Entry #1203.IX.2024

I was in a laboratory/escape room setting with a lot of different objects each representing a certain element or concept. The lighting in the room was stark bright white; with neon lamps of the ceiling (i never saw them explicitly, but intrinsically knew this was the case) and the sun shining from the window, but the lighting looked as if only from lamps. The walls and floor were also white; lower half of the walls and floor covered in square tile, the rest flat. Among the objects in the room were a long table, covered in objects (one of them was a microscope) and a diagonal ladder-shaped stack of shelves, positioned near a wall perpendicular to it (the same shape as a laddershelf near the curtains in a place i used to host sex parties at).

On each shelf of the stack, two sets of pieces of cheese were present - all being solid, opaque, with very few small holes or no holes at all, and each set in its own hue of mostly natural cheese colors but some reaching into yellow-green. Each set laid atop a round (upside-down plate)-shaped pedestal of opaque gray material with a faint texture of concentric circles, with an inscription on it written in black ink on old paper, under a half-present glass dome. The arrangements represented recipes, in that if you take the left cheese and leave it on a certain box-shelf (on a wall, brown color) for long enough, it will transmute into a right cheese of the same pair via aging.

One of such reactions, according to inscriptions, was a conversion of "gadolinium" into "iodolinium", both represented by cheese cut in thin (about 30 degrees) triangular slices, the former of them more yellowy and the latter almost green from age. There was a transparent arrow between these two sowing the direction of the reaction.

The supposed purpose of this place was to create something specific through these reactions. There were more components around the room and more types of reactions/recipes (one of them being a cooking recipe in a minecraft furnace). Not all possible reactions were listed, but some were, in written form on the walls.

The only action i remember actually taking in this room was moving closer to the laddershelf and inspecting the cheeses closely.

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