The AntiChamber

Don't Look Down

As I fall the walls change colour at such a rate I can barely keep up with them. Light purple, violet, blue, dark blue, blue, violet, light purple, then white for awhile. And then the process starts again, only it's green this time. Light green, green, black, green, light green, and that cycle repeats twice. Then its white and it goes again only the colours are gold, orange, and black. When that colour pattern is done, there's another white break before it repeats, only light and dark blue with black. Then a break and another one, only it's lime and black. The last colour cycle is pink, red, and black. Then after another break I finally land.

I bend over and place my hands on my knees and try to catch my breath. After a couple minutes I think I've recovered from the rainbow gradient tunnel I just fell down. Standing up straight I see that I'm staring at a picture. The guy isn't in the picture this time, instead it's a cat. They're sitting there thinking what to do about the situation at hand, a wire that has been cut and is sparking. Quickly pressing the picture I wait for the text, 'To much curiosity can get the best of us', I guess that's true for the cat, but what about me? Turning around I see that at the other side of this narrow room there's some kind of circular platform. Halfway across the room the white fades to pink and immediately to red, and there's another tunnel going up that the run goes up to. Right where the pink starts there's a red laser, and a little after the red stars theres a white square outline that comes off the wall just enough to trip over.

Walking across the room I cross the laser and see that another one forms across the middle of the platform. Stepping over the white square, I stand on the edge of the platform, hesitating to brake the laser. Taking another deep breath I step into the middle of the red platform, breaking the laser. Nothing happens for a couple of second, then the platform shoots upwards and the once red walls turn blue, then everything stops. Looking a head, the blue fades to violet then to white, which leads into a room. This room is near identicle to the other one, there's a pink hole in the middle of the ceiling. I notice that there's a picture on the left wall leading to the room.

Walking down the hall, I'm surprised to see the guy again instead of the cat. He's at some kind of food table, there's knocked over milk and pieces of food everywhere, he also seems to be sleep on the table. Pressing the picture I see what's happen to him this time, 'When you've hit rock bottom, the only way is up'. Looking back at the room, I don't understand how that can apply here. This whole situation reminds me of the staircases, the never ending blue and red staircases.

But with that thought in mind, I realised this is practactly the same, so maybe I can approach it the same way. Walking into the room so that I'm standing under the pink gap, which still tells me to not look down, I slowly start to walk backwards into the hall I was originally in, keeping my eyes on the ceiling. Then the white ceiling fades to a light blue, which is not the violet the hallway was when I entered the room. I continue taking steps backwards until the light blue fades into a darker shade. Thinking that I'm safe, I look back at the floor and see the eye close and the floor of the room start to disappear. When it's completely gone, I carefully peak over the edge and see the tunnel I fell down. Turning around I see the dark blue fade to black then back to white at the end of the hall before it turns to the right. At the end of the hall there's a picture. Walking up to it I see that it's the cat, only this time there's a pair of hands, one pointing towards the cut wire and the other at the cat. The hands most likely belong to the man, and he's telling the cat that what he did was a bad idea, well, curiosity did kill the cat. Pressing the picture, I wait to see what it has in store for me this time, 'Signs may be helping you more than you realize', I guess that's true in most cases.

Looking down the hall I see that it turns right again, walking down and pearing around the corner, the hall turns to the right again, making it do a complete u-turn. Walking all the way down both halls, I'm confronted with a wall that goes up about half way to the ceiling. In the middle of the wall is some sort of ledge that I can step on. Walking down to it and stepping up onto the ledge, I use the top of the wall to help balance me. There's a gap and another wall opposite the one I'm standing on. On the left wall in the gap there's a picture, but I can't quite see it. Looking down I see a row of blue blocks, going from one side of the wall to the other, making a ledge similar to the one I'm standing on. Jumping over the wall I land in the gap between the two. Walking up to the picture, I keep in mind what the previous one had said about these being more helpful then I think they are.

There are two people in the picture, the shorter one seems to be pointing at the wind, I'm assuming that that is the guy, while the taller man is pointing at some sort of sigh. Pressing the picture I read the text, 'Some hurdles are too high to jump over', I don't understand how that realates to the picture. Turning back and looking between the two walls, I notice that the one opposite to the one I just jumped over doesn't have any sort of ledge to help me get over it. Looking back at the one I got over, I get an idea involing the blue blocks. Lifting up my wrist, I press and swipe to the right and watch as the white fades into a blue. Going back over to the row of blocks, I start to touch each one, gathering a total of 12 blue blocks.

Tapping the face of the watch I see that only one of the 12 blocks appear, then I remember that I can only place one block at a time, but that's okay, I only need one. Grabbing the small block, I watch it hover over my palm for a few seconds before continuing on. Walking over to the opposite wall, I flick my wrist and watch as the block launches it self onto the wall, sticking in the middle of the wall. Stepping up on the block, I hoist my self onto the wall and use the one to my right to help me balance. Aiming my hand at the block, I close it into a fist and watch as it starts to glow. Pulling my hand up, I lift the block so that it's eye level with me, I then direct it to the left wall on the otherside of the wall so that I can collect it. Jumping down, I walk over and collect the block so that my count goes back up to 12.

Turning again, I look down the hall and see that it splits into three other halls. On the floor arrows start to form, pointing towards the middle. Walking down the hall, I decide to trust the arrows and walk into the middle, as soon as I do that the floor disappears an I'm back in the room with the 'HMM...' and 'WTF!?'. Not wanting to do through all of this again I return to the main hub and decide where I want to go.