The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™

The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™
Talks	No
Appears in	The Stanley Parable Demonstration Confusion Ending The Office (Post-Confusion Ending) Warehouse (Post-Confusion Ending) Bucket Destroyer Ending
Purpose	To find the Stanley Parable story.
Also known as	The Adventure Line™ (Capitalized "The") The Line™ (Capitalized "The") Line™ (Proper noun) It™ You™

This time, to make sure we don't get lost, I've employed the help of The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™!

The Narrator

The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™ is an entity in The Stanley Parable that guides Stanley throughout the office in the Confusion Ending. The Narrator employs The Line™ usage in order to "find the story", but It™ doesn't seem to know how to.

The Line™ is characterized by a solid yellow line. As The Line™ progresses, It™ starts to zig-zag throughout the office and cause havoc, knocking over chairs, desks, and boxes. The Line™ makes a reappearance on the last restart, when It™ comes crashing through the ceiling, zig-zags around for a bit, then leaves again. When the player follows It™, Stanley will be accompanied by the song Following Stanley. It™ is always addressed with capital letters and a trademark symbol, even when referred to as simply It™.

Main Role

The Line™ can be found in the Confusion Ending. The Narrator hires It™ to show both Stanley and him the way where the story is. Although at first It™ seems to help, It™ slowly becomes to be more crazy, mindless and drunk on where It™ goes, while the Narrator ignores It™ going on a thoughtless discussion with himself.

In the end, The Line™ comes back to the Office and loops around exiting from a non-euclidian hallway in Employee 426's door. Then, It™ goes to the normally Inaccessible Area of the second office Corridor, where It™ once again stumbles across the Mind Control Facility Balcony. This makes the Narrator mad, and then he restarts, leading to the fifth sub-ending, where The Line™ appears again in front of Stanley's Office. This time the Narrator closes the door on the player and says to forget The Line™ ever existed.

On the way of the "Awesome New Story" in the sub-ending, The Line™ breaks the ceiling to once again accompany Stanley on his way, creating a more-like of an office environment, adding two windows and some papers to the non-euclidian hallways the ending begins with. It™ then goes back to the ceiling, never to be seen again during the ending. Ever since that happened, The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™ became a free soul occasionally running around random places in the Office.

Other Appearances

In The Stanley Parable Demonstration

• In the "Final Decision" room, The Line™ can be found on the right wall, low near the darkness to the right of the entrance. It™ wobbles, then drops into the darkness below.
• In the Demo Construction Facility, The Line™ goes straight through the room during Narrative Contradiction.

In The Stanley Parable

• By the hallway that leads to the Employee Lounge, there is a blue room with office cabinets. The Line™ can be seen escaping from under the boxes after playthrough of the Confusion Ending.

In The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

• In the Bucket Destroyer Ending, The Line™ comes out of a container named "Raw assets: the_only_map", and appears alongside other "Stanley's Friends", such as the Broom Closet, the Baby, Stanley's Wife, his Computer, Employee 432's pencil sharpener and the Fern. Stanley is prompted by the Narrator to follow It™ again, eventually leading him to the Bucket Destroyer. This is the only instance of The Line™ actually going to the spot the Narrator wanted It™ to go.
• After completing the Confusion Ending:
  • It™s appearance from The Stanley Parable is also present here (the one in the blue office next to the hallway to the Lounge)
  • The Line™ crosses the floor in the room behind the New Content Door, in the unaccessible hallway to the right where the player can go after Stanley completes the Confusion Ending. This sighting of It™ is particularly strange, as when seen through the window in the blueish office nearby, It™ is clearly there, but once the player steps through the New Content door, It™ permanently disappears until the player finishes the Confusion Ending again.
  • The Line™ wobbles around the floor in the warehouse after finishing the Confusion Ending. It™ goes under the two knobless doors far down on the cargo floor in the farther left corner of the warehouse.
• In the Press Conference Ending, The Line™ goes in the hole of the small mini golf field in the backstage area.

Outside Media

• Even though that room can’t be found during gameplay, The Line™ can also be found on the cover for The Stanley Parable’s physical IndieBox edition.
• The Line™ can be seen in the "The Stanley Parable Responds to Your Letters and Emails" YouTube video, as It™ appears under the person holding the parchment on the monitor 236.

Gallery

For all images, see The Stanley Parable Adventure Line/Gallery

Start of The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™

Main texture of The Stanley Parable Adventure Line™

The start of The Line™

Adventure Line™ in the dark void during The Stanley Parable Demonstration in the "Final Decision" Room.

Adventure Line™ during the Narrative Contradiction in The Stanley Parable Demonstration.

Close-up on the New Content Door Line™.

The Line™ going through the New Content Corridor after the Confusion Ending.

The Line™ in the office near the Employee Lounge.

The Line™ in the Warehouse.

Adventure Line™ on the minigolf field.

Trivia

• While Ultra Deluxe is considered a sequel, The Line™ will appear with the correct sequel number at the start of the fourth sub-ending and the fifth sub-ending of the Confusion Ending (without the Bucket).
• If one were able to fly all the way to Blue Office or Short Office when the Post-Confusion Ending variation is activated, The Line™ wouldn't be seen anywhere with this variation.
• On the title screen for The Stanley Parable 12, a human Adventure Line™ can be spotted as an anime-esque figure.