GMOD VR: Exploring gm_Oldspaces (Stagnant Hostility)

foreign and welcome back once again to Gary's mod and today the map we're going to be exploring is the appropriately named GM old spaces now I say appropriately named because this map is actually the predecessor to one that I explored before GM void spaces and that was one that I really liked a lot for not only being in other liminal space compilation but also an experience in and of itself with its scripting now in the previous video my return to places you've seen in your dreams which is another liminal space map I noted that all of these maps for however numerous they are seem to all kind of have their own feeling each individual map each collection of pieces seems to have its own feeling distinct from the others despite drawing from the same references for example places you've seen in your dreams that one is crushing it has this really oppressive atmosphere all throughout and you kind of go through it with this sense of impending doom and it's very unspecific you don't really know why then you have something like liminal Gallery 2 which to me felt more actively malicious or at least like I was being studied like it was trying to lead me down a certain path to see what I would do like it was trying to get some kind of reaction or result out of me and all the while there was the well not just feeling I was being followed I was being followed now the predecessor to this GM void spaces to me that felt more like one of those long dreams the kind of thing where you feel like you've lived a whole lifetime and then you wake up and find that all it was was a half hour nap on the couch the feeling of void spaces I think was one more of curiosity in that one it was more of a collection of larger spaces like defined sections with smaller rooms Within that's the main reason I'm here is because I want to feel what Vibes come to me from this map knowing that it eventually evolved into void spaces that map bit seemed to have such a sense of curiosity to it actually inviting me to move forward where with something like luminal Gallery I felt like I was being pushed forward and that's not a criticism I'm just noting the differences between the feelings that I get from them now this looks to be like a hotel lobby actually sort of mashed with an apartment because this seems a little bit more residential you've got these closets here clothes left on the ground like a bunch of people had to leave in a hurry Electronics left behind opening onto an empty room with a single armchair as if somebody got tired of waiting the light at the top of the stairs makes this feel like some kind of holy Ascension almost the glow coming from the windows and the skylights it kind of reminds me of the ending scene of Jacob's Ladder clipped stairs liking this already well played or sort of I I thought it was moving as if someone had just been sitting on it and split the second they heard me try the door handle but uh that may just be a sentient table hello yeah that'll teach you like I said of storage units imagine going to the bathroom late at night if this was your bathroom sitting there constantly feeling like you're gonna see some long black hands reach around the corners each of it's far too many fingers one by one wrapping around the edge this is not going to be a real door is it no should these things can Branch off yep there's our sniffler that we're all too familiar with however this looks pretty inviting almost like some kind of spa up in the mountains or alternatively the castle from a cure for wellness I have to say though this has kind of a relaxing vibe I mean the sunset lighting uh actually contrasted with that purple stuff over there uh it I can't tell if it's meant to be creepy I could definitely see how it would but honestly chilling in that tub right now even looking the other way feels pretty cozy this however is a little weirder and there's some very weird howls coming from the TV it's like when a station goes dead at three in the morning is that still a thing I feel like that was a thing on some channels when I was a kid I I'm not making the most of this though I'm not checking all these branches but then again maybe I shouldn't maybe I should just follow what catches my interest like in a dream I'm just assuming that these stairs head up to there right yeah I'll try to make a mental note of where certain things lead but I think for the most part for the most part I'm just going to let my Consciousness drift we were in a cozy yet somewhat weird dream and that's somewhat weird takes over our thoughts leading now into a descent into a much less cozy location we associate the locker room with pipes adding a plumbing element to this area we're going into sort of an underbelly infrastructure of the place type of feeling and yet we can still hear the dripping this empty space and that almost sort of like evil looking red glow coming through the window even if it is just the sunset it kind of makes me think that like it sort of gives me the impression that like I'm like some kid who ran away from home or whatever and now comes back to find that everyone got tired of waiting I don't know why such a specific intuition came so quickly can you go through there wow it actually looped right back in on here imagine someone waiting out here watching me go in there and come out there so this is where they filmed all those Scooby-Doo segments but that must mean that the rest of these aren't yeah they've either got to be locked or they're not nearly as complicated as where we