CHAPTER FINALE ♔ cause it's always raining in my head

[narcosynthesis]

♬ oceano - josh groban

WHO || Keijen Blade, Nadia Reichenov, Rafael Giovanni, Buffy Summers, Alainn O'Rourke, Myrilandel Odair, Finnick Odair, Desmond Descant, Elena Gilbert, Rose Hathaway, Fredrick Jr., Jack Chessing, Kat Samcelot, Jeanne Gar, Spike, Sterling Archer, Violet Reedhym, Burt Becksworth, Isabella Alessandro
WHAT || Failboat does the Grammy's, tries to stop Keijen Blade's performance from reaching the masses, and aspires to save Nadia
WHERE || Staples Center, Los Angeles
WHEN || Feb 8th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

The day has finally arrived: the 2015 Grammy's gather together musical talent at the top of the food chain, which means that NOVA Records will be well represented at this year's ceremony. Unfortunately, this includes performances from Keijen Blade's band, Heatless Passion, and Nadia Reichenov's, Derere, both of whom are working for "Chad Becksworth", aka Draken Crombe, head of the Shadowkind-hating cult, the Church of the Lord's Humanity.  Equipped with some sort of ability to hypnotize large crowds with subliminal messages, Wynn fears what lies beneath Keijen's intended performance, and is sending his Knights to shut down the broadcast, to prevent that message from being spread to millions of viewers worldwide.

Meanwhile, the gang finally has a chance to see Rafael Giovanni again - but what he's been up to in the months since they last saw him, and how his reunion with Buffy will go, remains to be seen.

Several of the Knights have decided that this is their last chance as well to try and break Nadia free from Keijen's influence, now that they've learned the truth about him - that Keijen is in fact Kel'in'hrae, sadistic son of the Nightmare God Malaak'a, likely working to free his father from the prison Sehanine had created for him.  The prison sealed by the relic that the team has been chasing for years, believing it to be an immortality-granting talisman of great power.

The truth, it seems, was worse than they could have imagined.  

One step at a time, however, and stopping the signal is first priority on Failboat's to do list for now.  With an actual plan under their belts this time, maybe this is the turning point they've been waiting for...    

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[slay]

[ Honesty wears her expression thin, but she nods all the same. ]

Me too. [ It's not easy to say, but she's still holding that neutral look. ] We weren't sure, for a second there. But ... [ Turns out, she'd just ruined everything. ] I guess we'll see when we get there.

[rationalizes]

[ she looks like she wants to say something else on the subject, but just barely manages to hold her tongue. ] I suppose this will mean seeing Mr. Becksworth again as well. Perhaps we can find a way to break the news to him about his brother.

[slay]

Wouldn't wanna be the one to drop that bomb. [ She cringes. ] Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he'll be ... glad ... but there's gonna be a nuclear event clear all the way to Draken Crombe's grassroots churches when Burt figures out he's not who he says.

[rationalizes]

Do you think that maybe we should... we should hold off on telling him for now? So that he doesn't put himself in danger by doing something, er... Reactionary?

[slay]

Jack hasn't said anything to you about it? [ She kinda figured he'd come to a party line decision on that one. This is not at all meant to be relationship commentary, but it kinda comes out that way. Like Buffy has a leg to stand on. ] I don't know. I mean, Burt's done stupid stuff, but something tells me he's gonna manage to outlive all of us just because he knows how to look out for himself first.

[rationalizes]

Jack and I had a lot to go over. Chad was not quite our top priority given... everything else we've learned.

But even if it winds up not being dangerous for Burt, I worry about the collateral damage.

[slay]

[ feigning GENUINE SURPRISE!!! ] You know someone who's willing to take a bullet for Burt?

[rationalizes]

Well... no. [ lol honesty ] But he does have a wife and son now. No one deserves to grow up without their father. Even when their father is-- [ she's just gonna let that one drop ]

[slay]

Any wife of Burt's sounds like the lady who'd be happier with the insurance money, to me, but ... [ She leans in, rolling her eyes. ] I'm kidding. Yeah, sure, we'll wait til we're all out of the line of fire tonight.