"Oh, great. An infinite hallway of doors. If identical guys with suits start jumping out of doors, I'm out of here. Kung-fu lawyers are the worst kind of lawyers."
"Or maybe we're inside the throat of a giant space worm and it's trying to get us down towards its stomach."
"You know, there's a quick way of solving this problem. I could just have all the doors plasmaed with one sweep and destroy everything useful and unleash everything nasty hiding behind them. Of course, some of those nasties might take considerable effort to defeat, so that is probably a bad idea. Guess we'll have to take them a few at a time."
"I mean, it makes sense. The environment is acting all weird. Walls are indestructible. Even the security camera feeds seem wrong. But our camera feeds remain fine. Unaltered. Even that guy only got possessed by coming in contact with something strange in the environment."
"Whatever this is probably not directly related to our minds. It must be external. Something modifying reality here. Maybe some sort of teleportation experiment gone wrong, something that would merge different realities? Or some sort of alien entity? The eater or something that came along with it? Whatever. Let's just hope that the modification won't spread to us as long as we stay away from weird stuff and get out of here quickly."
@Comrade P.: "Can you check if someone can see you from the security room feeds? Wave at the camera or something, if there is one? It might tell us a bit more about how this distortion works.
Although now that I think about it, it would be a bit disturbing if they had cameras in their showers or whatever this is. Whatever was bolted down there is gone now, so there's probably little chance of finding out what was going on there. Only other thing worth checking might be the drain, although I doubt you'll find something in there."
1. Is the next hallway melting? Or is it completely normal, complete with normal lights and stuff?
2. Any cameras in it visible?
3. And when you say vanishes to the horizon, do you mean because it follows the planet's curvature or because and hides behind it? Or does it continue so far away that its end is impossible to see?
4. Can I see through the doors there? Or are they also opaque to CamEyes?
5. Any of the nearby doors big enough for me to get through?
6. Also check for signals. Any radio transmissions, radio stations, beacons or wi-fi access points visible beyond those of my teammates?
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But, pray tell, how can I have opened the door if I wasn't there?
And I did open the door. After all, the GM is always right!
OUT! OUT DEMON! I BANISH YOU!
I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU.
Decapitate the demon and put it in an artifact container. Hellfire should make a good renewable energy source. Unless hell has been consumed by a thermophage.
It seems completely normal. Well, except for the fact that it's infinite.
None.
It continues so far that you can't see the end.
Everything is. This place is stubbornly ignoring your expanded seeing capacity.
All of them, assuming you crawl.
There's a steady background buzz on the radio, but otherwise nothing.
"It doesn't seem like there is a camera, yeah. So we'll just check the drain and we're out."
- Hey guys, check it, will ya, I'm going to see if security room is still "normal".
Pop out and peek into security room. Is it stretched out too or not? After that, get back to where the people are crowding at.
The security room is the same as when you left it.
Scratch the objects in the control room with one of my knives to see if they are invincible like the walls and doors. (keyboard, chairs, console itself etc.)
If they are indeed invincible, attempt to steal a normally removable or dismantle-able piece of equipment or furniture such as the keyboard or a wheelie chair.
With the mandatory kleptomania out of the way, head into the newly opened hallway and cautiously begin peeking into rooms until I see something of interest.
They appear to be. In fact, the keys on the keyboard scratch your knife when you scrape it along their edge. That's disconcerting.
Well, the keyboard is hard wired to the computer which is bolted to the ground, but the desk chair can be wheeled out. You do so, wheeling it out into the hall. That's when things get weird. When you look back, there's still a chair in that room. And there's now a chair out in the hall with you; both exist simultaneously.
"Aw man, Lavoisier is gonna be pissed."
Make a little program using helmet rangefinder sensor and trig to measure level of spatial distortion in surroundings. Share it with everyone. ((this thing simply checks curvature of the space between 3 points by calculating the sum of interior angles. Using the rangefinder to scan across FOV you can build a map of levels of spatial distortion in the area you see. Given the non-euclidean spaces, maybe there's something going on here. I'm reasonably sure we do have such sensors, I think they've been used before))
"Hey guys, I coded up a new view mode that calculates and displays the level of spatial distortion around you. Figure it might be useful what with the overlapping rooms."
The problem with that is the spatial distortion is, at least so far, not obvious. Two rooms that should intersecting but aren't isn't the sort of thing easily measured using simple visual input. At least not without higher brain functions to realize that this shit don't fly.
I should clarify what I meant was to collect all his body parts and then just keep his brain inside my portable brain compartment, not reattach it to the guy's body. If the brain starts trying to mindfuck me while it's in there, spit it out and squish it.
Alright, gathered and stored.
Stand well away from the others, preferably in an indestructible room with nothing in it, and hold two of the sullen moon nyartifact stones, gradually moving them near to one another, but not letting them touch. Observe. Try to pick two stones that seem to have shared an edge.
"I'm going to test something, guys, so stand back. I'm not likely to do anything else useful for a while, and knowing what this does might help us get the hell out, so don't whinge about it."
You get the two stones fairly close, about 8 inches apart. The stones seem to glow slightly and you can feel them trying to pull themselves together, like two large magnets.
"Maybe the most logical thing to do in this situation is to go deeper into the belly of the beast."
Get the **** out of the observation room.
"Sir Flint, are there any more rooms, doors or corridors that need exploring?"
Open up mapping tool, mark the areas already explored and leave digital breadcrumbs on spots where we've been.
Done. Should be easy to remember; you've explored 2 rooms and a section of hall so far. But kudos for forethought, Theseus.
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