came from nope we just got lucky on the first try interesting so you round the corner and it looks pretty intimidating at first if you're trying to see everything but in reality it's not actually all that complicated let's head this way though I I feel like pursuing this direction also sorry if you can hear the sound of the fire truck outside I'm wearing a VR headset hope that's not for my house yeah it really feels like it's suspended in time but like that there's some like hostility or resentment specifically for me suspended here as well the people are gone but the hate remains no this is more like a full-on hotel rather than the hotel apartment hybrid that we were just in where we started and if I'm correct in maintaining my sense of direction this probably goes back to where we started right not by a long shot uh well there's no place like home maybe if we keep following it we can find that there's just something about a dark hallway illuminated only by the glow from a Drink Machine I I think it sort of triggers that response of I'm not supposed to be here it's a visual shorthand for this place is shut down for the night and I'm wandering the hallways probably going to find the doors locked when I get to them with any luck I'll find a janitor who can let me out but in a place like this no people no janitors although that is quite a beautiful skylight I love the brick walls extending up past it making it feel like I'm depressed into the ground and those plants overhanging the sides this is back where we were yes okay sorry guys just drawing a map of my dreams luckily this seems to have a very looping sort of architecture to it so it's very easy to find my way back to where I was at least so far now let's see about this right back to here listen to that Rumble have you ever had that in dreams at a certain point you just realize that the entire time there's been a low Rumble in the background you become aware that it's been there for a long time but you're only just noticing it and it fills you with some sense of what I would describe is either a sense of dread or anticipation of course Corners are never a good thing I just heard what faintly sounded like it might have been talking uh here we are this comes up to here boarded doors on either side meaning we can't progress in either of those directions I always describe dreams as having this stream of Consciousness flow where one idea sort of takes precedence something that was in the background will take over and some thought from each portion of a dream will be expanded upon and lead you into the next but some dreams just sometimes you repeatedly come back to the same places those are the kind of thing where you wake up and you feel like maybe your brain is trying to tell you something like there's some major common thread or it's trying to keep you on track yeah but you can't always tell what that Common Thread is I don't know why that happens I don't know why some dreams seem to insist on keeping you on a certain thought or why you keep returning to a certain thought now we're in more of an office error Ria okay uh that's just the that's just the fog doing its corner of vision thing see uh I turned the corner and I thought that in that moment A light turned off at the end like something didn't want me to see something but this this looks a little bit more foreboding but there we have that transition see this is more of a commercial or industrial space rows and rows of freezers and then you have the brick wall here not something you wouldn't expect to see in a back room but it sort of transitions into a more officey space but these are like the nice bricks the kind of thing you might see at the interior of like a conference center or something huh it's almost like it responded to me thinking that I was starting to get the hang of the layout wait the store is open have I been here before no I don't think so so then why was it no this looks familiar yes I came from here but I didn't come down here why was that door open locked locked have not drawn this baby in a while one of you has to open now one of you is gonna have to open now I feel like there's a sound that wasn't here before come on what am I waiting for what is it that I'm waiting to have happen uh start probing the walls I guess now now one of you has to open you what about you can I go back no tack light not working great gonna have to put it away okay we went from curious but now this is starting to feel a little bit more of a trap more like I've walked into my judgment which by the way what better of an image for an office type environment this right here this is a real representation of being put on the spot professionally I assume this has got to go back to that hole right locked of course well our path has been set for us it's really been set for us okay going for more of a straight horror Vibe than the than the previous Maps I didn't prepare for this I was expecting something more like void spaces in fact I even thought it might be like an earlier version of void spaces oh my God close close close close with me in it do you really expect me to go back that way what happens if we close with me in it uh you're gonna make me reach for it no I don't know if it's even possible might not be doable in VR do that close good good good good good right we can just be safe in here I don't feel safe screw it screw it screw it screw it screw it stop that you can't just you can't just make me think there's something there and then do another thing that also makes me think that there's something