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Okay, I've read about tunnels at my school but how do I get in? |
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Often people will help you out with entrance info if you ask them. But if you can't find this information and nobody will answer your questions, it's usually for a good reason. Many areas only have a couple workable entrances, and if they're publicized so that any old schmo tries to waltz in it screws things up for everyone. Your first step towards being a real adventurer, and your first reward, is gaining your exit from the common life into the Underground. So get out there and figure it out on your own.
Tips for finding entrances:
- When there is a light covering of snow, look for swaths of bare grass running across campus. Hmmm, maybe there's something warm under there...
- At some campuses, buildings don't have entrances, just bricked up holes that allow only space for pipes to run through. So, find promising manholes/grates and get yourself a crowbar. Hint: promising manholes do not say "Electric" or "Sewer" on them if you're looking for tunnels. Hint part two: make educated guesses as to where the tunnels may run, and find manholes near that line.
- Some building entrances are so obvious that you may not even think of it. (Ed. note: I once passed over a big wooden door with "TUNNEL" painted on it in foot high white letters forever because the campus was full of pedestrian tunnels, some no longer in use, and I figured a real tunnel entrance would be more low-key. And I was too lazy to work on the lock.) Look for signs or small inscriptions around doors that indicate what "unmarked" or "unnumbered" doors might be used for.
- At many institutions Mechanical Rooms will give you entrance to the tunnels. Pick a building, follow the hum of machinery and hope a janitor was careless about locking up (wink, wink).
- If you're extremely daring, try to infiltrate the physical plant itself and access the tunnels through it. Remember though that the tunnels are often locked and barred where they enter the plant basement.
- Construction, construction, construction. Be observant. If the local fiber-optic company spends the summer digging up a massive trench through the streets with a backhoe, that's often a good indicator of where a tunnel may run. Check the manholes when they're finished. Also, buildings under construction/radical renovation often give easy, easy access to tunnels if you can get into the site without being caught. Use common sense; if they're working on the old philosophy building, you've got a good shot, but if they're gutting the sciences building and setting up something sensitive or pricey like a digital media center or animal testing lab in the space, you're going to get nailed.
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