The Librarian is more afraid of copyrighted music than anything else.

16:35 to me those looked like teeth. Like a set of cartoonish teeth making up some devilish cartoon character's smile. Very spooky. I also love how Librarian always gets emotionally attached to a random prop that he finds, either horror baby, a watermelon, or a mannequin

Hey Librarian! A little spooky event you missed was when you enter the mannequin room in the bunker, you can hear the hatch to the surface close around 21:21. If you go back and check it’ll be locked and it won’t open until you go back in the mannequin room which you can hear at about 22:16. Just an interesting thing I wanted to point out!

3:22 That reminded me of that one r/nosleep story. OP was supposedly given the opportunity to volunteer for an experiment with time-travel for a hefty sum of money. He was there with two other people and when they were sent about 2 minutes or hours (can't remember anymore), instead they were as though transported to a completely different dimension. They found themselves in this weird empty dark house and when they looked out the window, they'd find literal nothing. Like the nothing you "see" before you are born. The nothing the blind experience. One of the three stared out seemingly for hours, claiming to see shapes. It drove him mad and took the risk of leaving the house through the door, leaving OP and the woman behind. The experience was described to be going on for centuries. The kind of while you experience when you sit at work and between each look at the clock, you feel as though hours have already passed. OP caught a look at the window at some point, telling us that he began to see the shape of a tree constantly expanding in the nothingness until he snapped out of it to see the woman in hysterics, explaining to him that it's been hours since he even moved. But eventually they used it as a way to pass the time faster and eventually, they managed to get out. The grayscale look of the landscape reminded me of that nothing, and you admitting that you've been staring out at it for about 5 minutes already when all we saw was a cut was truly reminiscent of it. Additionally, at 31:16 I really recommend muting the video and playing "Exile, Vilify" from Portal 2 to it.

Really makes me happy seeing how much my map gained in popularity, love your content! Creepy and comfy!

When I saw the stones I instantly thought of it as a burial site. The cup was maybe the deceased' favorite? I think they would stack stones bc it was readily available pretty much anywhere, and could last a long time if done well. There could be religious or spiritual implications as well.. perhaps to keep the dead from returning and escaping through the earth. Same vibe as burying the dead laying face down.

Ash Pit is a realm from the Elder Scrolls. It's essentially this, a ruined world of ash, ruled by strange gods.

31:19 I would be horrified to turn on that radio in a situation like this where there is no other noise but the wind, visibility is bad, and the only other being you are aware of is what ever you caught a glimpse of behind the wooden planks. I'd be horrified the noise would get it's attention.

33:42 The mannequin is too powerful for their own world, and erased it from existence.

I love this map's atmosphere. So opressively, unreasonably empty. Just a blank, grey desert with a few remnants of civilization sticking through the (sand?), complete with a lone radio playing a looping track made out of a single chord. Amazing. Not a dream I'd like to have.

I was anxiously waiting for this exploration after I suggested it to you. When I first saw this map, the first thing that came to my mind was: "Librarian HAS to play it" and here we are. This map has an amazing Silent Hill vibe and I absolutely love it.

Am I the only one who gets the vibes of a nuclear winter from this map?

Being called, "The Liabrarian", while running around in a dilapidated structure makes me think of Metro.

"God is coming" just reminds me of squirrel stapler

Man, this map brought up a long buried dream in my subconscious with a similar landscape. Me & some friends were traversing this run down city with bare concrete buildings just like in this map. We were kind of fucking around outside & then decided to explore inside one of the buildings. The interior was nothing but bare concrete hallways with weak incandescent lighting being the only source of light inside. We decided to open one of the doors & what we found inside stuck with me forever. The room wasn't very big & it was lit up by a single failing flickering light. The center of the room though had a faceless bloody humanoid figure chained to a chair & it screeched so fucking loud while spazing around violently in the chair. We ran the fuck out of that building & after that it just kind of fades. Needless to say, this map made me extremely jumpy while exploring it.

Behind that boarded up room, to me, looked like it could have been the bottom of a huge, grinning Cheshire cat face.

The thing behind the wood did NOT look like a sheet of metal... It looked more like a... *M o u t h*

This reminds me of an SCP entry (I don't know the exact number) but it's a world that is parallel to ours and it's entirely abandoned due to some cataclysm and all that is left are remnants of humanity and black choking ash coating everything and blocking out the Sun's light.

2:10 Fog in Source tends to be linear as opposed to being circular, as if you could only see something if it wasn't faced at straight.

A creature whit a huge grin smiling at him and he thinks it was a metal plate

There's always something oddly eerie about seeing detailed textures meant to have an uneven surface ( sand, water ripples etc ) looking like incredibly stretched jpegs on a smooth surface

You should also check out a map called Void Edge, has a very similar vibe to this one, but much more hostile

16:37 that... was a large set of grinning teeth.

