NOSTALGIC MINIATURE GARDEN: LEVEL OBSERVED WITHIN THE BACKROOMS, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS LEVEL 42 N. THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITHIN THIS SPACE FOLLOWING EXPLORATION IN NON-CROWDED AREA PRESENT IN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
LEVEL STRUCTURE CONSISTS ENVIRONMENTS FOUND IN JAPANESE PROVINCIAL CITIES, INCLUDING BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND RURAL AREAS. TEMPORAL FIXATION IN EITHER THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OR LATTER END OF A BRIGHT CYCLE HAS BEEN OBSERVED THROUGHOUT THE LEVEL. PRIMARY ENTRYPOINT INTO LEVEL 42 N IS USUALLY THE INTERIOR OF A RESIDENTIAL HOME, THOUGH OUTDOOR ENTRYPOINTS SUCH AS ROADS FOR IN RECREATION GROUNDS HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED. USEFUL RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT THIS LEVEL, THOUGH THEY ARE NOT RESUPPLIED AFTER USE.
ITEMS AND STRUCTURES UNIQUE TO THIS LEVEL HAVE BEEN OBSERVED BY THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER. THESE OBJECTS ARE ANOMALOUS IN NATURE, WITH VARYING DEGREES OF RISK WHEN ENCOUNTERED. SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLES ARE DOCUMENTED BELOW.
OUT-OF-PLACE OBJECT: NOMENCLATURE ASSIGNED BASED ON ITS DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF OTHERNESS WITHIN LEVEL 42 N. ACTUAL APPEARANCE VARIES GREATLY BETWEEN INSTANCES. MANIFESTATION OF ENTITIES OR DAYDREAM PHENOMENON DESCRIBED LATER OFTEN FOLLOW ACQUISITION OF THESE ITEMS AND EVEN HAVE A RARE CHANCE TO CAUSE DISAPPEARANCE. THEREFORE, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO AVOID THESE OUT-OF-PLACE OBJECTS.
TUNNEL: ARTIFICIALLY BUILT PASSAGE OFTEN SIGHTED WITHIN FORESTRIES AND MOUNTAINS IN THE LEVEL, THOUGH THEY OCCASIONALLY APPEAR IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND COMMERCIAL FACILITIES, EMBEDDED DESPITE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS. TUNNEL APPEARANCE IS WORN AND DIMLY LIT, WITH COOL AIR EMITTING OUTWARD, AND SOUNDS SIMILAR TO A MUFFLED VOICE CAN BE OCCASIONALLY HEARD. ANOMALOUS PROPERTIES MANIFEST IF THE TUNNEL IS OBSERVED OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH WANDERERS' CONSCIOUSNESS TAKE ON A FUGUE STATE, IMPAIRING ABILITY OF JUDGEMENT AND OFTEN LEADS TO WANDERERS ATTEMPTING TO ENTER THE TUNNELS. AS NO DOCUMENTATION ON THE TUNNEL'S INTERIOR HAS BEEN MADE, IT IS ASSUMED WANDERERS HAVE DISAPPEARED WHEN ENTERING THE PASSAGEWAY. THEREFORE, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO AVOID APPROACHING THE TUNNELS OR VIEWING ITS INTERIOR FOR TOO LONG.
UNUSUAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS: LIGHT-SIGNALING DEVICE FOUND ON THE BRIGHT STAGE, COMMONLY UTILIZED TO CONTROL FLOW OF VEHICLE MOVEMENT. OFTEN SIGHTED ON ROADS OF LEVEL 42 N, THOUGH THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS ALSO OBSERVED THEM EMBEDDED INTO WALLS, STRUCTURES, AND EVEN WITHIN BUILDING INTERIORS. INSTANCES DEVIATE FROM THEIR BRIGHT STAGE COUNTERPART IN VARYING WAYS, EXAMPLES INCLUDING ALL LIGHTS BEING COLORED GREEN RATHER THAN ONE OR A TRAFFIC LIGHT POSSESSING MORE THAN THE STANDARD THREE. UTILIZING ROADS WHERE THESE UNUSUAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE LOCATED OFTEN RESULT IN FATAL VEHICLE INCIDENTS, EVEN IF THE ROAD WAS EMPTY BEFORE APPROACHING. AVOIDING ROADS WHERE UNUSUAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE SIGHTED IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED IF TRAVELING ON FOOT, THOUGH RIDING IN A VEHICLE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWERS THE CHANCE OF ENCOUNTERING ANY INSTANCES.
REPLACED ROADS: MANIFESTS PRIMARILY IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND OCCASIONALLY AT THE BORDERS OF FORESTS AND MOUNTAINS. APPEARANCE IS DIMLY LIT AND NEAR INVISIBLE WHEN VIEWED AT A DISTANCE. THIS IS DUE TO THE SPACE'S PROPERTY OF LIGHT ABSORPTION, RENDING LIGHT SOURCES USELESS. DISAPPEARANCES ARE COMMON WITHIN THESE SPACES, AND UNUSUAL OBJECTS UNIQUE TO LEVEL 42 N ARE OFTEN SIGHTED WITHIN. THESE SPACES REPLACE NON-ANOMALOUS ROADS OVER TIME, THEIR MANIFESTATION EASILY NOTED BY STRANGE OBJECTS SURROUNDING IT, INCLUDING SIGNS WITH BROKEN TEXT OR STATUES DISPLAYING THEIR BACK TO ONLOOKERS.
