Testimony
“There was a chair in the middle of the corridor, and it hadn’t been there before, and I never heard anyone bring it.”
Space events are changes in physical things with no creature in sight. Doors, objects and chairs turn up in another place or another state. Nobody has seen them begin. A neighboring group, the pressure of the world, adds stains and leaks.
Changes in space
- Changed door (subtle or medium): you find it open or closed when you would swear the opposite, out of your sight.
- Door that opens by itself (medium): slowly, with a hinge noise, when someone is nearby who isn’t looking at it.
- Object out of place (subtle): a chair in the corridor, a paper stuck to the wall. It never blocks your way.
- Something falls (medium): rubble or a ceiling tile, depending on how damaged the zone is.
- Sliding chair (subtle or medium): it starts slowly, rolls a short distance over flat floor, with a sound of wheels, and stops. All the survivors present see it follow exactly the same path.
Pressure of the world
- Advancing mold or stain (subtle): it spreads while you watch, so slowly it seems like a lie.
- Leak (subtle): an audible dripping and a damp mark on the floor. It is the most frequent and fills the time between the big changes.
How to survive
- Listen before you look at the door, because the hinge gives it away before the eye does.
- If a chair rolls toward you, don’t run. It isn’t looking for you and it stops by itself.
- When you go back to a place, compare it with what you remember. An object out of place is the sign that the zone has changed.
What people say
- Someone saw a chair go down a staircase, with a thud on every step. If it happens, nobody knows whether it falls by its own weight or is pushed.
- Some say the chairs don’t roll toward anyone, but always end up near a door.
- They say the leak is the only sign that repeats every time in the same place.
See also
The Zone Cycle, Environmental Events, Doors Locked by Default, Absurd Furniture, Level 0 Staircases.