I had a bit of a detour in my quest to locate the slayer and the rest of those who disappeared from the party. A young man,
Andrew, tracked me down at my motel and wants me to do some sort of magic for him, reverse a spell of some sort. He complained of losing his ability to do magic. Lovely. I told him I'd be happy to investigate the matter and see what I could do--for a price, of course.
Although, I'm not so sure that whoever deprived him of his powers didn't do the world a great service. But I could use the funds.
Then onto the locater spells themselves. Note the plural. I've tried half a dozen variations on the basic spell and come up with nothing useful. Oddly, I did one spell with
Ripper as the focus and the light seemed to hover above Sunnydale on the map, as though he were still here--just before shooting wildly about my hotel room like a blasted meteor on drugs. I've a sinking feeling we're talking dimensional portal of some sort, because I cannot find
the slayer nor
her witch friend no matter how wide a net I cast. And when I tried
the vampire as a focus, it simply set the bloody map on fire.
Needless to say, I've been avoiding
Wolf-boy for days. I'm out of certain spell ingredients, and unfortunately the Magic Box is closed so I had to phone in an order to a shop in LA. And I've been honestly puzzling over ways to locate the lot of them if they are in some alternate dimension. I'm going to need to recruit some help from someone with more powerful resources than I.