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107 Mall actually) — which is really the ground level of the world above - looking at the gray white overcast sky beyond, when Joe comes up to me and tells me to come on....he wants to show me the entrance to the facility from right there in the mall! I snap out of my gazing thoughts and excitedly jump and dash after Joe, through the mall, into this dark hole-in-the-wall type looking restaurant/bar tucked into a corner nearby. No lights are on in the place. The only light is the bright white gray overcast natural lighting pouring in via the skylight of the mall that comes in through the front doorway. [...] I catch up with Joe who is standing next to this rickety looking elevator in the back corner of this restaurant/bar thing next to a maintenance type of closet. We get in, and the elevator starts to go down, slow and rickety, like you would expect by looking at it. I was filled with this overwhelming excitement and anticipation, my nerves standing on end for what was yet to come. I asked Joe, Did we bring any film?? Just as I realized we didn’t. I made a little DOH type face, and specifically thought to myself that I need to pay very close attention to the details I was about to see, because I didn’t have be doing some serious trespassing. When the elevator got as far down as it was supposed to cesta there was actually more to it. Joe showed me the trick he discovered, since he’d been through this all once before. You have to push one of the buttons down again, he showed me, and then........he reached up and pulled at this little white string dangling from the ceiling corner. And that’s all it took. The elevator dropped, going from slow and rickety and taking you nowhere to suddenly rapidly descending, strong and confident and with a purpose. It descended rapidly, going down, down, down, down, down, at super high speed. Onto something else. My nerves were still on end, I had chills almost I couldn’t believe how cool this was. I looked up and watched the walls moving up as we moved down, hundreds and hundreds of feet. There were outcropping shapes sticking out of the walls, thick half circles and thick half squares, alternating between the two, evenly spaced. Part II - My Own Experiences —_—_—_—_—_— "es any film to record it. I was exhilarated because I knew we were about to embark on something we weren’t supposed to know about. We’d