Your story description had me thinking of the Monty Python sketch about man-eating Blancmange. I'd never heard the Haggis-animal folklore before. Now you have me thinking about possible jackalope attacks...

The Scots have been claiming that the Haggis is a real animal for ages! I just took it to its logical extreme!

Thanks,
Dave.

What a lovely terrible story! At least that poor town will have plenty to eat for the next year or so, what with all the wild haggis remains. Well done to Kennedy in laying her life on the line and well done to Willow in saving her at the last minute. It is kinda ironic that Willow's problem with mind control was solved by someone messing with her mind!
I can't wait to see what you have planned for the rest of this series. Buffy the alcoholic should be good for a fair few embarrassing stories and a little general humiliation at least. How long before she tries to drag Xander off to a nearby closet as the only available man in sight?

Thank-you, another story in this series is coming up soon. Xander and much embarrassment is on the horizon!

Cheers,
Dave.

Suitably absurd, even it it was a Willow angst story ^_-

Cheers....I think!

Dave.

Lol! Great ending, if you're not a haggis or a small kid who saw his or her father eaten by wild haggissisisisi. But could you have given us more ominous foreshadowing? I don't know if I'll ever have the strength of will to read another story in this series. Just kidding! Now go and write the next story in your series so we find out what horrors Our Heroes face next. I liked the goddess, by the way. Is she "real"? Or did you make her up?

A lot of these stories are already written (too much time on my hands) except for the next one! So I better start thinking up something good.

If you check the series info on this one I think there's 18 stories to go and every now and again they'll be something pointing to the horrific climax of this series.

Its fun (and a lot of hard work) doing a series before you post them, you can have 'story arcs' and go back and change things so as you think up new plot twists (very 1984), like Buffy's alcoholism!

Going to my friend's pub tonight, I shall quaff ale, make merry sport with the serving wenches and bounce a few ideas off my friends.

Cheers,
Dave.

End of the world, huh?
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
The Slayers' mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
. . . That's something I cannot allow to happen.

Your review made me laugh!

I keep forgetting that speech, but every time I hear it again I want to put it in a fic.

Cheers,
DaveT.

Wow awesome conclusion but you had to prep us for more depressing events. lol. Very cool story all around.

Thank-you, I hope I can live up to the ominousness of the future...don't worry I won't kill 'everybody'!

Evil laughter,
Dave.

And a good ole killing of time was had by all, and they feasted on well cooked haggis =D!.
Kennedy really really got what it takes, she really got it, and yeah, the slayers are gonna have to prepare for the future.
Cool ending, see ya!!.

Thank-you.

The ominous doom laden clouds of the impending series finale are gathering on the horizon.

MAW-HA-HA!

Dave.

Cue ominous music - not bagpipes though...

DAN-DAN-DAAAAAH!

Nope, I don't think you can do that on bagpipes...in fact I think I can safely say that bagpipes will not feature again in any part of this series.

Cheers,
Dave.

A highly imaginative story and a great read - thanks for sharing this with us. The ending sounded a little ominous, though... Planning some sort of apocalypse for the sequel?

Just getting in a warning shot for the season finale, there will be others.

Thank-you for your comments.

DaveT.

Oh my. Something bad is coming. I can feel it. Well done, even if you've left us with another frakking cliffhanger!

I just realized that Our Heroes have entered a "target rich environment". In other words, they are surrounded. Swell.

I read somewhere that all chapters should end with a 'cliffhanger', I think I took it to heart with this fic.

I think next chapter we get down to the nitty-gritty and kick some haggis butt.

Cheers,
DaveT.

I see lots of cooked haggis (haggi?) in the near future.

I go with 'haggises'...I think, anyway you've just given me an idea, Cheers!

DaveT.

Willow forgot about that bagpipe sound equals Haggis? Too stupid for the story.

Plot device/dramatic license. Or, had other things on her mind for just a moment.

Cheers,
DaveT.

Ya know, sometimes Willow can be really... witchy and a little bit immature, but I hope she can solve this with Kennedy.
And yeah, I think the hunters can safely assume one thing: they're completely surrounded, and that solves a lot of problems.
I mean, there's gonna be a looot of targets to choose from that way =D!.

Cool chapter, see ya!!.

Y'not wrong.

Cheers,
DaveT.

Human remains are never a good thing to find when you are surrounded by man eating, or person eating if you want to be politically correct, creatures. And you left us with yet another nice cliffhanger. Great story but don't the Royal Marines have .50 caliber sniper rifles tucked away somewhere? I know the rifles are heavier than hell, but the bigger the caliber, the more warm and tingly I'd feel out among the feral haggis. Lol!

I'm not 100% sure but I think British units only use 7.62 sniper's rifles. The SAS might have .50 cal ones. The old 7.62 long cartridge was way over powered for modern warfare as it was designed for 'colonial' warfare were you had fleeting targets. If you actually managed to see and hit something you wanted it dead! The old SLR will blow holes in brick walls and take down elephants!

Cheers,
DaveT.

Your description made me think of the corpse eating monsters in Lord of the Rings Online, only hairier and bagpipier.

Enjoying this one, even if there is Willow love angst ^_-

Thank-you.

Willow love angst? Well, its a dirty job but someone has to do it. Thought I'd get it out of the way early in the series.

Cheers,
DaveT.