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A Backrooms Squirrel Muching on a nut.

Entity Number: 377

Habitat(s): Safe and nature-y


Description

At first glance, these squirrels look like a squirrel from home. They’re a bit larger than those squirrels, and different colors, but they do seem to behave like them. They’re even commonly found in the more “nature-y” levels of The Backrooms. However, closer inspection brings new insight to you. This is not a squirrel from home. This is a Backrooms Squirrel. And if you have nuts with you, be they cashews or even bottles of almond water, then you’ve just learned a very important lesson: these squirrels are addicted to nuts.

Behaviors

Backrooms squirrels are obsessed collecting, counting, and sorting any and all food related to nuts, even if the product does not contain whole nuts in it. This includes things like peanut butter and almond water. Curiously, these squirrels can even smell almond water inside them. These squirrels have a keen nose, and if any of them smell nuts on you, they will come from all directions and sit patiently around you in a circle until you give them your nuts. If you do, then they will divide the nuts amongst themselves and leave you alone, provided there is enough to go around. If there isn’t they will fight amongst themselves until they all come to some sort of accord and leave. If they smell your nuts and you refuse to give them up, they will run you down until they get them. They have known to chase wanderers for miles. This is why it’s important to drink something else to mask the smell of almond water on your breath. Beyond this unusual behavior, Backrooms squirrels act just like a squirrel from the bassline reality. This means sighting are rare.

Biology

Backrooms Squirrels share a biology almost exactly identical to bassline squirrels. There are, however, two key differences. For starters, their lungs are much larger, and their leg muscles more developed. This is theorized to be the reason they can run for such long distances. Second, they have overdeveloped brains; specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and the head of the caudate nucleus. Scientists believe that this is the reason for their obsession with nuts.

Discovery

[Sightings of Backrooms Squirrels began sometime after the destruction of The Eye of God. Whether these two events have anything to do with each other at all has yet to be determined. What is known, is that they all started showing up one by one. As they tend to stay in trees or under the ground, only emerging to find nuts.

Do

  • Give them your nuts. They will not hurt you.
  • Try to avoid them if you see them. While keen, their sense of smell is not infinite.
  • Carry more than one nut on you, if you must travel with nuts.

Don't

  • Not give up your nuts. They will bite and scratch you until either do or succumb.
  • Try to pet or otherwise befriend them. They are, after all, wild animals, despite their semblance of sentience.
  • Lead them to your friends if they also have nuts.


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