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Level 5008, "Riddle Ground"

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Survival Difficulty: Class 3e - Environmental
》Unsafe
》Unsecure
》Non-Entity Hazards

Level 5008 is the 5009th level of the Backrooms

This is only known photo of level 5008, the camera was said to have been found in a clue cabinet and appeared to belong to a previous wanderer

Description

Level 5008 is a group of rooms resembling a Victorian library that smells of dust and vanilla-lavender, accompanied by an outdoor courtyard, with walls covered from floor to ceiling with books. Leather chairs sit in various spots and there are centerpieces made of stone gargoyles and candles. Upon entering, wanderers hear a foreign voice that tells them, "Welcome wanderer, to be on your way, solve my puzzles and riddles within 30 minutes to live another day." This triggers a digital clock to start counting down from 30:00, if any riddle or puzzle goes unsolved in the allotted time, a random entity is released to kill the wanderers.

As soon as one enters, they become inexplicably hyperactive and restless, which makes it much harder to focus to solve each riddle in the time. For every clue and riddle solved, the rooms shift and change. it is a good idea to work together in a group if multiple people end up here simultaneously. if any of the bookshelves are damaged, 5 minutes are taken off of the timer. Wanderers can use 3 hints, however each hint causes ones hyperactivity to raise, further making it difficult to stay focused on the task at hand. There are a number of various switches and compartments, from false books to keys hidden in a gargoyles mouth.

The room is randomized for every wanderer or group of wanderers, so there's no one true way to solve it each time, but it always starts with looking in the gargoyles for a key and ends with finding a false book to open a large door that creates a path into the trophy room. As soon as the final clue is solved, all hyperactivity wears off, and instead a feeling of serenity will wash over wanderers. In the trophy room, there are paintings of wanderers who have both won and have met their end. At the end of the trophy room is a camera set to commemorate victory, over a speaker, that same voice from the beginning states, "Well done! you have evaded your doom, now, off you go to the next room!" a gold elevator will open to take you to a random backrooms level within class 1-3.

items

there are no new occurring items, only the items one already has with them.

Entities

various entities appear, one species is selected at random to kill you if you fail to solve the room, recorded entities include:

Colonies and Outposts

due to the nature of this level, colonies and outposts are impossible.

Entrances and Exits

Entrances

  • reading a book with a "?" mark on it in level 39991 will lead you here

Exits

  • the only exit is to solve every riddle and puzzle and beat the game, this will lead you to (almost) any random level


Image

This is only known photo of level 5008, the camera was said to have been found in a clue acbinet and appeared to belong to a previous wanderer

Library at the Teylers museum, photo-4, Cabinet of Boudewijn Buch by Wikimedia Commons is licensed under creative commons

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