TINY ADULT VIDEO STORE: LEVEL OBSERVED WITHIN THE BACKROOMS, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS LEVEL 71 N. THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN THIS SPACE FOLLOWING LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE AFTER AN EXTENDED VIEWING OF AN OBSCENE PRODUCT PROMOTION ON A LIGHTNING TERMINAL DISPLAY IN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
LEVEL STRUCTURE RESEMBLES THAT OF A VIDEO-TRADE CENTER, SPECIFICALLY THOSE WHOSE VIDEOS ARE CONSIDERED OBSCENE, OR 'ADULT'. LEVEL IS VERTICALLY INFINITE AND CONNECTED VIA STAIRWAYS, AND INDIVIDUAL FLOOR AREAS ARE NOTED TO BE SMALL. DENSELY PACKED SHELVES ARE PRESENT ON EACH FLOOR, RESTRICTING WANDERER MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT THE LEVEL.
WHILE INTERIOR DESIGN AND STRUCTURE CAN VARY BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL FLOORS, COMMON FEATURES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED, INCLUDING SHELVES, FLUORESCENT LIGHTS, SPEAKERS PLAYING SLOW AND UNFAMILIAR MUSIC, NONFUNCTIONING ELEVATOR LIFTS, AND AN OVERALL AGED LOOK FOR THE INTERIOR. WRITING FOUND ON EACH FLOOR IS MAINLY WRITTEN IN JAPANESE, THOUGH OTHER EASTERN BRIGHT LANGUAGES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. OUTSIDE SPACES CAN ALSO BE ACCESSED ON EACH FLOOR, CONSISTING OF A CITY ROAD TEMPORALLY IN THE LATTER END OF A BRIGHT CYCLE.
SHELVES CONTAIN PACKAGED VIDEO CONTAINERS, EITHER BEARING FLAT DISKS OR BOXED OBJECTS. CONTAINER PACKAGING FEATURES ABSTRACT ILLUSTRATIONS THAT ARE COMMON IN ADULT VIDEO CONTAINER PACKAGING IN THE BRIGHT WORLD, WITH NONSENSICAL JAPANESE SCRIPT TITLING THE PACKAGE. THE ROTWATCHER WAS ABLE TO WATCH ONE OF THESE VIDEOS AFTER MANAGING TO EXTRACT A VIDEO-BOX AND INSERT IT INTO A PLAYER CONNECTED TO A LIGHTNING TERMINAL. CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO WERE OBSERVED BY THE SUBJECTED ROTWATCHER TO BE ABSTRACT ANIMATION, SIMILAR TO THAT OF A CUBISM AESTHETIC, WITH SHARP NOISES ACCOMPANYING THE IMAGES THROUGHOUT. THE ROTWATCHER WAS OBSERVED TO CONSIDER OVERALL VIDEO TO BE ADULT IN A SENSE OF BEING INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO YOUNG BRIGHT COUSINS RATHER THAN CONTAINING ANY OBSCENE CONTENT.
CERTAIN PACKAGED VIDEO CONTAINERS FOUND IN THIS LEVEL FUNCTION AS ENTRYPOINTS TO OTHER LEVELS AND ARE OBSERVED TO DISAPPEAR ONCE LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE OCCURS FOR THE SUBJECTED. THESE EFFECTS EMERGE EVEN IF THE CONTAINER ITSELF IS ONLY TOUCHED, MEANING VIEWING THE VIDEO CONTENTS IS NOT NECESSARY FOR IT TO ACTIVATE. PROPER CAUTION IS ADVISED WHEN HANDLING PACKAGED VIDEO CONTAINERS DUE TO THIS PHENOMENON.
PRESENCE OF ENTITIES NATIVE TO THIS LVEL HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. APPEARANCE RESEMBLES THAT OF BRIGHT PARASITES KNOWN AS LADYBUGS, SIZED AND STRUCTURED TO FIT A BRIGHT COUSIN FIGURE. DIRECT BEHAVIOR TOWARDS WANDERERS IS NON-HOSTILE, BUT SUBJECTING THEM TO A STRONG SHOCK WILL CAUSE THEM TO IMPLODE, RELEASING A SWARM OF LADYBUGS THAT CAN IMPEDE MOVEMENT. ENTITIES ARE OBSERVED TO MOVE BETWEEN FLOORS THROUGH STAIRS AND CAN APPEAR ON ELEVATOR LIFTS DESPITE THEIR NON-FUNCTIONING. NO ATTEMPTS OF COMMUNICATION HAS RESULTED IN GAINING THE ATTENTION OF THESE ENTITIES.
FOLLOWING UPWARD EXPLORATION OF APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FLOORS, THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER EMERGED FROM ITS FLOOR TO FIND A WINDOW TO A BUILDING ACROSS THE ROAD. THE WINDOW IS OBSERVED TO BE UNLOCKED AND PARTIALLY OPEN, WITH FAINT FINGERPRINTS INDICATING A WANDERER HAS PREVIOUSLY INTERACTED WITH IT. THE ROTWATCHER THEORIZES THIS WINDOW FUNCTIONS AS AN ENTRYWAY AND PLANS TO UTILIZE THIS ENTRYWAY TO UNDERGO LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE INTO A NEW LEVEL.