The Parallel

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The Parallel is a poorly understood anomalous level that near-perfectly replicates the Backrooms as a whole, but with some differences of varying magnitudes.
An image of the Parallel version ofLevel 59.
==Description==
Rather than being a proper individual level, the Parallel is a series of numerous other 'levels' — designated as sub-levels of the main level — that resemble those of the rest of the Backrooms at large. It is believed that every single level — including positives, negatives, and anomalous — in the rest of the Backrooms is replicated within the Parallel, though this cannot be confirmed. However, an extremely small portion of wanderers who have been to the Parallel and made it back out have reported that they witnessed certain replicated levels changing or being destroyed at the same time as these changes occurred at their original counterparts, indicating that the Parallel does, in fact, actively imitate the rest of the Backrooms' current state.
The materials that make up the Parallel are almost ghostly in appearance, swirling and shifting slowly and subtly; moreover, they are also notably slightly desaturated in color. However, they still retain most of their regular properties and are no more translucent or transparent than they would otherwise be. It is unknown whether the physical materials that make up the Parallel are different versions of the ones they supposedly imitate, are all one type of unidentified material capable of mimicking the properties of other types, or are simply the same as their out-of-level types and are surrounded by an unknown anomaly that causes them to possess their unique properties. Regardless, this strange property may easily cause disorientation among wanderers in the Parallel due to it applying to every solid and liquid surface within the level, except for wanderers.
After a wanderer has been in the Parallel for around 5-8 hours, their mental state will begin to anomalously deteriorate over time. The early symptoms of this phenomenon are trouble thinking clearly and a slight lack of coordination. Soon after, the victim's memory will start to become foggy and their emotions and senses will begin to dull. Eventually, it will have escalated to the point where the wanderer no longer displays any signs of intelligence or self-awareness. This entire process takes approximately 8 hours on average, ending when the phenomenon finally destroys the last of the victim's brain processes entirely, killing them. Unfortunately, Almond Water cannot slow nor prevent the phenomenon.
All reports of long-dead corpses discovered in the Parallel — of which there are very few due to the level's vastness — include said corpses being in various stages of being absorbed into the level. Witnesses stated that these corpses looked as if they were "melting" or "fusing" into whatever surface they were touching, with the ones in the apparently later stages of being absorbed allegedly appearing as relatively smaller and disfigured versions of what they were before and somewhat resembling the material(s) they were being absorbed into. It has been theorized that this grotesque phenomenon is the result of the Parallel itself 'feeding' on the corpses of wanderers, indicating that the level possesses its own sentience, although this is unlikely. Furthermore, it has also been posited that the cognitive deterioration that wanderers in the Parallel often experience is also consciously caused by the level.
An image of Level 20's Parallelversion.
Travel between the sub-levels of the Parallel is much easier than traveling between levels in the rest of the Backrooms, although it is often not a matter of choice on the traveler's part. Transitions between the sub-levels occur relatively frequently, meaning that any wanderer in the main level will likely be transported to a different sub-level in the Parallel after an extended period. Moreover, when one initially arrives in the Parallel, it is believed that one is no more likely to arrive at any of the level's sub-levels in particular over any other one. Despite this, it has been theorized that replicated anomalous levels are inherently much rarer to initially encounter.
As the Parallel is most likely still mostly unexplored, considering only a relatively small amount of its sub-levels have been officially discovered so far, there is likely much that is still not known about the level. Nonetheless, there is probably not a replica of the level itself within the Parallel, since this would be indicative of a paradox.
===The Whispering Void===
==Entities==
No entities have been officially reported to reside within the Parallel. Nonetheless, it remains unknown if the whispers in the Whispering Void are caused by a certain type of entity or if the Parallel itself is an entity.
==Colonies & Outposts==
Due to the unstable and long-term lethal nature of the Parallel, establishing any colonies or outposts in the level is infeasible.
==Entrances & Exits==
===Entrances===
So far, the only known entrance to the Parallel is by falling through The Void, though the chances of this occurring while one is in the Void are more or less the same as with every other level and are thus incredibly rare.
===Exits===
Random acts of no-clipping are the only known type of exit from the Parallel; these no-clips have a high chance of sending one through the Void and to a random level of the Backrooms. However, it is believed that no-clipping in the Parallel also has an extremely small chance of sending one to The Broken.
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