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Level -980 is a level with a constantly changing appearance, where nostalgia, reality and phobias are combined in a nightmare made structure, where fears are constant, where nothing but sanity matters.

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Description

Doomed-for-eternity.png Image provided by HB.

Level -980 is the 980th negative level of the backrooms, it is not known if this level can be considered as part of the backrooms, since it differs a lot due to structure and anomalies, because apparently, this level can be considered as its own reality. this level is presumed to be a labyrinth of nightmares and nostalgia made structure.

After entering this level, you will find yourself in a infinite hospital corridor without beds or other furniture/appliances. The floor here is made up by grey, slightly slippery surface, where we can find spills of Almond Water, which are clean and extremely recommended to drink if you want to keep sane. other than the spills, the floor is generally clean, even being devoid of bacteria. The walls are various; they are sometimes white plastic, grey-brown concrete or black plastic. They have contacts but not radiators, which explain the low temperature present in that corridor. Black, wooden sings next to the doors have usually written white "ROOM-0" on them. The walls are also devoid of bacteria and are completely clean. The ceiling is made out of white concrete, but unlike walls and floor, it is wet in some places and has almond water dripping from them. It could explain the spills on the floor.

The hospital corridor is indefinitely infinite, with turns occasionally happening. It also doesn't have a solid light source, with it only being weak lamps emitting green light that are sometimes attached to contacts. To exit this area and enter the true level -980, you just need to walk trough one of the wooden black doors with white handle. None of them are locked. It is also not recommended to stay in this stage for too long due to your ability to sleep being removed, cold temperatures and lack of food.

It does seem familiar, doesn't it?

Is that... My room?!

After opening the door, you will go trough it. It is unexplained how someone after entering the door enters it and then closes it no matter what, but it is presumed to be a body-control anomaly. Yet after closing the door, it will disappear, and you will end up in your first "memory", starting the chain. The memories are landscapes that are very similar to ones you have saw in the Frontrooms, but they are much more liminal, have no people and are not exactly the same. They may resemble pool, restaurant, your house and the list goes so on... Literally everything. How do you enter other memories, then? Well - the normal exit server as an exit to another memory, so for ex. entering a building from a beach memory will take you to your house. In certain landscapes, something that will cover your vision for few seconds will happen at sudden, changing the landscape without you doing anything.

The landscape can even turn into a memory that you forget long ago, as well as the fresh one. However, the landscape will not follow the course of memory, it will just copy the scenery. Human and things illusions can be seen, however, these will not pay any attention to you, clip trough your body and disappear when they go out of your eyesight.

It is recommended to gather resources and things from other landscapes (for ex. water and coats) since they do not disappear if you quit the memory with them. Warm clothing can be useful for cold memories, food and drinks to suppress feelings of being hungry and thirsty and other things to fight over others. Like in Level REDACTED, you cannot die in this level, but hunger, thirstiness, cold, heat, touch and pain can be still experienced here. However, nothing is fatal. While his explorations, HB reported the thing that his skin was undestroyable, he had infinite supply of oxygen and various other things that basically made him immortal.

Weirdly, all the places will give you a nostalgic feel. Like you were here, you know it, those are your friends, that is your life, the past, something that did happen, mixed with a nightmare...

Wait...
Please, wake up...

Death. Memories. Belief. Fears. Nightmares. Lies and illusion.

T̸h̵e̵r̵e̵ ̶i̶s̵ ̸n̶o̶ ̴e̶s̶c̵a̴p̴e̶.̴.̴.̶ You have been lied all along. Everything is just an illusion. Reality is an exam and backrooms are subconscious. This is your purgatory. There is no escape.
Everything is just an illusion, where you make the landscapes.
Your family, your house, everything that you see... I̵t̴ ̵i̶s̷ ̴n̴o̴n̵s̴e̶n̴s̸e̵.̴ It will f̷a̴d̵e̶ ̷a̶n̶d̸ ̶d̴i̴e̴.̴
Please.

