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

[srslynotguy]

[ Flynn is surprised, naturally. But more by the man than the ladies offering him smokes. He stares at the redhead with a slight frown and then shakes his head slowly. ]

I- I'm afraid I don't smoke.

[clansman]

[ "But you'd look so cute with them!" shrills the gentle, amused protest, which is automatically taken up for a chorus.

meanwhile, the new guy seems vaguely unconcerned by all the nudity or that he seems to have interrupted the beginning of a bad, if glittery, potential-porno. ]

Aaa. [ a beat, and drier still - ] It's a bad habit.

[ which doesn't stop him tugging the pack out of the girl's hand to repocket it. ]

[srslynotguy]

[ Flynn wants to ask him why he's taken the pack of smokes anyway if he knows it's a bad habit but decides against it. He focuses instead-- or for the meantime -- on the ladies surrounding them. Or him. ]

I'm sorry... I really have to be going now. Please...

[ He looks again to Mikoto as he tries to think of an excuse. Suddenly one does. ]

I'm afraid my friend and I have matters to attend to. Please excuse us.

[clansman]

[








this look is very blank. ]

Friend?

[srslynotguy]

[ He flashes the ladies a charming smile before striding towards Mikoto. ]

My apologies... please play along for now.

[ He then whispers to him quickly. ]

[clansman]

. . . hah.

[ No refusal -- only a casual turn to head away from the suddenly forlorn troupe. But why would the handsome gentleman desert them so quickly. :( ]

Better walk fast.

[srslynotguy]

Thank you.

[ Flynn says quietly and flashes the ladies one last bright smile before giving them an apologetic nod. After that it was onto following Mikoto's brisk pace. He has no problem doing that, though. ]

[clansman]

[ a glance, a beat, and then an indifferent sort of shrug as they continue down the block. ]

You could've walked before, too.

[srslynotguy]

It'd have been harder without someone else... they would have said I was just making up reasons on my own.

[clansman]

[ pause!




for an especially. . . blank look. . . ]

And?

[srslynotguy]

[ He really can't say anything to that. He just opts to thank the man again. ]

Thank you. I... don't know if I could have broken away from them so easily without your help.

[clansman]

[ he turns to look back down the block at the women, still clustered together in a glittering throng. ]

What's wrong with 'em?

[ more precisely: what's wrong with you, flynn. :( ]