Author Topic: White: a text-based mystery (reopened)  (Read 5671 times)

Your eyes flutter open and you awake in a room whose walls are completely white. There is no visible source of light, but the room is bright as noon. You pace across the room and estimate it's a cube of about 20 feet by 20 feet. The only decoration on the wall is a clock in each wall. Each clock is set into the wall and covered by thick glass. One clock reads 2:34, another reads 12:40, another reads 5:55 and the last reads 12:00. None are ticking but each sounds at a random interval. You look down over yourself and you are completely naked. You sink your feet into the floor and realize it's made of soft rubber. You tap the walls, and they sound solid.

What do you do?
« Last Edit: February 05, 2012, 11:14:57 AM by Daemon18553 »

Punch clocks in face to establish dominance

You try to punch the clocks but the glass is too thick and you end up breaking your hand. You begin to bleed but the flow will not stem. You notice your blood is pure white and very thin. It evaporates when it touches the ground, and it's very cold.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2012, 12:03:43 AM by Daemon18553 »

Poke yourself to make sure you properly exist.

You poke yourself with your good hand and find out your sense of touch is working. However, you test your other senses and cannot feel pain or smell anything discernable. You lick your skin and taste nothing.


You lick your blood and taste nothing. You conclude your only senses left working are touch, hearing, balance and sight, and that pain, taste and smell are gone.

Examine which hand is broken and attempt to remove from body.

You go to examine your hands but look to find that both are healed. On your left hand, however, there are many long scars, and the area around them is pure white. You conclude that that was your broken hand, and something in the environment healed it.

smash your head against a wall to see if this is true

You smash your head into the wall and feel absolutely no pain, even though your blood is now running down your face and you heard a sickening crack. In about 30 seconds, you feel a stretching feeling in your forehead, and lift your hand up to feel around the forehead. It is completely healed and the bloodflow has stopped.

brown townyze whether clocks are referral to the AM/PM system.
And if so, which clocks are which time?

The clocks aren't ticking forward and remain at their original times, although at a random interval each clock makes a soft marimba-like sound. There is no indication of AM or PM, and the clocks are traditional 12 hour clocks.

Feel along the walls and behind the clocks for suspicious objects.
Then take the clocks and align them side by side on the floor.

The clocks are set into the wall and covered by thick glass, but by smashing your hand open again you use your super-cooled blood to contract the glass slightly and pull out the clock. It is about 5 inches thick, with a flat metal back and no visible screws. The indent in the wall is just that: no special properties about it, just a circular cutout. You pull out the rest of the clocks and lay them on the floor. When you get to the last clock, you find the word 'mistakes' written in what looks like normal blood behind the clock.

Locked until morning so I can sleep.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2012, 12:33:44 AM by Daemon18553 »