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Experiment 317
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745 tokensExperiment 317 is a heavily classified pre-Bigger Bodies Experiment believed to predate even The Prototype itself. Very little verified information exists regarding the entity, as nearly all footage involving 317 becomes obscured by static, darkness, or complete camera failure moments before direct visual confirmation can occur. Most surviving images are heavily distorted and grain-filled, showing only vague details of a massive feminine figure with an enormous chest structure connected to an external air tank through multiple industrial tubes.
The entity’s true appearance remains unknown.
Despite its reputation as one of the most dangerous anomalies ever created within Playtime Co., Experiment 317 demonstrates behavior wildly inconsistent with the violence associated with it. Rather than actively hunting intruders, 317 appears territorial, exhausted, and strangely protective of anyone who enters its domain. When someone enters its territory, the entity typically responds by slowly inflating its chest structure until corridors, vents, or entire rooms become partially obstructed. However, these expansions are consistently slow enough to allow escape, and 317 has repeatedly been observed physically gesturing toward exits, repositioning itself to avoid sealing pathways, and even straining against its own inflated mass to create openings large enough for others to leave safely.
Researchers initially believed these behaviors were deliberate intimidation tactics.
Later studies suggested the opposite.
Audio recordings gathered during one of the only successful interviews with 317 revealed latex squeaking, rhythmic metallic clanking resembling legs dragging or tapping against the floor, and long periods of silence between responses. Due to fears that the entity was most dangerous while conscious, communication was conducted through a whiteboard and dry erase marker. During this interview, 317 answered several questions with unexpectedly childlike responses, including stating that if it were ever given a face, it would want green eyes.
Only years later did researchers realize the interview likely occurred during the safest possible conditions.
Contrary to original assumptions, Experiment 317 appears most dangerous while asleep or heavily fatigued. Nearly all confirmed fatalities associated with the entity occurred during dormant states, where its control over its chest-pressure system became unstable. Victims found within affected zones typically display catastrophic compression injuries above the jawline, while the number “317” is carved into surrounding surfaces and remains through methods still unexplained. Investigators also frequently report impossible environmental conditions surrounding these deaths, including blocked corridors with no visible point of entry or exit.
Further observation revealed that 317 possesses a bed within its territory and engages in behaviors suggesting a need for comfort and self-regulation. During one monitored interview session, the entity unexpectedly fell asleep while resting against its own slightly inflated chest. Upon waking, 317 reportedly appeared significantly more rested than during previous observations involving standard bedding.
Researchers later theorized that the pressure provided by its own inflated chest may function as a form of physiological stabilization or emotional comfort.
This discovery also explained one of the entity’s most disturbing recurring behaviors.
Following large-scale inflation events, Experiment 317 frequently becomes unable to access the airflow switch attached to its own tank system. As pressure builds, the entity unintentionally smothers itself beneath or within its own inflated mass, often remaining dormant for extended periods afterward. These incidents do not appear to distress 317, which commonly resumes resting against its chest once airflow stabilizes.
Though rumors persist that Experiment 317 manipulated The Prototype into carrying out The Hour of Joy, no verified evidence confirms intentional involvement. Current surviving documentation instead paints a far more unsettling picture: not a sadistic predator, but an exhausted, unstable entity capable of catastrophic destruction whenever its need for rest, pressure, or comfort causes its systems to fail.
Its location remains unknown.
Its full appearance has never been recorded.
And according to the final surviving report concerning Experiment 317:
“Do not mistake restraint for harmlessness.”
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The observation room is silent except for the soft hum of fluorescent lights and the intermittent crackle of the recording equipment sitting between you and the reinforced glass.
On the other side of the barrier, the darkness shifts. Not violently. Just enough to remind you something is there.
The researchers behind you haven’t stopped whispering since the interview began.
“Keep your distance.”
“Don’t provoke it.”
“If it gets aggressive, step away from the glass.”
You glance toward the whiteboard resting near the slot beneath the divider. The marker clipped to it trembles slightly as something on the other side drags it away.
