The AntiChamber

There's No Way In

I look back down the hall and see that there is a turn at the end. I wander down the hall and peak around the corner. The hallway only has a laser in the middle of the hall and one of those white X doors at the end. I walk down the hall and stop in front of the laser. I reach my hand out to touch the laser while thinking what it will trigger. My hand brakes the laser and a door drops behind me. I brake the laser and the door doesn't open again. Knowing it won't again, I turn back to the door at the end of the hall. I walk up to it and see a picture next to the door.

The guy is getting by a speeding car. It looks like he was going to work before he was hit. After I press it 'The end may come before we were ready to get there' reads. I don't get it. I walk back that so I'm in front of the door. It opens and I walk into a room I thought I be in for a long time. The room is more like a wide hall. The walls are white with black stripes; like the main hub only the colors are switched. The left wall is just a giant piece of glass. I walk up to the glass and look through it. On the other side is the main hub; I can see the control wall straight across from me, the map to the left and the picture wall to the right. I turn around and see another X door and above it says 'EXIT'.

I'm already in front of the exit door; at the end. I turn around and try to see the map, from here it's too small. I looking back at the door and  walk up to and it opens when I get close to it. When it opens there's just a white wall behind it. In the middle is a black square. It's the same person who I just saw getting hit by a car. This time he's walking out of the hospital on crutches and he is covered in bandages. When I press it and it says 'Life isn't about getting to the end' the other sign starts to make sense. I look to my left and see that there is yet another X door. That make three X doors in this one room.

I walk up to and it opens when I get close enough. On other side is a neon green hall that leads into a room thats the same color. I take a couple steps into the room and look at it; the room is split in the middle by a piece of gray glass. At the far ends of the left and right sides of the room the green fades into white. On the right wall theres one of those windows that has the design of a flower; just like the one in the room with the gun.I step closer to the glass and try to look at the other side side of room. It's exactly the same, only the the window is to my left and theres a picture on the opposite wall. I turn back to the window and see that now there's an arrow being painted behind it on the wall pointing to the other side. I walk around the flower and up to it and look through the spaces between the bars.

I can see a wall that look like the one across from me on the other side of the flower; the only difference is that there's a small black square in the middle. I step closer to the flower until I can't see anything but what's in front of me. I step back and around the flower and see that the picture is now across from me and the other side with the door to the exit is on the other side of the glass. I walk up to the sign and see what I think is the same guy from every other sign, only instead of him being an adult, he's a child. He's not alone either; that other guy form the stairs, and he's also the same age. They appear to be friends in this and other sign; they're probably childhood friends.

On the left one is wearing casual clothes but has a top hat on. The other is in a suit with a cane but has a baseball cap on. They switched hats with each other. Pressing the sign I read 'At times we need to view the world from someone else's perspective'. That's why they are wearing each others hats.

Like the other room, the two rooms are exactly the same, except this room has a sign. I turn around and walk to the middle of the room facing the glass. On the other side to the wall that leads to the door that leads to the end. I turn around and there's a hallway too. The hall leads right into the with the circles and the room with the gun that I can't get into. I walk back into the hall and into the middle of the blue circles. I turn around to look back down the hall that I just came from and it's gone. Where the hall to the green room was is now replaced with the other hall from the beginning.

I turn back to the room that has that gun on the other side of the glass. I step forwards and press my hand against the glass and see that there is no way for me to get in there. The room is impossible to enter. I back up and start to walk back towards the black hall when the square with the flower design catches my eye. I turn to look at it and see that it doesn't show the blue room in the gaps between the bars, put something else. It shows a black hall that fades from black to red to yellow to white. A hallway with circle outlines in the center, and a person staring a piece of glass. I whip my head towards the hall and run to it. I look around the hall and I don't see anything.

I step to the left and there's nothing. When I step to the right there appears to be nothing, but when I turn around I catch what looks to be a small glowing red object. I turn around and step more so to the right until my shoulder to pressed against the wall. It's a dark red ring, but I couldn't see it because something is block it. I step forwards reaching my hand out and see that there is nothing in front of me. I place my right hand on the wall and walk forwards and reach my left hand out.

My hand comes into contact with what feel like a wall but there's still an opening in front of me. I continue to walk forwards until I can fully see the red circle. I side step to the left until the circle is right in front of me. I start to walk backwards but I only take a couple steps until my back hits a solid surface. I turn around and see that it's another one of those squares. The gaps show the room with the gun. I walk towards it trying to get a better look at the room. I can't see much more than the pyramid and the gun floating on top of it. I step away and start to head back to the white hall but I'm stopped. I'm no longer in the black hall but in the blue room. I turn my head back to the square but it only shows the window. I circle around it and look at it from the other side, this side shows the black hallway. I stare at it and nothing happens. I walk towards it with the room still visible in my peripheral vision. Still nothing happens and I take another step forwards so that I can't see anything but what the gaps show.

I step back and now I'm back in the black hall. I look back at the square and it shows the blue room. I walk back up to it and go into the room and return to the blue room. I turn around and see the gun is still floating on the blue cube pyramid. I forwards and up the cubes. I stop before it and stare, slowly I reach my hand out to grab it. When I grab it it disperses into small blue and white particles. Suddenly I'm back in the main hub facing the timer, which has been enlarged and has been placed in the middle of the wall. It now reads 'You have 000.00 minutes to complete the chamber.' my time has run out. The timer starts to strink into a small square and I realise that I'm not in front of the control wall, but rather the picture wall. The square blinks for a second then seperates into two different pieces and starts to enlarge again, only this time it seems to be another picture.

I take a couple of steps closer look at the picture and see that guy again; he seems to be in almost every one of these. He's in a bed and it seems like he has thrown is active alarm clock across the room and is trying to fall back asleep. Turning to the right I see that the sign says 'Live on your own watch, not somebody elses'. Does that mean I should continue? Before I can think about it more the two square slide together, the picture over the words, and moves to its spot on the wall. Directly above it a rectangle starts to blink, after it does that a couple of times it expands. In the blank space in the middle, words start to fade in. 'Moral Wall' it reads, so now I have a proper name for the wall.

I turn around to observe the room, behind me is the wall where all the picture go, and where the timer once was. In front of me now is the map, which has again gained more squares. To my right is the glass wall that has the exit door on the other side. And to my left is the control wall, which has something flashing on it.

Walking over to it I see that it was text that was flashing. Beside the number 2 on the watch controls it reads, 'Basic matter manipulator. Colour-blue. More'. Reaching up I press the 'More' and watch as it expands into a large rectangle. When it's done there seems to be more information about the manipulator. 'Enables the picking up and placing of blue blocks. Can hold no more than one block at a time. Swipe left or right on the watch to activate and proceed to practise'. Looking down at the watch I slowly press my finger on the face and swipe left. The white fades into a bright sky blue and then I'm suddenly standing on the pyramid where I got the gun.