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

[urbanmagic]

Assume you have too much dirty laundry you can't bear to grab on your own. [She drops her hand back to the notebook, the pan having been writing the whole time.] You're awfully stiff.

[commentboxtroll]

It's a little difficult not to be now that I know there's inexperienced people bumbling around a dangerous city unsupervised.

[ Which actually isn't all that different from the experienced people bumbling around, but they at least had some idea of what the UE is. ]

I'd suggest switching to manual unless you want some really uncomfortable attention soon.

[urbanmagic]

[And she does as told, going back to writing. She wasn't trying to get on his good side, but he did have a point. They'll start looking soon at this rate.]

I don't suppose you're planning on going up and out just to collect them all, are you?

[commentboxtroll]

Absolutely not.

[ He's doing enough as it is (which is lazily lingering around conference halls not doing much at all, but hey, that is totally hard work). ]

It would take reasoning with them and they've made it all too apparent how much of a dead end that is with most.

[urbanmagic]

Speaking from experience? [She only has half the attention now though, given she's seriously writing down what she's hearing. Hey, the detective in her can't just let information pass.] Don't think I ever caught your name, by the way.

[commentboxtroll]

From more experience than I'd care to have.

[ Though as she took his advice, he'll be a little more amiable now. A little! ]

I'm Caesar. I'm not so new.

[urbanmagic]

The people do seem to be a rowdy bunch. [The conference seem to be nearing its end, at least.] I could tell. You don't seem half as excitable as the others. [He was quite as bored though.]

[commentboxtroll]

That's because I have a key element that they lack.

[ And he always looks bored, so that's hardly a good way to gauge anything. Eternally bored. The eternally bored Silverberg. ]

[urbanmagic]

The ability to look bored no matter what? [It's a very valid guess.]

[commentboxtroll]

I was going to go with common sense, but that one works all the same.

[ Hey, the truth is the truth. ]

[urbanmagic]

Can't argue that. [Then again, how does one define common sense anyway. It's not always so common with everyone.] Guess not a lot of people have been to Vegas. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

[commentboxtroll]

[ 'Anything Caesar believes' is how Caesar defines it! ]

One I would have liked to pass on. This place is just too ridiculous.

[urbanmagic]

That makes it more interesting though. If it was all too serious, we'd end up gloomy and dark more often than not. [She's not quite sure that logic applies, Caesar.]

[commentboxtroll]

[ It always applies, Traci. Always. ]

This is just a lie, though. [ And here's where he'll keep his voice down a lot, to the point where he leans closer to her in case she has trouble hearing. ] This place is a distraction for the world and if our people get caught up in it, we're in for more trouble than we can handle.

[ But that said... ]

Not that this is the place to discuss that.

[urbanmagic]

We can talk more about it after this is over then. How does that sound? [It's practically ending speeches and stuff by now, anyway.]

[commentboxtroll]

That sounds fine. [ Hopefully that ends up being sooner than later. He's tired of this place! ] I don't be going far from the spot we'll all be ending up again at the end of this.

[ Also known as the warehouse. ]

[urbanmagic]

Sounds fair. I might have to look for a few people first before I get back. Seems like I hd a few friends from home here.