Sea Tower
Not-Bottomless Holes	18
Collectible Treasures	1
? Blocks	5
Enemies	Koopa Troopas Hammer Bros Boomerang Bros Fire Bros Ice Bros Sledge Bros Sidesteppers Mechakoopa (at random) Tape

“A tower standing in the Great Sea. That's...the Sea Tower. Obviously.”

—Captain T. Ode,Paper Mario: The Origami King

Sea Chart icon for the Sea Tower

TheSea Tower is a tall tower standing inthe Great Sea inPaper Mario: The Origami King. It is charted in territory B-1 on the Sea Chart and requires threeOrbs to enter the tower. The Sea Tower contains elements of all the previousVellumental areas: theEarth Vellumental Temple,Water Vellumental Shrine,Fire Vellumental Cave, andIce Vellumental Mountain.Tape is battled atop the Sea Tower as the guardian of the purplestreamer. The Sea Tower also connects toShangri-Spa by a column of light at the top of the tower.

There are five? Blocks, only one Collectible Treasure, and manyNot-Bottomless Holes in the Sea Tower. Although there areToads stuck to the tower walls by strips of tape, they do not count toward the number ofToads to be rescued.

A Collectible Treasure of the Sea Tower (No. 100) is available for purchase from aSpike inShangri-Spa for 10,000 coins (20,000 coins after the green streamer is cleared).

Layout[edit]

The orbs placed into a door to the Sea Tower.

Mario must have gathered theCourage Orb, Wisdom Orb, and Power Orb from having cleared the three trials onDiamond Island in order open the door to the Sea Tower; when interacting with the door, Mario has to place all three orbs in, and he can then enter the tower. TheWarp Pipe serving as a shortcut between the Sea Tower andMusée Champignon inToad Town is located outside the tower.

The first floor of the Sea Tower

The first floor of the Sea Tower is styled after theEarth Vellumental andWater Vellumental. First, Mario has to jump across multiple expanding and retracting pillars. He comes across two idols resembling the Water Vellumental. A blue Sidestepper steals theRed Gem from the left statue and runs into a passageway. Following the Sidestepper leads Mario to anEarth Vellumental Temple area, with rising and falling pillars. Midway through the area, he must hammer two pillars out of the wall and jump on top of a protruding statue. Pulling some tape off of a pillar and filling in aNot-Bottomless Hole leads Mario through a doorway to aWater Vellumental Shrine room. The Sidestepper runs between the front and back ends of the room, entering cracks in the wall that allow it to easily escape Mario. To trap the Sidestepper, Mario has to hammer the walls to lower Vellumental heads and cover the cracks, then catch the Sidestepper and recover the Red Gem. Once he puts it in the statue's eye, he can go up the stairs to the second floor.

The second floor of the Sea Tower

On the way up the tower, Mario andOlivia observe Toads taped to the tower walls. After going up a moving platform, Mario arrives at an area dedicated to theFire Vellumental andIce Vellumental, with statues of themselves facing each other. There is a button behind the Fire Vellumental statue that Mario can hammer to make it spit out a weak flame. To the south of the Fire Vellumental statue are stairs going down to an icy path above a pit of spikes. The path leads to an icy area to the left, where Mario has to complete an ice-sliding puzzle similar to the ones in theIce Vellumental Mountain. There is a chamber nearby that Mario can enter to reset the puzzle. Mario must first slide the first ice slab into a block of spikes in order to reach the second ice slab, which he must then slide to the right to form a bridge over the spike pit, granting him access into aFire Vellumental Cave room to the right. To get to the other end, he has to jump across a group of tiles, repeating a sequence in reverse. This takes him to aMagic Circle, and Mario must use the1,000-Fold Arms to release ametal ball, which rolls down a slope and hits the button behind the Fire Vellumental statue with enough force to make it spit out a strong flame that melts the icy teeth of the Ice Vellumental statue, clearing the path to the next floor.

The Shifty Sticker: Tape, boss of the Sea Tower and guardian of the purple streamer

A group of Toads taped to the side of the Sea Tower

Even more Toads are taped to the tower walls as Mario climbs higher until he reaches the top of the tower. Here, he finds a spool for the purple streamer, along with four Vellumental pillars—one each for earth, water, fire, and ice—that are all blocked off by the streamer. As Mario approaches the spool,Tape appears on a central platform and challenges Mario. Once Tape is defeated, it explodes, and the strips of tape restraining the Toads to the tower walls disappear, freeing them. Also, a Magic Circle spawns on the platform, allowing Mario to use the 1,000-Fold Arms to destroy the purple streamer's spool.

