u/PewBye

White: sacred column. Fixed items. Do not move.

Green: first row, designed for quick swapping through Quick Use.

Blue: second and third rows, always aligned to the right so they match the blue Quick Use slot. I keep a blue item in the Safe Pocket for the same reason.

Orange: Safe Pocket items that swap with the nearest Quick Use slot.

Does anyone else have a weirdly specific organization system? I WANNA SEE IT, PLS

Embark, pls

Backrooms is amazing. I’m very afraid of heights, and this scene made my stomach turn.

I have some thoughts I’d like to share, as well as a few questions.

Clark explains that the liminal spaces and the still lifes are constructs created by some kind of memory, but in an “inverted” way, right? The STOP/POTS sign, the NO CREDIT/TIDERC ON banners, and even the entire inverted front of the Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire store are examples of this. The Backrooms taking memories from the subconscious of everyone inside.

One thing that caught my eye is that when Mary enters, the furniture in the middle of the first room isn’t there. The messy furniture and the other objects seem to belong more to Clark’s world and mind.

Mary’s childhood and trauma show her being imprisoned inside her own house, trapped in a tiny space filled with accumulated furniture. Is that the reason why her paths inside the Backrooms are always full of couches, lamps, low ceilings, and extremely narrow corridors?

And in the very last scenes, we see Mary’s memories inside the Backrooms, as well as why her old home was demolished: a 50-story residential condo was going to be built in the same place.

So now I have one final question: when she walks along the edge, could that place possibly represent an “inverted 50-story building”? A 50-story abyss where a building should be?