chicago ♔ can't deny the enemy's taken over

[lawofsurvival]

WHO || Des, Buffy, Spike, Myri, Finnick, Archer, Dawn, Vi, Elena, Jaka [closed]
WHAT || Bonding time with Rafael's lawyer by breaking into Chad Beckworth's office
WHERE || NOVA Records HQ, Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 11th, 2013 [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam, single thread

Never a dull moment.

The night of the funeral was certainly eventful: as expected, some of Chad's goons appeared at the cemetery, apparently in search of the buried necklace, and the Knights barely managed to escape with their lives thanks to the appearance of a giant dune-winder worm at the beck and call of a necromancer. Yep. The other team had their own share of adventure at the hotel, and though they couldn't get Nadia to leave with them, they did establish contact, and swiped Decker Greenwall's mysterious hourglass artifact from his room at Dumage's prompting. They also ran afoul of a doppelganger in the employ of the other side, who prompted Elena to begin questioning exactly who or what she might be...

And of course, they finally met with Rafael's lawyer, a last minute replacement for Burt's usual guy, who had met with an unfortunate skiing accident or... something. Jeggred 'Jaka' Teken'Duis, and his brother Nym, garnered a great deal of suspicion from the team from the start, although Jaka seems entirely confident that he can get Rafael off on a temporary insanity plea. Either way, he's agreed to help them look for clues to try to illustrate Chad's role in events at the upcoming trial, and suggested, to that end, breaking into his Chicago office, one of many not-quite-legal suggestions he hinted at during their pow-wow.

All those Knights who are looking to assist him are meeting up with Jaka in a parking garage a few blocks away from the NOVA building, at his invitation.  In fact, he's already there, leaning against his car, when they arrive.

Comments

[nothingsodivine]

That makes me head of Group One, then. [He cracks his knuckles over his head.] No sense in havin' a detective on your team if he ain't gonna do any detecting.

[graveflowers]

I'll shame all you bitches with my silent assassin sneakiness, so... group two? [She glances around.] Elena, Dawn? Team Squires, you in? We might need a penis on our team though, variety and all.

[65]

[it will mean leaving his gf and daughter/sister/who knows with creeper drowchan, but ...] The teams are beginning to look a bit lopsided, aren't they? I'll go with group one.

[notaroundme]

The more people we have looking, the faster we can get out of there. Hopefully.

[She nods at Vi.]

I'm in.

[nothingsodivine]

You guys can have Archer. Finnick and I will take Spike. Three guys is enough to search an office. And a bunch of young girls and two shady looking guys busting into Nova? Totally legit. If you get caught by security, just have Archer say he's a secret agent.

[idk who died and made him boss. he just doesn't want archer x(]

[witchwoman]

[Myri nods, confident that between Buffy and Elena (who has a strange way of putting the man in his place...) that Archer would be fine in their care.]

Be safe. All of you. Contact one of us if something doesn't seem right.

[bigbad]

[Spike shrugs. He's just as happy to not have Archer in his group, though he'd rather be with Buffy, as always. Still, he's sure she can handle kicking Jaka's ass if it's needed and protecting Myri and the rest. He can do the fun going through other people's stuff part.]

Works for me.

[slay]

[ jaka's choice has her doubting she made the right one, because suddenly this feels like IT'S A TRAP for everyone actually going inside now, and her expression contorts with concern for des, finnick and spike. but she swallows it down, grabbing myri's hand. ]

Or if you find anything good. That's also a totally viable excuse for phone call.

[isisagent]

[Late, but not entirely missed, a sudden growing "WUB WUB WUB" heralds the approach of one, Sterling Archer, as he powerslides around the corner.]

WOOOOOOO-HOOO-HOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOO

[A liquor bottle flies out of the window to smash on the pavement. He flies up, and quickly stops his matching El Camino right next to Des', as he jumps out of the car and walks their way.

Hey, sorry... I had to go buy some stuff. Uh, What's the plan?

[notaroundme]

[She's not even phased anymore. Used to your shenanigans, Archer.]

We're splitting up. You're with me.

[Yup, that sure is all she's saying right now. She wants to get this show on the road, okay?

And that sure could have been worded better. Maybe.]

