The oldest backrooms level is a very long house.
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Backroom levels are always man-made spaces, but in a state of loss or transition.
This would be "the village great house after the raid"
@futurebird the long house of the backrooms is called long double house
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The oldest backrooms level is a very long house.
The longhouse was the first very large building designed by humans. Some of them were massive. So I propose a backrooms level that's just a long house that extends into infinity, maybe with partition doors at intervals. Dead fire-pits, dry sleeping spots.
Discarded carvings and broken cooking pots.
And always light flickering through the walls, the sound of running animals and chaos. #backrooms
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Counterpoint:
The oldest backrooms level is caves -
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Counterpoint:
The oldest backrooms level is cavesMaybe if they have extensive cave paintings and signs of human habitation?
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The oldest backrooms level is a very long house.
The longhouse was the first very large building designed by humans. Some of them were massive. So I propose a backrooms level that's just a long house that extends into infinity, maybe with partition doors at intervals. Dead fire-pits, dry sleeping spots.
Discarded carvings and broken cooking pots.
And always light flickering through the walls, the sound of running animals and chaos. #backrooms
@futurebird What are “backroom levels”? When I search for the phrasee, all I get is references to a video game.
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@futurebird What are “backroom levels”? When I search for the phrasee, all I get is references to a video game.
It's a modern folk tale based on an old 4chan creepypasta that has mutated into a bunch of stories.
"If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in."
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@futurebird What are “backroom levels”? When I search for the phrasee, all I get is references to a video game.
People mostly get excited describing and making renderings of these strange liminal spaces. The idea is that you could at any moment glitch out of reality and end up in someplace like this:
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Neolithic stuff REALLY creeps me out.
@futurebird What about iron age souterrains?
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@futurebird What about iron age souterrains?
They would be one level up from the Very Long House I think.
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People mostly get excited describing and making renderings of these strange liminal spaces. The idea is that you could at any moment glitch out of reality and end up in someplace like this:
@futurebird Thank you! I did not know this was a thing, and had to look up both "creepypasta” and “noclip" in order to make sense of it. LOL
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@futurebird Thank you! I did not know this was a thing, and had to look up both "creepypasta” and “noclip" in order to make sense of it. LOL
It's basically like any scary story that is also a meme. Like "bloody marry" (where you turn off the lights in the bathroom and say her name in the mirror three times and she appears?)
Only this is how these stories grow and spread online. There have been short films and games made, but nothing is the "official" story which is what I love about it.
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People mostly get excited describing and making renderings of these strange liminal spaces. The idea is that you could at any moment glitch out of reality and end up in someplace like this:
@futurebird @RachelThornSub Ooh that is good. I have a lot of weird dreams set in an infinitely huge hammam or banya. In Iowa (in real life) I found a sort of abandoned bath space like this that no one else ever seemed to use, that had odd inaccessible architecture as if it wasn't supposed to be used so of course I used it whenever I could.
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@futurebird @RachelThornSub Ooh that is good. I have a lot of weird dreams set in an infinitely huge hammam or banya. In Iowa (in real life) I found a sort of abandoned bath space like this that no one else ever seemed to use, that had odd inaccessible architecture as if it wasn't supposed to be used so of course I used it whenever I could.
@futurebird @RachelThornSub Weirdly, I cannot find any evidence online that this bath space in Iowa ever existed. I know where it is on the map, exactly!
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@futurebird @RachelThornSub Weirdly, I cannot find any evidence online that this bath space in Iowa ever existed. I know where it is on the map, exactly!
You can bet it's in the backrooms then!
