Level -661

Reviewer's advisory: Read this in dark mode for the full experience.
~ Level -661: "Equilibrium" ~
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Level -661 is the 661st negative level of the Backrooms.
==Description ==
Level -661 is a 'levitating' 20ft x 20ft (~6.1m x 6.1m) dull pebble-colored square platform of an unknown yet durable material. The depth of this square is paper thin despite its durability. This 'sheet' is surrounded in a wispy fog and suspended over a midnight black 'spatial' anomaly of potentially infinite size and depth called 'The Shroud'. 
The Shroud is the infinite ink of 'space' that surrounds this platform. This ebony expanse is believed to be fathomless because no one has safely stepped or fallen off this platform. The Shroud is believed to be connected to The Void as the Physics in The Void is described as more 'liberal' and 'buoyant'. What is suspending this platform cannot be confirmed, but it is sensitive to changes and shifts to a 'designated mass'. (More on this later.) The temperature in this environment cannot be confirmed, but survivors reported that they could see their breath when respirating or speaking.
==Environmental Hazards ==
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|-|Hazard 1 =
===The Illuminator===
The 'Illuminator' is this hyper-concentrated beam of light fixated on this platform and nowhere else. Survivors who have stood on this platform and under this 'lamp' recalled this constant sensation of being examined and observed like specimens on a petri dish, or microbes on a glass frosted slide. Survivors were confident that this light was generated artificially suggesting the following:
*This 'space' does not have a light/dark cycle.
*The surrounding space is constantly in the state of 'night', and this light is fixed on this platform for reasons unknown.
In any case, this light reportedly disrupts normal circadian rhythm contributing to the following:
*Short-term: Fatigue, reduced alertness, reduced concentration and judgment, stress, and increased accident proneness.
*Long-term: Sleep deprivation, impaired cognition and memory retention, and irritability.
*Chronic: Insomnia, paranoia, hallucinations, memory loss, aggression, and hostility.
Time in this environment has either been lost or is unknown.
|-|Hazard 2 =
===The Balancing Act ===
This platform can only support 6 people but can precariously hold 1. Survivors warn that you and your partners must stand, sit, and move forward and back across this platform in perfect unison. One misstep can shift 'center of gravity' of this platform, causing it to tilt or flip. You and your partners risk of sliding off or being thrown into the 'unknown' increases as the platform loses balance. Everyone will fall off the platform into the 'abyss' if equilibrium is not quickly and carefully restored. One person can restore balance of this platform alone, but it will be nearly impossible. If one person successfully regains equilibrium of this platform for an untold amount of time, they will be 'recycled' or perish from thirst or starvation. (More on this later.) There is a 92% likelihood that the sole explorer will die from thirst, or hunger. It is not known how this platform restores its own equilibrium if anyone falls off. It cannot be confirmed what happens to the body of the last man standing if they perish here alone.
Nevertheless, the choices made by you, , and the other five explorers will determine the maintained stability of this platform. 6 explorers will initially appear in the center of this platform perfectly spaced out and balanced in the 'six petal rosette' formation. All explorers will be seated in the lotus position. The first challenge will be standing and moving away from the center together, especially when mysterious resources appear hovering at the points of this platform. The resources needed for your group will appear at two diagonally adjacent points of this platform at random intervals. Everyone will need to work together and tread lightly to gain access to these supplies. It is not known why everyone in the group has to go but most believe it helps stabilize the platform. The items provided are not a lot so you and your companions will have to share and ration. Survivors reported receiving two bottles of almond water, four tabbed cans of curious meat, two ½ loaves of stale bread, and 12 slices of cheese. It is not known why these items are specifically made available.
Rule of Thumb: The more people you have on this platform, the easier it is to balance, but the more you must share and ration the limited supplies provided. However, if one person is left on the platform, the environment will stop providing resources for retrieval for reasons unknown. 
Nevertheless, the equilibrium of this platform is not influenced by anyone's actual height or weight but by the angle of a circle (which is 360°) divided by the number of explorers present. The number of individuals present will also determine what regular polygon, line or point formation explorers must maintain while present on this level. Below is a table discussing what formation and exterior and interior angles explorers must have while at or moving away from the platform's center. This table will also include the 'designated weights' of explorers. 
