Comments on: Spookily awesome

By: mike

mike — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:18:14 +0000

Montreal has just about the biggest underground city in the world. It’s really just a bunch of malls and subway passages, but still vast.

Give it the right conditions though and it too can become a shithole.

By: Cookie McCool

Cookie McCool — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:48:03 +0000

Is there normally a lot of variety in subterranean architecture? I would reckon that most underground cities look like the same dank shithole, but maybe with different posters.

By: Mark Question

Mark Question — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:31:08 +0000

Yeah, for Beijing precisely(the campaign chiefly took place in the metropoles of South-East Asia), otherwise it wouldn’t have surprised me that much. I’m well aware that there’s places like this all over the world, but those pictures look pretty much exactly like the hidden Beijing underground I dreamed a couple of years ago.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:44:05 +0000

I was down in the part open to tourists a few years ago, it was neat, though really cold compared to above ground. The entrance was in some part of town that as due to be demolished due to the olympics coming, so I think that’s why it closed. Wish I’d gotten to see more if it.

By: supergp

supergp — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:04:56 +0000

Yeah, Seattle’s got a pretty awesome Undercity, for example.

By: plus C

plus C — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:53:54 +0000

So there really was a mineshaft gap with the communists?

By: Someguy

Someguy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:51:27 +0000

Mark- For Beijing? Or just in general?

Because most every major world Metropolis (especially the Old World ones) has at least a couple levels of Undercity going on.

By: Mark Question

Mark Question — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:41:18 +0000

Man, what? That actually exists? Because I made up the exact same thing for a postapocalyptic D20 campaign once. Goddamn art, always imitating life.

By: lance lunchmeat

lance lunchmeat — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:06:15 +0000

I mean come on, a room with nothing in it but a dresser and three bikes? I’ve BEEN in that room, and crowbar’d that dresser, many a time.

By: William George

William George — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:35:42 +0000

When not drowning in it’s own hipster douche-bagginess, VICE really hits a home run sometimes.

By: lance lunchmeat

lance lunchmeat — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:30:57 +0000

I think I see a headcrab

By: Lamashtar

Lamashtar — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:43:03 +0000

I know where the next ‘Mazes and Monsters’ movie should be made..

By: solid snake

solid snake — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:38:20 +0000

I would actually pay to take a tour of those tunnels just to learn more about what it was like under Mao’s warp speed insanity, and maybe to steal the handmade Metroid map. Plus is that pug walking itself, or am I just seeing it wrong?