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The Stone Giant is the first location of Noone's nightmares from the audio-fiction series, The Sounds of Nightmares.
Description
The Stone Giant is a giant structure with walls big enough for children to fit through, which Noone traveled through for most of her journey. Through cracks and holes in the wall, various rooms could be observed along with the occasional sound of cries and screams. Noone first describes arriving inside of a long curved passageway within the Stone Giant, peering through a hole in the wall that revealed a white snowy field on the other side. Although the ceiling of the passageways are at times too low, it does not hinder traveling through them. Different passageways connect to each other similarly to veins in a body. While sliding down another passage in the floor, she details feeling the place was cold. A hole in the wall revealed a room filled with glass jars. Another room filled with pulsing passageways all over the walls and floor, reminding her of ant tunnels. This room was also filled with springs, small oil cans, and strange tools.
After encountering The Workers, she eventually followed two through the same passageway in the floor to a room filled with giant golden spinning gears of various sizes, which Noone realized allowed for the Stone Giant to function, but would very easily cause it to break apart stone by stone if the gears stopped. The gears created a loud rhythmic clinking, as if singing a song, all the while a loud creak sound rang high above. Noone eventually realized she was inside the walls, peeking at the world outside. The walls extended down and around along with the mechanisms, so deep she could not determine its end. While she primarily observed steam and darkness as she descended, small glimpses of light would sometimes peer into the walls. All the while she traveled through the wall, she could hear a ticking sound grow louder and louder. After meeting the Child with Gooey Hair and peering into another crack in the wall leading to the Tall Woman's hideous workshop, they arrived at a place at the bottom of the gears, between the walls, where a large pendulum swinging back and forth could be found.
After climbing the pendulum, they arrived at the center of the clock, a round room with a spiral staircase. The machine consisted of small metallic fingers taping a violent rhythm, and the ceiling a white clock face depicting all the wrong numbers. Nearby stairs led to a snowy courtyard.
At the end of The Workers in the Walls, the Stone Giant was revealed to be a sort-of prison, which contained millions of different cells filled with prisoners.
Components
The glass jar room
A room filled with glass jars. A doorway on the opposite side shined light into the room and through the many jars. Noone saw her first glimpse of The Candleman within this room.
The prison cells
The second room Noone observed through the wall. One of the many Stone Giant's prison cells, which contained a prisoner, a floor covered in chains, a bed, and nun-like dresses hanging on the wall.
At the end of the chapter, it was revealed that the Stone Giant's circular walls were filled with prison cells, each containing a prisoner that screamed out in pain, their hands and limbs reaching out from between the bars.
The Tall Woman's room
The Tall Woman's workshop is filled with various half-made "projects" made of wood, metals, cranks and straps. A shelf with a collection of masks with screws and spikes in them to fit perfectly into a mouth could also be seen, as well as a pile of scraps.
The giant clock
At the bottom of the Stone Giant, Noone described climbing up a giant swinging pendulum, the top of which was a clock with wrong numbers. This room was described as being foggy.
The courtyard
The final room described in the story was a courtyard filled with snow, a place outside the walls. Above, Noone was able to witness all of the prisoners being held inside of prison cells. In this room, the Child with Gooey Hair was captured by the Tall Woman.
Trivia
- Noone formed an analogy to the Workers inside of the Stone Giant to the Water Disease that once plagued her own body, which she described as things no one could see that were working to kill her rather than help her stay alive.
- The Stone Giant is in some ways similar to The Maw from the first Little Nightmares game, such as its inclusion of prison cells and its giant gears.