The Worst Fate

Everybody knows the Backrooms (or at least the surface of it). Everybody knows it is inescapable. Everybody knows the only way to escape it is death, and the most horrifying part of the Backrooms is that you can die everywhere, whether of starvation, or getting killed by an entity. But for those who do not know what the Backrooms is...
What is the Backrooms? You may ask.
The Backrooms is very hard to describe. You can arrive in the Backrooms by noclipping out of reality, which is very confusing. The Backrooms is a different reality, existing and lying inside the cosmos. Those who are transferred there shall be doomed for eternity, with the only way out being death. The Backrooms is an endless hellscape filled with liminal spaces, and monsters lurking nearby. Imagine you falling through the floor into the Backrooms, disappering from Earth. Yet, nobody notices you. Nobody notices your disappearance. You have been forgotten, and are now stuck wandering the Backrooms forever.
But, there is more to it than meets the eye...
Imagine you have accidentally noclipped, and is now trapped in the Backrooms, with no way out. You are greeted with the madness of mono-yellow, and the only way you can go is forward. You have to accept the situation you are in, no matter how strange, or dangerous. That is the typical first reaction, but typical doesn't mean always.
Throughout your journey, you may encounter lots of things. Whether it be others such as yourself, or something else completely unknown, possibly thirsty for blood. When you first enter the Backrooms, you are scared and paranoid, your eyes will instantaneously looking everywhere, as if something or someone was lurking nearby, hiding from you, or maybe planning an attack. You realize, when you first enter the Backrooms, you are not familiar with your surroundings. You are clueless of the things around you.
As you continue to explore the vast liminal spaces of the Backrooms, you start to get used of your new life. But yet, you are still paranoid. You are still afraid of the things that continue to lurk the Backrooms, possibly waiting for you to become vulnerable, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Even if you know all the ins and outs, know every nook and cranny of the Backrooms, that one fear still lies, hidden, in the deep, deep depths of your heart, your soul.
Now imagine one day, out of the blue, you are transferred to somewhere you have never been before. Scary, right? But what if it had supplies scattered across the floor? What if it had no entities? Less scary, right?
Now, what if, it had no floor. It had no supplies. No entities. No color. Nothing at all. You would burst into tears, scared for your life. However, this isn't possible right? This couldn't be true.
This couldn't be true.
But yet, it is, and you know it. You know it's true. Deep inside your heart, you know it's true, no matter how much you don't want it to be. Anything is possible.
"If you're not careful and noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."
This was the first piece of evidence about the Backrooms' existence. But the Backrooms isn't just The Lobby, there are much more levels lying beneath the depths of the Backrooms.
Waiting for somebody to enter.
Waiting for you to go mad.
Waiting for you to die a painful death.
Welcoming you with open arms.
I wonder. If your life in the Backrooms was a "Choose Your Adventure" novel, what would be considered the true, bad ending? What would be considered as the worst fate. There are lots, and lots of options that could fall under the "bad ending" category, but what would truly be thought of as "the worst fate"? People have many different answers.
Some say it could be death itself, whether a quick or slow one. You would feel immense pain for hours, maybe even days, but there is nothing you can do, as you are dead. When you are dead, you leave everything behind. Your family and friends, your hard-earned supplies, or just your overall experience. When you are dead, you are completely leaving your life behind, and entering a realm of what seems to be only darkness.
Some say it could be insanity. As you wander through the endless hallways of the Backrooms, you will encounter many deaths. You will become increasingly paranoid or afraid, and soon you will be driven to the brink of death, your sanity completely drained. Your face starts to deform and becomes wrinkled, you have lost all sense of yourself. You are no longer a human, but a horrifying monster. The people you knew will never recognize you anymore, and will not hesitate to point their gun or knife at you. How would you feel about that?
Some say it could be The Void, The Broken or something similar. You are doomed to fall in an infinite hellscape. Everything is empty, there is no floor, no ceiling, no air, not even death are in these levels. You are just doomed to fall, all alone, for all of eternity. Try to imagine that. Would that be the worst fate for you? Or something else?
Some say it could be Level -399, possibly one of the cruelest tricks played on man. Imagine freedom right in front of you, but instead you get transferred into a fake reality, completely mimicking the properties of what used to be your home. The level slowly tortures you, feeding you memories of your shameful past, causing abnormal things to happen within this fake reality. And soon, the level devours you in one whole.
