Level 48

Level 48 is the 49th level of the Backrooms.
==Description==
Level 48 has the appearance of a school, whose characteristics and effects change depending on which floor one is on. The school is made up of corridors and classrooms, all made of reinforced concrete, mainly yellow or white; this concrete is completely impossible to break or damage, for reasons currently unknown.
Unlike many other levels, the Level 48 school is not infinite, it consists of six floors, each with a different level of entity and danger. Each floor is approximately a hundred meters long and a hundred meters wide.
Floor 0, or ground floor, is the floor where the wanderer ends up when he gets to the level. It consists of the room that pupils enter when the bell rings, and then go to their classroom. This large room has corridors on the sides, these corridors are two, one to the right and one to the left. The one on the right leads to a small theater where the pupils perform their Christmas or end-of-year plays. The one on the left, on the other hand, is a long dimly lit corridor with a door at the end. This door leads to the principal's office; on the door is a sign that reads an inscription that reads "Office of the Director, enter only if necessary". This office is a messy little room, about five square meters wide; in the center there is a desk, on which there is an old computer from the 90s, some registers with the names of the pupils and an empty pen holder. At this desk sits an entity who calls himself "The Director".
The first floor of Level 48 is accessible via the staircase on the ground floor. This floor is a long corridor, many doors are present here, and on each door there is written "classroom" and a number from 1 to 18, and below another writing, which reads "Class 1" and a letter from A to R. Classroom 1 is 1A, 2 is 1B, etc. The first grade classes, apart from a slight smell, do not present particular anomalies or entities, apart from a few Smilers. Here is also possible to encounter passive Students.
The second floor of Level 48, unlike the previous one, is a room about 50m squared, empty. There are 4 doors on each side which, as on the previous floor, have signs with the numbers of the classrooms plus the classes written on them. On this floor are the second grades, which, like the first floor, range from sections A to R, and the classrooms are numbered from 19 to 36. These classrooms have the appearance of the classrooms used in the early 1900s, built with wooden materials, desks fixed to the floor, and the desk. These classrooms are full of dust, and therefore can cause harm to anyone who enters them. Furthermore, these classrooms possess the ability to make those who enter them feel strongly nostalgic. On this floor the wanderers can encounter Smilers, passive Students and Hounds.
The third floor is accessible with the elevators present in classes 2Q, 2J and 2H. This floor has the look of a futuristic corridor, with white walls and lights on the ceiling. The corridor is made in the shape of a dumbbell, with the classrooms placed at the top. There are the third grades, with classrooms ranging from 37 to 54, and from A to R. Inside each classroom there is at least one interactive whiteboard, screens on the desks, and pen holders with neon lights. On this floor it is possible to come across the "Students" and, this floor does not host any hostile entities.
In 3L there is a rusty stairway and with items such as pencils, erasers, and sharpeners scattered on the ground, this stairway leads to the fourth floor of Level 48. This floor is completely covered in dust, and there are items scattered throughout the corridors and classrooms, in which The pews are all messed up and scattered, some sideways, others completely overturned or with missing pieces. The presence of entities on this floor is the highest of the whole level, in fact it contains Smilers, Skin-Stealers, hostile Facelings, Windows, Hounds and "Students" aggressive towards anyone they meet.
The fifth floor of Level 48 is almost the same as the first, except for a couple differences: the first, and also the most evident, is that all the lights are off, and the only possible source of illumination is through a flashlight or cell phone flash. The second difference is that the grades go from 5A to 5R, instead of 1A to 1R. The presence of entities here is exorbitant, with Hounds everywhere, Windows, Smilers hiding in corners, and aggressive "Students" armed with bladed weapons. This plan was temporarily barricaded by the M.E.G. to prevent vagrants from risking their lives. Anyone caught wandering the fifth floor of Level 48 will be immediately picked up and "imprisoned".
In each floor of the level there are windows arranged in a regular way, which show out of them a sky where neither the sun nor the clouds are visible. From these windows sunlight enters, which is a major source of light (this does not occur within the fifth and fourth floors, as the windows there are entities). The day-night cycle in Level 48 is nine hours a day and seven hours a night, in which the classrooms and corridors become dark, while the pupils slowly begin to disappear ( where they go and how they go is still unknown ); during the night the amount of entities increases exponentially, making the place extremely dangerous and unsafe. However, this does not happen inside the third floor, which remains calm if all the entrances and exits to the fourth and second floors are barricaded.
==Entities==
===The Director===
The Director has the appearance of a Partial Faceling in his sixties, with almost no white hair, a bulbous nose, and protruding ears, and a bit overweight. The director is approximately 1.70m tall, although this is still not entirely certain, as he is always seated in his chair in his office, and has never been seen getting up, or going to any other room on the level. The Director is dressed in a light gray waistcoat over a brown and ocher checked shirt; along with jeans, and leather shoes. He is calm and sociable, he has never shown signs of aggression towards wanderers who enter and have entered his office. He loves to play chess and Shanghai, he also seems to be very good in the fields of astronomy and mathematics, he likes to tell things about space and mathematical laws; even if he has some slight signs of Alzheimer's. It has been observed that the director eats three meals a day, mainly meat and fish, but also rice and vegetables; while drinking plain water, although he has sometimes been seen drinking goblets of wine; the provenance of this food and drink is currently unknown, although the manager says he brings his own.
===The Students===
The students are Facelings scattered throughout Level 48. Their appearance varies widely, but they all have some things in common; they are all dressed in school dress, blue for boys and white for girls. They are all between the ages of 13 and 19, and between 1.50 m and 1.85 m tall. On their uniforms is attached a tag with written name, surname, and class of belonging. There are two types of Students in Level 48: passive ones; found on floors 1, 2, and 3, they are peaceful and love to have a chat with wanderers often. Then there are the aggressive and armed Students, who are found on floors 4 and 5. The students differ according to their "origin" floor: for example, if they are "original" from the first floor they are dressed and have their hair neatly. If they're from the second floor, they're all covered in dust, and their hair is slightly dirty. If they come from the third floor they are almost the same as those on the first, except for some futuristic watches that they wear on their left wrist. Those from the fourth floor have torn clothes and tousled hair, they are aggressive. Those on the fifth floor remain a mystery, as they have never been seen clearly, but only partially and from afar; they are armed with white weapons such as knives or machetes.
===Other Entities===
The other entities present in Level 48 are the Hounds, the Smilers, the Windows and the Skin-Stealers.
==Colonies and Outposts==
===M.E.G. L-48===
The outpost of the M.E.G. present in Level 48 is called L―48, which precisely takes its name from the number of the level. It is made up of 44 members, divided into 2 bands, each made up of 22 members: the first deals with floors 0, 1, and 2; while the second with floors 4 and 5. Their two bases are located in classes 3L and 3M.
===The Teachers===
The Teachers are a nomadic group made up of about 30 people, who are responsible for teaching students subjects such as mathematics, history, geography, and English. However, they only stay on floors 1 and 3. They are equipped with torches to chase away the Smilers and weapons such as knives and baseball bats to chase away the Skin-Stealers and the Hounds.
==Entrances and Exits==
===Entrances===
*What if I tell you that a hole in the wall in Level 47 may lead here?
*Entering a school-like building in Level 11 leads here.
===Exits===
*Entering a randomly found metal trap door leads into the sewer system.
*Exiting the large glass door on the ground floor leads to outside.
*Breaking and/or opening a window, and exiting it, leads to Level 38 or Level 38.1.
*Hiding in a locker in until one feels a sense of calm will lead on Level -353.
Category:Levels
Category:Cluster I
Category:School Like Levels
Category:Unconfirmed Levels
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