The Backrooms

Level 15 - Log #23

           " Log #23, I don't know how much I can take it anymore. I've been in here so long to the point I'm starting to go crazy, I've been here for days, weeks. I've made a base using an old facility run by a company called Async, if only I remembered what the company was about. I'm starving, I've lost so much weight, just from all the walking and from not eating right, my bones are starting to peek through my skin, I can mostly feel it in my ribs and spine. I just want to get out, I wanna go home, the yellow wallpaper feels like it's burning my eyes, the monochromatic yellow and all the levels are messing with my mind, I've lost complete sense of my time. My eyes have been turning a slight yellow, probably because of all the yellow I've been staring at, they are really strained and are bloodshot with a yellow tint around the white of the eye and a strange darker yellow forming around the pupil on the iris, I hope I don't have anything serious. From how long I've been here, my attitude has changed, I'm going insane, the lights are getting on my nerves, I'm not breathing proper clean air at this point, I don't even know how long I've been in here, I've lost count to the times I've been sleeping, I think... ten to I don't know fifteen times since I've been bunking here, I don't know how long I have left if I can't find food, the yellow is driving me mad and the stench is awful in this place, I've started writing down notes to hang up on the walls, giving tips on what to do if someone else ends up in this place, kind of like the note I found when I first showed up here, as for the creatures in this place, I call them entities and there's only one that truly scares me the most, the howlers, it's so disjointed, dehumanized, and so decrepit it terrifies me, and the noises it can make are awful, but howlers weren't the only thing I have found in this place, I've only had a couple interactions with smilers, big glowing smiley faces, I haven't been able to make out a body yet because they don't light getting into the light, and there was another entity I encountered a while ago while I was running down this six mile hall, it made a big metal clanking sound when it walked or ran, its face looked like it was bone and had a dark spider like posture, before I showed up, I was learning different terms in different languages in my english class, and I've come up with a name that could be well suited for this entity, Aranea Membri, it means spider legs, and I feel like it fits well with this creature. And for my bunker, I have gotten used to the lobby I am in, I found some sort of red strapping, I figured this is how they did not get lost in this place. There were a few bunches of them so I grabbed them and placed them in all three directions so if I needed to go somewhere I would drag the strap with me so I didn't get lost and pick them up on my way back so I don't waste them, I've noticed my cough is getting worse, it wasn't here for long after I drank some water, but finding a water source is hard in this place, I've drank all of my first water bottle and haven't been able to find much since. My hunger is making me go mad as well. I haven't been able to find some food ever since I got here, I've only been supplying myself with water and I'm even out of that so I have to find something soon. I just don't know how much I can actually take it anymore, I miss my home, I miss my friends, I miss my girlfriend, I miss my world, I even miss some of my teachers, I wanna go home, sweet home, I feel like I'm seeing stuff at this point, I've been in here so long I forgot what is was like in the real world in a minute, I know I'm going insane, I shake frequently, I'm overthinking almost all the time, I've started writing really cursed things on the notes, this place is messing with me, I just- I want it to end, I want to get out of this place, but it's starting to be really hard to believe I can, but I won't stop until I can in fact find a real exit, I should probably stop with this log, I've basically stated more than enough, and my throat is starting to hurt bad, I just hope I can get out soon," I recorded, I write down what I say in a notebook and record it so I journal my way through here. I get off the couch and walk towards the desk, I look outside the window and look around the room, seeing the red straps stretch out into the halls and rooms, I look around the base, seeing the many objects I have taken and have added into the room. I go back and sit down on the couch and think,

" I know I can't stay here forever, I'm going to have to leave this base behind, I'll have to stretch out the straps as far as I can so if anyone else ends up here they can find this base, I'll leave notes as well, but as soon as I leave that's it, I'm not going to be able to get back here, but I still have to find my way out, so I take the risk and leave the base and hopefully find an exit, or stay here and stay safe but also still suffer that I have not found food and could probably die at some point," I think to myself, I start getting sleepy.

" I'll leave when I wake up, then I'll go and try to find some food and hopefully an exit," I say, I rest my bag on the floor and lay down on the couch, staring at the ceiling, it takes me a second to fall asleep, cuz knowing when I wake up, I have to leave the base. I wake up and pack my things, I charged my laptop, camera, and phone and put my supplies in my bag, I look back at the room, the couch I dragged, the rug I found, and the recliner I found and the lights on a christmas tree and a lamp, I look back at the custom room I made for survivors and leave with the door unlocked, I start walking straight and follow my path down the halls and into the rooms and lobbies until I find the end of the strap. I cross the end of the strap and head my way back to blindness into the backrooms. I walked for a minute before losing my sense of direction and path back to the base, hoping I didn't leave or forget anything at the base, it was too late now to turn back to it. My stomach rumbles, and it hurts. I haven't eaten anything for so long, I drop to the floor and hold my stomach in agony, I breathe slowly for a minute and get back up. I walk down into a dimmer hallway and step inside a bigger room, I stop and look at what was in front of me,

" What the hell..." I say, I walk up to it and see a person decaying, sitting up and covered in some sort of black mold and the similar black stains I found in the tunnel. Three big rectangular tunnels near the ceiling, black and yellow striped caution tape covered a good portion of the space around the decaying body, a tripod was set up in three different angles with old cameras on them, all with the name and logo of Async, one facing the body and two facing diagonally around the room.

" What the hell... this is another person, how long have they been here? What happened to them?" I say, I notice something on the floor, I walk up and kneel down to a piece of paper, it was a missing person sign from 1991. I look up and notice the person was similar to the one on the missing person sign, even though it was so long ago, it was still visible to be able to tell, the bacteria that was probably taking over the body must be a really slow decay. I look at the missing person sign again.

" Nicholas Bolton..." I say, I look up at the body again, I stand up and walk away from the body. I walk into a lobby area and see something peak around a wall, I see a little stubby entity with an exit sign head,

" Hm, maybe it's a little helper who can help get me out of here," I think to myself, I walk up to it but keep a little distance and squat down,

" Hey little guy, do you mind helping me get out of here?" I say to it, I hear crunching noises from the small entity, it's head dislocates itself from the small body and rises, the exit sign head comes out more and I see it's a long neck that is formed from wires, metal, and thin flesh and skin, I see big long fingers grip the side of the wall and another big hand with long fingers lever itself down off the wall onto the carpet, I start stepping back, the entity extends its arm to get a better grip of the carpet,

" What.. the...fuck..." I say, I start running, the entity slowly gets of the wall, I hear the entity start roaring from the distance, I hear the thumping from it running towards me get louder, I look back and I see the entity start catching up, it crawls on the walls, this big skinny entity with its neck made out of metal and wires hold a small head that was the exit sign glowing crawling towards on the wall and floor, I run down an open dark hall and turn to see how close the entity is, I see the outline of the entity at the end of the hall with the exit sign only glowing and the sound of the distorted roar that it made. I look back and keep running down the dark hall into a sectioned hallway, I look back and see the entity run past for a second before it turns back around and follows me down the hallway. I make it to a lobby area and run down into a small narrow dark room, I see the entity stop in the lobby and look around, I hear the footsteps it makes while it crawls around the lobby, I look back to see and don't see the entity, I see a giant hand grip the wall of the narrow entrance and start to peek its head it, I hide behind a blind spot wall, the entity sticks its neck in the dark room, lighting it up with its small exit sign head, the entity growls and groans, it sticks its head out of the room and starts crawling away. After I feel safe I walk out of the room and hear a strange constant signal like noise echoing across the complex,

" Hm, I wonder what that is," I say.