City Roof

Spoiler*This article contains **SPOILERS** to Stray! Please read it only if you have already completed the game.*

**Walled City 99** is covered by a massive **roof** mega-structure for most of the game, and likely most of the city's history. This roof exists as part of the city's confinement protocol and seals off the city from the Outside. The roof blocks off all access to sunlight, and as a result most Companions consider the Blue Sky to be a myth, and the city below is covered in darkness, with neon signs giving the city light and color.

The Circles of Light are found on the ceiling of the roof.

## History

The roof was built as part of the Walled City. The fact that it can be opened suggests it was not needed at some point. Companions have not seen the Blue Sky with their own eyes, implying that the roof has been sealed for centuries from old containment protocols started by humans before extinction. The roof was likely engaged to keep the unlivable conditions on the Outside (such as acid rain as indicated by Signs) out, keep the population within the relative safety of the city, to keep the zurk from spreading outside the city, or a combination thereof.

## In-game

*The roof can be seen for most of the game except in the sewers and in Antvillage. The roof is opened in Chapter 12: Control Room.*

The Control Room has control over the entire city, including the roof. In order to reach the Outside, the Cat and B-12 must use the metro to get to the Control Room metro station, from where the Control Room Area can be accessed. In the Control Room, once the computer systems are turned on by Cat and hacked into by B-12, the city confinement protocol can be disabled using a main computer station.

B-12 uses his full power to disable the confinement protocol, thus losing his "consciousness" and falling to the ground. Players speculate that just like B-12 came from the network, he has uploaded himself to the Walled City network at the end of the game.

The roof of the city opens slowly, flooding the dark city in sunlight. The Blue Sky can finally be seen - the Companions can be seen looking up in disbelief. The sunlight washes over the zurk infested areas of the city and instantly destroys all zurk on the surface (although zurks can likely still thrive in the darkest sewers).

The end of the confinement protocol also disables the Sentinels, and the city exit gates are opened.

## Technical description

The roof looks to be a heavy metal super-structure. It requires no support from below. When closed, it becomes a singular dark surface lit up by the Circles of Light. It is unknown how it is powered or how the separate part of the roof are able to come apart and slide out smoothly.

It opens in parts - it is divided into discs as marked by the Circles of Light, and these discs are further cut up like pizza into 6 parts. When the roof opens, there is a smallest central disc that slides out fully to the side and into the walls (as seen out of bounds). Next, the 6 levels of the roof open one by one - firstly, the whole disc rises up, then the 6 slices slide out. This repeats and the slices are stacked. This way, the whole roof becomes compact and slides into the inner walls of the city. Once all parts of the roof slide in, metal gates rise up from the floor of the slot where the roofs are held, concealing them in the wall.

*The full roof opening sequence can be seen here from 12:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLC2EpaY5DI*

*OUT OF BOUNDS opening sequence from above from 10:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R782NqFSZ7Y*

## Gallery

Roof central disc sliding outZurk running from daylightCompanions seeing the Blue SkyRoof parts sliding out and stackingRoof fully open and hidden in wallOOB roof closedOOB roof openingOOB roof openedOOB roof hidden hallwayOut of bounds sun flooding city