The Undertaker
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A Visit to the Place Where I Am Made

In short: The Undertaker tours the place his rooms come from. Buried Alive, Asylum, Cannibal and Meat Grinder were designed and built by Escape This, which runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia.

15 July 2025

Tuesday. I went to see where I come from. It was a shed. A very large, very serious shed, full of people with pencils behind their ears.

They have writers there, who write the stories. Puzzle planners, who plan the puzzles. Set builders, scenic artists who age a plank until it looks a hundred years old, and a props team who make every object a guest picks up. I saw a lid being sanded. It was not my lid, but I nodded at it respectfully.

One of the writers looked up and said, quite casually, that they had “written the Undertaker”. Written him. As if I were a shopping list. I informed her that I had written myself, in this very diary, and she said that was lovely and also something they had written.

I have decided not to think about that.

I did admire the joinery. Whoever makes these rooms takes them more seriously than I do, which I had not believed possible. I left a thank-you note on the workbench, sealed with my wax, and a gentle suggestion about smaller panic buttons.

— U.

The Undertaker’s mulberry wax seal, stamped with a U
Out of character

Questions this entry raises

Who actually writes The Undertaker’s diary?

Escape This writes it. The Undertaker’s diary is a piece of fiction produced alongside the official sites for his rooms, in the voice of a pompous villain who believes he wrote himself. Every fact outside the diary text, such as players, ages, venues and dates, comes from Escape This’s booking system or its room pages.

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