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

[wolfuncaged]

I have lived in Exsilum long enough to be aware of most things, but the metal beasts...those are something new.

[urbanmagic]

How long exactly have you been in Exsilium? [Actually--] Also, we probably should get off the pedestrian and find some place with less nosy people eavesdropping if we're having this conversation.

[wolfuncaged]

Hmmm.

[And without another word on that matter, he starts to walk, king of politeness, this one.]

It as been around nine months.

[urbanmagic]

And you've never been to a single place with cars? I thought this place got you guys traveling everywhere. [Well, it was a step, right?]

[wolfuncaged]

The missions are not always mandatory. I refuse to go, if I have a chance.

[urbanmagic]

Why not? [Blasphemy! Everyone wants to travel around, right?] I had the impression that you were the adventurous type.

[wolfuncaged]

I have no desire to do the work of my captors.

[urbanmagic]

... Guess that's one way to look at it.

So what do you do while everyone's off tending to whatever task they gave them?

[wolfuncaged]

I tend to my own people. [He is the best at conversations, can't you tell?]

[urbanmagic]

[He wins an award for it.]

Oh! So there's more people from where you came from around? How many are you?

[wolfuncaged]

Currently, there are around five of us. Not all of them were my companions.

[urbanmagic]

Just met each other in this place? [Sounds tough, either way.] It must have been really weird the first time you got to Exsilium.

[wolfuncaged]

We had, we are from different parts of our world. [He shrugs.] I was more concerned about being trapped in an unusual place.

[urbanmagic]

Could be worse though. I mean, it's not a post-apocalyptic wasteland, though then again you could probably end up in one anyway.

Well, since we're in the great Vegas, that's not much to think on anyway.

[wolfuncaged]

You clearly have not experienced Exsilium before things changed.

[He glances around, still scowling.] I do not see what is so great about it.

[urbanmagic]

Nope, not at all. Just got here about a few hours ago, actually.

[Hmm, well... Okay, she just likes it because the more lively the city, the stronger her magic is.] It's the city of fun and games, mischief and all those other neat things people seem to enjoy about Vegas.

Personally, I prefer the countryside. Fresh air is great.

[wolfuncaged]

Lucky you. [His tone suggests that she is, in fact, not lucky at all.]

I have never heard of it before today. I am unimpressed.

[He shrugs.] A city is far easier to disappear into. The cities where I come from, anyway.

[urbanmagic]

How convincing. [She catches it pretty quickly.]

Oh? What kind of city did you come from anyway?

[wolfuncaged]

[Ignoring that.]

I travelled. I currently live in a city called Kirkwall. Walled and dark and angry, for the most part.