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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 1452890" data-attributes="member: 9410">A Vignette with "Grampa" Jones[Howdy, all! If you've been trying to place the name ''Theodore Jones'' in relation to the Buffyverse, give it up! He's a ''new PC'', who never appeared in the show (so that's why you can't remember)! ;-p I'm going to go ahead and post a 'trip to the library' post, to introduce my PC. Kael can use it to start the game, or she may start somewhere else, and say that this is just a vignette, or whatever. ;-)]***On a cold, windy day in March, a UPS truck turns into what looks like an abandonned wharehouse lot. Apparently, the driver has been here before, however, as he maneuvers the truck around a corner, and pulls up to where an older gentleman sits in a blue-cloth-and-tubular-steel-frame wheelchair, with a purple plastic ''wheelchair desk'' on his lap.As the driver pulls in, the older man in the chair looks up, putting away a notepad and pen. The driver dismounts, smiling, carrying a smaller-sized box, his clipboard, and pen. No doubt pleasantries are exchanged, and the driver hands the seated man the package.  He takes it, without getting up, glances at the ''From'' line, then sets it on the wheelchair-desk, and takes the clipboard, signing ''T. R. Jones'' before handing it back.The driver smiles, saying something else as he turns away and remounts, then the large brown truck rolls off. ''Gramps'' watches until the sounds of the motor die away, then turns his wheelchair around, and rolls up to a pull-down steel security door. He fishes in a pocket for keys, unlocks it, and rolls it up. Wheeling in, he pulls a cord, bringing the door down behind him, where it clicks back into the locked position...Several minutes pass... No doubt, the package is being opened, and the contents checked... Shortly thereafter, the security door is once again rolled up, and Grampa Jones comes rolling out. He grabs the cord and pulls the door down behind him, again, revealing a large ALICE pack strapped to the back of his chair, along with a cane, and a couple of those ''grabber'' thingies that folks use to ''grab'' things they can't reach.The package is gone, but the purple desk is still over his lap. As he rolls away from the now-locked door, a blackened steel chain rattles on his black leather jacket, as he draws it tighter against the freshening wind, and zips it up.  His legs are covered by BDU pants, in shades of dark, mottled grey. Not too unusual, these days, as camo is considered to be ''fashionable''. The action-traction combat boots adorning his feet, and the black eyepatch over his left eye, are less so, however.Rolling out into the empty parking lot, the older man fights the wind, and starts picking up speed. He whips around the corner, and out the gate, pausing to push it closed, and lock it with the massive 2-pound US Military padlock hanging there... He then rolls off down the street, heading towards... the bay?He rolls along, making good time, only pausing to watch out for the idiots who seem to object to sharing the road with an old man in a wheelchair. After several blocks, he turns into the Library, and approaches the wheelchair ramp. He stops at the bottom to catch his breath, then slowly works his way up it, apparently with difficulty.Finally at the top, he reaches back and grabs his cane, using the cross-handle to pull the door open, then releases it and squirts through the door, before it can close. Once inside, he repeats the process with the inner door, and quickly cruises past the card catalog, heading for a very specific stack of books.Once in the back, he trades the cane in for the pair of grabbers, and starts pulling books off the shelves in the reference collection. Vampires: From Vlad the Impaler to the Modern Day, by Adrian Giles; Vampires Suck!, by Ima Goner; Things That Go Bump in the Night (and How to Bump Back!), by The Initiative; and many more, similar titles are soon piled on his purple plastic desk. Then he rolls off to the fiction section, where Dracula, by Brahms Stoker joins the lot...He pauses for a moment, then turns about and heads to non-fiction, again, and searches the stacks for another, very slim volume, finally adding Disposable Butane Lighter Hand Grenades to the pile, and then whizzes off to a study cubicle, from which he does not emerge...Occasionally, scratching sounds can be heard, as of a pen on pad. Page-flipping and book-thumping sounds are common, and after a while, an odd, scratchy sound, as if from... a cigarette lighter?... can be heard coming from the cubicle...[My PC is trying to find out what hurts Vampires, and what doesn't.  I assume he's tried the 9mm Uzis with wooden bullets trick, and found that bullets, in general, soften'em up a bit, but don't do the trick... Hence the shotshells loaded with toothpicks that he's just waiting to test!  Questions he wants answered are:Does silver hurt them?Does garlic hurt them?Do Holy items (Crucifix, Star of David, Holy Water, etc.) hurt them?If they're dead, do their bodies give off heat/infrared?Does poison hurt them?Does gas hurt them?Can they be electrocuted? (The Initiative used stunguns pretty effectively, on Spike, in a 'later' episode).Can they be identified by the lack of a heartbeat?Can they see in total darkness?  Better than a Human at night?  Like a cat?Any other relevant information - for instance, that they can't enter a residence without an invitation from someone who lives there.Also, do mirrors really have any effect on them?What about ''Holy Ground''?  Can they enter churches, etc.?  Apparently, they can enter graveyards with no problems, even if they're on church grounds... Does sunlight kill them instantly, quickly, or what?  Is it because of the UV, or something else?  (I think from the show that we know it takes a few seconds, but those are painful!)][The GM responds that he can find no useful information.]***</blockquote>

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