Just wake up.
You cannot escape it.

Don't run.
This fate is inescapable. Death is common and suffering is normal.

B̴e̸c̴a̴u̵s̶e̴ ̸i̵t̶ ̷i̸s̶ ̸a̴l̷l̶ ̴a̴n̵ ̵i̷l̸l̸u̸s̷i̷o̴n̵

I-it gives me such nostalgic feeling... Are those my friends?! How did they got her- oh, they are just an illusion. But... It really was my house... The furniture... Walls... Design... It just feels so liminal and odd, that it does not exactly looks like it. And I wonder, why the windows have void in them? Wait, let me open the door- *wanderer screams* OH MY, why it is suddenly winter outside? Oh, I remember when I was on ski, these were times... Also, where are my friends?


There is no tommorow
And there won't be any.
[-][x]
BackOS IRC Chat v1.56.1

[System]: Successfully entered #MEG-Rescue-Chat chat room.
[System]: Welcome to MEG Rescue Chat channel! here you can ask for a rescue team to come to your location, our automated systems detect which area you are at the moment, type "!help" for a list of commands.
[Heinz-B]: !help
[System]: Welcome "Heinz-B", here is a list of commands:
- !help
- !time
- !chat
- !queue
- !exit
- !color


13:45 pm 29/03/2022 UTC-5
[Heinz-B]: !request rescue-team
[System]: Please specify which area you are right now, if you don't know which one, type * for unknown.
[Heinz-B]: *
[System]: Please while we contact someone to you...
[Heinz-B]: !queue
[System]: Your are 1 in queue.
[System]: Successfully connected with someone.
[Heinz-B]: Man, i hope this works...


13:50 pm 29/03/2022 UTC-5
[Gary]: Hello, how may i help you...
[Gary]: Wait? are you the brother of Impresario G?
[Heinz-B]: Yes! and if you ask, i made this IRC chat.
[Gary]: Dude, im a big fan of your work, all of your work is amazing!
[Heinz-B]: Thank you man, i really appreciate it.
[Gary]: Man, we thought you were dead, but it turns out you're alive! what happened to you?
[Heinz-B]: I don't know, i was talking with a friend of mine in my phone and suddenly i appeared in a new dimension, is like a nightmare that came true.
[Gary]: Holy shit, you went full Dr Charles.
[Gary]: Anyways, where are you hidding right now?
[Heinz-B]: It appears to be an computer lab of some sort, this is the only working computer i could ever find, which in turn has a working IRC chat client.
[Gary]: And you decided to use the rescue channel? well done man, anyways, since we know who is your best friend, we contacted him as fast as we saw your name.
[System]: Luis-Humbert Joined the chatroom! welcome!
[Heinz-B]: Yoooo Luis.
[Luis-Humbert]: HEINZ! You are alive! i was worried sick, Gary told me that you connected to the help channel of the M.E.G.
[Luis-Humbert]: Anyways, are you okay? how does it look around you?
[Heinz-B]: Is a computer lab that appears to be built between the early 2000's and late 2010's.
[Luis-Humbert]: Weird, did you managed to sleep in these days?
[Heinz-B]: For some reason, sleep isn't needed here, i still have my sanity tho.
[System]: A Backrooms Legend named "J-Charles" Joined the chatroom!
[Luis-Humbert]: Wait, IS THAT DR CHARLES!? i'll better leave you two alone...
[J-Charles]: Heinz? long time no see man! i've heard you had the same fate as me, and also, thanks for developing and deliver this special version of BackOS made for me.
[Heinz-B]: Hello man, no problem , the place is like The Downrooms, except is more disturbing and random.
[J-Charles]: Oh my God, atleast you are not trapped on what i know as sub-levels, how is the level divided?
[Heinz-B]: Only in 2 sections, the Dream Realm and the Reality Realm.
[J-Charles]: Wow, realms. Anyways, i'm still managing to exit Sub-Level 29.
[Heinz-B]: Good luck man.
[J-Charles]: Thanks man, goodbye and good luck exiting that new reality!
[Heinz-B]: Bye!
[System]: "J-Charles" left the chatroom! how sad :(


