Forgotten Wanderer

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==Introduction==
Arthur is one of, if not the first person to ever noclip into The Backrooms. He has discovered most of the levels, entities and other things that live inside The Backrooms and, without him, we probably wouldn't even know what most things are! This is one of the longest pages I have ever written, with one entry alone taking up around 60 to 70 lines! Have fun reading his journals, enjoy! Credits to TheDadams for the click text source code and the idea!
Entry One - Strange Wallpaper
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Ok, you probably don't believe me if you're reading this, but I just sort of, clipped out of existence? So, I was playing rugby with my friends, and I was running towards a red brick wall. I was looking backwards, I don't even remember why at this point, and my friends were far away so I couldn't hear their warnings. As I turned around, I realised that I was about to hit the wall, but when I tried to stop, I just kept sliding. I closed my eyes as I was about to hit it and... I never felt the impact of the wall.
When I looked up, I realised that there wasn't a red wall in front of me, it was yellow, with this old, beige wallpaper pattern on it. There was an annoying buzzing sound coming from the lights, but I figured that was the least of my concerns. I turned around and realised that this wallpaper was everywhere, in fact I couldn't even see the end of this strange room. I walked around for a bit, noticing the soggy carpet that covered the entire floor, in fact the liquid didn't even look like water, I wasn't even sure what it was. I peeked around a corner and saw a strange, black figure.
I started to walk over to it, hoping that they would know where I am and why I am here, but when it noticed me, it started screaming and howling, chasing after me. Now I've watched a lot of movies, and this isn't a good sign, so I dashed away from that thing, but wherever I went, it followed me. Finally, after turning three corners in a row, I finally lost that thing. Note to self: do not go near the howling things. I felt something hit my foot, so I looked at what it was, Almond Water? I didn't even know that was a thing. I drank it anyway, even though I didn't like almonds, but somehow it actually tasted pretty good.
I started to walk, peeking around every corner to make sure I didn't run into that creature again, when I noticed a note. It had a drawing of that black figure and 'don't go near' next to it, that would've been nice to know earlier. I flipped it over and found another drawing, it was of a ladder leading to a small, square hole with 'exit' written next to it. I figured that hole would somehow lead me back to my friends, and I was all for it, now I just had to find it. I looked everywhere, in fact I must've gone a mile by the time I found that ladder and I had three close calls with that entity, but I managed to find it. But there was a problem. The ladder was missing some of its rungs.
I had to go back out there with that thing again? Worst of all, I had to find three! I was definitely going to encounter that howling thing again! I decided to take the risk, and so I walked out and started trying to find the rungs. I followed the right wall, so I would know where the exit was when I found them, I would just follow the left wall and it would take me back. Now I'm not too smart so I was quite proud of myself for thinking that up, but the thought quickly went away when I saw a black foot around the corner. I decided that I would follow the left wall instead
Not too far into my search, I found one of the three rungs. Yet again, there was a note on it. Why so many notes? It was just a drawing of the broken ladder, which I already knew about. Soon after, I found the second and third rungs and started to head back, following the right wall. I must've walked for an hour by the time I finally got back to the exit, and my legs were throbbing, so I decided to sit down for a bit and recover before I went back. I tried to figure out how long I had even been in this place but without a watch or the view of the sun I was clueless.
After I woke up, I realised that what just happened wasn't a dream. In fact, I could still feel the soggy carpet beneath me, hear the annoying buzzing of the lights and see the mysterious wallpaper covering every inch of the place. My legs were still hurting, but a lot less, so I managed to just put up with it. I felt like I was going to go insane, trapped in this endless place forever, but then I remembered that the exit was right next to me. That reminded me, I hadn't even placed the rungs on it yet. I got up and started to walk over to the ladder, but it felt a lot farther away. It felt like ages had passed by the time I reached it, but it was probably only a few seconds.
