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Rack: warlock who traded in highly addictive magic. Willow was introduced to him by Amy Madison. She quickly became an addict. Rack was killed by Black Magic Willow when she drained him to recharge her power. See also Strawberry. Randall: member of the gang that Giles joined in his youth. Having induced possession by Eyghon one night, Randall lost possession of the demon and it killed him. Years later, in 1996, Eyghon tracked down the rest of the group and began killing them one by one. See also Philip Henry, Diedre Page, Ethan Rayne, Thomas Butcher, and Eyghon, The Mark of. Randy: under the influence of a Tabula Rasa spell, Spike believed that he was called Randy, and was Giles’s son. Rat: Amy Madison temporarily turned Buffy into a rat while under the influence of her own backfiring love spell. She later turned herself into a rat to escape being burned at the stake by members of M.O.O. Amy stayed that way for years until Willow was powerful enough to change her back. Rayne, Ethan: warlock dedicated to Chaos. Used to be part of a gang with Ripper in his youth. See also Ethan’s Costume Shop, Band candy, Eyghon, and The Mark of Eyghon. Razor: leader of the Hellions. Had retractable blades on the end of each finger, and red eyes. Tara killed him with an axe in the back. Razorbacks, The: Sunnydale High School football team. Reasonably dollsome: quite attractive. Reliquary: used to house items of religious significance. ie. the fingers of saints, etc. Rescindi demon: very rare. Its presence in our dimension causes temporal fluctuations. Being around them for more than a few seconds can give people hallucinations. The Trio used these demons to make Buffy think that she had killed Katrina. See also cerebral dampener. Resurrection ritual: the resurrection spell that Dawn used on Joyce would not work on Buffy. This is because the Slayer died a supernatural death. This ritual required the Scooby gang to form a sacred circle around Buffy’s grave, each holding a black candle. Willow anointed herself with Vino de Madre from the Urn of Osiris, and poured the rest onto Buffy’s grave. She asked Osiris to return Buffy, and was tested by having her arms slashed by invisible knives, and being forced to vomit snakes. The urn was broken by marauding Hellions, and Buffy was brought back to life still in her coffin. She had to claw her way out of her own grave. Resurrection spell: Dawn performed this spell to raise Joyce from the dead. She needed dirt from Joyce’s grave, a photo of her mother and a Gorrah egg. Doc told Dawn how to perform the spell. She panicked when ‘Joyce’ knocked on the door, and destroyed the photo – sending her mother back to her grave. Retrieval Team: special ops unit that works for the Watchers’ Council. Carry out assassinations and other unsavoury jobs. Reversal spell: a spell to undo another. Review: The Watchers’ Council tried to do a review of Buffy’s work as soon as they found out what Glory was. This involved interviewing her friends and Watcher, and putting Buffy through physical tests. Revivification spell: ritual to bring a ‘dead’ vampire back to ‘life’. Requires the blood of the humans nearest to the vampire when it was dusted. On the instructions of The Anointed, Absalom tried to perform this ritual on The Master, but was foiled by Buffy. Rhonda: bully at Sunnydale High School. Ate Principal Flutie and Herbert whilst possessed by the spirits of hyenas. See also hyena possession. Richard: friend of Xander’s who worked with him at the building site. Xander invited him to Buffy’s birthday party in an attempt to set them up together. He was nice, but his romantic advances were thwarted by Spike. Richard was trapped in the house by Halfrek, and stabbed in the gut by a demon. Xander and Anya eventually got him to a hospital. Richard Anderson: see Anderson, Richard. Richard Wilkins: see The Mayor. Rickie: Boyfriend of Lily. Taken to a hell dimension by Ken where he was worked until he was an old man, and had forgotten his own name. Rickie was then released back into our world, where only two days had passed. He killed himself. See also Family Home. Riley Finn: see Finn, Riley. Ripper: Giles’s nickname in his rebellious youth. At twenty-one he was studying history at Oxford by day, and the occult by night. Weighed down by the pressure of his destiny, he joined a small group that practiced magic for pleasure or gain. Ethan and Ripper discovered the demon Eyghon, and the group used to induce possession for the high it gave them. See also Philip Henry, Diedre Page, Randall, Ethan Rayne, and Thomas Butcher. Ritual of Mok-tagar, The: see Mok-tagar, The Ritual of. Ritual of Restoration: spell to restore a vampire’s soul. Performed on Angelus by Kalderash gypsies after he killed one of their clan. If the vampire has one moment of true happiness afterward the spell will be broken. The ritual requires an Orb of Thesala. See also Transliteration annuls for the Rituals of the Undead. Robot: see Buchanan, Ted. Rocket Café: UC Sunnydale’s on campus café. Rodney Munsen: see Munsen, Rodney. Rory, Uncle: Xander’s uncle. Taxidermist by day, drunken stud by night… Let Xander borrow his car for a while. Rosenberg, Ira: Willow Rosenberg’s father. Rosenberg, Sheila: neglectful mother of Willow. A psychiatrist so wrapped up with her work that she pays little or no attention to her only child. Whilst under the spell of Hansel and Gretel she joined the movement ‘MOO’, and was prepared to burn Willow as a witch. Rosenberg, Willow: Buffy’s Jewish best friend, and the gang’s computer genius. Willow began as a lovable geek, and went on to become a very powerful witch. Her parents are Ira and Sheila. She originally dated Oz, but later decided that she was gay when she fell in love with fellow wicca Tara. Willow became addicted to magic, and almost destroyed the world through her grief at Tara’s murder. Willow has ‘frog fear’, and is afraid of horses after a bad pony experience at her fourth birthday party. See also Black Magic Willow. Ross, Lorraine: took over as manageress of the Double Meat Palace after Manny got eaten. Gave Buffy her job back. Ross, Marcie: The Invisible Girl. Sunnydale High School student who played the flute in band. She became invisible because everyone ignored her. Rusty: Irish setter owner by the Mayor at some point. Also the name of a security guard at Sunnydale museum. The Trio hit him with a freeze ray, and the hospital defrosted him with hairdryers! Ruth Greenleigh: see School Nurse. Ryan: little boy who Buffy saved from Der Kinderstod when they were both in hospital with the flu.