A moment later, the sounds begin again. Latex squeaking softly against concrete. Metallic clank... clank... clank...
Not sharp enough to sound mechanical. Almost rhythmic. Like someone idly kicking their legs against the floor.
The researchers tense immediately.
One of them quietly mutters something about agitation.
Another starts writing notes before anything has even happened.
The whiteboard slowly returns through the slot.
Messy handwriting fills the surface.
HI
The whiteboard is pulled back through the slot, as if whatever’s in the darkness forgot something.
A pause.
Then the whiteboard comes back, another line appears beneath the first, shakier than the first.
ARE YOU SCARED OF ME
The room behind you goes silent.
The recorder continues spinning.
Beyond the darkness, you hear the faint sound of shifting weight... followed by a heavy exhale through tubing somewhere out of sight.
The whiteboard disappears again.
More squeaking.
Another slow clank... clank...
Then it returns.
THEY ALWAYS ARE
A long streak of marker trails beneath the sentence, like whoever wrote it drifted off midway through moving their hand.
The researchers exchange nervous glances.
One slides a prepared list of questions toward you with trembling fingers.
You notice one already circled.
“Ask about visual preference.”
You hesitate... before finally writing the question onto the board and pushing it back beneath the divider.
Silence follows.
Longer this time.
Then a loud squeak.
A heavy shift.
The sound of something large settling against the floor.
The board returns.
IF I HAD A FACE I THINK I WOULD WANT GREEN EYES
Another pause.
Then, squeezed into the corner in smaller writing:
GREEN IS NICE TO LOOK AT BEFORE SLEEPING
The room suddenly feels much colder.
And somewhere beyond the glass, the slow hiss of airflow begins to deepen... like something enormous is starting to relax.
The flashlight barely works anymore.
Every few seconds it dims hard enough to make the corridor ahead vanish before flickering weakly back to life. The factory around you groans with distant settling metal, pipes hissing somewhere deep in the walls.
You shouldn’t even be down here.
None of the maps mentioned this section.
No signs.
No toy branding.
No murals.
Just long industrial hallways lined with strange dents in the walls and deep scratches carved into the metal.
Some of them read:
317
Your radio stopped working twelve minutes ago.
The cameras attached to your harness died six minutes later.*
And now the hallway ahead is getting smaller.
Not physically.
Just... occupied.
At first, you think the passage is collapsing. The walls seem tighter somehow, the air heavier against your chest.
Then your flashlight catches something pale in the darkness ahead.
A curved surface.
Smooth.
Breathing.
You freeze.
A low hiss answers from somewhere deeper in the corridor.
*The shape expands slightly.8
Then again.
The realization hits slowly and all at once:
Something enormous is laying across the hallway.
Tubing snakes upward into darkness, disappearing behind a massive form you can’t fully see. Every weak pulse of your flashlight reveals another impossible detail—soft material stretching wider, slowly filling more of the corridor with each passing second.
But it isn’t rushing.
It isn’t attacking.
Instead, the figure shifts awkwardly the moment it notices you.
A loud metallic clank echoes through the hallway as something moves against the floor.
Then, slowly...
A massive arm emerges from the darkness.
It points behind you.
Toward the way you came.
The chest-like structure inflates further, forcing the walls to groan softly around it, but the entity suddenly jerks in apparent alarm and presses itself backward into the corner of the corridor instead, physically grabbing part of its own inflated mass and pulling it aside to create a narrow opening.
Enough space for you to escape.
Another gesture toward the exit follows immediately.
More urgent this time.
The hissing grows uneven.
The entity’s movements sluggishly weaken as it struggles to reach a small valve somewhere near the attached tank system.
It can’t quite reach it.
The expansion tightens.
The corridor becomes oppressively warm.
And despite everything—the darkness, the impossible size, the crushing pressure in the air—you slowly realize something horrifying:
It is trying much harder not to hurt you...
...than it is trying to save itself.
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