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

[charming_jerk]

[Johnny's face colors a bit at that comment, and for the fact that Blaine of all people had to catch him in this store. His metal cred is going right out the window! ...Like Blaine actually cared about that, or something.

He's currently in a deep red dress shirt and holding four different ties he's trying to it, and looks away, frowning.]

Oh, well, uh. It ain't like I got the money to shop here for real or anythin'.

[strategic_guile]

[The red looks so contrasting with Johnny's complexion, but it matches that blush amazingly well. He grins.]

I don't either.

[He was supposedly there to shop, and he smooth talked his way in just fine, but he doesn't have much money either, and definitely not for this place.]

[charming_jerk]

[Pretty much everything contrasted with Johnny's complexion. He just liked red a lot.]

I've learned to deal with the fact that any time we go on missions, if I wanna get some stuff, this is how I'm gonna do it. Besides, this is a special occassion, right? Which means nice clothes.

[And Blaine is in a suit. Be still his heart.]

[strategic_guile]

[Fuck it, Blaine is picking up a wine red shirt. Well hello, now they can both match. He's not wearing a tie though. He buttons it up most of the way but leaves a triangle of collarbone showing. now he slides the jacket own and adjusts it on his shoulders.]

They didn't give me much of a chance to get any money before we came, so I'm going to rely on you for this one, honey.

[There's a quick batting of eyes at Johnny, too.]

[charming_jerk]

[Damnit, saying that while wearing a suit? IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE. Even if he looks at Blaine like he's a dumbass.]

Gonna have me steal for ya, huh. Yer lucky I like ya. [There's a little bit of a smirk, though.]

I think red might look better on you than on me.

[strategic_guile]

[Blaine is good at deciphering Johnny's various 'unimpressed' looks. He walks over and picks up a tie and starts the process of tying it around the shorter man's neck. His voice is low, confidential, and husky as he responds.]

I think you look better naked, but red works, too.

[He slides the tie up tight with a playful smile.]

Besides. We've already done robbery. What's petty theft of thousand dollar suits?

[charming_jerk]

[He grins a little, expecting a statement like that from Blaine.] I could say the same for you.

And yeah, ya got a point. C'mon, ya knew I was gonna do it anyway. You goin' with that one?

[strategic_guile]

[Petty theft totally doesn't go up to a thousand dollars, but Blaine is smoothing down the lapels and looking at himself in the mirror after turning around.]

Yeah, I knew my sugar daddy had my back.

[He adjusts the collar so it's juuust right.]

This one'll do.

[charming_jerk]

I knew there was a reason ya kept me around. And good, I like that one. Two suits on me, comin' up. [He's adjusting the cuffs and collar on his own suit as he walks over to the salesperson who was helping him out a moment ago. It should only take a moment, but as it sometimes happens when he charms someone, he has a hard time making a clean break for it. She's trying to get him to stay and is offering him up more stuff to go with their suits, but he's turning it down. You don't to attract someone else's attention while doing this, after all.]

[strategic_guile]

[Blaine is amused by Johnny's inability to shake the sales clerk. She is ever so helpful and eager and the blonde takes advantage of this to get come cuff links, tie clips, and a belt to match his shoes. He gets some for Johnny, too, before sliding over and gently extracting him from her grasp.]

Sorry, gatita, but we've gotta run. Time stops for no man, and not even pretty ladies~

[charming_jerk]

Uh, yeah. Thanks for all your help. [Johnny tries to shimmy off with Blaine, but not before the clerk slips her number into Johnny's pocket and follows him to the door. It looks like she's even considering following, from the longing look she gives from the door.

Johnny sighs and shakes his head... and smirks just a bit.] Man. Y'see why I hate usin' that? Talk about a pain. I guess it's worth it for the clothes, though.

[strategic_guile]

[Once outside Blaine can only laugh.]

No, I don't see it at all. Go back and tap that, Johnny.

[His grin is sly.]

It's Vegas.

[charming_jerk]

[He shakes his head, quite firmly.] No way, man. It may be Vegas, but I charmed her into it. I dunno man, it just ain't right. It's skeevy as hell.

[strategic_guile]

[His grin doesn't fade as his shrugs.] The charm isn't going to last forever, and you've got her number. Call her later.

[charming_jerk]

[He thinks it over for a moment.] Awright. Tomorrow, I'll call her. If she even manages to remember my name, it'll be a miracle.

Fer now, though-- [And he throws an arm over Blaine's shoulder, grinning himself] it's guy's night out. What should we do first?

[strategic_guile]

[Blaine can be skeevy sometimes, but he was very fond of real consent. Besides, he knew at least some of Johnny's hang-ups with his charm abilities, so he wouldn't suggest he actually use them that way, no matter how it sounded.]

Guy's night out, huh? Let's hit the tables, get some drinks, and blow someone else's money.

[He laughs.]

And then I'm taking you to watch some strippers.

[charming_jerk]

Sounds like a plan. Considerin' there's people out on the streets just offerin' themselves up to people left 'n right, the strippers here must be outta this world.

[strategic_guile]

They better be! What would the world be coming to if Vegas had shitty strippers?