Second Floor Lobby • AUPheniX Castle

Floor Overview

This lobby is the second step in the new vertical stack — stairs down return you to the Main Lobby, stairs up climb to the Penthouse. Side corridors from here will eventually branch into the shopping and gallery ring.

For now, the only hard links from this room are:

Up: Penthouse skydeck and signal tower view.
Down: Back to the Grand Main Lobby below.
Secret East route: future event-based connection to the 420 Lounge.

North, South, and West are placeholders for future corridors on this floor. The footer pill keeps their arrows visible but disabled or marked as secret so players learn the layout long before the doors unlock.

Preview • Second Floor Dock Layout

Second Floor Lobby

This room: /aupcastle/secondfloor.html

AUP: 000

Connections & Door States

Same visual language as the Navigation Lab — just applied to the Second Floor hub.

Active vertical paths: Up: Penthouse skydeck (/aupcastle/penthouse.html); Down: Main Lobby (/aupcastle/mainlobby.html)
Lateral doors from this floor: North: Disabled for now — reserved for gallery hall.; South: Disabled — planned balcony and overlook corridor.; West: Disabled — reserved for future VIP wing / AUComiX lounge.; East (secret): Soft-wired as a secret route to the 420 Lounge.
States (class / data-state): active disabled locked riddle secret

Teleport remains wired to the usual castle-wide pool of rooms so this floor can still throw you into the deeper maze — sublevel, lounge, labyrinth, mixing desk, etc.

Per-Room Wiring Notes

Second Floor uses the same footer code as every other room; only the NAV_MODEL changes.

For this room:

Up: state "active", href "/aupcastle/penthouse.html".

Down: state "active", href "/aupcastle/mainlobby.html".

East: state "secret", href "/aupcastle/420Lounge.html".

North/South/West: state "disabled" with soft tooltips about “no corridor wired yet”.

When you later open a new hall on this floor, you’ll only need to flip the relevant state to "active" and plug in the URL — the visual shell stays identical from room to room.

Future Floor Plans

A few ideas earmarked for this level of the castle.

Possible expansions:

North Hall (Gallery Ring): framed AUPheniX posters, lore artifacts, and comic covers.

South Balcony: glass overlook facing the city / signal tower.

West VIP Wing: AUComiX lounge, comedy stage, or streamer suites.

Event Portals: limited-time doors that only appear when certain AUP thresholds are met.

The important part: this room is now locked into the new nav template. Any future build-outs reuse this exact dock, so the castle always feels like one continuous space.