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

[quackery]

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]

[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]

Oh.

[Hm.]

Well, we didn't talk that much, it was mostly just - training and stuff when we were together.

[controlledvariable]

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]

[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]

[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]

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.