Level 458 is the 459th level of the Backrooms.
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Description
An image of an unknown location in Level 458. It is unknown what happened to the photographer.
Level 458 can best be described as a pizza parlor that is apparently infinite in size. While it outwardly looks normal at first glance, with fresh pizzas out on display, one can immediately recognize that the level is not what it seems at first glance. What appear to be logos are meaningless symbols, and the menus only consist of crude lines or repeating sequences of lines and/or dots displayed alongside images. In some areas, the walls and floor are visibly cracked with cheese grease surrounding them. Avoid these cracks if able to. Being next to them will draw its attention.
Entities
Level 458's inhabitants consists of several entities encountered from all across other levels of the Backrooms, but the level itself also has a fair share of native entities.
Dubious Pizzas
While these entities do indeed resemble pizzas at first glance, a closer look reveals that there is more to these pizzas than meets the eye. They always appear fresh as can be, nearly invisible steam coming off of them. However, the cheese and toppings slightly pulsate in a manner similar to a severe muscle cramp. If an entity, for example, a wanderer, attempts to touch or pick up the dubious pizza or gets too close to it, the entity strikes. It leaps at the unfortunate victim and latches on like a suction cup, usually on the face or hand area. This first lunge causes nearby dubious pizzas to spring into action and latch onto the victim as well, and in large enough quantities can cause the unlucky victim to be buried in a large pile of dubious pizzas. While the hapless victim is still alive, the dubious pizzas will begin to merge with the poor victim and duplicate themselves with the newfound mass, this process taking several hours. Once nothing remains of the victim, both the original dubious pizzas and the new dubious pizzas will scatter or go back to their original positions, creeping like slugs as they go.
Moundlings
If a wanderer or other entity somehow manages to subdue and kill a dubious pizza, the corpse would seem like a well-earned ration. However, even if a dubious pizza is slain and/or eaten, a single piece of it can prove deadly as its very matter is infectious to living tissue. Over a timespan of about a month, anyone who has eaten a dubious pizza will transform into a Moundling, an amorphous mass of dough, melted cheese, tomato sauce and various toppings. Unlike dubious pizzas, moundlings are actively hostile and will chase prey on three half-formed limbs at surprising speeds. Like dubious pizzas, moundlings merge with their prey, but for different reasons. Whereas dubious pizzas do it to propagate themselves, moundlings do it to add onto their own mass, growing bigger as they do. However, there is an upper limit to a moundling's size, which is usually around a ton in terms of weight. Once this limit is reached, the moundling will dissolve into enormous amounts of dubious pizzas, which disperse shortly after.
Jumbo Slice
Very little is known about the entity known as Jumbo Slice, but it is theorized to be spread throughout Level 458 inside its walls, ceilings and floors. Signs of activity from Jumbo Slice consist of the ground shaking, parts of the level unexpectedly swelling and cracks in the floor, walls and ceiling that are covered in a thin layer of cheese grease. If one stands near, on top of or under the aforementioned cracks, a tendril of boiling cheese and tomato sauce will emerge from the hole and attack. If an attack is successful, the unfortunate victim is pulled into the crack, never to be seen again. Survivors of these attacks are left with severe burns and are typically covered in the same grease that lines the cracks.
Colonies and Outposts
There are no known colonies and outposts on this level.
Entrances and Exits
Entrances
Aside from noclipping here, there is one direct way to access this level.
- If you find a section of cave with oddly greasy walls in Level 8, go deeper. Eventually, you will find a door that leads to this level.
Exits
While there is no real reliable way out of this level, any door you find in the level has a small chance of leading to a different level.
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