there something that would happen if there was something there that's like well actually that's like how you do jump scares but stop doing it to me okay once I figure out which one of these doors you're behind you're a dead man uh could it perhaps be that one could jump down onto that couch break my fall it's official we have seen him we are being followed there's someone else here with us but what do they want and who are they occupato 's doors are models they're not gonna respond to me doing this man which one of you was that because it might take me a while to get to each of you this way then I mean we could go down the other way is this familiar is this someplace we've been yes it actually is okay so on the left is going to be the other area with the creepy vending machine yes okay I know where I am now what does that sound see that was creepy that was one creepy aspect of being in a commercial building after hours was that sound the ventilation or was it some creature breathing in the walls where does this go we've been here before right look at this little like faux door going an inch into a world's shortest hallway yeah we've been to all this before oh that means that at this point uh we have to go down that Hall no choice definitely not going back in there should I be trying all of these oh that's open now I don't want to go back in there actually I didn't even see was this whole area here before was this maybe just a wall I've got I've got to try all these doors gotta try all these doors or people will no doubt talk about the crazy things that I missed well at least if we were lost in here we would know where to get our drinks actually I've always hated these things because you know that like every third person puts their mouth on the actual faucet so like do you really want anything that's coming out of there also the only one that actually gets cold water is always in the teacher's lounge it's like something popped down from the ceiling and dragged somebody up trying to put the light back as it did so can we see through there it's such a narrow Gap and not really and of course me failing It Horror protagonist 101 standing directly under the dripping blood train station ambiance when is this some kind of underground umbrella lab even better underground umbrella mansion let's just open all these doors that's our that's our breadcrumbs we open these so that we know where we've been I won't open that preemptively unless it leads to a smaller area so that's the thing you just can't predict it with these Maps you can't predict what's an offshoot and what's a whole thing for example oh this was locked from the other side have a look with this underground facility holds at least for some reason I'm getting the impression that this is underground it's deceptively bright and clean foreign Hotel and it looks like there's like some kind of Woodland cabin in it oh that is so interesting how just about every liminal space map has this iconic location and yet they all seem to do their own take on it this however is not what I expected to find wait no how do we get to there we are my house right here oh and some of those windows actually reveal 3D spaces Beyond when you place the lights around the circle in the middle like this it kind of makes it feel like either something happens when you stand in the middle of it or it's trying to Signal aliens to land here or something although with the ceiling that hangs over the middle of the courtyard it might be a little bit difficult for them to land you look like you're very interested in what's going to happen to me now that I've stepped inside like you know something I don't it's very dark in here and that is a very narrow doorway in the back and here we are right onto this Library this is a sad site seeing it mostly bare in the shelves totally empty except for that one I suppose and if I know anything about liminal spaces I bet we are currently situated in the end are we not there we are yep getting to the point where I can identify liminal space images just by the vague shape poor baby oh you didn't tell me you were here ah what's up yeah sorry it looks like they don't have any more children's books here but I'll order you some when we get home oh look you can have a giraffe friend can you can I pick you up okay great horror baby and giraffe best friends forever let's put you right there and you right there uh perfect the best of friends all right well I'm gonna go explore the rest of this place you two have fun if you're anything like me you don't need books to make your own adventures in the halls of a library man I love the library that I used to go to as a kid uh now our choices are down that corridor or down this one and for now I guess we'll go down this one feel like I've chosen poorly uh it all comes back here anyway now this would actually have been an interesting way to approach initially because look as you're walking through here the bare white wall almost looks like a dark sky with a lot of fog especially helped because you can see the beams from the lights being projected down like that look doesn't that look like a foggy sky behind a cabin but then of course you step out and find oh yeah this is a familiar location after all though having that fence run through the middle almost makes it feel more like a refugee camp oh now this could be my apartment yeah this is exactly the kind of thing I like it's close up but still not too cramped and we've got shares tables couch TV computer over here this is a great Alone Together spot the kind