“Why would anyone want six outlets on an empty wall? I counted twice, and six both times.”
The row of outlets is an empty wall with outlets in a row, with no desk, no lamp and nothing to plug in. Wanderers remember it less for what it is than for what is surplus. An office needs an outlet next to the desk, but this wall has no desk and someone still installed half a dozen.
Description
On the long walls of Level 0, a meter and a half or more, it is common to find a single outlet, 32 centimeters off the floor, at baseboard height. You see it on almost one wall in five, and it is the harmless version, with its outlet, its wall and its corridor.
The row is the one that shouldn’t exist. On some of those walls, the ordinary outlet is joined by others, up to five more, and all of them line up along the wall.
How to recognize it
- The outlets follow one another every 45 centimeters.
- They alternate between two heights: some 32 cm off the floor and others at 1.10 m, the height at which they would sit on a work desk.
- Under the upper ones there is no desk, ever.
- There are no boxes, cables or power strips, and behind the outlets there is nothing you can touch.
What people say
The row appears on one wall in eight among those that already have an outlet, and nobody has checked the proportion, because whoever sees it once takes a while to see it again.
On one of the floor notes in the area someone wrote “the same crooked outlet.” Those who have found the row say that, up close, all the outlets have the same tilt, as if a single hand had repeated them. It would be the visual echo of that note, though no two accounts agree on which of the two came first.
How it is used
It gives nothing and takes nothing. It serves as a reference for getting your bearings, because if you passed a wall like that and see it again, it is either another one or the same one, and that doubt already tells you something. Note it on your map.
Don’t sleep next to it and don’t take it for a sign of shelter. Electricity in plain sight doesn’t mean there is current, and nobody has managed to plug anything in.
See also
Slits in the Wall, Level 0 found texts, Office signs and set dressing, Generation Error Vestibule.