Level -422

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Level -422 is the negative 422nd level of the backrooms.
==Description==
Level -422 is comprised of a long foggy road situated in what appears to be a flat, plain desert. 
===Another Nameless Deserted Road===
This highway has no name or road signs indicating where this route might lead. You will appear on this road oriented in either direction without a vehicle. You will see that there are no cars, debris, or vegetation that will stray onto this desolated road if you look down the highway. Looking straight down the highway, in either direction, reveals the silhouette of a ghost town that no one has ever reached. 
The highway you are walking on is said to be a 2-lane road with a dotted and cracked yellow divider line to allow cars (if they were presented here) to pass. The condition of this road seems to be in rough shape like this highway was used to transport war vehicles or a war was fought on this road. This road is littered with massive cracks, and the color of the pavement is a dull and wore grey. The sides of the highway are pristine except for a few dead bushes and rusted barbed wire fences. Once upon a time, these roads were used by wanderers and explorers to traverse The Backrooms with greater ease. Now... they lie barren, abandoned and forgotten! H*ll! Tumbleweeds do not even roll through here anymore! The only thing left here is the dense fog and whispers amongst the wind. What drove people away from this highway cannot be confirmed. Now... THIS ROAD SHALL SERVE AS A BEAUTIFUL MENTAL TASK!
The first 5.5 mi (or 8.85 km in either direction) of this road is devoid of any streetlights or pylons that typically align the roads in The Frontrooms. Explorers who have gone beyond this 5.5 mi (or 8.85 km) limit (in either direction) reported seeing a long trail of pylons positioned on the 'right' side of road. (A.k.a. Going in either direction will result in these pylons appearing on the right side of the road regardless of orientation.) Here fluorescent lights hang around ~19.7 ft (6 m) above your head. These lights are suspended by means unknown and sway and swing when touched, suggesting these lights are hanging from a ceiling structure that is hidden behind a dense layer of fog. These pylons are powered and produce a very faint, almost soundless, but low hissing and spraying noise that is comparable to brown noise. The pylons seem to be able to yield a sort of electronic interference that disrupts radios and drones causing them to malfunction or cease function. 
The further down the highway you go (~8.75mi or 14.08km in any direction), the denser this fog will get until you can only see faint silhouettes 2in (50.8mm) in front of your person. The brown noise emitted by the nearby pylons will also increase in volume and emit an electronic pulse that interfere with flashlights and phones, causing these devices (like radios and drones) to malfunction or cease function. Why radios and drones malfunction first cannot be confirmed. If you find yourself in this environment it is strongly recommended that you wear a mask as it is possible that the vapor amongst the fog harbors a stimulant that induces dread, anxiety, apprehension, and terror. 
===The Road's Shoulder and the 'Visible Wall'===
The deserted emergency lanes (a.k.a. the road's shoulder) fall into a ditch, suggesting that at some point, the level received rain. (More on this later.) 
There is a fence 100ft (~30.5m) away from the road's shoulder. The fence marks the perimeter of where you are allowed to go in the level (a.k.a. 'A Visible Wall'). If you pass this designated border, the level will begin disintegrating and creating fissures beneath your feet. If you are lucky, you will make it back to the road before the ground completely collapses and swallow you whole. (It is possible that the area surrounding the road is sentient, but that cannot be confirmed. It is best to not find out if it is.) Do you like cartoons? I am not referring to that one Youtuber... Kim flashes a malicious smirk. Being an adult does not mean I have to stop being a child! WORK WITH ME, BIG SHOT!! Kim cocks their head violently to the left causing the bones in their neck to emit an unforgiving snapping noise. Kim carries on. AH! What a wonderful trap... I mean... experiment... Yes!! I am doing this in the name of science!! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! You will not know what hit ya, until you are dead at the bottom of a F*CKING HOLE! Kim emits this psychotic laugh before declaring. WHAT FUN!
==Entities==
===Kill Streak Kim?===
Kill Streak Kim (a.k.a. entity 777.2) is the chaotic entity from Level -511. (See Kim's entity page, entity 777.2, and level page, Level -511, for more details.) Why are they here? Level -511 was under reconstruction resulting in Kim creating this 'reality' out of boredom. Level -511 was created by them to keep them occupied. Kim is the most dangerous when they are restless and bored. When they are not occupied, strange 'realities' appear from nowhere while other 'realities' disappear. Why are you people booing!? No one complained when Astrid made Level -115.2.