14:25 pm 29/03/2022 UTC-5
[Gary]: So, do i send a team or not?
[Heinz-B]: Please no, this is a living nightmare made structure, i just needed the chat for my friends knowing i was alive all the time.
[Luis-Humbert]: Dude, is sad to see you in a situation like this, anyways, i have to work, i told everyone that you are alive, bye man.
[Heinz-B]: Bye man.
[System]: "Luiz-Humbert" left the chatroom! we hope to see you again soon!
[Heinz-B]: !exit
[System]: This session has ended successfully.

You are not connected to a chatroom at the moment, type #Connect <chatroom name> to connect to a chatroom

There was a past.
And there is a present.
[-][x]
Terminal Chat v 4.57A

BackOS TermChat v 4.57 Testing
Unfinished product.

[TRM/]# !searchrooms.
[System/]# Searching for chat rooms... 1 chatroom found, use !join to join the chatroom.
[TRM/]# !join
[System/]# The chat room is trying to display a message, would you like to see it? [Y/N].
[TRM/]# Y
[System/]# The following message could not be displayed because the chat room is using a different or unknown encoding.
[System/]# Successfully joined chatroom, please input a name below.
[Chatroom/]# !usename heinz-b
[System/]# Welcome heinz-b to the chat room!
[heinz-b/]# Hello?
[heinz-b/]# Anyone?
[System/]# UNKNW joined the chat room.
[heinz-b/]# Who are you?
[heinz-b/]# hello, are you there?
[heinz-b/]# hello?
[UNKNW/]# hello heinz...
[heinz-b/]# who are you?
[UNKNW/]# someone like you that is trapped here...
[heinz-b/]# i see, is there any exit i can use?
[UNKNW/]# sadly not, we both won't be exiting this place, we will stay here until time itself has no meaning... scary right?
[heinz-b/]# too scary, a friend of mine had the same fate.
[UNKNW/]# so, he went to a place like this?
[heinz-b/]# yeah, like that.
[UNKNW/]# look, i have to go, i've heard something terrifying, bye.
[System/]# UNKNW and heinz-b left the chat room.

>_

Logs

> Log 1
v Log 1
Day 1
What is this place? it's like a hospital corridor with nothing but exit signs lighting up the place, the last thing i remember was i was on the phone with a friend when i suddenly showed up here for no reason, i still have 97% battery left and unlimited data . I think the battery can last me for a few days, maybe hours if I don't save energy, I better explore this place to see if I can find the way out of this place, wish me luck.

Day 2
Oh boy I was so wrong to find a way out because there isn't one. I'm like my best friend Dr Charles, Both of us are trapped in a nightmare with no way out.

Day 3
If anyone sees this, I'm sure I'm in another area than it appears to be of the level, or maybe another dimension similar to the backrooms.

~ Heinz Bernadotte.
> Log 2
v Log 2
Day 4.
With no traces of an exit of this level, everything looks very chaotic, it's like this place is based on my dreams or nightmares, the place has a kind of ominous vibe, I still have 91% left on my phone.

Day 5.
I got a place to stay temporarily, it's like a deserted neighborhood covered in an overwhelming fog, I could hear something in the fog, like a roar of terror, that's why I decided to hide in a house, I don't know what is hidden in that fog . God this place is scary.

Day 6, Hour 5.
I'm in what looks like an endless corridor, it has doors on its sides, it's like the entrance area of the level, only with more lights, I can hear people talking, although there are none in sight.

