Location: Old Coal Mine

Description: Barely noticeable from a distance, a medium-sized but low profile structure marks the only above-ground presence of this mine. Surrounded by an empty parking lot, the doors are ajar, as if in their haste the employees forgot to lock it behind them.

Several offices and supply rooms greet you as you walk through, with official looking paperwork with meaningless numbers. Beyond are rows and rows of lockers, some with items still in them. Still further are banks of elevators, where workers once rode down. Attempts to access them lead to failure- there is no power for the elevators.

Careful examination of the area will reveal a door off to the side. Though it has a keypad, it too is unlocked. Many, many, many flights of stairs down later, the stairwell ends, and opens up to a dark tunnel. Wide enough for ten people to walk next to each other, it stretches off right and left as far as the eye can see.

The adjacent wall from the stairs and elevators reveals racks upon racks of machinery for processing and filtering coal, with much coal still in the machines, waiting to be processed.

Miles and miles of dark tunnels, all neat and orderly, extend beneath the surface. Occasionally, a small structure will stand out of the way, a break room or supply cache.

Deeper still, the boring machines themselves stand, stopped in the middle of extracting coal.

(Submitted by Arik Schneider)

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