1 00:00:02,740 --> 00:00:07,879 A long time ago, in an unknown place on planet Earth, or elsewhere, there was a man. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,160 A young man who loved drawing and doing weightlifting. 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,339 A man who hated rainbows and loved storms. 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:15,779 A normal man. 5 00:00:16,339 --> 00:00:19,480 But there was something about him that was not normal at all. 6 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:21,480 He had a secret. 7 00:00:22,039 --> 00:00:23,579 A secret that he kept in a box. 8 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,420 He had never opened it and he promised he would never open it. 9 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:29,679 No one had ever opened it. 10 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:31,219 But someone would. 11 00:00:31,219 --> 00:00:33,219 and sooner than he thought. 12 00:00:33,219 --> 00:00:35,219 His name was Stanley. 13 00:00:35,219 --> 00:00:37,219 He lived in a dimension where time does not run, 14 00:00:37,219 --> 00:00:39,219 so clocks were useless. 15 00:00:39,219 --> 00:00:41,219 Out of nowhere a rat appeared and 16 00:00:41,219 --> 00:00:43,219 stole the box. The man 17 00:00:43,219 --> 00:00:45,219 started chasing it for a long time. 18 00:00:45,219 --> 00:00:47,219 Stanley was now in snowy mountain. 19 00:00:47,219 --> 00:00:49,219 How did I get here? 20 00:00:49,219 --> 00:00:51,219 Stanley thought. He chased the rat 21 00:00:51,219 --> 00:00:53,219 footprints until he saw a fountain. 22 00:00:53,219 --> 00:00:55,219 Suddenly a loud fairy 23 00:00:55,219 --> 00:00:57,219 came out of the fountain. Stanley 24 00:00:57,219 --> 00:00:59,219 told her about the rat that had 25 00:00:59,219 --> 00:01:05,400 of his box. The fairy gave him a pair of handcuffs. What should I do with this? asked Stanley. 26 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:11,219 The fairy disappeared and left him alone, so Stanley kept on walking. As he progressed, 27 00:01:11,219 --> 00:01:17,819 he started to notice a strange sound, as if he were in the middle of a construction site. 28 00:01:18,219 --> 00:01:26,400 He looked left and then right. Nothing. Only noises. Then something weird fell on his head. 29 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:34,400 It was a small, well-polished rock. He looked up and found a whole town upside down on a cobweb. 30 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:42,159 Stanley once drank a lot of poison for rats because he was bored in the house of his friend, Joseph Jonathan, or JJ. 31 00:01:42,780 --> 00:01:49,859 He was sick and was nursed in a hospital. His personal doctor was a blind spider with a cane. 32 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:57,599 While he was lying on his bed, the spider decided to tell him a story about an upside-down city. 33 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:03,239 Stanley thought that it was just a stupid old tale, but now he understood. 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,299 He did not really care, so he just continued walking. 35 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:14,020 As he was going past the city, he heard kids playing, fire burning, and footsteps. 36 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:19,599 Small footsteps that he still remembered from the past five minutes. 37 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:26,860 He rushed into the town, ran across the streets, and finally he found the rat. 38 00:02:26,860 --> 00:02:29,860 The rat was scared and he tried to run away. 39 00:02:29,860 --> 00:02:33,860 Stanley is a smart man, so he shot the rat. 40 00:02:33,860 --> 00:02:42,860 The rat tried to persuade Stanley to spare its worthless life because love and compassion will help him in the future. 41 00:02:42,860 --> 00:02:45,860 The rat was in fact a fortune teller. 42 00:02:45,860 --> 00:02:49,860 Stanley is a good guy, so he let the rat go. 43 00:02:49,860 --> 00:02:54,860 As the rat was crossing the border of the city, Stanley shot it with a sniper rifle, 44 00:02:54,860 --> 00:02:58,860 and he went home with the box. 45 00:02:58,860 --> 00:03:02,860 Right as he was about to enter his house, Stanley was knocked unconscious. 46 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:05,860 When he woke up, the rat was looking at him. 47 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:10,860 You fool! I'm a fortune teller! Did you really think I did not know what you were going to do? 48 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:16,360 Anyway, I will not proceed to open this box, and you will not be able to do anything about it. 49 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:20,020 The rat opened the box, and everything turned pitch black. 