"Dark Souls, it's Dark Souls. But purple. And dark. And rainy."

"I'd go so far as to say there's a significant amount of other Soulslikes mixed in but yeah it's Dark Souls," Fib comments, but beyond that it doesn't seem like either of the two have much more to add on that particular subject.

"Yeah, I dunno. The fact that you reemerge at fires after you die is weird, and that you can spend Azoth to make yourself stronger is suspect. But it mostly feels like weird coincidences, rather than being obviously a one to one thing."

The both of them nod. "Nothing's been an exact match yet, at least nothing isn't coming from a Conduit at least. Even the aengelim aren't an exact match for angels, at least in any angelology that we've been able to dig up texts for on an Earth, nor are the oni in Yomi an exact match for either any traditional folklore or modern reinterpretations. It's just a lot of near misses, but taken as a whole it's still really weird, to me at least."

She looks around. Class is in, and nobody but them can be seen outside. "I wonder what this world looks like from space."

Fib hums curiously at that. "You know, I'm not sure."

He considers for a moment before asking, "You can teleport to bridges, and can pull or push stuff through them too, right? Could you push something through a teleport, rather than send it to the other side of the bridge?"

"Yeah, I can, why?"

"With your help, I could pop up to the Kuiper bridge and get a look at the whole place from space," he says with a smile, turning more green with flickering tongue of gold around the fringes.

"Uh?" She looks up. Her senses are pointing to the nearest bridge, the Earth bridge. During her wandering she has never felt the Kuiper bridge at all, so it has never been the closest bridge to her, which gives her a rough minimum distance. It isn't close. "My accuracy suffers beyond about eight kilometers, the further I go, the harder it deviates. I also can't sense the bridge at all from down here, I don't know what direction to send you in."

"Ah, yeah, range limits. That makes sense. I guess could still just, like, jump to Kuiper and then right back, which should let me be right on top of the bridge, but it'll probably be pretty unpleasant for any animals that get summoned by my issue. Maybe not this time."

"How far up do you think it is? I was thinking that I could teleport up, then jump into my Bevin to stop myself from falling too much, and then just keep alternating between teleporting up and going into my Bevin, which should let me just climb up arbitrary distances?"

Oh yeah, that trick probably works way better for people who aren't Fib. He nods, then thinks and then shakes his head. "It's gotta be at least 30 or 40 miles up, well outside the atmosphere. I'm good to handle that kind of thing but I don't know if you are?"

"Nope, I was banking on limiting exposure to a second being safe, but that might be kinda dumb. And I don't think I know about Kuiper? What's it like?"

"100% outer space, pretty much. No planets, and all the lifeforms are void-adapted. Space-whales, space-crabs, space-algae, that sort of thing. Plus these weird of sorta magical living asteroids, who get smarter the bigger and older they are. The more animalic ones can be okay but the ones that are more people-y don't seem very friendly, not that I've seen anyway."

"Oh. I'm just gonna, stay away from the hard vacuum world, I think."

"Eminently reasonable! I can't help but feel very fortunate for not having stumbled into it without the ability to survive in the void of space. It still totaled the car I was in though, which was kind of rough."

"Oof, that's rough buddy. So you can survive in a vacuum? What else can you do?"

"Well, I've got the orichalcum-- that's the gold, and the desert glass, and the Bondworks, and my weird mixed up Azoth-Color, which is also sort of mixed into my lungs, which lets me breath it out, which is how I'm able to revive the sosei-shita. And if I'm riding a bike or driving a car or whatever, as long as it's not really big, I can take it with me when I jump, and if I have some friends driving other vehicles nearby, I can bring up to four of them along too."

"Is it-? Uh..." No, that can't possibly be how it works. "It doesn't specifically have to be a bicycle or a car, right?"

"Oh, no, it just needs to be something that I..." he makes another vague grasping gesture, an evidently common part of his gesticular vocabulary, "control the movement of? I tried with a tamed dino that the elves ride around on sometimes and it worked with that too. Nearly startled the thing to death, though, so I try to only do it with non-living stuff."

Phew. "Ok, cool." She looks ahead, trying to remember where they are based on their surroundings, she thinks they're close.

The bridge definitely feels close.

"This is it." She takes a deep breath. "So, how many Earths have you been to?"

"Like, visited at all? Maybe a dozen, maybe two? Most of them I don't stick around long enough to know for certain I'm visiting a new Earth that's similar to one I've been to and not just another bridge to one I've already seen before. But I only regularly visit three, the ones that have sosei-shita settlements in them, since they're part of my mail route."

"Right, right." She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. "I can peek through bridges without going through, so give me a second." Her vision opens up, and she experiences a second of panic as she sees a park, but as she pulls her vision up and away from the scenic footpath she is greeted with an honest to god road, and cars. "The bridge leads to a park, I can't tell where this is, hold on..." She pulls her perspective up higher and higher, she can see a stadium, 'TORONTO' is clearly written across one of its ends in giant letters intended to be clearly visible from the sky.

Well that was convenient. "It's Toronto." She says.