After clearing the streamer, Mario and Olivia notice a green streamer that goes up above the clouds, and Olivia ponders on how to follow the streamer. Mario can examine below his feet to find a hint on how to continue from the top of the Sea Tower: "Let four fold into one and point you toward paradise." At this point, Mario can access the four Vellumental pillars. He must stand on a rainbow-colored Magic Circle in front of each pillar and use the power of its corresponding Vellumental: Earth Vellumental to lower a mound of dirt holding up the Earth Vellumental pillar, Water Vellumental to douse a ring of flames around the Water Vellumental pillar, Fire Vellumental to melt a chunk of ice encasing the Fire Vellumental pillar, and Ice Vellumental to freeze a pool of water around the Ice Vellumental pillar. Mario must also hammer a red button on each Vellumental pillar to make it rotate toward the platform. When all four pillars are facing the platform, each fires a beam from its mouth; the beams merge over the platform and create a column of light that beams upward into the sky. Mario then steps into the light that warps him and Olivia into the sky, following the green streamer toShangri-Spa.

Profile[edit]

• Collectible Treasure No. 100: "A giant tower that has loomed over the Great Sea since the dawn of time. Legends say it leads to Shangri-Spa."

Collectibles[edit]

NOTE: Items not included here: Confetti and random coins from hammering random objects.

Field/Objects[edit]

Item	Location	Image
4 Coins	In the Earth Vellumental area, right of the exit to the Water Vellumental area.
10-Coin	4 on the slide in the Ice Vellumental area.
	5 in the second outside area, collectable while standing on the moving Earth Vellumental platform.
100-Coin	In the second outside area, at the end of the part with the moving Earth Vellumental platform.
Coin, 10-Coin, 100-Coin andShiny Fire Flower	In the Ice Vellumental area, in four boulders in the sliding puzzle.
Healing Heart	In the Earth Vellumental area, in the upper part, in western corner.
	In the Earth/Water Vellumental area, in front of the exit to the second outside area.
	In the Fire Vellumental area, in the rock found at the north part.
	In the third outside area, in front of the elevator leading to the boss arena.
Red Gem	In the Water Vellumental area, picked up after defeating the Blue Sidestepper holding it. Required to progress.
Shiny Ice Flower	In the Fire/Ice Vellumental area, in the mouth of the Ice Vellumental statue.
Small Bag of Confetti	In the Ice Vellumental area, in the restart room for the sliding puzzle.

Not-Bottomless Holes[edit]

Description	Necessity	Image
18 Holes
Three found after crossing the pillars: one on the ground near the Earth Vellumental room, one in the middle on the stairs, and one on the right wall.	Optional
On the pillar in the Earth Vellumental room seen right as Mario enters.	Required
On the left pillar in the southwest corner of the room.	Required
Three are seen right away as Mario enters Fire Vellumental and Ice Vellumental room.	Ground One Required, Wall Ones Optional
On the wall above the stairs before the sliding puzzle area.	Optional
Six in the sliding puzzle area, with 3 of them initially being hidden under clumps of snow.	Optional
On the back wall of the small puzzle reset room.	Optional
On the back wall of the Fire Vellumental Cave room.	Optional
On the wall outside after the second floor.	Optional

Collectible Treasure[edit]

Treasure	Description	Image
1 treasure
Sea Captain Toad's Boat	In the Earth Vellumental room, behind a moving pillar.

? Blocks[edit]

Hidden	Item	Description	Image
5 blocks
	Shiny Tail POW Block	Near the corners of theEarth Vellumental wall are two ? Blocks. The left block contains aPOW Block, while the right contains aShiny Tail.
	100-Coin	At the top of the Earth Vellumental puzzle room is a ? Block near a pillar that has beentaped.
	100-Coin	Behind the large red button on theFire Vellumental Statue of the second floor is a ? Block.
	100-Coin	After navigating a group of tiles above flaming oil on the second floor, similar to a section within theFire Vellumental Cave, Mario reaches a ledge with a ? Block and a set of stairs.

Gallery[edit]

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  A view of the tower from the Great Sea overworld

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  Top of the Sea Tower

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  Musée Champignon Art Gallery No. 91: Top of the Sea Tower

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  Musée Champignon Art Gallery No. 92: Fire and Ice Vellumentals

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  Musée Champignon Art Gallery No. 93: Sea Tower Entrance

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  Musée Champignon Art Gallery No. 94: Earth and Water Vellumentals

Names in other languages[edit]

• Towers
• Paper Mario: The Origami King locations

• Articles with unsourced foreign names