Description
The Rosatin Hotel’s lobby.
The first area of Level 399, the Rosatin Hotel, is a large expanse encapsulating 400 floors, containing 1,000 rooms each (400,000 rooms in total). The level is split into 2 different areas, the first being the iconic pink building and the second being a vast plane of solid pink clouds. Both sections are a comfortable 72°F (~22°C). Any damage done to the level will heal itself afterwards; how long it takes to heal depends on the severity of the damage. For example, slight damage towards the level will instantly heal, while a large portion of damage will take up to 3 months to heal.
The Rosatin Hotel is the first area one typically encounters in Level 399, and therefore is home to the largest human population.
The Building
When one enters the Rosatin Hotel, they will find themselves inside of the lobby of the “hotel”—a spacious room taking up the entire first floor. The lobby is structured similarly to a normal hotel lobby in the Frontrooms, with a check-in area in the center, furniture (in particular chairs and tables, though couches are present in certain areas), and elevators/staircases along the walls leading upwards. Along one of the walls is a large revolving door with a bright white light behind it; passing through it will take one to the level they were in before they entered Level 399.
Curiously, there is no entity behind the check-in desk. Behind where there normally would be a receptionist is a long display of keys on pegs, each with a number stamped into them in glowing pink text. Each key unlocks one of the rooms on the hotel's floors, providing wanderers with a place to stay during their stay in the level.
One of Level 399's Rosatin Hotel rooms.
The floors above the lobby resemble the floors one might find in a Hilton or Holiday Inn, with several key differences. Everything—the hallways, rooms, and even the closets—have a bright neon theme and color, created by the paint on the walls and the lights on the ceiling. Though the narrow hallways might be considered liminal, they strangely do not reflect that, and instead feel inviting and comforting. The hotel rooms themselves vary— some are large suites containing absolutely everything one might find in an average house, while others are small walk-in bedrooms (the layout of the rooms follows no discernible pattern). However, each room has a small collection of food and drink (often snack bars or bottled water), which are irregularly refilled by an unknown person/entity/thing.
Interestingly, certain rooms have distinct “themes” or notable characteristics, many of which are connected to other levels of the Backrooms in some way.
- There is a “Room -1“, despite there being no other negative numbered rooms. Room -1 is completely black, though all objects have a neon green outline.
- There is no Room 0
- Room 420 is instead numbered as “Room 419 + 1“.
- There is no Room 666.
- Room 974 has several floating objects.
- Room 699 includes a large pool with an adjustable temperature, along with a painting of a fallen angel.
- Room 9464 features a significant amount of glassware colored deep purple.
- Room 86400 has several pieces of pottery in it resembling pottery from Ancient Greece and Rome.
- Room 399999 (the final room in the hotel) has several maps of the Frontrooms on the wall.
The layout of the floors as a whole is orderly, with hallways meeting at neat right angles and elevators/staircases in natural, easy-to-find locations. Vending machines, water fountains, chairs, and tables can be found throughout them, placed in such a way that they do not block the halls. Pillars can also be found on some of the wider hallways, though they seem to serve no structural purpose (they stop just before reaching the ceiling), and are instead used to display posters showing a picture of Level 399, along with a brief statement or poem about it. Many EXIT signs can be found on ceilings, but they serve no purpose. Speakers play soothing songs that give one a sense of peace and nostalgia. The same song never plays twice.
Scattered throughout the hotel are “special rooms”, often being pools, pantries, weight rooms, and a small mall.
The Plane of Clouds
An image of The Plane of Clouds.
The Rosatin Hotel appears to be floating in a presumably infinite plane of pale pink clouds with no visible support. The clouds themselves are solid, enabling people to walk on them, and provide a place for a unique species of plant, referred to by the Hotel’s inhabitants as “Cloud Trees”, to grow. These Cloud Trees produce an anomalous fruit resembling a Pink Lady apple[1] approximately once every month which, when eaten, makes one feel happy and confident (though the effects dissipate after 5-7 hours). When removed from the tree, the fruit rots in about 2 weeks, much like most Frontrooms fruit.
Traveling atop the clouds is not recommended due to the risk of stepping off into the sky or failing to jump from cloud to cloud, which, presumably, will result in one falling forever. This has since been disproven. Falling off the clouds will result in one falling back from above. While this isn't particularly dangerous, as it is not a long fall, you may still suffer mild injuries such as bruises.
Symbolism
A hallway photographed in Level 399's Rosatin Hotel.
Pink, the color of love. The level shows its love for wanderers by providing food to eat, water to drink, and a place of safety and rest. Both pink and love are associated with happiness, something which the Rosatin Hotel aims to give all wanderers that come its way. Unfortunately, not many people can get to the Rosatin Hotel, connecting to another emotion which pink is affected with: timidness.
The color of pink is known to have a peaceful effect on those who look at it for a while, making wanderers want to stay in the Rosatin Hotel. Mental health is unaffected, and the effect doesn't make wanderers want to stay here permanently. It constantly makes wanderers feel peaceful and relaxed in the Rosatin Hotel.
The blue spread across the rooms of the hotel symbolizes stability; though this is rarely found in the liminal hellscape which is called the Backrooms, it is found in extraordinary quantities here. One can rest for weeks with no fear of being eaten, or of the deadly foe of starvation rearing its ugly head. For though one can eventually run out of food here, it is rather rare.
The Neon purple also connects with royalty. In this level, you, not chance nor an entity, are the king or the queen. The level provides you everything you with had in the Frontrooms—food, water, shelter, and, above all, peace.
