COLORLESS TOWN: LEVEL OBSERVED WITHIN THE BACKROOMS, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS LEVEL 575 N. THE ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITHIN THIS SPACE FOLLOWING LATCHING ONTO AN UNUSUALLY-COLORED CARP ENTITY IN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
LEVEL STRUCTURE RESEMBLES THAT OF A JAPANESE PROVINCIAL CITY. LEAVES ON BRIGHT-GROUND STALKS ARE REDDISH-BROWN, SUGGESTING THIS LEVEL IS SEASONALLY FIXED BETWEEN WINTER AND SPRING. LEVEL CLIMATE FURTHER SUPPORTS THIS, WITH COLD TEMPERATURES AND OCCASIONAL LIGHT PRECIPITATION. INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDING WATER AND LIGHTNING IS PRESENT, THOUGH NO ENTITIES BESIDES WANDERERS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN THIS LEVEL, RENDERING THEM UNUSED.
DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS LEVEL IS OBJECTS AND STRUCTURES DISPLAYING UNUSUAL COLOR SCHEMES IN COMPARISON TO THEIR STANDARD BRIGHT STAGE COUNTERPARTS. EVEN THE BRIGHT-CYCLE IS AFFECTED, DISPLAYING A SLIGHTLY PURPLISH-BLUE COLOR AT THE BEGINNING AND TRANSITIONING TO A DEEP GREEN BY THE END.
FACILITIES AND UTILITY POLES OFTEN DISPLAY NOMENCLATURE OF MAJOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES, THOUGH SOME WILL BEAR UNIQUE ONES NOT OBSERVED ON THE BRIGHT STAGE. DEVIATIONS ARE MORE COMMON FOR LARGER ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS SUCH AS CITIES. IN ADDITION, ALL INTERIORS IN THIS LEVEL, WHETHER FACILITIES OR VEHICLES, ARE LOCKED AND THEREFORE INACCESSIBLE. HOWEVER, RESOURCES ARE READILY AVAILABLE, ALLOWING WANDERERS TO SURVIVE OUTSIDE FOR AN EXTENDED AMOUNT OF TIME.
WIRELESS NETWORKS ARE ALSO PROVIDED THROUGHOUT THE LEVEL, THOUGH NO NETWORK UNIVERSAL TO THE WHOLE LEVEL IS OBSERVED, FORCING WANDERERS TO RECONFIGURE THE NETWORK IF RELOCATING TO A NEW AREA. SSIDS FOLLOW A COMMON PATTERN, CONSISTING OF A JAPANESE SURNAME FOLLOWED BY A STRING OF NUMBERS. NO PASSWORDS ARE SET FOR ANY OF THESE WIRELESS NETWORKS.
CARP STREAMERS: ENTITIES NATIVE TO LEVEL 575 N. APPEARANCE IS THAT OF TEXTILE TUBES RESEMBLING CARP SPECIES SUPPORTED BY THIN POLES. EXAMPLE LOCATIONS RANGE FROM LINING RIVERBANKS TO BEING PINNED ON BALCONIES OF RESIDENTIAL HOMES. OBSERVED TO FLOW AIRBORNE IN A SPECIFIC DIRECTION, REGARDLESS OF WHICH WAY THE AIR IS CURRENTLY MOVING. SERVES AS A USEFUL WAY TO GAUGE DIRECTION, AS THEY REMAIN THIS WAY EVEN DURIN PRECIPITATION. DESPITE BEING MADE OF CLOTH, ENTITY IS OBSERVED TO BE EDIBLE, THOUGH OVERALL TASTE IS UNPLEASANT IF UNCOOKED.
PERHAPS DUE TO WITNESSING THE CARP STREAMERS, THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER IS OBSERVED TO DELVE INTO A SUPPLEMENTAL. A SUMMARY OF WHAT THIS SUPPLEMENTAL COMPRISES OF IS AS FOLLOWS.
THE NUMBER OF WANDERERS DEVIATING FROM STANDARD, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS EXCEPTIONAL WANDERERS, HAS BEEN REPORTED TO INCREASE BY ONE. CLASSIFICATION OF EXCEPTIONAL WANDERERS IS BASED ON THEIR ABILITY TO PERCEIVE THE ROTWATCHER PRECLUDING COMMUNICATION ATTEMPTS. THIS IS ASSUMED TO BE THE ONLY SIMILARITY BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL CASES OF EXCEPTIONAL WANDERERS, BASED ON COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE ROTWATCHER'S FIRST ENCOUNTER, THE ARCHITECT, AND THE SECOND, THE WANDERER KNOWN AS JJ.
REGARDING JJ, IT IS NOTED THEY SEEM TO HOLD A SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN THEM. IT IS UNKNOWN THE NOMENCLATURE THEY SELF-DESIGNATE THEMSELF AS, IF ANY. SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS APPEARS TO BE HEAVILY TIED WITH THE OCEAN, ITS PATTERNS EXTREMELY SIMILAR TO THOSE OF MARINE ENTITIES, OF WHICH THE ROTWATCHER INVESTIGATED DURING THE PREVIOUS TWO LEVELS. IN ADDITION, SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS APPEARS TO POSSESS ANOMALOUS ABILITIES RELATED TO THE OCEAN, ASSUMING THE TENDRILS SEEPING FROM THE WINDOWS IN PREVIOUS LEVEL ORIGINATED FROM THEM.
HOWEVER, DURING THE PURSUIT, THE WANDERER WAS OBSERVED TO DISPLAY A SLIGHT HESITANCE IN ITS CHASE, OF WHICH THE ROTWATCHER PRESUMES TO HAVE AIDED IN ITS ULTIMATE ESCAPE. NO CONCLUSIONS CAN BE MADE REGARDING HIS REASONS FOR THIS, THOUGH IT IS POSSIBLE THE PRIMARY CONSCIOUSNESS, JJ, HAD NO DESIRE TO BRING HARM OR CAPTURE THE ROTWATCHER. HOWEVER: IT IS ADVISED FOR THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER TO KEEP A DISTANCE AWAY FROM JJ IF ENCOUNTERED AGAIN, ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR SECONDARY CONSCIOUSNESS.
FOLLOWING THIS PERIOD OF SUPPLEMENTAL, DURING WHICH THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER WAS EXPLORING THE OUTDOOR PROPERTY OF A LARGE RESIDENTIAL HOME, THE ROTWATCHER EMERGES TO OBSERVE A GRADUAL INCREASE IN TEMPERATURE IN THE AREA. AS IT TOOK PLACE AT THE END OF THE LEVEL'S BRIGHT CYCLE, THIS INCREASE IS NOTED TO BE UNUSUAL AND POSSIBLY THE FOREWARNING OF SUDDEN LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE TO ANOTHER LEVEL.