April 7th - Welcome Party

[cartesio]

Welcome Party

Though you've never seen the casino before, it is easy to find today. This is partly attributable to the music spilling from open doors right into the town. The people of Cartesio have made good on their announcement - doubtlessly, there is a party going on here.

Anyone entering will be confronted with a friendly citizen pulling them aside to inform them of their dress rental service. Though it is called 'rental' there is no actual fee to be paid. The townspeople have simply brought a collection of suits and cocktail dresses into the casino foyer and they are offering to lend them out for the occasion. A folding screen to get changed behind is provided as well.

Once you venture deeper into the casino, you'll find yourself in a surprisingly spacious room. Tables that might normally occupy the open space have been pushed to the wall and filled with various buffet foods. Though you might be tempted to spend your whole afternoon trying out the various local specialties, the rhythmic music from the speakers tries to lure you to the dancefloor. A few locals are already swinging their hips to the beat.

Though if you're simply looking for the main highlight of a casino, you won't have to look long either. Across from the buffet, you will find a wide variety of game machines. Pachinko, slot machines.... even a few odd-one-out games that look like they should rather belong in an arcade. Try your luck, try your skill! If you prove successful, an employee is waiting to hand out various fun goods to you.

There are quite a few townspeople in attendance on this party, but there is a silent understanding that you tourists are the VIPs here. Anywhere you go, any game you want to try, the citizens are quick to move aside for you and let you have the maximum amount of fun.

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[amburere]

Kill heroes, upend society, all the fun stuff.

[ Seems wrong not to answer so bluntly in return, and he's not really the bragging type. At least in this way. ]

[quickpersuader]

Why?

[It's not shocked, not disparaging, just... genuinely curious.]

[amburere]

Cause real heroes don't exist anymore. In one way or another they're all fake, serving themselves under the guise of charity, saving others for the fame that comes along with it. And the society they hold up isn't any better. Everyone's either ignorant or happily a piece of the machine that spits out those that don't fit in.

They're all trash.

[quickpersuader]

I see...

So what kind of society do you want to see, then?

[amburere]

[ A shrug that contrasts with the intensity in his piercing blue eyes. ]

Does it matter? Can't get started on that until the old one is destroyed.

[quickpersuader]

Revolution first, then.

[Not the first time Kino has heard of such a thing, and it surely won't be the last. Kino doesn't have room to judge.]

[amburere]

Right. [ A beat. ] You kids here are weird.

[quickpersuader]

Oh? How so?

[amburere]

More reasonable than most people.

[quickpersuader]

Did you expect me to scold you?

[amburere]

No. Usually there's more indignation and crap, though.

[quickpersuader]

[A mild shrug.]

I've passed through many countries that either rose or fell after revolution. I couldn't tell you either way what the best way to handle it is.

It's your country, after all.

[amburere]

[ Silence and prolonged staring is the name of the game with Dabi, but even among his usual pauses, this one is noticeable. Eventually he blinks and then shifts his attention from Kino to the machines around them. ]

...that so?

[quickpersuader]

[Kino just gives one of those mild smiles. It may be of interest to the traveler, but ultimately, the fates of countries aren't Kino's place to interfere.]

That's so.