Recreational Areas

The recreational areas are a series of rooms and doors encompassed within a single hallway. The area serves as a main setting within *The Facility*, as Numbers tend to convene here, and doctors occasionally show up within it as well. Most all rest chapters involving other Numbers takes place here. A few major events within the story also take place in the hall.

## In Story

Many interactions take place within the rooms of the hall, or within the hall itself. Often, Ten is seen talking with other Numbers or doctors in these areas, and in a few chapters, she overhears conversations between doctors.

Several of *The Facility’s* major events take place here, such as Jay’s death, and Ten’s first meeting of The Overseer and Lucius, among others.

## Layout

Though the recreational areas are mentioned often in the story, and movement between rooms is regularly referenced, there is no concrete layout of the room entrances given in the main story, except for perhaps the office by the gate, and the rec room at the end of the hall. The cafeteria and theater appear to also be on the same side as the office, with the gardens, arcade, gym, and music room located on the opposite side.

While all the rooms are bright white and radiate light, the halls are a bit dimmer and use recessed lights that shine spots of white light throughout the hallway. It’s likely that this is so The Overseer, who doesn’t much care for the bright light in most moments, isn’t as vexed while walking the halls. Seldom does he enter the other rooms, and it seems he largely leaves these areas and the Numbers' rooms in the charge of his employees.

The recreational areas are shown once to become a bit dimmer when it’s time for prisoners to go to their rooms. When Ten is left behind “accidentally”, she awakes to the areas looking less bright than usual.

## Front Hallway

The front hallway consists of two main places encompassed within one small area, and essentially serves as a meeting place for doctors and Numbers alike. The front hallway acts as a dropoff area for Numbers and paperwork, and a crossroads for doctors passing through to other areas of the facility beyond Sector A.

### **Records Office**

The records office stands before the gate and is where doctors tend to drop off paperwork. The office is spearheaded by Mom, and later Monica who assists her. While the interior of the office is currently unknown, Ten has been able to peek in just enough to see a cabinet full of binders from the door.
The door to the records office is dutch-style, and opens from the top and bottom, or collectively as a whole door (akin to what you might see at a doctor’s office at the front desk). Beyond that, little is known of the office.
Given that Mom technically lives at the facility, it is likely she has a space to sleep within the office. Not only that, but there are also controls to open the gate stationed in the area, as both she and Monica have to retreat into the office to do so. It’s uncertain whether or not there are monitors displaying camera information or not.
### **Gate**

The gate is a heavy, white, metal entryway that slides open to allow people in or out. It is a security measure meant to keep prisoners of a given sector within the recreational areas.
It is learned in Chapter 49 that the gate can be opened from the inside with the keypad by the infirmary (likely in the case that a doctor must enter the areas for any reason without letting anyone else try escaping), but it is unknown just how this can be done.
## Recreational Rooms

### **Infirmary**

The infirmary is where Numbers who are injured or in need of care are taken to be treated. Mom is usually the one who will take care of anyone passing by who needs the infirmary (while calling for Cyrus or Eight to help her), but other doctors like Gale may occasionally show up there with their Number, or another.
The infirmary has cabinets and shelves filled with medical supplies, a flat, plasticy bed, and a stool for doctors to sit in.
### **Rec Room**

The rec room is a major meeting place for most Numbers, as it is a place they will usually go to first or will be left in by doctors (if unconscious). The room is fairly large, encompassing two plush, cream-colored couches, a television where movies are played, a television on the wall where nature scenes are displayed, a door leading to a small restroom, and a few game tables off to the side (namely a pool table).
It’s here that many of the Numbers tend to convene when together as a group, with some exception. While many come there to relax or do independent activities, it’s also a place where group meetings or discussions may take place.
### **Cafeteria**

The cafeteria is a place where all the Numbers are assigned meals on a schedule, though with visits often detracting from a timely schedule, Numbers often will convene there on their own time, either as a group, or individually. It has a few rectangular metal tables with benches hooked to them, a few waste bins, and a counter where food can be received or trays put away.
Charlie works behind this counter, cooking meals for the Numbers, or giving them little treats now and then. To the right of the counter, which has a protective pane that’s opaque and hides Charlie from sight, there’s a door that likely leads to a kitchen, where the titular worker resides and works.
### **Theater**

The theater is a place that loosely mimics a traditional theater, but also has a projector high above the stage that drops down to play movies like in a more modern or commercial theater.
There are a few long rows of beds in the theater that all face the stage across from the double door entrance. These beds have a waved shape, enveloping the sheets and cushions within a metal frame. The interior is decorated with a burgundy floor rather than the usual white, with similarly colored sheets on every long row of beds.
There’s a staircase to the left of the stage that leads up to it, and toward the back of the metal stage is a series of cabinets and shelves that hold clothing, props, and other relative items for Numbers to play with. Mainly, it is Two and Three using these things, but on occasion, other Numbers have gathered on the stage for other reasons, such as dressing up or just having a conversation.
It’s likely that Jonathan and Nathaniel are responsible for keeping the theater stocked with props and clothing.
### **Music Room**

