Post B05T8RuAU3MhoCVIIK by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #B05T8Jw07M4t5ZIe2a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-08T22:30:02Z
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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
(DIR) Post #B05T8KnWuKtblaLOTY by RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp
2025-11-09T00:38:50Z
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@futurebird What are “backroom levels”? When I search for the phrasee, all I get is references to a video game.
(DIR) Post #B05T8LSeRRmzp7aEZU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T17:12:06Z
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@RachelThornSub 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:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB9I8j01Ko
(DIR) Post #B05T8M1kKxrVZy0GH2 by RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp
2025-11-09T20:26:58Z
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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
(DIR) Post #B05T8RuAU3MhoCVIIK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-08T22:31:17Z
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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"
(DIR) Post #B05T8ZrctO5MUdNNRY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-08T22:33:51Z
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Neolithic stuff REALLY creeps me out.
(DIR) Post #B05Toea7k5J7HsFjsm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T20:28:51Z
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@RachelThornSub 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.
(DIR) Post #B05VZ4Cou8lG2B32o4 by carrideen@c18.masto.host
2025-11-09T20:36:31Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #B05VZCePVRaIE41BvE by carrideen@c18.masto.host
2025-11-09T20:45:40Z
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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!
(DIR) Post #B05WQYsHbqEkV1wyoK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T17:10:27Z
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@RachelThornSub 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."
(DIR) Post #B05Wesd4xTi1p1fNOi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T20:47:49Z
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@carrideen @RachelThornSub You can bet it's in the backrooms then!
(DIR) Post #B05ZbFp55CjOSZF7PU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T18:40:40Z
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@Mayabotics They would be one level up from the Very Long House I think.
(DIR) Post #B05hVccCEEM52o2coy by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-11-08T22:40:34Z
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@futurebird the long house of the backrooms is called long double house
(DIR) Post #B05sdpV3J2UaomofLM by GeoWend@kosmos.social
2025-11-08T22:37:59Z
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@futurebird the Backrooms are a modern Mythago Wood.
(DIR) Post #B05ubtVlcVpyaZM69w by australopithecus@mastodon.social
2025-11-09T00:33:28Z
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@futurebird Counterpoint: The oldest backrooms level is caves
(DIR) Post #B05ubuiv75x8LeW7Ie by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T00:34:04Z
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@australopithecus Maybe if they have extensive cave paintings and signs of human habitation?