The Backrooms

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If you’re not careful, and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow wallpaper, the loud buzzing of fluorescent lights, and approximately 60 million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.

Characters

The Backrooms

While it isn’t exactly a being, it does change on its own. Every so often, when not under watch, the rooms may change and morph into an entirely different structure, and the space this endless reality takes place in is non-Euclidean, meaning it folds, bends, and changes randomly. It is hard to visibly notice the strange way it bends however, simply because this bending only occurs on a dimension we are not capable of processing.

The Being

It is unknown whether or not this creature is real or a product of malnourishment and insanity, but this being typically takes the shape of a shadowy figure, resembling a tall genderless person with no distinguishing features aside from its lack of features. It stalks its prey after they’ve wandered the backrooms too long and has been known to sometimes chase down but not ever harm people who enter the backrooms to torment them and drive them to take their own lives.

Intro

You decide to take a walk after a long day at work, bugs buzzing and fireflies shining. A breeze caresses you. Though perhaps you should’ve payed more attention to where you were walking, because when you least expect it, you fall directly through the next sidewalk tile.

The Backrooms

You immediately land with a plop onto a wet spot on some carpet. Confused and startled you search your surroundings and find nothing inside the room youre in. You stare up at the top of the room only to find not a hole that you fell through, but a solid tiled ceiling, with evenly spaced buzzing lights. Still frightened you wander into the next room over, and still find nothing, as you glance at the rooms behind and in front of you, you are filled with an unexplainable dread, because yet again you find nothing in either rooms except for more doorways to empty rooms.