Pitfalls

Pitfalls is a mainline video created by Kane Pixels for the Backrooms - Found Footage series.

### Plot/Description

Pitfalls at the start reveals that the footage captured by the cameraman is Marvin E. Leigh. Marvin also appears to have a team, consisting of a man named George and Mark, and an unnamed person. At the start, Marvin appears to be walking into a room consisting of 2 doors and 1 entrance door, and 1 of the doors leading to KV-31. They proceed to put on their gear and performing mic tests, stating "This is [NAME], Mic Test, 1 2 3..". Upon Marvin walking into the room with KV-31, a man can be seen behind an observation window. This man is theorized to be Ivan Beck. Upon walking into the Threshold, the "Outpost" appears to be completed, except for some computers not being placed. The team then follows a yellow-black arrow-patterned tape, and starts setting up the red tether. The room they enter also appears to have a ceiling differently elevated than the one seen near the Outpost. The wall in this area is also diagonal. Upon walking, the team stumbles across a room filled with holes. The holes are in rows of 5, and columns of 7, amounting into 35 holes, or pitfalls, hence the video title. These many holes are carpeted, which fascinates the team. Oddly enough, there was a door at the end of the room. Mark is sent to investigate, and while Marvin is recording, Mark appears to almost trip and fall, however he balances out. Mark sees something so surprising, causing him to say "Oh my god" and trying to get someone with a camera to come over. Marvin then proceeds to walk on the thin ground, however falls down one of these holes. While Marvin is falling, you can see that another hole leads into the one Marvin fell into. Right before this happened there was a glitch . then backwards letters appeared .also it happened very fast it also happened in the missing persons video at the end

Marvin falls out of the wall, and the hole coming out of the wall is similar to the one found in Missing Persons. The wallpaper in this area is the iconic wallpaper from the original Backrooms photo. This area also appears to be falling apart, or bent, as on the wall below the hole, a tiny gap is formed and the carpet slowly slants. Also, in one of the hallways, a fluorescent light glows a tan-ish color. The area in front of the room with the hole appears to have many small pillars and a darker carpet(?). However, on the hall on the left, the wall appears to be folded, or bent, and the tiles and lights of the hall are distorted. The hall is slowly slanting to the right, with tiny walls protruding from the main walls. At the end of this wall, a large gap forms at the bottom of the wall. This area leads into a neighborhood. Marvin stumbles across this area as he hears "someone" in danger, or yelling. This then lures Marvin to go under the crawlspace.

Upon crawling, the hall appears to be horribly inserted into the wall of the road tunnel. This neighborhood's lighting is strangely blood-red, consisting of a straight road, with houses and fences, and streetlights. There are also sewer caps and trees. There are also stars in the sky. Upon walking to the end of the road, one house at the very end appears to have it's blinds moving, and the lights turned on.

Upon entrance to the house, there is a small brick-hallway transition to a blue room with white wall-trim and blue-painted walls. There are also "turn only" signs coming out of the carpetted floor, most facing the entryway. These signs vary in height, and are mirrored. Marvin describes this room as "odd". Marvin then walks into a hallway, consisting of tan hallways and carpet, slowly going down in steps. Upon reaching the end of the hall, Marvin's call with the team appears to be cut off by music. The end of this hall also consists of a yellow light-bulb and a step going upwards. Please note that the wall-trim on the left of the hall absurdly cuts into the step.

The area Marvin walks into appears to be an area similar to the yellow halls of the main part of The Complex. Marvin comments how the area appears to be "lived in", notably due to the scraped walls, flattened boxes, backpack, chairs, and resources on the floor. One chair is fallen over. Marvin then walks to the right, to reveal more of the yellow halls. At the end of this hall, the chanting becomes louder. Marvin sees that this was in fact, not a person, but instead The Bacteria. The creature appears to have been mimicing it's past victims. Marvin then runs as the creature starts letting out agonizing screams, and runs after Marvin. Marvin stays quiet, causing his team on the call to be confused. Marvin makes it to the hole, and the team has gotten a rope to let Marvin up. As Marvin waits to get up, he hears Bacteria trying to crawl. Luckily, Marvin climbs up into the hole and looks up. Everyone is quiet.

#### Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwlWXtpaCM

## Trivia

* Music track: Hazmat
* Marvin actually is the first documented person to escape the Bacteria alive
* The 2 blue chairs, with one being fallen over, could be a reference to Alan Resnik
* The music from the radio interference is actually from a 2005/2015 (Author forgot the dates) News Broadcast, this could mean that Marvin's radio picked up radiowaves from the future
* The section with the music had to be cut out due to copyright claims
* 2 People could have been in this area at the same time, due to the 2 chairs, the Bacteria saying "Can anybody hear **us**", and the 2 boxes
* Theres a community post which shows the pitfalls in the floor, but a door isn't seen there, but instead a hallway.
* The lost researcher in Informational Video can be heard briefly screaming out for Marvin and George.