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

[miscreant]

I will never quite understand your interest in the matter, honestly.

[If it was her "friend" indulging in the practices Marduk was practicing in, she would not have asked.]

You informed me you are merely friends, yes?

[irritating]

Mostly I'm interested in keepin' him alive, which is gonna be kinda hard to do if he's this fuckin' inclined to be a goddamn moron.

[ Apollo's the opposite; it's because he's her friend that she's being especially nosy. ]

But yeah, why?

[miscreant]

Your persistence on the matter simply astounds me.

[The moron comment doesn't even seem to register.]

[irritating]

My best friend 'round here thought it was a good idea to go visit a lady who ripped him up for fuckin' funsies last time, why the fuck wouldn't I wanna know what the fuck is goin' on, huh?

[ If she hadn't gone back to drinking, the look she's giving Seviilia may have been accompanied with something along the lines of "fuckin' riddle me that". ]

[miscreant]

Should you not be asking him, then? He came of his own accord after all.

[She seems pretty smug about that too. Her legs cross, her spine straightens, and she pushes the alcohol away from her. Wouldn't want to say something dumb now.]

[irritating]

I have, an' I know!

[ Cue over dramatic sigh. Followed by more drinking, because Apollo is not at all concerned about possibly saying something dumb. She's never worried about the possibility of saying something dumb. ]

Listen alright, it ain't always easy gettin' this kinda stuff outta him, even if we are best friends. He's stupid, I'm stupid, but we're different stupids so sometimes I need a little extra to figure out what the fuck is happenin', y'know?

[miscreant]

[The way Apollo keeps saying "happening"...no. Surely she couldn't be implying that. Just the thought pulls some chuckling out of her. No. Surely not.

Could she?]

"Happening".

[She folds her arms and raises an eyebrow, but she isn't able to hold down her amused smirk.]

What sort of "happening" are we talking about?

[irritating]

[ Hey man she doesn't know, there's something happening there and... well, she doesn't necessarily think it's some weird fetish or sex thing or what the hell ever, but she supposes it might be a possibility. Either way, she's obviously missing the motivation Marduk has here. ]

Fuckin' I dunno, how 'bout you tell me, huh?

[ Wow she's so clever, let's see Seviilia avoid that!! ]

[miscreant]

I told you, you are going to have to ask him. There is no special attachment on my end.

[Funny. Super funny. She's just going to sit there with her palm over her mouth chuckling. What has he been telling people? She had called him a masochist, sure, but this was taking it a bit far.]

[irritating]

Fine, whatever. Just no serious injuries and absolutely no fuckin' killin', alright? [ As if she's in any position to give Seviilia - or Marduk for that matter - orders. Which she clearly thinks she is. ] I fucked up last time, but now I'm onto your stupid... ice and chain bullshitery, so if I need to giveya another fuck off warning, it ain't gonna end with my ass in the snow again.

[ The most ridiculous thing about it is that he hasn't told anybody, and certainly not her, anything that would suggest a relationship of that nature. It's purely Apollo's outrageous mindset, jumping to conclusions and blatantly making shit up regardless of how much sense it does or doesn't make. ]