Mirrorworld

**Mirrorworld** is a dimension accessible through Corridoria that takes the form of a labyrinth of mirrors that extend about ten feet up from the floor with a four-foot width, with the pattern of the labyrinth corresponding to a hexagonally-tiled layout. It is lit with soft yellow lights that take the form of domes on the ceiling. If one escapes the labyrinth there are an additional series of levels to contend with.

## Life

Mirrorworld is occupied by emaciated pale white cats which reside within the mirrors, and will often be seen scratching the panes of glass from within. There are also black cats, which can step out of mirrors and will follow the explorer with purrs and meowing until they are satiated with catnip or another feline delicacy.

This is the cutest part of Mirrorworld. The danger lies in how a figure identical to the explorer will appear within the mirrors and begin hunting them down. These *doppelgangers* may or may not be a single entity, but are dangerous in their ability to possess or harm explorers if one locks eyes with them, necessitating an almost constant down-ward gaze, or, special goggles such as infrared goggles that turn mirrors into opaque surfaces.

## Additional Levels

After escaping the labyrinth through a latter leading up to a hatch (*click here for the solution*, and *here* for an unsolved map), one will enter a lobby with mirrors on all sides and observe a desk with a guest-book, of which names have been extracted which correspond to no extant or past TAOCEAR members, implying explorers before even Henry G. Gordon visited the dimension. Yonder this desk with a guest book is another doorway leading to yet another labyrinth of an unknown extent and size. (Although a solution *has* yet again been mapped by Mary Cindworth.) No explorer has gotten lost within this labyrinth, as especial precautions were taken to keep track of the turns made. This second labyrinth differs majorly from the first only in **a.)** it's advanced size, and **b.)** how the mirrors conform to a heptagonal tiling corresponding to a higher-dimensional, non-Euclidean, space. Otherwise one must contend with the same *doppelgangers*. There are cats here too, but this time the emaciated white cats from before are nothing but skeletons of felines, roaming listlessly past the mirrors.

Past this second labyrinth is another lobby with a desk and guestbook of which only seven names have been inscribed, one name of which belonging to the legendary pataphysician André Joyce. Past this second lobby there is a third labyrinth whose mirror layout corresponds to a hyperbolic octagonal tiling. This labyrinth has yet to be cracked. Here there are no white cats beyond the mirrors but only small piles of bones and fur at random points in the manifold reflections.

## Facts

* Mirrorworld's first labyrinth has 3,160 cells, or a hexagonal tiling of side-length 40, and the solution path is 190 turns long. However, following from Mirrorworld's geometry is is entirely possible to solve the labyrinth by brute force means, or by hugging the wall and moving along the wall until one comes to the center cell space.
* The "wall-hugging" method just mentioned is how Mary Cindworth solved the heptagon tiled second labyrinth, as she was part of the first expedition into this new found and second labyrinth. Three people took note of the various turns until they reached the center, where a map was created and a solution diagram charted. All four members of the expedition then ascended the hatch to the second lobby and took photos of the third labyrinth's entrance.
* A third expedition to Mirrorworld plans to spend multiple days unlocking the octogonal and presumably enneagonal tiled labyrinths, which could take multiple days using the wall-hugging method.

**Name:** Mirrorworld
**Path:** R1 (24 feet from entrance)
**Status:** Structural, Dangerous
**First Expedition:** 13 August 1991
**Time Differential:** 1.0004

**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*

```