Genus

Genus is a land in Abjura's dreams. It depicts his memories and how his thoughts process while dreaming.

Sickness Warning
The game mechanics change gravity depending on how you stand on an object, so motion sickness is a risk in playing layer one of this game. Playing the game yourself is strongly encouraged but due to limitations of epilepsy and motion sickness, this article will be used to document as much of the game as possible without triggering those side effects.

Other warnings include: Sudden and loud noises (mostly from Guardians in the beginning level), and bright neon lights.

Game description
Genus was created in December 2019 and has been updated throughout 2020. The description reads as this:"⚠️ FLASHING DAMAGE INDICATOR IN LAYER TWO ⚠️""Do you understand what memories are? And what might invade said memories..?"The game allows a small group for multiplayer.

The Beginning
When you first enter the game, you're in a misty white land with a single path in front of you. Behind you are pillars and countless Guardians surrounding them. There are two signs to your right: One says Do not stray far from the Given Path, while the other sign; stabbed through the middle now; ''Dangers soon Will Lurk. ''The small pillar stabs through the sign from an unknown place through a bright white hole of nothingness. The white stuff doesn't hurt when you touch it... but it will in later levels.

When you walk straight down the path, there is a giant golden statue in front of you. It plays a calming melody. You are told not to wake it. You could not get close enough to wake it even if you tried.

To your right is a set of small golden footprints. If you follow these prints' exact direction and avoid waking the Guardians, you will reach a narrow doorway. (NOTE: WITH MORE GUARDIANS ADDED, THIS HAS GOTTEN A LOT SCARIER. WHEN THE GUARDIAN CHASES YOU, DO NOT PANIC. MAKE A BEELINE FOR THE GLOWING EXIT.)

After this is an obby made of pillar and grate fragments.

There is a Golden Guardian in a certain place in the obby. Awakening it is inevitable in order to pass through. In order to survive, you have to keep on walking until it's trapped behind walls it can't break through. While it chases you, it plays an unusual sound unlike any other Guardian you've ever heard. It would be soothing if you weren't running for your life from it.

Once it's passed, it vanishes back to its original station. There is a small golden Toy on the ground. ''Rain rain go away. Come again another day.''

Once you finish that obby, you are teleported to Layer One.

Layer One
Layer one is the layer you turn up the volume to hear the awesome music.

When you first enter the game, you're greeted with a floor that becomes a wall with a small square of glowing pink in the center of it. Hi, the pink stuff kills you. This is the gravity changing stage. Walk through without touching the deadly parts. Due to the camera being offputting, you should aim to make your character go forward rather than having your camera go upward. The entire stage is very disorienting, but not impossible. Taking full advantage of your abilities in this game will help you make it through.

When you make it to the end, you see an all-grey version of Abjura's room in The Throneroom.

''Layer Two awaits. I had to hide it in case. Sorry for the trouble Friend.''

Look around the room. You should be able to move the bookcase by clicking on it. The door behind will send you to Layer Two.

Layer Two
You've made it. The gravity shift is gone. The music is backwards. Abjura's room is no longer grey, but it is a floating mess. There's darkness lurking everywhere. Strange glowing whiteness will hurt you when you touch it. ''"Just looking at this makes you feel as if your life is being extracted from your body. I wouldn't suggest touching it for too long.." ''

Abjura's drawings are scattered everywhere- SELOZAR cut in half and bleeding, Abjura on the top of the world, Sarunem and Abjura as friends; the list goes on.

The paintings from The Throneroom are obscured in deadly white. You can no longer see their faces. Everything is a mishmash of what it's meant to be; nothing seems to make sense; the entire building layout is obfuscated and rearranged until only recognizable in fragments of its former self. There is a hole in Foxicate's lab that you fall through, down, down, down, until you reach the basement.

You are now in the hallway of Foxicate's LABORATORY. If you've played this game, you probably feel a moment of panic as you exit the door into the hallway. But here, there is no AloneTraveler lurking the hallway searching to kill you. There is only you, in the decaying dreamland of Abjura's fears. To be alone may be one of the most frightening thoughts there is.

When you open the next door, you have no idea what to expect. If it will still be the same place or if it will be something new entirely. This next room is still from the LABORATORY, but things are different. The room is falling apart. DISTRICTBOTS lie in the corner, broken and disassembled. Dead. You are the only living person here.

There are two rooms for test labs. The one on the left has an empty void where the cage would be. (Fun fact, this is where the clone that kills you waits in the original LABORATORY game.) On the right (Where Ravaan and Wuutan would be originally), the cage is full of Abjura's drawings. Touching this will give you a message, but it will also kick you from the game. You will have to redo all of the progress you've made up to this point to reach here.

If you stay and look around some more, there is a sign behind the last door. What is Abjura's birthday?

This is Abjura's creation date, which can be found on his profile on Roblox. This goes to the code on the door you found by the long fall you made to get here. Go back and punch in the code. It's a classic 4-digit code in M/D/Y format.

Abjura's join date was on December 7, 2019.

When you open the door, you have no choice but to step on the deadly white stuff. You see the laboratory area end. There's a desolate space in front of you, with only a grate to step on.

Finally, you've reached the end. There's nowhere left to go. A small golden Toy lies in front of you.

YOUARENTSAFEINYOUROWNHOME
'DONT TRUST WHO YOU DONT KNOW. YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND IT UNTIL IT COMES FACE TO FACE WITH YOU. YOU NEVER WILL, YOU ARE NOT SAFE. THIS IS THE START OF SOMETHING BIG. I AM ABJURA.'

You were kicked from this game:

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(Error code: 267) Leave

(EXTRA)
I see you. You are at the bottom of this article. You made it this far. You want to know about dreams. Look at how hard I can infodump. Look at this. When you sleep, your brain has a chance to properly file and store your memories. Your dreams are a reflection of that. Whatever memories your brain is processing tonight, your dreams may be influenced by them. That's also why you have more nightmares when you're stressed out; the memories your brain is processing are more distressing than calm and your dreams will reflect how those memories made you feel, even if the dream isn't outright about what made you stressed.

Sleep is vital for proper mental function, especially memory. If you don't get enough sleep, you're going to lose memories that were never filed properly for long-term storage in the brain.

Here's another cool thing. Wanna hear about trauma? So basically, when you experience something very traumatic, sometimes your brain doesn't process that memory properly and sets it aside for later. When you see something that recalls that memory, your brain pulls it out of the "Deal with it later" file and says "Oh! Would you look at that, an improperly filed memory! I'm going to try and process this." However, because it isn't stored correctly as a memory, you may experience it as if it is happening right this second. You feel the feelings you did when it happened. This is called a flashback, and the thing that recalled it is called a trigger. Sometimes the brain succeeds in filing it correctly, but if the memory is especially traumatic, the brain is more likely to keep reliving the trauma and to develop PTSD.

This has been your fun facts corner! Please make sure you are getting enough sleep. Unlike me, who stayed up until 3AM writing this-- wait, it's 3AM??,