The Utility Room

The Utility Room is the behind the scenes of the Universe where all the heavy lifting takes place. Tasks of an abstract nature are conducted in order to keep existence stable and temporal. Operations have been going smoothly for the last 13.8 billion years ever since Bin Man, supreme leader of the Utility Room, was employed (allegedly by God himself though theologians and scientists continue to debate on Bin Man's origin) as the 'Cosmic Caretaker'.

According to the Head Log describing a Watcher's role, the Utility Room can be understood as a mirror and as a switchboard for existence, events of a large cosmic scale must be ‘held up’ as it were by Watchers. They do this by being in the right place at the right time. In the Head Log's description of Workers, they are described as handling 'Tickets' previously given to them by The Adjudicator, which may relate causally to the 'real world' to some effect.

#### The Pendulum

The Pendulum seems to be a critical part of The Utility Room. During the incident at the beginning of the player's journey, where the Pendulum seems to freeze and crack upon the destruction of its keepers, the player seems to shift location in both time and space eventually finding themselves in a cave on the surface of The Utility Room. Based on this we can posit that the Pendulum is some kind of time-space clock that is needed for things to run smoothly. This would explain why the Watcher has a collision with the bottom of the Pendulum during 'The Pendulum' chapter of the game. Bin Man's reprimanding of the player at the end of the journey seems measured to the seriousness and criticality of the incident that has taken place. The disorder caused by the Pendulum being thrown out of balance seems to be serious enough that Bin Man closes The Utility Room for what we can assume is forever.

#### The Landscape

The surface of The Utility Room seems to be entirely rocky. It is mountainous and megalithic with many mountains exceeding 8000m. The outer bounds of the Utility Room are unknown. Beneath its surface is an equally gigantic cave system that, as it appears during "The Cathedral", seems to go on forever. Whilst appearing desolate, The Utility Room is very much alive with many inhabitants. It is thought the whole place is alive with some degree of awareness. Rocks seem to form strange, alien shapes by themselves over time leading to some interesting geological anomalies.

During the game, the Pendulum is the focal point of the landscape and can be seen swinging in virtually every level after "The Run". This is the same pendulum that the player sees swinging at the beginning of the game. If you were to follow it up around 75 miles you would find The Door. Based on this, we know that The Utility Room is a delocalized area. It does not exist within the bounds of the known Universe as the area would overlap Space itself. We can infer that once the player passes through the threshold of the door that they enter a non-place in a non-space.

Watchers are known to carve paths through mountains to make getting through easier. This is done by slowly eroding the peaks of the mountains down as they pass over the top layer by layer. This is how the valley during "The Run" was formed which has Watchers pass through it often.

#### Inhabitants of The Utility Room

It is unlikely that the 'beings' the player comes across in the game are the only ones that exist in The Utility Room, however of the ones that are known there are 6 types excluding Bin Man. They are: Watchers, Workers, Slugs, The Wanderer, The Adjudicator and The Predator. Each serve or have served some role in The Utility Room, all of which are known with the exception of The Wanderer. Each seems to possess a different level of awareness and inhabit different levels of The Utility Room. Primordial Watchers found in 'The Cathedral' are very ancient iterations of Watchers found on the surface. They are much smaller but share the same behaviors and characteristics.

#### The Light Source

There are of course no suns or stars in The Utility Room. Where does the light come from?

#### Bin Man's Reprimand

Bin Man's reprimand at the end of the game does not take place in The Utility Room as we understand it. It takes place within Bin Man's head.