The Backrooms

Level 18 - Poolrooms

" Shit, it's gonna be hard hiding from this thing!" I say, I hear the thing catching up with the sound of the splashing water behind me, I start running down the tunnel and it starts giving me twists and turns. I start losing the entity and hear the howls get fader and fader and more echoey through the tunnel, the tunnel starts splitting off into three directions, straight, left and right, I look around and see the entity's shadow peer on the wall, I quietly walk to the right direction, trying my best not to alarm the entity which way I was going, I wait behind a wall and see the entity stop. It looks around the three directions and gurgles, I hide when it looks down my way, I hear the entity start groaning again and goes down the straight path. I sigh of relief and quietly start walking down the tunnel and look up to see a tall wall with light shining on the wall until it gets dark. I was at the bottom of a pool that was emptied. I walk down another path and walk into an almost emptied pool and see a tunnel that was almost fully submerged into slight murky water.

" Damn it..." I say, I take my shoes and socks off, along with my pants and shirt and sweater so I'm in my underwear, I separate it by wet and dried with my pockets of my backpack, I stick my sweater and shirt in with my electronics and I stick my shoes, socks and pants together in another pocket so I don't damage my other electronics. I shut my camera off and stick it with my laptop and phone with my dried clothes.

" Well, here goes nothing," I say, I step into the water and take a deep breath, I raise my backpack above my head and start crouching, walking through the tunnel. The water goes up my chest and the tunnel is dark but short, my arms get tired by carrying so much heavy stuff above my head, I reach to the other side and stand up fully and put my bag back on, I step out of the pool and look around, a large room with windows near the top of the ceiling, and a bunch of small segregated pools, and a walking side in the middle of the room, I place my stuff down and step inside one of the pool to relax. I take a few laps and swim underwater, I swim for about 15 minutes before getting out and sitting on the floor, I hear thunking and bellowing howls from the end of the room in a different room.

" Oh shit..." I whisper, I grab my stuff and rush down the opposite side of the room and go down a dark dim hallway, I walk into a room with a small square pool with two pillars and a large opening above the pool with windows. It looked cloudy outside and made the room more dim. And on the other side were poking out walls and connected decagon shaped pools and dimmer light and darker rooms. I start grabbing my clothes from my bag and putting them on, I rush over to one of the dark rooms and look in, a tall square room with a square pool in the middle of it with three pitch black entry ways. I walk out and walk pack the poked out walls and into a more brighter hall, I step down a staircase and start walking down another tunnel, the tunnel turns and slants mostly right, and I see small rectangular entry ways that lead into a pool, I see an entryway coming up ahead on the left, I step up and walk towards it, it leads me to a spiral staircase going down until it hits water. The spiral staircase goes down for so long the water fades into a pitch black of darkness.

" Nope, I've changed my mind, I'm not going down that," I say, I walk back to where I came from and keep following the tunnel, I hear nearby reggae and tropical music, similar to Spongebob music but more reverbed and slowed, I walk to a staircase and see a real life Krusty Krab. The steering wheel tables, the barrel seats, the boat cash register and the whole look to the Krusty Krab but in real life. I walk to the kitchen and it looks exactly like it from the show, I see the freezer poked open, I walk over to it and open it. Inside I see a ton of the Spongebob popsicles on the floor and in boxes.

" Nope!" I shout, I close the door fully and walk out to the kitchen, I notice a restroom next to the kitchen and I rush into it, after I'm done with my business I walk out of the restroom and I grab my Mtn Dew from my backpack and start drinking it. I notice an entryway to another room next to the Krusty Krab, I stick my Mtn Dew back in my bag and walk in and see a cramped room with a small climb up green slide and a big blue water slide twisting and going into the wall until it reaches the pool and a giant plastic mushroom and frog head. The tiles were mostly blue with a few white tiled clouds and the yellow tiled sun and green tiles for plants and grass, I walk towards the frog head and look at it, I step over to a hallway with painted blue skies and clouds, I walk past a window and a door with a number plate on it that looked like a hotel room with a keycard. I walk into a small room with three colored slides with red, green, and a yellow slide coming out of the wall leading to ankle shallow water. Another window was on a wall facing the pool with the curtains closed. I walk out of the shallow water into a similar hall that led to the pool, I see another door with another number plate and a keycard, I walk past it and walk into a bigger room with slides twisting around the room and a splash bowl slide in the center of the slides and another slide exit next to it.

" Ok, I'm in some sort of waterpark area now, that's cool, if this place wasn't filled with entities I would go down these but I don't even know where the entrances areas are," I say, I look around and see big multicolored slides connected to each other across from the splash bowl, with green, blue, purple, yellow, and teal slides connected to each other leading to a pool, and in a corner I see three slides that lead to a pool, and big multi colored platforms to jump on next to the slides. I walk into another room and it has a more fantasy type look to it, with giant plastic mushrooms and plastic plants and fairy lights with a giant bucket filling with water and spilling it, and a ton of water park structures to walk on and go down smaller slides and a lazy river that leads to a pool with big floating rubber foam lily pads, and a big hot tub area with giant mushrooms over it. I rush over to the hot tub and take my clothes back off, I shut off my camera and take a break for a moment, I step inside the hot tub and feel the hot water fill my body and watch the steam rise up to the mushrooms. I lean back and relax with the bubbling hot water for a while, I start to drift for a second,

" Hm, maybe it's time to get out," I say, I step outside of the hot tub and walk over to a towel rack, I grab a towel and dry myself off, I get my clothes on and start walking again, I walk of the waterpark area and walk into a room with a different hue to it. The lights were mostly dark blue and it was darker tinted in the room. There were six yellow slides, three went into the wall and three turned to go into a pool. I see a flickering light up ahead in an entryway, I grow closer to it and see a staircase going down. I started heading down the stairs and saw where the other three slides ended up going, to a pool that was underneath the other pool above it. The pool lights made the water look like it was glowing, there was a dark room on the other side of the room from the staircase, it was dark and there was a rectangular pool with a step up to the pool and silver railings that led down into the pool. There was a step into a pool straight ahead from the staircase, there were blue tinted lights on the ceiling and a few in the pool. I step in and see a dark room that looked almost pitch black.

" Well that looks troubling," I say.