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January 3, 2023
Site membership is now open again! Join the site here!
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December 26, 2022
Voting has opened for the Archivist Lore Contest! Read and rate on the entries before the 31st!
Also make sure to fill out our Demographics Poll!
Also make sure to fill out our Demographics Poll!
November 6, 2022
September 21, 2022
Check out the new Liminal Writing Guide and Formatting Guide!
September 20, 2022
The Lost Places contest is over! See the winners here.
September 12, 2022
Voting for the Lost Places Contest has opened! Make sure to read and vote on the submissions!
August 1, 2022
The Lost Places Contest has begun!
July 23, 2022
Please fill out our Demographics Poll!
June 28, 2022
Liminal Archives is currently no longer accepting casual new members to the site or discord.
This means you cannot join unless personally invited by a writer already in the community. However, you may also be granted access to the community by messaging a staff member a completed draft you have written on our sandbox site.
We hope to encourage all of our members a productive time during this slow period, and we apologize for any inconvenience!
This means you cannot join unless personally invited by a writer already in the community. However, you may also be granted access to the community by messaging a staff member a completed draft you have written on our sandbox site.
We hope to encourage all of our members a productive time during this slow period, and we apologize for any inconvenience!
June 1 2022
The Horror Contest is over! Congratulations to the winners.
May 13 2022
Voting is now open for the Horror Contest! The submissions can be found here.
March 30 2022
The Horror Contest has begun!
March 4 2022
The site navigation and home page have been overhauled!
February 16 2022
A new hub has been created for international branches and on-site translations! Check it out here.
January 15 2022
The Threshold Contest is over! Check out the winners here!
January 6 2022
The Threshold Contest voting period has been extended by a week to give more time for people to read and vote on the entries. Voting will now end on the 14th, and winners decided the following day.
January 1 2022
Voting on the Threshold Contest entries has begun! Make sure to read the entries and vote on them! Voting will end on Friday, January 7th and winners will be announced the following morning (EST).
Site News
December 16 2021
The Threshold Contest has been extended! There are now two weeks left to write and submit entries before voting begins!
September 9 2021
We have started our Threshold Contest 2021! See the rules and submit your amazing thresholds here. What strange and wonderful places will be coming to baseline next? Can't wait to see!
September 9 2021
The Collab Contest 2021 is over! You can congratulate our disparate duos by reading their winning entries here.
August 27 2021
Voting has opened for the Collab Contest! Make sure to read the entries and vote on them before the 4th.
August 22 2021
Voting period for the Collab Contest begins August 27th!
Be sure to submit your entries before that time.
Be sure to submit your entries before that time.
July 17 2021
The Collab Contest has started!
July 16 2021
The Collab Contest is starting tomorrow! There is 1 day left to join!
May 29 2021
The limspace contest is over! Check out the winners here.
May 1 2021
Limspace Contest 2021 begins today!
Submit your articles during this three week writing/uploading period.
Submit your articles during this three week writing/uploading period.
April 6 2021
The front page overhaul is finished!
The plan is to update featured articles every two months, starting May 1st.
The plan is to update featured articles every two months, starting May 1st.
April 4 2021
The site logo has been updated to be cleaner and more polished.
Featured Archive:
Featured Level
Level 11 - The Neighborhood
Black metallic pipes stretch across the Cogwell Matrix, these pipes contain carpet fluid and will occasionally burst open and rain down on the houses below.
Featured Threshold
Undisclosed Threshold within baseline reality, a nuclear explosion frozen in time.
Featured Limspace
Held to closer inspection, the mist hides a frothing 'sea' of a noxious substance that phase shifts at random intervals between solid, liquid, and gas states of matter.
Featured Limspace System
We thrive underneath the holy light of the Lanterns which keep entities at bay - but beyond their light mystery and danger festers.
Featured Level
Level 14 - Boundless Retail
This level is one of the best to resupply, get rest, and then move forward to another level. If you ever need supplies or certain objects, the mall should have them if you come across them.
Featured Entity
Smilers are notably dangerous and mischievous entities. It is advised to avoid encounters with smilers if possible.
Featured Limspace
The Domed Meadows are perhaps the most serene and unsettling of the Domed Limspaces.
Never have I seen a world so clearly made to be lived in. The Meadow breathes with life where man sets foot on it, and rests in gloom when he is away.
This can be no coincidence…
Featured Tale
First Contact - Oculus
Their picturesque life, gone in an instant at the hands of pests…
With widespread support from people internationally, we will rectify this grievous mistake and strike back against the forces that would wish harm upon our world.
