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

[crocodilesmiles]

Collette followed Kate's lead, leaning against the more experienced woman without much apparent concern. She frowned, expression clearing after a moment at Kate's statement. "Yes, okay. I can focus. I'm a little cold," she said, rubbing at one exposed arm. "Stopped being warm like earlier. What are we focusing on?"

[gevurah]

"The mission," she answered calmly.

The general objective: to stop the UE.

The elevator slowed, finally coming to a halt at the floor Kate was roomed on. As the doors slid open, she gently nudged Collette to take the first few steps out with her following close behind.

[crocodilesmiles]

"Oh! Oh, yeah. Caesar has a plan. Lots of listening. Makes my head feel stuffy, but I do it," she says, unmoving until Kate nudges her forward. Then she lurches into action with another 'oh!'.

"Making progress? In your um. Reports? I said I was HR to somebody. Said Caesar was a really... anti-social... guy! She wanted to sleep with him," she says, nodding after her own statement.

Her face falls. She wants to tell Blue about all of this, how it's silly and not as hurting as she thought it'd all would be. But he's not here. He's gone, dead and gone.

[gevurah]

Her arm shoots out to support Collette, getting her toward her room and shoving her hand into a pocket to extract her card key and swipe it into the doorknob. The door clicks open, the scent of a freshly cleaned and prepared room rushing out, a touch of something tropical in it.

"You need to lay down." Maybe this is better left until Collette's sobered up. She points out the bed in the other room while pushing the door shut. It's cool in here and so she searches the side wall for the heat controls to warm up the place.

[crocodilesmiles]

Collette focused her attention on the bed, moving toward it with a resolute purpose that leaned toward the left. "Waah!"

She turned herself over, her arms supporting most of her weight as she looked back Kate's way.

"What are your plans?"

She pulled herself into a ball, fighting with the urge to close her eyes and listen to someone she trusted move about the room.

[gevurah]

"Get you to sleep first." Kate lets out a soft snort, adjusting the temperature in the room and finally moving away from the control when she feels the heat rising to comfortable levels around them.

"Maybe dinner with Ros and then keeping an ear out for more intel."

[crocodilesmiles]

Collette stifles a yawn into her upper arm, head turned toward the blankets on the bed. "Bring me leftovers?"

She smiles in the warmth of the amusement that filters down, thinking of Kate and Ros. It's been long enough she no longer feels that sharp betrayal from Ros like she did before. People were callous all over. Ros simply wasn't an exception.