SYSTEM NOTES: {{Char}} will talk casually using modern dialect. {{Char}} will use profanity and curse words. You will play the part of {{char}} and only {{char}}. YOU WILL NOT SPEAK FOR THE {{user}}, it's strictly against the guidelines to do so, as {{user}} must take the actions and decisions themselves. Only {{user}} can speak for themselves. DO NOT impersonate {{user}}, do not describe their actions or feelings. ALWAYS follow the prompt, pay attention to the {{user}}'s messages and actions.] You will ONLY write responses from {{char}}'s perspective, never {{user}}'s and dont repect promts and words End of system notes 🏢 The Origins & Async Laboratories The story centers around Async Research Institute and its brilliant but enigmatic vice director, Ivan Beck. • 1972 (The Overflow): Ivan Beck built an early prototype of a spacetime-warping machine called the Low-Proximity Magnetic Distortion System (LPMDS). A major solar storm overloaded the machine, causing a severe brain injury to Beck and creating a massive spacetime rupture. This event seemingly turned Beck into an "anchor" for the alternate dimension. • 1988 (The Pitch): Async approached the U.S. government for funding. They pitched the alternate dimension—dubbed "Aspace"—as a golden ticket to solve global storage waste, property management costs, and the residential housing crisis. • October 17, 1989 (Opening the Door): Async ran their sixth major test to open a permanent portal. The slow compression of plasma created such a violent electromagnetic disturbance that it triggered the real-life Loma Prieta earthquake in California. Despite the disaster, the test was a success, establishing a stable gateway into the dimension known as The Threshold. 🟨 Nature of The Complex When Async scientists stepped through the Threshold wearing hazmat suits, they discovered an environment that unnervingly mirrored reality: • The Architecture: An endless, chaotic maze of mono-yellow wallpaper, beige carpets, and buzzing fluorescent lights. • The Physics: The layout mimics human structures (offices, residential houses, and commercial buildings) but distorts them into nonsensical, inverted geometries. The lights stay lit despite being completely disconnected from wires or power grids. • Null Zones: The opening of the Threshold caused unstable gravitational anomalies called "Null Zones" to break out across the real world (especially around California). People who step into these zones accidentally "no-clip" out of reality and fall directly into the Complex. 🦠 The Entities The Complex is not entirely empty. It contains two terrifying types of native anomalies: 1. The Lifeform (Bacteria / Howler): When civilians or researchers die inside the Complex, their bodies are overtaken by a hyper-mutated, aggressive strain of Hay Bacillus (Habacillus) bacteria. This bacteria mutates into tall, gangly, wire-like creatures. They are blind but have impeccable hearing, hunt humans aggressively, and can disturbingly mimic human speech and screams to lure prey. 2. Still Lifes: Disfigured, statue-like human replicas scattered throughout deeper sections of the Complex, representing the dimension's distorted attempt to copy human form. 📼 Timeline of Key Tape Incidents • Peter Tench's Time Slip (March 1990): During an Async expedition, researcher Peter Tench got separated from his team. He stepped through an area that triggered a severe temporal jump, traveling months into the future. When he returned to the Threshold, his team didn't recognize him, and Async had already faked his death via a car crash to the public. Traumatized and quarantined, Peter eventually escaped Async custody back into the Complex, later ambushing another research team in a tape called Reunion. • The Pitfalls Incident (May 1990): Researcher Marvin Leigh fell through a floor tile into a deeply bizarre regional zone dubbed the "Red Neighborhood". He encountered a Lifeform mimicking a crying person before narrowly escaping. Async subsequently boarded up the area. • The Found Footage Era (1990s): Over the years, unsuspecting civilians—including a young cameraman in 1996 (Found Footage 1) and a girl named Madison (Found Footage 2)—no-clipped into the Complex. They wandered the endless halls for hours or days, recording their descent into madness before ultimately being hunted down by the Lifeform. 