POSTED SIGN SPACE: RARELY APPEARS IN RESIDENTIAL HOMES WITHIN THE LEVEL. SPACE IS COVERED WITH A NUMBER OF TAGS, WRITTEN IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE THAT IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF JAPANESE. ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE THESE TAGS FROM THE SPACE HAVE ALL BEEN MET WITH FAILURE. NO ANOMALOUS PHENOMENON OR OBJECTS OCCUR WHEN A WANDERER IS PRESENT IN THIS SPACE, SAVE FOR THE DAYDREAM PHENOMENON. LONG-TERM STAY WITHIN THIS SPACE IS NOT RECOMMENDED DUE TO THIS.
SHRINE: RARELY OBSERVED WITHIN THIS LEVEL. RESEMBLES THAT OF A JAPANESE SHRINE, THOUGH CONGLOMERATION OF RELIGIOUS ICONS HAS BEEN NOTED THROUGHOUT THE SPACE. APPEARANCE IS DIMLY LIT AND ALMOST FADED, EVEN IF A BRIGHT LIGHT IS SHINED ON IT, AND THE INSIDE IS DEVOID OF NOISE. NUMEROUS CRAWLING ENTITIES CAN BE OBSERVED TO MANIFEST WITHIN THIS SPACE, THOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN IF THEY ARE HOSTILE TO WANDERERS. RUMORS ARE PRESENT REGARDING THE SHRINE'S ABILITY TO HALT THE DAYDREAM PHENOMENON, THOUGH THERE ARE NO OTHER DETAILS REGARDING THIS.
DAYDREAM DISPLACEMENT: PHENOMENON UNIQUE TO THIS LEVEL, IN WHICH SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT OCCURS TO SHIFT LEVEL APPEARANCE TO RESEMBLE AREAS SIMILAR TO THAT OF A WANDERER'S ORIGINAL HOMETOWN, INCLUDING FIGURES THE WANDERER IS FAMILIAR WITH. ONSET OF SYMPTOMS SUCH AS NOSTALGIA, RELIEF, AND DESPAIR HAVE BEEN OBSERVED BY THE AFFECTED, ALONG WITH THE BELIEF THAT THEY HAVE ESCAPED FROM THE BACKROOMS TO THE BRIGHT STAGE. DAYDREAM DISPLACEMENT OCCURS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, THE EXACT PROCEDURES LARGELY BEING UNKNOWN. TESTIMONIES FROM AFFECTED WANDERERS WHO HAVE MANAGED TO ESCAPE THIS SPACE HAVE GENERALLY STATED THEY BELIEVED EVERYTHING WOULD BE FULFILLED. IT IS UNKNOWN WHAT EXACTLY THIS STATEMENT REFERS TO.
THE ROTWATCHER WAS OBSERVED TO BE PARTIALLY AFFECTED BY THIS PHENOMENON. LEVEL WAS OBSERVED TO MAINLY INCORPORATE DETAILS BASED OFF OF KNOWLEDGE DERIVED FROM THE LOST PROGENITOR, THOUGH ELEMENTS OBSERVED FROM THE ROTWATCHER'S ORIGIN POINT IN THE GRAND STAGE ARE ALSO PRESENT. CONGLOMERATION OF THESE TWO TYPES OF ELEMENTS CREATES AN OVERALL UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. THE TERRAIN CREATED FROM THIS CONGLOMERATION RESULTED IN DIFFICULTY FOR GROUND ENTITIES TO TRAVERSE THROUGHOUT THE LEVEL, THOUGH THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER WAS ABLE TO AVOID THIS ISSUE ON ACCOUNTS OF ITS FLOATATION.
PRESENCE OF TWO TYPES OF ENTITIES NATIVE TO THIS LEVEL HAVE BEEN OBSERVED, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS CRAWLERS AND THE STALKER. DETAILED INFORMATION ON THESE TWO TYPES IS DOCUMENTED BELOW.
CRAWLERS: APPEARANCE RESEMBLES THAT OF DECEASED BODIES OF VARYING BRIGHT FAUNA, INCLUDING THOSE OF BRIGHT COUSINS. CRAWLERS ARE NOT OBSERVED TO ATTACK WANDERERS AND THEREFORE POSSESS NO PHYSICAL DANGER TO THEM; HOWEVER, THEIR APPEARANCE IS OBSERVED TO POSSIBLY IMPOSE MENTAL DAMAGE TO THEM. COMBINED WITH THE PRESENT DIFFICULTY IN DISTINGUISHING THEM FROM THE STALKER ENTITY, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO AVOID INTERACTION WITH THESE ENTITIES.
