The Mysterious Tower

The console vanishes when Eric approaches it. Instead an energy bubble forms around Eric and takes him up into a strange room. There he finds himself surround by monitors and controls, some physical and others made of light. They display many things, such as current contestants in the Tower, what room they're in, the challenge, what room they might go in next, profiles of the individuals, etc.  

Eric regains his bearing, and looks over the consoles, seeing that everything is still functional. He then looks over the controls in more detail, trying to figure out what each does. It appeared that they were running autonomously at the moment, and so he didn’t press anything in fear of messing something up. “This place probably doesn’t have an user’s manual....”

Eric looks at the pedestal with wary surprise. After a second he would walk over and read the important parts of the manual, skimming the more technical stuff, and skipping the legal section.

He retreats mentally into a shell splitting his mind from the mind of the mask.

Bahkrionix pauses, looking around. After waiting a few minutes, he shrugs and goes through the center door anyways.

Luckily there is no legal section as no-one can sue you anyways. The important thing to note is that the Tower does have a small device Eric can carry on his person that will alert him for a new person entering the Tower and when one finishes all the trials. In combination with the system, Eric could theoretically quickly assign the challenges the challenger would face and in what order straight from the beginning and just leave it be. Though without him being there, it would not give hints or change the intensity of the challenges, nor inform him of the challenger being stuck or perhaps having died. He would have to be here for such things. 

The mask doesn't have a mind and there is nowhere to hide as its mental changes still take place. 

The light flickers back as motion returns to normal. There are bolts of lightning bouncing all around in the room. 

In a burst of air, he hurtles towards it, coming to a stop right in front of it. Casually, he walks through.