Coordinate 136

Coordinate 136
ポイント136
Location	Junkyard
Subarea(s)	Mystery Castle

Coordinate 136 is a location in the Junkyard in Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner. It is the ruins of the Destiny Land amusement park, which contains the Mystery Castle dungeon.

Gameplay

Following the second visit to Manipura and the story event in Muladhara, Heat rejoins the party, having mastered whichever Mantra he had equipped and gaining levels to match the highest in the party. Mystery Castle is a dungeon containing one-way doors and several puzzles related to the story told throughout the dungeon, where the party must connect the princess and the good prince while thwarting the evil prince. The boss of the dungeon is Mick the Slug's Atma: Rahu.

After the dungeon is completed, a locked chest will appear at the entrance with two Pyro Jacks watching over it. The party must give them the Sugar Key, after which the party may fight King Frost at the top of the castle.

Encounters

Name	Race	Level	Notes
Onkot	Fiend	20
Principality	Aerial	22
Turdak	Demon	23
Fomor	Demon	24
Unicorn	Beast	24
Apsaras	Fiend	25
Jack Frost	Fiend	25
Pyro Jack	Fiend	25
Baphomet	Fiend	26
Jinn	Fiend	27
Thoth	Beast	27
Virtue	Aerial	28
Black Ooze	Fiend	30
Cu Chulainn	Fiend	30
Sarasvati	Deity	30

Items

Item	Location
Magic Noise	In B1, after falling through the trapdoor in the first corridor.
Quantum Cell	In B1, after falling through the trapdoor north in the third (northern) corridor.
MP Noise	In B1, after falling through the southwestern trapdoor in the fourth corridor.
Moldy Roll ×3	In B1, after falling through the northeastern trapdoor in the fourth corridor.
Soma Drop	Next to the portrait of the good prince.
Organic Cell	In the western mirror puzzle room, after completing the puzzle.
Revival Gem	Same as above.
Quantum Cell	In the first eastern mirror puzzle room, after completing the puzzle.
HP Noise	Same as above.
Soma	In the second eastern mirror puzzle room, after completing the puzzle.
Magic Noise	Same as above.
Nerve Shot	After riding the left platform in front of the entrance to the 4F puzzle room.
Revival Gem	In the corridor behind the track-changing button in the 4F puzzle room.
Yellow Key	On 6F, after riding the eastern mirror platform from its final position while the yellow tracks are separated.
Quick Noise	Behind the western yellow wall in 2F.
Chakra Pot	South of the western yellow wall in 2F.
Magic Mirror ×2	North of the western yellow wall in 2F.
Sugar Key	After Rahu, dropped from the Titania where the Nerve Shot can be found.
Ice Crystal	After defeating King Frost.

Game Appearances

Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner

	This section contains major spoilers.
	The contents of this section cover major plot and/or character spoilers. Reader discretion is advised.

Following the assaults on Manipura and Muladhara by the Solids, Mick the Slug manages to fight through the Embryon to secure Sera, though they spare many of their members, including Cielo, who was told where Sera would be held: Coordinate 136.

Throughout the dungeon, the Embryon plays along with a story told through pre-recorded transmissions in order to proceed. The story involves a princess with special powers being held captive and two princes from neighboring kingdoms who she was close with: the kind "good prince" and the brash "evil prince", the former of which she was secretly in love with, and the latter being "madly in love" with her to the point of interfering with her love for the good prince. Both princes approached the tower in order to rescue the Princess, though the evil prince challenged the good prince to a duel to stop him. However, due to the degraded quality of a transmission, some of the story is lost; the next intelligible scene being one where the good prince is fatally struck by the evil prince, causing the princess to fall into sadness and despair that "brought forth great destruction", causing the world to fall into a "terrible darkness".

