Foolish we are to the future

I remember the carnage like yesterday

A New Beginning

Eardrums ring as the bombs fall again

The fire in the sky made residents afraid

Invasions soon followed

Etched cobble turned to rubble

Stepped on by monsters

Yet evil men hide within

As they moved on without us

Leaving a shell of the city

Slowly decaying, slowly dying

Only an "artifact of the past"

We have no present

We have no future

After World War I, Reims France stood in disarray. A city torn by war and bombings, the rubble left the residents afraid. No one batted an eye to their suffering. As France seemed to modernize and grow, shedding the scars of conflict, Reims was left behind. A spectacle for the war enthusiast and the anthropologist. Real people live and die here, unaware of how alone they truly are.

A New Beginning is the nickname given to the French region, Champagne, located northeast of Paris. Many who find themselves here will be placed in the city of Reims, though some have claimed to first appear south of the city in Épernay. Perfectly situated in the Frontrooms, the level obeys all gravitational and physical properties. Due to it's placement, however, those not stuck within the backrooms are able to travel into A New Beginning, with some seemingly unable the recognize the oddities. Any exits or alterations native to the Backrooms will not appear to Frontroom residents.

How it is possible to enter and exit the city is directly dependent if one has already noclipped into the Backrooms or not. Those who entered A New Beginning via noclipping cannot see anything else in the level besides the city and an 50 kilometer radius around it, with everything else dropping off into the void. This barrier can only be crossed by those who are not originally from the Backrooms. To those outside of the Backrooms, it has no differences to the original city.

Outsiders unaware

Look to them like freaks

They don't know

No one has told them

You can't blame them

Can you?

Those who travel to Champagne and are not already within the Backrooms seem to have no understanding of it. Attempts to explain it or reason to outsiders have consistently failed. The dejection have made many wanderers frustrated and desperate for exits. In regards to traveling back to reality, a barrier appears across the whole of Champagne, rendering those unable to see beyond the level. Attempts to travel out through car or other simple travel results in wanderers falling through the barrier and never being found. By means of air travel or group commute, those trying to leave will be crushed to death once interacting with the barrier. The violence of the scene and it's possible effects on those in the the Frontrooms, new systems have been put in place to prevent wanderers from boarding such means of transportation.

The appearance of various wanderers has caused a collective shift in language and culture in Champagne, causing it to stand out much more than the rest of France. These oddities have caused more intrigue by outsiders regarding the level, with an incline in tourism and the development of a French-English pidgin language. This, nicknamed "Frasia", is the common language in A New Beginning, alongside French and English respectively. Most holidays of French and English origin are celebrated, with only slight changes to correlate for holidays tied to the Backrooms. The enduring tradition seems to not extend much farther outside of the county.

Is that it?

Are they left to permanently be reminded of the destruction?

Was there no hope for redemption in their ceaseless struggle?

Everything that has been built came back down on them again.

Such is the nature of A New Beginning.

To build up, then come back down again.

Day in and day out time beat the county down again

And people were growing tired of trying to recover what was lost.

The level, A New Beginning, remains trapped in a casual time loop. Starting November 1918, and ending September 1939, the cities within the level are reconstructed at the start of the loop. The reconstruction seems to be automatic, as construction materials are anomalously added and removed. However, when the time loop comes to an end, Champagne and all it's cities fall apart once more. Their destruction mirrors the happenings of the WWI bombings, and lasts throughout October and into November, where it stats again. This phenomenon, nicknamed "The Reversion" is linked to the deaths of many wanderers currently in the level. Oddly, during the month, all those in the Frontrooms will not be in the area. Citing a variety of reasons, the migration out of the level starts in August and people trickle back into the level starting December. Outside of Champagne none of the wanderer deaths appear to be accounted for, seemingly the entire world unable to witness the cataclysm.

Symbolic, is it not?

A hallow reminder to how alone they are

No one has reached the wanderers

Their families have forgotten and moved on

And those who met them again.

Have been forgotten

By flesh and blood the wanderers aren't real

An illusion to what the world really is

Yet through all the shouting

Someone was going to hear them.

A Way Out

Hello residents of A New Beginning, I've heard for the longest time that you all have struggled to find normality and consistency within your existence both on Earth and the Backrooms. While many have brushed off your valued pleas as nothing more of a collective mental break, I assure that some people out there truly believe the story you tell us.

