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What of dreams?
a random store in the middle of nowhere in particular
Level 6c75746579 is the one level beneath your mind and also the ninth circle of hell. Coroners go here sometimes. And also if you're visiting, please tell my cousin Ringu they left the cats outside again thx.
Five months ago, an unfortunate moderator made the terrible mistake of whitelisting paginations from the Hub of Mundanity. Since then, strange forces from beyond human comprehension have been flooding this wiki with vague dialogue, spooky creepypasta, and undue complaints about literally anything + everything in chatrooms during ungodly hours of the eve.
Description:
15 16 17-year-old1 writer / gamer / illustrator. Struggling with chronic insomnia so expect me to be posting at odd times throughout the day. Mother of three (cats).
Level 6c75746579 is a godless land resulted from leaving Centurys Lute in the same house as a ignitable stove for more than a dozen seconds. There used to be content and stuff here before the entire place was unfortunately swept up in a bout of hellfire and the sky wept with horror as the ground was salted 57 times over.
It used to be a heart-pumpingly terrifying place before the fiery ash angels burnt down too and now all that's left is a depressing plane of gravel and just like that, the heart of entropy let out its last pathetic beat as the entire universe finally came to a standstill in preparation for a long, boring eternity.
And also as the world awaited its sad, gloppy fate, someone took the time to build up a CBD on the main street. Idk why, but it's just there now.
Addendum:
All work and no play makes Lute a dull girl. All work and no play makes Lute a dull pearl. All work and no play makes Lute a dull swirl. All work and no play makes Lute a
Below lies a complied list of Centurys Lute's work scavenged from all throughout the level. Centurys Lute herself has been presumed to have perished in the rubble. May she rest in peas.
Phenomena:
Things happen, between the end of the world and the freezing of space-time. For some reason, things just keep on happening.
Phenomenon 29 - "Whispers"
Branches creak like garden gates of some location lost to time. Buster of traffic in the distance.
My first article on the site. Decided to kick off my career as a Backrooms author coldposting contest-participating, like a true visionary. In short, a phenomenon about messages and longing, that got really personal to me halfway through. To put it pleasantly, a flurry of impressions. To put it contritely, a contextless mess. Reviews were…mixed.
There's a story there, buried underneath all the surrealism.
(09 May 2023 02:26) (+20) (Comments: 11)
Entities:
This is a world inhabited by creatures known as bunnies. Some are occasional visitors, while some have made this asphalt land their home.
Entity 57 - "Leech Adders"
i beg u all pls stop im just trying to read about snakes
Not a bunny, but the greenlighter who looked at this page said you could probably get high off of them. Entry for Classicon2023, featuring Centurys Lute's epic art.
(05 Nov 2023 13:00) (+28) (Comments: 6)
Entity 315 - "Hearseflies"
It lingered, like I was the most interesting thing it'd ever seen.
Not a bunny, but a brief account on the fiery and the fleeting. Cooked up while listening to documentaries covering fireflies. Mocked relentlessly by greenlighter during draft phase, but somehow won the features for July 2024.
My first entry in The Inland series.
(13 Jul 2024 04:48) (+21) (Comments: 5)
Entity 201 - "Blue-Ringed Deerlings"
But then it ended, and I wasn't Daisy's daddy. I was just Ellis.
Not a bunny, but critter who looked at this said "and this is why you don't leave your babies out in the Everglades". In places like these, one should be wary of things that look like deer in the woods. Followed in Hearseflies's footsteps and won features for August 2024. So proud of you.
My second entry in The Inland series.
(01 Aug 2024 12:02) (+24) (Comments: 2)
Levels:
On a wad of tissue inscribes a saying someone here used to be fond of: "One day, the sunlight will cast upon better lands, and all of Lute's dreams and all of Lute's glories shall be realized."
Enigmatic Level - "Home"
I had an awful dream.
Something based on a nightmare I had once. An old-fashioned horror-themed article for all the liminal purists out there.
It was featured for June 2023. Check it out, if you'd like.
(05 Jun 2023 02:16) (+58) (Comments: 15)
Level 751 - "All that was lost in the river."
The river Lethe carries the scent of old blankets and the autumn breeze after dark.
Written after a particularly vivid dream and revised endlessly with greenlighter. In the end, I think something presentable came out of it.
A nostalgia-themed page about one October day in 2003.
(01 Sep 2023 07:54) (+22) (Comments: 5)
Level 57 - "Diurnal Art Gallery"
To me, they are never just paintings.
