Stuck At The Core

This is one of those times where bug meets lore and funny things happen.
http://i48.tinypic.com/vh71wz.jpg
As far as I can tell, our four-member party had just finished off Vanaduke when the fourth player had his PC crash. We didn't think this was a major problem, so we took the elevator down to Depth 29. No problems there, even though the last player still hadn't reconnected. Walk up to lift, pull out a few vials to break when we go up, step on. Barrier goes up. Vials break. And ... nothing.
What exactly am I supposed to think of this? We're literally the first people to get stuck since Alpha Squad.

Turns out that was easy to get out of. A guildmate invited me to join his party. No harm done, really, didn't lose out on anything.

Ah, I see, seems you've found the bug level, the glitch space, the missingo of Spiral Knights :P
It's a null level that displays depth: ???
Pity you can't do anything in there.

OMG THEY WENT INSIDE THE CORE BUT THEY COULDN'T FIND THE LIGHT SWITCH

No wai, I found the glitched level at depth 1 :P
Or maybe I fell off the elevator and through the clockworks o__o

Leaving was easy, which is why this isn't in Bug Reports. I felt it was interesting and/or amusing enough to go here instead.

I still submitted a bug (when my pc stopped freezing and unfreezing repeatedly for like 10 minutes)
I ended up joining a random party, but he must have left as he got on the elevator, because when my loading screen finished, I was standing next to the elevator, and it was going down with no-one on it.
Then the next level started, without a loading screen. Anyone who joined me also got stuck in this black space, and people thought I was in the shadow lairs.
Same thing happened to me, except this happened after xD
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198060582811/screenshot/59584445...