BLUE PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEX: LEVEL OBSERVED WITHIN THE BACKROOMS, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS LEVEL 500 N. THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITHIN THIS SPACE FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION OF A NON-DESCRIPT BUILDING FOUND IN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
LEVEL STRUCTURE CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEXES AND OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL AREAS. OVERALL LEVEL APPEARANCE CONTAINS A BLUISH TINT, AND WEATHER IS PERPETUALLY OVERCAST. A TIME CYCLE SEEMS TO EXIST WITHIN THIS LEVEL, THOUGH NO BRIGHT-CYCLE END HAS BEEN REPORTED AS A DIM LIGHT IS ALWAYS PRESENT. THESE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OFTEN LEAD TO WANDERERS FIRST ENCOUNTERING THIS LEVEL TO LOSE THEIR TEMPORAL SENSES.
LEVEL SEEMS TO EXERT SPATIAL INFLUENCE MEANT TO EVOKE FEELINGS OF NOSTALGIA IN WANDERERS IN BEARING SIMILARITIES TO STRUCTURES FOUND ON THE BRIGHT STAGE. THESE FEELINGS CAN BE AMPLIFIED DEPENDING ON PREVIOUS LEVEL AND MAY EVEN INSTILL A FALSE BELIEF THAT THE SUBJECTED WANDERER HAS RETURNED TO THE BRIGHT STAGE. THEREFORE, SUSPICION MUST BE PRACTICED IF EMERGING FROM ANOTHER LEVEL TO AN AREA FILLED WITH HOUSING COMPLEXES.
THREE MAJOR TYPES OF STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITHIN THIS SPACE. DETAILS ON EACH ARE LISTED BELOW.
PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEXES: ARCHITECTURE RESEMBLES THOSE FOUND IN EASTERN BRIGHT-COUNTRIES SUCH AS JAPAN AND CHINA. ALTHOUGH THE GROUND FLOOR OF EACH COMPLEX TENDS TO HOUSE PARKING SPACES FOR BRIGHT VEHICLES, NO ACTUAL TRANSPORTATION DEVICES HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. INDIVIDUAL COMPLEXES CARRY A MAXIMUM OF FIFTEEN FLOORS, WITH MANY ROOMS ON EACH BEING INHABITED BY HEADLESS COUSIN ENTITIES. UNOCCUPIED ROOMS CAN FUNCTION AS BASES FOR WANDERERS, AND AS LONG AS THEY DISPLAY CONSIDERATION TOWARDS NATIVE ENTITIES, RETRIEVAL OF RESOURCES CAN BE OBTAINED.
PLAZAS: DESIGNATION FOR LARGE PUBLIC SPACES IN THE OUTDOORS, LOCATED ADJACENT TO PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEXES. BENCHES AND AUTOMATED DISPENSERS FOR ALMOND LIQUID ARE PRESENT, THE LATTER OF WHICH FUNCTION IF A SINGLE DISC CURRENCY IS INSERTED INTO ITS RESPECTIVE SLOT. HEADLESS COUSINS CAN BE FOUND WITHIN THESE SPACES, AND OFTENTIMES WANDERERS WILL FIRST ENCOUNTER THEM HERE.
PARKS: OUTDOOR RECREATION SPACES SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PLAZAS. TYPICALLY CONTAINS ENRICHMENT STRUCTURES SUCH AS SANDPITS AND SUSPENDED SWINGING SEATS, THOUGH OCCASIONALLY STRUCTURES WITH NO KNOWN FUNCTION OR PURPOSE HAS BEEN OBSERVED. YOUNG HEADLESS COUSINS CAN BE FOUND UTILIZING EQUIPMENT WITHIN THIS SPACE AND WILL SOMETIMES INVITE PASSING WANDERERS TO JOIN THEM. THESE YOUNG HEADLESS COUSINS WILL CEASE THIS BEHAVIOR AND RETURN TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEXES ONCE ADULT HEADLESS COUSINS ALSO RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN DIRECTION, AS DETAILED LATER.
HEADLESS COUSINS ARE A COMMON ENTITY TYPE FOUND THROUGHOUT LEVEL 500 N, OFTEN INHABITING THE PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEXES. UNLIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN LEVEL 50 N, HEADLESS COUSINS IN THIS LEVEL ARE CAPABLE OF NON-VOCAL COMMUNICATION IN THE FORM OF BODILY GESTURES. BEHAVIOR IS GENERALLY FRIENDLY WHEN INTERACTING WITH WANDERERS, THOUGH A FEW INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED TO BE HOSTILE OR UNRESPONSIVE. HEADLESS ENTITIES RESEMBLING BRIGHT FAUNA HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED.
PERIODICALLY, CERTAIN ADULT HEADLESS COUSINS ARE OBSERVED TO TRAVEL IN THE NORTHERN DIRECTION, RETURNING AFTER APPROXIMATELY EIGHT HOURS HAVE PASSED. PURPOSE OF THIS BEHAVIOR IS UNKNOWN, THOUGH WANDERERS HAVE UTILIZED OBSERVATION OF THIS BEHAVIOR AS A METHOD OF MAINTAINING TEMPORAL SENSES. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO ATTEMPT PHYSICAL TRACKING OF THESE HEADLESS COUSINS' NORTHERN TRAVELS, AS DOING SO CAN EITHER LEAD TO DISAPPEARANCE OR TRANSFORMATION INTO A HEADLESS ENTITY.
AFTER A LENGTHY PERIOD OF EXPLORATION, THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED EXPLORING A PUBLIC HOUSING COMPLEX. IT IS THEN OBSERVED TO PAUSE AT AN APARTMENT DOOR DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF VOICES SPEAKING WITHIN. TWO SETS OF VOICES CAN BE HEARD FROM THE ROTWATCHER'S LOCATION, ONE IDENTIFIED AS BELONGING TO THE ARCHITECT AND THE OTHER BELONGING TO AN UNKNOWN MASCULINE-SOUNDING BRIGHT COUSIN, HEREBY TEMPORARILY REFERRED TO AS 'UNKNOWN' UNTIL PROPER DESIGNATION IS IDENTIFIED.
UNKNOWN VOICE CARRIES A MAJORITY OF HEARD DIALOGUE DESPITE SPEAKING IN A LOW AND PASSIVE TONE, MAINLY CONSISTING OF SHAMING AND INSULTS SUBJECTED TOWARDS THE ARCHITECT, COUPLED WITH VAGUE STATEMENTS UNRELATED TO OTHER DEMEANING LANGUAGE. THE ARCHITECT'S VOICE RARELY SPEAKS IN-BETWEEN THE UNKNOWN'S, AT EVEN A LOWER VOLUME, AND MAINLY CONSISTS OF APOLOGIES AND PLEAS, TO WHICH THE UNKNOWN FORCIBLY SPEAKS OVER THEM IN RESPONSE. THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER ONLY ATTEMPTED INTERVENTION ON THIS EVENT FOLLOWING HEARING SUDDEN NOISES CONSISTENT WITH THOSE OF A VIOLENT STRUGGLE. HOWEVER, ENTRANCE INTO THE ROOM HAS THE ROTWATCHER FINDING ITSELF IN AN INTERIOR SPACE INCONSISTENT WITH THAT OF STANDARD APARTMENT UNITS IN LEVEL 500 N, WITH BOTH VOICES NOW ABSENT. THE ROTWATCHER SUSPECTS IT HAS UNWITTINGLY UNDERGONE LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE INTO ANOTHER LEVEL AND PLANS TO INVESTIGATE ITS NEW LOCATION.