DEEP SKY COMPLEX: LEVEL OBSERVED WITHIN THE BACKROOMS, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS LEVEL 314 N. THE ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN THIS SPACE FOLLOWING INTERACTION WITH VOID-CONSUMPTION FOOD FOUND IN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
LEVEL STRUCTURE RESEMBLES THAT OF A KNOWN BRIGHT-BUILD VOID STRUCTURE KNOWN AS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, CONSISTING OF RESEARCH AND LIVING FACILITIES IRREGULARLY CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER IN ENDLESS DIRECTIONS. HOWEVER, LEVEL 314 N DEVIATES SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ON THE BRIGHT STAGE, IN THAT THE FORMER IS SUBMERGED IN AN UNDERWATER OCEAN, RATHER THAN THE VOID. TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONDITIONS REMAIN FIXED AND ARE OBSERVED TO NEVER FLUCTUATE FROM THEIR SET LEVELS. SURFACE ENVIRONMENT IS ENTIRELY CLEAN, WITH NO DUST PARTICLES OR HAIR FOLLICLES PRESENT. GENTLE AIR MOVEMENT BLOWS IN A CONSISTENT DIRECTION THROUGHOUT THE LEVEL, AND LIGHTING WITHIN IN THIS SPACE EMITS A PALE BLUE GLOW.
PHENOMENON NATIVE TO THIS LEVEL HAS BEEN OBSERVED BY THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER, IN WHICH ENTITIES AND OBJECTS, THE LATTER OF WHICH INCLUDES THOSE BROUGHT IN BY WANDERERS, ARE ENTIRELY UNAFFECTED BY GRAVITY, LETTING THEM FLOAT IN AIR. WANDERERS ARE ENTIRELY EXCLUDED FROM THIS EFFECT, LEAVING THEM FIXED ON THE GROUND. THIS OFTEN LEADS TO WANDERERS' BELONGINGS EXITING THEIR POCKETS AND BEING STRANDED MID-AIR. TO PREVENT THIS, WANDERERS SHOULD STORE THEIR BELONGINGS IN A PORTABLE CONTAINER PREFERABLY WITH STRAPS.
PRESENCE OF MULTIPLE TYPES OF ENTITIES NATIVE TO THIS LEVEL HAS BEEN OBSERVED. FURTHER DETAILS ON THESE ENTITIES ARE DOCUMENTED BELOW.
FISH ENTITIES: ABLE TO SWIM THROUGH THE AIR AS IF IT WERE WATER. VARIOUS SPECIES OF FISH HAVE BEEN RECORDED, SIMILAR TO THOSE ON THE BRIGHT STAGE, THOUGH LARGE SPECIES HAVE NOT BEEN OBSERVED. MOST SPECIES OF FISH ENTITIES CAN BE EASILY CAUGHT USING A NET TRAP AND CAN BE CONSUMED AS A FOOD SOURCE, THOUGH IT IS RECOMMENDED TO NOT CONSUME THEM RAW. SOURCE OF THESE ENTITIES IS UNKNOWN, THOUGH THERE IS SPECULATION THEY ORIGINATED OUTSIDE THE STATION.
SPACESUIT: APPEARANCE RESEMBLES THAT OF UNIFORMS WORN BY BRIGHT COUSINS STATIONED IN THE VOID. MOVEMENT SUGGESTS A BRIGHT COUSIN IS OPERATING WITHIN AS IT SWIMS THROUGHOUT THE LEVEL; HOWEVER, OBSERVATION OF ITS INTERIOR REVEALS ONLY A LARGE AMOUNT OF LIQUID RESEMBLING WATER INSIDE. BEHAVIOR CONSISTS OF INTENT OBSERVATION OF FISH ENTITIES, PARTICULARLY FLYING FISH RAISED IN EXPERIMENT ZONES, REPAIRING OF LIGHTNING EQUIPMENT IN THE LIVING AREA, AND OCCASIONAL GAZES OUTSIDE THE INTERIOR USING THE WINDOWS. USING FORCE AGAINST THIS ENTITY HAS THE CHANCE OF RELOCATION TO A DANGEROUS LEVEL, SO THIS ACTION IS NOT RECOMMENDED. THE ROTWATCHER WAS ONLY ABLE TO OBSERVE THE INSIDES OF THE SPACESUIT WHEN IT REMOVED ITS OWN HELMET, PERFORMING AN ACTION SIMILAR TO THAT OF WIPING AWAY SWEAT FLUIDS BEFORE PLACING IT BACK ON.
AS THE ROTWATCHER EXPLORED THIS LEVEL, IT HAS OBSERVED WINDOW VIEW BECOMING SLIGHTLY DARKER OVER TIME. THIS CHANGE IN LIGHTING GIVES THE IMPRESSION OF THE STATION SLOWLY SINKING DEEPER INTO AN OCEAN. AS OF DOCUMENTATION, THE BLUE TINT IS NOTICEABLY DARKER THAN WHEN THE ROTWATCHER FIRST RELOCATED TO THIS LEVEL.