I started to place the rungs onto the ladder, when I realised that one of the rungs that was already there had disappeared. Did that mean that I had to go out there and find another one?! I swore that rung was there before I went out to collect the three I had, it was almost like someone had moved it. I figured it must've been that howler. Yeah, howler, that's a good name for that horrifying creature. Lets hope there's not more than one of those out there. I placed the other two rungs on and decided to see if I could jump up to the exit, but it was way too high up so I had to go and find the fourth one. Of course.
The howler seemed to have gone away by now, I was lucky it didn't get me whist I was sleeping. This time I decided to follow the right wall, like I wanted to do in the first place. I looked around every corner, making sure that howler wasn't there, when I came to a stop. I noticed two howlers around the corner. I couldn't believe it, there were two of them? Who knows how many more there could be? I raced across the junction, luckily, the howlers didn't see me. I looked down and saw the fourth rung. I picked it up and ran back across the hallway. The howlers didn't see me. I ran back to the ladder, hoping another one hadn't disappeared.
When I got back, I was relieved to see that the other five rungs were still there. I thought about what I would do when I got back. There was no way that my parents would believe me. My friends might, since they witnessed me phase right through the wall, but how was I going to describe this place to them? They certainly wouldn't believe the bit about that howler. I placed on the fourth rung and started to climb up the ladder. Before I went back, I made sure to take one more swig of the almond water, I was extremely thirsty. I reached the top of the ladder and crawled through the metal tunnel.
Entry Two - There's More?
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Ok, when I came out of the other end of that tunnel, I wasn't back home with my friends and family, I was in a different place. It was cold, concrete covering the floors and the walls. Puddles were everywhere and a thick mist was all over the place. On a table next to me was a flashlight, that was useful because it was very dark, and some almond water. I took a sip and I felt calmer, almost as if the liquid had somehow made me regain my sanity. I picked up the flashlight and turned it on. It was working alright so I turned it off and put it back into my pocket.
There was another note on the back of the other almond water bottles, I couldn't read what it said, all I could make out was 'explore = exit'. I figured that was enough information and I just had to wander around enough that I came across something that looked like an exit, simple. The lights were enough for me to see but I noticed that the further I looked the dimmer it got. I decided it would be worth it to take the flashlight with me. I drank some more of the almond water when I realised that I hadn't eaten anything, but somehow I wasn't hungry.
I shrugged off the thought and started to traverse the strange rooms. There was concrete on the walls, floors and ceilings and these wooden boxes that seemed to move when I wasn't looking at them. I decided to open one of them and found another bottle of almond water. I took a sip and carried on my way. There were these huge concrete structures in the middle with yellow numbers on them, going up by one each time. By the time I reached pillar number 34 it was extremely dark. I turned on my flashlight and carried on.
When I reached pillar number 50, I couldn't see anything that wasn't covered by the light of my flashlight. I carried on walking, and soon I reached some more lights. They were faulty though, and they kept flickering on and off. The pillars had disappeared too. It was better than the darkness I suppose. I looked around and found some more crates, each one either had almond water or hair in them. The mist had thinned a bit and there were less puddles covering the ground. My feet were throbbing as I wasn't wearing any shoes, only socks. Suddenly, I heard a growl behind me. 
I turned to look and I saw another horrifying creature. It wasn't a howler though, it was a dog? It had a humanoid shape, with black hair protruding out from it and a skull visible from the outside, but it was a dog's skull. The skull was mildly distorted though. It seemed scared when I stared at it and soon it ran off. But I saw those teeth on that thing and I don't want to be anywhere near them. It was drooling too, I knew it wanted to take a bite out of me then and there. But for some reason, me staring at it scared it away. Survival tactics are weird. 
I felt like I was going to go insane, so I drank some more almond water to see if my guesses were true, I felt calmer after drinking it, so I guess that it actually increases my sanity levels. I don't know what sort of magic is in this place but it sure is weird. I carried on and saw that those pillars were back, I was now at number 67. I looked around it, hoping there was an exit hidden inside of it, but no opening was found. I decided to sit down for a minute, and maybe take a little nap.
