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

[oversleeps]

-- It's a no. [ pls. ]

[deadelfwalking]

And if I ask her the same question, she will corroborate your response?

[oversleeps]

I'm not the one to ask that, am I?

[deadelfwalking]

[Koltira lets him go.]

I do not appreciate being lied to. Nor do I appreciate the tone your boyfriend took with me over this matter.

[oversleeps]

Boyfriend-- [ oh, right. tch; he rubs at his wrist, frowning at koltira. ]

She attacked me while I was on my way out of the city, unarmed. Do you think that counts as seeking?

[deadelfwalking]

With no provocation?

[oversleeps]

Again, I don't like risking my fucking life. So, no-- I didn't provoke her.

[deadelfwalking]

That does not corroborate with what she told me.

[oversleeps]

Do you think telling someone to leave you alone counts as instigating something, then? [ he shoves his hands in his pockets. this he wants to know. ]

[deadelfwalking]

I was told that you challenged her, and that you are a blood mage. Meaning that, either way, your statement about being unarmed is disingenuous.

Unless she is lying.

[He shifts his weight from one foot to the other. He's ready to cut the transmitter and frighten off this whole street if Marduk doesn't cut the attitude.]

[oversleeps]

[ his sigh is short and irate. ]

Hardly. My primary skills lie elsewhere-- with a weapon. The blood magic is secondary to that.

[deadelfwalking]

And you did not challenge her in any way.

[oversleeps]

Not unless she took me wanting nothing to do with her as one.

[deadelfwalking]

[Seviilia has reason to lie: if she's attacking innocents, Koltira will kill her again. It's not like it'd be out of character for her. But something about this doesn't add up for him. He narrows his eyes; steps back.]

I see.

[oversleeps]

How nice for you.

[ marduks makes no effort to mask his displeasure, nor how unsettled he is by koltira as a whole. he looks away, scowling off at something down the street. ] Satisfied?

[deadelfwalking]

Eventually. Shorel'aran.

[He walks off.]