Everhood

Everhood

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Green Mage's Infinite Corridor [SPOILERS]
By Orange Ice Pop
In Midnight Town, in Green Mage's house (best character btw), within the cellar, past the playroom, there is a corridor that the Green Mage describes as 'nearly endless'. Which you'd think is a hint that there's a secret at the end, right? No. Only pain. Don't question it, this is the most demanding of all the achievements. Oh, but there is an achievement for it. It's barely worth it.
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What are you getting yourself into? (The Rough Math)
8:30pm

I am currently writing this section in a shift+tab while I have Red running in the background. Meaning, I am experiencing all the pain I am describing currently.

Each corridor takes roughly 8-10 seconds to pass through while running (Double tapping an arrow key). From what I've gathered, with a certain reddit post I've read and other clues in the game, there are roughly 900 - 1000 corridors. Multiply the average time (9 seconds) with the maximum amount of corridors, you get around 150 minutes, i.e. two and a half hours to run to the end.
Two. And a half. Hours.
But that's not all.

According to the previously mentioned reddit post, it is mentioned that halfway through this hell there are obstacles in your way to hinder your intelligence and question your sanity. So throw your idea to tape down your arrow key in the garbage, this is some hands on shmuck you've got yourself into. Not only that, but that means our rough estimate of 9 seconds to cross a corridor is false, since moving around a few boulders takes precious time.

Along with the obstacles, there are three signs that I've come across while typing. (I haven't hit the obstacles yet). These also take away your time, given you enter a corridor roughly in the middle, so you have to move around it, then continue running, which is, you guessed it, more time wasted. Not to mention time wasted if you're curious enough to read it, which, everyone reading this and actually going through with the challenge just have to be a little curious.

Overview
9:30pm

Given that if we were non-stop running with no obstacles hindering us, including the signs, we'd be here for a two and a half hour trip there. I imagine you'd have to walk all the way back. But as I've mentioned, there are obstacles soon, so the only conclusion I can come to for how long this is going to take is a rough estimate of three hours.

I know, thirty extra minutes? That's crazy. There's no possible way that the stupid rocks in the way could hinder us that much.

9:45pm

I just hit them.

The room takes thirty seconds to complete with the rocks in the way. (running is hard)

That's triple the amount of time it takes for a regular room.

The obstacles are introduced in the midway point.

Adding thirty minutes is the bare minimum.

If we were to do the actual math, that's 500 rooms taking average 9 seconds (Three taking ten, given the signs.) and another 500 rooms that take 30 seconds, that would give us 1 hour and 15 minutes for the first half, and 4 hours and 16 minutes for the other half, giving us a grand total of FIVE HOURS AND A HALF. (However, the rocks do vary existence from room to room, so sometimes you get lucky. But they're still there.)

AND THAT'S THERE. AND BACK. (probably)

YOU ARE CONSUMING YOUR FULL DAY DOING THIS. NOT INCLUDING IF YOU HAVE A HEALTHY SLEEPING SCHEDULE.
What Have We Learned?
I am an idiot for trying this, and so are you.

See you in gamer hell.
What You'll Find
12:45

I've made it. It took nearly 4 hours, but I made it there. To the end. And you don't have to walk back, it's a miracle. The true euphoria of finishing this desert bus-esque easter egg. And it was all worth it. The two rooms at the end of the tunnel was truly something to behold, not only for the achievement but for the experience of putting the time and effort into something others would see as meaningless, to be treated with something not a lot of others can be treated with.

I'm sad to say, but I can't tell you what's back there. Not a chance. It was too good of a feeling, there's no way I could possibly spoil it to anyone, even while using a spoiler tag. I can't stress how much I needed this to be done. This was all worth it.

If one of you cretins so far as clues others into what is beyond those nearly infinite rooms I won't do anything personal, but I must go as far as I can to make sure everyone goes there themselves. It's a journey we ourselves have to make, not one that can be skipped. That would ruin its purpose.



49 Comments
sirladdington 1 Sep, 2024 @ 5:40am 
tbh it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be
i did it manually without anything holding down the right key
i took a long break after the hour mark because i was going out for dinner
i had no friends in a call or anything but i listened to music and eventually got through it

also helps to have livesplit to keep track of time
Nadiman13 23 Mar, 2024 @ 8:01am 
I went on to go through this adventure and it took me 3 hours to get there and...
on one hand i feel like it was worth it, as someone who loves to 100% games, but i do feel that it is toture to go through. all this time i was thinking when will this end, so when i got there i did feel a huge relief.
I wouldn't recommend it to the casual player, only to ones who are 100% or just really curious.
TheGamer 29 Oct, 2023 @ 6:39pm 
hehe desert bus
Gru445 23 Sep, 2023 @ 9:29am 
I'd like do this but don't got the time
nerketur 17 Sep, 2023 @ 12:09am 
can confirm it is worth it.

but all the signs are also right. there are no hidden items, nothing to kill, nothing to save, nobody to talk to.

Go if you feel you must.

Don't go if you're speedrunning.
Socky 21 Mar, 2023 @ 3:02pm 
this took me 4 hours. had to set it up and went to take my bio finals lmao
vladik viter ✨ 4 Mar, 2023 @ 6:12am 
just hold button, then go to steam overlay (default hotkeys: shift+tab ).
Jeremy "Coolman" Campbell 16 Jan, 2023 @ 2:42pm 
I mean, you don't really need to save unless you need to close the game, or turn off the computer. You can idle infinitely, then resume. 4 hours of your life isn't that bad spread out over a week
Orange Ice Pop  [author] 16 Jan, 2023 @ 9:29am 
not when the rocks come!!
Jeremy "Coolman" Campbell 16 Jan, 2023 @ 7:43am 
ehhhh, you could just tab out then go take a nap