Linda

The Vysota Casino isn't your average, everyday casino. Far from it. In the interest of explaining it as soon as possible, the Vysota Casino is closely tied to the act of body inflation and all visitors should remain aware of that fact. Losing all chips ends with the player completing the process that's described as 'becoming a perma-blimp', the 'perma' part of this, meaning permanent, is meant wholeheartedly. There's visual evidence of this for anyone in the central playing hall as dozens of former players who lost to the house days or years ago gently float around high above, packed to the absolute brim with helium that never dissipates or leaves their bodies. Luckily for any aspiring gamblers, this is of course not a guarantee, you don't have to become an utter balloon decorating the casino, as long as you don't lose all of your chips that is!

All players in the lobby who have yet to walk onto the casino's main playing floor are asked to pay a fee of five thousand dollars by the casino's one and only employee, Linda. Upon proper payment, the doors ahead of the lobby unlock, and players are given a bag of 1000 chips. Linda being the casino's sole employee may sound strange at first, but players will quickly realize how it all works when they see a 2nd Linda, a 3rd Linda, and a 30th! Despite potential initial expectations that this is an army of independent clones, it's far from that. All copies of Linda share their memories and senses, allowing the casino to be run by what is technically one very dedicated bat-woman. Bartenders, dealers for blackjack, croupiers for the roulette tables, every single one is yet another copy of Linda with that same smug grin and passion for watching happy-go-lucky players become perma-blimps in a storm of hubris. Going below 1000 chips triggers a progressive increase of a player's level of inflation, at 900, it's mild, and at 100, players are barely mobile, and oh so close to floating by themselves due to the insane amounts of helium within their bodies and will probably have to ask Linda to, for example, pull a slot machine's lever for them due to the overall loss in fine motor control. Hitting zero, or going below zero chips is where the game ends, inflation intensifies beyond all reasonable levels at this point and it won't be long before a player becomes a permanent piece of the floaty, bloated decor high above the tables, gently circling the playing floor's upper open-air space. Deflation will occur when players make a comeback, as climbing back up, closer to the 1000 chip threshold will have players slowly lose the helium within themselves until they're above or at 1000 once more, where they will be normal sized.

While the roulette and blackjack tables may be exactly what a player expects, the slot machines in the Vysota Casino have a unique set of symbols, but a normal reward scale. They are as such: Balloon: five chips Lemon: ten chips Orange: fifteen chips Plum: twenty chips Bell: thirty chips Star: forty chips Single Bar: sixty chips Double Bar: seventy chips Triple Bar: eighty chips Top Hat: one-hundred chips (The slot machines also have a minimum 25 chip bet required for play!)

As for the basic details describing Linda herself, she's six feet tall, thirty years old, and unmistakably a bat-woman! Brown fur covers her entire lithe body, she has long brown hair that droops down past her shoulders, and those big upright ears of hers are especially good for hearing even the most soft-spoken of players. She's an inflation enthusiast too, obviously, why would she manage this entire casino alone if that weren't the case? Linda generally delights in goading players to be very daring because it means she gets to see them inflate when their luck runs out. She can be quite the blabbermouth too, commenting on almost every particular game decision or lever pull a player commits to, and how it might, or already is leading them to increasing levels of inflation and taut-skinned girth!

The Vysota Casino itself has a pristine look, as if it's forever stuck with the maximum level of quality one would expect when visiting during its opening day. Its red and golden-striped motif catches the eyes of even the most dour visitor! The only breaks in the red-gold color literally everywhere, are the green tops of the luxurious wooden play tables and the white stripes denoting rules of play atop them. Linda's getup itself is also different from the color norms, every polite and everlastingly amused copy of her wears a fine mauve suit, with a dress shirt and matching black dress shoes.

Inflation within the Vysota Casino doesn't involve any silly things like tanks, or tubes. Due to its nature as an inherently magical place, players dipping below the threshold of 1000 chips find themselves magically inflating as helium is created within their bodies.

Cheating or interfering with the casino's games is a one-way, very quick trip to being forced to becoming a perma-blimp. Linda is far stronger and more magically inclined than she lets on.