>> The Ring

In a small, concrete-walled rectangle, the utter failures of the labs are stored. Cells about a metre square house an experiment each: in the centre of this circle, a sort of secondary ditch cut down into the floor, is the Ring. Every experiment dreads this place. This is where the Blooders fight. Like some remnant of the Roman Colosseum, this place stinks of sweat and blood. The floor of the Ring, dusted with sand, has seen many experiments pushed from above onto its depths. The Ring is only three metres lower than floor level, but the room is so dark that extra lighting is needed: lights are wedged behind thick glass in the floor and walls, casting eerie shadows on the competitors.