Chapter 1 Part 2 – The Basement Beneath

The RED Engineer stood still for a few seconds to admire his work. He reached to turn the valve. It appeared to turn in the clockwise direction. Nothing happened. He returned to the yellow room with the strange device. The Engineer decided to go to the right-side door, and found himself in a cream coloured room. There were more yellow pipes in the top left corner, two of them running parallel to each other. They went up to another room, connected by a wooden ladder going up through a hole in the ceiling.

"Nothing to do here," he commented.

He climbed up the ladder, hoping to find something of use. There was only another big switch in the peach coloured room. He pulled it. Nothing happened. He clambered back down the ladder, feeling a bit flustered. There was another door to the right of the room. He allowed himself through it. There was a big machine taking up the space of the right half of the room, looking like a big metal cuboid, with pipes going in and out of it. There was a switch on it under some electrodes.

"Ain't going to hurt to pull this, I guess," the Engineer quietly remarked.

So he pulled down the switch. It simply came back up again.

He softly asks himself, "What?"

He decided to return to the yellow room with the device. The ladder going downward seemed like a good option. A few seconds later, he found himself in an orange coloured room, with a black-and-white drawing of a lighthouse hanging on the wall.

"Well ain't that a nice drawing?" The Engineer said, admiringly.

There were four ways to go from there. The right and left walls of the room had doors on them, and there was another ladder going down. He decided to waltz through the left-side door first. There was a pipe with what looked like three pressure controllers. He noted that the pipe lead to the room with the newly placed valve. A thought came to him that he may be able to do something, so he went and turned on and off a few of the controllers, turning the valve with each combination that he made. He soon heard what seemed like a pipe bursting. Back in the pressure control room, which had leaf-green wallpaper, there was also another wooden ladder going down.

"How big is his darn place?!" He asks as he went down the ladder, slightly annoyed.

It lead to an orange room with more electrodes on the wall, with a panel under it. There was what seemed to be a coin on the floor, so he picked it up and examined it. He found the numbers '4741' on one corner of the coin's intricate design of a bird-human hybrid...thing. The numbers he found seemed important, so he mentally noted them. He went back to the orange room with the lighthouse drawing. He decided to go through the right-side door. He ended up in a brown room with three pipes, and a ladder leading down. He climbed down. There was an electric fuse box in the top left corner of the back wall. There was a missing fuse in one of the four slots.

"I wonder where I can get this fuse," he says to himself.

There was a door on the right. The RED Engineer walked through into a yellowish room with a chest of drawers and a radio. He decided to try to open the drawer. It wouldn't budge. Hitting it with a wrench didn't help, either. The radio sat on the drawer, so the Engineer decided to turn it on. It played a relaxing string instrument tune, and the drawer underneath it slowly slid open, revealing a spoon. He took the spoon. There were two ladders, one leading up, and the other leading down. He decided to go up first. He saw a ring device with an orifice in the middle, with two green lights and a red one attached to a metal pedestal. He went back down, but not after examining it closely. He then went down the other ladder. This room had bright orange wallpaper. There was a broken pipe running through the room, with water leaking out of one end of the broken pipes.

"That's what made that gosh darn racket earlier," the Engineer realised.

There was a small white pearl in the corner of the room, so he picked it up. He remembers seeing a clock-like object that seemed to be missing a pearl, so he returned to it to place the pearl in. Upon placing the pearl on the rope, he heard a short tune emanate from the clock-like apparatus, and the panels on top slid open to reveal a triangular metal piece. It had designs intricately carved into it. He collected it. The device in the yellow room had four holes for these sort of pieces, so he fitted it into one of them; the top right hole.

He cheers, "Three more to go!"

I honestly never thought that this first chapter will take up multiple parts...

Note: If you play Submachine 1, the number on the coin changes each play, so don't try to use the code here!

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