Kane Pixels: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the backrooms Pixels: it's filmed entirely in the Hilton Stamford Hotel in Stamford Connecticut Pixels: if you know you know
Poe: we lost too many good people there King: i think mark danielewski is still lost in the lamp room
Pixels: so this story takes place in 1990 Grady Hendrix: radical, dude Pixels: because we want the gritty analog camcorder found footage aesthetic Hendrix: [flips skateboard] bitchin'!
Pixels: it's about a failing furniture store owner who discovers a secret dimension of free, self-replicating furniture Pixels: just the thing you would think he would need to revitalize his failing business Pixels: but it doesn't go there
Pixels: its called the backrooms and it's a labyrinth of random, procedurally generated backrooms King: Oh! is it reflective of the furniture store guy's mental state? Pixels: haha what no this isn't silent hill
Pixels: the backrooms is symbolic of our inability to break out of patterns of self-defeating behavior Pixels: or maybe it's indicative of our destructively sentimental attachment to place Pixels: there hasn't been such a melange of random thematically resonant imagery since A Cure for Wellness
Pixels: the furniture store owner decides to explore but there's danger in the backrooms Koontz: he should call on the backrooms red cross Pixels: the what Koontz: they have a partnership with the Backroom colonists at M.E.G. and the Republic of Aurielle Pixels: Pixels: what
Koontz: you know, the republic of Aurielle Koontz: they're only one of the biggest factions in the backrooms Koontz: a polity going back to the Korthie Casiagen War Pixels: Poe: oh yeah dean is really into the lore Poe: he's been reading the backrooms wiki Pixels: the backrooms what
Poe: yeah there's a whole wiki Poe: kids love lore so they made a enough to fill a wiki Pixels: oh cool Pixels: cool cool cool Pixels: cuz yeah cuz there's nothing that really improves liminal horror like overexplaining it
Koontz: anyway, you might encounter entity 76 (The Dribbler) on level 97 but you won't have to worry if you picked up the power up (fragmented doedecahedron) on level 45 Pixels: Koontz: but first you'll want to obtain the dreamstone (object 98) from the sayer of time (entity 12) Pixels:
Koontz: of course if you make it to level 186, you might encounter the katanga chancellor (POI 68) or the electric tastemaster (entity 9740) or skibiddi toilet (POI 53) or maybe even hazbin hotel (entity 96453) Pixels: Pixels: you shouldn't let dean go on the internet Barker: i've been saying that!