Operation Casino Night

Operation Casino Night, sometimes referred to as OCN, was a massive scheme cooked up by the Time Agency to fund all future projects and make a few penguins rich as an externality. A true example of genuine theft and corruption that would make Benny shed tears of envy, the backlash this massive crime paused split and pretty much destroyed the Time Agency, and was to blame for the loss of some of its greatest minds, including Kwiksilver, Excess Consumption, and Professor Bentoling.

It goes down in history as Antarctica's greatest gambling fraud, the only caper pulled against Bugzy that he could never catch and retaliate against, and it did indeed steal more money than every CP Trainer, every Penguin Storm, and every ICP console ever illegally distributed. The Time Agency was never prosecuted for its greatest of wrongdoings, and a total of three casinoes and Bugzy's lottery all went totally bankrupt because of it.

Synopsis
Operation Casino Night, in its short run, changed the Time Agency and Antarctica forever, even if no one knew it.

Prelude
Having successfully unraveled the mysteries of the fourth dimension, the Director of Time Penguins began to thirst for power and greed. Contrary to the beliefs of many agents- expecially Kwiksilver -he decided to offer the Time Agency's services to the highest bidder in the most obvious method of abusing time travel: cheating at games of chance.

"The Bentoling Objective"
The task of setting up the system and programming the Vortex Manipulators to log races and such fell to the brilliant penguin known as Professor Bentoling. Her talents were squandered on writing simple code to store slot machine pulls, record Bugzy's hands in poker, calculate minute tilts in roulettes, and log the result of any major race or sporting event. For a while, she complied despite her increasingly vicious conscience yelling at her to stop. Cheating is wrong, and she knew it.

No matter, though, because she completed the task and more. Every Vortex Manipulator was outfitted with the new gambling features, and the Director of Time Penguins and every penguin in the Agency on the job.

Spying on Bugzy's poker
The hardest part of OCN was by no doubt placing cameras over Bugzy's poker table in Bugzy's Casino. Playing poker with Bugzy is normally like signing one's over paycheck to the beetle. Bugzy never cheats at poker; he is simply that good. The Time Agency knew that people would pay big to defeat Bugzy. The prize for such an impossible feat is lifetime access to the Casino, ninety percent discounts to buy game tokens, hundreds of thousands of tokens for further casino use, a round trip to Las Puffles or Double Sicilia, and immunity from UPM protection rackets for the winner and the winner's family, for life. Naturally, such high stakes attract many a sucker, and most go home with less than they entered.

The Time Agency would fix that. For the Time Agency, "hard" was is like getting up and walking to the refrigerator to poor oneself a glass of Cream Soda instead of usually having someone else refill it for the drinker. With all the time on their side (no pun intended), they simply travelled back to when the Casino was first set up. Remembering from modern times where Bugzy's poker table was, how the seats were arranged, and where Bugzy always sat, the Time Agents planted bugs and cameras over and under the tables.

Going back to the present, the agents synchronized their Vortex Manipulators with the cameras and bugs, and recorded everything Bugzy did and said in each of his poker games from past to present. They didn't begin to use this data until OCN was given the green light, but let it be said they had it, and Bugzy none the wiser.

Eyewitness Account
Even though none of the public knew what was going on, some visitors to Bugzy's Casino noticed some strange things. The following eyewitness account was taken from a regular gambler at the Casino that knew nothing of Operation Casino Night; he thought he was being quoted for a gambling expose in the Penguin Times.

"I came to the Casino at 7:30, like I always do, and the first thing I saw was Bugzy playing against this guy wearing sunnies and a suit. And the suited guy was winning. I was absolutely stunned, because nobody could beat Bugzy. There was definitely something going on.

Suddenly, I noticed a penguin standing at the bar behind Bugzy's chair that was absolutely identical to the suited guy playing poker! Exactly the same suit, sunnies, everything. The guy at the bar was looking at Bugzy's hand and writing down what he saw into a black leather-bound notebook. I thought this was weird, because, I mean, who does that? Anyway, as the guy at the bar was making notes, his twin at the poker table discreetly whipped out an identical black leather notebook! He held it under the table and shot it a quick glance before betting all his poker chips. To my amazement, he won everything!

Bugzy congratulated him and went to get him his winnings, and somebody next to me was saying "Wow, that guy won the game in only ten minutes!" I looked back at the bar and saw that the doppelganger had shoved the notebook in his pocket and was running into the men's room. I followed, but was blinded by a sudden green flash of light. I looked everywhere, but the guy wasn't there! It was like he had never existed!

As I was about to walk out, somebody ran into me. It was the guy in the suit! But I had no idea how he had gotten outside. There was only one way of entry or exit. I decided to give it no more thought, but I noticed that the analogue watch he wore on one flipper was ten minutes fast. It certainly was strange, but I just walked out and wandered over to the pokies."

Services offered
So it began. On December of 2008, the Director gave the clear to Professor Bentoling, who somberly announced to the equally saddened Time Penguins that Operation Casino Night was open for business.

The online auction account soon up and running, bids poured in from across the continent in multiple languages. The Agency was promised fifteen percent of all money netted in addition to pruchasing the initial information. They made billions, but at what cost?

The Time Agency offered to sell the information for any major event, or the configuration of any device in any "participating" casino. Each category was given a catchy name.

A Day at the Races
When the Penguin Games were running, major celebrity races (like 100m-Dash featuring Aunt Arctic versus Gary) were bet upon all over the continent. The Time Agency sold, to the highest bidder, who would win at any given day in the duration of the party.


 * Of the seven million bets paid off, an estimated five million coins were won by fraudlent betting aided by the Time Agency. The rest was legal.

