“Four identical stretches and one odd corner. I counted out loud until I found it.”
The looping corridors are a room of the danger zone of Level 0.1, with four identical stretches closing a ring around a block of about 24 by 24 meters. If you go straight, you end up where you were.
A confusion worth avoiding
Level 0.1 must not be confused with Level 1. Level 1 is the habitable warehouse, another thing and another place, whereas 0.1 is a layer of Level 0 and the loop is only found here. Whoever marks it on the map usually writes down the layer it belongs to: “Anomaly: [0.1] looping corridors.”
How to recognize it
- Four stretches of the same pattern, with the same stations, the same lamps and the same openings. Each is the previous one turned a quarter turn.
- A corridor 2.2 meters wide, the same as the endless corridor.
- Two opposite entrances to the outside, 1.4 meters or more.
- One different corner. The first stretch carries a single piece of furniture that the other three don’t have, and it is the only thing that helps you get your bearings.
How to survive
- When you enter, look for the furniture. Memorize its shape and which corner it occupies.
- Count the stretches starting from it, not from yourself.
- If you reach the furniture a second time, you are on lap two. Leave by the opposite entrance or the one behind you.
- Don’t run. The footstep echo in the ring gives you your own steps back as if they were following you.
The two entrances connect to the rest of Level 0. There are no isolated pockets inside the ring, and from any of the four stretches you can always get back to an entrance without passing through the outside.
What people say
Around the ring it is said that the openings have no doors, that they are open gaps without a frame. Others say they have seen a numbered door on the second lap that wasn’t there on the first, and the two versions don’t match.
One survivor left a note that the furniture in the different corner changes place if you move more than a stretch away. Another says it has never changed and that he knows because he has counted fourteen laps.
See also
Level 0.1, Footstep Echo, Null Zones, Sanity, Paper Maps.