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well written
would really wanna visit this level in real life!
also liked the detail how one of the games gets you to frontrooms but its rigged
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UserUnhacked,
Thank you for your kindness and honesty. This is not a joke level, but I wanted a relatively safe level with a subtle hint of darkness. Personally, I also would not mind visiting this level. Sounds like fun!
Oh, ok.
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Draxhil,
Thanks for the upvote of confidence!
The level is lighter than my usual fare, on the surface.
Wanted to explore the idea of a theme park in the Backrooms, created by a nonhuman intelligence, based upon their examination of our memories.
Beating GUESS YOUR WEIGHT wins an exit to the Frontrooms.
This feels extremely unsatistifying. Most of the current lore considers the Backrooms extremely difficult to escape, and an exit would be a big deal. Here it is mentioned as a small side-note, and is the prize for winning a weight-guessing game. Sure, there is no canon, but this page still exists in the context of other pages, and I feel like this exit ruins my immersion in this page itself.
Edit: I get that the game is rigged, and thus impossible to win, but even the idea of a potential exit should be taken more seriously.
jan Jejasa,
Thanks for your honest input. I am truly disappointed that my fiction has upset you. Every perspective is unique and subjective feelings about so many things are as diverse as the number of individuals on this Earth.
From the moment that I discovered and enjoyed these Backrooms, I saw a beautiful opportunity to experiment with nonhuman intelligences from elsewhere. For more than five decades, I have investigated and researched (in real life) the legend and "lore" of alleged human-nonhuman "relationships." Fae. Extra-terrestrials. Extra-dimensionals. Men in Black. Dark, spiritual entities. "Trickster" phenomena. Et cetera. I used this "knowledge" to invent the intelligences of levels 365, 710, and now 345.
Liminal Forest is my interpretation of nonhuman beings creating a "theme park," based on their "alien" skill set, to lure and study humans. They know how valuable an exit to the Frontrooms would be. They know how precious that memories are to people. Their version of this amusement park loses a little in translation, much in the same way that RPG video games collide with differences in language and culture.
These nonhumans are taking Liminal Forest very seriously, in their own way. Putting yourself in their place, the prize in the GUESS YOUR WEIGHT game guarantees participation. Using memories that can be actually experienced (paused, rewound, played over and over) guarantees participation.
Many parts of this storyline that read as "small side-notes" reveal larger clues. I promise. Level 345 is darker than its obvious humor.
Perhaps you will find my treatment of an actual exit to the Frontrooms in the Anne Dunne trilogy more to your liking. Perhaps you might enjoy my other writings.
Once again, thank you. I mean that.
P.S. I changed the sentence you highlighted into a question.
I get how you feel. I personally feel that an impossible exit is not a real exit. Even if you did win, it would be by cheating, thus sending you to Level 148. An impossible exit isn't an exit at all in my opinion. It's just a psychological trick to give wanderers hope and false confidence, before it is stripped from them all at once. Something is messing with them it seems, playing psychological games. Who says that the park is even capable of taking you to the Frontrooms? It is likely just a lie to inspire hope.
There's a lot more if you read deeper into it, a much darker secret going on here. The whole park seems to revolve around the idea of studying human memories and emotions.
GOERMAN. I guess you just can't help but spout intricately designed and well-crafted content on a weekly basis.
Anyways, this was really cool! I'm happy to see you take a break from the Anne Dunne trilogy and lore to make another level. I am also proud that you decided to make an exit from your level to Level 148! I'm always happy to see more entrances to hell.
I exist for the sole purpose of writing this
This looks like a nice, longer, interesting entry, and, better yet, I already know it's well-written! I'll send you the episode when it goes up, Goerman :D
DysfunctionalCabinet,
It is nice to be loved.
Hated is okay.
But loved is better.
Looking forward to the podcast!
Give all my best to you and yours.
I appreciate it!
Your article has been translated into Chinese!An exit to Frontrooms is not the point of this article i guess.We should care more about the whimsicality of this article.This is Goerman's thing!Love it XD
Okey,have added it now.XD
I luv blonde muscle man.
momsknife,
Thank you ever so much for your support, my friend and colleague. I hope that your translations of my work are read by folks as open-minded and insightful as you are. Yes, "whimsical" is one adjective that I was reaching for. This article is not meant for everyone. No article or tale is. Different people like (or dislike) different things.
I did accomplish ONE thing.
The Backrooms now officially has a theme park!
I added the illustration of a "Welcome" sign to the level.
Heya Goerman!
As I shall restate, I absolutely loved this level, and also, I have updated level 148 to feature your entrance. It's always nice to have another entrance to hell.
Can't wait for the next one!
I exist for the sole purpose of writing this
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Heya Henry!
THANK YOU!
Aquarinus,
Thanks for the +1 and thank you for your encouragement.
This was not as heavy as my popular levels (365 and 710).
I am so glad that you had a little fun!
"If the park staff is unable to accurately guess your weight, you win an immediate exit to the Frontrooms location of your choice!"
"I guess… 152 pounds!"
"Wrong. Im 95% helium."
*slowly floats away*
I doubt that the level even has the ability to send someone to the Frontrooms. And that would probably count as cheating somehow. Have fun in Level 148! >:D
And it's rigged anyway. If you don't weight that much, it makes you weight that much. They may be 95% Helium now, but they can have fun having their atomic composition or density changed!
That's right! You ALWAYS weigh exactly what the park staff guesses because they "make it so" by altering your "weight." Plus, you are never completely physically here in Liminal Park. No wanderer ever is.
Liminal Forest is a Backrooms level on the threshold of human consciousness. It is a place, but not a space. Located between here and there, it is open between yesterday and tomorrow. It supersedes time and space.
my comment was a family guy reference
ferretsinatrenchcoat,
HA! Old guy here didn't get it. Sorry.
I try to keep up but I am 70.
Anyways, we love all the comments. When you are sharing your thoughts, we are sharing here. I love seeing the insights of others. Whether we agree or not is secondary.
I can't believe this one fell under my radar, Cody brought it to my attention today.. I love the in-between concept, the place itself is fundamentally liminal. Yet another Goerman banger!
DivineAtlas,
Hi Divine! Or should I call you Mister Atlas?
We took Cody and Alex (his younger brother) on vacation to Cedar Point amusement park. This would be the last time for this as my wife passed away. Anyhow, it got me to thinking about the Goerman treatment of an amusement park in the Backrooms. And thus, in the middle of writing Anne's trilogy of tales, I concocted Liminal Forest. So glad that Cody turned you on to it! So very glad that you enjoyed it. Many thanks, my friend and colleague…