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,599 After what would have been hours, Light returned to the world, but now Stanley was alone. 51 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:29,900 He stood up and looked around for any signs of the rat, but they were unknown. 52 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,520 He did notice something. 53 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:38,120 The weird rectangle with an L inside it, that his grandfather had given him when he was little, started moving. 54 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,759 him, though only one of the parts of the L was. He then remembered that his grandfather 55 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:49,120 told him it was called a clock. While he was thinking what on earth was happening, a weirdly 56 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:54,159 dressed man started saying something to him. You, the one with the weird thinking face, 57 00:03:54,379 --> 00:03:59,680 you are arrested. Stanley looked at him with a confused look and then continued thinking, 58 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:05,300 but he was assaulted by the man who handcuffed him and put him in a car. He was prosecuted 59 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:10,340 and accused of biological experiments with humans, but before they could put him in prison, 60 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:17,060 he tried to run away. He lost them easily, but he tripped and fell into a hole. Thankfully, 61 00:04:17,060 --> 00:04:23,699 he only hurt his hand, specifically his thumb, which he for some reason used to absorb the fall. 62 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:29,459 The hole he fell in was some kind of cave, which had a strange symbol on one of its walls. 63 00:04:29,459 --> 00:04:47,939 It was dark, and he could not see well. Stanley noticed small footprints all over the walls and the floor of the cave. They were rat footprints. He started walking. The cave looked endless. He was about to give up and sit to rest when he had water. 64 00:04:47,939 --> 00:04:54,680 He started running to see where it came from. He noticed the path was wet. 65 00:04:56,060 --> 00:05:01,240 He could not believe his eyes when he saw the fountain where the love fairy had given him the handcuffs. 66 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:05,319 But instead of finding the love fairy there, he found the shadow. 67 00:05:06,379 --> 00:05:09,819 The shadow had a scale. It was weighing something shiny. 68 00:05:09,819 --> 00:05:15,439 Stanley got closer, but the shadow raised its hand and said 69 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:18,600 Stop, inferior human being 70 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,939 If you walk past this line, you'll never see the sunshine again 71 00:05:22,939 --> 00:05:26,040 Stanley noticed the line drawn on the floor 72 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,759 Ignored the shadow and kept walking 73 00:05:28,759 --> 00:05:31,480 Don't say I didn't warn you 74 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,740 Stanley saw what the shadow was weighing 75 00:05:34,740 --> 00:05:35,980 Wings 76 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:39,300 Cold sweat started to run down his back 77 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:53,259 The shadow had a microscope, too. There was a little spark under the lens. He kept walking, and when he crossed the line, nothing happened, so he kept walking. 78 00:05:53,259 --> 00:06:00,639 After some time, he saw a human corpse. It was a prisoner's dead body. He saw a rat eating it, 79 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:08,319 and a card on the floor. Sometime in the past, it had had text, but now it was erased, 80 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:16,720 and only little ink spots were visible. The poor illumination did not help. Stanley kept walking 81 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,199 while looking at the card to see if there was something that could give him a clue about where 82 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:28,439 path would get him but he did not see the stairs right in front of him so he fell down and was 83 00:06:28,439 --> 00:06:34,899 knocked unconscious it was a pitch black room with no furniture or lights at the very end stanley 84 00:06:34,899 --> 00:06:40,980 could see a faint glow as he entered the room a drop of sweat went on his face the distance between 85 00:06:40,980 --> 00:06:46,139 stanley and the mysterious shining was getting shorter nearly halfway through stanley felt as 86 00:06:46,139 --> 00:06:53,180 the room was shrinking. Seconds felt like minutes, even hours. It was driving him insane. He was so 87 00:06:53,180 --> 00:06:57,480 focused in his thoughts that he didn't even notice a giant wall of light sticking in his face. 88 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,540 