[UA] RE: Las Vegas UA

[Mike Dewar]

Yo, Nenad. 

Having in much the same place as you are currently (UA Game. Las Vegas.
South Africa), I've got a bunch of handy maps and research that I can e-mail
to you, but I won't clog the list with them. 

Just a few other things: 

Las Vegas is a great place to bring out all those little coincidences that
UA loves so much. Besides the tons of random events assigned great emotional
and financial weight, the casinos and the other attractions are wonderfully
weird. 

Casinos which beg for mystical tie-ins: Excalibur (for reasons so obvious
that they don't bear repeating), and of course the Stratosphere casino (the
tallest casino in Vegas). Remember, symbolic goodness is a single blinking
"R" away...

Also, there are plenty of "home-made" tourist guides available on the net. I
found them actually more useful than the official ones, since they spend
less time talking about the PR and more time on little bits of flavour like
tipping in casinos and game rules. 

Given that the PCs are going to work in a casino, don't forget the
ever-present security cameras (then again, since you've been watching "Las
Vegas" - I doubt you will). They provide a big hindrance to the usually
morally-dubious PC activities if they're done on home ground, as well as
being nice thematically - Someone's Always Watching. 

Entropomancy and Gambler avatars go without saying, but there are also a lot
of regular gamblers with weird little habits and rituals to help them out.
That could be camouflage for any number of real adepts and a bunch of red
herrings, too. Oh, and don't forget the Plutomancers - so much
rapidly-moving currency will get any Warbuck hot and bothered. 

A great magick/casino movie - the film "Intacto". It showcases the concept
of luck as a concept that can be "stolen" by the mystically-aware  and
features what appears to be a battle for the Godwalker gambler - luckiest
man in the world. Of course, they play Russian roulette for the position.;-)


Also movie-wise, try the Cooler - William H. Macy as a man so supernaturally
unlucky that he's hired by a casino to "cool" big winners. He just sits down
at the same table as them, and they start to lose. 

- Mike