i finally got around to visiting this location last night. i was bored outta my skull and wanted to do something before going to bed so i made my way downtown. i first parked at the building next door and was getting my stuff ready. thirty seconds later a gigantic pickup truck pulls into the parking lot, pauses for a second behind my car then turns around and leaves. i decided to find a better parking spot. i end up walkling about a half mile but at least no one spots my second parking job. while approaching the building, three import cars come flying into the parking lot twenty feet behind me. i duck behind a wall of the building and curse my luck for the evening so far. as soon as they leave, i venture down the wall and over the shodddy barbwire topped gate, dropping into the shadows on the other side. every door i see is wide open. into the main door i go. the breeze is blowing everything around, bringing the building to life. there are no inanimate objects in the place. i venture towards the northwest section of the building first. all the rooms seem to be constructed for refrigeration and either shipping or storage. in the very corner i find a red sprial staircase going down to the basement. i decide to check the rest of the main floor before going down. halfway through plan a, i see movement. and it's not the wind this time. a clear sheet of plastic in the middle of the warehouse floor comes to life ten feet in front of me. it lights up like a wet mirror from my light and a burly head and chest pop out from behind the plastic sheath. i fumble to kill my two lights, while walking backwards and muttering obscenities into my respirator. just a victim of our economically enveloped society.
so now half the building is this guy's bedroom. there's still other places to see. i politely move back into the darkness and quietly go down the spiral. the basement is more refrigeration. the humidity is so high that it's cold enough to see my breath, even when it's sixty five degrees outside. almost like being in a cave. everything is dripping wet. back outside, i make my way up to the second floor office. in the cabinets are about twenty three inch binders on radiation, chemicals, and food. nice mixture. what is this place again? another quick pulseraiser when i open the water heater closet and see two cats dart behind the tank. i'm expecting to find a room full of slime covered alien egg cases in the next room.
nothing much left to check out other than the basement office at the back of the building. the place is trashed. those food additives are still there but it looks like someone tried to eat them... or thought they were drugs. the bathroom had lots of interesting items left behind, including in the toilet. all the books are still on the shelf. apparently the new local inhabitants are not much for reading. back out into the night, i make one full round of the whole building and find the mechanical room. cool stuff. then it's back to the car.
i've had too much excitement for the night.