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A brightened photo of Level 7's entrance room.
Level 7 is the 8th level of the Backrooms. It poses a significant obstacle to exploration of Level 8 and further.
Description
Level 7 is unique in that it is a vast expanse of water that appears to stretch on endlessly, making it a lifeless ocean. Like Level 6, it is pitch black. The screams of Level 6 are not present. The water is distilled, rather than being saltwater or regular freshwater.
Nobody thus far has truly explored Level 7, but what is currently known is that the first and potentially only proper "room" of Level 7 is not flooded and has the usual fluorescent lighting. The room has a thin layer of water on the bottom, and is strangely skewed from the rest of the floor: the single door opens to show the surface of the water from a top-down perspective. The room is seemingly rotated horizontally, but gravity still works to keep one's feet on the floor in the first room. Upon entry, gravity switches to pulling one towards the water and is significantly stronger than regular gravity. The water has been reported to be "very cold" and it is generally not advised to enter it.
In the ocean, there are rooms stacked up on top of rooms reaching up from the ocean floor to peek out above the surface, like small islands. These islands are scattered about far from each other, with only the faint fluorescent light leaking out of the surface rooms. These room are mostly flooded at a random water level if they are in the water. You may also find stairs to traverse the insides of these islands. Inside the islands is furniture, scattered across all rooms, sometimes stacked upon each other, or floating in the flooded areas.
The floor of the ocean are mounds of rock and carpet sticking out from the Infinite Abyss, it is made up of carpet hardened by the thick layer of tar and bones above it. There are several skeletons, including several almost-humanoid figures and massive, toothy fish. Little else is known about the depths of the waters, aside from the extreme darkness and the endless expanse of tar and bones. There is a rumored Cave entrance in the mounds that leads to level 8.
In terms of Things, Level 7 has only one reported one. Alone in the freezing waters, The Thing On Level 7 appears to have killed off any other life in the ocean. More information can be found here.
The current depth of Level 7 is unknown by exact terms, but members of B.A.S has determined it to be impossibly deep architecturally wise.
Bases, Outposts and Communities
Fort Surrender:
- An outpost on the closest recorded island comprised of a haphazardly constructed shelter composed of broken furniture held together by tar.
- Inhabitants are rumored to have devoted themselves to worshipping The Thing On Level 7.
- Numbers of inhabitants: Unknown, but said to be somewhere between 4 and 9 people
- Population of the outpost is rumored to be hostile.
Entrances And Exits
Entrances
The only known entrance to Level 7 is through a staircase down from Level 6, which leads directly into the entrance room. There are, however, rumors of a possible entrance through a puddle on the floor of Level 6.
Exits
The only known exit is through an underwater exit shaped like the entrance to a cave located somewhere in the side of a mountain roughly 7.0 kilometers below the surface of the ocean, which was discovered by u/Bart0nius and u/avolded. This entrance will lead to Level 8. It is important to note that there is no clear way to return to Level 7 from Level 8 or any further Level.