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Level 0 The Lobby
THE LOBBY
The Lobby includes the Yellow Rooms, Red Rooms, and Reshaping Chaos. Rooms and corridors look alike in the Yellow Rooms; in Reshaping Chaos, their connections change after the lights go out.
Yellow Rooms
Yellow RoomsFor many wanderers, the Yellow Rooms are their first memory of the Backrooms. Faded wallpaper encloses repeating rooms and corners; damp carpet carries a stale, musty smell beneath low fluorescent ceilings. Everything resembles an office, yet there are no streets outside its windows, no arriving workers, and nothing to explain what the building was for. Each empty room ahead could be the one just left behind.
Open area file →Red Rooms
Red RoomsThe Red Rooms feel like another layer exposed beneath the familiar shell of the Yellow Rooms. Crimson walls and dim lighting replace the yellow monotony. Narrow passages turn between dark carpets, while stains along the skirting could be mold or old fluid soaked into the surface. Recognizable doorways and partitions remain, but they no longer suggest an orderly building; distant red light often reveals only another wall blocking the view.
Open area file →Reshaped Chaos
Reshaped ChaosReshaped Chaos preserves the tidy illusion of a renovation. Drier carpets, repainted walls, and neatly arranged furniture suggest an office restored to use. Yet rooms fit together awkwardly, as though openings, partitions, and furnishings were assembled from incompatible plans. Records concerning the Backrooms Remodeling Company link the area to an attempt to renovate the Lobby, without establishing whether the work was ever completed.
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