Level 16.5 is a sublevel of Level 16, also known as "J. Barry Medical Institute".
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Description
A photo taken of Clement Memorial Mental Institution in March 1977, 11 years before it disappeared.
An image of where Clement Memorial Mental Institution used to be located. The photo was taken in 2006.
An image taken of the hospital’s interior by an anonymous user in 2019.
Level 16.5 is a Mental Institution with brutalist architecture resembling the late 1960s. The found blueprints and interior have an exact resemblance of Clement Memorial Mental Institution, a hospital for the mentally ill built in 1969. It was located on the outskirts of Newberry, a town in Michigan. The hospital had an infamous reputation of abusing patients and conducting controversial surgical procedures that were later banned. It had 117 employees and a total of 17,542 patients had been admitted, 6,324 of which had been in the Maximum Security Ward. In September 16th of 1988, The hospital had seemingly disappeared, which the local government had claimed the hospital was built on unsteady ground directly above a cave system and had fallen into a sinkhole. However, eyewitnesses say that the hospital simply “fell through the ground” and left no evidence except for piping, concrete chunks, and electrical wiring sticking out the ground. There is also no known cave system underneath where the hospital was located. The remnants were later removed from the ground.
The level was discovered by an anonymous user in 2019, and identified as the Clement Memorial Hospital in October 2020. The level is infested with entities, which are mainly adult Facelings clothed in medical scrubs, patient gowns, and surgical aprons. It is unproven, but it is believed these Facelings are what remain of former employees and patients. An estimated 300 entities are in this level, 80% of which are Facelings. The rest are Smilers and Dullers. There have been no other spotted entities. Entities are much more hostile in this level specifically, making formerly neutral entities hostile when approached. Facelings will attempt to kill anything that approaches it by using either blunt or sharp weapons it finds nearby. A single outpost has been found in this level, consisting of surviving employees and a few travelers. The outpost is consisting of 22 members and are open for trade.
Colonies and Outposts
”The Faced Ones”
- Survivors of the hospital’s transition into the Backrooms.
- Many are traumatized by the event in 1988, and believe it is “god’s punishment” for their horrific actions against the patients that they mistreated. Most of them are not aware of the Backrooms.
- 22 members, the majority former employees of the hospital. There were formerly 78 survivors immediately after the transition, but the majority were killed by entities, suicide, or of natural causes.
- Open to trade
- Armed with nightsticks and a few tasers.
Entrances and Exits
Entrances
The only known ways to enter currently are by noclipping in Level 16 or by walking into a basement of a house in Level 9.
Exits
To exit, you may end up in a negative level, most commonly Level -1 by walking out of the building, or going up to the roof, that may take you to a roof of a building in Level 11.
The original author of this entry is u/Nerdykiddo4844. Rewritten by SetaCraft.