where a bunch of good friends just carry about their own solitary activities but you just enjoy each other's presence whoops yeah see even this this is like my ideal type of kitchen because sure there's not like a ton of counter space maybe not good for like you know having guests sober for like dinner or something but you know if I need something all I gotta do is reach over crack some eggs here reach over grab some milk easy although I may want to clean this place up just a little bit to once again get all this out of my way I don't know why I have this Instinct but it's an instinct that seemingly everyone in the world has too where anytime you do anything strenuous in a video game you have to do a stress noise as if you had performed the action yourself Crash Bandicoot is a very noisy game for me to play all right now you guys stick together I don't want any of you getting lost okay now this is a pretty nice bathroom the one thing I don't like is that I would be very unable to enjoy a relaxing bath I mean it's big enough deep enough but this wall let's jump over yeah the red glow from the window might actually be relaxing but this wall would bother me I'd always be expecting someone to peek around the corner no matter how irrational that fear may be locked which means this is a dead end I know where to go next though if we come over here and look down to our right we should see the subway station or at least that's what I'm dubbing it until we actually get down there this place is not ADA Compliant I'll tell you that but there's another stairwell down here where else could we have gotten here from or wait have we seen this before maybe oh we're further down the hall now I'm not gonna go there just yet I kind of get the feeling now that all this is really slowly leading me down that Hall foreign [Music] water now water's good and all you know can't live with it can't live without it but I can live without presenting in such ways I'm going to be taking a walk down that tunnel aren't I ah yes Gonna Make Me Slowly submerge myself and I find this weird thing in VR I can practically feel the chill once it gets up to my shoulders oh look at how dirty this is just mounds of grime and Gunk all piled up down here just imagining how compacted and wet and dense it must be huh these neon colored lights it almost makes it feel like oh hell can we get up there it almost makes it feel like crawling through the tunnels Chuck E cheese or McDonald's or something can we maybe drain this water no see I'm walking waist high and it has me worried that maybe there's something beneath the water uh actually let's go bobbing for Easter eggs I don't see anything to make coming down here any more interesting if I'd seen that kite behind me I would have lost it because I'm starting to feel like even though I'm standing here in VR and movement is done with the stick in my left hand like imagine my thumb is a little stick right now I I feel like I can't move as fast oh we've found our way to the dream pools now what are these chairs standing in watch of is that perhaps a deeper end sure looks like it oh that's kind of a cool idea a pool which extends up over its own ledge and so by placing the ladders here it gives the impression that this isn't just a deep end of a pool that also has a shallow end it's actually rising up over its own boundaries but just how deep is this deep end about as deep as you'd expect from a deep end but where does it lead I don't like this oh oh that is so much deeper than I thought it would be that implies that the water level Rose at some point huh see there's a lot of aspects to this area where it actually implies that like this place had a purpose and it's gone beyond that purpose due to neglect although the life preserver kind of uh kind of implies that it was an all at once disaster that someone tried to prevent or help with hello red glow of Doom what have you in store for me oh now see if they had known about all these paper towels this whole thing could have been prevented this is why you clearly label your storage closets what goes where hmm there's that weirdly comfortable dusk lighting again does that mean that we're back somewhere familiar like a real common theme on this map is places that feel like the back end to like a Rec Center we see a lot of lockers tiles showers and pipes that would be infrastructure for such things I'm not going to be able to get through here without bumping physics props but this actually feels like it's transitioned from pools like into a school oops sorry bowling trying to shop no I definitely haven't been here before all right upstairs it is it says Exit but and to what extent do we really trust that is this somewhere we've been no it isn't now this looks like some kind of old mansion I want to see where this goes also uh just a general style tip for homes bring back wood paneling it was all the rage in the 70s I don't know what happened to it now this looks like a really chill room but it's not my room and the fact that it looks until recently occupied has me a little Disturbed that uh maybe it's inhabitant is still here I mean clearly we see that somebody was living in this closet this door is Oh I thought something was going on behind me for a second there this door is broken inward like somebody was dragged out of here unless maybe who was here would have known that someone was coming and was hiding out in there and it just didn't work out I'm definitely gonna have to go back we haven't looked into the starting area in such a long time but we might be