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As you round a curve in the pipe, you hear the sound of water running. The end of the pipe reaches the bank of the Delaware river and is also blocked with a grate. You can see it's a rocky area of the river so not many boats will pass by here. Do you want to take your chance and wait it out, or go back to the large junction and head south?
Drawing attention to yourself might be very difficult, so you turn around and enter the pipe on the east side of the last junction. Let's see where that pipe leads.
You see light coming from the end of the pipe and rush down it to check it out. So close, yet so far. You can see freedom just beyond the bars, but they hold you fast. Looking to your left, you see that you're in a pipe located just outside the canal tunnel. You hear another woosh, only louder, and discover it's caused by the cars traveling down Rt.1 located 50 yards behind you. Would you like to wait for the sun to come out and yell for help from the pipe or go another way?
You remove your slingshot and your clothes from the sack and get dressed. Filling your front pocket with nuts you enter the West pipe with the slingshot and the lantern, leaving your other items behind for now. Woooooosh, what the hell is that? The air smells fresher with each step you take.....is this the way out? PWFNP
At the end of the North pipe is a smaller junction with one pipe going West and one East. You feel a cool breeze coming from the Western pipe and head twords it.....wait, you here something.....there it goes again.....it's like a wooshing noise. Do you want to investigate the noise of go the other way?
Entering the Northern sewer pipe using the smaller pipes above might be your wisest move. If you decided to go back, you would've had to go back to the first basement to retrive the kerosene can and paint can, plug the kerosene can, open the paint can and empty it, remembered to bring the screwdriver, string and hammer, retrive the board from the sewer that the kerosene was sitting on, then attach the two cans to the bottom of the board with the string. Let's see what's down the Northern pipe.
Hmmm, gonna need another opinion for this one. One wants to go back and another says go a different route. If you do go back, you need to know what to go back for. If you decide to go a different way you need to figure out how to get all your items over to the North or South pipe in the last junction. Who wants to step up to the plate and make the final (or fatal) call?
Sorry, the tire will sink once weight is applyed. There were items you could use for floating out of the tunnel but they are long left behind. To go back and get them at this point, risking your lantern going black, could spell doom. It's up to you. Do you want to go way back and retrive these items, or go back to the last junction and take a different route?
You manage to get you and your items over to the other side of the junction and follow the western pipe. You come to an underground waterway.....hmmm, must be part of the Delaware Raritan canal? It would be too far to swim out but if you had something to float on you could reach the opening. What would you like to do now?
WOW! What a freaking mess this is! There's another mistake in the comment left by me concerning what warehouse you had to go back to. It was supposed to say the "FIRST" warehouse and not the "LAST" one. What a maroon! OK, what I was trying to get you to do, was go back and get one of the steel rods from the box you built the slingshot from. Then using the vise and water pipe (for leverage) bend one end into a hook and the other into an eyelet. Once the hook is tied to the rope, throw the hook onto the brown pipe and swing across to the western pipe. You'll need both hands to hold onto the rope so how are you going to get your items over? Sorry for the screw up.
You'll need the string and door knob to get your items across to the western pipe and the rope and some type of hook to get you there.
You can't quite reach the brown pipe with your hands from this side. You'll need to use a few of your items to get you and your items across. You will also need to go back and get another item from the last warehouse. Any ideas?
You no longer have the mop. It was left behind in panel 53 and never retrived. It would probably be a good idea to stay out of the water because there are no ladders and the pipes are around 9 feet above the water level.
OOPS! Thought there was enough information to proceed. You need to know that the junction room is rectangular in shape and that the North and South pipes are centered on the North and South walls of the junction. The single large brown pipe is centered above the North/South pipes. The two smaller gray pipes are almost touching the western wall. That should help. Also remember you're above the water level and can unpack items you might need without them getting wet.
Not long after entering the pipe you notice it seems to be angled slightly uphill. You travel some distance passing a few smaller pipes on your left and right until you come to a large junction. You're about 9 feet above the water level and there are no ladders to climb up or down. Below you are 3 large pipes almost filled with water and 3 large pipes at the same level you are standing. What are you going to do now?
You want to explore the western pipe, so you gather your belongings and decend back into the sewer. Once at the bottom, you wrap the crowbar back onto the stick and enter the pipe.
Looks like it's your lucky day. One of the wrenches fit the bolts and the grate is removed. The tunnel going West is now open. What is your next move? Note; All maps are arranged so that North is the top of the map, South is the bottom, West is the left, and East is to the right.
There is a way to get up to the window using a couple items you have in your possession. You can also backtrack at any time to pick up an item you could not carry before. Just remember the lantern won't last forever, so don't spend alot of time backtracing. While you're giving that some thought you return to the grate to try the wrenches.
You go over to the front door to see if you can attach the knob you found earlier. No, not going work. There's nothing sticking out of the door to attach it to. Turning back you pass the windows wishing you had a way to open them. Hmmm, can't seem to think of anything.....oh well. Time to try the grate now with the wrenches.
It's empty, but you try the light switch just inside the door.....just your luck.....no lights. You open the fuse box in front of you and see that the service line has been removed. This building has no electricity. You know your time is running short and the lantern won't last forever so you go to the door at the far end. Damn!! The door handle is missing and it's heavy steel.....no prying this one open. Now what?
Seeing the rusted bolts, you wonder if you can pry the bars off the window and escape. If only you could reach them and give your idea a try. Hmmm, maybe there's something behind the blue door that would help? Let's go look.
Looks like there's a couple of small windows guarded with heavy bars. You glance to your right and see two doors. What would you like to do?
You've figured out a way to get the lantern and wrenches down the sewer but you are curious about a few things you see in the shadows. There's something high on the wall to your left and two objects down at the far end. Let's look at the items on our left first.
You remove the wrenches from the sack to try on the grate below. It would be risky to try and carry the wrenches and lantern in one hand as you climb down the ladder. You need to find a way to get the wrenches and the light down to the grate. How are you going to do this? Remember to take the rope with you too or you'll be stuck.
NOTE: There is a misake in map drawing #83. The manhole nearest the green area is supposed to be in the green area as shown in map #50.