LSDF Val'ta, Deck 3, Bar
The view outside continued to shift, soon the Val'ta was starting to fly into thinner and thinner clouds, getting away from the gas giant before its gravitational pull sucked it into roiling depths of heavier gasses. The view suddenly returned to normal as the Val'ta broke through the surface of the gaseous planet, back into space with a thrust! "Well, if you want to go back to the Nepleslians, we can drop you off at Miyamae and let you sort the rest out," Porrim outlined Ran's choices, which weren't many. "As for staying here ... you could provide entertainment for us, but we're handy enough to play with each other."
The captain drummed her fingers against the bar, fingernails clicking. "Or, you can make yourself useful. I could draft you into our upcoming expedition and see how you keep your head." She lifted her chin at him, trying to be aloof - but with the amount she'd drunk she wobbled and came off as comical. "Maybe you'll keep the blood in just one of your heads unlike the other Nepleslian." She twirled on her seat to address the medic next to her.
"Believe me, Aran'ya, exploring people gets boring, they're all pink on the insides anyway." Porrim replied in a tipsy drawl to the spider-aspected medic. Then she remembered an exception. "Except that one time at the bush doof in Hok'fir Mountain, with the gold paint..." she whispered to herself, finger on chin, and just close enough to Aran'ya for her to overhear. She then shook her head, "you're right though. With the brat out of our hands-"
She paused for a moment, ears twitching as she received an incoming message. Porrim frowned and unbuttoned the top couple of buttons of her uniform, dug between her breasts, and produced a datacard, a miniaturised version of a datapad with a holographics and touch-driven interface. She saw the notification of who the incoming message was from and raised an eyebrow. "Hm, I wonder what he wants now..." she said, examining the message in front of Aran'ya. A wry smile crept across her lips. "He must be joking."
The message sent back was fairly concise: 'I don't think so. If you can track them down again once they're dropped off at the right place and put through processing and reassignment, they're all yours if you can find them together. But, I'm not going to surrender custody of them to you on this ship.'
LSDF Val'ta, Virtual Space
Knocking on the door felt like the most natural thing to do in the virtual space. The door opened, and he was met with the face of a Lorath woman. The Val'ta's ARIA had sculpted themselves to look like an ideal Lorath woman: Long necked, stoic, pale skinned, well dressed in robes, and of regal bearing. They were about equal with height for Knight though, perhaps for the sake of accessibility. "Ah, you must be the robot they found on Tange IV. I was expecting your company." She said, smiling as she lead him in.
She stood aside to let him walk in and show off the interior. Wooden floors polished to a sheen, lots of natural light, a tasteful red rug with gold borders on the floor and the Val'ta's logo in the middle were the first things. Knight also spotted a kitchenette off to the left side and a bed close to the floor, while on the right there was a table for two, a bookshelf, and a desk with a computer on it - presumably a representation of the Val'ta's data archives and their connection back home.
Looking a little closer at the interior of the house, Knight noticed some slight spatial anomalies with how big the house was on the inside. The ceiling was noticeably higher up compared to how tall the roof looked outside. "Your firmware needs dire updates, though you may be protected from anything by sheer obsolescence." The ARIA noted as she headed over to the kitchenette, getting a kettle boiling. As Knight watched her, he noticed the corners of the room were a bit further out from where their points in space outside suggested.
Being a virtual world, spatial anomalies or other such graphical trickery was more than likely, given the freedom a world sculptor had.
LSDF Val'ta, Deck 6, Launch Deck
The holographic arena Ny'za found herself standing in the midst of had other Val'ta officers and personnel experimenting with the system, just as much as they were being put through a battery of initially bizarre looking obstacles. As she watched them do laps around the launch deck, hurdling, jumping, swinging, even grabbing simplistic-looking hardlight guns and firing them at diamond-like targets.
It didn't take long until she noticed the starting line on the ground for the course that stretched the whole way around the flight deck in an oval-shaped loop with some deviations here and there for larger obstacles. Aside from a few of people set aside to keep an eye on each of the obstacles in case someone got hurt or the hardlight begun misbehaving, it seemed fairly drop-in, drop-out, and Ny'za could start from wherever she decided.
Immediately ahead of her on the track were three walls to hurdle and vault over in close succession, the first could be stepped on, then the next had to be vaulted over, while the third could be climbed on, but she watched someone step on the top of each wall and over the three of them effortlessly. Next was a series of horizontal bars, with arrows indicating which way they should be manoeuvred over - including leaping over them or swinging under them. Next was a wall climb over a blue wall with yellow handholds... The course definitely had more waiting for her.