Have fun watching everyone :)

always a little creepy when you remember to search someone and they have a new video.

nuclear winter vibes? that could be the flash the guy was talking about mining underground you're spared from the disaster you come to the surface just to find this

i saw this on the front page of the workshop a few days ago and thought "the Librarian will probably play this"

Honestly the timing on your game alt tabbing itself as soon as you placed the Mannequin with the others? That was absolutely perfect

For some reason this map is reminding me of both the game Limbo (probably the color and ruined architecture) and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Nameless City" (the act of exploring a ruined civilization buried in the sands with the possibility of not being alone)

This map is a masterpiece of subtle horror

Definitely some serious ‘after the end’ vibes, what ever kind of end it may be. As for my self I would feel compelled to grab all the items I could find/carry and move them all into whatever location I decide to shelter in. Maybe one of the upper floors of that first building.

Average day of the 41st Millennium in the Ash Wastelands.

this is the most dream-like map I've seen on your channel. Never saw anything familiar in terms of dreams on liminal space maps, but this one hit so hard. I still remember being in buildings like these in my own dreams.

I'm currently eating a kilo of Korean BBQ flavoured peanuts and cashews, while binging Librarian's videos. Good times.

It's spectacular that something so simple can create thoughts of this nature.

Reminds me of that one nether biome that's like radioactive and constantly raining ash

A desert full of ash instead of sand? Reminds me of a certain red hooded man in a certain game.

This feels like a silent hill inspired map i love it

When i saw this map on the workshop, i just knew Librarian will make a video on it, and here we are.

That room with GOD IS COMING scrawled on the wall reminded me of the opening of Begotten (in more ways than one ((giggity))).

Sometimes, i think about of Silent Hill that i played on L4D2 due to the surroundings and atmosphere. i also think about some kind of epidemic that makes this place dead. merry xmas

I JUST explored this map with a friend earlier.

Well today my Gary's mod decided that it will never launch again or at least for a few days but at least the librarian will come in with a Gmod video to cheer up my spirits

I like how articulate you are. You could freestyle a novel.

I bought Gmod 2 days ago, I was extremely hyped to finally experience these maps first hand, so i saw you posting this and instead of watching the video as I always do, I chose to download the map and see for myself, even tho on pancake mode. I loaded the map, chose the camera and started exploring and just like librarian I felt something telling me to go inside, and when I saw the doorway to the basement the first thing I tought was "oh the classic basement let's get this done already so the worst part is over" and holy shit how this scare hit me harder then ever 16:35 , since it was my first time experiencing a scare I just got so mad I threw every explosive trought the gap and used noclip to explore the rest I hate horror

Something you missed on this map is a small circle of cinderblocks surrounding (possibly meant to be holding down) a long black cable extending into the sky, at the end of it is a strange, spiky "Balloon" with 2 X's painted on it.

Bruh those mannequins made me jump hard as well. Good map.

The creator of the map actually was inspired by an nightmare

i saw this and instantly thought of the album "Dead End Kings" by Katatonia... specifically, the song "The racing heart".

By far one of the most inmersive video that i ever seen in this channel i legit got spoked by the doors,

I don't usually get bothered by things like this but this map's overall heavy and oppressive feeling got to me. I felt anxious the whole time, like something was wrong.

I knows it's late but a little detail about the thing behind the boards is that you can actually hear it breathing in the background before it hides away.

The thing in the room, is indeed a face

Great map. Almost shat my pants when i got jumpscared in the basement

I started watching the video and then thought I may aswell try VR myself, I came back and completely forgot that this is GMOD!! Maps are getting insane to the point where they are their own games.

This is my favorite video you made. I love how mysterious this world is!

Hints 2:39 trevor’s message. 12:28 the way the mannequin is looking at. 15:31 eye see you. 16:35 they are watching. 18:12 this is heaven 21:50 might be another one of these tunnels. 23:50 eye see you 2 24:44 god is coming 26:01 that rock maybe? 22:56 lost connection 27:56 lost connection 2 Missed: 22:23 the locked door might have gived a hint.

You may feel attached to the mannequin because when humans are left alone without life for extended periods of time, they begin to find love and attachment in objects. This is why the companion cube in Portal is so effective.

Ashes are always sad, reminders of the irreversibility of some things.

Yes! He actually did it! You probably didn't see my comment suggesting it but I'm still glad you're doing it mate!

I absolutely love your videos ^-^ very cozy

Fun fact when he got to the boarded up room where he thought he saw something retreat into to darkness it was really a huge face also if you can find an addon which allows you to coppy moddles you will find that the face is infact a whole body but also if you can noclip into the room while the face is still there or when the temp darkness is still there you will find a cool Easter egg that's kills you even if you have god-mode on

Hey Librarian, I got reminded that Ready or Not exists and a certain mission from it too. Said mission is Valley of the Dolls. It’d fit the horror-based content you play, though it is incredibly hard. I’d love if you go through the map thoroughly on the channel!

