Casino Mingle

[fieldtrip]

Who: Anyone who works at the casino or patrons it!
Where: A formerly shady casino in the entertainment district that is now full glamor and renamed Queens. Mitsuru was in charge of decorating. Think James Bond.
What: Do you work here? Do you just like gambling? Maybe you helped renovate it. Come on down to the grand opening or at any other ambiguous time in May and June! I'm not giving you event text because y'all, honestly, put whatever you want in this casino.
Warnings: None

Comments

[solitarysoul]

Oh, um, y-yeah...s-sorry. I'm just trying to place where I saw you before.

[Other than 'the network' since that doesn't really narrow it down.]

[icequeenly]

Aldrip was a much smaller town before the changes. I'm sure we've seen one another in passing once or twice before.

[ Hopefully the network stuff wasn't the embarrassing photo Kotone posted of her on there once. ]

I lived in a small place with Shinjiro Aragaki if you know him.

[ Aragaki tends to skulk about and end up meeting most people somehow.

She neglects to mention that they conveniently somehow managed to lose their last place of residence. ]

[solitarysoul]

Oh! Y-yeah, I know him. That might be it.

[It probably was the first one too, though.]

[icequeenly]

[ The slight stutter in his response catches her interest and she raises an eyebrow slightly. ]

He didn't scare you, did he?

[ Because, you know, sometimes he does do that. Accidentally. Just by looming about mostly. ]

[solitarysoul]

Huh? Oh, n-no. We're um

[Friends? Did he have friends here? They were friends in that other world but he doesn't expect anyone would want to be friends with him in reality.]

Um, on good terms? I owe him.

[icequeenly]

I see.

[ She smiles a little at that - and not the same deliberately charming smile she's been slapping on her face in front of all of the other patrons. This one is much smaller but more genuine. ]

In that case I shouldn't pry. He can be quite private about his own good deeds.

I hope you're enjoying the casino at any rate.

[solitarysoul]

It's interesting. I've never really been to a casino before.

[In reality. Not counting the gambling room during thr masquerade.]

[icequeenly]

I hadn't spent a lot of time in any before now.

[ Not exactly a place any respectable young heiress should be seen hanging out to much, bar the odd fancy grand opening party for one of her father's business associates new enterprises. And even then she hadn't gotten near any of the games. ]

But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to fix the place up.

[solitarysoul]

I guess I don't really know what it looked like before, but it's pretty nice. You must have done a good job.