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Title: A level that is being owned by the survivor?
Author: gezanulunz
Translator: lemme
Release: 2025
Translator Note: This is ID first lore-guide-essay ahh type article written by Geza, we'll have more of this type on ID Wiki in the future. Damn, my boy Geza is on global now, congrats!
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From the very beginning of humanity's existence in an alien world where nature was so hostile to their existence, these lost settlers were nothing more than a bunch of mosquitoes trapped in an aquarium filled with frogs. No one knew how these frail creatures less than a century old could be dragged away from their home world. Just like that alien world, the original inhabitants disliked or even hated this outsiders. The humans, who were unaccustomed to the pressure from all directions, ended up becoming an easy meal.
The taste? Perhaps it can be seen from the creatures of this world who have targeted humans in various ways so that they can consume them. The humans who were slowly called survivors by themselves began to realize that they were just creatures with soft meat. No shields, sharp teeth, dense fur, tails, sharp claws, and so on. The survivors who realized their weakness began to make use of the only advantage that almost no other living creature had, namely intelligence and mind1.
The survivors slowly began to rise from the feeling of wanting to find a way back home because the longing for the origin and homeland of the survivors would only stab them in the back. They began to try to compete in the survival arena against the various threats that were always lurking around them. Since human is a social creature, togetherness and unity are their previous weapons to rule their home world.
Survivors who are creatures with soft flesh enveloping hard bones would probably get such a nickname if they were alone. However, if they unite, even the most terrifying monsters will not be able to defeat them. Their cooperative actions and strategies to stay alive are perhaps the greatest blessings from the One. It is that power that makes the survivors who were initially divided by selfishness begin to unite, and eventually group together to achieve a common goal.
Survival.
After the survivors in the Backrooms slowly adapted to their environment, they began to try to survive to fulfill their needs for clothing, food and shelter to prolong their survival. They start hunting, trading, and doing other stuff like back on their home world. The survivors who coordinated between groups in their own survival and benefits began to form a route map from one level to another in an effort to achieve a common mission to make it easier for all survivors to explore without fear of getting lost.
[The map is being revised I failed to upload it here so it cannot be displayed]
Although the map shows that there are many levels that can be explored, there are unfortunately some levels that are marked as unsafe to warn survivors to be more alert or even not recommended to pass through that level at all. In addition to unsafe levels, there are also levels that are too safe, and are even used as permanent settlements by survivors.
Well, although I found the map very strange and confusing, the survivors could understand the map not because it was good, but because they were used to the strange style of the map. Sorry, back on topic. Indeed, in this infinite world, all levels should not be owned by anyone for any reason. Moreover, a level could be 10 times bigger than Earth2. But…
“Even the biggest mall in the world can never be entered if the main door is closed.”
Do you understand what that means? Good.
Well, normally in this infinite world no level is owned by anyone for any reason, so it's pretty obvious that a level can't be controlled. However, if all entrances and exits are heavily guarded or closed, then what? Would the survivors from whatever hitman group or whatever they are be able to pass through the level at will? Of course not, right? They will definitely be dealt with if they are caught breaking through by force.
It's a shame if humans who can finally adapt to this hell even bring up their old nature. None other than greed, gluttony, and a thirst for power or territory. Larger groups began to trample on even slightly weaker groups like trash. They even started over-exploiting resources as well. There was intense competition between these large groups, and then, what's next?
Yep, a hell made by humans themselves.
War
Honestly, it's sad that the war that ended in vain even resulted in a huge loss of life, the entire area involved with the war was filled with the corpses of the unlucky survivors. Surely after the war ended, those flesh-eating entities would start popping up around the area. They are smart, “why bother going after the humans? They'll kill each other anyway.” That's probably what they would say if they could speak.3
In short, after several wars that had been fought because they were closely related to the issue of differences between groups. Finally, a system that differentiates between races, beliefs, ideologies and territories was created. Originating from the fear that the territories or resources they control will be used as an advantage for other people or even taken away.
Some groups decide to manage the level, or roughly speaking, control the level they occupy to make it more difficult for survivors who are not group members to move freely within the level they control.
A level is considered controlled if… damn, I hate my writing style for years.
All access in and out of the level is strictly guarded
The point above is that all known entrances and exits will be guarded by members of the relevant group. Usually they build a post around the access and exit area and often there are also those who patrol the surroundings.
All of these things are done so that the movement of foreign survivors becomes easier to control, or worse, it is even controlled by the owner of the level directly! Although sometimes there are people who forcefully enter the level in various ways, wait! If you are one of those people please … Ahh why do you pleading anyway? Even if you die I won't know and of course I don't care! I don't want to beg to anyone anyway.
Be careful, I was once almost chopped up. The behavior of the level guards depends on the purpose and how valuable the level is, pray if the guards you meet are a bunch of rude people, or worse, a bunch of insane people when you meet them.
- Survivor travel on the level is taken over, restricted, and even closed
A level that was originally bustling as one of the trading centers after being controlled by a group
On levels controlled by a group, the flow of travel for survivors passing through the level is generally stricter than other levels. Some need to be accompanied by armed guards, have to pay a certain amount of goods in order to pass through the level, and some are even closed to the public. The reason, of course, is because of their group self-interest.
The resources produced by the level are managed by one group without any interference from other groups
A group controls a level because it has things that benefit the group. Some have unlimited resources (I remember visiting such a level even though the level was public, I almost died due to the original inhabitants of the level), have strategic entrances and exits to other levels, or just for territory only like the company group that I was once infiltrate easily.
From the points above, it has been confirmed that the level you might be visiting is already under the supervision of a group. If you want to pass through the level, try to follow their rules and not do something that will endanger yourself. So, don't act stupid!
Then for self-protection you should at least carry a weapon in case they attack you for whatever reason. Or better yet visit in a group with your friends, your family, your prostitutes, your cult or whoever I don't care so that you can protect each other in case anything goes wrong!
We survivors who might choose to live on our own, freely, without being governed by our superiors, will inevitably have to follow those mindless extortionists. I sincerely hope that the Backrooms won't just sit still with something that shouldn't even exist in the dictionary of rules of its world. Earth and Backrooms are the same. There is no clear justice. Justice? What is justice to greedy humans?
At first, I thought that fate had sent me to this world to get away from those greedy people and enjoy the rest of my life without any interference from my fellow man. In the end, I was carried along by the swift river with them. Like it or not, I had to follow the rules that were completely unfair in a different world. Perhaps I was being selfish? If I become the most caring person in this universe, will those people care about me?
These humans should be given a really damn incident to make them realize, because humans will never realize before the disaster comes. Surely they will cry for mercy to the one true God when the rice has become a mush. I don't like them. However, I am part of them. Maybe I am just a handful of them who realize the rottenness of their nature.
As long as there are humans, pollution will never go away. Pollution from everything. They are tormented if a disaster comes, but they themselves invite the disaster to come to them. I predict a worse disaster is coming. An answer from the Backrooms to you, greedy creatures.
Soon
Will come
Will definitely come
~ APTX-000