Terminus: U.S. 23

[jack_babalon]

Outpost Zero: Status: Abandoned... No Survivors Found...

"What was it?" I ask Jacques who's contemplating the locked fence across the catwalk, "It looks like some kind of ... I dunno lab, maybe?"

"We can get in" he says brushing the question aside due to lack of empirical research, "All we have to do is climb over the railing and swing across the bridge"

I exchange a concerned glance with his faithful assistant.

"I don't know man..."

"What? You wanna find out what's going on in here doncha?"

I suck air through my teeth in a worried hiss. We're losing sunlight and I can just picture some Pig cruising by any moment and slapping us with a trespass charge.

Still though, I look at the giant tree growing in the center of the dirty white walls, the dirt road that stretches into a wooded area behind it, the long dead lighting system... the gated bridge? What was this place?


Command Central: Status: No Survivors Found



Sci-Lab 23: Status: No Survivors Found


"This place is a tomb..."
June 10th, 2007
~Rob M.

Comments

[vomikronnoxis.livejournal.com]

Awsome, glad you finally got to check the place out some -- and you should totally return for some further exploration. Its quite unsettling on the inside, full of signs that somebody slept there the night before and will never do so again. It's here that I found a bum-sack. I suspect the little garden at its center is home to some manner of homeless, wino Satyr.

~rl

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Hmmm sounds like I erred on the side of caution a bit too much then. I'll have to take a second reconnaissance of the area.

[vomikronnoxis.livejournal.com]

Two areas of approach -- three if you dare venture through what appeared to be some manner of hobo woods in the rear of the place. We parked up there by the shopping center and descended down, but the people we met there for the photo shoot parked by the other entrance to the area, the one down on the same level as the ruins.

Venturing through the hobo wood seems rather undesirable, though -- kinda like the forest of suicides, except with more incoherent mumbling.

~rl

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Well we should get a group together and go check it out. In fact now that you called it a 'Forest of Suicides' I really want to get an expedition into the Hobo Woods:)

[esmio06.livejournal.com]

count me in!!!

[vomikronnoxis.livejournal.com]

Some little brat DID throw a rock at us while we ere down there, though -- I forgot about that. And there was this one bum walking around with his cock out, PEEING as he walked, which is a skill I guess one picks up with the transient lifestyle. He left us alone -- or at least never noticed us.

Also, I saw a traveling man (the kind with, obviously, no clear destination in mind and a starting point some decades burried in the past) at the Chandler Park Market the other day -- he'd set up a well-weathered laptop on a stack of liquor boxes and appeared to be leaching off the store's wireless Internet connection. I guess that means cybperpunk is reality now. Saw that, knew I'd have to pass that on to you.

~rl

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

Someone else on my f-list has posted pics from this place before!!! But i have forgotten where it is at. :_:
Again~ great photography!!

[ladymerrydeath.livejournal.com]

It's on Moreland, just before you get to the Starlight...on the right-hand side...I think it's amazing!

[ninsun.livejournal.com]

I know!!
All the shots i have seen are really beautiful.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Well it sounds like i've just scratched the surface of the potential of the "outpost" (as i'm going to call it).

Thank you:)

[animeoni.livejournal.com]

so strange. i'd like to see this place.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Like MerryDeath said above it's just before you hit the Starlight Drive-In. You should check it out sometime if you're down that way.

[ladymerrydeath.livejournal.com]

I love that place! and was hoping that someone had pictures! Could you send them to me, please? aphrodisiacjacket13@yahoo.com

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how to from my work computer but my Flickr account is right here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jack_babalon/).

[kittenspeaks.livejournal.com]

Before I make myself seem stupid or ruin any fun fnatasy by just blurting it out... I can tell you what the place used to be if you want to know.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Go for it, it won't ruin any daydreams I have of it being an abandoned Science Outpost.

[kittenspeaks.livejournal.com]

It used to be a bank. When I was first exploring it (back in the early 90's) there was still a vault towards the back of the circle. I heard it was retrieved for some other building though.

[esmio06.livejournal.com]

tell us tell us
what it was before the mad scientists took it over and killed themselvfes while working on their wild plans.

[esmio06.livejournal.com]

damn man you have to take me exploring sometime. you find the coolest places. I want to go see this one.

[girlsonfilm.livejournal.com]

I love that spot! I've taken some cool pics there. I'm pretty sure it was a bank. Definately try to get down to the ground level. There's a drive way from the adjoining parking lot off of Moreland. Inside, there used to be a Japanese water garden. It's a shame it was abandoned. It would make a sweet pad, if someone had some money to throw at it.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Yeah i'm getting all kinds of reports that it was a bank now. Actually I was thinking some should try turning into a swank little Mod flavored after hours bar would be on the right side of Mani-fique! Failing that i'd love to try and get some of our movie friends to check it out.

[girlsonfilm.livejournal.com]

It would be almost impossible to make it handicapped accessable. Which, is probably one of the reasons that it's no longer a public building.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

We could put the Hobos to work in the adjoining "Suicide Forest" and make them carry the handicapped up the cat walk.

It's a win-win for everyone :)

By the by... we should really hang out sometime when you get back.

[karis-straif.livejournal.com]

I want it for a house!
Exactly the kind of mod architecture I like.

[kittymel.livejournal.com]

I have always LOVED his structure! If it was in a different location, I would renovate it into a home in a heartbeat!