new orleans ♔ sing like it's going to be your last day

[romanticidal]

♬ Happy Birthday Song - Andrew Bird

WHO || Thomas, Jack, Gar, Kat, Dumage, Mark, Myri, Buffy, Finnick, Spike, Rafael, Des, Elena [Closed]
WHAT || Various downtime shenanigans
WHERE || Various locations, New Orleans
WHEN || Sunday Nov 18th, night through Mon, November 26th, 2012 [Backdated]
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order! Feel free to threadjack everywhere too :)

[ The last mission was something of a mixed bag: while Thomas' team successfully infiltrated the underground levels, discovering the truth about Chad & company's diabolical experiments grafting human DNA into Shadowkind in an attempt to make their human mind control technology work on Shadow, the team searching for the relics ran afoul of Iscariot agent, Alexander Anderson. The deadly regenerator was there to kill Rafael, but Jack held him off long enough for the others to escape. Meanwhile, Finnick and Myri learned some interesting information about the state of affairs at NOVA Records...

This log covers any work and non-work related shenanigans the Knights have while staying in New Orleans, immediately following the last log and extending over the next week. This will be the Knight's last week in New Orleans before they return to the castle for the holidays / do some other filler things so we can catch up to the rest of the world chronologically. (except for characters who have IC reasons not to).

Make your own threads, don't fuss about tag order, feel free to threadjack multiple people into one thread for hang-outs, ask me if you want a certain scene with an NPC, etc. forever whatever. There will be a few group scenes, which I'll alert everyone to on Plurk. They may not all be posted immediately, so keep an eye on this post for new threads as time goes by. ]

Comments

[bigbad]

[By the time she's done, Spike's got a dumb grin on. He really likes poetry, okay.]

Bloody brilliant. Man had a way with words. Wish I could write like that, but whenever I've tried, I've-- [wait no that came out wrong.] I mean, I haven't tried.

[SUBJECT CHANGE WHAT WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? Oh right. Jade.] Must be hard, not remembering while Rafael's all over her.

[rationalizes]

Hmm? Oh! Yes, well... that too, of course. [ romance: not where gar's brain goes first ]

I primarily meant her strange connection to Nightscape. The way she seems so loath to leave it, despite the surreal nature of that world. All those guests returning night after night without even a memory of who she is... being unable to become a part of anyone's life. It seems such a terribly lonely existence, even with all of them clamoring for her attention.

[bigbad]

[It's where Spike's brain goes. (unsure) He's a little ridiculous like that.]

Oh, right. Yeah, that too. [He takes the book back and glances at the poem again.] All the stuff about magic and shadows. Suppose it's hard to stop dreaming once you've started.

[rationalizes]

Do you think that's what it could be? An... an addiction of some sort?

[bigbad]

Maybe. Why else would everyone keep going back?

[rationalizes]

Well, the thrill of the mystery itself, perhaps. Not knowing what occurred, being able to act as if it were all really just a dream...

[bigbad]

Yeah, people were certainly acting like there were no consequences in the real world.

[rationalizes]

I still can't help but wonder who would create such a place. And how Jade would have wound up there.

[bigbad]

Suppose I can ask her when I go to Chicago. If she even knows.

[rationalizes]

It's worth asking.

[bigbad]

Does seem like the sort of place that'd bear a bit more investigation.

[rationalizes]

It's difficult to call what goes on there illegal, but I'd feel safer knowing there was nothing sinister behind it.

[bigbad]

Somehow, I doubt we'll be that lucky. [He gives a bit of a smirk.] But you never know.

[rationalizes]

I suppose we'll see. [ she draws a little bottle of oj out of the fridge ] Enjoy your poetry.

[bigbad]

Thanks, love. [He takes another spoonful of his bloody monstrosity of a meal.]