I was back! I had managed to escape! My mum and dad were hugging me tightly and I felt the warmth of my home. They said I had been missing for a whole day, and asked where I had been. I really didn't see the point of lying so I told them everything. With the ladder and the howler and the dog-creature and the darkness and the sanity-regaining almond water. They didn't believe a word I said, but I figured that would happen, besides, I was back home, no dangers to worry about anymore. 
As I woke up, my smile turned to a frown. It was just a dream. I cussed and kicked an unsuspecting rock across to a puddle. I went to pick it up so I could kick it again when I saw my reflection. I looked normal, but my hair was in a mess and my clothes were tattered. They certainly weren't that way when I looked at them back in that yellow madness. The lights started to flicker like crazy, so I decided that it was time to get up and keep on looking. I wanted an exit, back to my friends and family. I took another swig of almond water, and that calmed me down a little 
As I went deeper into the seemingly infinite concrete room, the yellow numbers on the pillars got blurrier and blurrier, by the time I reached number 112 i couldn't even make it out anymore. As I travelled further, my vision became more blurry, but that was easily fixed by drinking almond water. Thoughts filled my head about if there was going to be another place between this one and home, but I tried to be optimistic and told myself that soon I was going to feel the warmth of my own home. Soon. 
After travelling for what felt like miles I finally came to a gate at the end of one of the hallways. I went into it, the walls went from a stony grey to a brick red. Electrical boxes with warning signs on them covered the walls and the puddles on the floor vanished. I made sure that I was on high alert, in case any more of those dog things wanted another staring contest. Soon, I came across a black trapdoor. I thought that this could be the exit, back home to my friends and family, and so, I jumped in.
Entry Three - Will It Ever End?
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I shut my eyes, hoping that I would end up back at Earth. It felt like I had been falling for ages, after jumping into that trapdoor back in that concrete madness. I thought back to that first area that I was in, with the wallpaper, the soggy carpet, the ladder and the howler. I then thought about the second area that I just escaped, with the pillars, the puddles, the dog, I have a weird fear of hounds so I'm gonna call it that. Soon, I felt an impact on my legs, it didn't seem to hurt me, even though the fall felt so long. And so, I opened my eyes.
I wasn't home. Instead, I was in a hallway. The walls were lined with rusty pipes and it was incredibly hot. I wept, thinking about my family, my friends, my home, I drank some almond water, but even that didn't make the thoughts go away. I decided to just walk down it. Maybe I would find an exit back home, or just to another one of these infinite, insanity causing buildings. I hoped that it would be the former option. I started to walk down it, hoping that no more howlers or hounds would be encountered.
I kept walking, noticing the intense heat all around me. It was probably going to be the least of my concerns though, I hoped there would be no more monsters, but you never know. I noticed a door to the side of me, so I entered it, it was just a tiny room with nothing in it. As I turned to leave, I heard a growling outside it. It wasn't like the growling of a hound though, it was something different. It kept banging on the door, trying to get in, but I held the door with all my strength, and it didn't manage to open it. Eventually, it gave up and walked off.
I must've been hiding in that tiny room for half an hour by the time I was sure that it had gone away, not waiting to ambush me. Still, I ran down that corridor as fast as I could and didn't stop until I was out of breath. I noticed that there were now some electrical boxes on the walls with the pipes, and they looked exactly like the ones from the second area. I speed-walked past them, hoping that they wouldn't bring me back there, it sounds crazy, but with this place you could never be too sure.
I estimated that I had been in this place, including the past areas, for about a day. By now a whole police search would probably be happening, searching for me. Unless they can phase through walls, I don't think they're finding me. I wondered if this had happened to anyone else before, and if it had, why hadn't I heard about it? Maybe they never escaped, maybe they died in this place. That is certainly the possibility, I just hope I don't have the same fate. I kept walking down the hallway, praying for an exit.
