CHAPTER FINALE ♔ darling can't you see it's now or never

[romanticidal]

♬ Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing) - Amanda Palmer ft. Zoe Keating

WHO || Rafael Giovanni, Eterna Jade, Burt Becksworth, Isabella Alessandro, Finnick Odair, Myrilandel de Tanos, Buffy Summers, Spike, Elena Gilbert, Dawn Summers, Desmond Descant, Jeanne Gar, Kat Samcelot, Mark Sandazhard, Violet Fiore, Sterling Archer
WHAT || CHAPTER ONE FINALE: Rafael Giovanni & Finnick's televised international concert debut
WHERE || A music hall in Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 3rd, 2013 [ forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam

The hour is finally upon our heroes, to learn whether their crazy plan to invest in making Finnick and Rafael international superstars under Burt Becksworth's management will pay off, and keep control of NOVA Records out of the hands of Chad Becksworth and his sinister compatriots. Now, as the Knights finish taking their seats in the balconies directly overlooking the stage, the concert goes live, broadcasting around the world, to where even other members of the Knighthood in London can gather to watch.

The camera pans across the endless sea of gathered, curious fans, who shake their arms wildly for their two seconds of fame, and then zooms in on a blonde figure on one corner of the stage, where she stands ready with a microphone: Buffy Summers.

[ the action of this post will be continually propelled by the interspersed musical numbers performed by finnick and rafael. each musical number will be up for a short amount of ooc time, in which players are free to create mini-thread responses directly to that song comment. these can be for internal reflection, to make commentary to the neighbors seated in their rows, for backstage convos for those involved in the program, or for 'host' commentary between some songs by archer and kat. threads that result from these responses should be kept short and sweet, as each song is only 3 to 5 minutes long, which doesn't leave a lot of time for in depth conversations. ideally, by the time the next 'number' is posted (as a direct response to the last musical number comment), your response threads from the previous number should be considered over and done with, and you can continue anything going on in them as a new mini-thread under the most recently posted song. in order to keep track of when things are rolling on to the next song, I highly encourage everyone to please track this entire post. ]

Comments

[slay]

Past schmast. [ buffy's dismissal comes promptly, but then she grows more sympathetic and explains why she's so cavalier about it. ] It's true, tabloids love a good story, but nobody in Italy's figured it out yet and you're plenty popular there, and not a single one of them's figured out what Finnick does on his days off.

[romanticidal]

You have a knack for making things sound so simple. This must be why I get so trapped up in my head when you are not around. [ he reaches out to give her hand a squeeze as a man with a clipboard starts waving to him frantically from the wings ] It looks like I am on deck.

[slay]

[ she squeezes his hand back, and her stomach flutters as it slips out of hers. her gaze lingers on him and she offers a tiny smile. ]

I'll be watching.

[ she lets the man with the clipboard take over, and slips away from backstage to go rejoin the others. ]

[romanticidal]

[ he smiles back slightly and then heads off to get in place for when finnick finishes his last number. as buffy heads towards the stairs that lead up to her balcony, a black-clad stage hand nearly rams into her, walking at full speed hustling around back there. he doesn't offer so much as a word of apology as he disappears out of sight around the corner.

people are so nice here. ]

[slay]

[ and after a snide look at the dbag who doesn't believe in apologies, buffy headed back onto the balcony where the others are. whoo. ]