Rewrite of the original art gallery featuring non-euclidean geometry, dream sequences, and the meaning behind creation.
May or may not have a planned sequel in the works.
(24 Jul 2025 15:54) (+30) (Comments: 2)
Level 408 – "The Info Room"
Also, the door opens inwards.
Whipped up in 12 minutes while waiting for my dentist appointment.
An info room that is very info. Yes.
(26 Jan 2024 06:27) (+17) (Comments: 6)
Level 81 - "Afterhours Ending"
Here — have a seat at the center, on one of these carpets pulled closer and closer.
Somewhere in the upper floors of an office building, Level 81.1 sits quietly in wait, tucked far away from its parent's pandemonium.
Originally composed for SLcon2024, and my take on the Endings/Events meme. Promoted into the Level 81 slot after Level 81 was unanimously banished to the place bland 2020 articles go when they die via staff vote.
(03 Jul 2024 01:42) (+28) (Comments: 17)
Level 708 - "The Day Never Came"
The sky glows periwinkle, and the wind picks up.
A short, liminal piece reminiscent of old textbooks. Inspired by years of transfer flights leading me back to the same airport hotel in the Netherlands. I don't know how to adequately describe the surreality of being so acquitted with a place you've never seen out in the daylight, but I think Sixen Strike comes fairly close to capturing the vibe.
(14 Apr 2025 04:39) (+20) (Comments: 5)
Level 429 - "In the Eyes of a Thousand Critics"
Danger room.
A dabble in absurdism, featuring four iterations.
Sparked a debate in the comment section.
(27 Apr 2025 16:50) (+18) (Comments: 9)
Objects:
A cold night breeze brushes across small shapes in the sand. Here are Lute's many memorials, from her faded old plushie to some expired milk tea to a dusty, old dishwasher. Once, when the house was intact, they were kept separately, split apart by dozens of hard plywood walls. But now, these three sit together, side by side under the moon, to behold the last hours of the early morning.
Object 91 - "The Recordless Player"
You've made a bad decision.
My contribution to Desolation Canon. A perfectly normal turntable (that spits out spoopy shit sometimes). Reviews were mixed.
(16 Jul 2023 01:32) (+21) (Comments: 6)
Object 201 - "Halo Antiserum"
We lug the carcass home, the three of us carrying bottles of panacea and flashes of memories that weren't ours.
On the rise and fall of predators, and the politics of men. Corruption crossed with consumerism.
My third entry in The Inland series.
(22 Aug 2024 09:39) (+24) (Comments: 2)
Tales:
The world ends, and the sun rises to shine upon a desolate landscape. Nobody speaks, neither the ash angels nor the small bunnies frolicking within these city streets that are now theirs alone. The air comes to a halt for a fraction of a second, and for that sliver of a moment, it's like time did not exist at all. But then the sun kept rising, and it was a dreary Monday morning.
It is possible to wander off into the fields for hours, but one would always walk back to the same road.
My reimagining of Level 10 for Desolation and Canonicon2024. Spoopy field, spoopy straw. To be honest, there was a lot I wasn't quite happy with, but overall, I think it told the story I wanted to tell, albeit in a clumsy fashion.
Reviews were extremely mixed.
(17 Mar 2024 04:38) (+27) (Comments: 9)
In these halls, the sun shall always shine.
Critter I showed this to summarized it as "silly, depressed office worker gets elevator'd into the backrooms, shenanigans happen". A bit hysterical, a bit personal, a bit like an early, sunlit dream during a stay at a muffled suburban house.
The dust settles around you as you drift off.
(13 Jan 2025 00:23) (+13) (Comments: 1)
The twilight sky went suddenly cold.
A tale about bliss, despair, nine-to-five routines and the slow rotting of everything that was soft and good with the world.
Won the features for July 2024.
(05 Jun 2024 16:41) (+23) (Comments: 6)
my dear and this awful melancholy
Poetry but with 404, technobabble, and romanticism.
(04 Aug 2024 02:51) (+26) (Comments: 7)
You have been Employee of the Month for the previous six-hundred and twenty months.
Poetry on management sims and the lack of OSHA compliance. My take on the interplay inherent to the mundane wonder of little distractions, and the absurdist horror of time loops and slipping through the cracks in the fabric of reality.
Inspired by Minecraft From the Fog let's plays.
