Power Station Room
"Also, get this, Joey had each one of us donate something from our work stations. We put them on these little pedestals in the break room. To help appease the gods, Joey says. Keep things going." |
The Power Station Room[2], better known as the break room, is a room found in the Cycle. It is a part of the Old Studio location.
As its name "break room" suggests, it represents as an area from Joey Drew Studios where the workers would take their breaks between shifts. At one point, the ritual involving the donation of six items takes place at this room, to "appease the gods" as Joey Drew words it.[1]
Background
It is a large area containing six pedestals, three from each both left and right sides. From the left side, three pedestals requires this following order - Bendy doll, a record, and an ink jar. From the right side, three pedestals requires this following order - a book, a wrench, and a gear. The pedestals are connected to pipes and are localized on a raised dirt ground.
Above all pedestals are light-bulbs, and will automatically turn on upon putting the items onto the pedestals. All lights will shut off upon pulling the switch. At the end from between both pipes is a switch, with a sign from above labeled "INK MACHINE".
The break room is the area where the Ink Machine is activated via a switch, requiring six items to restore the ink pressure; an inkwell, a book entitled The Illusion of Living, a Bendy doll, a gear, a wrench, and a record. After collecting all items or one by one, the items must be placed manually onto the pedestals before preparing to activate the ink flow from the theater room. Afterwards, the switch from the break room can finally be pulled.
Apocryphal information
The station's event with item rituals appears to take place during the holiday season.[1][2][3]
Behind the scenes
The break room appears in Chapter 1: Moving Pictures of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Development
From the game's earlier versions until the DLC release of Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders, the location was only a large wooden room with the six pedestals having no pipes and not being raised. The machinery was completely absent and the wall only have posters.
Furthermore, from the same versions prior to Chapter 4, all items on pedestals levitates and slowly spins around as Henry does not need to place them on pedestals. All items disappear as soon as pulling the switch for the Ink Machine. From the prototype demo, all of the items immediately vanish, but in the first remastered update via DLC release of Chapter 2: The Old Song, all items slowly dissolve.
Other information
From the Hello Bendy mod for Bendy and the Ink Machine, when pulling the break room's switch, the flashing "RUNNING" text was replaced with "HELLO NEIGHBOR".
Gallery
"Look pal, if you think I'm doing my job AND yours, I'm outta here!" - Wally Franks