Space 2

"The Backrooms"

Two PASG scientists in a quarantined section of Space 2

**Space 2**, also known internally as **the Backrooms**, is the third known space in the Alpha Cluster of the Other. Discovered in 1964 during revitalized scientific expeditions by the American government, Space 2 takes the form of a yellow, slightly-flooded backroom area of an assumedly commercial structure; however, the space displays a significant degree of spatial abnormalities in the form of non-Euclidean geometry.

Space 2 is currently designated a **Category II** space by the Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office as a result of the generally unfavorable living conditions. No cryptids have been directly reported inside of the Space; even so, it has been documented that exploration and research personnel alike report intense feelings of being stalked and seeing unexplainable movement in the corners of their vision.

## Description

Space 2 has been identified to roughly resemble the backroom areas of commercial or office venues. About six inches of dirty, cold water with a top layer of thin ice permanently flood the space in most explored sections, with the walls displaying significant signs of mold and water damage. The fluorescent lights present in the space cast a sicky yellow glow and are prone to dying outright before suddenly reactivating again.

The most important physical prospect of **Space 2** is its high degree of non-Euclidean geometry, which causes navigation within the space to become exponentially more difficult.

## History

Space 2 in its current iteration was discovered in 1964 by Col. Ronald Stout during the Stout Initiative, which was an expedition commenced by the Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office as a follow-up to the prior Kaufmann Initiative.

## Cryptids

**Space 2** has no confirmed presence of cryptids through physical evidence. However, a multitude of testimonies from research and exploration personnel alike insist that some sort of cryptid consistently stalks individuals from the corner of their vision, most often disappearing into forks and dark hallways. Actual descriptions of this figure do not exist beyond seemingly being like a "shadow".

## Metatopography

### Entrances

**Space 2** can only be currently accessed by traversing through what seem to be maintenance doors spread throughout Space 1.

### Exits

Space 3 can be accessed through an extensive period of navigation and "falling" through the flooded ground in what seems to be spatiotemporally compromised regions of **Space 2**.

## Forward Anomalous Observation Outpost II

The *Forward Anomalous Observation Outpost II* is one of the few known manned settlements in the Other, and one of the five temporary manned observation stations administrated by the Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office. Unlike the Forward Anomalous Research Outpost and in a similar vein to FAOO I, FAOO II serves as a rest stop and resupply center for research and exploration teams. It does not have a "permanent" residing population of staff, instead having five temporary scientists and soldiers maintaining the outpost as a source of direction for expedition parties before returning to the FARO in Space 0 for reassignment.