After what felt like hours of walking, the pipes started to leak, emitting boiling gas that I had to duck underneath or jump over. Electrical boxes began to fill the walls, I was still staying as far away as I could from them. The steam looked like it was able to boil water into a vapor, and boil me into a ball of flesh. I drank more almond water and splashed a bit on the leaking pipes, just as I thought, the almond water immediately floated up into the air in its new gaseous form. It was hard, but I managed not to get hit by the extreme heat of the pipes.
I was thankful that I was wearing rugby gear now, because it was protecting me from the sharp corners of this place. After a while of walking, I found another door, I didn't hear any noises, so I decided to just carry on. By now, there was a gap in the pipes almost every two metres and it was getting a lot harder to avoid them. More electrical boxes appeared on the walls, but sparks were coming out of them, so then I had two reasons to stay away from them. I heard feet in the distance, and soon, I heard a loud, monstrous roar.
I dashed back to that door I had just seen, the thing seemed faster than me, but when I turned to look at it, it was another person! I stopped to talk to them and ask how we were here and why, when the person transformed into a gruesome monster. It had pale skin and a massive mouth, filled with many layers of sharp teeth. It was covered in blood too, not a good sign. I started to run again, hoping that it wouldn't be ale to open the door, just like that last thing. It was getting closer and closer and closer, and then I saw the door.
I opened it as fast as I could and slammed it, hoping that the creature wouldn't be able to break through. It was banging on it like crazy, at one point it managed to get a finger through, but it shot back as I pushed the door back in. After what felt like hours, but was probably only a few minutes, it finally gave up. I tried to lean back on the wall behind me, but there wasn't one, then I was very thankful I was wearing my rugby gear. I turned around and saw another hallway. This one wasn't filled with pipes though.
I started to walk down it, this hallway was a lot narrower, and I could barely fit through. After walking for a while, I came to a small room. There was nothing in it, just other hallways coming out from it. I decided to enter the left one. It was less narrow than before, but still pretty narrow. Electrical boxes began to appear on the walls again, this time filling up the whole thing! There were sparks too, lots of sparks. Eventually I came to another small room. This time there was a door labelled 'Fire Exit' on it. I looked inside, but didn't see anything. Could this be the exit? I decided to find out, and went in.
Entry Four - Cynophobia
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What did I expect? I'm wasn't home, in my cosy bed, I was at another one of these stupid areas! I felt like giving up, like there was no point anymore. Every time I think I find an exit it just takes me to another insanity-filled buildings! They're like levels in a video game, except there is no end, no finish line, no goal to reach. I wanted to just curl up into a ball and wait for my demise, but that would've felt a little painful. Besides, I want to see my family again, and I will do whatever it takes to complete that mission.
My surroundings were like an electrical station, there were brick walls with electrical boxes, wires and gates all around me. I started to think that the electrical boxes back in that last area were warning me about what was to come. I prayed that this place would be safer than the last three, with no creepy monsters out to get me. I noticed a warning sign next to where I stood, it read 'Warning: Danger of Death, Causation: Dogs'. Oh no, is that hound back for revenge? 
Pipes ran along the walls, similar to that of the third area I was just in. Except the hallways weren't completely straight, there were turns every now and then. After walking for a couple minutes, I came to a room. There was a large piece of machinery, but I didn't know what it was or what it did. What I knew it was doing was it was exerting smoke out of a small tube in the top. It didn't look like that extremely hot smoke of the last area, but I wasn't going to take any chances. 
Suddenly, I heard a growl, a dog's growl, no, two dogs' growls. They were hounds I was sure of it. I knew I got rid of them somehow but I couldn't remember what I did! Do I feed them almond water? Do I shout at them? They were getting closer and closer, and I was struggling top remember what I did to make them go away! Then, I remembered. I stared at them! I looked deeply into their eyes for what felt like hours, but of course was only a few seconds. Finally, they ran away. 
That was a near death situation, probably, so I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible. If it was anything like the other three exits, it would stand out pretty well. I figured that if I just kept walking, I would find the exit, that was the case for the past three areas, why wouldn't it work here? I snapped back to reality when I felt a shock. I accidentally touched an electrical box that was buzzing with electricity. Luckily, because of my rugby gear, I was ok. But I really need to focus more if I'm going to get out of this place, I mean, when I get out of this place. 
