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Level $ is an extremely dark hallway with a 36-inch/3ft long, with the floors made out of marble and concrete fused together, and than painted with a checkerboard pattern. The walls seem to be made out of Almondium. Level $ appears to have been built with the intentions of replicating a city center or merchants place; just crammed and compressed into a hallway left to rot. Inspection of the walls and floors show faded, light brown worn out text engraved into the left corner of the left wall by the exit in Times New Roman at the very end of the level: “MERCHENTS BUILDERS. CO.” There is also mold growing all over the wall, ceiling, and floor at the very end of the level. As of December 2021, it takes 48 minutes on average to traverse the hallway, but it isn’t impossible. However, the time it takes to traverse the hallway has been getting shorter and shorter since this level was first discovered in 1989. In 1993, it took 7 hours and 29 minutes on average to walk through the entire hallway. This hallway could be replicating the patterns of Frontroom capitalism by shortening and “modernizing” itself for the Wanderers who wander through its halls.

Despite its darkness, it is somewhat lit by the red flashing lights of the Sellers; anomalous human men dressed in fedoras and suits trying to sell you non-existent products or counter—product rip-offs. They’re quite calm when you meet them, but get angered if you don’t buy their product. Their product? It depends on your deepest insecurities.

Survivability Rating

Unsafe

Unsecure

Medium Entity Count

Description

The entrance of the level at first, is complete darkness. You may try to move; but alas, in Level $, when you’re in complete darkness is also when you’re paralyzed. Then after approximately 3 seconds, the lights will fully turn on in a flash, allowing you to start walking, but instantly dim afterwards, hindering your walking and running speed. You trek, looking behind you and noticing a wave of darkness following you as well, matching your exact walking speed. You walk faster, it goes faster. You walk slower, it goes faster. However, if you stop, it keeps going. And in complete darkness, who knows what those things whispering on both sides of your ears will do?

The things to the west and east of you talk of products. Cash. Dollars. Almond water that instantly hydrates you for 5 years only for 4 cents and 99 cents, even though it’s impossible to sell something for that price.. A portal gun that shoots portals to the Frontrooms only for 4.99$! (Everything offered by the sellers is for U.S currency). So many good things, at the very tips of your fingers, if you pay, of course. But you have to stop to pay. You have to stop walking, to stand, analyze, and look at whoever the hell wants you to buy their Vacuum Cleaner with no Fees Or Anything Bad For 1$. But the darkness behind you seems to be getting faster. As if it’s urging you to keep going; to not acknowledge these men, to ignore them, to just reach the exit and forget about the entire thing; but it’s darkness. It’s not conscious. It’s a natural occurrence. It’s just…behind you. So you keep walking. As you walk, you start seeing gloved hands yank themselves out of the darkness the lightbulbs barely light up- so you can’t identify them by their faces, you can only recognize them by their strange head and funny clothing. You think you’re hallucinating- those arms don’t seem real, they don’t seem like real genuine human arms, even if they have the appearance and the voices to match an human, they just don’t seem human. Their voices which are so quiet, but so loud at the same damn time, don’t sound real either, in fact, they sound like they walked straight out of a dream and made themselves a body. This is the Backrooms, however, so it probably is a real phenomenon. But even then their funny clothing is almost impossible to see. Their whispers start to get louder. They start to get more demanding. A few minutes later, the legs start coming out. As if they’re trying to trip you. You step over the legs, but every time you stop for a few seconds to jump over their long, lanky legs, the darkness covers a little more of your behind each time- it’s not very merciful. You start to amp up the speed- now you’re more speedwalking and trying to get the fuck out of here than peacefully walking through a dark hallway.

Red lights start to flash. They flash in the corner of your eye, just enough so you see it, but can’t tell what the fuck it is. Every time you see one your stomach hits rock bottom- “Buy your own Premium Laser-Cleaner for only 50 pennies!”—You can tell it’s weary that there is something within those lights that want…to kill you. A gut feeling of yours is lurking inside, insisting that as you speedwalk(run????????????? inside these halls, that those men aren’t going to be gentle. With the whispers and yells, hands reached out holding boxes of God knows what, legs trying to trip you or kick you down, the floor swaying under your feet with every panicked step(it’s so unstable maybe you should buy some sort of floor stabilizer for it :four only four ninety nine free for two ::::o) like it’s more of a liquid than a solid that’s supposed to hold people up- you feel like you’re going to vomit out of sea-sickness, but the darkness trailing behind you so closely reminds you of the grisly fate to come if you bend-over and stop for just a moment. Everything smells like cow shit, your eyes are starting to burn, but you keep going.

Picture taken in july 2018.

