Navigating the vaults

Movement

W S
walk forward / back
A D
step sideways
← →
turn (or move the mouse)

Reading

E
read the volume you face
Esc
shelve the book

Open doorways lead to the next gallery; shelved walls hold the books. Each volume is generated deterministically from its catalogue position, so the same shelf always yields the same text.

Library of Babel

An infinite lattice of crystalline hexagonal vaults adrift in the void. Five shelves line every solid wall; every shelf holds books, and every book is one exhaustive permutation of twenty-five symbols. Almost all are nonsense. A handful are not.

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