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Published in 1997

Completely normal recipes with pictures and quotes from the show. Great thrift store find.

I had no idea these existed until today. It's a series of four choose your own adventure novelettes called Stake Your Destiny, set in early season 2. All written by different authors.

The first one was written by Robert Joseph Levy, the author of the very popular Go Ask Malice. I haven't read that one yet but it is highly praised on this sub. You can find both on Open Library.

The prologue is off to a dark start- an intelligent, well liked and hard-working Sunnydale student, Diana, commits suicide with a letter opener. We are given the impression something supernatural is going on. This is the third suicide this month at Sunnydale. The Scoobies begin investigating.

This book is written as if you are Buffy and you make choices accordingly.

There is a demon possessing people. It's causing them to commit suicide. There is also a cult connected to the demon in town. While investigating the cult I discover Drusilla and Spike have a hostage. I attack, hoping to free the hostage. I'm hypnotized by Drusilla, killed by Spike and Dru then turned into a vampire. I lasted all of ten minutes.

There are some fun little details from the shows, like Angel liking Barry Manilow.

A few weeks ago I rode the Carolinian from New York City to Charlotte. We ended up having a 2-hour layover in DC because of bridge work on the Potomac. This wasn't announced until we approached DC. But it ended up being pleasant.

The National Postal Museum was right beside Union Station. So I took the chance to stroll around during the layover. I can't say it's the most interesting of all the Smithsonians but it was a nice bonus to the trip. You get a free postcard you can mail from the museum too.

In 1997 Jim (pictured here yellow) was possessed by the spirit of a hyena. He ate the school principal.

Unfortunately this must have triggered a series of events that trapped him in the township in 2022.

10. Unicorns are real now.- Day Off

11. Buffy gets her own apartment.- Freefall, part one

12. Dawn and Xander make it safely back after portal hopping.-Own It, part three

13. Faith joins Buffy, Willow, Riley and Sam to fight the government.-Ordinary People

14. The group is finally back together and they have a rooftop cookout - One Girl in All the World

15. Xander asks the demons to perform Dawn's favorite story, The Princess Bride. -Own It, part one

16. Buffy and Willow reunite with Giles after a contentious year.-Retreat, part one

17. Buffy and Giles reunite after his resurrection.- New Rules, part one

18. A dystopian future is prevented.- The Reckoning

19. Dawn is saved and magic is restored.-The Core, part five

10. Willow sees Tara's grave underground, beneath the ruins of the hellmouth. -Return to Sunnydale, conclusion

11. Xander is turned into a pile of dust. (It's undone a few panels later)-Own It, part five

12. The group is forced to leave Dawn and Xander in a hell dimension.-In Pieces on the Ground, conclusion

13. Xander feels helpless as he remembers all the people he's lost.- The Watcher

14. Buffy's decoy dies without anyone knowing her real name.- The Chain

15. Buffy and Spike are separated.-Disempowered, part seven

16. Buffy kills a version of Willow in the 23rd century*.-Time of Your Life, part four*

17. Renee is killed with the stolen Scythe, just after her first date with Xander.- Wolves at the Gate, part three

18. Giles is killed by a possessed Angel.- Last Gleaming, part four

19. Dawn fades from existence.-The Core