SF0 / goddessofdoom / Urbane Exploration 1

20 + 24 points

Urbane Exploration 1 by Goddess of Doom and Thievery

December 28th, 2008 3:08 PM / Location: 45.863461,-122.7986

INSTRUCTIONS: Find a building which is in active use. Explore it thoroughly and get to know its secrets.

Politely talking your way into the heart of the building is an excellent way to understand its psychogeography, and see how it affects those who occupy it. Your interactions with the building's owners and inhabitants (employees, residents, etc) are to be strictly positive; recruiting the authorities as guides is a far, far better thing than being ejected by them.

Completing this task in proper exploring attire, which may include such accoutrements as a waistcoat or a monocle, will likely result in additional votes.

I decided to explore my church this morning. There are actually a lot of cool secret places there. Pastor opened some of the doors for me and had to watch when I climbed up into the ceiling, which was awesome. My church is also used as a ballroom.

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Little closet thing

Here's a little closet thing. It's around a corner so that you can't see it very well. Makes a good hiding spot.

What's this?

A little cupboard hidden in the corner. I didn't even know it could be opened until today.

And what's inside?

This is what was inside the cupboard. Just a football.

One of the rooms

Just to show that yes, there are people here. And so you see where the normal people walk around.

A back hallway?

Here's a hallway that was in the back...used for storage apparently.

More hallway

The same hallway, just further down. I know, it's dark and blurry. I didn't use flash and my camera is gay and blurs a lot.

Door #1

There are two doors to the side of the stage in our "sanctuary." Here's the first door's contents.

The closet....

This is the closet in the back of room #1. This is all there was in there. I couldn't get a better shot. But there were just a bunch of lamps.

And another closet

Another closet in room #1. The lock was open, so I just went ahead and explored....

All the people

All the church people just hanging in the sanctuary. I'm so ninja that a lot of them didn't even notice me.

Door #2

And here's what behind door #2. More storage. Stupid camera.

Behind the big curtains

Here is the area behind the curtains on the stage. Not much here except for the roof access.

In a closet that floats in the wall.

There's a closet that is up off the ground. I didn't even know it existed until my little safari. Here's what's inside.

The closet

That's the door to the floating closet.

Men's restroom shower

Yes, I went into the men's restroom. It isn't supposed to be used. But I went in, and look what I found. A SHOWER!

Men's restroom

Here are the stalls.

Up and up, into the ceiling

Here's the way into the ceiling. I always wondered what was up there....

Above the ceiling

And here's what's in the panel. A way into the ceiling. Pretty cool.

More ceiling

Here's more ceiling stuff.

The hole into the sanctuary ceiling

They wouldn't let me go in there because it's unstable. I tried to take a shot from where I was, because I could see into it, but it didn't work. So you'll just have to go without.

Storage