Transmission 897670 - Navigation

You walk up to the doorway and peer through into a long corridor heading straight out in front of you. There are no visible doors and the walls, ceiling and floor once again glow with a white light. As you step into the corridor a new transmission appears:

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Hello Peep 1024,

“A Useful Peep will Thrive"

You are about to begin your task orientation training for Unit 67. Compliance is mandatory. Failure to Comply will result in Termination

Your first orientation task is to successfully navigate this corridor.

“A Compliant Peep will Thrive"

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Your first thought after receiving the transmission is, what is meant by navigate this corridor? It is a corridor, a straight passage of travel. You take a click to consider that this might be some kind of trap, or all is not as it appears. You decide to proceed with caution, but proceed you must because Compliance is mandatory.

You take a step forward, and pause. You look at the walls, floor and ceiling trying to gauge if anything has changed. You look behind, the doorway is now sealed, a perfectly smooth wall is now directly behind you.

You take another step forward, pause and search…nothing. You begin walking forward, trying to keep alert. After 10 steps, you here a loud “Chnnk” sound from behind. The whole section of corridor behind you is now a black void, nothingness. Your feel the cold spears of fear creeping up your spine threatening to paralyze you to the spot, but your survival instinct kicks in and you begin to run forward. You take 10 strides and hear the sound again “Chnnk”. This time you do not turn around.

You notice the floor about 10 strides ahead seems to be contorted as if something is trying to stretch through it. As you approach further, 2 arms are growing out of the ground. Another stride sees the arms punch holes through the floor, the black void seems to flow through the holes and within no time at all the floor and arms are covered with the void. You continue running trying desperately to come up with a plan.

You are now 3 strides away from the void floor. “Chnnk”, that sounded extremely close behind you. You decide to take evasive action, you estimate that you will not be able to cross the void in one leap. So on your next stride you leap upward and to left aiming at the left hand wall above the middle of the void. You soar up into the air clear of the void and arms, the arms reach for you as you glide over them, as you approach the left hand wall you kick out with your left leg and manage to gain enough purchase to spring from the wall and clear the rest of void.

You land and without breaking step keep on running. 5 strides ahead you notice 4 holes appear in the walls, 2 on each side. “Chnnk”, a brief glance over your shoulder shows the void arms have now been consumed by the larger void.

The 4 holes in the wall are placed in 2 adjacent pairs on either side of the corridor, they are spaced around 1 stride apart.

You approach the first pair of holes, they are at around shoulder height and so you decide to slide underneath. You skid down onto your knees and slide across the smooth floor, as you slide underneath there is a bright glow as red laser beam is projected between the holes. As you clear the first set of laser beams, you notice the second set is at knee height, you cut your slide short and dig your feet into the ground and push upward. You surge into the air clearing the second beam as it bursts into life. You land safely and keep running.

“Chnnk” you look behind and the void behind is still chasing you, as you begin to turn and face forward when you hear a second “Chnnk”. You are horrified to see 20 strides ahead another void has consumed the hallway.

You continue forward, although now there is nowhere to go. You are heading toward oblivion. You begin to feel panic setting in, in desperation you begin searching the corridor for an exit.

Eventually you see it, a hatch appears in the ceiling 5 strides away with a white glow emanating from it. A white arm reaches down from the hatch. As you get near the hatch you hear “Chnnk, Chnnk”, there is now only 10 strides of corridor remaining. You leap upward and make a grab for the arm, you make contact and grab tight. The arm lifts you out of the corridor. As your feet pass the threshold of the hatch you hear “Chnnk, Chnnk”