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[It's hard to see exactly what's going on in this post, because it appears to be of a room where the lights are off, illuminated entirely by the computer screen. The young woman in front of her computer, though, looks irritated.]

Whatever this is, it needs to get the hell off my screen and let me access the rest of the internet. If it isn't gone in five seconds, I'm going to let Buffy at it to trace and dismantle it and nobody is going to like that.

[She scowls deeper.]

Except Buffy. And I've made this damn post like it keeps telling me, so it's going to go away now. Right?

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[losesbest]

Wrong.

[imagesmaydisturb]

Oh. Great.

[losesbest]

Better get used to it while you can.

[imagesmaydisturb]

Nope, sorry, I'm going to start up my anti-virus programs.

If that doesn't work, I'll call in the big guns. I don't have time for this.

[hasbottombunk]

You know Buffy?

[imagesmaydisturb]

Of course I know Buffy. We work together. Do you know Buffy?

[losesbest]

Oh, I love you little newbies. How you think those big guns of your's will actually matter.

See you in five minutes.

[imagesmaydisturb]

On the basis of prior experience and my available information, I don't see why they wouldn't. Do you have some other proof I should be looking at?

[hasbottombunk]

Yes. [hooray for name confusion?] Are you with her right now?

[imagesmaydisturb]

No, she's at home. Or something. I don't track her movements.

[She frowns, leaning forward.]

Is something wrong? How do you know her?

[losesbest]

You mean you don't know how to backread this community? Aw! That's almost sad.

People check in, and they don't check out.

[imagesmaydisturb]

I'm on a deadline tonight, can you cut the crap?

[But yes, she'll read the archives.]

Wow, what is this, the roach motel of the internet? That's very encouraging.

[losesbest]

Nope!

Isn't it just?

[imagesmaydisturb]

Okay, if you're not going to shut up, mind giving me the rundown on this place as you see it?

[losesbest]

I think I can manage that.

Once upon a time, a website grew a mind of its own. Now it spreads around all these universes like a tangle of wires. Every now and then you'll get hit with a virus, which will do, well! Whatever they please.

And don't even bother with the anti-virus. Or the hacking. Or whatever little schemes you've got building to get out of this. They won't work.

[imagesmaydisturb]

Huh.

[She's skeptical. Reeeeally skeptical. But then, she's been here for about five minutes, and she's naturally of a cynical nature.]

Spreads through universes, you say?

[losesbest]

Oh, yes. Noticed the plural, did you?

[hasbottombunk]

Home? It has to be a different Buffy, then.

I met her here on the community.

[imagesmaydisturb]

I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a copyright on the name.

Blonde, bubbly, wears clothing that edges on the eye-searing?

[imagesmaydisturb]

I'm clever like that.

[hasbottombunk]

Ah, right.

The blonde bit is right. Maybe a little bit bubbly.

[makewayforroze]

You know Buffy?

[imagesmaydisturb]

Not my Buffy, then.

[imagesmaydisturb]

I think it's a different Buffy.

[She had this discussion!]

Is everything okay with the other Buffy? I've had someone else asking, too.

[hasbottombunk]

Alright. Sorry about that.

As for the community, it'll go away for a bit, but it usually comes back.