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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[doubletake]

[Elena's...probably heard of the name (know: pop culture 12) at least, but she's more interested in the rest of the Grammy's tbh, so she has a wandering eye (spot 29).]

[nepotism]

[ it's hard to see much of anything other than a sea of familiar celebrity faces spreading out around them. a sign goes up off-screen of the cameras, asking for everyone to reach under their seats and don the little light up accessories waiting for them there as the band launches into their second number.

♬ highway to hell - ac/dc

fred grins like a jackass as he pulls up a pair and plops them on kat's head, before cupping his hands around his mouth to shout: ] WHOOOOO! [ at the stage. he's such a frat boy rn i'm sorry. ]

[chessing]

[ SO BRITISH

SO UNCOMFORTABLE ]

[doubletake]

[Oh, she knows this one (know: pop culture 15). And hell yes, Elena will wear those devil horns, and look ridiculously hot and simultaneously cute in them.

She giggles as she settles them on her head.]

Nice touch.

[Said to no one in particular. Whoever's sitting next to her I guess, before she starts to sing along.]

[nothingsodivine]

[Des hates fun, I guess, so he's not touching the horns. He does seem to be enjoying the performance though.]

[littledhampir]

Dean is going to hate me so much for this...

[Annnd the GF of the year award goes to Rose who makes a S.O.H check (23) to secret dial Dean so he too can appreciate AC/DC while he's sobbing with his jealousy.

Also rocking the horns.]

[bigbad]

[Yeah Spike isn't gonna touch those devil horns. Though he definitely knows the song (pop culture 22), and he is enjoying the performance. He's just got something a little more devilish in his mouth if he really wants to go there. No need for the fake stuff.]

[slay]

[ Buffy's here but not particularly engaged. She seems to be searching the audience and backstage area. ]

[attollores]

[Alainn chuckles as she pulls the horns out of her bag, placing them on her head and actually kinda pulling them off (Cha 19). She laughs as Rose pulls her phone out, adding her own subtle whoop of delight to Fred's enthusiastic roar, singing along cuz she sure knows this song (Know: Pop culture 30).]

[witchwoman]

[Myri's not really into the horns. She also doesn't know this song at all. She tries to get into it, but there's just too much to be nervous about. She glances at the crowd around them, not even sure what she's checking for.]

[65]

[while ac/dc plays, finnick wonders if he left the stove on. not that it matters since he lives with 100+ other people in the castle, but it would be rude.]

[graveflowers]

[ vi is still scoping out for bey, fuck ac/dc, y'all. she just throws the horns at finnick because they're grown ups. ]

[shootfirst]

[ when the number ends, a sign comes back up reminding people ahem katy perry to take the horns off, as ll cool j launches into his opening spiel, and proceeds to introduce taylor swift to present best new artist. i've also decided that somehow in this world finnick could get nominated for a grammy and not know about it until now, so everyone gets treated to taylor swift having to talk about having 'a lot of friends in this category' this year and know just how awkward that is.

"And our nominees are:

Finnick Odair, Bastille, Rafael Giovanni, Heatless Passion, and Rynn."

... surprise??????? ]

Wow, I hope you prepared a speech.

[65]

Uh ...

[nothingsodivine]

The fuck?

[rationalizes]

[ gar leans over just to say: ] You know, it's an honor just to be nominated.

[littledhampir]

[With the devils horns now off, Rose will join everyone else in the slow head-turn to stare at Finnick like whut?

Worst entourage member apparently.]

[doubletake]

[Elena leans forward to catch sight of Finnick.]

Just thank the fans, say you couldn't have done it without them, and leave it at that. Everyone loves a short speech.

[witchwoman]

[Myri's expression is caught between shock and pride. Her hubby got nominated!! But this was not part of the plan...]

[rationalizes]

[ up on the screen, finnick's shocked face is projected between rafael's smiling one where he sits between burt and isabella, and keijen's smug smirk, sitting surrounded by his bandmates.

taylor opens up the envelope, and looks across the audience. "And the winner is...

Rafael Giovanni!"

the audience erupts in applause, as rafael's voice floods the arena from the speakers.

♬ music of the night - josh groban

raf stands up, followed closely by burt, who keeps one hand on his shoulder steering him towards the stage like he's his personal bodyguard, and even climbing up there with him as taylor hands him the award.

gar applauds wildly over here, clearly pleased as punch. ]

[graveflowers]

Do you want me to storm the stage like Kanye, 'cause I'll do it.

[65]

Please don't. [he keeps a stepford face on while saying that now that he's aware he's ... on candid camera and there will prob be reaction shots. /slowly applauds.]

[nothingsodivine]

[Des makes exuberant WOOO noises as he claps. YAY RAFAEL. sorry finnick.]

[bigbad]

[It's a good thing the cameras think Spike's seat is empty because he's rolling his eyes and looking generally unimpressed right now. Bleh, Rafael. He was routing for Bastille. I mean Finnick. That one.]

[doubletake]

[Polite applause from the doppelganger. She didn't really...care who won. So long as Keijen didn't. :)]