Kay, so we're starting out today heading to the eye area, and seeing if we can't figure out what was up with that giant mouth monster thing. I just feel like there should be something in there.
...However, on the way there, the nexus had changed graphically again. Now it looks like a big chunk of... concrete? With the normal lines going off to the various areas. Innnteresting. Maybe the effects are re assmbling the nexus (her psyche? Maybe? Not really any solid proof for that, but it seems right, anyway.) or something along those lines? Hmm. Anyway.
So, no giant mouth door thing. We move on until we get back into the basement area. Past the plants, the snow area, meathook avenue, etc. On my way through I notice the flower that triggers the plantpocalypse tones and flashes like the flower in the temple, in the plant island segments. Hmmmm.
My future explorations of the bar area reveal nothing terribly interesting. Although I do find an elevator that previously wouldn't open entirely, and steel pipe it, and walla, it opens up. No doubt this will lead into a horrible nightmare world. Well... not quite.
We enter dock hell. For those that haven't played yume nikki for some reason, a "hell" is a way I'm using to refer to a large mazelike area, that is similar to the "hell" in yume nikki. In my wanderings in dock hell, I find a lady in a schoolgirl uniform without a (visible, at least) face. Let's see what she's got to say.
She teleports me to a school in a strangely logical move. Alrighty. Basically what you'd expect from a school area, students, they react to the handgun by walking away, and the pipe by walking away. No special death effects. One difference from school, namely posters involving mouths and bloody mouths on the wall. In one room there are students and a single teacher walled off from access with desks. If you take the pipe out, the teacher gets a sinister look on his face and pulls his own pipe out. He also apparently starts drooling blood too, like som eof the bloody mouth posters. Creepy.
More exploration reveals a place to change my menu theme, (Thanks to Lectorog for lettin me know, as a side note, I kinda zone out in these games, so it's possible I would've just skipped over em.) I end up going with the orange one. There's also a shoe cubby thing with a hole in it that looks oddly door shaped. I decide to save it for later, as I get the feeling it's gonna teleport me out of the school. I enter the door off to the left, this takes me out of the school with a way back in. And the shoe cubby hole isn't a door at all. Sigh. On to the bottom floor of the school I suppose. We appear to be on the second as a note. On this floor the posters are now open mouths. Huh. The floor is also a bit darker. I explore a bit, seems to be a storage basement, I end up finding someone that is the spitting image of sabit, except he's wearing male clothes and looks a tad psychotic. Maybe Sabitsuki is actually a dude? Hmm. I decide to come back to him later, because I KNOW he's gonna do something, and it's probably not gonna give me a path back. And I'm interested in this area damnit. I explore more, go down another floor (not the bottom apparently) and find a room where the music cuts out and the walls are lined with open mouth and bloody mouth posters. Creepy again.
I figure this place has a lot of teleporting out areas so I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet. I'm also a sucker for the music cutting out I guess. There's GOTTA BE something big in there.
It makes a scary noise (Made me jump seriously) and the rid grainy film is back. I'll have to come back to this later I guess. I'm beginning to think it ties into the rust mechanic, however that happens. Let's go see the sabitsuki lookalike. However, on the way back I notice a little sun mark on the wall before the sabitsuki lookalike. Let's check that out! I use the pipe to scare off the girl blocking the way to it, but I don't kill her. I'm not a monster (presumably).
Annnnd it does nothing. Sigh. Must just be decoration (/a placeholder). I head down to the sabit lookalike annnnnd....
It's an effect! Uniform. It replaces her white skirt with a black one, and the upper part, white shirt red tie. Not a dude, although it still kinda looks like she's wearing pants due to the model.
Back up a couple of floors. Let's see what else this sucker has to offer. In one of the rooms there's a rust monster locked up behind desks. It's non aggressive. I go into the central room and HOLY BALLS. Giant white tendrils snaking out of the ground with eyes on them. Also eye posters. Also I'm beginning to think those "open mouth" posters weren't open mouths, but rather eye sockets with the eyes removed. I save this room for later, but wow.
In another room there's a teacher locked up behind a desk. He has a pipe and appears to be crying blood. More eye posters. They're also in the central hallway, but those eye posters aren't bleeding. We go up another floor aaaannnnd walk out onto the roof balcony. There appears to be a giant more detailed, faceless version of the "teacher". The background is also black with colored sections that look kind've artifacted. I think I'll rather take my chances with the eyeball tendrils.
I head back down to eyeball tendril room. Nothin much, they also have pulled out eyes/mouths on them too. One of them is blocking the way out. Back up to giant teacher. Annnnd he gives us the tattoo effect. Kind've "star" looking patterns around the eyes. Huh. For all the horrifying stuff in here it's fairly tame as far as crazy teleportation stuff goes. Let's head to the entrance of the school. The literal one, not back to dock hell.
It opens out into a street and I can't help but think this is going to end with me getting hit by a car. This game is making me paranoid. It does not however, and there is a subway staircase lookin thing that leads directly down into the street. Onward and downward. I head out into an area that looks like the outside of the hospital area, and immediately find my way into another area that can only be described as "abstract". I went straight in, then went up a staircase/traintrack lookin thing, for those of you keeping score at home. I enter the only door annnnddd.... there's the "teacher" guy if he is a teacher, in a room wtih a bed. With a small girl peeking out from behind him. Well, huh. Naturally the first thing I do is bust out the handgun and pipe and see what happens. Handgun, nothin, trying to pipe him lead to him moving around a tad, while a voice/chuckling noise played in the background, and a white/grey mouth appeared from out of him. His mouth also got bloody, and he closed his eyes. Freaky.
I carry on along in the back alley looking area, back into dock hell after interacting with a lit up street lamp. Lesse what else we got in here. I find a slime which gives me the slime effect. Turns madotsuki into a green slimey version of erself without legs. Shift makes you melt a little bit. I also find a giant red eyeball dude sticking out from under the water. He honestly looks more happy then threatening. He is a welcome sight after that school segment. Thank you eyeball thing.
I find a humanoid dude with a hole where his face should be. Talking to him takes me back to the base neon/music world with no way back once I left the little room he was in. Oh well. Let's take a more in depth tour of the music world. Nothin much in there, I eventually end up back in the white marble world, where I got arm, due to a series of world hops we've already done previously. I look around and eventually find something that honestly looks a little like the steam logo. I interact, and it "resolidifies" the world.
Unfortunatly, long story short, I can only seem to find other little symbols that solidify/desolidify the world. They all look different but nothing seems to hook up to anything important.
Then I got the idea. What if I hit them with a pipe. I interact with gun first, they don't react to it. And pipe.... Does nothing. Alas.
Enough for now I think. Interesting school segment, I'm kind've running out of ideas for progress, if anyone'd like to give (non direct spoilery, at least, cryptic at best) hints about where to go to find new stuff, please feel free!
Theorycrafting.
The school has a lot of "scary shit" and stuff that genuinely kind've unsettled me, and really, it's not that hard to see why, it's a thing that's touched on a lot, school is scary and hard for a lot of people, and it was probably hard on Sabitsuki as well, although probably more hard then most, as I never had nightmares about psychotic teachers and giant eyeball stalks and open mouth posters drooling blood/with broken teeth.
Horm.