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♬ 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

[nosdacariad]

[ yeah it's a bunch of shit. ] It's family business. [ there's a violence to the way he punctuates the word 'family', as if daring spike to question the value of that. while spike can sense that's not the whole story, there's definitely a lot of truth to the answer too. ]

[bigbad]

[Like Spike could turn down a dare like that.] Family? How come I get the feeling this is a bit more than forcing you into taking little sis to the concert or whatnot?

[nosdacariad]

Last I checked, that still doesn't make it your business.

[bigbad]

Maybe I'm concerned. [Or just curious and pushy. Same thing.] Are you in trouble?

[nosdacariad]

It's nothing to worry about here and now.

[bigbad]

[...that's fair. They are mid mission.]

Fine. I'll worry about it after the concert.

[But he's not forgetting.]

[nosdacariad]

[ ♬ A Drowning - How To Destroy Angels

he looks prepared to argue - it's not like it's going to be any less his personal business after the concert, but he obviously doesn't want to goad spike into pressing anymore now, and he looks so visibly shaken up by whatever it was that he doesn't waste the opportunity and just nods ] Fine.

We'll talk about it after.

[bigbad]

[Spike stares at him hard for another moment, then nods, taking a final drag on his cigarette before dropping it to the ground and stamping it out.]

I'll hold you to that.

[nosdacariad]

Yeah, I figured. [ he presses past spike, and shoves the door open, disappearing inside ]