[UA] RE: Las Vegas UA

[Nenad Ristic]

Good to see you, Mike

I would really appreciate the info and links you have accumulated, if you
don't mind emailing them to me.

I have not forgotten the cameras, although I have informed the players that
they do not have the facial recognition and search technology rather
prominently featured in "Las Vegas"

On 10/17/06, Mike Dewar <mike.dewar at crysp.co.za> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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