Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-43590961-20190823000151

i was curious about something (and i hope there hasn't already been a thread about it -- if yes then i'm sorry, please be so kind and redirect me).

i don't think it has ever been explained how baam appeared on 20th floor. my personal guess is that he got transported there in secret through the stairways in middle area (the very same that yuri and evan were using at the beginning of the story). it seems like the most plausible explanation, because of that time hwaryun got asked how come she's still climbing when she failed on the floor of tests and she replied saying she's a guide and goes wherever she wants. she had to transport herself somehow to the higher levels, so she most likely took the stairs, which are an express way of travelling between floors, and used her guide sense to navigate them. she (and other fug members) probably smuggled baam onto 20th floor this way.

the thing is, these stairs are deemed ranker-exclusive for 2 obvious reasons:

1. they are [supposedly] very twisted and dangerous

2. using them, regulars could just go up and down the tower however they wish, nevermind their status. that is, if they didn't get lost and killed in the process

but entertaining the thought that it's exactly the way that hwaryun and baam took: do guardians just shrug it off as a no-problem when a regular tries to hop onto a higher floor, despite having failed a test? because you'd expect a guardian to be pissed at such a violation. i don't know whether it's because baam and hwaryun had both a 'special status', as an irregular and a guide, but if this were an actual cheat-sheet to advancing? guides could actually make a bussiness out of that.

i can imagine this sort of service being very in demand -- instead of indebting yourself to loan sharks in order to retake a test, you could just pay some conman guide to take you to a higher floor. also, even though hwaryun justified herself with being a guide, i don't think she goes wherever she wants because she's an exception to tower's rules -- i think she just sees more paths than an ordinary person and can therefore take advantage of loopholes in said rules. and this seems like a BIG loophole.

the other theory i have is that they took tests directly from the guardians (like zahard & co. when they were climbing) for the entire time they were in hiding. although... well... that's still a reach, because to take tests in a two-person team sounds very tedious.

i just want to know whether there is any additional information about this that i've missed?  