Green Hotel

The Green Hotel swaps the office feeling for that of an old hotel corridor all at once. The hallway is wider than any of those around it, the carpet is well kept and the doors are numbered. There is no dust, and you notice, because in Level 0 something well kept almost always means something is keeping it.

How to recognize it

First comes the width. A normal office corridor lets two people pass, uncomfortably. The Green Hotel corridor is 3.2 meters clear, enough to pass someone without brushing them, and whoever arrives from a narrow hallway feels the ceiling has gone up.

• Reference corridor of about 3 by 5 meters.
• Hotel hallway carpet, in a shade of green that doesn’t belong with the rest of the level.
• Numbered doors on either side.
• Notable silence. The hum of the place is muffled, though it doesn’t vanish entirely. See the fluorescent hum.

Where it appears

It is a rare feature that shows up in one roll in ten, without warning. Every wanderer who crosses it sees the same hotel in the same place, and whoever returns finds it where they left it, until the Displacement moves it elsewhere.

In scale it resembles the great halls and landmarks, though the hotel is a narrow piece and not a hall.

What people say

Word around is that the upper floors end in a Green Hotel when the climb is long, and some have seen it at the end of the 63-meter staircase, as if the building wanted to reward the effort. In other cases the staircase ends in an ordinary office.

Nobody has seen a guest. Two accounts mention a door ajar with the light on, and neither agrees on the number.

How to survive

Don’t take it for a shelter; it is a passage corridor and not a bed. Crossing it is comfortable, and that comfort is what you should watch. Don’t stop to rest in the middle of the corridor, where there are no corners and nowhere to hide. If you need to get your bearings, follow the walls toward the nearest exit.

See also

Level 0, Great halls and landmarks, The 63-Meter Staircase, Chunk Displacement.