Operation: Roll Out

[initiates]

Date & Time: January 31st - February 4th, Present Day Exsilium Time
Location: Neo Las Vegas, in what formerly was called Turkey.
Characters: All Transports!
Summary: Transports have been sent to Neo Las Vegas to gather information on the origin point of the United Earth and the UE AI. Conference sabotage and the rest is expected and invited!
Warnings: Gambling and alcoholic beverages quite likely! Please PM the mod account for anything else.

By day, the landscape isn't desert, precisely, so much as it is dry. Winter's settled in and found in the biting chill of the wind when it finds you standing on the street. Hovercars and taxis thrum down the cobblestone streets, cavorting and honking like a noisy crowd of inelegant, overweight geese. Men walk by on stilts half in make-up, on their way back to their stage for the next night. Walks of shame are taken proudly in this district, one of the few approved and sanctioned vacation zones in the United Earth.

Evidence of law enforcement can be found all around, but they seem altogether too pleased to be there too. Talk with any one of them about crime rates, and they're liable to laugh at the idea. Those who come to gamble know the house is rigged to win. It's not about making or breaking the bank -- people whose funds dip too low are politely escorted back to their rooms and given a set of normal playing cards -- but it is about enjoyment.

Of the flesh too, and it'd be difficult to find anyone working in Neo Las Vegas who suffers from modesty, or anyone visiting who seems unwilling to politely ask visitors and staff if they'd like to keep them company for the night. In fact, Transports may find themselves needing to turn down multiple such requests! The refusal is always taken well. These are people looking to have a good time, and that's all.

No chance taken, nothing gained, right?

At night, the city really comes alive, the lights in all the hotels and casinos turning the Neo Las Vegas Strip into a carnival of sensation. Drinks and recreational drugs are freely passed around, men and women engage in a variety of sexual and other hedonistic excesses without regret, and the beautiful interiors and ostentatious or playful exteriors of the buildings hide and reveal a rich tapestry of events, delectables, and desires waiting to be fulfilled.

Neo Las Vegas is a fun place, and it is a safe place, and it is Where the Conferences For Our Future Are Made. Playtime is on, gang.

Comments

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier beams.]

It'll just cost you some coin. [He squints.] If you ain't from around here, you know, more used to snowy conditions, I accept favours or food, too.

[lazyinlove]

Uhhhh...like what kinda favor?

[The kid starts turning his pockets out in case he's forgotten about some food that he stuffed in them somewhere. Hmm. Nope. Just party favors and a lolipop. Where'd that come from?]

[changeitroundsome]

Just making a little supply run for me sometime, that's all. [He raises his cane.] Can't go racin' about the place like I could if I was younger.

[It's only a white lie, mostly.]

[lazyinlove]

[Stan shrugs. Yeah, sure. Why not? It would give him an excuse to get out of the snow for a it anyway, right?]

How does it go?

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier shuffles his cards, throwing in a few tricks here and there, before fanning them out for Stanley.]

All you gotta do is pick three, the cards do the rest.

[lazyinlove]

[That's easy enough. Stanley picks one up and looks at it, but he really as no idea what it means. He could trade it in for another one, but they're probably all mysterious to him. So he gives up and pulls out two more. That's right, isn't it?]

let me know if this is not ok!

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier gives him a smile, waving his hand and vanishing away the unchosen cards. The three Stanley has picked, he fans out, turning the first over. Upon it is Stanley himself, albeit dressed like a devil.]

Ya'll had a fairly regular childhood, but your teenage years have been rife with the sort of turbulence young men like you always go through, and then some. You got yourself into trouble with some narcotics, tryin' to impress a lady in a way that'd make your grandparents blush.

[He peers at the card for a moment, before shrugging.] But you did the right thing, in the end. Or tried to, at least.

fine by me

[lazyinlove]

[Stan's eyebrows go up at that. Narcotics? Not really, but close enough. And yeah, alright, the drugs had definitely been to get a girl into bed. Check and check. It's the last part he doesn't understand.

The right thing? What right thing? Trying to get Cadie to the ER? That isn't it, right?]

Uh...One outta three I think?

[changeitroundsome]

[Faclier raises an eyebrow. That's exactly the right thing.]

Cads don't lie, son. Ya'll took that girl somewhere he could get help, instead of gettin' what you wanted.

[lazyinlove]

Right. Kind of. We ended up in the river actually, but she was fine...but what's the point?

[Of this game, that is. He frowns a little, looking at the cards that somehow this dude could make sense out of even though they made no sense to Stanley at all.]

I already knew all that.

[changeitroundsome]

You've got to start from the past to get to the future. I don't make the rules.

[If he did, he'd make it so he could read his OWN future, but, alas. He turns the middle card over. Upon it is Stanley again, this time with Hope beside him, three swords are driven into the ground, parting them.]

In more recent events, you were in the care of a little girl, Peace. When the snowy mess we're currently livin' in was discovered, things changed. She was swallowed up by the timestream, as if she never existed at all.

[He manages what he hopes is a sympathetic look.] Still hurts, huh?

...sorry for this

[lazyinlove]

[That hits like a sucker punch, even months later. It knocks the wind out of him, makes him struggle for a long moment to find the oxygen. Peace. Who the hell is this guy to talk about Peace?

Feeling sick and furious, Stan stares for a long moment. No... he isn't going to have this conversation. This isn't fun. He glares for a moment, then turns to leave.]

Fuck off.

tis totally ok

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier doesn't seem all that concerned with Stan's outburst, he simply shows his splayed palms and gives a 'what can you do?' sort of shrug.]

Ya'll wanted your cards read, son. I don't have any power in what they show.

[lazyinlove]

You didn't say it was gonna suck.

[changeitroundsome]

It's your life, I would have thought you could figure that much out for yourself.

[lazyinlove]

[Wow. Harsh.

Kind of true.

But still harsh.]

Great, thanks. That's just great.

[The kid turns to stalk away. He doesn't want to hear the rest, dude. It's depressing enough already.]

[changeitroundsome]

[BYE KID ENJOY YOUR LIFE]

Thanks for playing dude and putting up with the slow I really enjoyed this thread!

[lazyinlove]

[But he can't it sucks we just covered that...]

never a problem I tag at any pace, it was fun!

[changeitroundsome]

[Oh yeah.

WELP. Life be shitty, what're you gonna do?]

take a bow, we did good.

[lazyinlove]

[Get high. It helps.]