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Case file S-025SublevelsLevel 0Low

Generation Error Vestibule

You pass through a wall, the color is no longer the same, and a reception of absurd furniture, a bunker from 1989 and pits that invite you to fall appear.

Testimony

“I crossed a wall and the tone was different, I can’t explain it. It’s the same place, but with a chunk that doesn’t belong.”

The Generation Error Vestibule is a stretch of Level 0 where the color is shifted, a sign that the chunk was loaded with another mold. The wanderers who have crossed it say you notice it before you understand why. The walls are the same yellow but a different shade.

How you get in

A wall you can pass through drops the survivor in a room with the tone changed. There is no warning mark. Usually you find it by leaning on it.

What is inside

  • A reception with “LOBBY” lettering, round lights, wood moldings, outlets, slits and absurd furniture. The Receptionist tends it.
  • Furniture that doesn’t belong in the place: armchairs in the middle of the corridor, a table one and a half times the scale of the room. See Absurd Furniture.
  • Wall features: slits and recesses in regular patterns (Slits in the Wall) and rows of outlets at different heights (Row of Outlets).
  • About twenty-five small pits, with a short fall, and a crude platform next to each one (pit field).
  • A bunker, Infinnovation Outpost 1, with a door that asks for a code. A shelter with a history, not one built by anyone you know. See “Infinnovation Outpost 1” Bunker and the reception.

How to survive

  • Walk the walls before trusting the floor, because the short fall of a pit is more dangerous if your group doesn’t know where you are.
  • Don’t sit in the armchairs in the corridor.
  • If the zone disorients you, go back through the wall you crossed and look for a bed outside it.

What people say

Several survivors claim the bunker code is a date from 1989 and that there is a floor note that says only that. Nobody has come back with a photo of the note. Some talk of whole zones with the shifted tone beyond the reception, but nobody has drawn their extent.

Mentioned in

P-004 · PhenomenaChunk DisplacementEvery chunk has its own countdown and, when it runs out, the place is rewritten. Anyone who doesn't anchor their shelter loses everything with it.L-001 · LevelsLevel 0: yellow officesEndless offices of damp carpet and humming fluorescents. Every wanderer wakes here, and nobody leaves by the way they came in.S-010 · SublevelsLevel 0.0: out of boundsThe seam of the Displacement: terrain that Level 0 never finished loading, or loaded halfway. You cross it without knowing.S-005 · SublevelsSlits in the WallThree to six black slits in a row on a solid wall, evenly spaced. Order without function.S-009 · SublevelsAbsurd FurnitureAn empty room with a single wrong piece of furniture: a bookcase in the middle of nowhere, a desk without drawers, two chairs back to back.S-006 · SublevelsRow of OutletsAn empty wall with outlets in a row, every 45 centimeters, alternating baseboard height and desk height where there is no desk.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-014 · EntitiesVestibule ReceptionistThey say that behind the Vestibule counter sits a Watcher that looks at you from the moment you enter, not when you come near.S-017 · SublevelsPit FieldAbout twenty-five small holes in the floor, each with a crude platform at the bottom, and a single walkable path.S-019 · Sublevels“LOBBY” ReceptionA closed room with a nearly five-meter counter in the center. Nobody behind it, and still someone greets you.S-002 · Sublevels“Infinnovation Outpost 1” BunkerA closed building with an open metal door beside its opening and a name that appears in no directory.