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Hello! This is my third level and first format screw! PLEASE do not downvote just because it’s really long. I promise it’s good! (I hope). It got two green lights so it can’t be THAT BAD. So I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks so much to Stretchsterz and
CutTheBirch for the double greenlight!
Enjoy!
Update 8/10/22: Images are now CC compliant and licensed properly lol
this goes nowhere fast. there are many locations in this level which don't actually contribute at all to what the level is trying to do, the entire writing felt very clunky and difficult to read, and the characters were neither memorable nor realistically written. all of this lead to my downvote.
So it turns out, the reason why the level is that way its right below this comment. What a unfortunate placement.
Heyo thought I’d give a little commentary of what this level means. (Btw thanks for +14 as of writing this ^_^). Basically this level is inspired by a lot of things relating to my own personal life along with many mental struggles I personally and many others go through.
Level 0Zero kind of represents how I may act cheery and giddy outside but inside I’m very tired and unmotivated a lot of the time. Hence how day is completely safe and night is extremely terrifying and a place you don’t want to be.
Level 1One is supposed to represent the idea of when you view a certain person as out to get you. It’s supposed to be how no matter how you try to escape the only way to survive is to face the problem head on, kind of like the only way to escape 1One is by killing the landlord rather than running from him. I definitely relate to this of how sometimes even good friends of mine I can’t help but worry that they’ll leave me or end up despising me eventually.
Level 2Two is supposed to represent how sometimes things aren’t as they seem. I took the idea of the snowy forest and decided to make it a place where you constantly get heatstroke, even though the level is covered in snow. It resembles how with my autism it is very hard for me sometimes to understand certain social cues and actions. The fallen angels are also supposed to resemble demons from hell. If you didn’t get it, hell is kinda the theme behind this level.
Level 3three is supposed to represent how little time we all have. I constantly worry about time and scheduling and other things like that and am very planning. I took the idea of clocks from the fandom and made them have time altering abilities. The idea is how little time we truly have and how I’m always so worrisome over it.
Level 4Four is supposed to resemble the anxiety of the world constantly being out to get you. Everyone at every corner causes you to be afraid sometimes and it’s very hard to look at people with such malicious prejudice. I sometimes have this anxiety of the world constantly being out to get me and 4Four is supposed to represent that fear.
L0ST H0P3 is definitely a quite self explanatory. It’s supposed to represent how lost you can feel sometimes and how the world seems to be collapsing around you. No matter what you try to do it feels like all hope is gone. That’s where 2 F4R comes in.
2 F4R is a dark room that is where you end up if you manage to go too deep into L0ST H0P3 and it is supposed to represent how sometimes I can dip a little too deep into anxiety and things like that. It’s supposed to resemble going too far down and spiraling into despair. TH3 3ND ties directly with this
TH3 3ND is basically supposed to be that hell that everyone imagines. The big pit of fire with screaming souls and things like that. I find how hell is a good analogy how sometimes you can go so deep into despair and regret that you end up scaring and burning yourself (metaphorically). Like constantly blaming yourself for that type of stuff you wish you could take back. It feels like there’s no escape and it’s very difficult to come back from that. I find this to be the most relatable thing to me. It feels like once you go this deep, it feels like the end and there’s no going back.
Anyway hope this helped understand the deeper meaning behind the article. Thanks again for all the upvotes. Have a nice day and thx for reading! :)
woah that was deep
Robert J. Quack
I cant upvote this enough, great level, great lore, great significance, this was a hell of a ride to read AND understand.
+1
Wow. That's deep.
+1. Nice work Nate
Wow! +14 since then! Must've been a hell of a ride since Broogli checked out your level.
- Fakebaby
too real
CharaDotArchivist
The demon that comes when you call her name.
I feel like the writing could be more clinical, there are some minor spag nitpicks, and also, I don't understand why the level/the entity controlling it 1. Speaks in leet speak 2. Is somehow able to affect the article without its edits being removed by the meg staff.
Still, kinda like it because it's long, has neat pictures, and also the representation for the flow of time being turned into a level.
Also, weaponized clocks.
Thanks for the upvote! But to reply to your critique:
Clinical: I believe the wiki is trying to move away from extremely clinical writing, but I get what you mean how it could sound slightly more official.
SPaG: I’m gonna go through at some point and fix any minor SPaG stuff I find. Just haven’t had a chance. Me and the critiquers got most of it but turns out I missed a few.
Entity: Time for a lore drop. The level is not being controlled by one sole entity, but rather the level itself is what distorts the article. Leet speak is just the way it gets distorted because I thought it was an interesting form of distortion. Also you could say that about all the format screws of why didn’t they get fixed by the meg. The entire level is supposed to get more distorted as you go deeper, hence why it slowly descends into darker and darker areas before it goes crazy at the end.
Long + Pics: I am a strong believer in pictures for your article >:). Also this is the second longest wiki article as of writing this, I am a long writer haha.
Also YES weaponized clocks. 3THREE IS ABSOLUTE CHAOS! HAHAHA!
Thanks for the critique and upvote. It’s at +30 as of writing this I’m literally bouta cry :,)
mmmyes, thank for reply.
still, i kinda dont understand why the level had to choose l33t speak instead of something more cryptic or ancient
also would be a bit nice if the last 2 layers were a bit more fleshed out and less "big empty spaces with small descriptions of how absolutely fucked you are"
ah i see thank u for replying
would be nice though if the last 2 layers had more to them than just "big empty spaces with small descriptions of how utterly screwed you are"
wait shit i accidentally replied twice because i thought that my first reply didnt send
This is as of now the best entry in the backrooms wiki I've read. While you may not have intended this it feels like an expansion on the old concept of "places worse than the backrooms". Think about it: like the normal backrooms it has multiple levels to it. It is definetly a worse place to be in and it's very hard to escape (just like the backrooms). Overall really great level definetly a +1.
Thanks sm!
Glad you enjoyed!
How do we enter level 6six and level 7seven anyway? Is there exits for all 4?
Not really a big fan of this level. The text has so much but says so little, each sublevel feels bland and derivative.
I understand the personal implications of each level and I like the concept. If this level was more of a self-reflection sort of thing- I could get more behind it.
The information presented to the reader is both said from a researcher's perspective and also that of a third view, per se.
How does the M.E.G. know that someone who enters L0ST H0P3 gets ripped apart on the atomic level? How do they know about the levels below it? What I'm saying is that the piece reads as a sort of thing where the reader's perspective of being driven into the clutches of this level is put on the same level as the clinical tone of the M.E.G. It clashes and ruins the immersion for me.
What I think this could benefit from, is shaving down the text and leaving some parts up to the reader's imagination, instead of things being outright said. Not every level needs to have some sort of contrarian aspect to it to make it unique.
My favorite section is the sea of clocks.
I hope this didn't come off as too harsh, you're a great writer nonetheless and I'm always happy to read one of your pieces.
Valid criticisms! I agree that the descriptions could have been more meaty and the worldbuilding could have been way better. To this day I regret my unrealistic approach to the final 3 x) And I agree. March me tried to go all out for this and some ended up better than others haha. I definitely would have written it far differently if it were today. Tysm!
