The AntiChamber

Running Into Trouble

Down the hall I see a group of blue balls floating over the floor. There are a lot of them and they are all crammed together. The floor before and after them gets smaller. I forms into a narrow pathway that I could easily fall off of. At the end of the hall, the floor goes back to normal, right in front of a door on the other side. I walk down the hall and freeze when the balls turn green and expand slightly and start to move around. When I freeze, they return to the way they were before, blue and motionless. I start to walk again and they turn green again.

Once I'm on the narrow path, I start to walk slower. The balls continue to be green and move. One flies in front of my face and I lean back. I continue to walk one the narrow path. I start to walk faster, and the balls turn red and fly around fast. I have to constantly duck in order to avoid the balls. The path starts to disintegrate in front and behind me. I fall to the bottom of the gap beneath the path. I look around the room, in front of me is a ledge where the path is coming from. Behind me is another ledge that extends up to the other side the door is. The hall is more like a rectangle shaped room.

There's a picture on the wall behind me. I walk across the room and up to the black square. The are some people and they look to have fallen off the cliff. I press the square and read 'Rushing through a problem won't always give the right results'. I turn back around and on the other side of the room there is a hall with a door on the other side. I walk across the room and towards the door. When I'm almost to the door, the floor disappears and stairs appear. I walk down them and they lead me to a room that's under the floor.

In the room, there are keys from a keyboard all over the room. On the floor there's a Shift key. To my right, there's a W and farther down the wall there's an S key. On the left side, there is the A key and then in the middle of the wall there's the D key. On the ceiling there's the Space bar. I see that there are stairs on the other side of the room. I walk across the small narrow room. After I've walked up a couple of steps, I reach up towards the ceiling. My hand goes through the ceiling. I pull my hand back and continue to walk up the stairs. The ceiling starts to disappear around me as I make my way up.

Once I'm up the stairs I look around. I'm a small white rectangular room. On the wall in front of me there's one of those weird eye things. I continue to stare at it until it starts to blink and the wall disappears. Once it disappears I see two different halls. One in front and one to the left. The hall that is in front of me suddenly is blocked off my a black door. I look away and hear it rise up and I look back and it drops. It's just like that one door. I walk from the room and into the intersection. The hall is still blocked of for me. I turn to the left and see the black cube with white outlines that has the pendulum swinging back and forth. I spin around and see that the room has been replaced with a white wall and an eye in the center. I walk up to it and stare until the wall is no longer there. On the other side is the hallway with the blue floating balls. The room is gone and it's now replaced with the hall from the beginning.

I go back to the main hub not wanting to try and figure out what's up with that hall. When I get there I'm staring at the map like I usually do. Every time I come back here the map gets bigger and bigger. I can see the control wall out of the corner of my eye. The temptation to look at the timer on the wall is strong but I don't look at it. I focus my attention back on the map and press the square that was the first one from the start. The room I usually go to when I don't know where else to go. When it enlarges it still says 'Leap of Faith' at the top and the room still has the floating word 'WALK' in the gap.

When I press 'press to go here' the world around me goes black and then I'm in the room before I can comprehend that the world just blacked out. I walk and peak over the edge. It's still a long drop down but I'm curious. 'How we perceive a problem can change every time we see it' I want to see if that could be applied here. I start to walk until I'm about in the center of the hole. I close my eyes and jump, I feel the small platform disappearing and how it doesn't come back once I start falling. Air rushes past and I keep my eyes shut until I can feel solid ground under my feet again.

Nothing has changed since the last time I was here. I lift my arm up ready to go back, but then I change my mind at the last second. I walk towards the hall and look around the pitch black hall. When I look to my right the corners of the wall are still outlined in white. I look at the hall that I stand in and wonder why it doesn't have those outlines. I slowly start to walk forwards and stop when I'm in front of what should be nothing but a wall. I reach my hand out and there's nothing there, just air. I take another step forwards with my arm still reached out in front of me.

Eventually my hand comes in contact with a hard solid surface, a wall. I pitch black and I can't see anything around me. I spin around and see the white room, there's also a white ring on the far back wall. I turn back around only to be stopped by a bright white ring on the wall. I stare at it hoping for something to happen. I look back at the ring in the white room and try to see what the two have in common. I see how the first one is aligned with the hall that I'm currently in. I look back at the other ring and assume that it points in the direction of the next hall. I turn and face the blackness that the ring is pointing towards. I shakely take a step forwards and there's nothing there. I'm afraid that I will crash into another wall or that the hall will have a turn and I'll be lost. I look back at the ring and slowly walk backwards making sure that I don't look away. I reach my left arm out making sure that my fingers are constantly brushing the wall. After a while the wall haveshes and I can't feel the wall anymore. I pause and fight the urge to look at what is making the gap. I don't dare look at the new gap in fear that when I look back the ring will be gone and I'll be lost.

I stare at the ring and continue to walk backwards until my back hits a wall. I slowly look around to see if there's another ring, always making sure I can see the ring in the corner of my eye. I spot a ring to my left and slowly turn to face it. I walk backwards staring at the ring until my back hits another wall. I look again and find another ring to my right. So far I've taken a left turn, a right turn, and another left turn.

I walk backwards again staring at the ring. I see the wall to my left starts fading into red. I walk backwards until I can see a bright white room to the left. I turn away from the rings and look at the room. The wall fade from black to red to yellow to white. When the hall turn white there's a picture on the left side. I walk into the hall and straight to the picture. On the square there's a rocket soaring through space. Once I press it I see the sentence appear, 'Venturing into the unknown can lead to great rewards'.

I turn back to the hallway to get a better look at it. In the middle if the hall there are two dark blue circles outlines on the roof and the floor. They both fade into a light blue and then into the white of the hall. I walk until I'm standing in the middle of the two. On either side there's a giant window and a room on the other side of that window. To my left the window is tinted a dark gray and like my watch it has small particles moving around. On the other side I can see a black hallway that looks like it's a rounded square. There are white rings every so often that gives the hall that affect. At the end it take a turn, in what direction, I don't know. The part of the hall that's closer to me fades to a purple and then into a white. It turns in the direction of the hall.

I look to my right and into the other room. In front of me right in the middle is a white square that has a flower like design in the middle. There is a white pole on the top and the bottom of the square keeping it from falling. I step to the side to get a better look at the room. In the middle of the room there are dark blue circles that fade into the white, like the circle outlines that I'm standing on, except they are fully filled in. There are also light blue full circles on the side walls. On the back wall there's a green laser and a green drop door behind it. The door is being held up by what looks to be a small blue cube.

In the middle of the room, in the center of the two dark blue circles there is a three tier diamond shaped pyramid. The top face of each cube is a blue the matches the dark blue circles. The other visible faces are all white. Floating on top of the pyramid is what appears to be a gun of some sort. Theres a large blue circle with a handle to hold it by and a trigger under it. At the front there's a place to shoot items out of it. The gun is dark blue and white, matching the room.