The mention of squeezing into her suit made Alicia twitch a little in annoyance.<span style="color: #00b300">“I really wish you were solid so I could throw something at you… and my ass is awesome.  Especially compared to yours.  At least mine is real and touchable.”</span>She grumbled before responding.  “Because I know you have access to the data and first review of all communication, or lack thereof.  And can easily extrapolate what will be needed based off it… Just like you said, you could guess I would be needed and said nothing.  Especially since I am the only engineer anywhere close by.”  She said all that while she was getting ready.  Alicia didn’t notice when the cleaning bot cut stole her pills.  She did feel the thing bump into her and make her stumble a little before glaring back at her AI.<br/><br/><span style="color: #00b300">“I don’t envy you having to clean up their messes.  Have fun with that.  And while you are cleaning up after the slimes, maybe reprogram the bots.  They aren’t supposed to run into people like that.  Save me from doing it when I get back.”</span>Then she went outside.<span style="color: #00b300">“And if you want a body.  Work on the Eldritch.  Convince him to pay for the proper parts for one.  I wouldn’t want second hand or bottom of the barrel parts.”</span>That is where she stopped and made her comment, seeing the glorious view.<br/><br/>While everyone was taking in their own opinion of the sights, Alicia moved over to the edge of the side of the large leaf they were on, that could support their weight, and the weight of their ship.  That fact alone about this was amazing.  She let out a light whisper as she looked down over the edge and to the partial darkness below that they had to climb through.  This could be fun.<br/><br/>At the comment about the locals, Alicia looked back, not sure who had said it.  “Well, they would either have to fly or climb up here.  I did read enough of the information to know that you can’t see this view from the ground.”  Then she listened to the speaker.  At his job for her she actually brought her communicator up to talk to Evy.<span style="color: #00b300">“Hey.  On the data from the first team.  Do I need to bring relays to keep comms up?”</span>Any interference from the environment could fuck the comms up.<br/><br/>As she asked that she looked back and noticed Maia come out in something other, at least by appearance, than their environment suits.  She could tell it was an evo suit, even though it was see through and looked like a two piece swimsuit.  It stole her attention a long moment.  Wow she was cute for a snake woman.  It really was a shame she couldn’t touch the woman, or actually be touched by her.<br/><br/>She only took her attention from them when Berrac spoke up about going first.<span style="color: #00b300">“You sure?  You ever done any climbing before?</span>”  Or course, beyond that, how could you argue against a couple hundred pound bull man?  So she followed after.<br/><br/>The climbing was less fun when someone already set the safety anchors and platforms.  But the view was amazing.  The plant life gave an amazing view even more amazing than the skyline.<span style="color: #00b300">“Oh wow, that is amazing.”</span>And that was her sentiment until they started to reach the A’virala.  Watching each of the birds and creatures they passed until reaching the fog.  Of course she had to ask Evy for that information.  But mostly she was asking that for if she needed to coordinate her comm.<br/><br/>Alicia actually got a little worried when it became so much harder to actually see through the fog.  The sea of dark green that made her flashlight useless.  It couldn’t cut through any of the clouds.  Even worse was the level of the humidity within the fog.  Added to the heavy gravity of the planet that forced even her to stop more often than she was used to, pulled her to activate her helmet after about half an hour of the fog so she was using her evo suit atmosphere.  The good thing was she wasn’t first, so she had the big path the bull cut to climb through.<br/><br/>The stairs were a very big help once they got to them, it was better enough that she took her helmet off after a few minutes after leaving the clouds.  Though the first time a step was missing almost sent the engineer over the edge.  Just barely catching herself on the edge of the stairs before pulling herself up onto the stairs again.<span style="color: #00b300">“Way too close…”</span>she panted for a long moment.  It was a big relief when they finally got through into more bio luminescent foliage.  As they went, she did look closely at most of the plants.  She wasn’t able to resist the curiosity.<br/><br/>Whatever happened, it was an even bigger relief to finally reach the first cave to have a rest.  She fell against the wall just inside the entrance and sat down for a long moment.<span style="color: #00b300">“Ugh.  Ok, the heavy gravity definitely gets to me.”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>