In the Tower Strive, progression is a virtue; stagnation, death. It was two-thirty in the morning when the raccoon who became known as El Bandito arrived to ransack my trash cans… again. But this time, I was prepared. Pajama-clad, Crocs-shod, and toting a high-powered air rifle, I channeled the spirit of that legend among hunters: Elmer Fudd. Maybe that’s why it felt almost comical when both the raccoon and I were pancaked by a falling delivery truck. Now in some kind of messed-up otherworld, I must climb a mysterious tower where trials await at each floor. Equipped with a kada ring, which allows me to perform magic via hand gestures, and with a newly sentient, wisecracking raccoon partner at my side, I slowly make my way up to a different kind of civilization, where a captivating and twisted murderess awaits… My name is Xavier Shaw, and this is a story about how a trash person and a trash panda can team up to survive in a dumpster fire of a world. Tower-climber, Progression Fantasy, isekai, comedic, somewhat introspective, no harem.