===Lurking ♀ Malveillants?===
The desert in this level supposedly goes on as far as the eye can see, but nobody knows how far out this forsaken wasteland goes. Attempts to measure these 'badlands' using drones have failed. The drone's feed always shows static, interference and unholy-looking shadows intercepting the drone before the visual is lost (if the interference created by the pylons, do not damage equipment first). It is believed that these shadowy beings occasionally interfere with these drones, but for the most part, these shadows will 'playfully' follow and chase after drones. Rumors suggest these shadowy beings are Kim's Malveillant, but this cannot be confirmed. The fog is too dense to make out what these creatures are. The presence of a Malveillant is usually indicated by colored tangerine font invading one's thoughts. There have been no reports of these shadows speaking, but feminine laughter has been heard suggesting if these shadow beings are Malveillant... they are female. Nevertheless, the desert is almost flat, with the occasional ditch or dead bush disrupting the perfect cracked smoothness.
===Headlights===
Occasionally, wanderers have reported seeing what appears to be headlights in the distance despite the absence of vehicles. These headlights are said to induce the feeling of being watched. When the headlights are increasing in luminosity, you should never continue forwards. Going back is the only way to survive. The headlights will multiply into many and converge on you, wiping you from existence due to the sheer luminosity. These 'headlights' are potentially a predatorial variant of lighter. 
The brighter, the better, the lighter, the less, ah, what a fun little saying. Very true... ya know. I was driving down this road a while back and I saw a person's outline! I thought it was strange, so I drove right through it. Never saw one again... (but I haven't been back since).
===Silhouettes===
Upon turning back, you will see the unsettling sight of black silhouettes lining the sides of the road. If you get close to one, it will dissipate and reappear when you walk away. Soon, they will start to appear in the middle of the road. When this happens, finding an exit is the only chance of survival. If you do not, the consequences will be worse than death.
==Environmental Hazard: The Rain==
You attempting to escape this level will trigger the rain. Getting you into the rain is the goal. Sometimes the rain will start earlier than expected. The safest place is near the starting location, the rain has a lessened chance of starting or passing through that area, and the only danger is the fog. The rain will fall in torrents soaking you within seconds. As the rain drench your person, one of four things will happen:
*You run off the road and out into the desert. You might attempt to run off the road due to intense fear and paranoia that this road will be flooded by water. (This road being flooded is a strong possibility.) The sensation of paranoia will intensify as the silhouettes on the road begin to surround you. (You have every reason to be afraid of these dark figures.) Most explorers embrace death by leaping into the desert to be swallowed by the fissures. 
*The area becomes flooded, and you will be washed away and sent to a dangerous aquatic level (20% possibility) or drowned (80% possibility). 
*You are surrounded and attacked by the silhouettes. 7 explorers have been killed by these figures. How cannot be confirmed, but the deaths were described as brutal by entity 777.2.
*You stay on the road. The rainwater will 'wash you out' if you somehow manage to avoid the silhouettes or not get swept away by a torrent of flood water. Staying on the road for more than 6 minutes will result in the rainwater 'dissolving' you. It is not known what happens to those who are dissolved in the rain, but most believe you become a silhouette. 
==Results==
Again... Kim created this space for whatever reason and documented their findings. They even mailed their report to M.E.G. Level Assessor and Appraiser, George R. Brown. Kim's report revealed that a good portion of wanderers who have managed to escape this nightmare claim to have escaped before they began seeing the shadow figures. It is not known what happens to explorers who were overtaken by these massive shadowy beings. Nevertheless, survivors state that they knew this place all too well. Explorers who have hitchhiked, walked along roads, were stranded alongside of a road or survived a vehicular accident claimed they have seen this reality in a dream. A culmination of these reports has led our researchers to believe that this road may induce nostalgic feelings on wanderers to lower their guards so that the level can trap them and kill them. All wanderers report that this 'spatial anomaly' is always cloaked in a dense fog. This highway is in the middle of a nameless desert. The time of day is fixed at around mid-morning, and the temperature is constantly around 68°F (20°C). The level refuses to allow wanderers to stick together, so it separates them and creates copies of itself to accommodate these extra wanderers.
==Entrances and Exits==
===Entrances===
*No-clipping an asphalt road in Level 11 has a 5% change of you ending up here. 
*Tripping and no-clipping into a stonewood tree while it is raining in Level -5 will take you here.
*Getting lost on this road in Level -69 might result in you ending up here. 
*If you are hitching a ride from the "Deranged Man" in Level -202, open the door while he is driving. You can roll out of the car, no-clip the road, and find yourself on the highway of Level -422 (50% possibility). 
===Exits===
*The area becoming flooded might result in you being washed away and sent to a dangerous aquatic level (20% possibility). 
*Finding a manhole before the headlights start appearing will take you to Level -40.
Category:Negative Levels
Category:Unconfirmed Levels
Category:The Behavioral Suite
Category:Levels
Category:Cluster -I
Category:Dangerous
Category:Environmental Hazards
Category:Desert