing. On the flip side, characters who have been having difficulties communicating through words find their misunderstandings cleared up when the words are taken away.
(Meanwhile, the Gentlemen use their scalpels to cut into people's chests and remove their still-beating hearts. Wacky fun!)
The Gentlemen are defeated when Riley smashes the box containing their voices, which allows Buffy to scream and make their heads asplode.
You are here
Anyone is welcome to participate. We'll pick a night, and every participating character who sleeps in the bar will wake up at the stroke of midnight, voiceless. Every participating character who is only a visitor will enter some point after that, also voiceless. We're still thinking about how visiting characters will be integrated, so please let us know in the comments if you'd like to have a character involved who can't stay overnight even once.
A key point: non-participating characters will not be -- there. An example; if Bernard were participating and Tonks weren't, he'd wake up at the stroke up midnight next to her, and be unable to wake her. (She'd be breathing, and perfectly fine, but silent and asleep.)
This doesn't mean characters who aren't participating have to be in bed by midnight. It means that participants will wake up in a sort of a Silent Hill (thank you, Furikku, for your helpful precedent).
What happens
Your character wakes up voiceless. You thread. Scary, funny, poignant, whatever suits you and the situation. And then . . .
Good question, tiny Xander! The box of voices will be destroyed in a way that is Sekrit. Then everyone screams, or shrieks, or shouts, or sings.
Ka-boom.
Suddenly everyone else is awake and unaware of what's happened. The ones who were awake and voiceless have their voices again.
And everything's back to normal.
Whatever that means.
This'll be happening in August. Among the reasons is the fact that I will be in Maine for a week starting Saturday, so this is also my "see you soon!" post. :D
Or . . . you can, but then you don't have "Hush." And that's sad.
The Gentlemen
There are seven of them. They do not walk, they glide; they do not speak -- (live) human voices destroy them -- and they are blueish-gray, bald, and wrinkly in appearance.
Giles renders them thus:
Giles could maybe get out more.
What do they want?
Specifically, human. They're gonna take seven, and they might take yours. Not in a chocolate-and-roses sort of way; we're talking scalpels and jars.
They are accompanied by foot soldiers who look (and act) like imaginatively rendered inmates of a Victorian mental hospital.
The episode
The Gentlemen show up in Sunnydale, and over the course of a night they steal the voices of every person in the town into a box. The town wakes up mute, and is placed under quarantine -- the official explanation is an outbreak of laryngitis.
Ensuing are hijinks of the wacky persuasion. Xander, panicking, calls Buffy. With no voice. Uh, yeah. Riley and Forrest are nearly destroyed by their own employers when they discover (a few minutes too late) that they can't use the security system's voice recognition software. Giles prepares a transparency presentation; Dr. Walsh uses Simpletext to give troops orders. A man on the street sells small whiteboards so people can converse through writing. On the flip side, characters who have been having difficulties communicating through words find their misunderstandings cleared up when the words are taken away.
(Meanwhile, the Gentlemen use their scalpels to cut into people's chests and remove their still-beating hearts. Wacky fun!)
The Gentlemen are defeated when Riley smashes the box containing their voices, which allows Buffy to scream and make their heads asplode.
You are here
Anyone is welcome to participate. We'll pick a night, and every participating character who sleeps in the bar will wake up at the stroke of midnight, voiceless. Every participating character who is only a visitor will enter some point after that, also voiceless. We're still thinking about how visiting characters will be integrated, so please let us know in the comments if you'd like to have a character involved who can't stay overnight even once.
A key point: non-participating characters will not be -- there. An example; if Bernard were participating and Tonks weren't, he'd wake up at the stroke up midnight next to her, and be unable to wake her. (She'd be breathing, and perfectly fine, but silent and asleep.)
This doesn't mean characters who aren't participating have to be in bed by midnight. It means that participants will wake up in a sort of a Silent Hill (thank you, Furikku, for your helpful precedent).
What happens
Your character wakes up voiceless. You thread. Scary, funny, poignant, whatever suits you and the situation. And then . . .
Good question, tiny Xander! The box of voices will be destroyed in a way that is Sekrit. Then everyone screams, or shrieks, or shouts, or sings.
Ka-boom.
Suddenly everyone else is awake and unaware of what's happened. The ones who were awake and voiceless have their voices again.
And everything's back to normal.
Whatever that means.
This'll be happening in August. Among the reasons is the fact that I will be in Maine for a week starting Saturday, so this is also my "see you soon!" post. :D
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