Featured Limspace System
Erysichthon is a malformed system.
It is recommended that all liminal explorers read this file and be able to recognize the signs of "consumption" by Erysichthon - failure to do so may cause entrapment within its infinite landscape. The best way to survive is to be educated on how to avoid it.
Anyways, I think I've finally reached it. The bottom. Or at least, I'm near the bottom. I can feel it. I've walked for so long…
Featured Limspace
With the limited knowledge we have about the Sargasso, we have yet to uncover what lies at the bottom of it.
The Sargasso, upon immediate observation, is akin to a landfill. The land spans out over 1.5 billion square miles…
Featured Threshold
Let me begin with a story about my brother…
They are like Alleyways, but they stretch on a lot. Pretty thin as well. The residents will always be there, no matter where you go.
Featured Level
This level no longer exists…
The expedition to the bottom of the level revealed that the outer floor bordered space, and was lined with hangars and docking ports for spacecraft of unknown design.
Featured Limspace
The Domed Forest is a pine forest that stretches infinitely, all encased within an impossibly massive dome.
Despite being infinitely large, the landscape appears to resemble a fractal pattern which allows for predictive mapping and an incredible sight from above.
Featured Tale
Deep in some forgotten corner of the Fellerwrath, amongst the autumn trees and dense ferns, a small force of soldiers in dark purple uniforms had set up camp for the night. A few of them had gathered around a small campfire, most of which were busy chatting away and drinking to their heart’s content.
Featured Level
A destination for lost souls. The terminal endpoint of glitches in reality. The first zone of the parallel dimension we call the Backrooms.
This is Level 1, also known as the Halls. It is sometimes claimed that Level 1 was the first discovered Limspace, but it is still far from the most understood.
Featured Level
Level 25 is a high school building, being separated into two floors. Wanderers will almost always enter on the lower floor.
Anyone unfortunate enough to enter on the upper floor must find a staircase leading down as soon as possible.
Featured Level
The waves crashing beneath you bring an intense wave of heat. Each crash causes your heart to stop.
As every knock on the fragile stilts of your shelter can be the last. Like a tree ready to be downed. When the stilts fail you will plummet into The Boiling Sea!
Featured Entity
There is a certain emotion you feel when you see another living creature out here.
I'm happy to say this one was ok with us hanging around…
Featured Entity
Horrendous balls of flesh lacking a single neuron, rolling around haphazardly.
Should any unfortunate lifeform be in its path, a swift strike will be all that is necessary.
Featured Tale
Jek laughed. “Emma! It’s good to hear your-” He stopped talking as he turned to face her. Emma. Chris. And something small, swaddled in pink cloth.
“Oh. Oh no, no, no…”
Featured Level
Human activity in Level 34 has caused Level 34 to become incredibly unstable, with provisional mineshafts and elevator columns composed of rotting wood, causing regions of Level 34 to collapse under their weight.
High-grade explosives have been recorded detonating in the lowest regions of 34 as to either, quickly reach a profitable material, or crush opponents underneath miles of earth.
Featured Level
Due to potentially hazardous insulation and rare gas leaks that sometimes happen in the cavity, it is recommended to bring a gas mask, especially for prolonged periods of traveling.
Some people have been known to traverse clusters of pipes located throughout the level; however, some pipes are very hot and may even result in third-degree burns if touched.
Featured Prose
The three-legged beast was bound by chains, fettered down by weights, and was held back in the shadows by four stocky figures surrounding it.
The eyes of the creature danced back and forth, pupils dilating and flittering as its body pulled against the metal that kept it in place. The antlers dripping a stark red color.
Featured Threshold
Each boat acts as a window into a unique liminal space, allowing one to view outside of baseline reality without physically exiting.
"Why I fish? Well, I'm not actually much of a fisherman. I'm more interested in the places that those boats can take you. Being out on the water allows me to finally see something new."
Contest Winner
But I cannot ever have something as it's given to me, no. I cut that joy short with a question: if it were such a heavenly place, why would he turn his back and depart? And for the dark moonlit vale, environed only by ruins?
He looked, and seemed to weep. Worse even than the haunting image of what he threw away was that he could not say why he'd left.
Contest Runner-Up
The Bloodpools. They ebb and flow a rancid tide of homogenous blood and saltwater through a series of dark industrial warehouses. This is an absolutely abhorrent place, found among the deep guts of Limspace adjacent to Level 1.