getting close now this has been knocked down so we can see inside but am I to understand that under regular conditions this area is just completely sealed off by these dividers and why the need for such a tall ceiling oh there's more up there although I don't know what exactly you're meant to be observing from that window maybe management thought that people were getting too many freebies from the drink machine and they wanted to keep a closer eye on it I I've got to go back I've left too many questions unanswered back the way I came foreign hallway you will not actually you might you might go up to the hallway we just came from right no and there's that ghost dog again bet share by the way is where the guard would sit eventually they had to get right down to it and get a person to stand there and deter people trying to get freebies from the machine and we once again loop back to here wait no no no no no no no no we haven't been here before it looks like places we've been but it's not it they made us think that it was familiar but really it's just because every office looks exactly the same where am I I wanted to kind of organize my thoughts on this but now I'm more disorganized than ever there is a definite trend of climbing upward though I just wish I knew how far we'd gone in the first place I have so much more still to explore I think I don't like this I don't like this it's pitch black and completely silent what tore through here that so many things are knocked over this is like an office not under construction but under renovation we've got areas of new walls and also peeling old ones here we are back in this hallway all right I'm gonna I'm gonna pursue this area a little bit more and then we'll come back and see what that's all about man this map is proving to be every bit as large maybe even larger than void spaces but the same principle that I described before still applies it's these larger sections with smaller things in between and all kinds of really weird connections all over you really never know what you're gonna get or when you'll see something familiar again I mean at the weirdest times and it the whole thing takes so long to go through and after a while it starts to feel like the only thing you've ever known now this could almost be a cozy little Hideaway but think about it you're here late at night fixing up something from the cabinets or the fridge I'd always feel like there's something behind me this is especially [Music] with that sound coming from the TV this is the other end of where we came up before just going to try all these doors again but I think that's it now we do have the option of I think right or left either way there's stuff we haven't seen all the way you keep looking out this company loses far too much on that vending machine foreign that was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be however I have no choice but to trigger the Trap right just be ready to switch to the safety Glock at a moment's notice really expected our old friend to be peeking around the corner just now maybe the door will close as we come back no I can't help but feel that I'm missing something but if I'm not I'm happy to leave it and if I am we'll Discover it during our no clip run which I can't wait to do for this place wait we've seen this already I think we might have actually fully mapped out this section so where do we have to go from here right it was this way see something I've noticed is that each section seems to have Like Only One path that ends in real progression you just got to work your way to it took the other half of my house and moved it over here did they put the one computer on in a seemingly empty site and it kind of makes it seem like somebody's sneaking into work after hours for some nefarious purpose although and maybe something happened to him never anything good about a flashlight left on and what am I meant to see and it's beam why is this area caged off why am I following the Caged off path what kind of am I this kind of more on that too oh it's the freezer area oh this is so crazy to see how different a path I would have taken if I had just gone left instead of right all right so we have we been through all this or are these just more open doors well we presumably haven't been down there it's like some evil was contained within here and it broke its way out blazing a trail of Destruction down that way now this little room sound of the wind outside and the electrical lights overhead cramped space but with a completely open door and a window right here with a glow from the machine outside this is a night shift simulator just sitting there you're back to an Open Door and Window constantly feeling creeped out but never having anything there when you glance over your shoulder which after a while is roughly every 10 seconds where would be the next place to go uh there's a door here it leads into here all right so that only leaves the One Direction then wouldn't this just loop back in on where we were you heard that right sounded like something felt over wait is this yeah yeah we finally made it all the way to the end of this hallway uh this goes down to here I'm a little bit confused about the geometry in this moment but we've mapped that out now wow every time we connect to a familiar area it just completely throws my sense of direction on its head oh I think that sound was coming from the drinking machine huh almost seems like we've come for that wasn't a Drink Machine this is that catwalk we saw earlier foreign on a map like this I know that there's