The AntiChamber

Impossible Paths

I stand in front of the map and take a look at all the rooms I've gone to, and the ones that have small rectangles on their sides, telling me I haven't been to. I close my eyes and pick a random one again. When I open my eyes and I watch as the square expands, showing a preview of the room and its name. 'Taking Baby Steps', the picture shows a hallway with a giant ledge that looks much taller than me and a ceiling that looks like an upside down stair case. Deciding to go there I press the button, close my eyes, and wait for me to be brought there.

When I open my eyes I see the hall with the stair like ceiling in front of me. Turning around I see that there are three other options, forwards, left, and right. In the intersection of the four halls there's a light grey square, each corner is touching the point where the walls turn, and a small black dot in the middle of the square. I walk down the hall I'm in so that I can stand in the square and see what is down each hall way. When I get to end of the hall way, right before the grey square starts, I decide to try and jump and land on the black dot. Taking a couple steps backwards I run and jump, hoping that I'll land on the dot. Just when my feet are about to land on the dot, the ground dissolves under me and I land on a platform that goes down fast. Then it hits the ground rather hard making me fall. When I'm finally about to stand up I stumble a little bit. Before I can observe whats around me, I see the platform start to go back up. Stumbling back so that I'm directly under it I see that I have no easy way to get back up there.

Finally realising that I landed somewhere, I starting looking around. Looking up I see that the hole I fell down, at the top rests the platform, the walls just under it are white that immediately turns to a blue, and when the hole turns into the ceiling, black. The black expands around the hole to make a circle, the edges fading to green then white. Looking at my feet I see that I'm standing in the middle of a black circle with green rims that fade to white. Looking up so I'm seeing what right in front of me I see a plain white wall with a picture on it. Walking up to it, I hope that what eber the guy is up to this time can shed some light on what's happening around me.

He seems to be in the middle of a dessert digging a giant hole. He's throughing dirt into a large pile on the outside. Around him there's a cactus and a skull. But there's also a chest that looks like it's full of gold coins. Not seeing how this could help me umderstand my situation I tap it and read the text, hoping it could be more helpful. 'Dig a little deeper and you may find something new', I guess I was hoping for nothing, the text didn't help me in the least.

I start to look round the room again. To my right the wall retraces so that it's a little larger then a doorway. On the other side the room expands, but the floor is gone. The room is yellow tinted and filled with small particles. There're two glass screens, the one on the right is closer to this side of the room and the one on the left is closer to the other side which leads to a hallway that has a black outline around it. In the middle of the two screens is the word 'HMM...' that is made out of a bunch of yellow blocks. To my left, the room is similar ot the other one in the fact that they're both floorless and have a tint with matching particles.

This room is purple with small black particles floating around it. The words in the middle are made up of red block and spell 'WTF!?', and the hall on the other side is much narrower and is much taller then the other rooms hall. The hall on the other side is a dark blue. Walking up to the end of the ground, I see that the tint doesn't go passed the room, it's like there's a wall at the end of the hall making it so that it can't go any farther. I slowly reach my hand out and pass it through the tint. Nothing really happens, my skin tints purple and any of the particles close to me fly away. Pulling my hand back out it returns to its normal colour. Pearing over the egde I see the bottom not that far down, and what looks like a hallway leading out of the room at the bottom.

I look at the blue hall on the other side and try to figure out a way to get across. Thinking that this could be like the other two groundless rooms, I try and walk across, expecting ground to show up benieth my feet, but I fall. Looking back up I see that the room and halls connecting to it are all white, and just like in the hall way up above, there seems to be some kind of blocker making so that the partivles and tint don't go passed the room. Looking back down I look down the hall in front of me. Half way down it splits into two different paths, one continuing forwards, the other turning to the left. On the wall directly opposite of the left turning hallway there's a picture. Walking down the hall, I stop at the split and look at the picture.

The man is wearing a top hat, bowtie, and a funny mustache. He has one hand in front of him while the other seems to be doing something else, I then realise that he's trying to be a magician, he's making it appear that he can attacg and remove his thumb. Pressign the picture, I wait to read the text that will tell me what he's doing this time, 'What appears to be impossible may have a very simple answer'. Is it talking about the purple tinted room? Because that does seem impossible. Turning around I look down the hall and realise that I've been here before. Halfway down there's a picture on the left wall and at the end of the hall theres a pendulum, turnig back around there's nothing, just a dead end wall. Turnign around again I start to walk down the hall, I stop halfway and look at the picture, but instead of a picture, it's just words. 'How we perceive a problem can change every time we see it', it's one of the first signs I saw, and now it makes sense. Walking down a little bit more I stop with black lines start to form. In the middle of the instersection connecting the four halls the lines form an arrow that's pointing to go down the right hall. Looking down to the right I see a door drop as soon as I look down the hall. I know exactly where I am.

I go back to the main hub to try and figure out where to go from here. When I get back I stare at the map hopping that it'll have the answers. I notice that there's a square that's larger then the others. Pressing it I wait for it to completely expand. The name of the room is 'Don't Look Down' and the picture shows a hexagon shaped room with some type of hole on the ceiling in the middle. Looking at the map I see that every other square is a room that I've been to, all exept for this one, I've never been there. Wanting to know what it is and how it got on the map I go there.

When I stand in the hall right before the room I see that the hole on the ceiling in the centre is a bright pink. Taking a couple of steps down the hall so that I'm more inside the room I see that it's actually a square room, it has four sides not six. Walking further in I go and stand under the pink hole. I see that the pink fades to red and then black. In the middle there're white words that tell me 'Don't Look Down'. Taking a deep breathe I decide to do just that. When I look at my feet I see antoher one of those eyes. It starts to blink really fast, then the ground beneath my feet disappears.