The whispers turn into shouts. Shouts of how arrogant and stupid you are. The smell of cow shit and dead carcasses grow worse and worse with every fucking millisecond. They shout about how you never deserved to get anything in the first place. How you’re a pathetic piggy who’s probably communist. How commies are always so lazy. The arms grow longer- then there isn’t arms. There’s eyes, tentacles, sharp teeth-smiling mouths cackling at your stumbling, lumpy movement, things that are so ugly they couldn’t be described in words. It’s all so cliche- you read about it on Teh Webz a thousand times, you shouldn’t be so scared yet your body swoons out of fear. You start seeing gruesome things- children being eaten alive by tentacle-monsters, hallucinating your own mother getting an abortion and you coming out all bloody and shriveled up and the mother smiles and the doctor smiles and then you see a dog being mutilated and it’s all so gross I only you bought some hallucination preventer for only 2 dollars and 10 cents this would have never happened :::::)))))). But the exit is so vivid everything is so high quality just but some quality just buy some kindness sohe odne done ✅ buy kindness buy niceness only 20%%%%%$haha u have mommy issues WAHAHAHAHAHAHA〽️〽️〽️〽️〽️〽️🚯

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GAG. You’re running now, if you weren’t before you would’ve motherfucking died despite the protests of your hearts you keep running and running and running and running and running a nd you start gagging and your ears loudly ring with how loud those things are yelling at you a few sound elated happy to buy you whatever you want at a glance but the vast majority are so fucking furious they’d kill you if they even saw you on sigh t the voices all blend together youn can feel the darkness absorbing you it anwts to kill you as well you keep going and going, and going and go

The door opens. You are pushed out into Level 0. You instantly collapse.

Colonies and Outposts

Due to the fast-paced, unstable nature of this level, there are no colonies or outposts. It seems the goal of this level is to get you to buy something The Backrooms Way as quickly as possible and then get you out. Trying to stay in Level $ for longer than 50 minutes will result in death.

Entrances and Exits

Entrances

  • In the Frontrooms, there are many abandoned malls- malls housing thousands of stores, that were damned and left to rot by their very own creators, ironically leaving more poor stores homeless than housed, a burst of short gratification with declining profits- some of these malls have darkened wallpapers, a natural result of decaying wear and neglect from your owners, but there is a small minority of malls that have darkened wallpapers because they are portals. Portals to Level $.
  • In Level 0, you may have a loud, male voice that sounds like it belongs in a game show more than in your head holler at you “WOULD YOU LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR NEW MINIGAME?!”. The voice will not wait for an answer; rather, you’ll be taken and chucked riiiight into Level $ anyway. (The voice seems to have a bias towards Canadians and actively targets Canadians in the Backrooms- as a part of some sadistic fun.)
  • In Level -1, you might find a door that is made out of an unknown material, and with an exit sign above it. And labels like "$$$", "buy the products", "buy this door 50% OFF", "THIS DOOR'S COST IS 5 DOLLARS AND 1 CENTS", other labels about money or buying. You also could hear a random song behind the door and the door itself is black. It basically has a lot of labels and exits sign (of any color).

Exits

  • To exit you need to be going forward until you see several red flashing lights and a door. If the Sellers are screaming at you, you’re doing it right. Open the door. It will lead you into Level 0. Trying to go into the Darkness behind you will simply absorb you. (This could be because of the Darkness being something else that is not darkness.) Sacrificing yourself/going to the Sellers at the beginning of the level without paying will have them euthanize you.
  • Another way to exit is by noclipping into the floor (but its hard so you can buy OUR SUPER-NOCLIPPER-2000 FOR ONLY 5 DOLLARS AND 8 CENTS!!) and you could land in the listed levels: Level 4, Level 13, Level 66, Level 103, Level 808, Level 999.

Extra Information

  • Giving the Sellers your money at the beginning of the level surprisingly ends in a…good way. The darkness disappears, the light turns back on fully, the Sellers disappear, then you are peacefully teleported into Level 0 with no rivalries what-so-ever. However, the product you originally paid for is not given to you, and your money is not refunded nor given back.
  • There are no confirmed ways to reach Level $ thrice. This is due to all entrances either being in the Frontrooms or in Level 0 and Level -1 - not in their very own special level with their very own special rituals. How sad! 😢 But you can BUY the sadness away for only 50% OFF! THAST RIGHT, YOU CAN GET GILLS SADNESS REMOVER FOR 50% OFF! JUST GO TO LEVEL $ AND THROW YOUR MONEY AT THE DARKNESS TO RECEIVE YOUR VERY OWN SPECIAL BOTTLE SIGNED BY GILL! CALL 1-800-GILLISHAPPY-3989 TOODAY!!!
  • After an encounter with Level $, 10% of survivors only live one more year before they die of sudden heart failure. This is an phenomena called the Money Effect dedicated to this exact happening: 10% of Survivors of Level $ die of heart failure after one year. The other 90% go randomly get teleported to Level -1 just randomly.
  • Back in 1989, you could actually have a conversation with the Sellers on things besides money, as long as it wasn’t too long. They responded well to conversations not focused on money or product, but always twisted the subject to be about money or product; now they don’t talk about anything but money. In the 199[Please pay Fandom Premium+ to continue reading.]
  • Level $ itself is able to actively manipulate and change the text of this article. How it does this or what inside it does this is unknown; but it will often litter the page with multiple advertisements, but when one goes to edit the advertisements out, the advertisements simply disappear. Even though other entities can vandalize pages, they don’t do it because it’s profitable.
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