Xenoform Research Lab

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Dimension - [ 15 x 11] squares

Image resolution - 3000 x 2200 px

DPI - 200

"The swinging double doors groan as you push through, releasing a wave of antiseptic sting—bleach and sterile plastic clawing at your throat. Harsh white light flickers overhead, glinting off steel trays strewn with scalpels, coiled tubing, and restraints still bearing the ghost of struggle.

It's the silence that unsettles most. No whimpers, no scratching—just the hollow click of your shoes against tile, echoing down the rows of cages. Rabbits press into the corners of their hutches, trembling. Dogs curl tight as fists, ears flattened. In their wire prisons, rats pile atop one another, a living mass of fur and fear.

The walls glare back, pristine but for the occasional smear—rust-brown, faded cherry—where hurried hands missed a stain.

Then, a sound: footsteps. A tuneless whistle, sharp as a scalpel’s edge.

The animals erupt. Cages shudder, metal screeches, bodies hurl themselves against bars in a frenzy of claws and teeth. You freeze.

The doors swing open."

~ SlappinFace

Huge thanks to SlappinFace for that spine-chilling introduction! Here's the latest battle map: the Xenoform Research Laboratory - a.k.a "animal testing lab".

Hidden behind layers of corporate bureaucracy and bio-secure firewalls, this facility operates at the bleeding edge of genetic manipulation and cybernetic augmentation. It isn't just an animal testing lab — I wanted this battle map to be a blacksite for experimental biotech, where living creatures are routinely subjected to invasive procedures, neural rewiring, and prototype implant trials.

This battle map features three distinct sections of the lab: the main testing area, a viewing room behind a glass panel, and an animal housing zone separated from the main area by a reinforced steel fence.

I tried to keep the details of this particular battle map as generic as possible so you can slip this room into various settings and scenarios. I hope you'll find many uses for it.

Map Variants

Mysterious Green Vials

There is a refrigerator full of vials, filled with a luminous green liquid. It could be a new sort of bio-enhancement drug. I'll leave the how and what's to you guys.

But this isn't the first time I've drawn these vials on my maps. So if you can find the other maps with these vials, you could chain the narrative together and have your players follow the trail of these vials and eventually discover their creator.

It Got Out

Something very powerful escaped from one of those cages and wreaked havoc in the lab. It might have also taken a victim or two before smashing its way through the viewing room glass. Time to track this creature down before it makes its way to densely populated zones in the city!