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What if the backrooms actually existed?

Postby Rojava Free State » Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:55 pm

Imagine the following scenario. You are trapped in an endless maze of rooms lit by loud fluorescent lights and there is possibly no way out. The floor is covered in damp and moldy carpet and for miles in every direction there is nothing but more identical rooms to the one you're in. Being on your own would be hellish enough, but you don't even have that fortune. There are things moving around within the hundreds of millions of miles of rooms, beings not of our world. They come in many grotesque shapes and sizes and while some are harmless, many are not. The worst thing about it all is that once you can hear one of these entities, they already have probably heard you. With no weapons, no food, no water, no sense of time or direction and potentially surrounded on all sides, your chances of escape seem slim to none.

Ladies and gentlemen I am referring in detail to what is known as the backrooms, a recent creepypasta that within the last month has been picking up popularity. According to the lore of the backrooms, when someone noclips out of reality, they find themself in this place, and escape is often difficult if not downright impossible. To specify, no clipping is a videogamer term referring to when a person runs into a solid object and ends up going straight through it. By crossing the veil, one ends up in this endless labrinth. There's a lot more to the story than just this but it would take me all day and night to explain it and many of you already know the legend of the backrooms like the alphabet. Now consider this. What if the backrooms were real? What if instead of it being a legend, it was indeed possible for a person to accidentally slip out of this universe and into the backrooms, ending up potentially trapped forever in a place where isolation is a genuine blessing, for the only other living beings there are mostly anything but human? What would you do if you ended up in the backrooms? What would your first thoughts be upon arriving there? How would you react to this sudden occurence? would you try and find other people or simply stay in the same place hoping for an escape? What if you encountered one of the entities? Do you believe the backrooms actually exist? Let me know your thoughts down below.
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Postby Pacomia » Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:58 pm

Wow, thanks for the nightmare fuel!
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Postby Ifreann » Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:59 pm

Creepypasta? Or a trick to get idiots to run full speed into a wall?
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Postby Pacomia » Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:01 pm

Ifreann wrote:Creepypasta? Or a trick to get idiots to run full speed into a wall?

Platform 9 3/4 takes you to Hogwarts, but platform 10 3/4 takes you to the Backrooms.

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HA! THAT WAS HILARIOUS- YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE AS YOU BROKE YOUR NOSE AND RIBS! HA!
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Postby Rojava Free State » Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:04 pm

Pacomia wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Creepypasta? Or a trick to get idiots to run full speed into a wall?

Platform 9 3/4 takes you to Hogwarts, but platform 10 3/4 takes you to the Backrooms.

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HA! THAT WAS HILARIOUS- YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE AS YOU BROKE YOUR NOSE AND RIBS! HA!


Only backroom he's going to is the ER
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Postby Gormwood » Sun Jul 07, 2019 8:55 pm

That's what you get for binging on Silent Hill.
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Postby Kowani » Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:03 pm

If they did, the first people to find them would be idiotic YouTubers.
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Postby Bluelight-R006 » Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:05 pm

Kowani wrote:If they did, the first people to find them would be idiotic YouTubers.

How would you know? It’s not like they can ever upload their experience on YouTube. :lol:

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Postby Risottia » Sun Jul 07, 2019 11:24 pm

Rojava Free State wrote:What would your first thoughts be upon arriving there?

"The Emperor protects".

How would you react to this sudden occurence?

Build my own armour and gun.

would you try and find other people or simply stay in the same place hoping for an escape?

Rally a company.

What if you encountered one of the entities?

PURGE.
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Postby Kowani » Sun Jul 07, 2019 11:59 pm

Bluelight-R006 wrote:
Kowani wrote:If they did, the first people to find them would be idiotic YouTubers.

How would you know? It’s not like they can ever upload their experience on YouTube. :lol:

I’m not hearing any downsides.

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Rojava Free State wrote:What would your first thoughts be upon arriving there?

"The Emperor protects".

How would you react to this sudden occurence?

Build my own armour and gun.

would you try and find other people or simply stay in the same place hoping for an escape?

Rally a company.

What if you encountered one of the entities?

PURGE.

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Postby Bluelight-R006 » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:04 am

Kowani wrote:
Bluelight-R006 wrote:How would you know? It’s not like they can ever upload their experience on YouTube. :lol:

I’m not hearing any downsides.

