Plexal Upstairs

Plexal Upstairs
Area type	Hub
Course	Castle Grounds (light version) Slide (dark version)
Area ID	7, warp ID 2 (both versions)
First appearance	v0.6.9

Plexal Upstairs is an area in B3313.

Description

The area somewhat resembles the Vanilla Upstairs in structure. The main floor has two side hallways, with the left hallway containing paintings and a door to a mirror room with breakable boxes blocking a doorway through the mirror. The "success" jingle plays when the player passes through the doorway.

The right hallway has a door to a room reminiscent of the vanilla Tiny-Huge Island painting room, and a slight slope leading to a room with a warp hole. A larger slope leads to the top floor of the area, which has light blue walls and a crescent moon above one of the doors, similar to Crescent Castle. Another upwards slope leads to a double door, the highest point of the area, while another room contains a hole dropping to a basement room.

Strangely, there seems to be a plane out of bounds that reads "FUCK" in Comic Sans. This is used to store painting data.

Origins

The area was taken from the beginning of "tape2.mp4" by TheBob.

The room leading to Sky-High Pathway appears to be based on a hoax video titled "strangeroom" by riceworld.

The music playing is the "Inside Castle" theme from the vanilla game's OST, which is affected by nighttime.

Warps

Two-way

• Beta Lobby B: On the main floor, go through the double door at the back and then the next one at the end of the hallway.
• Plexal Hallway: On the main floor, go through the door with the number 1 on it in the left side hallway, and then go through the double door on the other side of the mirror.
• (Christmas Build+) Royal Lobby: On the main floor, go through the double door next to the Wet-Dry World painting.
• Cryptic Hideout: On the upper floor, go through the double door with the crescent moon above it.
• (v0.7+) Underground Passageway/(v0.6.9) Bowser's Castle: On the upper floor, go up the slope and through the double door at the end with the Bowser painting above it.

Leading here

• In versions v0.9 and v1.0, collecting a star in an area without a painting entrance with the ripple effect results in warping to this area by default (with the exception of some unique cases, like Bob-omb Village). This usually spawns the player into a darker version of the area, now located in Slide, with the music also changed into a minor scale, but the warps are unchanged. One possible effect of the Yellow Switch is to cause even the levels in paintings to warp you here after collecting a star, the default behavior prior to v0.9.

Leading away

• Creepy Cove: On the main floor, enter the Jolly Roger Bay painting.
• Dry Town: On the main floor, enter the Wet-Dry World painting in the left side hallway.
• Lavish Lava Mountain: On the main floor, go through the lower door in the right-side hallway, then enter either small Lethal Lava Land painting.
• Pleasant, Pleasant Falls: On the main floor, enter the painting of mountain bridges in the left side hallway.
• (v0.9+) Pleasant, Pleasant Falls (corrupted): Enter the Pleasant, Pleasant Falls painting in the darker version of Plexal Upstairs for a chance to be warped to the corrupted version of the falls.
• Sky-High Pathway: On the main floor, go through the single door at the end of the right-side hallway, then jump into the hole.
• Rainbow Ride (beta): On the upper floor, jump into the hole in front of the door with the number 3 on it.

• Uncanny Courtyard: On the main floor, enter the hole in the wall to the right of the Jolly Roger Bay painting.
• (v0.7) Piranha Plant Garden: On the main floor, enter the door with no number on it in the left-side hallway, then enter the mountain painting.
• Big Boo's Fortress: On the upper floor, enter the door with the number 3 on it, then go down the hole and enter the Boo painting. (Note: While the player technically warps back to Plexal Upstairs after collecting a star, they will be ejected into the Forest Maze warp hole.)
• Forest Maze: Enter the hole in front of the Boo painting.

Routes

Note that this section lists only the shortest routes to the area.

v1.0.2/UA

Through Fast Travel:
Beta Lobby B > Plexal Upstairs

Gallery

v0.7

The main floor.

The double door leading to Beta Lobby B.

The painting leading to Creepy Cove.

The hole in the wall leading to Uncanny Courtyard.

The main floor's left side hallway.

The painting leading to Pleasant, Pleasant Falls.

The painting leading to Dry Town.

The painting leading to Piranha Plant Garden.

The double door leading to Plexal Hallway.

The main floor's right side hallway.

The painting leading to the fiery state of Lavish Lava Mountain.

The painting leading to the grassy state of Lavish Lava Mountain.

The hole leading to Sky-High Pathway.

The slope leading to the upper floor.

The upper floor.

The double door leading to Cryptic Hideout.

The double door leading to Underground Passageway.

The hole leading to Rainbow Ride (beta).

The painting leading to Big Boo's Fortress.

Darker version of the main floor.

Darker version of the upper floor.

Out of bounds plane that says "FUCK"

Napping on top of the clock

v0.6.9

Development screenshots

Mario at the entrance.

This warp pipe further evidences that this area was inspired by "tape2.mp4".

Changelog

• v1.0.1 - Hotfix 1
  • Fixed some star collection warps still leading to Plexal Upstairs instead of level entrance.
• v1.0.1
  • Collecting a star for most non-painting levels will send player to level entrance instead of Plexal Upstairs.
• aerhyear paintinged
  • Collecting a star in paintings with a ripple effect will exit the painting instead of warping here.
    • Hitting the Yellow Switch has a chance of reverting this change.
  • Warp to Piranha Plant Garden changed to Royal Lobby.
• v0.6.9
  • Plexal Upstairs added.

Trivia

• Two versions of Plexal Upstairs exist: a brighter version and a darker version with more ominous background music. Entering via Beta Lobby B, Cryptic Hideout, Plexal Hallway, or Underground Passageway will take the player to the brighter version. Entering via Royal Lobby will take the player to the darker version.
• Prior to v1.0.1, collecting most stars in an area without a painting entrance with the ripple effect results in warping to the darker version. However, stars collected in Course 11 areas warp to the brighter version.
• Pressing the Yellow Switch can revert to the hack's old behavior of warping the player to the Plexal Upstairs after collecting most stars. This feature uses Unused Flag #3.
• When the player enters this area via Plexal Hallway at nighttime, the background music will use the "nighttime music box" instrument set, which persists even when exiting to Beta Lobby B.
• If the player reaches this area without having collected any red stars and attempts to enter the warp to Sky-High Pathway, they will instead be warped to Bowser in the Dark World (Shoshinkai). After collecting at least one red star, this warp works like normal.
• Likewise, with no red stars, the warp to Uncanny Courtyard leads to Bowser in the Dark World (Shoshinkai) instead in the brighter version of the Plexal Upstairs, and is non-functioning in the darker version.