[isisagent]

Good enough for me.

[He clicks the lock button, but hits the wrong one, and the hydraulics kick the front end way up.]

Oh, uh... Still getting used to this, hang on...

[BOOP! Another button. The front end dives back down, but the car also starts playing one of Archer's favorite songs (And also, his ringtone...) *BLACK ASS MOMMA! WHITE ASS DADDY! MULATTO BUTTS! MULATTO BUTTS!(Link for your listening pleasure...)]

Son of a bitch here!

[He presses another button, and the car song stops, and there is a satisfying "beep beep" as the car locks.]

Alright, let's get this over with, eh?

[watcherjunior]

[ Dawn wanted to continue that 'feeling useful' thing and sneak into the office, but... eh, she supposes Des has a point. It would probably be easier to play off the gaggle of ladies with the creepy lawyer guy and Archer.

Of course, given that he just made his car practically jump rope and blare that obnoxious song, she's having doubts about having him stick around. But that decision is probably above her paygrade. ]

I don't even wanna know what the hell that was. [ She pinches the bridge of her nose. ] The sooner we start, the sooner this is all over with.

[lawofsurvival]

[ jaka's judgment as he stares at archer's ridiculous shenanigans permeates the entire parking garage. ] I see your friend enjoyed the fey wine.

But yes, we should proceed while it's dark. Those who'll be going inside should go on ahead, and we can follow shortly, in a few interspersed groups, yes? [ someone can... make new threads on this post for those things \o\ one for group a, one for group b ]

team facebook stalker

[nothingsodivine]

[And with Burt's key, so do the dynamic trio make their way into the building.]

Okay, look, if a security guy stops us before we find Chad's office, just tell 'e, we got sent here by Burt to get some paperwork together. Nobody hear knows Finnick's retired and I'm not really his manager. [He points at Spike.] Guess that makes you the faithful bodyguard.

[65]

[such a charming, good natured smile. and yet the words that come out of finnick's mouth ….. ] Try not to catch fire in the hallway.

[bigbad]

[Wow thanks Finnick, so little faith.] It's night.

[65]

Fire has a way of finding you. [and yet you can't get mad at finnick because diplomacy 26. :') ]

[nothingsodivine]

Ladies, please. We can do the banter thing later. [He moves towards the front desk to investigate, but fails his spot check abysmally, so he... misses anything of use to their finding Chad's office. That's promising. A+ detective work there, Des.]

[65]

[you know who has spent like a year hanging out in the nova building(s) giving burt bjs? this guy.] Why are you doing that? [he stares at des like really before ... heading off in a certain direction, waving him along to follow. (nav 18 bitcheessss).]

[bigbad]

[Yeah, Spike's with the guy who had a second job here. He raises an eyebrow at Des even though Spike wasn't particularly helpful himself and follows Finnick.]

[nothingsodivine]

[DES JUST BLOWS HIS BANGS OUT OF HIS FACE LIKE A DEJECTED TEENAGE GIRL. His hair is fluffy enough for that. It's a thing. And is just gonna stalk on after them.

team vagina

[slay]

If someone's watching NOVA right now, do you really think it'll be less conspicuous for three small groups to go in at intervals than for one big one? Not to ... rain on the parade, but I think if we're worried about somebody catching on, to begin with, breaking off into little pods isn't gonna change that.

[graveflowers]

I'm with Buffy. [A beat, nose wrinkling, because that doesn't sound right but now it probably looks insulting. Whoops.] I mean not with Buffy. Just, you know what I mean. She makes a valid point. We're gonna be noticable no matter what, we might as well go in all together and get it done with. Plus we're a group of fine ass ladies, isn't that part of the music industry dealio? Vag Fest 2013: all groupies, all the time.

[And Archer.]

[watcherjunior]

Well, if we're gonna do the groupie thing, we should like... really obviously do it. [ She's hoping the others would catch her drift. To Dawn, groupies wore tight, revealing clothes and lots of makeup and squealed a lot. And she's only got one of those three right now. ] Live the cliche.

[witchwoman]

I've found that you can wear nearly anything- or nearly nothing, but as long as you say the right thing, most people prefer to believe that we are only here to fawn over the musicians.