They encircle the busier parts of town in a way that covers a lot of graveyard-adjacent ground, and then she cuts through some of the more densely built parts to check out a building from which loud, muffled music seems to emanate.

"The older teenagers and younger adults of Sunnydale like to gather here to socialize, which means the vampires of Sunnydale like to gather here to seduce them for later murdering. I want to take a quick look inside but I don't think I've put enough thought yet into the question of how best to negotiate your entry given the language and cultural barriers, so I'm not sure you should come along. What do you say to waiting in that alley around back, and I'll come out the back door after a few minutes? It's the favourite exit of young couples looking for a private corner and, relatedly, of vampires, but a few minutes probably isn't long enough for anyone to choose to use it, and if they do, well, maybe the hypothetical vampire will stupidly attack you, vampires often do that when they encounter an obstacle to their plans."

"Yes, that seems fine. Is there a particular thing I should evince that I am doing if someone comes out and does not immediately reveal themselves to be a vampire?"

"If you stand around doing nothing I think the default assumption will be that you're waiting for someone, which seems like a fine assumption to let people make."

"Especially since it's true. If a vampire attacks me I think I'll try a Cure on it first thing, to know whether positive energy works as expected?"

She nods. "Reasonable. And Weapons Against Evil next, if positive energy doesn't do the job or in the unlikely event that you see two vampires before I'm out of the building."

"If I'm already engaged in melee it's risky to try a spell, but maybe there will be enough maneuvering room to get space for it, I'd have to see the alley."

"I'll leave that to your judgment, then. Here's the alley."

She leads him to it. It's on the narrow side, with a large metal bin that smells like garbage near the open end, and a door into the loud building near the middle, and not much else going on. The far end is closed off by a chain-link fence.

He will take up a position that puts the garbage can between him and the door with a view to using it as cover while he casts if that should come up.

Eliza heads around the front of the building and goes inside. Time passes.

He keeps watch and prays a sitrep.

A little more than five minutes later, there she is again, slipping out the back door.

"Uneventful," she summarizes. "You?"

"Likewise."

"Good, good."

In that case they can head home.

Sure can. "If we work out a way to have me in the facility it might be a good place to try Detect Undead, since it confines many possibilities into a small sweepable range without too much intervening barrier."

"Yes, that would make checking the place for vampires a lot faster."

"Clerics do not get Invisibility - or, some can as a domain spell, but I can't - so the fact that I am not a teenager or young adult would probably be material."

"Yes, I've brought Rupert there a couple of times for Slayer reasons and he gets weird looks. Not a lot of them, a lot of people just aren't paying that much attention in the first place, but definitely some."

"Oh, it's just weird looks, not anything more oriented toward - curating the clientele -?"

"People of an older generation do sometimes have reason to be there, like locating their teenage children who are out too late at night for their liking, or listening to the music. I get the impression that if they got dozens of forty-year-old librarians in a night they would start to consider turning them away at the door, for clientele curation purposes, but one at a time didn't rate that kind of response."

"...is his being a librarian germane?"

"It's, hmm... he presents a social interface that is notably and obviously different from the one most conducive to their desired atmosphere, for reasons that are easy to summarize as 'he's a librarian' even though that's not literally the exact reason."

"I see. ...are people going to interpret me as presenting a locally understandable social interface of some kind that I should know about?"

"You come across as extremely serious and reserved - I'm sure that part isn't news to you - and there are many ways that a person might interpret someone being extremely serious and reserved, depending on context and their other expectations. I don't have an obvious simplistic gloss on it the way I have 'librarian' for Rupert."

Nod.

"Being extremely serious and reserved also isn't conducive to their desired atmosphere, but as demonstrated by Rupert that's not necessarily a dealbreaker. A big part of the trouble is that your armor and so on looks really notably weird in that kind of social context, which would tend to draw attention, which is not what we want when trying to scan the area for vampires without alerting them to our presence. But leaving it at home would sacrifice some defensibility for the rest of the patrol, and if I redrew the patrol routes to include a stop at home to change clothes, that would add more time than being able to use a spell to scan the crowd could gain..."