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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!

After the above cutscene:

Pearl

Alright! Hit the button for the top floor already!

Acht

Love to, but this elevator only goes up one floor
at a time.

Pearl

Whaaat?! How come?! You mean I gotta be PATIENT?

Acht

I'm in a hurry myself. But we play what we're dealt.
We'll just have to take this a little at a time.

Acht

Now then. We're almost at the next floor. Are you
two ready?

After clearing 1-9F in the initial Spire:

1F:

Pearl

I knew Eight had it in the bag!

Acht

Yeah, that was solid work. You're learning to make the
most of your color chips.

Acht

There are different kinds of color chips. You get one
every time you head to a new floor.

Acht

Here — I'll show you.

Acht

What you're seeing is the next floor and details on
the color chip you'll get there.

Acht

That color chip is... Poison Ink. I'd tell you what it
does, but it's all written there already.

Pearl

It's cool. No teacher like experience! Am I right, Eight?!

2F:

Acht

You two are handling this like pros. Maybe you do have
what it takes to reach the top.

Pearl

I was gonna ask about that. How come you know so
much about this place, Acht?

Acht

Fair question. Everything I'm telling you, I'm pulling
from the elevator console.

Acht

I learnt the trick from the same place Marina did.
Though I won't blame you for being skeptical.

Pearl

For real?! I guess it's true that Marina's a turbo
nerd when it comes to machines.

Pearl

If you went to the same school, I'm not surprised
you can do the same stuff.

Acht

Well... she was a few ranks above me. I wouldn't put
myself quite in her league.

Acht

By the way, here's your next color chip.

Pearl

Lucky Bomb? Lucky for who?!

Acht

These Lucky Bombs appear when you defeat
enemies. They explode on their own for big damage.

Pearl

Sounds great. I'm always wishing a bomb would show
up to blow away anyone harassing me!

3F:

Acht

Good hustle, Eight. I've got the lowdown on the next
floor for you.

Pearl

Whoa! We get TWO color chips from this one?!
Twoice as noice!

Pearl

Hey, I've been wondering. It says Reward there.
What's that about?

Acht

It's how much Membux you get from clearing the
floor. Not sure what those are for yet, but they seem
like a good thing to have.

Pearl

Well, if you say so. Table that for now, I guess.

Acht

Eight, when you need a break from climbing the tower,
press to let me know.

Acht

I'll stop the elevator and wait here until you're ready.
No sense pushing yourself past your limits.

4F:

Pearl

Awww yeah! We're on a roll!

Pearl

Y'know, this drone body's not so bad if it means
Eight doesn't have to do all the work.

Acht

This next color chip will help with that too. Use it
right, and you'll be a powerful ally to Eight.

Pearl

It lets me use Killer Wail?! NOW we're talking!

5F:

Acht

We're at about the halfway point.

Pearl

Cool. Can't believe all this is going down in the middle
of our big world tour.

Acht

On tour, are you? That tracks. You're some kind
of musician, I take it?

Pearl

Yeah! Marina and I are Off the Hook, the world's
most powerful power team!

Acht

Huh. So Marina hit it big as an artist, did she?

???

...Pe...rl... ...el...imina...tio...

Pearl

Marina?! Hang on, girl! We're on our way!

Pearl

I did NOT like the sound of that. Let's pick up the pace!

Acht

Yeah... good call.

6F:

Pearl

We're on FIRE! Let's keep it moving, and don't stop
till we hit the top!

Acht

Hm? This is interesting.

Acht

The next floor lets you choose your own objective.
You get a different color chip for each one.

Pearl

Different difficulties too. Well, you're the one with
legs, Eight. Which way are we going?

7F:

Acht

No sign of Marina on this floor either.

Pearl

I hope she's doing alright. She's seemed a little
burned out lately.

Pearl

I guess we've still got a world tour to finish... but after
that, I promised her we could find a quiet spot together
and take it easy for a while. So we gotta save her, fast!

Acht

Sounds like Marina met the right people after she
got free. But this is Marina we're talking about,
so I expected as much.

Pearl

Well, y'know what they say... no one knows you like the
folks you grew up with.

Pearl

Plus, Marina had to learn the language when she got
to Greater Inkopolis, so you gotta figure she struggled
at least a LITTLE.

Pearl

I'd love to sit down and swap Marina stories, but this
ain't the time! Every second we spend chewing the fat
is a second we're not finding her!

8F:

Pearl

We're up pretty high now, huh? Bet we're racking up
the color chips.

Acht

See for yourself. You can press to check
your Palette.

Pearl

One, two, three... Wow, we got a bunch!

Pearl

Yo... what's up with the "Range" and "Power" stuff
over on the left?

Acht

Those are the color-chip tones.

Acht

Color chips come in tones based on their effects.
Each tone has its own color and pattern.

Acht

Reddish color chips are in the Power tone, so they
mostly up your damage output.

Acht

A once-over at your Palette will show you which color
chips you're heavy on. Should give you an idea of where
your strengths lie.

Acht

And if you're done checking your Palette... it's time to
move on to the next floor.

9F:

Acht

Heads up. We're coming to the top floor.

Pearl

That's where we'll find Marina, right?!

Acht

Probably. Though something about it seems... different
from the floors up to now.

Acht

Eight. Pearl. Watch yourselves.

Pearl

What's this, Eight? Are they wooorried about us?

Acht

Is something funny?

Pearl

Nah. You just sound like Marina when you say that.

Pearl

But enough messing around! Let's go find Marina.
No holding back, Eight — this is it!

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