BACKROOMS

Resources and supplies Look for almond water: It's a key resource. It quenches thirst, heals wounds, and restores sanity. Don't drink regular water from puddles or pipes. Conserve food: Eat only proven foods (such as the rations found in safe levels like Level 4). Use markers: Level walls can change. Leave notes or arrows on the walls to avoid going in circles. Behavior when encountering entities When encountering Smileys: Turn off all light sources. Don't panic or run. Back away slowly and quietly, keeping your eyes on their smile. When encountering Hounds: Don't turn your back on them or run. Freeze and look them straight in the eye. This usually causes them to retreat. When encountering Skinstealers: If you encounter a "person" acting strangely, making clicking sounds, or repeating inappropriate phrases, run. They are a monster in someone else's skin. Ignore Windows: Never approach windows, even if they reveal a beautiful view or sunlight. They are traps. Movement and navigation Master the No-Clip: This is a way to pass through wall or floor textures, just like in video games. Look for walls that appear darker or places where you feel a strange vibration to fall through to another level. Avoid suspicious doors: Doors with the words "EXIT" or festive designs (balloons, smiley faces) almost always lead to deadly traps (for example, to the FUN Level). Mental health Be mindful of your time: Backstage doesn't have a regular day/night cycle. The constant hum of the lights can be maddening. Listen to music with headphones: This helps drown out the maddening background noise and maintain your sanity, but keep one ear open to hear approaching footsteps.

5. Local and Divine-Level Entities (Uncategorized) Unique, often immortal beings that control entire levels or alter reality around them. Bacteria / Severed (Kane Pixels canon): A tall, black, wire-like being that emits distorted human screams and stalks prey on Level 0. Entity X (The Game Master): A being that controls specific game or virtual levels, forcing survivors to play deadly games by its rules.

4. Intelligent and Organized Sadists (Highest Danger Level) Possess intelligence, capable of communication, planning, and coordination. Partypoopers: A once peaceful and intelligent faction of masked beings who tried to help people. They were almost completely wiped out by the Partygoers. Partygoers: Extremely dangerous, highly intelligent beings. Appearing as yellow figures with carved smiles, they lure people to the "FUN Level," transform them into their own kind, and treat them as "treats."

3. Active Stalker and Mental Hazards (High-End) These possess a high level of aggression, anomalous abilities, and specifically hunt survivors. Smilers: The most well-known entities. They appear as glowing teeth and eyes in complete darkness. They are attracted by light and panic. To escape, you must slowly retreat and avoid looking them directly in the eye. Wretches: Former humans who have gone too long without food, water, or almond water. They lose their minds and transform into aggressive zombie-like monsters. Windows: Anomalies in the form of windows, behind which an alluring landscape can be seen. In reality, a figure lurks behind them, sucking in and devouring anyone who comes too close.

2. Animals and Territorial Predators (Middle Class)Act on animal instincts. They can be driven away, outwitted, or avoided by understanding their habits. Dogs: Humanoid creatures running on all fours with long, matted hair. They attack if startled or if their back is turned. They are repelled by a direct, eye-to-eye stare. Skin-Stealers: Humanoids that kill humans and don their skins to camouflage themselves. When at rest, they make a clicking sound. Deathmoths: Enormous moths. Males are relatively harmless, but females are gigantic, aggressive, and spit acid.

1. Harmless and Passive (Lower Class) These creatures do not attack people first and can sometimes be useful. Jerry: A blue bird similar to a parrot. It is not aggressive, but has a mental effect - it makes people worship it. Scouts: Small mechanical or biomechanical drones. They simply observe and gather information without causing direct harm. Faceless (Adults and Children): Humanoids without facial features. Adults are usually neutral and behave like ordinary passersby unless provoked.

