Unlike the rest of them, this newcomer  seemed to know what he was doing and what everything appeared to be about. At the same time, Jake could tell that Ivan didn’t trust him, and it wasn’t without reason. This ‘Alois’ spoke with a level of confidence and indifference that gave him a bit of a shifty feel. Jake stood back and spoke with caution.<br/><br/>“Test? This is a test?” he asked. The woman on the announcer had mentioned something about a test as well, but any implications then were overshadowed by the objective. But now that they were relatively safe (for the time being at least), the descriptive words had stood out. ‘Test’, ‘administrator’, ‘level’… taken out of context, it sounded like some sort of examination not unlike school-based testing.<br/><br/>“Welcome to the Tower, child,” that creepy man had said back in the caverns. Yeah, that’s what it was called: the Tower of Babel. And a tower implied multiple floors of… tests? Jake furrowed his brows for a moment, thinking things through. The first floor was a test of survival against that worm. The doorway must have taken him to the second level where his survival was again tested against other people. Still, this didn't answer the more important question.<br/><br/>What were they testing for?