The Backrooms Decrypted: The Terror Hotel (Level 5)
Greetings, old chap. Those last few levels of The Backrooms have really been taking a toll on your health, happiness, and sanity, eh? You seem tired, perhaps ready to finally take the weight off your feet. Though really, what did you anticipate when you chose to travel to this multi-leveled hell near Earth? Of course, we are not here to pass judgment.
We are only here to assist you in your journey and to chronicle every step of it, so where is the fun in that? And because that's exactly what you'll find here, we sincerely hope you're prepared for some warm, traditional hospitality. Greetings from Level 5 of The Terror Hotel. As soon as you enter the main hall, your senses are caressed by a hazy scent of lavender-scented air freshener and the low, steady hum of smooth jazz.
The other Backrooms levels have been openly hostile, or at the very least unwelcoming, to human presence, but something about this place just seems to invite you in. How could something that is, in theory, so incredibly relaxing also be so oddly terrifying? It is designed to appear to be a posh hotel from the 1920s or 1930s, possibly from the early 20th century. The Stanley Hotel, a century-old hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which served as the inspiration for Stephen King's novel The Shining, and other half-formed memories of places you are unsure you ever visited as a child also come to mind.
