SURVIVAL DIFFICULTY:
Class 3
- Safe
- Unsecure
- Devoid of Entities
Level 997.5 is a Sub-Level of Level 997. The unfortunate wanderers caught by Entity 997-A or the ones who dared opening the 4th airlock of Level 997 will be brought in Level 997.5.
Description:
Why you focus on the world outside?
Upon entering Level 997.5, one will find itself in a house with no way to exit. The structure and furnishings of the house are based on the wanderer's memory of "home". So, depending on the individual, the level may take form of one's house or the residential building one used to live in. The resources inside are scarce and all electrical devices are not powered. The main door and windows of the house are closed and cannot be opened or destroyed. Most wanderers will stay here for a while before eventually no-clipping.
Although getting outside proved to be impossible, the external environment of Level 997.5 can still be determined by observing the landscape outside the window and recording the changes in temperature and humidity inside the house. The landscape apparents itself as a city of immeasurable length, with a day and night cycle and climate changes similar to the Frontrooms. However, the climate is often characterized by high temperatures or heavy rainfall, making the level unsuitable for long-term living.
According to the reports, Level 997.5 has a special mental effect which will characterize as a temporary memory loss, thus, causing one to have its recent memories cleared and immerse itself in a mood of nostalgia. As the memories deepens, the house will become depraved, as if your demaged impression is branded into reality. However, the changes recorded are generally harmless, such as: the sound of the marble bouncing in the wall, the shadow of a humanoid entity emerging in the dark, and the quarrel of "neighbors" under the floor. The individuals affected by this effect will be unaware of the passage of time and the environmental changes within the Level. This effect will remain until they exited the level, freeing them from the mental influence.
Update
Based on the information, as mentioned above, we initially believed that the true appearance of Level 997.5 was an anomalous city and that upon entry, one was assigned to a house made from their own memories. However, this hypothesis was left unchanged until someone successfully observed the outside of the house through the windows connected to the outside world. This said individual also managed to escape from the house through a broken window.
Outside, all around the house, a gray void, in which endless amount of objects and human body fragments are suspended. Although these things do not all exist in the wanderer's memory, they are definitely related to the wanderer's experience in their subconscious deeply while they had a familiar feeling.
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So, you DO get brought to this level, and the rest of records seem to be destroyed, what are you going to do?
Great, looks like you have some extra value besides your Frontrooms' memories. You can open the main door and leave. Take the elevator to head downstairs.
Elevator Room:
If you persist long enough, the main door will open itself - just like an indigestible food forcing its way to the next organ - just like a roundworm actively crawling out of the door hurriedly to the next place that is closely related to home.
This is the elevator room, the one you are the most familiar with, or just the storageroom in your house with a double mechanical door. Elevator has always been the only tool in this city that leads you from your home to the outside world. Obviously, there are also the stairs, but you have never used them anyways. Upon entering the elevator, you will notice that there is only a "down" button on the operating panel, and no screen telling you the current floor.
After pressing the button, your perception of time will be affected. It seems, Time is slowing down little by little, and every time you wait for the elevator or the other things before get out, those time appears to be superimposed here in this moment. You have nowhere to escape, and you can't escape Time either. Now, the only way to relieve yourself is to sort out the mixed emotions in your mind.
Life. Growth. Thwart. Destiny.
No, these emotions are from the Frontrooms, from the memories you have just integrated before you fell in the endless environment, they are already set in stone. Keep thinking.
Peace. Pressure. Confidence. Fear.
Every kind of emotion that passes through makes your heart relax and tighten like breathing, and what fills the gap between them is Time; the endless time here, the time responsible for letting everything settle down. Don’t know when, the next emotion that has been stirring you for a long time already and occupied the center of your consciousness before you were ready, and began to emit its own color.
Anxious. Egoistic. Uneasy. Conceited.
It seems you had this feeling before, sometimes when you were about to return home. You left the elevator and prepared to enter your home. For some reason you did not open the door, but stood there thinking and feeling. Until the movement-detector does not acknowledge you anymore and switches off the lights. You stood in the darkness that you feared the most and was enjoying it. What to do next? Turn around and run into the corridor? Go back and enter the elevator? Or push to open and enter the door as usual? Those scenes turned into emotions lingering in your heart, and then there was only silence. The silent lambs wandered here. This is a space that belongs to yourself alone. And the only thing that led you to this space was the last emotion that you have not yet experienced—
DEATH.
The repetition of feelings finally brings your thoughts to the question: What exactly is death?
Needless to say, you have already given your answer to Death. Now, take the elevator and leave your home.
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As the doors opens, an elevator that looks different from any elevator you remember appears in front of you, to be precise, it is more like a small storage elevator with an open folding iron gate. The elevator is yellow, two meters square, with a buzzing light on the ceiling. It reminds you of a certain place that you've been before.
As you get into the elevator and turn around, you'll realize that the iron gate has suddenly closed itself. Standing firmly, without any interactions from your part, the elevator will begin its descent. While waiting, a pleasant feeling will hit your mind as the scene will keep changing in front of your
eyes through the small diamond shaped hole of the iron gate…
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| |A canvas with some ink stained on it.
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| |A desert town, two cowboys with spurs on their boots are having a western showdown. Wait…one of them is Overseer-A!?
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| |A living room with patterned wallpaper, a raven-headed man in a suit raise a glass to greet you.
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| |A bar with a blue hue，A bartender is standing in front of the bar. He has a very special look… What does he look like again?
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| |The Supreme Deity.
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| |Pure white, a humanoid creature with a black body except for its white eyes is staring straight at you.
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| |Pitch darkness, four human faces illuminated by overhead light were suspended in a diamond shape, singing arias.
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| |A gloomy factory, The Steel are being manufactured on the assembly line.
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| |Heavy rain, in the distance there was a telephone booth illuminated by overhead light, and the phone inside was ringing.
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| |In front of a building, countless men in black suits and top hats were floating in the air in a loose diamond-shaped matrix, as if they are filtering something.
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Countless fragments of consciousness flash up from top to bottom right in front of your eyes. They appear from under your feet and then disappear up your head. It's just like…a roll film? Yes, it is Indeed, a roll film. You visualise your own consciousness through the iron gate of the elevator slowly going deep and deeper.The "ding" sound that the elevator makes every time it passes a floor was removed. It's a bit too annoying for those who possess rich souls, isn't it? Anyway, we've been here, open the elevator door with your own hand. We'll reveal the scenery outside later.
