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

[graveflowers]

[No but Des, YOUR CAR IS BEAUTIFUL. Vi thinks she's gorgeous and if he doesn't want it, she will totally take it and GPS Archer of his hands. Jsyk. She's super jealous she didn't get to experience that sweet ride.

And she says at much.]

So... you're gonna let me drive her right? Right? [Oh whatever lawyer person. She glances in his direction, hi, but distraction in the form of car. Whoops.]

[slay]

I think the idea of letting other people drive might still be something of a trigger for Des.

[ she's just saying. anyway, banter aside, she gets out of whatever the other car is and heads up to jaka. ]

Let's just get this over with.

[lawofsurvival]

[ the drow offers her a small quirked smile, all cultured accent as he pushes off from his car. ] That's the spirit. [ ... apparently the spirit is... resigned compliance. ]

[bigbad]

[Spike was probably driving the other car, so he'll get out of that and wander over to the rest of the group. He claps Des on the shoulder.]

You really took that less penis-shaped thing to heart, didn't you?

[nothingsodivine]

[Des oh-so-delicately peels Spike's hand away from his shoulder.]

It's Archer's car. And Vi, you can drive it into the river for all I care.

[65]

Seems like a horrible waste of a car. [if myri was riding with des, i guess finnick was too???? they're a two for one everybody knows this.]

[notaroundme]

[Elena is quiet as she joins the large forming group, and likely was the entire ride over here. Gurl has done a lot of thinking these last few days.]

[lawofsurvival]

I'm somewhat amazed you'd qualify that monstrosity as a car.

[graveflowers]

[About to defend the honor of the El Camino, instead she snorts out a laugh once she moves close enough to see the batmobile upclose. Between that and her creepy drow googling, Vi appreciates the pun. (Wis 22)] Oh, I get it! That's a, and you're a, and. [and more giggles.] Cute.

[witchwoman]

[Myri isn't doing a great job at hiding her discomfort. But that might have just been the fact that she had to listen to Archer's terrible directions from the car's programming the whole way over.

She hangs back and just eyes Jaka, barely aware of all the car banter.]

[lawofsurvival]

[ ever so dryly: ] I'm certain the joke gains much, from being pointed out, repeatedly. [ he looks over the assembled and still-assembling, and remarks: ] Your friend, Francesca, didn't choose to come?

[nothingsodivine]

What? Too many humans for your party?

[65]

She was preoccupied.

[IS THAT PROTECTIVENESS?? maybe a little ... ]

[slay]

Root canal. She's real broken up she couldn't make it. [ all of this said in a tone of LET'S GET ON WITH IT. ]

[graveflowers]

[How many of them are even human on failboat tho... like really?]

We'll bring her back a souvenir.

[notaroundme]

[Less and less everyday apparently.]

Let's get this over with.

[It's the first thing she's said since she left their hotel.]

[bigbad]

Right. Let's see what evidence that poofter was foolish enough to leave lying around his office.

[watcherjunior]

[ Dawn's been doing the quiet, observing thing.

Until now, that is. ]

Do guys really get a sense of superiority by throwing around, you know, names and insults and stuff like that?

[lawofsurvival]

I imagine humans need seize a fleeting sense of superiority wherever they can find it. [ doot doot doo ] It's not a terribly long walk to NOVA, but this large of a group might be particularly noticeable.

[nothingsodivine]

Is this your racially superior way of telling us to split up? [HE'S GONNA CONTRIBUTE... now that he's waved his dick around.] We can go opposite ways down the block- first group heads in and goes straight for Chad's office, second group circles around the long way and checks out whatever else they can once they're in. That way we're not all prancing around Chad's office like a herd of elephants and the second group can keep an eye out for any trouble.

[graveflowers]

I don't think elephant's prance. [Just putting that out there for the record.] How're we going to spilt up?

[slay]

I'm not letting him out of my sight.

[ she points to jaka determinedly. look if this all goes south and he turns out evil who is the best option to take him down lbr. ... someone should probably go with who could advise buffy against preemptively punching him in his stupid face. ]

[witchwoman]

I'd prefer to go with you. [She says to Buffy with a slight nod, not intending for this to be a matter of debate.]

[lawofsurvival]

How very kind of you, to be so concerned for my well being. [ :) ] I'll play look out, then. I do hate being crowded.

[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.