WALL OF COMFORT: LEVEL OBSERVED WITHIN THE BACKROOMS, HENCEFORTH REFERENCED TO AS LEVEL 8 N. THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS OBSERVED ITSELF IN THIS SPACE FOLLOWING TRAVERSAL THROUGH INCREASINGLY CUSHIONED CHAMBERS WITHIN PREVIOUS LEVEL.
BEFORE REGULAR DOCUMENTATION CAN PROCEEDS, THE ROTWATCHER OBSERVES THAT THE SHADOWY ENTITIES PRESENT IN ITS VISION'S EDGES ARE NO MORE. IT IS POSSIBLE PREVIOUS CONDITION ONLY LASTS UNTIL RELOCATION FROM PREVIOUS LEVEL OCCURS.
LEVEL STRUCTURE CONSISTS OF AN DUSTY INDOOR SPACE CONSTRUCTED USING SOFT CUSHIONS THAT ARE NOTABLY CLEAN. LARGER CUSHIONS STAND UPWARD AND CAN RESEMBLE CHAMBER PARTITIONS OR PASSAGEWAYS, WHILE SMALLER ONES ARE SCATTERED ON THE FLOOR.
BESIDES THE CUSHIONS, UNNATURALLY BRIGHT LIGHTS ARE OBSERVED TO HANG ON THE LEVEL'S CHAMBER CEILING, AND DEAD-METAL VEINS CAN BE FOUND RUNNING THROUGHOUT THE SPACE. THE FLOOR IS MADE OF A MATERIAL UNCOMFORTABLE FOR BAREFOOT WANDERERS. TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY VARY FROM CHAMBER TO CHAMBER, THOUGH CERTAIN CHAMBERS HAVE CONSISTENT VALUES DUE TO THEIR MATERIAL.
THOUGH THEIR SOFTNESS IS INVITING FOR WEARY WANDERERS, PRESENCE OF SHARP OBJECTS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITHIN SOME CUSHIONS, SO IT IS ADVISED NOT TO LEAN INTO THEM. MORE INFORMATION ON THIS WILL BE DETAILED LATER.
CUSHIONS ARE OBSERVED TO MOVE HORIZONTALLY ON OCCASION, AS IF BEING DRAGGED BY AN UNKNOWN FORCE. THIS MOVEMENT IS OFTEN IN THE DIRECTION OF A WANDERER. THE ROTWATCHER SUSPECTS THAT, IF A WANDERER WERE TO STAND STILL FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, THE SPACE AROUND THEM WOULD GRADUALLY NARROW AS THE CUSHIONS COME CLOSER. THE ROTWATCHER WAS DIRECTLY SUBJECTED TO THIS PHENOMENA AS IT WAS MOVING THROUGH TWO LARGE CUSHIONS. THESE CUSHIONS NEARLY CRUSHED THE ROTWATCHER, AND IT WAS ONLY DUE TO ITS SMALL FORM THAT IT MANAGED TO ESCAPE.
IN GENERAL, CUSHIONS SEEM TO POSSESS THE ABILITY TO MOVE. THEIR SPEED VARIES FROM CUSHION TO CUSHION, WITH SOME CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING OVER TEN METERS IN WINKS. BECAUSE OF THIS PHENOMENA, THE PROBABILITY OF BEING TRAPPED OR CRUSHED BY THESE CUSHIONS IS RELATIVELY HIGH.
TWO OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS ARE LISTED BELOW:
CUSHION FORMATION: RARE PHENOMENON IN WHICH A NEW CUSHION APPEARS BETWEEN A LARGE CUSHION, FALLING INTO THE SPACE. THE EXISTENCE OF THIS PHENOMENON SUGGESTS THE AMOUNT OF CUSHIONS PRESENT IN THE LEVEL IS GRADUALLY INCREASING.
CUSHION WAVE MOVEMENT: PHENOMENON IN WHICH A VERY LARGE AREA OF CUSHIONS MOVE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE SAME DIRECTION, CREATING A DISTINCTIVE 'WAVE' MOTION. PRECEDING THIS EVENT IS A DISTANT RUMBLING NOISE, WHICH IS SOON IDENTIFIED AS THE SOUND OF THE CUSHION'S FABRIC RUBBING TOGETHER AS IT EXPONENTIALLY INCREASES IN VOLUME. TEMPORAL PERIOD BETWEEN THE NOISE AND PHENOMENON VARIES, BUT IT IS RECOMMENDED TO FIND A WIDE SPACE TO RUN IN THE DIRECTION THE WAVE IS PLANNING TO TRAVEL.
WHETHER THE CUSHIONS CAN BE CLASSIFIED AS ENTITIES HAS BEEN DEBATED BY WANDERERS. NO OBSERVATION OF SENTIENT BEHAVIOR FROM THE CUSHIONS HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED, BUT SOME SUGGEST THE PRESENCE OF AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT IS ENOUGH FOR CLASSIFICATION. THE PRESENT ROTWATCHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED TO SIDE WITH THE LATTER ARGUMENT, THEREFORE DESIGNATING THE CUSHIONS AS ENTITIES NATIVE TO LEVEL 8 N.
AS DETAILED EARLIER, ITEMS CAN BE DISCOVERED WITHIN THE CUSHION'S FILLINGS. FIBER AND COTTON ARE TYPICAL WITHIN A CUSHION, BUT OTHER TYPES OF ITEMS, SUCH AS NUTRITION SOURCES AND BRIGHT-GROUND PARASITES, ALONG WITH ABNORMAL OR DANGEROUS ITEMS SUCH AS SMALL CARCASSES AND KNIVES, HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. CRUSHING A SMALL CUSHION IS A RELIABLE WAY TO DISCOVER IF IT CONTAINS AN OBJECT, THOUGH THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES TO THIS IF THE OBJECT IS SHARP.
FOR LARGE CUSHIONS, THEIR SURFACES ARE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO RESIST A KNIFE CUT, UNLIKE SMALLER CUSHIONS. IF A HOLE IS MADE IN A LARGE CUSHION AS OBSERVED BY THE ROTWATCHER, ITS CONTENTS ARE OBSERVED TO CONTINUALLY POUR OUT. TEARING PRODUCES A LOUD LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE, CONTRASTING WITH THE HIGH-PITCHED TEARING NOISE THE SMALL CUSHION PRODUCES. THE STUFFING IS OBSERVED TO EXCEED THE CUSHION'S ORIGINAL ESTIMATED MASS. AFTER HALF A BRIGHT-CYCLE, THE HOLE WILL CLOSE ON ITS OWN DUE TO AN UNKNOWN MECHANISM, THOUGH ITS STUFFING REMAINS IN THE AREA. SEARCHING THROUGH THE STUFFING FOR ITEMS IS POSSIBLE, THERE IS A RISK OF BEING BURIED UNDERNEATH THE MASS AMOUNTS OF STUFFING.
AFTER A PERIOD OF TRAVERSAL WITHIN LEVEL 8 N, THE CURRENT ROTWATCHER HAS ENCOUNTERED A GAP WITH AN UNUSUAL LACK OF LIGHT. DESPITE ITS PREVIOUS ENCOUNTER WITH GAPS WITHIN THIS LEVEL, THE ROTWATCHER SUSPECTS THIS DARK GAP TO BE AN ENTRYWAY. PLANS TO UTILIZE THIS GAP FOR LOCATIONAL EXCHANGE TO ANOTHER LEVEL IS UNDERWAY.