Rooms That Repeat

A room that repeats is an interior piece that the wanderer recognizes the second time they see it. It does not alter the zone where it lands. The place decides its perimeter and its openings, and the room contributes only what is inside: columns, blocks, stairs, mezzanines and interior openings. It complements the great halls.

How to recognize them

They are always the same. Measurements repeat in five-meter spans, and their shapes have simple plans, from a polygon to L-shaped, T-shaped or U-shaped blocks, or an irregular outline that is reproduced identically. Anyone who has walked through one feels it in their feet, because the landing comes at the same distance and the pillar stands where it should.

Floors and heights

Everything works by floors. Each element belongs to a level, and its heights are measured from the base of that floor. If a slab moves, whatever sits on top moves with it. The pits opened in a floor on the first story or higher become straight shafts that cut through the slab.

Where they appear

Only in sealed zones, with a closed perimeter. If the zone doesn’t qualify, it is filled like any other. They appear in Level 0, where they coexist with the usual rooms, and you can run into the same one in two distant places.

How to survive

• Learn one. When you recognize the next, you will know where the stairs are without looking for them.
• Be careful about trusting too much, because a repeated room does not repeat what is outside it. There are zones where the copy is surrounded by corridors you don’t know.
• If you cross from one to another, note what tells them apart on a map.

What people say

• In some rooms there is a marked spot on the floor with nothing on it. Where, they say, there should be a light, an object or something that appears. Nobody has come back with a photo.
• Those who have walked through many rooms swear there are more objects and loot in some than in others. It has not been possible to check.

See also

Great Halls, Pits, Level 0, Anomalies.