<How's it work? I'm not detecting any energy sources. Far as I can tell, this whole universe is magically null.>
<...We have got to be talking at cross-purposes here,> he says. <I've been to at least a couple dozen worlds and magic worked the same way in all of them. Is my magic really popular or is your world really weird or what?>
<'More adjacent' sounds like it's on the right track. The coordinates I'm getting for this world are... kind of strange. It feels like, I don't know, like I've been jumping around between planets and now I'm in a whole different - why does this language not have a word for "galaxy"? Even "solar system" sounds wrong. Does this have to do with the thing where the whole universe is full of air?>
<All the universes I've been to are mostly full of vacuum. Which you only barely have a word for, apparently. Planets have air, some of 'em, and moons can too if they're big enough, but in between those there's nothing.>
There's one!
It has a sign: Stairs - Do Not Enter - Use Lifts
<Why is there a warning sign on your stairs?>
He wanders the stairs. His sense of physical coordinates informs him of the tricks they're pulling - seamlessly changing his elevation, transporting him directly to stairwells in different parts of the building when he takes a connecting door. Some of the doors lead to closets instead, for variety. There is a general absence of windows.
He doesn't know enough about matter manipulation or transport magic to think of any obvious solutions right away, so when he gets bored, he sends a finding spell - one that can pass through solid matter - to locate the nearest roof, and teleports onto it.
"Yep," he says, mostly to himself, but still in Leraal as a local default. "Those sure are some messed-up stairs."
He flops down at the edge of the roof and peers over it at whatever might be going on down below.
He wonders what eating is like.
Well, there's a pond right there, but - <Hey, Keo, is there food around here?>