Soon, I came across a small stone. It had carvings of words on it, but it wasn't in English. It said 'Reperio Elevator', I didn't know what language that was, so I decided to just keep walking. I could make out the word 'elevator', maybe that was the exit? I didn't know what 'Reperio' meant, but probably nothing important, hopefully. After walking for a bit, the lights began to flicker on and off. It seemed faulty lights were very popular in the areas I have been to. Something then materialized in front of me. It was a bottle of almond water. I wasn't thirsty, so I put it in my pocket for later. 
I realised that I was starving, I haven't really thought about it much, but I haven't eaten in like, a whole day, not even a single crumb. I haven't seen any food in the places I have been to, so I had to be on the lookout. And unless I could eat the hounds, it wasn't going so good so far. I then started to think about time. Maybe time is slower down here, maybe it's faster, maybe time froze up there for me, so when I would escape, no-one would notice a thing. I might even take the hit of a solid, brick wall, not one that I can just, walk through. For all I knew, the sun could've exploded by then! 
Growl... I heard yet another growl from around the corner. I turned back but the hallway had disappeared, leaving a brick wall to block my path. I heard its footsteps get louder and louder. There was no escape, no, I had to fight. It lunged at me, drooling as it flew. It was goig so fast I couldn't look at it, so it kept on coming. I punched it and threw it around, but it prevailed. It almost took a big chunk out of me with its shap teeth, but I managed to roll out of the way. It pushed me over and there was a drop of blood. 
At first I thought it was coming from me, but no, it was coming from the hound. It must've hit itself when it lunged at me, and I only now noticed. I snapped back to reality when it jumped at me once again. This time, I wasn't ready. It scratched me with its sharp claws, and this time, the blood was from me. I shrugged it off and tried to jump onto it, which I succeeded in. It lay unconscious, and I wasn't going to stick around to see if it would wake up. I dashed out of there before I even tried to stop the bleeding. 
I didn't have any bandages or plasters, what I did have though, was a shirt. I ripped some fabric off it, which I was quite surprised that I could do that, and folded it into the shape of a bandage. I wrapped it around my leg tightly, and hoped that it would soon heal. Meanwhile, I had to get out of this place. this time, I listened very carefully for any footsteps or growling. Fortunately, there were none. After a bit of walking, well, limping, I came to a junction with three ways to go. 
One of these could have an exit in them for all I knew, one of them could kill me! I had to make a decision, that was one of the things that I was the worst at. I did the casual eenie-meenie-minee-mo until I ended up pointing at the first of the three. I walked in, hoping for the best. I came to a room with a door, labelled 'Office Sector'. I decided to enter, hoping that it might take me out of this deathly electrical station. After taking a short rest, to slightly heal my leg, I entered the door. 
Entry Five - Working Hours
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You probably guessed where I am, not home, that's for sure. At this point I just didn't expect to wake up at home. I wondered how much time had passed, after all, there was no sun, or at least, I couldn't see it. Time might've been different here, for all I knew, one second had passed, or maybe one billion years. I then wondered if people were looking for me. I assumed my parents missed me, but if my previous theory was correct, they could've thought I was just late from rugby. Oh yeah, I wondered. By then I had already forgotten about rugby, and my brain completely shut off all feelings of my rugby kit. Then I realised, my rugby kit! Where was it?
I started to panic, that rugby kit was my only source of protection, I had to get it back. I saw my helmet next to me, on the concrete. I put it on and propped myself up. Because I was sitting on concrete, I reckoned that I was still in that fourth area. I guessed these areas were like video games, like levels leading up to the boss, but hopefully, there isn't a boss. In fact, I decided that I would start calling them levels, so the first one with that black thing was Level 1, no, Level 0. Why? I don't know, I just decided that I would call it that. So the one with the numbered pillars was Level 1, the one with the seemingly never ending pipes was Level 2. The one with those four legged things was Level 3, and so I'm still in Level 3, right?
