A troll figure slowly opens the door to a (relatively) new room. This maze has become quite bigger since they have last see- oh god what is that.
These are... lobsters, except their heads are replaced with twisted human faces. Whenever the Catalyst tries to look directly at them, their faces contort and corrupt, the troll's mind refusing to process the imagery before them. Oh and there are scorch marks all over the place, the floor, the walls, the shelves.
Okay, this is fine, I can work with this. The Catalyst scoops up some of the lobsters and carefully makes their way across the room. They create a pit on the opposite end, and put all the little fucked up lobsters in, one by one, until the floor is mostly free of them.
While carrying corrupted lobsters, Catalyst notices a window. Looking outside, all they see are RED MILES, scattered across the sky as long as eye can see. This is fine. Catalyst decides to step away from the window and refrain from looking further and/or panicking.
Now that the troll has some breathing room and free workspace, they continue inspecting the room. Numerous shelves cover each wall, on top of them sit vials and bottles and beakers, many of which are broken and near a scorched wall. On closer look, the flasks tend to be labeled ominously, "XXX", "DANGER", warning symbols drawn all over them. This is fine.
A free space on one of the walls in between shelves contains writing. Huh, a scrawled message from none other than JR? Well it's only polite to answer.
Few of the corrupted lobsters seem to have escaped their pit, but Catalyst doesn't mind. As long as the little guys don't clutter the floor too much, they can mess around. Only a few things left to set up to make this a cozy, practical room - a desk, a work laptop, the soot and scorches all over the place even add a bit of charm, really. Also many papers with reminders, theories and drawings are now pinned above. How does the troll pin papers to a solid wall? Don't ask.
Oh, and a chair would be useful, thought Catalyst won't be staying to sit down for now. They have another place to be. The troll opens their work laptop, trying to check on something, but... oh no, an error screen again. Welp, no time to deal with that now, I'll get going and just send NAM a note.
The Catalyst descends.
You can still see their open laptop with a red text "ERROR" in all caps flicking menacingly.
You look closer, and it seems the laptop has Sburb.exe running.
Attempt to play sburb? Y/N