Day 6, Hour 6.
After browsing the place, I found the server room and was able to connect to the BackWeb, I tried to enter the IRC chat of the MEG, but without any success I did not receive an answer, what a crazy place.

~ Heinz Bernadotte.
> Log 3
v Log 3
Day 7.



I found this area in particular, it is like a big empty ballroom, almost everything is dark, except for a few rooms and a corridor that is in the main room, it seems that the windows outside are covered by a black void. I was exploring the halls with light, there were a lot of locked doors, except for one in specific, this one led to a ballroom, which seemed to be under maintenance, but had to get out of there, since I heard a eerie roar coming from the blacked out doorway, but due to the music that was playing in the background, could not be heard.


It lurks in the dark, It lurks in the dark, It lurks in the dark, It lurks in the dark.
It lurks in the dark, It lurks in the dark, It lurks in the dark, It lurks in the dark.

let me show you little human, sometimes our fears are not what they seem, some are real, some are not. fear not, you are in your new home, forever and ever, and always keep this in mind:

In this plane of existence, no one can hear you screams of help, no one, and no one ever will.

> Log 4
v Log 4

Day 8.

Help

This corridor has something in the atmosphere that makes it terrifying, it has a lot of dust and humidity. I'm suffocating, the air is very heavy and toxic, as if a nuclear plant had exploded near here, help me.

Day 9.

Help

This place gives me a feeling of fear, as if something was chasing me, I think so, but I don't know what it is, it is my mind that is making me believe that I am being chased by something or someone, this is an empty supermarket apparently.

Just, end my suffering already.

> Log 5
v Log 5

Day 19.

Reality, is collapsing on itself.

If you notice the lack of some days in this log, it is that I was very busy trying to find a way out, the place looks like some kind of mall with black and white inverted colors, the whole place was very corrupt and reality is corrupted every moment there, all the stores in the mall were always full of dangerous corruption, that if you touched it you merged with corruption. sections of the mall appear and disappear from time to time, the place is very unstable and almost inescapable, I had to wander the whole place for 10 days to find the exit, now I am in a safer place and where reality does not fail.

> Log 6
v Log 6

Day 20.

No-clip out of reality in the wrong areas

The whole place looks like a very distorted black and white version of Level 0, all the colors inverted, with the ceiling lights giving off dark light, and the shadows giving off light, the walls are old wallpaper that It seems to be indestructible, the carpet is dry and cracking, there is no sound and there are no supplies, so my survival here is very low, I don't know what is real and what isn't.

> Log 7
v Log 7

This is nuts...

Day 21.


I don't know what's going on here, on the left it's a very corrupt suburb, where the failure of reality is very dangerous, so much so that it can atomize you, on the right, some floating islands that you can't take a photo of for any reason, that weird. Anyway, I'll keep moving forward and entering every house in this neighborhood, or what's left of normal in the neighborhood.
> Log 8
v Log 8

The children are playing

Day 40.

Until now I find myself in what is a nursery, the place gives me a nostalgic feeling, as if this is a place I have visited before, the air is warmly mysterious, I have been exploring the place for days and could not find a way out, it seems that this place is getting bigger and bigger, or is it my imagination.

Day 47.

The screams are calling me.

This place is so screwed up, I can't find the exit, I'm listening to children play, my mind is getting screwed up too much, I only have 2 bottles of almond water left and 63% battery on my cell phone, I'd better turn off my cell phone so I don't waste energy, even so I have unlimited data, I don't know if I can get out of this place alive or with my sanity still intact.

Day 59.

Level 1

I was able to get out of that fucking nursery, now I'm in an underground parking lot, it looks like Level 1, only more terrifying, I can hear car engines starting, so far, I'm trying to find an elevator, the whole floor It's full of mini puddles of water, I can also find non-working cars here, all the radios emit static and some don't work, these cars don't seem to have a working battery or motor.


