new orleans ♔ made a deal with a red right hand

[rationalizes]

♬ The Devil is a Girl - Andi Almqvist and the Employees

WHO || Gar, Kat, Mark, Dumage, Martha, Myri, Buffy, Spike, Des, Arthur, Finnick [Closed]
WHAT || Team Failboat flies to Lousiana to check out a lead, and two new Knights fly out to meet them there
WHERE || Chicago > New Orleans & London > New Orleans; on the plane; at the hotel
WHEN || Wed, April 25th
HOW || Actionspam

It's taken a few weeks to get some incredibly convincing fake IDs, etc. made up for Des, since he's kind of sort of banned from New Orleans, on top of how long it's taken to research what the building was that showed up on the magical 'map' revealed when Jade's touch activated the mysterious stone taken from the Hoffman Institute.

It appears to be the headquarters of a record label known as NOVA Records: a revelation that provoked a response from Kat and Myri, who promptly relayed to the rest of the team what they had discovered about the connection between NOVA and the Brotherhood of the Enlightenment: chiefly that the co-owner of the organization, Chad Becksworth, was donating large sums of the money privately to the Church for reasons unknown. Considering that Jade had claimed Raoul Jacobson, the man who accosted her at her club, was masquerading as a talent agent for 'some record company', it seems to all tie together somehow. Gar seems convinced that the team is hot on the trail of the talisman, which is motivation enough for Des to come along - since he doesn't want to see anyone find the thing, bt isn't about to let them run off and screw everything up.

Wynn agrees, apparently, that the lead sounds promising; promising enough that he sends Finnick to replace Sven, and to agree to send Arthur on the mission as well. WOO, progress!

As usual, being team Failboat, you guys all have to take public transportation and mail your weapons and supplies ahead to pick them up when you arrive in New Orleans. The plan is to break into teams to investigate the Louisiana State Museum and NOVA Records HQ, so once you've met the newbs, it'll be time to figure out who's going where!

[[Various threads will go up below: as always, pick and choose what interactions you want your character to be involved in. Also, you're free to (and encouraged to) make your own threads for general socializing / city exploration / whatever the fuck you wanna do]]

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CHICAGO > NEW ORLEANS FLIGHT (multithread)

[rationalizes]

[ Please make sub-threads for any in-flight interactions on the commercial plane ride to the mission site. Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc. The flight time is approx one hour and forty minutes.]

[slays]

[ Buffy's commandingly dropping herself into the seat by Des because WOW SHE IS DEMANDING THIS STORY FROM HIM THAT HE DIDN'T FINISH IN THE CAR. ]

So, where were we?





[ oh and for ota; later in the flight, she's just got her headphones in and doodling in a lined notebook. except her doodles are pretty much just big black circular pen marks so it's more like ... making pen scratches in a notebook. ]

[bigbad]

[SPIKE AND BUFFY ARE COOL NOW, RIGHT? RIGHT? Oh well, he's going to assume they're cool enough for him to pause as he passes by her on his way to... idk, probably the bathroom, but he's really just restless.]

What're you drawing?

[shootfirst]

[ Kat will come flop down to harass Buffy after that thread with Spike goes down. She cranes her neck to nod in his direction, casting Buffy a withering stare ] Do I wanna ask what now?

[nothingsodivine]

[Des looks at her like maybe he was hoping she'd forget about his hard life.] Was the in-flight movie that boring?

[bigbad]

[Aaaand Spike's in a shadowy corner again, doing something exciting. Possibly playing angry birds on his phone.]

[witchwoman]

[Myri will hang out with you, Spike. She slips easily into the seat beside him.]

What's that? [She says, trying to get a look at his phone.]

[postergirl]

[ hmm why hasn't anyone seen dumage in awhile anyways? oh, here she is, showing up halfway through the flight, with what looks like a drink in hand. she leanns over spike's seat, smirking ]

They really pack you in back here, don't they?

[shootfirst]

[ As promised, here comes Kat, partway through the flight, folded paper in hand ] Special delivery. [ She drops it on his lap. ]

[aproperdoctor]

[HEY GUYS YOU REMEMBER THIS CHICK, SHE'S STILL HERE. Really. And right now, she's on a plane. Man, she misses that private jet. The guy next to her is fat and snoring and she looks very unhappy about it.]

