| Subterranean Research Center | |||||||||||
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| Japanese Name(s) |
夢研究所 | ||||||||||
| Effects | None | ||||||||||
| Events | None | ||||||||||
| Notable NPCs | None | ||||||||||
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| Connecting Areas | Hollows | ||||||||||
| BGM | ヴォー | ||||||||||
| Map ID | 1652 | ||||||||||
| Author | Horatsuki | ||||||||||
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[[Category:Horatsuki]] Subterranean Research Center is an area accessible from the lower section of the Hollows.
Features
This area is a laboratory with light-blue walls and floors, and mechanical doors leading to different facilities. Inhabiting it are suited humanoid creatures with green lights for heads which turn red when the Chainsaw is brandished, or stare at her when the Marginal effect is equipped. They do not react to the Crossing effect. The main corridor's structure consists of a western, eastern, and southern section, where the southern section has a traffic cone that blocks the way to the lower door, by matching your every move.
West Section
The first door in this area leads to a laboratory inhabited by a creature with a green orb for a head and a robot. In this laboratory, one can find, empty glass rubes, a table with two small computers, and a machine connected to a sort of platform with cones in front. Atop this platform is a teleporter, which is currently defunct and blocked by traffic cones.
Further down this hall is a heavy hazard door which, when opened, leads to a small room with two large, glass tubes filled with a green-blue substance, and a computer stationed in front of a container of an egg. The computer cannot be used, as Urotsuki says one of her "I can't do that" lines when attempting to interact with it. The DNA screen on the upper right corner of the room suggests that there is some sort of genetic experiment taking place. If Urotsuki equips the Chainsaw in this room, an alarm will sound, and she will be forced to unequip it. The Child effect will cause the mysterious egg to change appearance.
At the end of the west corridor leads to a north passage with a door that leads the player into a room with a computer, a large screen with a smiling face, and a terminal just right of it that gives insight to its emotions. By using the computer, you can power the face's screen on and off.
The face reacts to a variety of effects:
- Chainsaw, Eyeball Bomb: The face will wear a worried expression with streaks displayed in the terminal.
- Crossing: The right monitor reads "..." when this effect is activated.
- Drum: It appears to flinch in surprise when Urotsuki slams the drum.
- Marginal: The face appears angry or disappointed, with grumpy scribbles on its terminal.
- Twintails, Penguin, Bunny Ears: It will become ecstatic, with a heart the terminal.
- Upon using the Invisible effect to make Urotsuki disappear: The face will appear confused, with a question mark on the terminal.
- Trombone: The face appears surprised when the trombone is played, with an exclamation mark on the terminal.
- Cake: The face will drool, with a heart on its terminal.
- Wolf: The face will change to that of a blushing Seanut's, with a heart on the terminal screen, similar to how the real Seanut reacts to Urotsuki equipping this effect.
- Polygon: Perhaps the most interesting of the bunch, the face disappears entirely, and instead a green hologram of Urotsuki will appear and wander around the room in its place. This holographic doppelganger will beep when interacted with.
East Section
The tall, thin door leads to a sort of storage room containing cabinets, lockers, stools, barrels, shelves stocked with items, and a single, small computer. There is otherwise nothing of note here. Next to the entrance to this room is a circle of some kind whose lower right section blinks cyan.
The next door is another laboratory with several glass tubes that encase several creatures, including a horned sheep, a tapir, and an imprisoned Shadow Blob chaser. There is a small chance this blob may escape and begin chasing the player.
At the end of this corridor lies a large cafeteria or break area with two vending machines that dispense products for 230夢, rather than the standard price of 100. The rightmost vending machine cannot be used unless Urotsuki chainsaws the green headed creature using it.
South Section
Although the bottom-most entryway of this area is blocked off by a fast-moving cone, the door near to it leads to yet another small laboratory area with two wide, glass tubes. One of these tubes has a pasted "X" over it, obscuring something that the player cannot see aside from yellow strings. There is an operating or examination table hooked up to a strange machine in the room below a small monitor displaying the number "0".
Directions
Nexus → Rock World → Entomophobia Realm → Hollows → Subterranean Research Center
