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Case file S-018SublevelsLevel 0.01Very high

EXIT Door with a White Frame

At the end of the corridor, a door with a white frame and the word EXIT in green. Every note says the same thing: don’t cross it.

Testimony

“The exit has a white frame. Don’t cross it. Don’t cross it. Don’t”

The EXIT door closes off Level 0.01. It has a white frame and the word EXIT in green, like the ones you see in any office, but here nobody uses it. Wanderers call it the door to nowhere, and the reports list it as a Level 0 anomaly, an exit that leads to no other known place.

How to recognize it

  • White frame, cleaner than the walls around it.
  • Green EXIT letters, a different green from the usual emergency signs.
  • A recess in the wall that makes it look set into a niche.
  • As you approach, the hum drops.
Underwanderer sign with an arrow to LEVEL 0: the only exit sign that actually leads somewhere
Underwanderer sign with an arrow to LEVEL 0: the only exit sign that actually leads somewhere

Entrances and exits

You reach it at the end of a very long corridor, past the last stretch of identical doors. There is no other way, and nothing comes back from the other side that can be told. Anyone who wants to leave 0.01 has to find another way.

Notes found

The note found on the floor repeats the sentence until it cuts off, “The exit has a white frame. Don’t cross it. Don’t cross it. Don’t,” and whoever wrote it never finished. Other signs and notices and the floor notes agree: they don’t say what happens, only that you shouldn’t cross.

What people say

One rumor says the frame belongs to another level, 0.02, and that the door is only the visible half of a larger entrance. Others say it is empty behind. 0.02 appears on no known route.

How to survive

  • If you see the door, don’t run toward it. The one who waits is closer than it looks.
  • Don’t open it. Don’t touch it.
  • Go back the way you came, counting doors.

Mentioned in

O-017 · ObjectsFloor NotesPapers on the carpet, sometimes pinned. A sentence from someone who had time to write before disappearing.P-009 · PhenomenaHow It All Fits TogetherThree levels joined by pits, stairs and doors to nowhere, and sublevels that have no door and are reached by mistake.E-004 · EntitiesThe One Who Waits at the DoorA figure with its back turned under the exit sign. When you get within twelve meters it is gone and the door is still shut.S-021 · SublevelsExit Room with a ComputerA white concrete room with a desk, a monitor and a tower. Wanderers call it “the exit.”S-015 · SublevelsVery Long CorridorsEighty meters in a straight line, a door every three point six, and an exit sign at the far end that never gets closer.