Mick the Slug and Bat await the Embryon at the top of Mystery Castle, threatening to hurt her and offering Heat a chance to be with her in Nirvana should he kill Serph, stabbing him in the abdomen in the process as retribution for their previous fight. Heat initially appears to obey their demands and begins to fight Serph, while in reality they are faking the fight in order to retrieve Sera. Their plan is interrupted as Sera escapes from Mick's grasp and attempts to jump off the roof, then uses her power to force Mick to release her when he stops her. Bat, as Camazotz, flies down to catch her, holding her hostage from everyone else and announcing his plan to join the Brutes, but is interrupted himself by a timely attack from Cielo as Dyaus, who had escaped his confinement in Muladhara. Now alone with the Embryon, Mick attempts to sneak away, but is unsuccessful, forcing him to transform into Rahu in self-defense, but is subsequently killed.

The plot developments in Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2 recontextualize the story told in the Mystery Castle as a retelling of the events that caused the Black Sun from Sera's perspective, where she is the princess, Serph Sheffield is the good prince and Heat O'Brien is the evil prince. The story that had been lost due to degradation was the twist where the good prince was truly evil and the evil prince was truly good, mirroring the dissonance between how Sheffield and O'Brien presented themselves to Sera and their true intentions.

Manga Appearances

Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner Anthology Comic

Coordinate 136 appears in several chapters in the anthology, though none of them share a continuity with each other or the games.

In chapter 1, Serph suggests taking Gale there to awaken his emotions, as it is the most fun place he can think of, though none of the Embryon know how to use any of the attractions. After trying to use a carousel by tying Heat to the horses, Serph suggests riding the moving platforms, though they find a Principality and a Cu Chulainn already using it and begin fighting. Serph takes a portrait of the evil prince and tells Heat to put Atma's heads through it as to resemble Prithivi's mouths, which prompts the enemy to surrender and then join the Embryon in trying to help Gale awaken his emotions by teasing him. Gale transforms into Vayu, but only in front of Heat, so nobody else believes that Gale feels anger. Gale and Heat are then sent on the moving platform, which causes Gale to start screaming in fear and eating Heat, though nobody believes Heat's account of the events. Cu Chulainn suggests that navigating through the section with the trapped evil prince portraits will surely enrage Gale, so Gale and Heat are sent there. They fall on a trap, which angers Gale enough for him to devour a nearby Black Ooze, giving him Ache. Heat carries him back to the Embryon so he won't act out again, and notes that he enjoys his emotions, even though they can cause mistakes.

The Embryon return to Coordinate 136 in chapter 4 to find decorations for Sera's room at Embryon Base 2. They also find the Pyro Jack of the Hip Hop Brothers, who is trying to find a new brother after Jack Frost was killed. Heat sends him flying with a Raving Slash, then Serph grabs him by the cape. Serph believes Sera would think that he is cute, so they also take him. Argilla takes a banister, then Cielo and her work to take down a chandelier, which Gale cathes with Vayu's mouth, and Heat Consumes a Twinklebell statue. After three hours, they collect many more items, though they all become hungry due to not devouring anything. Gale helps by singing Pray himself, which works to alleviate the hunger. The Embryon decorate Sera's room, which she enjoys greatly. They later make more renovations all over the base to make it look more like Destiny Land, which leaves Serph wondering if they overdid it.

In chapter 7, after defeating Mick the Slug, Serph and Heat grow hungry. They decide to go hunt, despite Gale's insistence that they should go to the Deserted Ship immediately. Serph believes that Jack Frost is better to eat, as he prefers shaved ice, while Heat prefers Pyro Jack as he likes eating pumpkin. Heat drags Serph into Mystery Castle so they can figure out which is better, leaving Gale and Argilla waiting while Cielo flies to watch them from the sky. Heat tells Serph that he wants to settle their score and devour so that he can never lose to Serph. They then start an eating competition, traveling all the way up the castle, and end up keeled over with stomachaches. Cielo informs the others of this, and they run up the castle themselves. Gale has a Dis-Ache, though he first angrily lectures the two due to them delaying the Embryon's plans.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Coordinate 136
Japanese	ポイント136 Pointo 136	Point 136
Korean	포인트 136

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