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

[hornedomen]

I don't think they do it because of that. Haven't you ever ridden a horse before? It's just faster.

[wolfuncaged]

No, I have not. My kind do not have the opportunity to ride a horse.

In the right place this time!

[hornedomen]

[He looked away from the cars and he looked up at Fenris.] Why? Are there no horses where you're from?

[wolfuncaged]

There are plenty of horses, slaves are just not permitted to ride them.

[hornedomen]

Slaves? You mean you're a slave back home? That's terrible!

[His eyes glittered with worry.] What's going to happen when you get back home?

[wolfuncaged]

I was. I killed my master, and set myself free.

[He gives a shrug.] I will likely remain with my companions. I have nothing else to do, and nowhere else to go.

[hornedomen]

You killed...

[He closed his mouth. Was it right or wrong to kill in this case? He did not know. Killing was not entirely wrong, not always; that much he knew. For a long moment, he was quiet as he thought over the situation.]

I'm glad you've got friends to stay with. You won't be locked up for killing your master, will you?

[wolfuncaged]

They can certainly try, but I will not be caged ever again. Should they attempt to capture me, I will kill them, too.

[Fenris' thoughts on killing are a lots simpler.]

[hornedomen]

No, there has to be a better way than that. If you do that, then it'll never stop! Don't kill them, okay?

[wolfuncaged]

Violence is the only language they understand. There is no better way.

[hornedomen]

[He shook his head.] There is. That path will only lead to destruction. It'll destroy everyone, even you.

[wolfuncaged]

I have been told this many times. Some destruction is worth the risk.

[hornedomen]

[The errors of this view was so obvious to Ico, and to other people, it seemed. Why, then, would Fenris insist on destruction? As much as he wanted to tell Fenris how foolish he was, the age gap between them was too great for him to speak in such a way.]

It won't be worth it. You'll see. [And he hoped Fenris would see before it was too late.]

[wolfuncaged]

I sincerely doubt that, and if it is the case, the mistake is mine to make.

[hornedomen]

[He sighed through his nose. What could he do? If Fenris went back, he could not do anything to stop him.]

Would it be easier to stay in Exsilium? I don't think anyone here will try to lock you up for what you did.

[wolfuncaged]

I have no wish to stay here. I have a duty back home.

[hornedomen]

Then I hope no one will try to capture you. But I know they can't, you're very strong.

[He just wished Fenris were wiser with his strength.]

[wolfuncaged]

[So do all his friends.]

No. They cannot.