Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

[TTT/Sandbox] Sabiru 錆びる
Matsilagi 28 Apr, 2024 @ 9:30pm
[SPOILERS] Story and Eastereggs
WARNING: SENSITIVE THEMES AHEAD
This map contains sensitive themes such as harm (both self and non-self inflicted), gore, and sexual abuse. Discretion is advised.

If you don't mind getting spoiled, read on.
If the author think i got something wrong, let me know.

This map tells a tale of a story either from a murder or a abused person's perspective. Dealing it with a similar way than Silent Hill series does with characters trauma via a decayed world (In SH's case, the Otherworld, in which the town serves as a gateway).

Monsters in this map are mostly passive unless attacked, however, sometimes events might trigger hostile enemies, have that in mind, and always keep a gun you trust close to you.

The map has 4 puzzles of which are solvable within the Sandbox environment. Those being:
A puzzle involving exploring the playground, playing around the setpieces. After doing it so, a purple orb will float to the Kebab place's bathroom, which will open a portal to a chase sequence and a bossfight at the end. Doing that sequence will take you back to the playground.

Another puzzle involves going to the needy puppy room, breaking the mirror, go upstairs, and a small door with eyes will have opened, this time showing a mouth / teeth figure (similar to the map's thumbnail), it involves a painting puzzle, with a secret painting required to complete the puzzle behind a flesh wall. The objective is to light all the numbers by putting or removing the paintings, while your health get drained. Have this in mind!

Another puzzle involves finding body parts to complete a corpse. In a half-demolished building, there is a corpse, with usually 2 parts missing, a pentagram by the side, with 5 photos, shows locations of the map the possible parts will spawn, take a look at those. Find the parts, and re-assemble the corpse. This will reveal a bossfight, kill the boss to continue.

A puzzle involving the crane is also present here. You need to find a way to bridge the crane with a prop on the floating glowing portal mid-air. Before stepping into the portal, go to the apartment building, and memorize the 3 drawings the order they will appear. After that, go to the portal and you'll find a puzzle with the same 3 drawings. Put them all down and then put them in order they appeared at the apartment then press the button to open the double doors. You will find yourself in the same exit as the first painting puzzle, however, a new doorway should have opened, taking that doorway will teleport you to a maze, in which a sequence appears next. One involving a drawing of a person next to a sleeping girl about to do something nasty, and upon interacting with it, a sequence of a screaming person, with changing colors will appear. At the end, you will be teleported back to the playground, and the following phrase wiil be printed on your chat: "You can't change what have already happened."

This concludes the pieces to generate the story mentioned at the top, which i *think* its what this map's "story" is about. If you know something else, or think i've got something wrong, lmk.
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ReddBoar 29 Apr, 2024 @ 8:33pm 
Damn, I only found two of the easter eggs. To me the most disturbing imagery isn't really the horror stuff but the TV and paintings in the house near the playground that implicates something like child abuse or worse.
Bjoern90 3 May, 2024 @ 10:12pm 
so amazing well done for this map! i hope there'll be more like this! i love puzzles!! <3
Last edited by Bjoern90; 3 May, 2024 @ 10:12pm
codename_NZI 4 May, 2024 @ 3:57pm 
There is a puzzle where you have to set NP drums on a turret on the rooftop of the bar.
When you set 4 drums and interact with the turret, they are ejected towards the asteroid.
There's not much to do there other than jump around the map.
so, How can I get back to the playground from space?
Matsilagi 4 May, 2024 @ 4:50pm 
@codename_NZI: You can't. Its a killroom in TTT.
codename_NZI 4 May, 2024 @ 6:07pm 
Originally posted by Matsilagi:
@codename_NZI: You can't. Its a killroom in TTT.
Oh, thank you
I was thinking of the bird-humans in “yume nikki” or (as the creator mentioned on its website) the warp to the “room you can't leave until you wake up” after being caught by the kaibutsu in “.flow”.
I thought it was an easter egg like that because there was no way out at all
Last edited by codename_NZI; 4 May, 2024 @ 6:10pm
TonyPeppermint 8 May, 2024 @ 9:17pm 
Originally posted by ReddSnake:
Damn, I only found two of the easter eggs. To me the most disturbing imagery isn't really the horror stuff but the TV and paintings in the house near the playground that implicates something like child abuse or worse.
I think it's likely the worse option, because I played a bit of the map and I went to the body puzzle. There's that's big graffiti that speaks loudly.
TonyPeppermint 10 May, 2024 @ 8:42am 
Originally posted by TonyPeppermint:
Originally posted by ReddSnake:
Damn, I only found two of the easter eggs. To me the most disturbing imagery isn't really the horror stuff but the TV and paintings in the house near the playground that implicates something like child abuse or worse.
I think it's likely the worse option, because I played a bit of the map and I went to the body puzzle. There's that's big graffiti that speaks loudly.
I gotta add in: during the search for the missing limb, I went to the school and into the bathroom in the photo, hinting a possible spot. I did find a arm but got attacked. That may be tied to the worse thing that happened.
✠ DFSpecter 25 May, 2024 @ 12:55pm 
I originally wasn't going to comment, but playing through this map feels like stumbling into someone else's mind, when caught in a dark place, after escaping your own similar, yet different dark place (this map feels very similar to how I felt throughout 2020 with its own differences).