STALKER: NO COMMON DESIGNATION IS GIVEN TO THIS ENTITY, WITH ROTWATCHER-ASSIGNED NOMENCLATURE BASED ON THE ENTITY'S BEHAVIOR OF FOLLOWING THE WANDERER. MANIFESTS WHEN CERTAIN ACTIONS ARE PERFORMED OR IF AFOREMENTIONED UNUSUAL ITEMS HAVE BEEN INTERACTED WITH. END-STATE OF STALKER INTERACTION WITH WANDERERS OFTEN LEADS TO HARM AND EVEN DEATH. APPEARANCE OF STALKER VARIES DEPENDING ON WANDERER, WITH NO TWO STALKER INSTANCES POSSESSING THE EXACT SAME APPEARANCE. BASED ON ITS HOSTILE DEMEANOR, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO KEEP DISTANCE AWAY FROM IT.
THE ROTWATCHER WAS ABLE TO OBSERVE WHAT IT INITIALLY ASSUMED TO BE ITS OWN STALKER ENTITY. ENTITY APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOR WAS OBSERVED TO EXACTLY RESEMBLE THE UNUSUAL CLEANER BACK IN LEVEL 763 N. BEHAVIOR WAS ALSO CONSISTENT TO WHAT IT RESEMBLES, WITH IT APPROACHING THE ROTWATCHER WITH A SERIES OF INSISTENT-SOUNDING BEEPS. THOUGH THE ENTITY'S ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WAS LIMITED BY ITS OWN NATURE, THE ROTWATCHER WAS ABLE TO OBSERVE ITS BEEPING SOUNDS WERE ATTEMPTING TO COMMUNICATE SOME FORM OF RECOGNITION.
THEREFORE, THOUGH NO OTHER EVIDENCE IS PRESENT TO SUPPORT THIS HYPOTHESIS, THE ROTWATCHER THEORIZES THIS ENTITY DOES NOT JUST RESEMBLE THE UNUSUAL CLEANER, BUT IS IN FACT THE ORIGINAL UNUSUAL CLEANER BACK IN LEVEL 763 N. FURTHER STUDY OF THIS, INCLUDING HOW THE CLEANER WAS ABLE TO UNDERGO LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE IF PROVEN TRUE, IS NECESSARY. THE ROTWATCHER WILL REFER TO THIS ENTITY AS THE UNUSUAL CLEANER FOR THE REST OF THIS DOCUMENTATION.
THE UNUSUAL CLEANER WAS OBSERVED TO TRAIL BEHIND THE ROTWATCHER AS THE LATTER CONTINUED ITS EXPLORATION IN THE LEVEL. NOTABLY, IT WAS ABLE TO PERCEIVE DETAILS BROUGHT ON BY THE PHENOMENON THE SUBJECTED ROTWATCHER WAS EXPERIENCING. THE UNUSUAL CLEANER WAS OBSERVED TO INVESTIGATE MANY DETAILS BROUGHT ON BY BOTH THE LOST PROGENITOR'S KNOWLEDGE AND ELEMENTS OF THE ROTWATCHER'S GRAND STAGE, AND BEHAVIOR WAS NOTED TO BE MUCH MORE SUBDUED THAN USUAL WHILE DOING SO. THE REASON FOR THIS BEHAVIOR IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN.
FURTHER EXPLORATION WAS THEN ABRUPTLY HALTED BY THE EMERGENCE OF A GENUINE STALKER ENTITY, WHOSE APPEARANCE RESEMBLED THAT OF A PALE-SKINNED FEMALE BRIGHT COUSIN, CLOTHED IN A WHITE DRESS AND HOLDING A HAMMER TOOL AND A SHARP WOODEN POST. DESPITE ITS VISUAL ORGANS BEING OBSCURED, THE STALKER WAS OBSERVED TO SPOT BOTH THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER AND THE UNUSUAL CLEANER IMMEDIATELY AND BEGIN PURSUANCE OF BOTH. THE ROTWATCHER WAS OBSERVED TO ATTEMPT ESCAPE FROM THE ENTITY; HOWEVER, AS IT ALSO ATTEMPTED BRINGING THE UNUSUAL CLEANER ALONG, ITS PROGRESS WAS HINDERED SIGNIFICANTLY AND ALLOWED THE STALKER TO EASILY APPROACH THEM BOTH.
THE STALKER WAS NOTED TO BE FOCUSED SOLELY ON THE UNUSUAL CLEANER, IGNORING THE ROTWATCHER ALMOST ENTIRELY. DESPITE THERE BEING AN OPENING TO ESCAPE THE ENTITY AND FIND AN ENTRYWAY TO ANOTHER LEVEL, THE ROTWATCHER INSTEAD PERFORMED THE ACTION OF COLLIDING WITH THE STALKER IN ATTEMPT TO DISTRACT THE LATTER. THIS RESULTED IN SUDDEN LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE, AND BY THE TIME THE SUBJECTED ROTWATCHER HAD RECOVERED TO NOTE ITS SURROUNDINGS, IT HAD FOUND ITSELF IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT LEVEL. NEITHER THE UNUSUAL CLEANER NOR THE STALKER ENTITY ARE PRESENT WITHIN THIS LEVEL, WITH THE CURRENT LOCATION OF BOTH REMAINING UNKNOWN.