How explorers' weights are measured in Level -661?
# of Explorers	Formation 	Interior angle (from partner)	Exterior angle (from partner)	Designated Weight (of each explorer, units unknown)
Six 	Hexagon 	120° 	60° 	60
Five 	Pentagon 	108° 	72° 	72
Four 	Square 	90° 	90° 	90
Three 	Triangle 	60° 	120° 	120
Two 	Straight Line	0° 	180° 	180
One 	Point 	N/A 	N/A 	360
Example for clarification: 
6 explorers (initially) must keep a 'perfect' hexagon formation moving away and back towards the center. Explorers must maintain a relative 120° interior angle and a 60° exterior angle away from their partners as they move away from or back toward the center of the platform to ensure that it does lose balance and tip over. The exterior angle is also the 'arbitrary' mass (in unknown units) of each explorer. In a formation of 6, each explorer's mass is '60' for a collective 'mass' of '360'. You or your group can regain balance by meeting the parameters for the other regular polygons, the straight line, or point if explorers are lost for any reason. The formation that explorers must preserve, and explorers' arbitrary mass adjusts based on the number of individuals on the platform.
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===Working Together ===
The Backrooms is a liminal or surreal hell that most explorers must traverse alone. Most wanderers express discomfort and unease... not relief when running into other 'people'. The reasons why most explorers are not thrilled to have company is discussed below:
*They will end up dead or forsaken anyway. Most survivors insist that there is no point in getting attached to other people out there as you are going to lose them anyway. Mourning the loss of other people also takes an emotional toll. Rumors suggest that you can overcome isolation and survivor's guilt by visiting Level -115, but most will never see that 'reality', and most insist that space does not exist.
*They are mentally instable. Prolonged isolation contributes to mental deterioration. Most explorers will attempt self-termination because the loneliness got to them. Several explorers will lose their minds and become Wretches. Some explorers will purposely seek out dangerous levels so the environment or some ominous entity will end their suffering. Few explorers do not realize that they have been here so long that The Backrooms began preserving them as 'wandering relics' of a Frontrooms reality that is long gone.
*They are not human. Humans are not necessarily reliable in a crisis but, you are almost always guaranteed to get manipulated by, injured, tortured, or killed by the majority of 'human' entities you might run into. Facelings are temperamental, especially the children. Hounds are mindless beasts. Kill Streak Kim (a.k.a. Entity 777.2) is like a disturbed child with a magnifying glass and everyone around them is just ants for their burn. When Kim is not outside burning ants, they are playing house and dress up with their 'children'. As much as the M.E.G. sees Kim as a threat, they also are aware that Kim is a victim.
*They are self-serving at the expense of others. As mentioned in the bullet above, humans are not reliable in a crisis. Humans like to think of themselves as these altruistic beings when in reality, they are only helping someone in hope to boost their ego and increase their favorability in the public eye. Humans are only concerned for themselves. Humans tend to be selfish when their lives are in jeopardy and will sacrifice others of their kind to ensure they survive. The survival of the group only becomes important for humans when faced with extinction.
With that said, the main hazard is how effectively you and the other people confined to this platform can work together. You do not know who you will be struck with if you find yourself on this platform. It is not known how long you will be struck on this platform. Nevertheless, the survival of you and the other 5 individuals trapped on this platform is dependent on the following characteristics all explorers need to possess:
*Establishing mutual respect with others.
*Building and maintaining trust and rapport.
*Transparency.
*Effective communication.
*Being cooperative, supportive and considerate.
*High levels of patience, empathy and compassion.
*Effective conflict resolution skills.
*Effective general problem-solving skills.
*High self-awareness.
*High active listening skills.
*Maintain healthy boundaries.
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==Journal Logs==
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|-|Journal 1 =
===William's Ordeal===
What New Hell is This?
