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

also the second one

[controlledvariable]

[Steph is just going to casually sidle up to Belle, with the intention of saying hi, but she gets distracted by what's in Belle's hand.]

Oh god, is that from an actual hot dog cart?

[She hadn't thought to look for one until she sees Belle with a hot dog, and now she's decided she absolutely needs a hot dog.]

[lucency]

It is!

[ do you understand how happy belle is about this hot dog? the first hot dog she's ever eaten? ever?

she is pretty damn excited. she holds it up and her eyes twinkle and she points back toward the cart, which is only a few yards away. ] I've never had one before! It's fantastic!

[controlledvariable]

You're kidding?

[Belle how have you not had a hotdog before what kind of life were you living?]

[lucency]

[ she shakes her head! but has the courtesy to look sufficiently sheepish. ] I'm not.

[ they weren't a thing in the enchanted forest and in storybrooke she stuck to cheeseburgers okay gosh

neo vegas reeks of hot dog privilege. ]

[controlledvariable]

If I'd known I would've introduced you to them much sooner.

[It should have been her solemn duty as a friend to make sure that Belle knew the beauty that is hot dogs.]

[lucency]

Did they have them in Exsilium? [ they probably did. she just never thought to get one. ] Or on the moon?

They had them at home, in the diner, but I must've been overwhelmed with everything else that I never paid much attention. [ it's good. but hamburgers and pancakes >>>>>>>. ]

[controlledvariable]

The first Exsilium, yeah. And I think we endd up with hot dogs a few times on the moon.

[If people picked them up while on a trip, which wasn't a bad idea, considering they freeze well enough and are easy to cook.]

I'm disappointed, Belle. [the saddest headshake.] You haven't had a chili dog then, have you?

[lucency]

They aren't exactly a specialty where I'm from originally.

[ she takes a bite of her hot dog and lets that sink in. medieval dogs. yes. on a stale loaf of bread. awesome.

but then her brows furrow and she leans in slightly, because of what that sounds like. ]

Is it - the same thing, only cold?

[controlledvariable]

I dunno if I'd call them a specialty anywhere.

[Belle she doesn't know when you're from!!

But that's adorable.]

No, no. Chili like... meat and beans and chili peppers. It's spicy, and you put it on the bun over the dog, then add cheese and stuff.

[lucency]

[ her eyes widen, but her mouth is full again. take that as a cue of excitement. ]

No, I had no idea! And that's better?

[controlledvariable]

[belle how are you so cute]

You can put all sorts of stuff on hot dogs, but yeah, I like chili dogs better than plain ones.

[lucency]

[ she just

loves

food okay ]

Then what are we waiting for?

[controlledvariable]

You wanna finish that one first?

[just wondering]

[lucency]

Is there some rule against having two?

[ because guess who is about to break that rule.

it's belle. ]

[controlledvariable]

It might make eating a little tricky, unless you've got an extra set of hands I don't know about.

[at this rate she would not be surprised AT ALL]