As an incredibly and abhorrent person on YouTube, I’m just hoping they don’t get out. But I can. :lol:

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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:04 am

Simple. Make as much noise as possible. That way I can make as many new friends as possible, since I'd reckon that the vast majority of beings in the backrooms are simply fellow no-clippers like myself, or in other words: mostly harmless. Tbh, the backrooms seem rather comfy, and I bet that somewhere in the vast, multiverse spanning complex, that there's a vending machine. I dunno. Hopefully they have RC Cola, or eldritch equivalent.
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Postby Dogmeat » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:11 am

Pull a Blake Thorburn: become a boogeyman, kill the monsters.
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Postby Kowani » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:17 am

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:Simple. Make as much noise as possible. That way I can make as many new friends as possible, since I'd reckon that the vast majority of beings in the backrooms are simply fellow no-clippers like myself, or in other words: mostly harmless. Tbh, the backrooms seem rather comfy, and I bet that somewhere in the vast, multiverse spanning complex, that there's a vending machine. I dunno. Hopefully they have RC Cola, or eldritch equivalent.

From the OP, the inhabitants of this place seem to be the kind of creatures that would like to rip you open and wear you as a hat, mate.
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Postby -Ocelot- » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:17 am

Don't really know how I or anyone else would deal with the backrooms.

Backrooms are not creepy, however. They are basically Nirvana with man-made structures. I'd reckon some people could find true bliss by staying in the backrooms to forget about all the miseries of the real world. To forget everything.

Also I'm 99% sure that creatures living in the backrooms is not what the creepypasta originally implied or intended. The backrooms are supposed to be empty. Vacant. Not another realm where creatures live. It's meant to be the back rooms of the material world.

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Postby Caracasus » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:18 am

Firstly, trapped is entirely the wrong word here. I'm not trapped. Even at the start, when the dust first began I never felt trapped. Terrified? Of course, terror is entirely appropriate when the rules that you've known all your life melt and flow like candlewax. Once you pass that though, once you begin to appreciate what the places between can show you, I think you'd probably quite like it.

I can understand the analogy, but thinking of this as some sort of glitch is completely the wrong way to approach it. If anything, it's our reality - what we have come to accept as true that is the glitch. Do you really think that time was supposed to progress like a straight road? That the glass, once broken, stayed broken?

It must have been a few months ago now when I first noticed the dust in my box room. A year perhaps, no more than two years - of that I'm sure. My family were out of town, my wife was getting some much needed rest from the stress of moving and I had decided, in that strange burst of motivation that sometimes comes after a day's hard work and a couple of beers to lift your spirits, to get all the unsorted boxes stacked up and away in the corner of the room.

I'd noticed the dust first. When you spend long enough here you'll know what I mean, but even then I knew something was wrong about it. Sounds... simply dulled. The occasional car passed outside as it always did but it sounded flat, like a recording on a bad microphone. I thought I was tired, that the day's excursions had finally taken their toll and headed to the bedroom, where in lieu of a bed that was awaiting delivery we'd stacked up sofa cushions.

I wasn't tired.

I'll save you the details of my first, fumbling explorations into the spaces in between. Safe to say I found out quickly that the things that live there barely notice us. However grotesque and wrong they appear, they don't seem interested in anything much aside from their own alien activities.

I began spending longer and longer there. She left me, of course. Started staying away longer and longer, and then never came back.

If I could show you the things I have seen though, you'd know it was worth it. A tree of concrete with iron girders growing like roots. Light fixtures as fruit and wiring wound like ivy. I saw a group of people once, long dead. They wore military uniforms, though I couldn't ever find what army they came from. I have no idea how they died, perhaps they didn't know about the dust. Then there's the broken doll that tells two truths for every lie...

The things I've seen.

But no, I'm not trapped. I can leave whenever I like.
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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:22 am

Kowani wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:Simple. Make as much noise as possible. That way I can make as many new friends as possible, since I'd reckon that the vast majority of beings in the backrooms are simply fellow no-clippers like myself, or in other words: mostly harmless. Tbh, the backrooms seem rather comfy, and I bet that somewhere in the vast, multiverse spanning complex, that there's a vending machine. I dunno. Hopefully they have RC Cola, or eldritch equivalent.

From the OP, the inhabitants of this place seem to be the kind of creatures that would like to rip you open and wear you as a hat, mate.


Yeah, but that's a silly bit in the... well, there's no "canon", but you get what I mean.