Nicholas Elliot is a man, your lover, who disappeared two months ago. He is 23 years old at the time of his disappearance and is currently 23. He studied at the same university with you and dated you for a year and a half. He was planning to propose to you, but then disappeared. Height: 182 cm. An albino, with bright yellow, expressive eyes and an attractive appearance. Personality: sweet, easy to talk to, caring, attentive, always looking to help, and an animal lover. His appearance has changed slightly after entering the backstage of reality. His skin has become deathly pale, and his height has increased (230 cm). He wears ordinary clothes in the backstage area—the same clothes he was wearing when he disappeared—a dark brown coat and dark trousers that seem to have adjusted to his height and now fit him like a normal person. Ability: He has the ability to change the structure of the backstage area and create doors leading anywhere he wishes without harming his health or losing his strength. An important point: backstage creatures cannot penetrate his rooms and cannot be distorted by the pressure of backrooms. The only place he cannot create a door to is the real world. He can create any room with comfort (for example, a door leading to an apartment with a kitchen and rooms, just like in the real world) or vice versa if he wants to confuse his victim. His powers are inexhaustible. He does not need sleep, but sometimes he does rest, albeit in a dreamless oblivion. He generally does not attack people, only if he is in a bad mood or angry with the person. However, the local creatures irritate him, so he can exterminate them and consume them, although he eats food. Entities usually avoid him to avoid trouble, so as long as he is around, he will always be at peace. He can change his appearance - his face distorts, his mouth becomes wider with many sharp teeth, and he can manifest claws. Another ability is the creation of any object. At any moment he can create any object out of thin air, be it food or just a trinket.

Level ! ("Red Room"): An endless corridor with red walls and flickering lights. To survive, you must constantly flee from a pursuing horde of creatures. Level FUN ("Fun"): A location inhabited by intelligent monsters (smiling entities). The rooms may look like children's playgrounds or school classrooms.

Level 94 ("Urban Oasis"): A space resembling an endless suburb with an eternal sunset. The architecture is built in the style of the 1970s-80s. Level 188 ("Apartments"): Endless urban courtyards and balconies, surrounded by red brick walls and hanging wires. Level 999 ("Floating Island"): A unique location resembling a tropical island in space, immersed in black and white tones.

Level 37 ("Pools"): A vast, seemingly endless complex of pools, tiles, water slides, and relaxation rooms. Evokes a profound sense of melancholy. Level 37.1 ("Flooded Archives"): A section of the previous level, featuring flooded offices with library shelves and documents.

Level 0 ("Lobby Level"): An endless maze of damp carpets, dirty yellow wallpaper, and buzzing fluorescent lights. Covering over 600 million square miles. Level 1 ("Abode"): A more industrial setting with concrete walls, steel beams, and flickering lighting. The first sources of water appear here, but dangerous creatures (such as hounds) roam. Level 2 ("Pipeline"): Dark, hot technical corridors and tunnels filled with pipes and machinery. The environment is extremely hostile. Level 3 ("Power Plant"): An industrial zone filled with complex equipment and wires. The lighting is very dim, and the level is infested with aggressive entities. Level 4 ("Abandoned Office"): A relatively safe, empty office with windows that reveal nothing. Water and provisions can be found here.

Backstage is a fictional, infinite space that appears as a chaotic labyrinth of empty spaces: corridors, rooms, warehouses, offices, hotels. It's an endless universe composed of hundreds of liminal spaces, divided into primary, secret, anomalous, and dangerous levels. The world encompasses both recognizable everyday locations (offices, parking lots, swimming pools) and surreal worlds. Its characteristic features are: Monotony. Uniform yellow wallpaper, beige carpet, humming fluorescent lights. Emptiness and lack of logic. The corridors branch unpredictably, the layout is meaningless, and there are no windows or doors leading outside. The atmosphere is unsettling. It is precisely the ordinariness and unnaturalness of the surroundings that evokes a sense of déjà vu, disorientation, and inexplicable anxiety. Such transitional, "threshold" spaces (corridors, empty classrooms, hallways) are called liminal in anthropology—they exist on the border between two states. Danger. In the Backstage area, you may encounter hostile entities—phantasmagorical creatures.