chicago ♔ something wrong | with all the plans of my life

[rationalizes]

♬ Killing Loneliness - HIM

WHO || Failboat + Burt [Closed]
WHAT || Various and sundry post-funeral shenanigans
WHERE || Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 6, evening.
HOW || Actionspam

[ This log will cover all events that take place between the funeral and the NOVA Record break-in two nights later, that weren't hit on during the live session. Feel free to make your own threads! ]

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burt, finnick, and francesca ♔ closed

[65]

[welp, finnick promised (jk no he didn't) to give burt the second installment of their talk, so there's no time like the present. he already went to the trouble of getting paperwork and everything, ok. but, for this part he's elected to take francesca along. as good as he is at talking to people (burt in particular), franny still has an edge on him — and he doesn't want to fuck up and tell burt something he should absolutely not know under any circumstances.

so not too long after the lawyer meeting, he shows up at burt's office.]

I believe we're due for a talk.

[starfucker]

Aren't you gonna introduce me to your friend here first?

[65]

Ah, that's Francesca. She's a confidant of mine.

[socialgraces]

[ yeah francesca knows all about this edge she has -- they're called breasts. but it's not like she hasn't learned the art of tastefully utilizing them in negotiation (disguise 31). ] And a notary, for the confidentiality agreement.

[starfucker]

[ well he's just gonna sliiiide right over and offer a hand, all smooth-like. ] Burt Becksworth, NOVA Records.

[socialgraces]

[ she delicately extends her own ] Mr. Becksworth. [ and with a quirk of her lip adds: ] I've heard quite a bit about you.

[starfucker]

All lies, I promise. Unless it's about what a tiger I am in the sack. [ he mimes a 'rrow' with his free hand and it's pretty embarrassing really. this is what a poor charisma roll looks like, people. ]

[65]

[marley why are you pissing on the furniture in front of the guests??? oh well. FINNICK LOUDLY CLEARS HIS THROAT.]

Why don't we get down to business?

[socialgraces]

[ she'll just assume he's drunk... or something. can't really get much worse than her introduction to archer. but she'll give him a smile and wink, in consideration of the effort, as she gingerly extracts her hand to take a seat ]

[starfucker]

[ burt goes around and plops in his leather chair, swiveling to face finnick ] Alright, so drop some truth bombs already.

[65]

[don't mind if he drops himself down into a seat, too.]

All right. Where did we leave off?

[starfucker]

What do I look like? My secretary? I didn't take fucking notes.

[65]

Well, last I recall, we were talking about the interest in Chad and his cult. We have reason to believe that they possess a talisman that could grant eternal life to its wielder. Which is not really something we'd like in their hands, you could understand.

[starfucker]

Eternal life? You're saying my brother has eternal fucking life?

[65]

Maybe. It's all rumor, so there's no way to be sure.

[starfucker]

Do you know how much people would pay for that shit?

[65]

I'm acutely aware.

[socialgraces]

For something of this caliber, the price is almost always paid in blood, [ like jade's, not even a week ago... ] and they're obviously not afraid to spill it, regardless of who's is standing in their way.

[starfucker]

Well, if they've already got their grubby mitts on it, why are they killing anybody over it?

[65]

To keep it out of the hands of anyone else? Or something worse. They're not exactly an upstanding group of people.

[starfucker]

Your friends' hands too, I take it? Is that what you're looking to get outta this?

[65]

It we had it, it would be in safe keeping. [ukw he still ... doesn't actually trust wynn's intentions to be 100 percent pure. so much so that he crit failed that bluff check, ouch. HE SCREAMS FOR FRANCESCA INSIDE..........]

[socialgraces]

[ it's ok, finnick, she's actually better at cleaning up messes than preventing them (diplomacy 42) ]

It would at least be in far more experienced hands. We're still not entirely sure what this artifact is capable of, only that there must be some truth to its rumored power to have warranted all this conspiracy and blood-shed.

Any relic that travels from the Shadow realm into this one falls under our organizations' jurisdiction. We both wish to protect its function, and to protect this world from the potential repercussions of its use.

This certainly isn't the first artifact with such a stigma that we've encountered, and if that is indeed what it does, well, the powers that possess the ability to grant immortality will always find a way to extract their cost. It's never worth the price.

[starfucker]

[ do you smell that Nat 20 vs Francesca and her world class diplomacy? Burt Becksworth isn't so easily bullshitted. ] What exactly makes you fuckers feel like you get to be its keepers? Who says the rest of the world respects your jurisdiction?

[65]

[you can take this one, francesca. finnick doesn't trust his big stupid mouth anymore. that's why he brought you. :') wow this carpet is nice. did burt redecorate recently???]