Elevator Game: Another World

The legend says there is a way to another world, and it starts in an ordinary elevator in a building of at least ten floors. You ride alone. You press the floors in order: 4, 2, 6, 2, 10, 5. On the fifth floor a young woman gets on. You must not look at her, and you must not answer her. You press 1, and if the ritual is working, the elevator does not go down. It rises to the tenth floor, where the doors open on a dark world where nothing exists but you and, far away, a single red cross.

THE RITUAL, IN FIRST PERSON
Step into a realistic elevator car: brushed steel, a humming motor, a flickering tube light, the chime at every floor and doors that slide open on dark hallways. Drag to look around, or turn your phone. Lean in to the button panel and press the floors yourself. On the fifth floor, keep your eyes on the floor or the panel: you will hear her heels, her dress, her breath beside you, and feel her through the vibration in your hand. Look at her, answer her, let someone else get on, or press a wrong floor, and the night ends differently.

SEVEN ENDINGS
Come back the right way and step into the lobby you left. Or step out on the tenth floor and walk toward the red cross. Every ending you find goes into your notebook. The Korean telling, where she speaks to you, and the original Japanese telling from the 2008 2channel thread, where she only breathes, play out differently.

A GUIDE FOR A REAL ELEVATOR
A step-by-step walkthrough of the legend's rules, one instruction per screen, large enough to read in a dim car, which remembers where you are if your screen goes dark: the preparation, the sequence, the fifth floor, the tenth floor, and the way back, exactly as the legend tells it.

THE LEGEND ITSELF
Where the ritual came from, how it changed as it travelled from Japan to Korea to the rest of the world, and what each version says about the woman, the other side and the way home.

Works offline. Nine languages. No account.

Elevator Game is a work of fiction based on internet folklore, for entertainment.

Recent changes:
First release: the ritual in first person, seven endings, a guide for a real elevator, and the legend.