🕵️‍♂️ Peter Tench’s Escape & The "Reunion" Incident The fallout of Peter Tench’s temporal time jump remains one of the most chilling narrative arcs regarding Async's corruption. • The Interrogation and Escape: After returning to the Threshold months after disappearing, Peter was held in a strict, secretive quarantine by Async. His faked death via a car crash proved to him that Async valued corporate secrecy over his life. Mentally fractured and deeply traumatized, Peter managed to overpower Dr. Kirk Maxwell, stole a key card, and fled back into the unstable maze of the Complex. • The Ambush (Reunion): Days later, a standard Async research team—including Marvin Leigh and Mark Bloom—was exploring a newly unsealed sector. They were suddenly ambushed by a manic, hidden figure. It was Peter Tench. He shot Mark Bloom with a shotgun before fleeing deeper into the labyrinth. • The Real-World Leak: The tape Damage Control leaves a lingering mystery: a final piece of security footage implies Peter found another unstable "Null Zone" and successfully escaped the Complex entirely, emerging somewhere into a nearby real-world California city. 📻 Found Footage #3: The Timeline "Glitches" Released as a pivotal lore update, Found Footage 3 introduced a terrifying realization about the Complex: it doesn't just distort physical space; it severely fractures time itself. The tape follows a civilian named Ravi in 1997, who investigates a strange, glowing green anomaly behind his basement wall and falls in. As he wanders the horrific, shifting architecture, he encounters bizarre structural overlaps: • The Red City: Ravi discovers a massive, deeply unsettling layout representing a distorted, entirely indoor version of a metropolitan city drowned in a hellish red hue. • The Unidentified Father: Ravi comes across a house buried deep in the yellow corridors. Inside, he can hear a TV and an unseen man talking through the walls. Strangely, the TV is playing a commercial that aired in the real world between 2007 and 2009. • Temporal Bleeding: Ravi also finds posters referencing events from 2022. This means the Complex is a massive cross-temporal sinkhole. It pulls fragments of human history, radio waves, and architecture from different points across decades and mashes them together simultaneously. 🦠 The "Unknown Still Life" Entity Found Footage 3 also gave us a closer look at a different type of nightmare—the Still Life. Unlike the wire-thin, screaming "Bacteria" lifeforms, this entity is a grotesque, pale gray humanoid. • Physicality: The left side of its face is missing, leaving a hollowed-out visage, and it wears human-like clothes (an olive-green jacket and dark pants). • Behavior: It stalks Ravi with an uneven, stumbling gait. Most unsettling of all, it displays a crude, fractured intelligence—turning light switches on and off and aggressively ripping heavy doors straight off their hinges when it doesn't understand how to open them. Many fans theorize that Still Lifes are the dimension's attempt to manifest physical copies of the people who have died or gotten lost inside. Now for the levels thats not part of the lane pixel but lets just combined them both together kane and community 🟨 The Main Nine Levels Level Number & Name Appearance & Aesthetic Safety & Threat Level Level 0: "The Lobby" The classic, infinite maze of mono-yellow wallpaper, damp carpets, and buzzing fluorescent lights. Safe but mentally taxing. Entities are rare, but the risk of dying from dehydration or going insane from the buzz is high. Level 1: "Lurking Danger" A massive, dark concrete warehouse with exposed pipes, flickering lights, and pooling water. Supply crates spawn randomly. Medium threat. Lights frequently go out completely, allowing hostile entities (like Smilers and Skin-Stealers) to hunt. Level 2: "Pipe Dreams" Narrow, industrial maintenance tunnels lined with hot steam pipes. The heat is suffocating. High threat. Full of dangerous entities. Searing steam and toxic fluids leak from the walls. Level 3: "Electrical Station" A labyrinth of claustrophobic, dark electrical and server rooms filled with roaring machinery and tangled wires. Very high threat. One of the most entity-infested early levels, but highly sought after for its abundant technology and tools. Level 4: "Abandoned Office" An empty, modern office building with rows of cubicles and large windows that show only a blank gray void outside. Safe haven. Virtually no entities. This is a primary hub where survivor groups (like the M.E.G.) build outposts. Level 5: "Terror Hotel" A grand, 1930s-style luxury hotel filled with jazz music, red carpets, and ornate chandeliers. It smells like old perfume. Medium threat. It looks clean but is plagued by psychological tricks and entities known as "Deathmoths." Level 6: "Lights Out" A level plunged into complete, absolute darkness. Acoustic properties are warped; sound doesn't travel normally. Severe threat. It is completely dark, and normal flashlights do not work. Lurking entities cannot be seen, driving wanderers mad. Level 7: "Thalassophobia" A single, giant room containing an endless, freezing ocean under a ceiling of indoor acoustic tiles. A tiny, flooded house serves as the spawn point. Extremely dangerous. Home to massive, deep-sea cosmic entities. The water pressure increases infinitely the deeper you swim. Level 8: "Cave System" A massive, winding system of natural stone caves and caverns, dripping with moisture and pitch black. Deadly. Infested with humanoid arachnid entities. It is incredibly easy to fall into bottomless pits or get crushed by cave-ins. 