He backed down a couple of steps to observe the whole thing. The wall turned out to be a massive 89 00:07:03,540 --> 00:07:08,480 device with the shape of an upside-down hammer. It had pipes and cables connected to the handle, 90 00:07:08,740 --> 00:07:15,360 supporting it. Steam was coming out from the head of the large tool. Suddenly, a raspy voice started 91 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:23,120 talking what's your offering what what you're offering give it to me what offering what is 92 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:29,360 this place what are you well i have to give you anything at all what one question at a time please 93 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:37,240 okay then what are you a machine where are we in a black room could you be more specific 94 00:07:37,639 --> 00:07:38,040 No. 95 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:38,720 Okay. 96 00:07:41,970 --> 00:07:42,750 This is awkward. 97 00:07:43,050 --> 00:07:44,329 Are you done with your questions? 98 00:07:44,870 --> 00:07:45,990 Oh, oh, right. 99 00:07:47,149 --> 00:07:50,529 What offering are you talking about and why should I give it to you? 100 00:07:51,329 --> 00:07:51,970 An offering. 101 00:07:52,250 --> 00:07:54,649 Something that you chase from the bottom of your heart. 102 00:07:54,850 --> 00:07:55,589 Something unique. 103 00:07:56,069 --> 00:07:57,089 And why should you give it to me? 104 00:07:57,329 --> 00:07:59,810 Well, you get an answer to a question of equal value. 105 00:08:00,850 --> 00:08:01,370 I see. 106 00:08:01,370 --> 00:08:02,790 Then, take this. 107 00:08:03,589 --> 00:08:04,329 Oh, my. 108 00:08:04,870 --> 00:08:06,949 Is this a tennis ball? 109 00:08:07,569 --> 00:08:07,930 Yes. 110 00:08:07,930 --> 00:08:14,889 why do you carry a tennis ball in your pocket reasons very well let me take a 111 00:08:14,889 --> 00:08:21,110 look at your soul you're quite a character am i yes indeed your normal 112 00:08:21,110 --> 00:08:27,970 childhood normal friends normal life and yet and yet what your fate it's a 113 00:08:27,970 --> 00:08:33,549 stanchion go on go to the place where it all began the place where you were born 114 00:08:33,549 --> 00:08:40,169 there lies the answer to your doubts. As Stanley was walking back to his house, 115 00:08:40,169 --> 00:08:44,529 he started wondering about the hammer's words. Were they really true? Did it lie? 116 00:08:44,529 --> 00:08:50,250 What was the hammer? Was it an AI? What was the rat? What's the deal with the 117 00:08:50,250 --> 00:08:55,950 handcuffs? So many questions, silly answers. When Stanley entered the garden 118 00:08:55,950 --> 00:08:59,549 of his house, he noticed something strange. There was a trail of small 119 00:08:59,549 --> 00:09:03,990 footprints, as if a very small animal had been walking in circles. He stopped in 120 00:09:03,990 --> 00:09:09,429 middle of the lawn he stood there for a second before dodging a set of small knives thrown at him 121 00:09:10,230 --> 00:09:16,950 he looked up and there it was standing on a tree the root of all his problems the rat 122 00:09:17,909 --> 00:09:25,909 hi stanley you you see i thought a lot about our tiny conflict and decided to without wasting a 123 00:09:25,909 --> 00:09:31,830 second stanley jumped and while floating in mid air pulled out his gun the rat since the murderous 124 00:09:31,830 --> 00:09:37,929 intent sprang, thrusting his feet violently at Stanley, as if trying to scratch him. Stanley 125 00:09:37,929 --> 00:09:42,730 shot four bullets, his enemy counter-attacked by deflecting all of them with a magical spell. 126 00:09:43,850 --> 00:09:49,830 This, however, backfired. The bullets that were supposed to hit the target ricocheted off of each 127 00:09:49,830 --> 00:09:55,029 other, and one managed to hit the foe. The rat dropped on the ground, screeching in pain. 128 00:09:55,769 --> 00:09:59,769 Stanley gently landed on the grass and slowly approached the wounded animal. 129 00:09:59,769 --> 00:10:09,429 this this is not how I imagined my end you did it you won but please let me 130 00:10:09,429 --> 00:10:13,889 live I will never bother you again I swear by my name 131 00:10:13,889 --> 00:10:20,409 begged the rat the rat started transforming again but this time instead 132 00:10:20,409 --> 00:10:26,250 of an old man it mutated into a kid you wouldn't hit a child would you 133 00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:29,750 Stanley hid the child, but it did not end there. 134 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:34,110 Stanley also mocked him, reasoning his behavior a smaller compensation. 135 00:10:34,110 --> 00:10:38,129 Eventually, everything went back to normal. 136 00:10:38,129 --> 00:10:42,809 Stanley now as a father of two children lived a happy life with his loved ones. 137 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:46,490 He fell off a cliff at the age of 32 and died.