By now, the casino decks were filled with peak hour traffic, profits were skyrocketing. The entrance hall filled with lights and bells from the pokies.
Rick took one last glance back at the bar tender, before entering the secondary hall, and into the elevator. Despite a clearly written 'no smoking sign' rick was lighting a smoke as he entered the code for the "Staff only" decks.
The fire proximity detector went off, covering Rick in fire retardant.
could this day get any worse?
Ricky walked up to steves office, still covered in fire retardant, bursting in without knocking.
Steve jolted up, about to launch over his desk, pausing with both hands prepped on the table. "Ricky, what'd you do this time!?"
"Uh hey steve, i need some help" He said softly.
"You always needed help ahahahahaah"
Rick rolled his eyes and grunted "heh, yeah real funny, i'm sure you get paid top dollar for that cup of joe"
"What's up?"
" What happened last night......"
"By the looks of it, you had a foam party, and someone punched you in the face?" Steve chuckled loudly.
Rick patted his eye where he had been sleeping on the pokie lever. "Passed out on the pokies, then someone steals my stash of weed, dam druggies" He moaned
"Sure ya didn't smoke it all"
"Ahs seriously Steve somethings going on" Ricks' voice was getting very croaky, it seemed he wasn't in to much of a bright mood.
"ok ok, look i'll have a yarn to David 'bout it, we have 101% surveillance footage, if something happened - we'll catch it
Rick gave a subtle nod of thanks, flicking off the fire retardant from his shoulder.
The surveillance room was like Davids home. Photos of loved ones, ornaments, pictures, and you couldn't dare forget about the bar fridge.
Always dressed in simple black / dark clothes, with a glass of alcohol in one hand, leaning back in a leather office chair, feet on the desk too.
David Walker: "You gotta be kidding me"
Rick:" I wouldn't be here man"
Steve: "focus guys come on, we're hear for a reason"
All three were stunned at the camera footage they were reviewing.
Ricky was trying to pick up a reflection of a lady in the pokies room.
Laughter filled the room.
"And you're sure it was stolen? you didn't just smo---"
Ricky cut david off short " as i said i wouldn't be here if i remembered last night
"Woah slow it down, i think he's gonna pass out"
The footage shows ricky pulling the pokies lever one last time, before landing his eyebrow to rest on top, explaining the circular mark around his eye.
After a small time fast forwarding, Rickys eyes bulged - Screw head joe i *@#)%$ knew it!!
"Calm down ricky he's just walking past"
The Zorro character doubled back, suddenly searching ricky, grabbed a pouch from his left pocket, and headed for the VIP lounge.
Ricky silently stormed out of the office without a word, presumably going to find this "Zorro"
"Find out where Zorro Joe goes mate, i'll calm ricky down. Something is definatly not right here"
"Yeah Ricky's angry and didn't break something". David mumbled to himself as Steve left the room.
"Found out where Zorro Joe went. You're not going to like it either"
"He dissapeared in the VIP Lounge, off camera"
"Say again? Bull he did there's not a single blind spot in this place i freaking checked it 5 times on top of YOU and the security team AND during construction, and once more before the Grand Opening"
Steve's voice had gone panicked and high pitched.
Well it must have been moved between the opening and the activation sequence in the last check overs by the construction crew. It definitely wasn't from my security department! He remarked
"This is very strange indeed, i might actually need some help.....Ya know, i did see that Zorro a few times, specially in the VIP lounge, i swear he was watching us, but i thought Ricky was just hammered"
Steve looked down and sighed, a little ashamed he didn't believe Ricky earlier
"He was right hey haah. But he's always hammered it's hard to tell" David shrugged his shoulders. Not that Steve could see this via communications.
"You can talk, you never go 6 foot without a glass of something ehh?"
They both smiled and laughed
Steve looked at his desk then at the papers ontop. Ok, well i've got some paper work to do, i better catch up with rick first make sure he isn't burning some one!
He went to rush out the door, before pausing, picking up the communicator. Oh and by the way, we should let Tyber know about this, he practically funded and built half of this Liner, maybe he knows how the camera could have been tampered with?"
Ships:
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.:j:.RatString [Annapurna] ˜˜˜˜˜˜ .:j:.Skarsle [P;train]
David.Walker [Neptheysr] The Order ˜˜Peirre La Swamp - Wyrm - KuExiles
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