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

[selfequipped]

I ... placed a tracker on him. [She at least looks sheepish enough when she admits it.] I worried about him getting into trouble here, but he seems to have placed it on you. [After a moment of shuffling, she pulls the tracking device out of a sheath where one would typically find a hidden knife. It seemed like a good idea at the time.]

You can't out-trick the trickster, I guess.

[There's a pause.]

Any chance he might wind his way back to you? [Because he is decidedly young compared to her. She is genuinely worried. He tends to dive head first into things without thinking of the consequences.

Which is usually fine.

It's just the way that Loki goes about it.]

[awarlock]

[......a tracker.

he looks down at his body and see if he can spot the tracker on him. he's not very careful when it comes to personal safety and technology. loki, he had assume, was as safe and harmless as just about anyone. and this is relatively harmless, but it's a violation of his person and loki is going to get dragged in by the scruff when he finds him.]

He might. If he does, I'll return him to you.

[he frowns when he finally plucks the tracker off him and he hands it back to kate.]

Don't look so worried. His tricks serves him well enough to fit in this place.

[selfequipped]

Tricks are one thing. An overeager sense of throwing himself into things because they might be worth seeing how they go is another. He tends to fall somewhere between the two. [Kate also worries that Loki's luck is eventually going to run out. The fact that he throws himself into things so precariously is admirable, especially when she has a tendency to do it herself. But his way of doing it seems so young to her that there are moments where she wonders when his youth will catch up. Being a young god, after all, has its downsides.

Either way, she grabs the tracker and promptly disables it, tucking it away.]

That sense of doing things is what might lead him astray here. [There's a pause.] But you might know better than me. He's different from the Loki I knew.