I don't know how to describe "it" - what I felt exploring this map, the map itself, and the things that are in it that I discovered.

I discovered the weird pedo-house and the HEAVILY IMPLIED s/xual abuse first, due to the fact I spawned on the roof.
Never went through sexual abuse myself, but the feeling of being violated was definitely a vibe I didn't expect to revisit in a Gmod map (not in a terrible way per-se. It was just unexpected).

In the school, there's a picture of a dead dove with the text "destroy traditional values" on the bottom - this is the one that provoked the most of a reaction out of me, because I couldn't tell what the map designer that placed the image there meant, BUT, because it's in a school, and in the ajar doorway, it says "f/ck school", I decided to interpret the dead dove picture as to do the OPPOSITE of what it said.

(Alternatively, I'm looking WAAAAAAY too deeply into an element of the map that could just be there for shock value, but I decided to share that part anyway)


And then shooting yourself to the moon in a literal canon after placing the 4 barrels to get away from the world portrayed in this map, only to be isolated on an asteroid, and it's just a different flavor of Hell in its own way and not a solution (Which, I appreciate the map maker for putting in).


Playing with the wisp around the playground, fighting through a maze to enter the light, and fighting what I think is supposed to be an inner-demon was honestly the experience I will remember as bringing me a lot of inner peace for reasons I don't know how to explain.

And then there's the funny ritual you gotta find the head and leg for.
I found the leg, but no luck on the head. Yeah I got no clue how to solve that.


I feel like I understand the world within the map, yet at the same time don't. I have no idea how else to say it without it coming off weird.

There's more I want to say, but there's no way to say it without it coming out wrong, so I'm just gonna leave it here.

10/10 map.
Last edited by ✠ DFSpecter; 25 May, 2024 @ 1:11pm
provokedartist 26 May, 2024 @ 5:48pm 
There is something i have noticed with the "Bro said he knew a spot" map and this map is that they have a strange creature (or mass) called "The Plug" (Name from Bro said he knew a spot map), They are probably not the same thing and it might just be a texture for scares and spooks. (I doubt these maps are connected but they might be)
TonyPeppermint 28 May, 2024 @ 9:24am 
I believe in the description of Bro Said He Knew A Spot, they wanted to reuse some textures, so most likely it's assests being reused.
G.I. Joe 3 Jun, 2024 @ 3:30pm 
Pressing E on Eevee in the needy puppygirl room, will teleport you to a different place and if you walk around, you'll be shown a certain video.
G.I. Joe 3 Jun, 2024 @ 3:33pm 
also nearly everything in this room is interactable
TonyPeppermint 3 Jun, 2024 @ 7:07pm 
I will need to see.
Originally posted by G.I. Joe:
Pressing E on Eevee in the needy puppygirl room, will teleport you to a different place and if you walk around, you'll be shown a certain video.

that video scared scared the ♥♥♥♥ out of me, really wasn`t expecting that
Cossack 12 Jun, 2024 @ 5:54pm 
i wonder what the video is from
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