After the performance, Vega gets back to business. “What have you all tried to do to escape this place?”
In the surplus down time (once he’s feeling slightly less intimidated), Vega interviews each of the powers present to learn about their individual backgrounds, portfolios, and dogmas. Partly to identify available resources, partly out of curiosity to see if any of them are a better match to his particular outlook on life than the Habololy deities.