After checking his voicemail and finding a call from
Mel, Xander made the lamest - and sadly most believable - excuse ever, to ditch his mom back at his apartment: going out for doughnuts.
Then he made some calls. To some people. Who'd already gotten some calls of their own. And then he waited.
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[OOC: congregatey check-in post for the intrepid vampire fighters, for extreme slowplay in some cases, since some of them are afk. Open! And that they were there is fine for broadcast, why is sekrit!]