Warehouse Op
Woodlands Hospital 1
Shaughnessy Hospital
Woodlands Hospital 2
Riverview Hospital
Chudcoon Drain
Other Distractions
Mission: Riverview Hospital
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Of fake sets and real tunnels
Riverview hostpital is huge. Made up of many buildings, it occupies about
200 acres on the side of a hill. Most of these buildings are still active,
with patients still living on-site. There is also a very active security
presence; we'd cruised the grounds by car a few times, and we saw security
driving around all over the place- they even tailed us once!
After we left Woodlands prematurely, I hadn't gotten my hospital fix for
the day. Jester suggested we hit the Crease Clinic at Riverview, which
is a huge building rented by the hospital to filmcrews and others on occasion.
We parked a distance away, and walked over through a treed area which
the Wraiths use when they approach at night.
We climbed up to the grand front entrance, in the fading daylight. The
Wraiths' planned entrance didn't work out at first, so we spent a good
half hour circling the building looking for ways in. The doors were all
locked shut, but none of the windows were smashed-out, and the building
seemed to be in very good condition. Security hadn't even passed by once,
despite our lingering presence, before Jester managed to get into the
building in a most impressive way.
[PHOTO] - Out front
of the Crease Clinic
[PHOTO] - The main entrance.
[PHOTO] - Wonderful
architecture.
[PHOTO] - Artsy shot
around the side.
[PHOTO] - The back of
the Crease Clinic.
Once inside, he opened the main door for us, and we set to exploring.
The Wraiths had been through the entire building, but I hadn't, and thus
found every room and corner fascinating. We passed through the main hallway,
ducked going past windows where we'd be visible to the outside, and walked
about on some of the upper floors.
Film crews had been through, and coverted much of the building into sets.
In one room, they'd actually constructed an entire apartment! Elsewhere,
there was a row of fake jail cell doors, and many rooms had a fresh coat
of paint.
[PHOTO] - One of the
many large, empty rooms.
[PHOTO] - Close-up of
a toilet.
[PHOTO] - A bathtub,
all by its lonesome.
[PHOTO] - A small bathroom,
with the ever-present window.
I found the porcelain very cool in this building for some reason. The washrooms all had windows, and the light coming through, reflecting off the tiled floor and walls, was subdued, pleasant and just a tiny bit eeire. We reached a junction where the film sets stopped and the old building began, and i was surprised to see how little we'd covered, despite walking for over 20 minutes. The Crease clinic is a huge, several storey building, quite spread out. Pixie pointed out a room once used as a dormitory by the patients; small partitions divided the room, the bunks would have been located in between these.
[PHOTO] - Hallway
in the untouched section of the building.
[PHOTO] - Close up
through a window, showing the partitions in a dorm room.
[PHOTO] - Coming down
the big staircase into the main lobby. Those are the front doors.
We decided it was time to hit the basement, and descended a large, modern-looking
staircase at the rear of the building. We came into the main lobby area
again, and took a smaller set of stairs to the basement. We exited, directly
from these stairs, into the basement tunnels.
The tunnels, running underneath the building above, consist mainly of
a smaller hallway joining a longer one, roughly in the shape of a "T".
The Wraiths told me that at one time, the short tunnel had connected to
the other buildings in Riverview, but that the Crease clinic access had
been bricked off some time ago. Even though it only roamed underneath
one building, the tunnel was still impressive- dirty, with pipes overhead
and intermittent fluorescent lighting. Small rooms branched off the long
tunnel, and there was a gate at either end. The gates gave the tunnel
a creepy air, resembling old jail cells. The tunnel itself seemed dark
and quiet, with the paint peeling slowly off the walls and a smell of
dirt. It was a fantastic place, and I shot many photos.
[PHOTO] - Paint peels,
next to the door where we walked into the tunnels.
[PHOTO] - Looking down
the long tunnel.
[PHOTO] - Pixie stands
underneath some warning signage.
[PHOTO] - Pixie and
Jester in the long tunnel, in front of a gate.
[PHOTO] - Another long
stretch of tunnel.
After hanging about in the tunnels for a while, we decided it was time to go. Although we had only covered a small section of the building, I'd had a good fix, and time was getting late. We left through the back door, and circled around the building to the front, so that I could grab some photos. We only saw security once, just before we reached the car. He didn't give us any trouble as we drove away, but Jester's car is probably on the "watch" list now.