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]]

Comments

[bigbad]

[Spike takes it, looking puzzled, and opens it. He stares at it.]

I'll never understand that girl.

[shootfirst]

Are all men this thick?

It's a peace offering.

[bigbad]

Like that makes it clearer. [But he folds it back up and puts it in his pocket.] Knowing her, a peace offering means 'next time I'll only punch you in the face a little bit.'

[shootfirst]

[ And Kat proceeds to smack him in the arm ]

Stop being male for like two seconds, and don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

[bigbad]

[WOW KAT LIKE HE HASN'T BEEN HIT ENOUGH LATELY. Though really after Buffy that feels like a gentle breeze of a smack.]

And what, just make nice now that she's sent me her stupid drawing? Until the next time she feels like beating me up for no reason? No bloody thanks. I'm done with her.

[...no he's not.

But it's fun to pretend.]

[shootfirst]

She's your teammate. And guess what? So are all the rest of us, and we're not going to deal with the two of you being psycho about each other for however long we're all in this together.

[bigbad]

So, what? [He pulls the drawing out again.] You're saying that if I went over to her right now and struck up a conversation about something casual this means she wouldn't punch me and accuse me of harassing her? I've tried making nice. It never works.

[shootfirst]

I'm saying maybe that's your problem. You try too hard with her. I mean, not that you're Jerk of the Year, but you're not some kind of super nice pushover most of the time, and then you bend over backwards trying to say the right thing to her.

Just be yourself.

[bigbad]

...I don't try that hard. [Really, he insults her just as often as he compliments her.] Not lately, anyway.

[shootfirst]

Then rearrange your definition of trying, whatever.

[bigbad]

If I were any more myself, I'd be even more bruised than I am now. [He sits up to look over the seats in Buffy's direction (though he can't actually see her cause she's tiny) then back at Kat.] It's really a peace offering?

[shootfirst]

Really is. [ /slaps it onto his lap ] So don't fuck it up.

[bigbad]

I'll do my best. [A beat.] Thanks.

[shootfirst]

[ eye roll as she stands ] Don't mention it. Please.