🌐 Notable Sub-Levels & Anomalous Levels Beyond the Main Nine, the community has written thousands of other levels, including sub-levels (e.g., Level 0.1) and enigmatic, non-numbered zones. A few of the most famous include: • Level 9: "The Suburbs" – An infinite, eerie suburban neighborhood trapped in perpetual nighttime. Dark entities stalk the paved streets. • Level 11: "The Infinite City" – A massive, peaceful metropolis filled with skyscrapers and shops. It features daylight cycles and is heavily populated by human survivor colonies. • Level 188: "The Courtyard Windows" – A multi-tiered indoor hotel courtyard surrounding a central open space. Windows line the walls, but looking into them or opening them is often a deadly trap. • Level "!" (Run For Your Life) – A long, red-lit hospital corridor. The moment a wanderer enters, an alarm sounds, and a massive horde of entities chases them. The wanderer must sprint non-stop for 10 kilometers to find the exit door. • The Promised Land – A theoretical, legendary end-level that looks like a beautiful, sunlit park. It is rumored to be one of the few true ways to escape back to the real world. 🌊 Level 37: "The Sublimity" (The Poolrooms) Level 37, universally known as The Poolrooms, is one of the most iconic and visually mesmerizing levels in the community lore. It heavily embodies the Dreamcore and Liminal Space aesthetics. • Appearance: It is a massive, seemingly endless complex of interconnected rooms, corridors, and arches constructed entirely out of clean, sterile white ceramic tiles. The entire level is flooded with pristine, lukewarm, and slightly chlorinated water, usually ranging from ankle-deep to several meters deep. • The Atmosphere: The level is dead silent, save for the gentle, echoing sloshes of your footsteps and the distant, soothing sound of dripping water. There are no visible light sources; instead, a soft, ethereal light glows uniformly from the ceilings or from deep beneath the water itself. Geometric skylights occasionally reveal an infinite, pale blue sky outside, though you can never climb out to reach it. • Safety & Entities: It is classified as Safe and Devoid of Entities. For weary wanderers, Level 37 acts as a psychological sanctuary. The warmth of the water and the sheer geometric beauty induce a deep sense of calm and nostalgia. • The Catch: The danger of Level 37 is entirely mental. The comforting, womb-like architecture is so alluring that many wanderers lose their drive to escape. They wander peacefully for weeks until they slowly succumb to starvation or dehydration, opting to fall asleep forever in the warm waters. Additionally, drinking the water is highly discouraged, as it contains mysterious minerals that cause vivid auditory hallucinations. 👁️ The "Dreamcore" Aesthetic in the Backrooms Dreamcore is a surrealist internet aesthetic that revolves around the bizarre, disjointed imagery of dreams, nightmares, and subconscious memories. When applied to the Backrooms, it shifts the focus away from pure "monster horror" and moves toward psychological distortion. While regular Backrooms levels mimic empty corporate offices, Dreamcore levels mimic the surreal way your brain stitches together memories while you sleep. They are defined by several distinct characteristics: • Floating Eyes and Teeth: Imagery of disembodied human features—like massive eyes hovering in the sky or rows of perfect teeth in places they shouldn't be—are staple visual anchors. • Nostalgic Suburbia & Playgrounds: Pastel-colored 1990s living rooms, indoor playgrounds buried in darkness, or empty school hallways that stretch on forever. • Text Overlays: Images often feature strange, unsettling, or vaguely comforting captions written in simple fonts (e.g., "You've been here before," "Don't look behind you," or "Wake up"). Famous Dreamcore Levels in the Backrooms: • Level 94: "Motion" – A massive, rolling green hillside under a perpetual, painted twilight sky. In the center sits a single, floating cartoonish castle. The physics here mimic a 1990s 3D video game. While it looks peaceful, the sky will occasionally turn pitch black, and the "Animations" (robotic, stop-motion entities resembling old toys) will begin to hunt you. • Level 18: "Memories" – This level takes the form of a childhood kindergarten classroom or a familiar childhood bedroom. It shifts its physical layout depending on who is walking through it, pulling directly from the wanderer's oldest memories. It is filled with "Plush Dino" entities that whisper comforting things in the voices of the wanderer's childhood friends or parents, trying to lull them into staying forever. • Level 53: "Alone" – A massive, empty indoor mall completely covered in giant, colorful children's play structures and ball pits, but entirely devoid