Robbing the One-Armed Bandit
Las Puffles is unique in its offering of slot machines. Time Penguins travleed back in time to the day the machines were manufactured and logged their programming statistics into their Vortex Manipulators. This information was then processed and sold to the customers. Cheaters could "buy" a slot machine, and learn when to play it to earn a jackpot. By letting other losers play until it was time, the patron could score big.


 * Of the uncounted millions of millions of slot machine payouts, eleven million was believed to been rigged by OCN methods.

PWNing the PWNer
Poor Bugzy was hard hit in Operation Casino Night. A total of eighty penguins bought Bugzy cheats, and they walked away one hundred million coins richer and loaded down with perks, rewards, and benefits, having defeated him at Poker.

How they managed to keep a clear conscience afterwards is incomprehensible, to tell the truth. Bugzy never cheats and always recognizes a worthy opponent. Winning against him at poker is an honor not taken lightly by the most PWNsome being in Antarctica. Poker is pretty much sacred to Bugzy and his "family", and he loves to see others play it and have a good time. It's one of his "good" sides, possessing a love of gaming and a desire, corrupt or not, to share that with others.

Bugzy brings the winner to a stage in the casino and calls for everyone's attention. As the gamblers applaud, Bugzy gives a speech and places a medal on the winner, as he announces the player's winnings and hands them their money in a platinum-colored briefcase to the thundrous cheering of the casino.

He then shakes their flipper (if they have one) and tells them that they are "truly blessed" at poker, and hopes that they "share their special gift with others", teaching them the "sacred art" of poker and encoruaging them to keep playing. He takes his hat off and bows slightly as they walk off the stage. (This is not to be taken lightly. Bugzy submits to nothing.) As Bugzy tells them how proud he is of them, the casino staff hoist them over their heads (like a basketball player that just scored the winning point) and they carry him out of the casino to each congratulate the victor one at a time.

Now, remember that the penguins and creatures that won through Operation Casino Night have to go through all this commendation knowing they are an absolute sham. They have to listen about their "brilliant hand" and "great strategy", "honorable technique" and "skills that any card player can learn, even in non-poker games". They must endure being invested with a golden medal and told that "they truly make [Bugzy] happy", and told that they have "great PWNage" and can "hang with him any time". Normal penguins would have been guilt-stricken by this, but not the Time Agency. No, this was their biggest ticket!

Wheel of Fortunes
A roulette wheel that is off balence can have its little ball land in the same slot more often than it should. Imagine if a penguin goes back to when the tables were installed and "accidently" hits the wheel with a small hammer until one number is called fifty one percent of the time. That's the roulette con.


 * The money lost to pre-emptive knowledge on roulettes was one hundred thousand strong. It would have been higher, but then again, most roulettes are in small gambling halls in Double Sicilia. Unlike a big time casino, such as Bugzy's or Las Puffles, the Sicilian casinoes couldn't afford to fix their roulette tables, so the same number was called.
 * The pattern was not unnoticed by fair players, either. Another million or so was lost without cheating at all. This legitamate earnings, coupled with the cheaters that rigged the roulettes retroactively, bankrupted three of Double Sicilia's casinoes, all which relied heavilly on roulette and Craps.

Fred's Bones
In gambling, "Craps" is a dice game where a player throws the dice onto a table and bets on their results. In some tables, throwing at the right angle can score favorable dice combinations again and again, if one knows that angle. Most Craps tables do not have this angle, because it's probably caused by a tiny flaw in manufacturing or unloading of the equipment. Other times, it's faulty dice or cheap parts.

This is completely mathematical, and normally, perfectly legit. (Fred 676, the scam's namesake, makes a killing at Craps because of the angle technique, not that he gambles much.) However, if certain villains happen to go back and time and deface the Craps table until an angle is formed, and they do this on every Craps table shipped to the casinoes, THEN it becomes fraudulent.

Penguins could simply "buy" a certain Craps table (like a slot machine) and know just the angle to throw. Although there are Craps tables elsewhere, most of them are in Double Sicilia, and like the roulette, it cost their casinoes BIG.


 * It is estimated that the OCN conned 700,000 off of the Craps table. Unintentionally, though, other keen creatures saw these angles and copied them legally. These legit/honest/non-OCN viewers cost another million or so off of that.

Super Unclean Lottery

 * Main article: Immondo Lotteria

Bugzy, after he annexed Double Sicilia, used it as a base to form an international lottery, which he called "Immondo Lotteria". UPM and UPM operated, it took an investment straight from their Loot Stash to start it. The IL began in January 2006 and was very successful until the Time Agency's meddling. Travelling into the future a week at a time, Time Penguins logged each week's winning numbers and sold them to the highest bidder, who would then purchase a ticket with these specific numbers at a UPM-operated bookmaker.

The Immondo Lotteria operated in the hopes that no one would have winning numbers on their card. With the choice of ten numbers from zero to nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine (0-9999), the odds were high and hard to win. Matching one number paid quite well, matching ten- nearly impossible without cheating -broke the bank! Patrons to Operation Casino Night would buy IL numbers and cash off big time in the end.

The money lost thanks to this was so great that the Immondo Lotteria officially went bankrupt by OCN's end, and Bugzy lost billions upon billions of money.

Turnover
Fixed sports and contest betting was also taken by the Time Agency, but they only did major items. That year's Uber Bowl was being held very early, and bets on it alone garnered a few million. Other sporting events included non-racing Penguin Game matches, major Club Penguin Wrestling Entertainment battles, baseball tournaments, hockey, football, soccer, and even chess competitions, and any major event that was bet upon.