Fure and Oto Escape a Backrooms Level, and the Loser Takes a Week-Long Profile Picture Penalty

AKA VIRTUAL — Fure and his co-op partner Oto found the exit of a level of Escape the Backrooms on Wednesday after about an hour and 53 minutes of searching, then settled a penalty they had agreed on at the start of the stream. Whoever lost the death count would swap their channel profile picture for an anime character for a week, running to the following Wednesday. The loser accepted the penalty at the exit.

The stream opened with Fure, who appeared with a sleepy face and a blurry camera, saying he had finished the previous day’s bug-ridden stage alone, finding a switch that the pair had hunted for the day before. He called himself the one who had carried that stage. Chat answered that Oto was the dead weight, and the two agreed on the death-count challenge, with the penalty to be kept in the loser’s own channel.

Most of the evening went to puzzles. They counted water jugs, books and tables to open a door, worked out that being spotted by the security cameras was to be avoided, and fed items to a creature to earn a key. A code for an elevator door, 3-4-5-6-8-21, had to be re-entered after a level reset, and later a five-digit code led to a room with a thermometer-style heat reader. Fure and Oto died repeatedly, sometimes to sanity running out when they had no food, and at one point Fure said he was talking to Oto for several minutes before realizing they were in different rooms.

Viewers followed the tally in chat, posting scores such as 4-4 and 10-11 as the lead changed hands, and teased Oto throughout. Oto, for his part, kept up a stream of flirtatious banter with Fure, which chat joked made the two the real pair on screen. The stream drew one Super Chat.

Near the end, Fure looked up the game and found it has 33 levels, while the pair had reached level 5. He signed off after the penalty was settled, with the loser agreeing to use the character image for a week.