These are all very close, very close indeed. But there is something worse, the actual worst fate, lies beneath a place no one thought they could reach...
The Worst Fate, also known as "The Bad Ending" or "The Inevitable Fate" is a theoretical level, it is treated as a mere myth by many but is considered a Boundary by people who are part of Project N.O.R.M.A.L.V.E.R.S.E. The Worst Fate is very hard to explain. Think of the worst thing that could ever happen to you, The Worst Fate is something much worse, something much more sinister and horrifying than mere death or loneliness. That is what The Worst Fate is.
The Worst Fate can only be accessed by those who have nothing to lose. Those who have lost all their belongings, memories, friends etc. Those who have somehow surpassed insanity. Those who have been driven to the ultimate limit, to the end of no return. Those who have been through countless suffering and torture. Those who have been at the brink of death. Only those people can enter the level, where they will have to undergo extreme physical, and mental injury.
But what does The Worst Fate look like exactly? Nobody has lived to tell the tale. People can only speculate what it is, but they all know they cannot guess with precision. It is The Worst Fate, after all.
The Worst Fate could be a completely empty space, nothingness, zilch. No life forms whatsoever. Sounds a lot like The Void, right? But what if you had to undergo endless stages of torture, without ever dying and with no escape. Or so you think.
You may think that you cannot escape what is widely considered as "fate", you may think fate is inevitable, but no. There is a way that you could escape. There is a way to evade your fate.
There is a way to escape, for glowing white gaps can appear in the sky, shining brightly towards you. Swim up a thousand miles, and you may grab a hold of that chance to escape. You might not make it out alive throughout the journey, but if you do, you will be sent to reality, or maybe you just might be tricked yet again.
If you were to be in this scenario, would you take your chances to escape fate? Or will you stay still, as your memories wither away, leaving only your soul intact, wandering blindly in eternal void?
That, is for you to decide.
You wake up and don't know where you are. You were falling down a deep chasm and you died. Well, certainly you didn't die, as your heart is beating and you can move without difficulty, but how? This question continues to remain in your mind until you encounter something strangely abnormal.
It was, yourself? It appeared to be a clone of you, and it was mimicking you every move. You try to trick it by doing a handstand, but it just laughs at you. You try to make it stop but it still continues to laugh at you. You start to reflect on your past, thinking about how you treated people back then that made you get to this point. You felt, sad. Depressed. Like something was missing.
Suddenly, holograms of people you have met in your life that died all surround you holding hands. They were transparent and full of glitches, yet visible to your human eyes. They chant the same sentence over and over, "It was your fault." You start to go crazy, and enter a stage of denial. You try to attack the holograms but alas, the attempt fails.
The holograms slowly morph into real entities, yet the chant continues over and over again. The entities each take turns to attack you one at a time, like they want you to suffer endlessly. You feel like you're dying, but every time an entity attacks you the wound instantly regenerates. You try everything you can to defend yourself but nothing works, and they continue to attack you until you finally break.
You are desperate to escape this reality. You swim in all direction looking for an exit or at least another person. No hope. The entities continue to chase you down until they suddenly vanish from your very eyes. You suddenly feel an immense pain in your back, as if someone had stabbed it. You feel gunshots being fired into your face, yet there is no wound. You feel sharp teeth biting into your neck, yet there is no sign of injury.
It stares back at you. Lights are flashing in front of your very eyes. The colors and patterns make you scared and gives you the urge to throw up. All the pain in your body is replaced with anxiety and panic attacks. You suddenly have a lack of oxygen, and are struggling to breath. You use your hands to grasp for air. You cry for help yet nobody answers. You feel your limbs being ripped apart. Gravity changes and all laws of physics are defied. You are being compressed, and stretched over and over. The cycle continues.
Your body all of a sudden is gone and smashed to bits. You see your scarlet blood flying all over the abyss. Your flesh and bones fly through what is left of you. You are now hopeless. There is no way of surviving. No way of escaping. No way of dying.
You have been transformed into a lost soul.
Doomed to wander the level for all of eternity.
You are being submerged into darkness once more.
There is no hope for you left.
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