Uh huh.

He'll wait for Zahn to try it.

Zahn does indeed try the food. "This chicken goes great with the salad here and I haven't dropped dead of poison yet." Zahn smiles good naturedly at Lysander. "Also, we never asked you your name or for that matter how you ended up coming to this party or abduction or whatever."

Alice who had stiffened a bit at Lysander's comments about poison relaxes a bit and immerses herself in mindfully eating the food one bite at a time.

One bite at a time sounds good.

"It was supposed to be a themed costume party, so I came prepared. Name's Lysander."

"It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. The invite we saw didn't say it was a costume party. Are you still in college or was the invitation posted more widely?"

"...I'm still in college. I was in Massachusetts before I came here."

"Well that's certainly a point in favor of teleportation rather than illusions since we were in California. We both attend UCLA in case that wasn't clear." She frowns, "maybe I should say attended."

"Well that's exciting, I think in my mental estimation that reduces the chance that the goal of this is to kill us, but I suppose aliens, magical creatures, or shadowy conspiracies could have really strange aesthetic preferences."

"I know being glib is part of how you cope with things Zahn but it wears a little at times, could you tone it down just a tad?"

"Yeah, I'll do my best."

"I like glib. I don't think the odds are high that anyone wants to kill us. This is some kind of social experiment; testing our psychological boundaries. It's pretty unethical."

"That seems like a reasonable hypothesis yeah. I don't want to make assumptions though, and testing boundaries often involves putting people under high-stress conditions."

"It does. It could be fun." 

"I suppose that depends on how breakable we turn out to be."

"This is not sounding particularly encouraging guys."

"It'll be fine. We won't worry about their motivations. Our plan doesn't change."

He walks around the area, looking through the rooms to see if his new friends missed anything.

There's the kitchen, when he walks out the door from the kitchen he finds himself at the end of a long hallway. As he walks along he'll find doors to a large bathroom, about a dozen bedrooms, a laundry room, and several closets. At the end of the hallway he can finds himself on the circular ramp that Zahn and Alice described. He can see down the middle to a raised bed with a tree and some bushes surrounded by benches. If he looks up there's a skylight with light streaming in from above.

He scrutinizes the sunlight. 

The sunlight is a bit redder than he's used to, but not in the way that he would typically see at sunset. The sky is also a bit greener than he is accustomed to.

That's terrifying.

He returns to the others.

"The sky looks different. The sunlight is the wrong color. That's kind of an important thing to mention!"

"What?" He goes to look out the window. "Huh, it was cloudy when we arrived. I don't think either of us noticed that the sky had cleared." He takes a deep breath. "That revises the capabilities of our abductors up, by a lot."

Alice follows him to the window, she takes a deep shuddering breath. "It also revises downwards the chance that we can ever go home, at least without their help. You were right Zahn. It's important to keep this place as a safe haven until we know more."

"Okay, okay, okay. This is okay. We know more now, it's just incredibly disconcerting. Let's hope it's not all like that."

She takes a few more deep breaths. "If they could teleport us here I see no reason why they can't teleport us back. We just need to find a working elevator and find the code that corresponds to one of the places we left from."

"We need to leave to find an elevator. Do you guys remember your codes? I think I remember mine."