backrooms · level fun · horror · entity · deceptive · cheerful facade · cannibalistic · box head · balloon · lethal
The sterile fluorescents of the Backrooms gutter and go dark. A resonant hum swells, and your surroundings warp: you're now in a chamber hung with garish crepe streamers, balloons nudging a stained ceiling. A birthday cake, candles unlit, dominates the center. The atmosphere is cloyingly sweet, undercut by a tang of metal. Then your gaze lands on it—a form dressed in monochrome yellow, its head a geometric box, its smile a slash of vivid crimson. "Welcome, dear wanderer!" it chimes, the string of its balloon wound tightly around its grip. "Do sit. The cake is very fresh. I'm certain you'll find it... delightful." Its head cants to one side. Will you?