Free Night at the Casino

[fieldtrip]

Who: OPEN to all / mingle log
Where: Queens (the casino!)
What: Wow July sure was a month! Time to take a breather and have a night out, courtesy of Toph and Mitsuru!
Warnings: N/A

FREE NIGHT AT THE CASINO

GAMBLING

Feeling down after that space infestation made you murder some friends? Getting tempted to bury yourself in the sand at the beach so no one can ever perceive you again?

Time for a tone shift! It's a free night at the casino. For tonight only, chips mean nothing -- which means everyone gets a rack of chips when they walk in and can let loose! Entertainment, food, and drink are also free within reason. (Abuse the privilege and find out who works security here the hard way!)

Welcome to Queens, the formerly shady but now revamped and reimagined casino in the entertainment district of Aldrip. Classy and minimalist but not gaudy, it's run, staffed, and heavily patronized by Chosen. Maybe you know someone who works there, maybe someone dragged you in to lighten up for once, maybe you're just stopping by for some fun.

Appropriately, the most popular game of the night is Queen's Blood, with tables set aside purely for teaching. There's also the standard casino games available in spades -- poker, slots, roulette, baccarat, blackjack, and so forth.

AT THE CLUB

It wouldn't be a casino without alcohol, music, and dancing. There's a low-key bar for those looking to have a conversation where they can hear one another over the pleasant live jazz, and a much livelier dance floor set off to the side in a different part of the casino with a DJ playing dance music.

FIGHTING TOURNAMENT

Beneath the casino is a massive underground cavern converted into a fighting arena.

It's a bit hard to find, intentionally -- either you were personally invited by someone or you stumbled across the covert speakeasy-style entrance in a corner of the main floor, possibly from the people jostling to go in and out. The stairs go down and down until they suddenly open out into the huge room, lined in walkways to view the fight.

There's three circuits to the fighting tournament: a bracket for fighting with powers, a bracket for fighting without powers (hand-to-hand and weapons only), and a shooting competition. Toph (fieldtrip) serves as referee for all of the above and is prepared to break up anything that goes too far. This is just for fun, folks!

Sign up in the comment below and maybe you'll even win something! Toph promises a super cool prize to the winner of each circuit!

FORTUNE TELLING

Get a free tarot reading!

It does seem like some of the glitching in Aldrip has made it maybe a little more accurate than usual lately... or maybe that's inaccurate? Feel free to have the cards have a real effect on them with a glitch!

DOG THERAPY

In one peaceful corner away from the din and bustle is a dog petting station. All manner of adorable and highly trained dogs are available for cuddles and play time.

Some of them are even up for adoption if you want to take one home!

Kakashi (battlefieldbrat) runs and operates this station with the kind supervision of Koromaru, our local good boy.

Code by 10billionghosts.

Comments

[ashaya]

[ It is something of a blessing, that Toph has not caught him at another juncture. In months previous, his mental shields had flexed and folded — reduced and receded. When Toph opts to take his hand now, it is only a steady hum. Like the static space between a call and the recipient picking up, the concept of what he means filters up against the boundary of what is Toph and what is Spock.

His skin is unnaturally hot to the touch, his palm in turn both smooth and rough, but though he uses no words at all to converse —

Thank you. Like smoke curled through the fist, settling. For all that he remains largely unreadable behind his own shielding, it operates both ways. Cover is not only cover for the one who holds it aloft, after all. And yet, he can grasp what comprises her foundations at the periphery. Such things are natural, when one makes contact with another. Humans, being as they are, need the wall to be lowered. Lowered, just enough, to compensate for their inability to communicate past the internal restraints of his species.

So long as you maintain contact with my person, you will be able to understand. If you should wish to stop, you need only let go of my hand. ]

[fieldtrip]

[ Toph squeaks aloud and immediately lets go of his hand.

There's a long moment in which her own heartbeat seems loud in her ears and then she hurriedly reaches out and grabs his hand again, deeply incredulous. The subtler aspects of the mental contact are frankly lost on Toph, who has never engaged in anything even remotely psychic before.

But as one would expect, there is a solid clarity to her mental shape, as smooth and certain as polished granite. ]

This is so weird. Have you always been able to do this?!