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[borrowedheaven]

♬ Comfort Eagle - Cake

WHO || Finnick, Myri, Buffy, Spike, Elena, Dawn, Des, Rafael, Gar, Kat, Mark, Jade, Burt, Violet, Archer
WHAT || Pre-concert shenanigans
WHERE || Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 1st [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam

It's been a long time since Team Failboat's been all together, but that doesn't mean the team members have been idle. Rafael & Finnick have been working hard to refine their show and record their albums - and if they don't pull off the show of a century, NOVA records will fall entirely into the hands of the sinister Chad Becksworth and his evil Shadow-hating cabal. In the meantime, Myri & Elena have acted as members of their ensemble to keep an eye on the villains' movement at NOVA's New Orleans Headquarters - but there's been suspiciously little to indicate that they're doing anything but gearing up for their own "Back to the Fans" tour, which will be launching concurrently in Miami on the same night of Raf & Finnick's concert in Chicago. Myri & Kat attempted to interfere with the recruitment of Nadia Reichenov by Keijen Blade and Decker Greenwall, and while Myri seemed to have made some impact on the girl, she still chose to join them, and where her allegiance lies remains unknown. The other members of the team have been intermittently set out on missions to destroy the other labs across America where Chad's scientists have been conducting hideous experiments on Shadowkind, splicing their DNA with that of humans. Gar has been hard at work in the lab, unraveling the mysteries of the mind control chip they'd created. Jack and Thomas have been probing the defenses of Andres Isle, where the Talisman is rumored to have been taken by the sinister Dimitris Sarandis, Prime Minister of the Isle and member of the dark cabal. Meanwhile, Des has been babysitting Jade after her club was destroyed by Chad's forces, so that she can join Rafael and Finnick onstage at the concert.

Now everyone is en route to Chicago, where the impending concert is tied in with the opening of the brand new Chicago skyscraper office of NOVA Records, where Burt is planning to move his end of operations, further symbolizing the growing divide between the feuding brothers. Tensions mount in these last few days as final preparations are made.

Comments

[borrowedheaven]

[ she chokes out a laugh and looks over as if to see if he's serious ] Some 'manager'. It'd almost be worth it to see Burt's face.

[nothingsodivine]

I bet he's figured it out. Ten bucks says Finnick's lip singing to some recording of a nerdy guy with no stage presence belting like Usher.

[borrowedheaven]

And they won't care. [ she looks out at the audience filling in the hall ] They don't want real, anyway.

[nothingsodivine]

They just want a good show. [He reaches over and squeezes her shoulder.]

[borrowedheaven]

Most of that's on the boys. Just a couple numbers at the end - that's all I promised.

[nothingsodivine]

And we'll be here if anything gets nasty. And then it's all over but the shooting Chad's stupid face in.

[borrowedheaven]

[ teasing: ]Here I thought you didn't advocate all that direct vengeance I was advocating when he broke my house.

[nothingsodivine]

I was advocating you not doing it. I can do whatever I want... As soon as the mission's done and I can Swayze my way out of this.

[borrowedheaven]

Not really seeing where that's fair.

[nothingsodivine]

You've got a reputation. It's gonna be bad for Nightscape's revival if they find out you're an arsonist.

[borrowedheaven]

You forget that my clientele doesn't exactly remember who I am in the first place.

[nothingsodivine]

[Cheeky] I guess that saves on fanmail, huh?

[borrowedheaven]

Signing autographs never sounded like a lot of fun, anyway.

[nothingsodivine]

God, don't remind me. I'll be glad when this is over and I don't have to oversee another gaggle of teenage girls weeping in Finnick's presence.

[borrowedheaven]

I don't know, I think you might have a long term career ahead of you if you're getting sick of the detective game. I'm sure Burt would love someone willing to oversee operations at the new building...

[nothingsodivine]

I didn't think I could have heart attacks, but you're about to give me one. Burt makes me look sensitive and endearing.

[borrowedheaven]

You have to admit there's a certain purity to the way he does treat everyone exactly the same. I wonder what it's like, literally viewing every other human being as a tool.

[nothingsodivine]

Probably a lot like a carpenter during a half-off sale at Home Depot.

[borrowedheaven]

It seems like it'd be exhausting. I wonder if there's ever been anyone he actually cared about.

[nothingsodivine]

Considering him and his brother? Yeah, I wonder that too.

[borrowedheaven]

You have to wonder what makes a person like that in the first place.

[nothingsodivine]

I'm guessing Mommy Becksworth didn't breastfeed either of them.

[borrowedheaven]

See, I was sort of guessing she smoked six packs a day and spent a lot of time in county jail.

[nothingsodivine]

And dropped the boys off at the movies every day until they got it drilled into their heads that showbiz would ease the pain.

[borrowedheaven]

It'd almost be a sad story if he didn't seem physically impervious to garnering sympathy.