"There."There. Now then, come." He wandered over to the front door and said, "This is the residency level. Not much to see here, I'm afraid. It's kind of boring." He made a right, then a left. "That's the commons. If you're hungry and lazy, Dave will usually have something for you to eat. If you're hungry and not lazy, Dave can usually get the ingredients for whatever you want to cook. If it's a really weird ingredient, like dried hocho peppers," Aaden smiled to himself, "you'll have to get them yourself. The commons also serves as the playroom for the younger kids." He stood into the g-tube and lowered himself down; they followed. "Dave also makes sure that the kids don't play too fast in the g-tubes." "He let me bump my head yesterday." "He assumed you were old enough to know better," the Mephit responded calmly. "Was it a life-threatening bump?" "Well, no," Furry responded. "Then he had no business interfering." Furry bit her lip; it was difficult to argue with logic like that. "Here's the basement. It isn't exciting, although if you look in here," he said, opening a door with a palmlock, "You'll find the PT2, Ken's shuttlecraft. And I think that's the Foe, Maha Oren's ship." He lead them back up one level, and said, "Here's the general use level. Over there are classrooms, over there's the map room, and that room over there is a plain old-fashioned unsambo." "Unsambo?" Nickolai asked. The word was unfamiliar to him. "Practice room for martial arts. You know, everything from hand-to-hand dodge and contact to fully automatic weaponry. The word comes from the roots of the words 'room' and 'stormcloud,' I don't know why." He pointed down the hall and said, "Over there's a VR room Ken uses for high-resolution genework; If you get a chance, watch him at it. It's a little like watching an alchemist. And he always plays music at far too high a volume for my comfort when he does. And that last room, there, is the chapel. |