We were beginning to get established in our new facility at Chambeau 137.
Katherine was using part of the warehouse to set up a veterinary lab for her raptor rehabilitation service, while her sister Rebekah was using part of the warehouse to store and manage her rose repository.
The two-story portion of the building was being used for administrative purposes, to meet with clients, and I was using some office space for my web development and creative writing space.
Although Chambeau 137 was an interdimensional facility, joining our reality with an extradimensional one, the building was tiny in comparison to the extradimensional version. In our reality, Chambeau 137 was around 42,000 square feet, including the warehouse. The extradimensional version, by comparison, had well over 5 million rooms, stretching 137 floors up and 137 floors down.
While the sisters had set up shop in the warehouse, I had set up my office. Some renovations needed to be done, as some of the interior components were outdated and in need of an upgrade.
Katherine wanted to use some of the extradimensional space to house any other-worldly creatures her Kennel Acquisition Team (K.A.T.) would find in the Backrooms realm. Also, if she ran out of room in our own world for housing raptors, she could always expand into the extradimensional space.
Rebekah would use the Rose Rooms to harvest unlimited roses for her Rose Repository, using her part of the real-world warehouse to assemble custom bouquets for customers.
Much of the Chambeau 137 facility, both in reality and extradimensionally, were very monotonous, plain, and outdated. It was time for an upgrade and to bring some color to the place.
We decided we wanted to hire mural artists to paint designs on the walls in the millions of rooms we had in the extradimensional space, as well as to paint the lobby in our own reality.
We also needed electricians and construction workers for rewiring and upgrading some of the rooms.
Having no idea if the extradimensional rooms could actually be renovated or not, we reached out to Broogli, the realtor who had sold us the property.
Broogli told us about the "Anonymous Renovation Team", or A.R.T., which was a network of anonymous professionals who specialized in extradimensional room renovations. The members of this team had businesses in our world, but also offered extradimensional renovation services as a side hustle.
It was time for me to request quotes for various A.R.T. services. I found an online form, which required that I provide any details I could about our extradimensional space. I hadn't explored the whole thing, considering how massive it was, but here is info that I already had observed about Chambeau 137 so far:
- There were 137 above-ground floors, and 137 below-ground floors, totaling 274 floors
- Each floor was 137 rooms wide by 137 rooms deep, totaling 18,769 rooms per floor
- There was a total of 5,142,707 rooms
- The sizes of the rooms varied in height, width, and depth, ranging from 8 to 40 feet tall and 8 by 8 feet to as much as 100 by 100 feet.
There was a cost estimate calculator, which gave me a ballpark cost range based on the square footage to be renovated. According to my calculations, the square footage ranged from 1.2 million to 187.7 million square feet PER FLOOR. This meant that the extradimensional side of Chambeau 137 had an estimated total range of 330 million to 51 billion square feet.
The cost estimate calculator, based on a budget of $27 per square foot, gave me an estimated cost of over 1.3 TRILLION DOLLARS to renovate Chambeau 137.
So... yeah. Maybe we'll just renovate a few rooms at a time for now.
I went over these numbers with the sisters, and we agreed that we would renovate a few rooms on the first few levels. We contacted A.R.T. and renovations began in the offices on the 2nd floor. The first project was to widen the narrow passage that led into the extradimensional space, so the sisters could more easily transfer items interdimensionally. We also commissioned a mural artist to paint the lobby.
In the meantime, I was thinking about further exploration. One peculiar aspect to Chambeau 137 that I had noticed was the energy, or "aura", that the each of the floors gave. I realized that the positive above-ground floors seemed to only increase in positive energy the higher you went. The below-ground negative floors got increasingly negative the further down you went.
I had only explored a few floors on both the negative and positive sides so far. Thinking about this, what was the very top floor, 137, like? I had already experienced a rosy bliss with Rebekah on floor 32, but had a scary negative experience on floor -40 with the sinister Hollow Barbie entity.
What evils and horrors were waiting in the bowels of Chambeau 137, on floor -137? What heavenly pleasures were to be found at the top, on floor 137? It was time for me to find out. It was time to do more exploring.