From the Towers we Watch

Another day in Juke's Towers of Hell. I have been a fanatic of that game for years now, and I would feel like an idiot to say that it had deep secrets. I say that secrets are found. I am part of the general populace until today Into the inferno, with nine worlds waiting for me.

Confused
Today I would grind on Tower of Confusion with my friend MathiasRaziel. Tower of Confusion is the hardest tower in Ring 3, which is Gluttony. This perplexed me, as I had beaten the nerfed version of Citadel of Void (which was the Intense-Remorseless version in my case). So, while I was in the portal room waiting for my friend, a storm of GGs filled the chat. Someone had just beaten Tower of Champion's Road in Ring 9. How I longed to be in the final ring, just being three towers away. Tower of Confusion was on my hit list.

Once Mathias joined, we began running through the tower. I have to say, It_Nice and his quarter studs were annoying, as I kept falling back to floor 1. Mathias told me to use hotkeys to wallhop skip most of Floor 1. Instead of wallhopping, I began laugh climbing up to Floor 2. At least I haven't missed a checkpoint, I thought. Tower of Confusion was a dumpster fire, filled with the worst possible combination of half and quarter stud spam. How are jumps like this rated Extreme? It's Terrifying at the least, with its confusing conveyors and killbricks. But, thinking to myself, I won't let this prevent me from getting into Ring 9.

Floor 10. The final stretch. Mathias had already progressed to the killbricks and 2x2s, so he was a little farther than me. The conveyors. Left. Right. Into the killbricks and off the ledge. Once I got to the killbricks, Mathias was at the winpad. He jumped into the end tunnel.

{Server}: MathiasRaziel has completed Tower of Confusion in 34:48.10!

From the towers we watch.

This was strange. What was this "from the towers we watch" message? I had to know more. By then I had just realized that I had finished the tower.

{Server}: Transinfinitalius has completed Tower of Confusion in 36:20:13!

Into the 2 stud gap you lodge.

Well that was downright disappointing.

Once I respawned back in the lobby, several things were drastically off. Black and white holes to what some players called "the inferno's end" began popping up everywhere. This was... the Final Stretch. It wasn't released yet, but from what I could see it wasn't Remorseless. Another thing that disturbed me was that the tower portal colors were off, and when I mean off I meant they were scrambled all over the place like GAT style. God's awful plague of bad design reached Ring 3.

I'm getting out of this ring

Ring 7: Violence
I question myself now. Could Roblox be infected by a virus from outside without the developers knowing? This thought settles on me as I enter Ring 7. Mathias followed, his avatar fading from grey into his clothes. I had to beat Tower of Orientating Oscillating Opinions, no matter what. Four Intense+ towers, and 2 Remorseless+ towers. I had no choice but to do that awful, part-filled tower.

I had just entered ToOOO and proceeded onto the floors. I turned my camera upwards so I could see the enormous ball at the top. "Hopefully it has been fixed by now".

I was greeted by a barrage of bots, each of them appearing to be perfectly tuned to the ToOOO skill level. That was strange enough, because they were posting another stream of GGs; The famous YouTuber Myfart had just beaten Tower of Cruel Punishment.

What?

How did he complete that?

Apparently, the bots had held up the same sign while I was distracted by the bizarre ToCP win. It said the same thing: From the towers we watch. Still haunting me.

Instead of completing the tower, I left ToOOO and decided to go farther: into Ring 8.

Into Ring 8
To keep my distance from the atrocious AI storm, I joined a Ring 8 server. The chat was flooded with a myriad of GGs from the Tower of Wicked Fortress raid, but none too appealing for my skill level. More modern towers contained interesting gimmicks that I did not wish to learn because they were too complex for normal gameplay like a simple ten stud wrap.

To keep the gameplay less boring but not too complicated, I returned to Tower of Somewhat Simple Scaling to speedrun it. Fifteen minutes later I was at the second floor of Tower of Generation Failure; too quick. Mathias joined in the middle of my run.