CORPOREAL Tower

The CORPOREAL Tower is a large, maze-like building full of dizzying staircases, spacious rooms, and locked doors. Once a dazzling arcade and club, it’s long since fallen into ruin, with its neon lights flickering and moss growing along all its arcade cabinets. There are no windows or obvious exits... outside of the fifth floor, which has a single hatch leading to roof access and a fire escape.

At first glance, the CORPOREAL Tower seems ruined and easy to escape--however, it’s been restructured and fortified by CASTOR for the purposes of the tournament. Underneath the cracked cinderblocks and faded paint are thick walls of insulated iron and rebar, designed to withstand even the most brutal of attacks by characters trying to escape. Further, the dead cables of arcade machines have been laced with new cables leading to lines of security cameras to record a competitor’s every move.

In short, the CORPOREAL Tower is a prison disguised as a dystopian pit.

Characters wake up in a musty, neon-lit basement with no memory of how they got there. They can access the stairs up to the first floor, but the door to the next floor is locked until your opponent is KO’d or otherwise considered “defeated" by the security cameras.

Occasionally, if a competitor is lost or needs help, the tech embedded in the walls can project a hologram of Zetsuko: a cheery anime girl with lilac hair and stylish bunny-themed clothes. ZETSUKO is the virtual mascot of the CORPOREAL PROGRAM, designed to narrate events. If necessary, she’ll show up to instruct competitors or chastise them for not following directions.