(22 Aug 2024 09:32) (+15) (Comments: 1)
It started, as most bad things do, with a boy and a plea for sympathy from strangers in dark alleys.
A tale that harkens back to the old days of the internet, packaged in a cute Y2K theme by Ambersight that stubbornly refused to load on my device. About the dangers of urban exploration, the last nights of summer, and vengeance plots. Not in that order.
My submission for Roots2024.
(30 Aug 2024 17:52) (+33) (Comments: 3)
"don't you see? you staked yourself to keep me dead."
Nostalgi Gaius picture book :>
(01 Jul 2025 09:12) (+19) (Comments: 2)
I see fingerprints on glass, and the first raindrops hitting.
Have you ever taken an hour to drop down a bizarre rabbit hole just to see where it takes you? Went on Pinterest and composed poetry of whatever I happened across.
Wound up alright in the end, I think.
(04 Nov 2025 00:30) (+16) (Comments: 6)
Art Pages:
And eventually, there will keep being springs and summers. The trees will become cloaked in autumns and winters. The seasons will keep on turning, with or without Lute.
Welcome to New Century Gallery, full of only the most state of the art pieces to rival the man Da Viki himself.
A compilation of my early artwork on the wiki, featuring renowned creations such as Blanche, Game Master, and all the other stuff on the YouTube Kids app.
(19 Sep 2023 03:06) (+44) (Comments: 6)
Wha — wait Mackey, you can talk?
A tale disguised as an art page, featuring many such great features such as: our artist who is not five Lutes in a trench coat, the fish that will kill again, tax evasion practices, and moves that only a chess grandmaster could pull off.
(21 Aug 2024 15:43) (+16) (Comments: 4)
The waves and the palms trembled with her madness.
Toxic yuri too real.
(22 Aug 2024 09:14) (+13) (Comments: 3)
WANTED FOR: POSESSION AND USE OF HEIMWEHMUT INDUSTRIES TECHNOLOGY
Art featuring Diana Evelyn from The Black Knights canon.
(22 Aug 2024 09:19) (+12) (Comments: 1)
Actors on This Dreamscape Stage I
The leader of the bunch, you know her well.
Art featuring Diana Evelynn from The Black Knights canon (electric boogaloo).
(22 Aug 2024 09:23) (+12) (Comments: 0)
Actors on This Dreamscape Stage II
This unit is The Sage.
Art featuring Marie Hylius from The Black Knights canon.
(22 Aug 2024 09:24) (+15) (Comments: 3)
Actors on This Dreamscape Stage III
A dear friend of mine who became the ghost of a god.
Art featuring A River, who was probably briefly mentioned in The Black Knights canon.
(05 Sep 2025 17:30) (+13) (Comments: 1)
Wait nvm we found her.
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Entrances/Exits:
Leave upvote or I will nibble off your hair.
Co-Authored
Entity 125 - "To Kill the Sun"
silence was his answer, but his answer was divine
A strange entry on the Database, a grainy memory cloaked in blue petals, and a nightmare from eleven years ago. Poetry and surrealism in analogue.
Duelcon2025 entry, co-authored with akarine147.
(28 Jul 2025 09:03) (+35) (Comments: 7)
I put pieces of you in the fields, and the stolen knife beside your head.
I love messing around with the feeling of passing seasons, and the richness of autumn. I think in part, this tale originated from the same vein as Level 751 and A Lone Stranger — inspired by my childhood away from LA in a countryside where the months weren't frozen in a perpetual, scorching summer. I hold them close; I still think back to those days: of crumpled leaves pulled by rakes to the sides of the pavement, of piles and piles of Halloween decorations that spring up on the neighborhood porches.
This is my entry for the spooky season of 2024. Late birthday gift for myself on the 31st.
(15 Nov 2024 15:10) (+16) (Comments: 5)
If every part of a whole lost all that made the original, could it still be called the same being?
My winning entry for Mascotartcon2024 and a collab with the lovely akarine147. After pooling our braincells together for four long weeks, we landed on cute objecthead with gender issues. May contain a poor attempt at philosopy; proceed with care.
(07 Oct 2024 20:53) (+64) (Comments: 14)
Translations
Enigmatic Level - "Mirth Ending"
"James? Why aren't you coming to play?"
A port from CN, featuring an article by Ambersight about a series of frantic forum posts, and strange funhouse sitting agleam in a vacant block.
(09 Jun 2025 20:54) (+28) (Comments: 3)
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