[bigbad]

[Well, chatting with Buffy went about as well as it ever did, and Spike's still too bored and restless to sit down. So he stops by Martha's row.]

Getting along with the neighbour? [He looks at the fat guy.]

[rationalizes]

[ Gar will pop into that seat as soon as big fat guy gets up to go to the bathroom. Yep. ]

I just wanted to see how you were doing.

[witchwoman]

[For most of the ride, Myri keeps to herself. She's a little afraid of sticking out with so many random people around. It's one of those times when she's painfully aware of how different she is.]

LONDON > NEW ORLEANS FLIGHT (Finnick, Arthur)

[rationalizes]

[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the commercial plane ride to the mission site. The flight time is approx eight hours.

... Hasmed would have held their hand to the airport, okay, and made sure they had some idea of what they were doing, but yep, they are going to be responsible for getting themselves through the airports and shit. Good luck. ]

[65]

[Wow how nice of Hasmed. That's the only mentorly thing he's done ... ever. :'|

The concept isn't really unfamiliar to Finnick -- they have hovercrafts and shit, even though trains are usually the long distance travel vehicle of choice. The whole security screening system looks pointlessly complex, but whatever. He turns to Arthur who is standing beside him.]

Have you done this before?

[king]

I've been in an aeroplane. If that's what you're asking.

[ Though he doesn't think it is, because holy shitballs there are people standing in lines and complicated machines and something which is possibly a beeping... magical... wand? Arthur has no idea. ]

[ He's wearing normal person clothes, which only happens about 20% of the time, but his luggage has his armour in it. ]

Though that wasn't... quite the same as this.

[ Because private jet. ]

GREETING THE NOOBS (errybody | multi thread(?))

[rationalizes]

[ The hotel room is uber swanky, with a common room that affords a wonderful view of the city, and then six bedrooms to be divvied up to share. And the new guys are here! Time to greet them and fill them in on all the wonderful things they've missed so far... ]

[slays]

[ Buffy's first order of business is claiming a nice room for her and Myri. She's got her priorities in order, ok. She'll throw her suitcase and weapons down onto one of the beds, bouncing onto another part of it and start digging through the drawers of the night table. Bible, blah blah, nothing that every hotel doesn't have.

Once she's done there, she'll come back out into the living area. ] So, the new additions are to replace Sven and his freaky cat, right?

[bigbad]

[Spike's chilling out on the couch. He's already thrown his suitcase on the bed. It's sort of like being unpacked.]

This mean I've got to share a room again?

[nothingsodivine]

[Des is gonna be over here, sprawled on a chair like the chaperone to a high school field trip who does not want to be here. He's not even getting paid for this. He's been peer-pressured into joining the Knights. Again, Dammit.]

[slay]

You know, you'd never guess it from the look on your face, but as I recall, you wanted to come help. [ yep. judging. you'll never escape her, des. ]

[king]

Er, hello.

[ Arthur approaches with caution. ]

I don't think we've met. Arthur Pendragon.

DECIDING TEAMS (errybody | single thread)

[rationalizes]

[Once everyone is settled in, time to gather up in the living room. Gar stands at the head of the room, clearing her throat to get everyone's attention.]

Well, now that we've had a moment to get caught up... we should begin discussing how we plan to approach things. The stone indicated two locations, though we have no idea what to expect to find there, so we'll have to keep a fairly... open mind. Either way, I think it will benefit us to attempt to search the museum after hours, but as for NOVA Records... we might be able to move about during their normal operating times, especially if we want to try to learn more about this Becksworth fellow and what he might be doing.

[slays]

So, what, we split up or hit both as a group? 'Cause, I'm thinking eleven people anywhere all together is gonna be wicked conspicuous. If there's splitting up happening, I'm personally team museum. [ She's just naturally inclined to the after-hours business ok. Plus, NOVA sounds like ... it might involve undercover type discretion like pretending to be a journalist or caring about records and she just don't. How does she shot subtlety. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri will sit back and fidget nervously. The idea of splitting up isn't something she's fond of. She's grown to like most of these people quite a lot and will likely worry about both groups, regardless of where she goes.]