Because of this, we at ████████████████ have spent well over 30 years studying the mechanisms of liminality and time loops to help you all find a way out of CHampagne for good. Though not an easy project by any stretch of the definition, we resolved ourselves to continue working on this until an answer could be found. The story told by your town, and the strange circumstances around it have left many of us in awe of your strength, bravery, and commitment to taking care of the collapsing city and those who you share space with. It was an absolute honor to hear of your existence.

Because of this, we have brought you all truly something special. Fashioned through the use of quantum computing and the brilliant research done by many of you on the Backrooms and it's feats of the nonsensical. We brought you the Osten's Reality Exponator (ORE), a device built to propel past the continual failures of the crumbing city and experience a new age of life and beauty among a hyper-advanced civilization far above what reality can currently. And the bonus? With this, you will no longer need to see those in the Frontrooms again, as this device pushes Rheims out of your liminal lands and replaces it with itself.

[ Continue ]

> Close Document

Suppose this is our best option

A New Beginning?

Now sprung into the far future of human civilization, the world around you looks to be perfect. All wanderers are trapped in a safe dome that keeps anything hostile from getting in or out. The entrances and exits to A New Beginning have all been cleaned up, so that there remains no blemish on their now perfect city. A New Beginning has become a paradise no one could enter, an exclusive land of progress and comfort.

Taking up the same land space as the original level, A New Beginning has all of it's construction replaced with highly advanced buildings. Many of these are multiple stories tall, containing innumerable amenities in each one. All these buildings are additionally staffed entirely by robots and AI, with the only means of human work coming from maintaining electrical systems within the level. Through the little information able to travel in and out of A New Beginning, outsiders have described it as perfect and flawless.

However, many residents within the city have shown great displeasure and even grief to this sudden change. Furthermore, the agency responsible for the development of ORE was shut down roughly 1000 years before A New Beginning "existed", leaving wanderers trapped in this level until those years pass by. To many, this has brought them great misery.

As one wanderer phrased it; "It's like how you first felt entering the Backrooms, the sudden realization that nothing would ever change and you have been separated from your home permanently. Sure there were some who believed there to be an exit, or even claimed to have escaped before, but nothing was every backed up. It was a load of shit. So we grieved. And now that we've been separated further away from the bonds developed in the Backrooms, the people we traveled through levels with and split up after the ordeal. The times the Backrooms felt lived in and active. Now this world is sterile and sad. We were blinded by the promises of the future that we haven't looked to the past."

In the most recent update, the communication line between MEG and A New Beginning has broken down, leaving the organization truly in the dark about the happenings. Though the few that have been found who were once in A New Beginning have provided a horrific testimony of the events.

Many have agreed upon the level going into complete disarray after the collapse of connection, growing to become violent and barbaric even with having access to all the resources they'd ever need. One wanderer described it as a "perfect hell" and detailed how much of the landscape has now been coated in blood and bile. Major factions have taken over the area and have enacted great violence on wanderers there, seemingly with no care. With the population described to have gone from 512k to roughly 307k, estimates believe that within 5 years, the population of A New Beginning will have gone below 10 thousand residents, despite it being a civilization built for millions.

Log Recovered from G.Diamond

This place is a fucking mess. And where do I begin with this?

I don't think I've ever seen this much gore seeped into the ground before.

The number of people I've had to put out of their misery because they begged me too is concerning.

I hope to god there's some well equipped therapists, cause one of them is gonna have enough money to quit.

I forgot to mention, so much of the city smell likes shit.

There may be defecation on the streets, despite all the bathrooms in great condition.

And those bathrooms are almost spotless. How the fuck did this go so far south?

The robots all have been mangled and the people who've spoken to me and my team have recounted the greatest horrors I've heard the common man able to commit.

So far ahead and everyone just turned into animals. They forgot what got them to here and just...

lost it.

Heh, I think one of my mates actually vomited from the shit she heard. Not that I blame her, the smell alone is making me nauseous.

We've had to pick and choose the people that back with us, and hopefully we picked right.

I think all of the hostile and hateful fucks have been kept in A New Beginning, at least I hope.

Expect a sum of about 30 thousand people to appear in Level 951. From there we'll disperse them out, but it's the most stable point of travel we would access.

It's a new beginning to all these poor souls. May God find them peace, because the world has already crushed their spirit.

This is Diamond, over and out.