Level 179 - "Unfamiliar familiarity"

SURVIVAL DIFFICULTY:

Class Psi

• Unsafe
• Unsecure
• Mental Hazard

The entrance point of level 179.

Level 179 is the 180^th Level of the Backrooms.

Description

Level 179 is an outdoor space ressembling the frontrooms in weirdly inverted colors. The vision of a wanderer will become very bad, ressembling old photos, as soon as he enters the level. It doesn't go away when the level is exited, and if not treated quickly enough, it will stay like this forever. It can be cured only by a mix of almond water and lestron from megaflora. It's apperance varies on what did the wanderer experienced in life, but the entrance point is allways the same. It's a path, leading to a forest. However, the forest is experienced differently, or even it does not exist in some people's experience of level 179. There is however a thing every wanderer that was in level 179 felt: the liminal space feeling. For example, if a wanderer has a memory of being in a luxurious tropical holiday resort, he will experience it in level 179, but it will look slightly different, and the wanderer will feel like he has been there, but he doesn't recognize it at all. However, he will still feel nostalgia. Wanderers often refer to it as "a nostalgic travel trough your childhood and other memories without people and remembering these things". After exiting, a wanderer needs a few weeks to recover from depression caused by the liminality, from seing different colors and other effects. Some wanderers never fully recover from this state, and after years, they eventualy go insane. Often the sounds heard at level 179 are terrifingly distorted, leaving a permanent mark on wanderers mental health. The nighttime is more common than the daytime while expriencing level 179, however there's no actual day-night cycle, and it seems to be random. The memories sometimes are made up by wanderers mind, and don't go away after exiting.

Show experiences of level 179

Experiencer's name: Bill Roseland
Age: 48
Birthyear: 1974
After walking down the path, Bill found himself in a camping, with a camping van. The campfire was burning, but it felt cold. After walking around for a while, he decided to go inside the camping van. The van started to ride, and after some time, it disappeared, leaving Bill on the streets. There were glowing sings saying things like "The modern hotel", or "Bar". It seemed to be the nighttime. After wandering for half a hour, he entered a cafe, but it was empty. He tried to order something, but the surroundings changed into a hospital. It was very depressing, and seemingly looping. After finding an exit, he suddenly entered an office building. After a few minutes, he entered level 2, wich was the level he found himself in upon entering the backrooms.

Experiencer's name: Julia Strent
Age: 29
Birthyear: 1993
After walking down the path, Julia found her forest cottage, with blacked out windows. When she entered it, she saw it in ruins, and heard a distorted cry. She fell trough the window to find myself in a luxurious apartament. She walked out of it, and found herself in a park. It was however devoid of trees or other flora. After sitting on a bench to relax, Julia suddenly got transported to a cottage. There were swings, and a trampoline outside, but when she tried to sit on it, she got transported again, this time to an airplane. There were seats missing, and a voice signal saying something Julia couldn't remember after exiting. The destination looked like a tropical island, but the air felt cold. She walked into a beach house, and when she tried to sleep, she no-clipped into level 0.

Experiences's name: Emma Hurric
Age: 19
Birthyear: 2003
After walking down the path, Emma saw a mansion, and she went in. She got lost, and found herself walking outside, entering a Porshe, and riding to a mall. When she entered it, there were early 2000's songs playing. However, the stores were empty. There were a door, and she entered them curiously. when she did it, Emma suddenly found herself in a classroom. The bell rang, and she walked into a corridoor. It looked very rich. She exited the school, entered the same Porshe, and after a ride, she got home, but it said "sold" on the fence. The ride continued, and she got into a shelter for poor people. After a hour, a car took her, and she got to a factory. After falling into a mashine, she found herself in level 1.

Mental and physical state of these three wanderers comprassion

Bill Roseland

Mental state: good
Sight state: good
Physical state: very good

Julia Strent

Mental state: insane
Sight state: uncured
Physical state: unknown

Emma Hurric

Mental state: decent
Sight state: slightly daltonistic
Physical state: bad

Bases, Outposts and Communities

IMPOSSIBLE

Entrances And Exits

Entrances

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The only way to enter level 179 is to randomly no-clip while thinking about the frontrooms too much in the monochrome labirynth in the huge rooms. Sometimes, instead of no-cliping, it one will be dragged into the balcony, and will pass out. It was observed that the wanderer is taken away by a thing, that disappears very fast with the wanderer, and hasn't been observed to come any other time.

Exits

The only way to exit is to just walk until the surroundings will change into the level the wanderer first saw when he entered the backrooms.

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Author(s)

[user=Kingaplotagon]
Forest path photo is AI generated.