The overwhelming smell of the mixture flooding the level attracts millions of flies and maggots which live and drown in the blood and add to its revolting sludge.
Contest Runner-Up
The sharp whisper from the long-perished warns of something just beyond the corner.
Without mentioning what exactly it is past the bend, the voice continuously details the peril that awaits anyone who turns the fold.
Featured Limspace System
In the busy lives of countless people living in metropolitan areas scattered around Baseline Reality, people are constantly utilizing trains. Entering and leaving metro stations, fighting past the crowds of people all just trying to get to their intended destination.
In the mayhem of modern transport, It's very difficult to notice when the crowd becomes a few people lighter.
Featured Limspace
The Womb is a laceration in the flesh of reality. It is entirely comprised of biological material; such material pulsates with vaguely living energy.
As for the exact location, the barren fleshscape lies afloat in a distant sector of interspace — hence the obscurity and lack of in-depth exploration.
Featured Level
The Hub is a level of the Backrooms System, formerly serving as a nexus to all levels in the system in the Forgotten Era.
It is a vast subterranean complex, composing of an infinite interconnected network of tunnels.
Notably, the Hub is made of two sections: The Crossroads and The Temple.
Featured Prose
Karrin's sister Naomi had been sitting cross-legged on the carpet, knees bouncing in place, for the better half of an hour. Her antsiness was winning the battle.
What frustration! They had been walking for months, and now that they had finally arrived at the founder's valley, they had to sit and wait in an empty settlement muttering amongst each other and waiting for… waiting for what, even?
Featured Prose
A cascade of green light came to life, drowning the darkness blanketing the jagged stone walls around the expeditionary team.
Their forms and features illuminated by the strange lanterns of luminescent moss they carried, these four were very clearly inhuman.
Featured Threshold
What do you expect to find beyond the veil? Is the freedom of knowing worth more than the meat behind your eyes?
I know what happens when you let that sepulchral feeling take over.
I learned so from experience.
Featured Limspace
Minimalist towers soar high into the sky. These towers are moored to the icy wastes, but jut out the ground like stalagmites from an icy cave floor, deep into the unreachable heavens above.
Viewing the uninviting terrain, it seems unbelievable that many moons ago Vestasis harbored a mighty civilization and not just runaway vagrants.
Featured Document
Maria brought a bug home the other day. It was nearly half her size, had dozens of stumpy legs, and was ravenous for leaves.
Thanks to my little girl, Athenaeum is now home to a massive twenty-pound caterpillar.
Featured Level
We’ve all had the urge to see our home again. We want to go back, see our friends and loved ones, interact, and lead a normal life.
We never knew we’d end up here, our very minds forced to comprehend that we are now victims of a cruel realm, and those who couldn’t, soon fell to insanity.
Featured System Overview
Survival is achievable if you carefully prepare for the regions you traverse. Know the time periods and avoid standing out; bringing items to where they have yet to be invented may elicit witch hunts, mob lynching or similar.
It is absolutely crucial to avoid regions whose present year is approaching the current year of Baseline Reality.
Featured Limspace
Upon being transported here, you will find yourself at the bottom of an abandoned elevator shaft known as “The Pit.”
Be wary. Once you’ve been transported into this shaft, the only way to continue your indefinite journey is to climb upward. Be wary, at random points in time, the illusion of a freefalling elevator cart will suddenly materialize far above you.
Featured Page
The Liminal Archives is a decentralized organization focused upon the study, exploration, and documentation of liminal phenomena.
Its members stretch all across the globe and are dedicated to uncovering the mysteries present within liminal spaces.
Featured Document
Finally, that took a while. I’ve never seen English, you see.
When I saw someone was accessing the terminals and uploading new data it was a little bit of a process to figure out how to even read it let alone make this first contact.
Featured Level
Withheld behind the repulsive expanse of the Bloodpool Catwalks lies this: a disquieting catacomb of a massive dead shopping mall, plunged into darkness and predominated by an emergency broadcast that forever screams into its profundity.
"Attention Please…" The words echo in distorted cacophony through the darkness.
Featured Limspace
A gargantuan station harboring many types of trains, from which no traincars exit.
Although it is more than one large open area, its central chamber is approximately 8 miles in width, and 50 miles in length.
Featured Document
Upon the tragedy of both expeditions and the loss of friends, scouts and radio operators involved were instructed to keep a log of recent occurrences.
