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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

[witchwoman]

[She glances at Des, eyes darting to Burt to be certain that he's focused on the television before answering, keeping her voice low.]

We saw him in Romania. He took the other girl. And in the studio, he... He did something to me, mesmerized me somehow- like a dragon dream.

[rationalizes]

[ gar flashes a concerned glance between them ] It does seem to hold with your theory, Mr. Descant. [ yes, sometimes she still calls him that, it just sounds right in her accent ]

[nothingsodivine]

[It's better than her calling him Desmond. :|]

I'm telling you, guys. Nightscape's not crap. Put ideas in people's heads, make them forget it ever happened. You can do a lot of damage that way, even if it's just the people out there.

[notaroundme]

I was just lucky that she snapped out of it in time, and that they boys showed up when they did.

[Elena pipes up a bit, glad for the distraction from Keijen's number. He'd creeped her out before, but after their encounter with him? Way worse.]

[starfucker]

[ burt straightens up and clicks off the tv, looking annoyed ] Alright, ladies. Let's get this three ring shit wheel off the ground. Blondie, you're up first, so be on standby. We won't need you for more than a few minutes. Everybody else, go take your damn seats except for Golden Boy over there.

Chop, chop, people.

[nothingsodivine]

You heard the man. [And he slides on out.]

[slay]

[ she opens her mouth to ask a question, then stops short as burt makes himself known. yeah better not get too knightly with him around whoops. she clears her throat. ]

You got it.

[ and she goes to ... find where she should be on standby. and resists the urge to complain that it's buffy, but rest assured that's going on in her head. stupidhead. ]

[romanticidal]

Buffy! [ as she heads backstage, she'd run across an anxious looking rafael, who corners her to ask, glancing over his shoulder and lowering his voice: ] You cannot tell that beneath this suit I am armed, can you? [ ARCHER MADE HIM PARANOID NOW ]

[slay]

[ buffy's eyes widen in surprise at first at rafael's rushed appearance, but the startled look melts quickly into one of amusement, and she actually full-stop grins at him, giving a short laugh. ]

You're fine. Better than fine, you're - You look great. You're gonna knock 'em dead. Or ... a slightly more appropriate turn of phrase.

[romanticidal]

[ he smiles at that, all relief ] Let us hope so. [ somewhat enigmatically: ] If all goes well, this may prove to be the most important performance of my life.