Disclaimer: I do NOT own any Buffy characters or ideas taken from the show. All that great stuff belongs to Joss and Mutant Enemy. I simply write borrow the characters for short periods of time to use them in my stories. SlayerNet is mine though, you can't have it.
Author's Note: I'm still looking for a few questions that the new slayers might want to ask Buffy for the "Ask Buffy" column. Thanks for your feedback and help!
SlayerNet
By beenieweenie
Chapter Three
Willow was having a tough time. The classes she was taking were proving to be a challenge and the occult store that the Scooby core owned and operated was going through a tricky stage of trying to gain respect among suppliers and customers alike, and on top of that SlayerNet was proving to have more bugs than they had initially anticipated. It had been up for close to a month now and she was still averaging three e-mails relating to bugs a day, though many of these were repeat notices from different people.
Currently Willow was attempting to write a conclusive political analysis of the current relations between the United States, the Arab Nations, and the rest of the world in response to actions taken in Iraq. It proved to be a much broader topic than she had originally anticipated, with many smaller problems adding to the larger one. Willow shoved the papers she'd been working on away, into a pile of inventory lists for the store. Flipping her laptop open Willow logged into SlayerNet and checked the account for new bugs sighted. She groaned when she saw that there were 5 new messages.
Scanning the subjects quickly Willow saw that three of them were reports of bugs that had already been reported and were currently being fixed. That left two that were potentially new bugs. Willow opened the first of these two reports.
To: bugs@SlayerNet.net
From: RGiles@SlayerNet.net
Subject: Archives Links Not Working. Again.
Date: Fri, Dec 19 15:42(GMT)
Willow sighed again. Of all the parts of SlayerNet the archives were proving to be the biggest problem. They were supposed to be helpful, but generally just linked to each other wrong, didn't load properly and got lost in the lines of programming.
Willow-
These bloody machines aren't working! I have been inundated by watchers e-mailing me and saying that they couldn't even pull up the basic files, i.e. "The Mythos of the Slayer," "Real Vampires Can't Fly," and "How I Became a Better Slayer."
It's frustrating to say the least that we can't even use the most basic of the archives as reference. Please try and fix the archives as soon as possible.
Many thanks,
Giles
Willow grabbed a notepad and wrote in big caps FIX ARCHIVES, ALL OTHER BUGS ON HALT FOR NOW. Then she turned back to the computer screen and clicked to the next letter.
To: bugs@SlayerNet.net
From: MegR@SlayerNet.net
Subject: I can't use this!
Date: Fri, Dec 19 21:18(GMT)
Umm…I'm not sure who reads this, but here's my problem. My dad's an army officer and right now we're stationed in Japan on an army base. All computer activity is monitored by base command and every time I log into SlayerNet the computer invariably kicks me off after about three minutes. I don't have much time left, but I think the problem may be that base command can't get into the site and so shuts me out as a safety precaution. Can you fix this? E-mail me back at turningJapanese@yahoo.com.
Meg
Willow wrote another note under the first on her notepad: HACK A BACKDOOR FOR ARMY GIRLS. Then she pulled out her other list of bugs to fix and read down the list: GET MESSAGE BOARDS SORTED OUT; REFORMAT ARCHIVES AND RELOAD THEM; FIX LINKS TO SITES OUTSIDE SLAYERNET; FIND NEW WAY TO ROUTE ARCHIVES FILES; STOP ARCHIVES FROM CRASHING UPON USE; CORRECT USERNAME PROBLEMS; REDO USER INTERFACE FOR ARCHIVES; TALK TO BUFFY ABOUT GETTING RILEY ACCESS; FIND A WAY TO KEEP ARCHIVES ARCHIVED; LOCATE MISSING ARCHIVES FILES. And now Willow added FIX ARCHIVES, ALL OTHER BUGS ON HALT FOR NOW, and HACK BACKDOOR FOR ARMY GIRLS to her list.
Willow sighed loudly and then pulled up the programming for the archives and began to revise and rewrite them. It was going to take a while to get SlayerNet working properly.
Author's Note: Alright, this chapter was shorter than the others, but it was still fun right? Also, I must stress that I have no idea where some of the e-mail addresses I'm using will lead. Please DO NOT write to any of these addresses! If you do, and I hear about it I will sic my Blarog on you! And you DON'T want to mess with my Blarog!