I remember it clearly...
It was a five story underground complex, with floorplans in a big
X layout, like shown below.
+------+============+--+============+-------+
|stor. | |e | |mech. |
| | laboritory |l | lab space | |
| | |i | | |
+------+------+-----+v/+------+-----+-------+
| | | | c| | | |
|work | | work| o| |work | |
| | labs | | r|office| | |
| | | | i| | | |
+======+======+=====+ d+======+=====+=======+
| elev/coridor eliv/coridor |
+======+======+=====+ +======+=====+=======+
|lockup| | | | | |compute|
| & | | | | |rec | |
|tortur| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+------+------+-----+ +------+-----+-------+
|mech2 | living | | living | water |
| | area | | area | tanks |
+------+============+--+============+-------+
There were car/elevators that ran both up&down
as well as along the hallways, so you could get people/freight
to any room, not just like regular elevators.
Much of the complex was a research lab, but any fifth grader who
designs his own secret underground labORatORy, knows that you
need at least one good torture chamber. We tried lots of designs
for that room- intended to inflict the maximum of misery, without
doing so much damage that the subject would be permenantly
maimed or disfigured.
Planning ahead, we designated the corner spaces, to include enough
supplies/food/water/etc. to live comfortably for several months.
I can't say exactly what got us thinking about underground
labs, but there could have been several posibilities:
-We both liked the James Bond movies, which had neat labs/lairs.
-We were both big fans of Thomas Edison, the inventor- and his labs.
-The movie Andromeda Strain also had a deep underground lab.
-My family had gone on various cave tours:Mammouth, Carlsbad, etc.
-We both read quite a bit of adventure/sci-fi as kids.
SO- now you know... if money were NO object, what 5th grade pre-geeks would like for Christmas. |
