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

[irritating]

[ The tapping to her head gets her attention quickly, so she turns herself back towards him in response. Although she's kind of forgotten what they were just talking about. ]

What? [ Eh whatever, it probably wasn't important. ] Hey, you wanna go get hammered?

[oversleeps]

[ ugh. that's not-- fuck it. whatever. he was gunning for that anyway, may as well take the opportunity. ]

Yeah? Lead the fucking way. [ he gestures with both arms, down the street. he's pretty sure the building they choose to walk into here doesn't matter; the result will (hopefully) be the same. ]

[irritating]

Okay, c'mon!

[ When Marduk extends his arms to gesture down the street, Apollo snags one of his sleeves between her fingers, smiles, and begins to pull him along down the sidewalk. She'll let go if he tries to withdraw hard enough, but otherwise she's holding onto him right up until they're inside the first casino she sees. ]

Here! [ And she's letting go, just to throw her arms up excitedly. Then to snatch a cocktail off a waitress's tray, down it in one go, and shove the empty glass into yet another random person's hand as they walk by. ] Drinks, easy money, an' -- wait, where's the bar?