「Written by: William █. █████████, Survivalist」
「Received and filed by: M.E.G. Level Assessor and Appraiser, George R. Brown」
「Date: 06/15/20██」
「Time: Unknown」
「Requester: Classified」
Heather, Yuri, and I watched helplessly as this 15-year kid slid off this sheet. His screams of shock, confusion, and terror were swallowed by the abyss below us. I gave him one of my walkies. His side is filled with nothing but static now. I cling to the d*mn thing hoping to hear something... anything... to let me know he is okay... but I know he is gone. 
His asked us to call him Rickie. He was a good kid. Shy but vocal when he needed to be. Smart. He reminded me of my son... I will never see my boy or that kid ever again. Rickie did not deserve to die, but that bastard Salvador did. He was trouble from the start. When Salvador got the rations, he refused to divide them equally amongst everyone else. He would try and bully Heather and Rickie out their rations. He would fight with Brian and me. Brian is also gone because of him. They got into it one 'day' because Brian called Salvador out on his selfishness. They began shoving and wrestling with the other, which disrupted the stability of this platform. While they fought like dogs, Heather, Rickie and I danced back and forward around this platform to keep it from tipping over. Yuri somehow stayed in the center and watched on in terror. The platform flung forward suddenly and threatened to flip completely but Brian did eventually slide off. Salvador almost went with him, and I wish he did. He started harassing Rickie and Heather more for their rations. Rickie told him off, but Salvador would not back down. Salvador got into a physical altercation with Rickie, but the kid held his own pretty well.
We should have intervened sooner. 
Their fight shifted the balance of this platform, and after Salvador got punched firmly in his gut, he vomited, doubled over, and rolled off the platform. The stability of this platform was f*cked at this point, and Rickie was dangerously too close to this one edge. The platform violently lurched downward, and Rickie tumbled to his demise. 
Commentary:
This recount was found by wanderer K.Y. in Level 4 on a discarded piece of aged paper. This sheet of page is the first piece of evidence suggesting the existence of a new undesignated level. This written document does tell us a few things about this 'reality'. Survivors must keep a platform in this reality stable or risk falling off. This documents also indicates that after the loss of the teen named Rickie, a potentially older man named Brian and the nuisance Salvador fell to their death, the platform regained stability. It cannot be confirmed whether or not Willian, Heather, and Yuri survived their ordeal. If they did survive, how did they escape this reality. No other pieces of writing concerning this situation was found.
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|-|Journal 2 =
===Tana Minx's Ordeal===
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==Colonies and Outposts==
Due to the natural of this level, colonies and outpost cannot be established here.
==Entrances and Exits==
===Entrances===
The entrance of this place is unknown. Most survivors recall going to sleep in a level with the survival classification 0 or 1 and waking up here seated in the lotus position with 5 other random people.
===Exits===
It cannot be confirmed how long survivors must be out on this platform before they are sent 'elsewhere'. Where survivors end up is dependent on the number of people left on this platform at the end of the 'trial'. How long explorers can be trapped in this reality can vary. Investigators reported that survivors have been confined in this space for a minimum of 8 months to a maximum 3.75 years.
*You and your group work great together and everyone survives. Survivors will be sent to a random level with the survival classification of 0 or 1.
*You and your group work good together resulting in the loss of one person. Survivors will be sent to a random level with the survival classification of 2.
*You and your group work okay together resulting in the loss of two people. Survivors will be sent to a random level with the survival classification of 3.
*You and your group have a fair interaction resulting in the loss of three people. Survivors will be sent to a random level with the survival classification of 4.
*You and your group have a bad interaction resulting in the loss of four people. Survivors will be sent to a random level with the survival classification of 5.
*You and your group have a terrible interaction resulting in the loss of five people. The survivor will be recycled and join another group or is left on this platform to perish from thirst or starvation.
*You and your group have a deplorable interaction, and everyone falls into the abyss. It is worth noting here that falling off the platform, in general, results in a poor outcome. Where do explorers end up is anyone's guess. Most assume they ended up in The Void. Several insist that they end up in The Full. Some argue that they ended up in Level -899. A few insist that they end up in Level -991. It is possible that there is a bottom to this reality, and you fall with enough speed to splash you on impact.
Category:Negative Levels
Category:Levels
Category:Unconfirmed Levels
Category:Cluster -I
Category:The Behavioral Suite
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