Forty-Four – It’s Raining Relics
Deciding to make a quick-ish pitstop before continuing on to the radio station, we left the stairwell behind and returned to the glorious splendor of the store with its perpetually stocke...
2024-12-10 14:47:26 +0000 UTC View PostForty-Three – Heart to Heart
For a long tense moment, Ed just stood there, frozen, with his hand pressed against the door. Then he gave it a little shove and it swung outward—even though the door had swung inwards only m...
2024-12-08 18:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostForty-Two – Mr. Wiggles Cometh
While Croc finished its grisly meal, Ed pulled out a small notebook and consulted with a small hastily scrawled map and some chicken-scratch notes, before ushering us down a long hallway fill...
2024-11-27 00:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostForty-One – Wholesale Slaughter
I activated Spike Fault as the front wave of swarmlings scrambled toward us in a wall of giggling legs and smiling, cherubic faces. Spears of earth erupted upward through the oddly spongey s...
2024-11-26 20:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostForty – Tiny Tots
As high as kites and with our gas masks firmly in place, we kicked open the front doors of the preschool and went in hot with Temp and Jakob taking point. I gripped my hammer in one hand, ready to obliter...
2024-11-26 20:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Nine – Vampires
Even though we were working against a shot clock, Ed had a few extra preparations to make before we could depart, which was good because we needed to catch a few hours of shuteye. I was more than rea...
2024-10-20 16:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, thought I'd share this super rad art for Discount Dan 3. Croc is finally gonna get to visit a water park, although it might not be as much fun as he originally thought. Let me know what you think in the comments! I'd love to hear you...
2024-10-15 15:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Eight – Conspiracy Theories
“Danke Schoen, for the warm welcome. This is a very lovely home you have here by the way,” Jakob said, his hands folded behind his back as he surveyed the bookcase with obvio...
2024-10-10 18:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Seven – Kannibal Kids
The creature pulled itself from the barn and into the clearing, the full moon above bathing it in silver light and giving us a clear look for the first time. It was a towering abomination of hu...
2024-10-10 15:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Six –The Cornfields
We had a minute, maybe less before the legion of HOA thralls converged on us and thanks to the houses obstructing the view, I was the only one who knew what unholy hell was about to bury us.
<... 2024-10-09 20:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Five – Footloose
The thump of the music helped mask the billows of rage and the unholy shrieks that emanated from the assembled Kevins and Kathys. Inside the span of an eyeblink, all the perfect people were gone, re...
2024-10-09 19:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Quick update on Discount Dan. I'm gonna to post a bunch of chapters today since I finally got some work in, but there's one noticeable change to be aware of. I realized that the creatures on this floor (mostly being in the upper ...
2024-10-09 18:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Three – The Fireworks Stand
As per the Keep-What-You-Kill rule of the Backrooms, Jakob and Temperance took the liberty of looting Kevin, while I picked through the eviscerated Kathy’s spatial core.
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2024-08-27 18:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-Two – Lawnmower Man
Kevin lumbered forward with an incoherent roar. As he closed the distance, a blade of blue light exploded outward from his belly, whirling toward me with the force of a canon blast. Although the ...
2024-08-22 18:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostThirty-One – Sunnysiders
When I climbed out of the truck, I discovered that my eyes were lying to me again. Instead of a bloody-red sky, a vast field of robin’s egg blue stretched out above us in every direction. There w...
2024-08-21 20:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostThirty – You Scream
I inched my way over to the window.
When I glanced out, the breath caught in my chest. I’d been fully expecting a hoard of nightmare goblins, conjured from the deepest pits of hell, all fully re...
2024-08-21 19:55:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Nine – Ice Cream
I pushed my way through the metal freezer door, fully expecting to step out into a kitchen or maybe a school cafeteria. That sort of fit with what I was expecting of a level called the Everlasting S...
2024-08-21 19:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Eight – Way Down We Go
Using Unerring Arrow and the Variant Kiosk Network Map, it only took us a few hours to make our way toward the first entry point, which would bring us all the way down to floor nineteen.
Twenty-Seven – Runic Upgrades
As eager as I was to immediately head down to the nineteenth floor and turn some Dwellers into meat paste with my new abilities, Jakob was still hard at work in the lab, and I had a few more p...
2024-07-12 18:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Six – Gift Horse Offerings
We spent the next day preparing for the descent.
Jakob was the only one who’d visited the nineteenth floor but surprisingly, he only had a few vague tidbits to share which basicall...
2024-07-12 12:37:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I wasn't particularly happy with that last chapter, so I took another stab at it. This one feels a lot better. More natural. Love to hear what you think!
Twenty-Five – The Vote 2024-06-22 19:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Twenty-Four – Proxy War
“If you hurt my dog,” I growled at the woman, blood still streaming from my nose, “I swear to the good Lord above that it’ll be the last thing you ever do.”
The woman looked at me an...
2024-06-13 19:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Three – Party Crashers
Six Aspirants to be exact.
All congregating around one of my third-floor doorway anchors. The one closest to my fancy new kiosk.
There was no doubt about who we were dealing with, ...
2024-06-11 22:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Two – Backrooms Bullshit
Even though my Grand Reopening was going as smoothly as could reasonably be expected, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. This was the Backrooms after all, and in the Backrooms, there was...
2024-05-16 20:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-One – Grand Reopening
There were furries everywhere.
In a past life—one before the madness of the Backrooms—this would’ve been my worst nightmare. In fact, I was pretty sure I’d actually had a...
2024-05-07 20:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty – Title Change
Although the Codex regularly provided me with valuable insights about the Dwellers who inhabited the Backrooms, this was the first time I’d seen a direct research report. It lacked the general assho...
2024-04-26 18:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostNineteen – Doctor Frankenstein
While Camo Joe went about his business, I snagged the rest of the security cameras and shoved the whole lot of ’em into my personal storage. My new Security Chief’s assessment was right...
2024-04-24 00:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostEighteen – Upkeep
The Brownies were every bit the miracle workers that Ajax had made them out to be. They were zealots of the highest order, their religion was laundry, and there were none more devout. By the time I made i...
2024-04-16 20:19:21 +0000 UTC View PostSeventeen – Land of Plenty
We found Bertrim and the rest of the priests celebrating in the laundromat, and this time they weren’t alone. There had to be at least three hundred or more of the laundry brownies—s...
2024-04-11 13:15:07 +0000 UTC View PostSixteen – Resonant Mana Signature
The three of us immediately started to pick over the corpses, all with varying degrees of success. Unfortunately, the Silent-but-Deadly Assassin I’d fried with my Sterilization Field had...
2024-04-09 17:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post