Third Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn stuck a sign on the door with some scotch tape.

APOCALYPSE CENTRAL! COME HELP RESEARCH, DROP OFF FOOD, OR CONTRIBUTE! DOUGHNUTS APPRECIATED.

Then she sat down at one of the tables, surrounded by old, thick, dusty, leather-bound books written in a variety of languages and selected one at random. It would help if Giles had given her anything to go on. What the heck counted as a minor apocalypse these days?



[ooc: Open to all. Dawn's *hugely* overreacting to the sign Giles left on Aeropaegetica. AFAIK, there is nothing coming that isn't already known about by someone--this is a non-starter, unless someone wants to throw clues in about their own upcoming plots. Otherwise, have fun making up weird prophecies.]

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[lovelymissbrown.livejournal.com]

"An apocalypse?" Lavender asked nervously.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"That's what the sign on the bookstore said," Dawn said, nose buried in a book, "and he'd be the guy to know, but he didn't leave any details, and augh," she put the book aside with a thunk of frustration. "So now I'm just looking for anything that looks like it might be relevant."

[lovelymissbrown.livejournal.com]

"You need a database you can, like, search by date or something." Lavender knitted her brows. "Well, gimme something to read. Maybe I can help." Lavender sat cross legged on the floor.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn handed her a random book that she hadn't been through yet. "Here. And the database is a good idea. I think it's in the planning stages, but we, er, they haven't gotten there yet. I don't think."

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

"There's an appocalypse coming?" Schrodinger asked from next to Dawn.

Yeah, as per usual, he hadn't been there a moment ago.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn startled at the new voice, not to mention the new person. "Um, maybe?"

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

"What makes you think the end of the world "may be" coming?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"The sign on the bookstore that said that's where the owner went."

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer stopped at the door and attempted to read the sign.

"Ap... Apo... Apackle... Apooklie..."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Apocalypse," Dawn said without looking up from the book. "Possible world endage."

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer sprung into his 'ready for action' pose. "Not if I can stop it!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Sigh. "We have to figure out what it is first. Want a book?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie had been on her way up to the 5th floor with some Jeff, God of Biscuits muffins, and stopped when she saw the sign.

"Can I help?" she asked the room at large. "I'm very good at research... And I have food!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn motioned her into the room. "How's your Etruscan? Anything?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Ooo! Some? I'm familiar with it, but not what I'd call fluent?" She sat down and put the muffins down on the coffee table. "And are we looking for anything specific? Rivers of blood, rains of fire, days of darkness?"

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer waved at Evie.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie waved back with a muffin. "Poppyseed? If you're not eating it over the books? And how have you been?"

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

"Apocalypse, huh?" Carmela says, sitting down crosslegged in front of a stack of books.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Probably," Dawn said, then gestured to the books. "Help yourself."

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

"All right," Carmela says, taking a book and squinting curiously at the language she doesn't recognise. "See, this is when it'd be handy if the Speech worked for written languages as well as spoken ones," she grumbles, flipping through the pages.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Carmela. It's very worrying," Evie said, holding up her book. "And not at all something one expects on a Thursday. Shouldn't this be a Monday activity? I feel as if we need to know everything by tomorrow!"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner stalked into the common room after self-defense club, and didn't even notice the sign as he slumped into a chair.

"Hey, Carmela," he mumbled. You'd think he'd be more enthusiastic, but he's had a bad day.

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer returned after about forty minutes with three notebooks, a packet of pens, a box of donuts from Jeff, GOB, and bunch of apples from A&S.

"Who wants jelly donuts?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"My hero!" Dawn waved. "Thanks, Joxer!"

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome," Joxer said. "Least I can do until we know what to attack, right? I'm not so good with the reading stuff."