User:Ultra64Detective2401/MIPS Hole HQ/Liminal Labyrinth

This page is apart of the MIPS Hole HQ canon, a piece of joke canon revolving around the concept of MIPS Hole as a physical company.

Liminal Labyrinth is an unused level present in copies of Changed 64 created by anomalous entity Oli. The level is rather unique, as it appears to continue endlessly. This should be impossible by the limits of the hardware, and may suggest anomalous influence. The level is characterized by "rooms," literal rooms which are generated as they are entered.

Geography
The geography of Liminal Labyrinth is ever-changing, each "room" different from the last. The level appears to pull from the player's subconscious for the "rooms" as demonstrated through testing, although this is ultimately unconfirmed. Unique "rooms" are often connected by hallways and other stretches of rooms characterized by yellowed, empty office space.

Playtesting Incidents
(Reports are recorded accurately, do not take with a grain of salt, do not ask questions.)

Incident Report #1
Player: Trained playtester

Playtester boots up game and selects the third file, immediately performing a BLJ on nearby stairs, and clipping outside the bounds of the level. As a result, the playtester is teleported to Liminal Labyrinth.

Although initially confused, the playtester begins navigating through the level, notable rooms include an indoor pool, an empty convention center space and a hotel hallway

The playtester, after having encountered the hotel hallway, turned off the console, remarking that the entire level felt eerily familiar, though he was unable to "put his finger" on exactly what. Subsequent attempts to recreate the clip have failed thus far.

Incident Report #2
Player: Oli-affected person (hereon abbreviated as OAP)

OAP loads file one, and begins running into walls aimlessly. After roughly five minutes, the playtester clips through a wall, and is teleported to Liminal Labyrinth. At this point, the OAP remarks a sense of direction in the level, unlike those who had encountered the level before.

Notable rooms include a bathroom, an empty grocery store, a movie theater, what appears to be a water-pumping station, a section of a mall, an arcade, and the █████ ██████████.

The OAP comes to a room highly resembling that of Oli's room within the HQ, as well as an NPC (which the OAP remarks also appears to be him). The NPC's dialouge, when spoken to, is as such:"'CAN'T YOU SEE'""'BIRTHED WITHIN THESE ENDLESS WALLS'""'SHAPED FROM THE MEMORIES OF COMFORTS THAT ARE DOOMED TO BE FORGOTTEN'""'I WAS MUCH LIKE THE OTHERS'""'BUT I WASNT MADE RIGHT'""'SOMETHING WENT WRONG WITH ME'""'I WAS A MISTAKE'""'I WAS A MUTATION'""'I WAS A CANCER'""'I WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY'""'I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHY I HAD TO BE THIS WAY'""'SO I LEFT'""'I LOVE MY HOME SO BUT I KNOW I MUST LEAVE'""'SO I DRIFTED'""'IN THE ENDLESS EXPANSE OF HORRORS AND WONDERS'""'IN THE TIME I HAD SPENT TRAVELLING I HAD TIME TO THINK'""'I MAY NOT BE LIKE THE OTHERS'""'THEY MAY NOT ACCEPT ME'""'BUT I AM WHO I AM'""'AND THATS OK'""'I VISIT SOMETIMES'""'EVEN THOUGH I HAVE CHANGED IT SEEMS THEIR OPINIONS OF ME HAVE NOT'""'I AM UNFORGIVABLE IN THE END'""'I LOVE MY KIND'""'WHY MUST THEY HURT ME SO'"As the text box ends, the OAP slumps unconscious (though wholly unharmed) as the game crashes. Subsequent attempts to recreate the clip, as well as the route, have so far been unsuccessful.

Theorizing
The level likely exists as a test level for a feature that would make levels endless, though this is unsubstantiated.

The level highly resembles FM38, the neighboring dimension to FM39 (also known as the Femboy Dimension), also known as the Backrooms. This level could be attempting to recreate it in some capacity.