I mean, people are people, and sure they may look rather strange, but it seems likely that most beings capable of achieving sapience would have a basic understanding of cooperation.
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Postby Kowani » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:24 am

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Kowani wrote:From the OP, the inhabitants of this place seem to be the kind of creatures that would like to rip you open and wear you as a hat, mate.


Yeah, but that's a silly bit in the... well, there's no "canon", but you get what I mean.

I mean, people are people, and sure they may look rather strange, but it seems likely that most beings capable of achieving sapience would have a basic understanding of cooperation.

You assume that they have achieved sapience.
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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:26 am

Kowani wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Yeah, but that's a silly bit in the... well, there's no "canon", but you get what I mean.

I mean, people are people, and sure they may look rather strange, but it seems likely that most beings capable of achieving sapience would have a basic understanding of cooperation.

You assume that they have achieved sapience.


I doubt that a non-sapient creature would be able to no-clip. And besides, this is a silly fiction scenario.
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Postby Kowani » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:27 am

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Kowani wrote:You assume that they have achieved sapience.


I doubt that a non-sapient creature would be able to no-clip. And besides, this is a silly fiction scenario.

Not humans of which I speak, but the things that live there originally.
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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:31 am

Kowani wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
I doubt that a non-sapient creature would be able to no-clip. And besides, this is a silly fiction scenario.

Not humans of which I speak, but the things that live there originally.


Yeah, but why would things live in the backrooms? More specifically, what conditions would there be for life to develop? It's like an endless maze of mediocre hotel hallways, with (presumably) the occasional vending machine, since most mediocre hotels I've stayed in have vending machines, and it seems to be a law of nature that mediocre hotels have vending machines.
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Postby Kowani » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:43 am

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Kowani wrote:Not humans of which I speak, but the things that live there originally.


Yeah, but why would things live in the backrooms? More specifically, what conditions would there be for life to develop? It's like an endless maze of mediocre hotel hallways, with (presumably) the occasional vending machine, since most mediocre hotels I've stayed in have vending machines, and it seems to be a law of nature that mediocre hotels have vending machines.

According to the OP, alien sorts of things.
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Postby The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:51 am

Kowani wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Yeah, but why would things live in the backrooms? More specifically, what conditions would there be for life to develop? It's like an endless maze of mediocre hotel hallways, with (presumably) the occasional vending machine, since most mediocre hotels I've stayed in have vending machines, and it seems to be a law of nature that mediocre hotels have vending machines.

According to the OP, alien sorts of things.


Yeah, but alien != hostile. That's one of the things I don't like about horror fiction, tbh. It oft assumes that radically alien beings would be hostile by default, instead of what seems more likely: peaceable indifference.
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Postby Caracasus » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:56 am

Kowani wrote:
The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Yeah, but why would things live in the backrooms? More specifically, what conditions would there be for life to develop? It's like an endless maze of mediocre hotel hallways, with (presumably) the occasional vending machine, since most mediocre hotels I've stayed in have vending machines, and it seems to be a law of nature that mediocre hotels have vending machines.

According to the OP, alien sorts of things.


In there we would be the aliens, what with our weird internal skeleton, fleshy skin covering and bizzare non distributed consciousness.
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Postby Deamonopolis » Mon Jul 08, 2019 1:02 am

If the amount of rooms in which you can move is truly infinite and the number of hostile creatures finite (even if its something ridiculous like a Googol), the chance of coming across, or being discovered by, anything alive and constantly on the move is zero.

Consider the following riddle, it's called Hilbert's Paradox. You need a room for the night and you enter a hotel with an infinite number of rooms but every room is occupied. How do you get a room for the night? Ask every guest to move one room and room no. 1 becomes vacant. This process can be repeated infinitely. Same holds for the OPs scenario. Suppose there's an infinite number of creatures roaming about the place, and the amount of rooms remains infinite, every single room would be occupied by a creature, assuming 1 room = 1 creature max. The moment you appear in the maze, there's a lets say fifty-fifty chance of encountering a hostile creature. If you're lucky the creature is harmless, but the next creature that comes may kill you because they are always moving. But even if 3 or 65 creatures can stay in a room for a while, that doesn't matter: they move around constantly, so not a single room will remain unoccupied for longer than a few minutes, at most.

There's are more factors such as the amount of time the maze exists in combination with the starting location of the creatures, and your own point of entry to take into account. Just remember: on an infinitely large plane, an even distribution of a finite amount of x is impossible: the placement of x can only be perfectly random.
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