THE ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO ENCOUNTER ANOTHER WANDERER. UNLIKE MOST, THIS WANDERER IS ABLE TO PERCEIVE THE ROTWATCHER, EXPRESSING CONFUSION AT ITS APPEARANCE. NOTICEABLY, APPEARANCE IS AN EXACT MATCH TO THE SIGNIFICANT WANDERER OBSERVED IN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
THE ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO APPROACH THE WANDERER CAREFULLY, IN ORDER TO DIRECTLY ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION. THE WANDERER REACTS WITH FURTHER CONFUSION AT THE ROTWATCHER'S ACTIONS BUT SEEMS TO ALLOW THIS TO OCCUR. ONCE CLOSE ENOUGH, THE ROTWATCHER MANAGES TO PRESS ITS TENDRILS INTO THE WANDERER, ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION. THROUGH THIS, THE ROTWATCHER LEARNS OF THE WANDERER'S DESIGNATION OF JJ.
woah, what the fuck? what is this?
THE ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO TRANSMIT A MESSAGE INFORMING JJ OF ITSELF, INCLUDING ITS SELF-ASSIGNED NOMENCLATURE AND CURRENT SITUATION. JJ IS OBSERVED TO RELAX SOMEWHAT, THOUGH WARINESS IS EVIDENT IN THE GLANCES THEY SEND TO THE ROTWATCHER'S TENDRILS.
oh... wow.
sorry, this is all just unexpected, uh- hi, i guess?
i don't think i've ever seen someone- something- like you before.
those tendrils, though- they kinda look like the ones squids have. it's pretty cute, gotta say.
THIS MARKS THE FIRST OCCASION IN WHICH THE ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN REFERRED TO AS 'CUTE'. JJ NOTABLY EXPRESSES AMUSEMENT AT THE ROTWATCHER'S TRANSMITTED REACTION TO THIS SENTIMENT.
IT IS THEN THE ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO SENSE A SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN JJ. DETAILS ARE OBSCURED DUE TO NOT CONNECTING COMPLETELY WITH JJ, BUT PATTERNS OF THIS SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS DO NOT ALIGN WITH STANDARD BRIGHT COUSIN CONSCIOUSNESSES, BASED ON PREVIOUS DATA FROM THE EXCEPTION AND THE CURRENT JJ. INSTEAD, PATTERNS ARE OBSERVED TO ALIGN CLOSER TO MARINE LIFE, BASED ON DATA GATHERED IN THE PREVIOUS LEVEL BY THE ROTWATCHER.
PERHAPS IN RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT ROTWATCHER'S REACTION TO THIS DISCOVERY, JJ IS OBSERVED TO SHIFT IN TERMS OF DEMEANOR, NO LONGER APPEARING AS NERVOUS AS BEFORE. INSTEAD, A COLD, SERENE SMILE IS OBSERVED TO EMERGE ON JJ'S FACIAL FEATURES.
oh... you sense it, don't you? or rather, you sense me? us?
THE SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS PRESSES FORCEFULLY INTO THE ROTWATCHER WITH WHAT IT CAN ONLY INTERPRET AS MALICIOUS INTENT.
malicious? oh no, we wouldn't say that.
it's more like... we're bringing you back home, returning you to your origin.
doesn't that sound nice? don't you wish to return to me?
THE SOUNDS OF OCEANIC WAVES ACCOMPANY JJ'S VOCALIZATIONS NOW. AUDIO OF THE WAVES IS REPORTED TO INCREASE IN VOLUME, POSSIBLY SIGNIFYING AN ONCOMING EVENT THAT WILL FUNDAMENTALLY TRANFORM THE ROTWATCHER INTO SOMETHING ELSE. DUE TO ITS PREFERENCE TO ITS CURRENT STATE OF BEING, THE ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO CEASE DIRECT COMMUNICATION AND ATTEMPT ESCAPE.
wh- hey! come back!
DARK-BLUE TENDRILS SEEMINGLY EMERGE FROM WINDOWS, REACHING OUT FOR THE ROTWATCHER AS IT PASSES. IT IS PRESUMED THESE TENDRILS ARE DIRECTLY CONTROLLED BY JJ THROUGH AN UNSEEN MECHANISM. JJ HIMSELF IS OBSERVED TO DIRECTLY PURSUE THE ROTWATCHER, MOST LIKELY IN RESPONSE TO IT FLEEING. MOVEMENT DURING THIS PURSUANCE CARRIES A NOTE OF RELUCTANCE, AS IF EITHER JJ OR THE SECOND CONSCIOUSNESS IS HESITANT TO ACTUALLY CAPTURE THE ROTWATCHER. THE ROTWATCHER THEORIZES THIS TO BE THE CASE FOR THE FORMER.
DURING THIS ATTEMPTED ESCAPE, THE ROTWATCHER SIGHTS A FISH ENTITY RESEMBLING A CARP WITH UNUSUAL EXTERIOR COLORS. DUE TO ITS CURRENT DIRE SITUATIONS, THE ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO LATCH ONTO THE ENTITY ON INSTINCT, THEORIZING IT TO FUNCTION AS AN ENTRYWAY. THIS THEORY IS QUICKLY PROVEN AS SUDDEN LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE OCCURS, TRANSPORTING THE ROTWATCHER TO AN OUTDOOR PUBLIC POOL AREA. JJ IS NOT OBSERVED TO FOLLOW, SUGGESTING THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO UTILIZE THE ENTRYWAY ALONG WITH THE ROTWATCHER.