Elevator

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The elevator is the level select and progression mechanism in Side Order.

Description

The elevator transports the player from the foyer to the Control Room on the top of the Spire of Order. The elevator only goes up one floor at a time; the reason for this has not been explained.

During the first climb, the player as Agent 8 and Pearl Drone meet Acht, who is stuck in the elevator due to injuries from Jelletons, for the first time. Acht teaches the player the mechanics of the Spire of Order and lead the player to Marina Agitando. After defeating Marina Agitando and completing the first climb, Marina joins Acht in the Elevator on subsequent climbs.

Floor selection

Agent 8 on the floor selection screen.

See also: Floor#Floor selection

In the elevator, on a normal 30-floor run, the player is given the choice of three floors with varying difficulty, objectives, and rewards.

Quotes

English

First time using the elevator from the foyer:

Outside the elevator:

Pearl

You with those fish we busted up?!

???

Cool it. I'm not your enemy.

???

Just another bystander who got sucked in.

???

I take it you two followed Marina's voice here.

Pearl

Say what?! You know Marina too?!

Inside the elevator:

Acht

First things first: I'm Acht. As for Marina and me...
we go way back.

Pearl

For real?! Yo, lead with that next time!

Pearl

I'm Pearl, and this's Eight! Cool meeting you, Acht.

Acht

I've been in the area since I came to.

Acht

I heard Marina's voice from up the Spire, so I came
to find her.

Acht

But those bony fish found me first. I call them
Jelletons. They're why I'm trapped in an elevator.

Acht

The Spire is crammed with Jelletons. This wound they
gave me hasn't healed. So I'm stuck.

Pearl

Yikes. Things aren't looking super good for the home
team, huh?

Acht

Don't count us out yet.

Acht

I've been waiting for an Octoling with a drone. Said your
name was Eight? You're the one I needed to see.

Acht

OK, Pearl. Now check out what happens when you set
this color chip into that Palette.

Pearl

Palette? I'm supposed to know what that is?

Pearl

Oh, are you talking about this thing?

Acht

You got it. Now set this color chip into it.

Pearl

OK, but whatever happens is on you. Here goes
nothing, Eight! Slap that chip on in there!

Pearl

WHOA! Is it me, or did your weapon get stronger?

Pearl

If you set a whole bunch of color chips in here, you
could walk all over those fishy freaks!

Acht

No doubt. Play your chips right, and you could make it
all the way to the top.

Acht

Whatever's going on in this city, Marina's in the thick
of it. Or so I'm assuming.

Acht

But this injury has left me sidelined. Our strike team
will be limited to you two.

Pearl

We're on it, Acht! Deep breaths, Eight. It's time to go
find Marina!

Trivia

• According to Acht, the elevator returns back to the foyer if it is empty, explaining why they never leave it.
• The elevator music changes depending how high in the Spire the player is.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	エレベーター erebētā	Elevator
Dutch	Lift	Elevator
Italian	Ascensore	Elevator
Russian	Лифт Lift	Elevator
Chinese (Simplified)	电梯 diàntī	Elevator
Chinese (Traditional)	電梯 diàntī (Mandarin) din6 tai1 (Cantonese)	Elevator