Fib shrugs. "Not entirely sure? Just something that's, like, taking up all my slack. I was just barely able to force myself to develop the Bondworks in my first couple years, since then every bit of juice that I've gotten has gone right towards connecting with new worlds. I know that if I don't work on getting more connections, it'll just keep building up until it does something. Something'll, like, come out. I just don't know what."

"Worrying." She couldn't fathom what it could mean. She opted to simply take a look at Braz-

"Brass." She breathed. Metal flora covered the sandy landscape, up above was the sky, the metal sky. A dome?

If it was a dome, it was of an inconceivable size, high up as clouds normally would be. Its edge, if such a thing even existed, was past the horizon, and stubbornly remained that way no matter how high she raised her perspective. The clockwork mimicry of the sky held its crystal sun within a path, no doubt for it to tick along as the day passed. "It's incredible."

Fib smiles. "It's pretty crazy, right? The first time I showed up I was in an iron forest, which made it easier to not realize that the whole thing is inside of a fucked up planet-sized bunker or something. It's surprising there's breathable air, but the sosei-shita checked and there is, it's not just me not needing to breath."

"Yeah. Pretty crazy." She looks at them. "So, should I go in first, or should I go after you? Am I taking Sniper?"

"Oh, we weren't thinking of going already! I don't think it's even been an hour yet? I don't need to be at a bridge to jump through it anyway, I mostly wanted to see what sort of places Brazen bridges turn up in, and get a look at where I'd be ending up on the other side."

"Right, right, of course." She takes another look, drinks in the alien landscape. "Ok, so Crucible next?"

"Yeah! And since we're teleporting, we'll still have plenty of time to just stroll around, too. Maybe see if can find any rare buildings or landmarks or what-have-you."

"Yeah, cool, let's get out of here." She teleports the two of them back into the open. "Let's go."

Fib and Sniper both prepare to be teleported, Fib turning chartreuse with anticipation.

She teleports back out of the building where they just were, then scrutinizes her compass again. It's going to take a bit to get to the Crucible bridge, and doesn't want to have to double back because she was off target. On a whim, she aims far beyond her normal range. As usual, she is greeted by a nebulous dread, as her destination becomes uncertain, and the probabilities where she is teleported into the air mix with those where she ends up safe. She sighs. Whatever, my range is still fantastic by any stretch of the-

The probabilities suddenly sharpen and crystalize into safety, while aiming almost ten times her normal range away.

"I might be stupid."

Fib gives her a look somewhere between concerned and curious. "What's up?"

"I can teleport straight to Crucible's bridge. In fact..." She moves her aim around where she thinks the Earth bridge is until the destination becomes certain. "Earth too." She aims at the Arbor bridge, and doesn't find it. She frowns. "Maybe not Arbor? Huh."

"Ah! So your range is from the bridge you're teleporting to, not from your current location. Kind of like how I can jump up to a few miles away from the bridge I'm landing at. I guess if you're mostly hanging out in the area with a bunch of bridges in relatively close proximity it'd be easy to miss."

"I've been teleporting from my Bevin's bridge! No wonder. I'm going to have to run tests later." She thinks for a second. "Given this, it'll be faster to teleport to the Earth bridge and go straight to Crucible from there."

"Makes sense!" And the two of them will once again prepare to be moved.

It doesn't take long, before a minute has passed they are before the Crucible bridge. A drab looking shed that looks almost out of place in the Academy. "I can tell you some of what is around that bridge, I've done some exploring. Close to the bridge is an old prison of some sort. The prisoners... were not treated well."

Fib grimaces, but his color only blues slightly. "Yeah, Crucible is like that. We're trying to help the sosei-shita settlement do better than that, but they're still quite small, and there's still quite a bit of...tension with the locals."

"I killed the warden, he used some sort of magic through a bell that could paralyze and fire these green orbs. He made servants that could float and use those same techniques." She sighs. "I found a book that I think details his methods, Groundskeeper has it, she's intent on translating it. Hopefully we learn something useful."

"Freaky! And, hopefully it's not just, like, the records of whatever fucked up shit he was doing with the prisoners."

Fib will take a quick peek through the bridge, but just a little one to situate himself and maybe see if there are any Crucible landmarks he can recognize.

She takes a look herself. "It's... dark. It's very dark." It's about as dark as the last time she went here, she can hear the rain through the connection, but trying to get a sense for what the rest of the area looks like is hopeless, its just too dark. there was a bonfire in the prison itself, but that's about all the light that can be found. "Yeah, I can't see dick. I can walk around with a high powered flashlight if you want to see, otherwise we might want to move on."

"I wonder if anyone has, like, a darkvision power," Fib ponders aloud as he retracts his scrying.

"Have you been around this area, on this side of the bridge, before?" Sniper asks Strawberry.

She snorts. "Briefly. I was too concerned with my nudity to actually take in my surroundings. I went to the nearby dorms and stole some clothes, then left."

"Damn, you were naked?" Fib asks. "Did you, like, get snatched out of bed by your first jump and didn't have any clothes on?"