...my brain is thinking about lore now-
Like, theories.
So... spoiler warning?
I know that it's October (that calendar said so), but with the aspects of time traveling that the game uses with the code for the elevator makes me think that it is not a coincidence. We're an intern, and we are told that Chromos filed for bankruptcy because an intern got water on the equipment. We put water on the equipment in order to protect ourselves. Are we the intern? Was going down the elevator bringing us to that date? Or something similar to that date? Did Chronos know what would happen when someone went down the elevator? How did the engineer guy even get into the building on Monday?
I know that Chronos is a magical entity. The first reason is how he looks (though one could argue that he was created by a magical being), and the second reason is that he got rid of Saturday and Sunday. Also, if Simone doesn't remember ever leaving the office, and none of them are there on Fridays, then where are they on Friday? Held in a sleep-like state? Does Chronos know that we are going back and forth in time?
If what the newspaper says is somewhat true and nobody else from the "real world" get into the office, then how did we get there? Was it because Chronos knew that Coworker was going to put in a two-week notice, so he wanted to get the replacement first? Why did Coworker die the same day he submitted his two weeks' notice? Wouldn't he still have to work for two weeks?
Oh well, questions from questions. I think that when we used the water on the equipment to shock Chronos, whatever magic he had stopped so we got sent back to the "real world". Since nobody could get into the building before (and I imagine Chronos was causing rodents and stuff to not get in either, but the spiders and flies already there survived), I think that is why we see Simone's body at the end. However, I do wonder where Coworker's body went. Was it, like, outside, so in the "real world" he decomposed? What actually happened on May 27th?