He is lurking...
He is lurking... ...In the dark.
The Merciless

Have you heard about the killed people

their spilled crimson blood
valuable lives wasted
by you, humans?
The backrooms were created
as your punishment
the Void suffering were made
as a revenge for what you have done.
I am here for justice
on the wish of deceased ones
to make every human suffer
innocent or not.
You see, life is not easy
everything lives and dies.
One of my best buds
Explained it in the past.
I've created this place
Because my Lord wanted it.
And after all
I am proud out of my creation.
Now you have time
to search for sins in your mind.
Oh- I forget that you still
cannot repent for them.
You had your chance.
You had your life.
Now, you will suffer
until the end of time.

Entities

No entities are present here.

Dreams

While dreaming in this level, a weird scenery with phobia influence may happen. It in most cases resembles a landscape you had in your dream, but mixed with a phobia, so for ex. If you dreamed about a building, then here there will be the same building but dark.
And remember wanderer, these dreams are not a joke, but an alternate reality you can travel to...

He's lurking in the dark.
Watch your back.

Nyctophobia.

Leave, please.

You traverse these terrains bravely,
dark like pitch black Level 6.
But remember; he's always watching you secretly
And might not have mercy this time.

It feels so... unsetting. The dark, everything dark is just so... odd... Like someone was watching you, someone was going to do what you will not know... The dark is like the other side, where you just don't know everything what's in it until you take the step in.

This phobia can take place anywhere; it just makes everything dark and disturbing to scare you. It is nighttime, power is off, streets are dark, the moon isn't shining... The feeling of someone watching you, hallucinations... The worst part is it can take place as I said - anywhere. Someone is chasing you. Look behind you; even though you will not see anything anyway.

R̸u̵n̶

This phobia also removes every object that can emit light in a dream influenced by it. However, it does not make everything dark in a dream scenery. You may come up across a house with covered windows while it is morning outside. But besides dark, this phobia boosts the feelings of someone chasing/watching you. So, we can assume that it is VERY unsetting and you s̶h̷o̸u̴l̶d̶n̸'̷t get rid of it in first place.

Guys... d-do not l-listen to them... They are lying... it is a total hell... please run as fast as you can... Hide... There is no light. I am currently at a house with locked windows, and blocked doors... I saw a lot of hallucinations... Shadows... Strange music.. please. Avoid sleeping in this level, it just does bad for sanity. And of course keep sane. I bet experience in other phobias is awful as well...
There is no end.
To your sufferings.

Apheirophobia.

You may walk for days, weeks,
have a hope for resurrection.
Sadly, infinity influence exists
And extinguishes your hope.

When it will end..?

Infinity, infinity... What is definition of it? Something that never ends. Something, that you will suffer forever. Something, that never ends. Yeah, that is the definition of it. In dreams influenced by it, the phobia makes something infinite, like a hallway that you used to walk, your house... It just cannot make the dream infinite. The lasting time of dream is being controlled by totally another thing. But anyways. This is Apheirophobia, a definition and fear of infinity.

You may ask, what is bad in infinity? Imagine living forever. That is terrifying. But death is also terrifying. You see, things that both last and are infinite are scary. That is definition of universe; a big one question mark.

When you expect it the most, you will never reach your destination, you will always be stuck in the same place without moving forward, every place you find is infinite, infinity has no end or beginning, it only transforms, and the universe has always been there.

So, this phobia makes things infinite or loops them. A slide, an event until you wake up... It is just too much things to fit them there.

Are you really alone...
On this realm?

Autophobia

You wonder where is everyone,
Where did everyone went?
For your luck...
There wasn't anyone around ever since.

Where did everyone go?

Loneliness... something desired by many, everyone has always wanted to be alone and in peace for a few moments, but everything has its consequences.

imagine yourself living in your city normally as you used to, you wake up one day, everything looks ordinary, you see that your family is not at home, for some that is normal, for others it is not.