*When you reach the end of dark souls*

You missed the monster in the bunker. Behind the bit of brick thered a panel youu can break. Crawl through that and a long tunnel and theres a huge tentacle monster.

That’s one of the best maps you’ve ever explored in my opinion

Librarian, you HAVE to play gm_disrepair, I like seeing you get spooked :)))

A command I recommend using to find things you may have missed on maps is: mat_wireframe

Thanks so much for making relaxing creepy-comfy content. It's what makes your channel YOUR channel :)

this one really does seem to string the player along like how some dreams do, very interesting.

Idk if this is actually anything but when you were leaving the underground of the apartment building and you heard that wood breaking, I think that was the boards breaking on that doorway with the thing.

26:16 you should've tried putting the small rock on top of the pile. Idk why but I have a hunch that could've done something

some say this is what is beyond ashville over and under big city to flatwood

Reminds me of the story “Dagon” by HP Lovecraft and Iron Lung.

Wonder if this map is supposed to be like, what happens after the rapture if you aren't one of the people who gets raptured. I'd say it's a stretch but there's a lot of obvious and intentional religious stuff on the walls indicating that this was a known thing about to happen.

"There was a fuss Theres 5 of us Please send help"

I had a pkm and a squad of similarly equipped npcs with me on this map. Got to the building. Got spooked. My squad got weird like there was an enemy. Then they started dying off.

29:23 was something on your right. Walked right past it.

I almost wish there was no commentary so i could be creeped out by the landscape and listen to the ambience of this ashen world.

Happy one year anniversary to this video

OK but look at how short those telephone poles are that ash must be light 10 feet deep

Something more to consider: it is called ashpit. This means you are in a pit of ash. From where did the ash come? What could have happened outside the pit?

You talked about searching for something that something is a bathroom usually I'm running through the back rooms and maintenance tunnels of a grocery or department store trying to find a bathroom but the tunnels just get more and more nonsensical and if I do find a bathroom eventually it's usually just a bunch of toilets in an open room and when I try to pee a bunch of people walk past or none of the toilets work the dream will often go from I can't find a bathroom too now I'm trapped in an infinite but useless bathroom

About seeing things in the corner of your eye. Source (and a few other old engines) rendered fog in a square, so you could see farther when looking away from things, since the corners of the square are farther from you than the border straight in front.

Reminds me of the end of Dark Souls 3

The best way you can play this, is just wandering.

Hey Librarian, any chance we could see a Myst playthrough? It's arguably the first creepy/comfy game there was and I'd love to see your take on it after all these years.

This reminds me a LOT of a map i played on a quake halloween jam The approach of the second sun was the name

I think it would've been hard to make in hammer, but the map creator should've made a figure move out of your vision in the ash wastes. How you see objects coming closer to your vision on the very outskirts of the fog, there should've been a single silhouette that immediately moves out of your fov in the fog when it barely comes into view. Occasionally disappearing from the right and from the left like it's following you, and at times, even getting closer. Something to make the player feel a lot less safe in the wasteland. All hints from the structures come to a conclusion of a biblical type event doing something to all the inhabitants, now hinting the same is going to happen to you. Liken it to the creepypasta "The Pyramid: Ashen" where (spoiler) the archeologist who opened the forbidden tomb is killed and damned to roam the desert, being followed by the abomination representing death, genocide, and sickness; as where he is dehydrated and starving for all eternity, every body of water turning into a thick, viscous, and neasueating oil when consumed. There's a lot of good potential for environmental storytelling with this map. All signs point to it being a dead world conquered by some awful paranormal event that hasn't yet left it alone. Now and unfortunately, you find yourself in the ash wastes, possibly the last one left, temporarily spared from being cursed to watch the ashen wastes or the same four dark walls from the inside of a bunker for all of eternity as a very conscious and very aware mannequin.

im sorry but the event at 16:34 looked like a wide grin of some kind moving back into the shadow and i did not like it one bit

Kind of reminds me of the Pygmies Throne in Dark souls 3, the final area of that game.

you should play this game called "Infra" it's really cool and i feel like it matches your tone of video!

Bro never take no Benadryl ☠️☠️☠️

I am not gonna lie, first time I read the title I thought it said gm_apeshit

That screenshot after the crash tho, lmao

""what scary is not what you will see, nor what you wont see, but rather that your mind plays tricks on you""__ one of horror game makers and i dont know his name

There should be a horror machinima on this map.

Abandoned Trabant station wagon.

Random question: How do you turn in VR? Do you turn your body in real life or use the controller to turn? I get a bit motion sick from playing in VR and am just wondering how others move without getting sick. :D

Reminds me of the dementia ending from The Stanley Parabel