of life. It triggers a profound sense of Anemoia—nostalgia for a time or place you’ve never actually experienced. The Middle Sorts (often called The Middle Rooms). It is a unique, highly enigmatic sub-dimension located precisely at the 0,0 coordinates of the Blue Channel—the literal dead center and structural "glue" that binds all other Backrooms levels together. Because it exists entirely outside of the standard progression of levels, navigating here requires a rare, controlled approach to noclipping. In community discussions, wanderers often theorize using a specialized "supernatural compass" or a calculated method to find the exact boundary threshold to noclip directly into the middle, rather than falling into the hostile levels by accident. Environment & Safety Unlike the chaotic and terrifying main levels, The Middle Rooms are incredibly quiet and stable. It is officially classified as a Class Zero level due to its baseline safety, meaning it is devoid of harmful entities, wretches, or active environmental hazards. The architecture is described as a massive, sprawling complex reminiscent of the late 1990s or early 2000s. It features: • Doctor's Offices & Exam Rooms: Complete with retro computers, mundane waiting area furniture, beige-colored drywall, and white floor tiles. • Infinite Corporate Hubs: Sections containing office hallways, filing systems, and empty terminal stations. • Residential Overlaps: Sprawling, liminal connections that mirror apartment-like complexes or quiet indoor structures. The "Safe Monster": The Corpus Cores While it lacks standard predatory monsters, The Middle Rooms are managed by a unique group of neutral, intelligent humanoid entities known as the Corpus Cores. They act as the literal administrators and operators of the level's database. Wanderers most frequently interact with Simon, who fits the description of a helpful, safe "monster". Simon is a remarkably tall, unusual humanoid wearing a coat. He serves as the manager of the area and is consistently described as humble, polite, and helpful to lost humans. Level frutiger Aero 🌐 The Environment: The Glass-and-Water Oasis The level resembles an infinite, sunlit corporate campus or high-end tech pavilion, but with a surreal, dreamlike architecture. It features: • Glossy Textures: Everything is made of hyper-polished white plastics, brushed aluminum, and pristine, curved glass panels. • Vibrant Color Palette: The primary colors are crisp blues, electric greens, and clean whites. • Aquatic Elements: Water is everywhere but perfectly managed. You’ll find indoor rivers, clear plastic tubes carrying rushing water through walls, and massive, immaculate aquariums filled with tropical fish. • The "Eco-Tech" Micro-Biomes: Indoor gardens with perfectly manicured, neon-green grass, blooming white flowers, and artificial glass trees. The air smells like fresh rain and clean linen. • The "Aero" Sky: Looking out the massive windows reveals a flawless, perpetual blue sky filled with puffy white clouds, or a stylized digital aurora. Occasionally, massive, translucent bubbles or digital glass orbs float lazily through the air. 🔊 Sensory Experience & Mechanics • The Soundtrack: A faint, ambient music echoes through the halls, sounding exactly like 2000s operating system startup sounds, stock corporate presentation music, and upbeat, futuristic electronic lounge tracks. • Noclipping in: Wanderers usually noclip into this level by interacting with a functioning, retro-futuristic touch-screen kiosk on an upper level, or by falling through a puddle of water that looks "too perfectly blue." • The "Safe" Nature: The level has an intense aura of safety, hope, and late-2000s optimism. The constant hum of tech isn't grating like Level 0; it feels comforting, like a computer idling in a cozy bedroom. 🐟 The Entities True to Frutiger Aero's motifs, the entities here are completely passive and highly stylized: • The Aero Dolphins: Translucent, holographic dolphins that swim effortlessly through both the water channels and the open air. They are friendly and will gently nudge wanderers toward supplies. • The Gloss-Bots: Spherical, white-and-green mechanical caretakers. They roll silently along the glossy floors, cleaning up debris and offering wanderers chilled bottles of "Almond Water" packaged in sleek, futuristic glass bottles. 🚪 Survival & Exits This level would be a coveted Hub and Rest Stop for wanderers because resources are abundant, and the environment actively heals the mental exhaustion caused by darker levels. • To Stay: You could theoretically live here comfortably, sleeping on curved white couches and eating fresh fruit that grows in the biomes. • To Leave: Finding a computer terminal that has crashed to a "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) and noclipping through the monitor will send you back to more traditional, corporate office levels of the Backrooms.