**Death Eats Pie is an Alternate Reality collaboration.**
Trivec Tower
Type: Corporate Headquarters
Location: Drakkesburg Proper, Drakkesburg
Description:
Trivec Tower is the central headquarters of Trivec Corporation and the most recognizable structure in Drakkesburg. Rising above the surrounding city like a monument to order imposed on chaos, the tower dominates the Corporate District skyline and can be seen from every district.
To most citizens, the tower represents both security and unease. When hospitals need supplies, when Death Forest patrols need weapons, when outbreaks spread through overcrowded neighbourhoods, Trivec usually responds. Yet few people truly understand what happens behind the tower's reinforced glass and steel walls.
Many people imagine the building much the same way they imagine castles: important people at the top making decisions for everyone below.
In reality, the tower functions as a vertical city. Thousands of employees work inside across administration, medicine, security, logistics, engineering, genetics, finance, manufacturing oversight, and government-like services normally handled by a state.
The highest floors are occupied by executive offices, strategic planning departments, emergency response command centres, and the office of Jim Preston himself. From these levels, Trivec monitors large portions of Drakkesburg's infrastructure and coordinates responses to everything from gang wars to creature incursions.
At night, the tower remains illuminated long after the rest of the city begins to darken. The lights near the top are rarely seen turning off.
Characteristics:
Vertical Power Structure -
The tower physically reflects Trivec's authority.
Lower floors handle public-facing operations.
Middle floors contain research divisions, corporate administration, data processing centres, and secured laboratories.
Upper floors become increasingly restricted, with access determined by rank and security clearance.
The closer someone gets to the top, the fewer people are allowed there.
Government Without Calling Itself One -
Officially, Trivec is a corporation.
Practically, it performs many functions normally associated with government:
Emergency response coordination
Medical distribution
Infrastructure planning
Security contracting
Death Forest defence logistics
Resource allocation during crises
Many citizens joke that city hall is wherever Trivec decides it is.
The Preston Floor -
The uppermost executive level is commonly referred to as The Preston Floor.
Rumours about it vary wildly.
Some believe it contains luxurious penthouses.
Others imagine secret laboratories.
Most people simply assume that all important decisions happen there.
The reality is less glamorous and more practical: meeting rooms, crisis centres, communications systems, executive offices, and planning departments working around the clock.
Jim Preston's office overlooks much of Drakkesburg, giving him a direct view of the city he effectively manages.
Constant Activity -
Unlike ordinary office buildings, Trivec Tower never truly closes.
Shifts rotate twenty-four hours a day.
Medical emergencies, security incidents, outbreaks, industrial accidents, and Death Forest alerts arrive continuously.
Employees often describe the building as feeling more alive than many neighbourhoods.
Corporate Security -
The tower is heavily protected.
Security checkpoints, biometric access systems, armed guards, surveillance networks, and emergency lockdown procedures are standard.
This is not because Trivec fears ordinary citizens.
The company possesses enough valuable research, pharmaceuticals, weapons designs, and genetic data to make it one of the most targeted locations in Drakkesburg.
Public Spaces -
Despite its intimidating reputation, portions of the lower levels remain accessible to the public.
Visitors can find:
Information desks
Medical consultation offices
Licensing departments
Corporate recruitment centres
Public meeting areas
Cafeterias and food vendors
For many citizens, these lower floors are the only parts of the tower they will ever see.
Symbol of the Era -
The tower embodies Drakkesburg itself.
Built because someone needed to solve problems.
Expanded because nobody else could.
Feared because it became too powerful.
Relied upon because removing it would cause the city to collapse.
Ambience:
Primary Sounds -
Distant ventilation systems
Constant elevator movement
Computer terminals and data processors
Intermittent public announcements
Soft conversations from passing employees
Footsteps on polished floors
Security scanners activating
Phones ringing in distant offices
Research Levels -
Refrigeration units humming
Laboratory equipment cycling
Mechanical doors opening and sealing
Diagnostic machines beeping
Air filtration systems
Executive Floors -
Quiet air conditioning
Muffled conversations through conference room walls
Distant city noise through reinforced glass
Occasional communication alerts
The subtle vibration of machinery supporting the building
Exterior Atmosphere -
Rain striking glass above street level
Transport craft passing nearby
Sirens echoing through the streets below
Wind moving around the upper structure
The constant industrial murmur of Drakkesburg beneath it
Overall Feeling -
The tower sounds less like a business and more like a machine that never sleeps—a place where thousands of people continuously work to keep a the city functioning.