Most others had perfectly normal logs but Sierra-94/Dillan had encountered some sort of mind-affecting creature. Excerpts of the log will be archived below.
Featured Entity
Fawns are creatures that resemble young Cervus canadensis, or elk. However, Fawns have several biological characteristics beyond a baseline animal.
While they are seemingly incapable of aging, or age at a rate imperceptible to humans, their most notable feature is that over time, additional pairs of eyes develop along the head and neck of Fawns, with accompanying eyelids and sockets.
Featured Document
I feel as if I have been removed.
Today is a fitting day to get something off of my chest. Hopefully you'll all still listen, considering the fact that I have yet to release my whereabouts or… say anything really for the longest time. I can assure you all that everything I have to say does not lack importance, but unfortunately that is one of the only things I can be sure of.
Contest Winner
In a far and forlorn place, a woman hunched over a rusty computer terminal. Bits of its bare metal sparkled between the ochre - reflections from the shafts of light pouring through wind-worn windows and patchwork cooling vents speckling the walls. They lit up the dust-filled air, so thick and heavy that the woman had strapped a mask-and-filter over her face before entering the room.
Contest Runner-Up
The Sprawl is dull, desolate and dead, and has always been. The suburbs stretch outward, rows of simple houses, each indistinct.
There are parks and miscellaneous community centers scattered throughout the Sprawl, but all are completely empty.
The Sprawl is always exceptionally quiet. You will find no people, not even other wanderers, and there is no animal life. There are no birds, squirrels, or even any bugs. You are entirely alone.
Contest Runner-Up
The world is composed of an indefinite number of hollow spheres of glass, each containing what I assume to be a planet, arranged in a straight line stretching in two directions, perhaps to two infinities. Each sphere is attached to the ones before and after it by identical ladders; each ladder has seventy-two million three-hundred-twenty-nine thousand five-hundred ninety-one rungs.
Featured Level
You feel a calming sensation.
Sublimity is an expansive complex of interconnected rooms and corridors partially submerged in undulating, lukewarm water.
Each area of the level varies greatly in size and structure; some rooms are small, with their walls forming simple shapes and clean designs, whilst others are more bizarrely shaped, either lacking a definitive form, or being massive in size.
Featured Prose
Time travel. The ability to bend an unstoppable, unreasonable, unsympathetic force to our every whim.
Man's greatest universal query. Ever since the concept was spurred on by one H. G. Wells, really no one in particular, the human condition has taken a great fancy in winding back the three unwavering hands of God that ever tick the universe away, steadily whittling its cosmic strings down to fine dust.
Marching to a questionable end more alien, unknown, and unfamiliar to us than even the deepest parts of the seven seas, nobody can say for certain what the future may hold. Even so, the simple fact is this: time is but a human construct.
Featured Limspace
An entire world heard but not seen, an entire world in perfect harmony, an entire world at war and at peace simultaneously, The Valley of the Choir was truly one of a kind.
Life flourished in its own unique ways, the geography was stupendous, and the bounds of reality were pushed back simply with creativity.
Within the valley rested the muse of all song—The Ensemble.
Featured Limspace System
The waves call out to all eyes laid upon them.
To some, it is a harsh but hush whisper, fading as they leave the water. To others, it's an interminate noise, the driving force behind their every move as they travel deeper and deeper into the ocean, towards their only chance of respite: the Heavenly Seas.
It is here that their call may be answered, and it is here that they will live and die.
Featured Limspace
The Timeless Descent is a colossal, dull expanse, typically appearing similar to a vast mountain.
It is comprised of cliffs, thick clusters of floral life, and occasional pathways ingrained into the ground.
Trees and plants flourish despite its unchanging nature and are often found at every interval of the landscape, yet remain static and idle despite harsh influxes of wind.
Featured Person
The Saint-Scholar Jehak Paul (commonly referred to as simply "Scholar Paul") was an early explorer of thresholds in Europe, with his extensive documentation providing the foundation for the understanding of liminal phenomena and is often attributed as one of the founders of the contemporary "Vagrant" and "Archivist" school of thought, reflecting both his religious and scholarly influence respectively.
Featured Prose
The following is a transcript of an emergency call said to have been received 1,345 meters below the surface of the Plateau Seas, often used as a cautionary tale in the tutoring of inexperienced divers.
Although its legitimacy is questionable due to its lucid account of events—quite uncharacteristic of the caller's current condition—we believe it still holds an important message to those who've found themselves in the depths of the Heavenly Seas.
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