Hancock has some true underground craziness. The stairs down from the entrance door (the door by Hancock's rear exit that's always locked) lead into a large room full of pipes, pumps, steel drums, a generator(?), a forklift, and hundreds of other things whose purpose I cannot begin to understand. But wait a minute, this room is about six feet below the lowest outside ground level, and there aren't any ramps or doors on the lower level... how the hell did they get the forklift down there? 

To the left, after entering the main room, is a hallway leading back to several rooms full of high voltage equipment. In another corner of the main room, there's a small room full of electrical switch gear.

From one corner of the main room, the largest steam tunnel I've ever been in heads southward towards the inaccessible McBryde-Burruss connector. An interesting feature of this tunnel is the heat insulation covering the right-hand wall. After a short ways, there's a left turn, a pile of old-ass computers, and an exit into a basement hallway (by Hancock 100). The steam tunnel continues on a short ways, makes a right turn, and ends in a cinderblock wall (preventing access into the McBryde-Burruss tunnel). All in all, Hancock's mechanical room was very interesting to explore, and well worth the whole year I had to wait to find the door unlocked.

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