“So the exit from 0.0 was a desk, a monitor and a door that still wouldn’t open.”
The exit room with a computer is what the wanderers of Level 0.0 call “the exit,” a white concrete room with a running computer and no windows. It is far from an ordinary office room and clean enough to suspect someone left it prepared.
How to recognize it
It measures between six and eight meters long by six wide, with a door of 1.4 meters or more. The floor is dry and smooth. In the center there is a plain desk of 1.6 by 0.8 meters with a thin monitor on a stand, and on the floor a tower. A single lamp, one of the usual ones. The screen is on but gives off no light, so it doesn’t illuminate the room.
Whoever marks it on the map writes it down as “Anomaly: [0.0] computer room.”
Entrances and exits
It is a passage room, and you enter and leave by the same door. On the floor there is a transit marker that some call “closed hatch: exit to another level.” It is sealed.
What people say
This exit leads to Level 4, or so a few say. Whoever claims to have crossed it doesn’t remember how the hatch opens, and whoever tried to force it didn’t come back to tell.
Others insist the room has a version with a beacon over the door and even whiter walls, and that this is the real exit. Two accounts agree that the monitor shows a line of text, but neither remembers what it said.
How this room connects to other levels is described in Ecosystem: how levels and sublevels connect. The EXIT door with a white frame is sometimes cited as its pair.
How to survive
- Don’t stand staring at the screen, and leave the room in good time.
- Don’t force the hatch. If anything gives, it gives downward.
- If your group is with you, have someone watch the door while another inspects the desk.
See also
Level 0.0, Level 4, Ecosystem, EXIT door with a white frame, Manila Room.