I couldn't be more wrong, as I looked around, I saw what looked like some sort of office building, except with no wallpaper, no carpet, well, there was, I just didn't notice it because it was the same colour as the concrete, and no furniture. There were marks in the carpet that indicated that there was furniture there previously, which I found strange, because it looked like a whole sofa was fit through a space even I barely could. Then again, this place seems to just ignore physics, so for all I knew, they teleported it out.
I started to walk, hoping to find another, if not all other parts of my rugby kit. Who knows, maybe I'd find an exit whilst looking for it. I walked into another room with a, window? A heavy thunderstorm was raging on outside. Wait a minute... outside? Maybe this was the exit! I didn't care if I didn't have my rugby kit, it's not like it would matter after I've been missing! I pulled the window open, locked. I tried to break the window with my fists and my helmet, but it was impenetrable. If this even was the exit, then i would need another way.
I walked into a new room, it was like one of those rooms business men did conference meetings at. Except this one had no projector. I sat on one of the chairs, it felt nice to sit, not lay down with my head on the wall. But I got up again, determined to find my rugby kit, or even better, an exit. I moved on into a long hallway, it felt like i had been walking for ages by the time I reached the end, but it was only a couple seconds. I felt like i was going insane again, so I picked up my final bottle of almond water and drank it. I felt calmer.
I was now out of almond water though, so I threw the empty bottle to the ground and kept going. After a few more rooms, I found a box, i opened it up and inside was a half-eaten bottle of almond water. No, you didn't read that wrong, eaten. the plastic had a humongous bite taken out of it. i did not want to stick around to find out who did it, so I speed-walked into the next room, or maybe, a dormitory? there was a long hallway with multiple rooms on each side. I walked into one of them and lay on the bed.
I woke up what felt like a couple of hours later. I guessed that my sanity didn't decrease when I was sleeping. I left the room and walked for some time. Every room had a number above it, starting with D-, probably meaning dormitory. The hallway went all the way to D-100, which kind of reminded me about the pillars in area, or level, 3. When I walked out of the corridor, i realised that there weren't any doors in this place. Just empty places where doors would go and no indicator that doors ever were there.
I looked behind me, remembering my thankfully undisturbed sleep, when I saw my shin pads and elbow pads! I swiftly put them on and continued walking. That was my whole rugby kit, I had forgotten my mouth guard and my ear protector thingies, yes, I didn't know the names of those, on the day I appeared in Level 0, if that was what I was calling it now. Now all I had to do was find an exit. i wandered for a few more minutes, before having a thought. How come no things, or entities, had appeared here? It would make sense, but I wasn't complaining.
I came across another small box an inside was another, thankfully not half-eaten, bottle of almond water. I wasn't feeling to insane yet, so I figured that I would save it for later and put it in my pocket. I found another note on the wall, but it was just scribbled on, so no useful information. I kept going until I came across a two-way junction. I decided to go right, and if I didn't find anything, I would just follow the left wall, and then take the left path, makes perfect sense. But then I saw footprints leading that way, so I decided otherwise.
I came across many randomly placed furniture, I even saw a chair hanging from the ceiling! Then, I came across a very large, square room. It had multiple L-shaped desks with walls surrounding them, apart from one side. also encased in the walls were chairs and very old, bulky computers. There must've been hundreds of these working stations, but I left the room, not wanting to find out who used them. When I left the room, I found myself at my first door, it looked old and the paint was coming off of it, but i heard something behind it.
It was like old, classical music, probably by one of those old music player things, in the room. I opened the door, and I was right. Except, that was the only thing in the room. The carpet was a lot more blue than the carpet on the outside of the room. As I thought this, I started to get really dizzy, and the walls seemed to go red. I lay down and rested my head on the wall, and the dizzyness went away. I wondered why, but I didn't wander for long, because then, everything went black.
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