In Innoplex, I mean. My office.
I don't think I've mentioned it here before, but several months ago, they painted the floor at the bottom of the stairwell green. A bright green, resembling the bubbling pots of toxic waste that you often see in cartoons. Yes, that shade of green exactly.
I remember when I reached work the first day after they painted it. I opened the door to the stairwell, was lifting my foot to step in... and abruptly stopped when I saw that green "goo" on the floor. It's like those cartoon characters slamming on the brakes while walking. (Yes, cartoon reference again :P ) I wasn't sure whether the paint was dry yet... but someone passed by and told me it was.
They painted the stairwell floor on every floor the same green colour... but a light grey on the every half-floor. I feel the grey looks better... it's the cement-like grey. (And I can't for the life of me recall what the floor looked like before it was painted.)
So... after a while we got used to it. But recently, they painted the bottom of the stairwell BLACK. B-L-A-C-K. Like tar. Again, the first time I saw it I got a shock... but with no "wet paint" sign anywhere, I decided it was safe to step in. (It was.) The other floors were untouched though.
That's when I started calling the office the Innoplex horror house. Because, besides walking down the stairs and seeing a pool of green goop or a black pool of nothingness, there were also the lift incidents.
I've only heard of it happening to other people, but it was enough to make me swear off the lift (I already take the stairs most of the time anyway). Once, earlier, one lift had dropped a few floors before stopping. The people in the lift were shaken but not hurt. A few months later, there were lots of stories of the lifts going rogue - ignoring button presses, closing the door and going up to the topmost floor or bottom floor, then opening the doors. It seemed to happen randomly. With some people unluckier than others... one of my friends had it happen to him three or four times. So we joked that we shouldn't take the lift with him. :P
Back to the stairwell floor. Not two weeks after becoming black, it had changed back to the previous green colour. That was a few weeks ago, and to this day I have no idea why...
Anyway, all this led to the latest drawing. I had no idea what to draw... and my one-month deadline was approaching. So, here you go: The making of... the Innohouse of Horrors!
Sorry, some things are still top secret... they wouldn't give away the secrets of their trade! (I also wanted to draw a lift but I wasn't sure it would be recognizable as such :P )
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