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[slayery]

'This is your stop.'

[ Her face contorts into confusion, then... flat out irritation. What happened? Did she die? Did something go wrong with the --mystical event thingie? -- Why is this guy all cloak-ridden? She scrunches her face up and squints her eyes, completely perplexed. ]

Wha-? No! No stops. And -- and, where am I? What'd you do with

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[savedbyradishes]

[...oh no. Not again. He doesn't want to go through it with another Buffy, or even the same Buffy who doesn't remember this place, which is really like another Buffy. Besides, when people go home and come back, usually lots of stuff has happened and they're like another them either way. Po certainly left the Dragon Warrior and came back the son of a goose and all that other awesome stuff (read: noodles + kung fu).

Now, it's different. Now, he's shamefully hideous, and hideously shameful. Now, as per usual, he'll simply use the voice function. He won't show his face over the video. He can't. He's too...strange-looking, even to himself.]

You-You're in the Underworld. Some people call it hell, but they're different, so it's not really.

[Voice]

[slayery]

So - [ Gosh, she doesn't sound too happy right now. ] - I am dead, then. Very, very non-alive.

[Voice]

[savedbyradishes]

[Po does not fear that voice!]

No, no...well, are you dead? Did you die? Because if you still can, uh, hear and fell your heartbeat and have to breathe and get hungry, you're not dead.

You hungry?

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[slayery]

I don't remember dying. I do remember the big ouchy of the mystical whatever-it-was-thinger that happened right before the creepazoid with the cloak in a boat, though. [ UH - ]

I'm... Not too hungry right now, but that could change. Maybe if the decor was a little more appetizing.

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[kicked_it_out]

[Well, would you listen to that. Excuse him while he just ruthlessly shoves down on all emotion ever.]

That's a familiar voice. Welcome to hell, pet.

[video]

[slayery]

... { no. No way. Nuh-uh. }

But you-- Spike..? No way. You're- but how?

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[kicked_it_out]

Not dead. That's the phrase you're looking for. I'm not dead. [Aside from the whole walking undead thing he's got going on, that is.] Still just little ol' me, doing my thing. I was doing it in Los Angeles -- don't ask -- and ended up here a few months ago.

We're still working on 'how.'

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[slayery]

Ya-huh. And I seem to remember a very high amount of you being dead. With the sun-splosion and Sunnydale caving-innery of it all... [ But god, is she glad to see you. ] Wait - wait, you're in L.A.? Or - were, but... Semantics. Why L.A.? Spike, how long have you been alive?

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[fealty_to_none]

Nothing dampens your spirits it seems.

Welcome. And I assure you, there is quite a high possibility that you are not dead. Many of us who are given these devices are not.

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[slayery]

Nope. Anti-spirit-dampening-girl, here.

So I'm hearing. Apparently being hungry is a good indicator of the not-corpseyness.

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[fealty_to_none]

A good attitude. It will serve you well in this gloom.

That would be a start. Also having a pulse does wonders in ensuring you're not dead. Or undead.

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[notquitegeisha]

[Oh, poor thing.]

I'm sorry, but you've been brought to the Underworld... Though it doesn't truly mean you're dead.

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[slayery]

That's what everybody keeps saying. So, um - any... idea why I'm here? Or, y'know, why the population of the Underworld seems so lively?

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[notquitegeisha]

We've all been taken from our homes and brought here, and many of us are alive. [She pauses for a moment and then continues on.] At first we were told we were brought here to fight in a war between Hades and Hecate, but Persephone killed Hades... And we were still here.

[She shrugs.] Now Themis is saying that we're here as some sort of test.

I know it doesn't make much sense, but it's what we've been told.

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[godlessblossom]

[A young Asian woman comes on the screen and she appears to be in some sort of shop.]

If you have no pulse and your skin is cold then you are dead. [She has a judging look on her face.] Though that does not matter so much here. Welcome to the Underworld, where the living and dead suffer equally.

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[slayery]

Well, so far, I've got pulse and still have all the warm liveliness I did in New York... [ Ummm... ] Uh - thanks. I think.

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[godlessblossom]

Then you are alive until something happens here. I do not think the living stay dead since Hades was killed, however, I could be wrong. Has anybody spoken with you on where to go next?