The backrooms (The complex)

· April 1988: Investigations begin based on studies from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. · July 2, 1988: The third attempt to open the door fails. October 17, 1989: The sixth attempt is successful. They manage to open the portal (Threshold), but the energy explosion causes an earthquake that kills 63 people. · 1990 (The Horror): The Async teams begin exploring and encounter horror: · February 3: A corpse (Nicolas Bolton) is found decomposing in an "unnatural" way. · February: An investigator disappears, hears voices and ends up traveling through time (ending up 3 months in the future, lost). · March 5: Cameras detect "The Bacteria" (The Lifeform) crawling across the ceiling. · May (Pitfalls Event): Marvin E. Leigh's team finds a room full of pits. Marvin falls into one and comes face to face with the Bacteria, managing to record it before escaping.

KV31 (also called Project KV31) is the codename for the experiment by the fictional company Async to open a portal to the Backrooms (which they call "The Complex")

An attempt to use a magnetic distortion system to create a stable portal and thus be able to use that infinite dimension to solve storage and housing problems, initiated in April 1988