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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2014-01-31 02:48 pm
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Operation: Roll Out

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.
quackery: commissioned art, please dns! (they've managed to get rid of me)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Or knew him, at least. That's so beautiful, Steph...

[A pause.]

You must love him. I'm sorry.
controlledvariable: (PB >> welcomed it in)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head, smiling.]

What're you apologizing for? It's fine, I just can't believe I didn't realize you knew him.
quackery: commissioned art, please dns! (here come old flat top)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not apologizing, I'm being empathetic.

[But she smiles.]

He seemed like a good person to me.
controlledvariable: (PB >> I've been fighting a war)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahiru pls. Steph waves a hand to dimiss it.]

He's a good guy, yeah. Probably wouldn't have ended up where I am without him.

[Him and Cass, but still.]
quackery: (goodbye! it's a happy ending)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
How did you two meet?
controlledvariable: (PB >> but we're the gladiators)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
On a rooftop. He thought I was a supervillain, tackled me and tried to pin me down, so I hit him in the face with a brick.

[shrugs???

#true love]
quackery: (has been said)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She pauses, but then remembers that the first time she met her boyfriend he called her a useless moron and then shut her in a door.]

I bet that makes a good story! Were you still together when you came here?
Edited 2014-02-07 03:27 (UTC)
controlledvariable: (PB >> I want the applause)

oop

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's one of the more interesting ones.

[How she met Dean is a boring story. How she met Ellie and Saul isn't all that exciting, either.

Except for the semi automatic that Ellie was carrying.]


Nah, we'd, um, broken up a while ago. It was kinda complicated for a while there, but we're friends now.
quackery: (the part's been played)

sry

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
What are the other ones? I mean, besides Saul, I know that one.

[A pause.]

What happened? I-I mean, if you want to talk about it.
controlledvariable: (PB >> this will not do)

i forgive you

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[She nearly asks how Ahiru knows that one, before realizing that Saul probably told her.]

I met Dean at school, he copied the answers off me for a history test. [She should have known he was a loser then and there.] And I met Ellie on her first day her, helped patch up some her injuries, fed her, and traded her AK47 for something a little more subtle.

[That's the easy bit to tell, things with Tim are more complicated, but:]

He, uh, he thought I was dead. And moved on. We tried to patch things up when I came back, but it just didn't really work out.
quackery: (i see you driving round town)

that's a first

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
That first one isn't a very good way to meet! Ellie's is sweet, though. [mostly because she doesn't know what an AK47 is o o p s

She pauses, though, being struck by how painful that must have been.]


...You didn't tell him you were still alive? He would've been able to keep it a secret, I know he would have.
controlledvariable: (PB >> the stories are brand new)

pls

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
That's one word for it.

[Giving a teenage girl weaponry.

such cute

very romance.]


It wasn't that easy. I was a long way away, and I wasn't ready to go home.
quackery: commissioned art, please dns! (they've managed to get rid of me)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
So... You couldn't just tell him you were leaving and couldn't come home for a while?
controlledvariable: (Civvies -- dude I know you're there)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I was in a coma when I left, didn't really have much say in the matter.

[She said it was complicated!!!]
quackery: (who does she think she is)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh.]

Oh, I... I'm sorry.
controlledvariable: (civvies -- it's nearly time)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry about it, the whole thing was a long time ago, and I went home eventually. [she shrugs] I think me and Tim would've out grown each other anyway.
quackery: (the part's been played)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Still, it's too bad something like that ended it. Too bad something like that happened at all, actually.

But I'm glad you're happy with who you're with now.
controlledvariable: (civvies -- I'm just tired)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't the way I would've liked things to go, but we're used to stuff like that, with our life.

[People dying or nearly-but-not-really dying. At least she didn't do a Batman and go back in time.]

I guess he never mentioned me, huh?

[Which hurts, a little, even if she knows it's not fair.]
quackery: commissioned art, please dns! (they've managed to get rid of me)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well, people come from all different points in time! He might not have known you at the point he came from. I'm sure it's not because he didn't care.
controlledvariable: (civvies -- totally didn't think this one)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

If he was doing the Teen Titans thing, he would've known me. We met when he was fourteen.

[baby vigilantes in love]
quackery: (the empty lies are in the past)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Hm.]

Well, we didn't talk that much, it was mostly just - training and stuff when we were together.
controlledvariable: (civvies -- I can relate)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds just like him.

[And she smiles to let Ahiru know it's okay, because it doesn't really matter.

It's not like she talks about Tim that much; this is the first time she's even said his name to someone who isn't from home. Even Saul just knows about his as "Robin".]


Did you know Rue, as well?
quackery: (i see you driving round town)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Her heart nearly stops, and she looks towards Stephanie, bewildered.]

Rue? Rue is my— [It occurs to her that there's no way Stephanie could know the Rue she's thinking of, and she halts.]

Um... Not the one you're talking about, probably.
controlledvariable: (PB >> you always run around)

[personal profile] controlledvariable 2014-02-07 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[And that earns a confused furrow of her brow.]

She wouldn't have been from your world. She's from Katniss and Peeta's world.

[Does Ahiru know Katniss or Peeta? She's not sure.]
quackery: commissioned art, please dns! (here come old flat top)

[personal profile] quackery 2014-02-07 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, yeah, then that's a different person. I was just confused, um, because there's a girl from my world named Rue, too. My best friend.