The Woodworks

**The Woodworks** is a Corridoria-accessible dimension which takes the form of an indefinite tiled floor under a clear white abyss of a sky. Of interest is that the grain of the floor tiles aligns with a checkerboard pattern - tiles not conforming to this grain pattern should under no circumstances be stepped on, as that will activate a trap of unknown mechanism in which the floor rapidly retracts, causing the explorer to fall to an unspecified location.

## Life

The Woodworks is home to many species which are mostly hostile. Some, such as *Slivers*, take the form of ostrich-like birds which will fling sharp wooden projectiles out of their mouth in the direction of anything that moves, while others such as *Splinters* will take the form of ordinary pieces of furniture with retractable spikes that activate upon sitting down on the given item of 'furniture'. These are easy to avoid however due to their conspicuous nature.

A third and rare form of life are *Squaricles*, or a race of sentient floor-tiles that can be hard to distinguish from their neighbors due to their indistinguishableness from other floor-tiles in the region. *Squaricles* will usually sport a vaguely anthropomorphic pattern within their grain, such as an "eyes-nose-mouth" design that looks a lot like a face. These floor tiles are friendly towards explorers and offer helpful tips.

In 2005 a TAOSEAR staff member decided to use multiple floor tiles from The Woodworks as part of his home renovation project. Very soon after, it was noticed that he had uprooted one of these sentient floor tiles by accident. The tile in question went by the name of "Jimmy" and proved to be a nuance to this staff member, who found the floortile would ruthlessly mock and berate guests he had over with offensive remarks and jabs at their appearance.

Jimmy was subsequently uprooted again is currently being held in a TAOCEAR storage closet where he can be heard shouting muffled curses and singing offensive nursery rhyme parodies to people walking by.

Since this time staff have been advised to be cautious about removing objects "however innocuous they may appear" from Corridoria's many dimensions.

## Disappearances

Throughout numerous expeditions various explorers have gone missing in this realm, with the most notable disappearance being that of Henry G. Gordon, the initial founder of TAOCEAR. He was last seen entering The Woodworks on 11 May 1993, equipped with a backpack and rudimentary hiking gear.

**Name:** The Woodworks
**Path:** R2R1 (72 feet from entrance)
**Status:** Structural, Dangerous
**First Expedition:** 13 July 1992
**Time Differential:** 1.0008

**ℂ𝕆ℝℝ𝕀𝔻𝕆ℝ𝕀𝔸**

**Artifacts** 4-Kallisti • MMC-OB6 camera (Operating Manual) • Oneir.OS • Starspeak

**TAOCEAR** *Overseers* Henry G. Gordon (1990 - 1993) • Mary Cindworth (1993 - 2020) • Marvin Levin (2020)
*Charting* Expeditions • List of Dimensions • Map

**Miscellaneous** *Corridoria Unlocked*

```
             █                The Final Realm
             ^
             ^  •
          █  █  █             The 300 Mile Outpost
         █████████
          █  █  █             Cloverworld
             ^  •
             ^

```

```
              █
             ███•              Aqueous
              █
           █  █  █
          █████████
           █  █  █
              █
             ███
              █
     █        █        █
   •███      ███      ███      The Meadows
  •  █        █        █
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Bilbous Plane
•███████████████████████████   The Garden
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Needleworks, A 1920s Museum
  •  █        █        █  •
    ███     •███•     ███      Stickerworld, The Tower
     █        █        █       The Omega Beach, YggdraCole
     •        █        •
            •███•              The Glassworks, Picasso's Nightmare
           •  █  •
           █  █  █             Oneiros INC., Penultimate Forest
         •█████████•           The Hill's Pockets, Streamerworld
           █  █  █             A Verde Planet, **The Woodworks**
           •  █  •
            •███•              Koiworld, Mirrorworld
              █                Entrance

```

```
   █ = Aquatic            • = Safe
   █ = Celestial          • = Quasi-Safe
   █ = Structural         • = Dangerous
   █ = Surreal            • = *Unknown*
   █ = Terrestial
   █ = *Unknown*

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