The music room is an area where Eight often goes, which holds a variety of instruments, accessories, and resources for Numbers to play music at their leisure. The entrance is blocked off by a giant, L-shaped cabinet that is large enough to hold a lot of different instruments that are labelled. There is a small pathway to its left that opens up to the rest of the room, and there one can find shelves and cabinets with accessories and booklets with musical notation, as well as random things pasted onto the wall for people to look at or reference.
To the right of the area are several metal chairs for Numbers to use for playing or relaxing. And ahead of the path by the cabinet, across from the side of the room where the entrance is, there’s an elevated platform that leads to a grand piano, an instrument that is only seen played once by Yosuke.
Like the theater, the music room has a colored floor, this time a rich, royal purple. It’s also here that Ten comes to know Eight more intimately, taking time to listen to his music and understanding what drives him.
### **Library**

The library is another area where Eight tends to spend most of his time. It’s a wide space encompassing a bunch of metal bookcases filled with books, although it’s been said that details in these books have been heavily censored or scratched out. For what reason, none of the Numbers know. But it is a running trend for prisoners not to be allowed to get a sense of time within the facility, and so dates or periods of time that may spark memories about time will often be censored.
The library has a deep blue colored floor, and there are a few short tables scattered about for one to read at.
### **Gardens**

The gardens are two separate areas conjoined in one. The main entrance leads to rows of planters filled with different kinds of flowers. These are likely kempt by the workers, though it’s possible for Numbers to tend to them too if they so like.
It is shown that the lights change in the gardens for the plants’ sake, changing in intensity, but definitely still targeted above them to stimulate growth and mimic sunlight.
The walls of the gardens are half colored green (likely to simulate bushery), and the floors are a dirt brown in order to mimic real ground. This extends to the second portion of the gardens, which can be accessed via a door to the back right corner of the room.
In this second portion are many real bushes and trees (though small ones since they are easiest to maintain the roots of), and a fake dirt path that leads to the back of the room.
The gardens are only visited a few times, but each time so far has been relatively significant. It’s here that Ten had her first major conversation with Cyrus about love and Jade, discovered Two and Three were in an incestual relationship, spoke with Blue about her status with Cyrus, and was sexually assaulted by Yosuke while dosed heavily with the anesthetic as his obsession with her began to grow.
### **Gym**

The gym is a large open area with padded grey cushions along the walls, and benches off to the side of a basketball court. There are two baskets, and likely some supplies somewhere off to the side for people to take from and use for sports (though this is not explicitly mentioned in story). The floor of the gym, Ten notes, is decorated and laminated like a real basketball court.
The gym also has showers that can be entered from back right corner, where spare gowns and towels can be found. It’s more in the style of a communal shower, with open stalls.
It’s at the gym that Ten first meets Lav and gets a taste of her style of coping with the facility. It’s also here that Cyrus supposedly goes running, as he has said he likes to do so from time to time.
The Numbers seldom come to the gym except on rare occasions, either for group games, or just to exercise individually.
### **Pool**

The pool is another area where Numbers may go to either hang around or get some exercise, and is where Violet often spends her time as she is proficient at swimming. The room is completely white, and the water usually crystal clear to a point that it looks completely transparent when still. Like in the gym, there is a door leading to showers in the back right corner of the pool area, where Numbers can change into designated swimwear or rinse off after swimming.
Many of Ten’s one-on-one moments with Violet take place here.
### **Crafts Room**

The crafts room is one that tends to be visited or worked within by Blue and the twins. It’s a large area with a pink floor that has several low metal tables (no chairs, as Numbers are expected to sit on the floor). Cabinets are sprinkled along one of the walls that house various containers of craft or art supplies, such as pens, pencils, markers, yarn, construction paper, scissors, cardboard sheets, and more.
Many of the projects done here are plastered along the walls and in spaces between cabinets, namely cardboard dolls made by the twins and some of the other Numbers. However, later on, dolls of past Numbers are made in an attempt to keep them in memory. This starts primarily when Three breaks down over not being able to remember Jade’s face, and works with Ten and Cyrus to make a doll of her so as to remember her. Later on, the Numbers all get together and make dolls of their previous friends. Even Ten makes a doll of Jay, not wanting to forget her.
Other things like drawings are also pasted on the walls, such as Blue’s art of Violet, and Ten’s art of her friends upon being released back to Yosuke after her long confinement.
### **Arcade**

The arcade is one of the only recreational areas that is not lit, and relies on arcade cabinets lined within it to illuminate the room. The floor is a blue color, but hard to tell in the dark of the room. The cabinets housed within the area are all free for prisoners to play with, but are heavily censored to avoid mentioning time or significant events, the way books and films in the facility are.
It is not a place that is visited often, but has been said to be frequented by Three, Five, Violet, and Pickle.