You wonder why the streets are not noisy as usual, could it be that everyone didn't decide to go out for the whole day?... that's how this phobia is, you are afraid of waking up one day in an unknown environment. This, human, that's called autophobia, you're not afraid of being alone...

Always remember to keep your sanity intact, since that is the only thing that counts here, sanity is an important element in survival in these chaotic rooms located outside of reality, and much more so in this "level", good luck explorer, and remember, you are never alone.

you're also afraid if you're not really alone.
The water.
Is calling you.

Thalassophobia.

The water, vital ingredient of life,
Humans explored it,
But they missed one thing...
They don't know what's lying deep in those unexplored waters.

Swim... now

Thalassophobia is defined as an extreme fear of the sea: phobia of the open sea, the ocean. This phobia of the seabed does not have a rational origin and causes those who suffer from it to panic when being near the ocean, it is also defined by the fear that inhabits it.

That is very true, but this is not what this phobia is about, you are afraid to explore what is hidden in the mysterious waters that you find right now, you are afraid of getting lost in the depths of the ocean , get lost in the depths of an Olympic pool, swim in a vast ocean in the middle of nowhere, with no one around.

If you are very afraid of the oceans, this phobia is not about something that can get into, where there is water, there will always be something swimming in it, no matter what it is, no matter if it is a tiny shrimp or literally a cargo ship, always there will be something there, always.

Always feared of being short?
Well, it is time to take you to another level.

Megalophobia.

It was impossible in real life
only applicable in movies.
We've enjoyed the perspective
but now, we will become tiny by ourselves.

Fear of large things... with statement that it is also fear of being tiny isn't wrong. And yeah, you guessed it. This phobia's influence either reduces you to atoms or makes something bigger than it should be... you, in real world, have everything fitted to your size. Whatever it is: chairs, beds, everything. In movies, you had the chance to view a point of view of person of abnormally small sizes, which's life was much harder. But, everything was computer made, and in movies everything goes perfect. Like, the actors are lucky.

Now, you've had a chance to experience it by yourself, but this time, not everything goes perfect... No normal-sized people to help you, oversized environment, unfriendly landscape... Imagine waking up in your bed, happy that weekend started, but hey- you are only an inch tall. Terrible, yeah? That is what this phobia puts you in.

Entrances and Exits

Entrances

Death, glitch-clipping and belief are your only entrances.

Exits

You are forced to experience this hell forever. This is the void. These are the true backrooms.
So, my little soul trapped here
let me tell you one disappointing thing:

there are no exits from this level.

Heinz Bernadotte - Another Backrooms Legend

Heinz-bernadotte.jpg

Heinz Bernadotte, an ordinary boy, a very lucky boy, ended up in this nightmare unfortunately. Like you, he lived a normal life, had a stable job, friends, he was one of the outstanding citizens of the city of Amil, Federative Republic of Capicamarca, until that day came, the day his destiny took an unexpected turn , he was plunged into a new place, which would be his new home until time itself has no meaning, more terrifying than The Downrooms itself, more terrifying than The Backrooms itself, an unknown place, which has never been explored, an alternate reality plane with no known entrance methods, no exits, destined to explore these ominous and terrifying endless corridors forever and ever until the end of time.

"If I am very lucky, I could escape this nightmare alive, you will not want to know the horrors I had to experience, and the ones I have to experience, this may be the last time you know of me. If I succeed, maybe I can return through this computer, which has a wormhole operating that keeps me in communication with MEG, I can return to my home, but there may be a chance that this will not work and I will die trying, It's worth the try, wish me luck."

Heinz Bernadotte

How do we keep in touch?

Easy, TechSoft, which is a subsidiary of Almond Water Inc. has managed to create a version of BackOS based on The Downrooms version, this version was created specifically for HB, he uses this version to keep us connected, as well as to maintain the wormhole that keeps us in touch running.

Who doomed you?
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Authors: TheObbyxx Infinite Explorer (a collab! :D)
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