not going to be any enemies right but let's go back to the origin of the term safety Glock I believe the first time I pulled this thing out was on RP Asheville I fired it a few times I don't think it's ever drawn blood in my defense but it's a safety blanket that's why it's called the safety block I feel safer when I'm carrying it that's what this country was founded on I didn't even notice there was a window up here and a window here huh I may have seen everything by now there probably are some things I missed so I guess I'll do a lap and get back to you depending on what I find look at all these valves and pipes and look at how high this thing truly goes it gives the impression that behind these walls are a huge network of pools and flooded areas and why did that footstep sound so much clearer than the others we never actually went this way yep closed doors means we didn't come this way huh and this is where the office drones work and not even office drones this looks more like an illegal operation just stuffed into a storage room like this normally there's just the one unlucky intern that has to do this here there's a whole staff oh huh we're right at the beginning well uh assuming my no clip run doesn't reveal anything new what better place to end it than here right actually did I ever try this huh well if I had I would have found the layer of the office drones oh I guess it would be a good time to end it then actually right after we do our no clip run I forgot that I do these now I really am curious to see how this all fit together oh it's all actually very compact you know coming through here I'm more able to see how this hallway just almost functions as a literal spine a backbone that connects everything else wow this is actually so much smaller than I expected that's incredible work because I feel like I've been wandering this for hours actually there might still be something that we've yet to see ah yes haha this is that Mountain Spa hallway that we didn't see before but it connects onto this something we've seen in a few liminal space images which uh I don't know I think images like this these carpeted floors against White Walls benches and moss growing all around I think it makes it feel almost like some sort of like messed up underground photo shoot or like being in a museum after dark but the lights are still on and this just runs right back onto here GM old spaces and I am very pleasantly surprised after reading that this is the predecessor to void spaces I was kind of worried that it would just be like a less fleshed out version of the same idea however those Spears were pretty much immediately assuaged when I started playing and then very quickly replaced by other fears I also wanted to compare how it felt like what Vibes it would give me in comparison to void spaces and it definitely stands on its own in that regard as well because to me while it did have that sort of flowing curiosity to it that void spaces does it was a lot creepier and the reason it did that was because it set the mood very early on by having that scripted sequence that ended in seeing that shadow figure liminal spaces sort of have that intrinsic feeling that maybe you're not alone and so to have that seemingly confirmed so early on you don't go through it with the anxiety that something might be there you know there's something there and you're going through with the anxiety of when is it going to show its space again every time I rounded a corner every time I walked into a dark area every time I looked into a little closet I was wondering is it going to be there am I going to get that jump scare I'm not waiting for something unspecific that might not even be there I know exactly what I'm worried about and by setting that mood early on it just colored the entire experience now granted if I hadn't gone through there it would be a very different thing and so different people could maybe get different Impressions playing through the same map but much like its successor it felt very intimidating in its scale and its size and with how many branches there were but the more I went on the more I saw that it was very tightly focused and what I mean by that is you're kind of being held by the hand you're kind of being set down a specific path to experience things a certain way you don't realize it at the time but that Central hallway does actually double both as a space and as a hub now that I've finished it I'm able to see that all these areas that I was so intimidated by were actually quite self-contained they would always loop back in on that Hub and then we'd move on to the next one but it doesn't feel like that when you're in the moment and so it creates this thing where you're not really in much danger of missing anything but you still feel like you're lost in this endless loop you wonder what would have been different if I had taken that other path what would I have seen where would I have ended up but in the end just like a dream this level will always get you where you're going in the end and if you like this video please remember to like comment and subscribe for more creepy and comfy content if you have any ideas for other videos you think I should do the best place to suggest that will be at the Discord which I will link in the description if you want to try this map out for yourself that link will also be in the description and as always I will see you in the next one

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Length: 64min 27sec (3867 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 30 2022