Jimmy’s home beneath the server room
Jimmy’s hidden home beneath the servers holds food stores, books, and accumulated empty cans; its access-grate locks are now rusted and broken.
Story so far
Jimmy’s home occupies a hidden portion of level thirty-five that cannot be reached from the stairwell. A grate beneath the servers leads to a long ladder and a narrow passage lined with pipes and wires. His father describes a refuge with a storehouse, bunkroom, showers, and enough food for four people for ten years. Its workspace contains shelves, two desks, a computer, an open book, and surveillance equipment. The apartment-like rooms include a stove, table and chairs, a wooden desk, and shelves of metal containers holding books.
The pantry opposite the stove holds long rows of canned food and has separate switches for its light and noisy fan. Jimmy’s refuge relies on a four-digit door code, 1218, with three failed attempts locking out further guesses until the next day. Intruders eventually discover the code, and its cameras remain broken when Jimmy prepares to leave. During a major outage, an open hatch lets attackers reach his sleeping quarters.
Juliette later reaches the rooms through the hidden passage. Solo sleeps on a floor mattress and keeps water jugs, canned food, and other containers on shelves in his makeshift kitchen. The adjoining space accumulates empty cans. A radio beneath the servers sits in a steel cage for which he has never found the key. The latest account again shows the great accumulation of empty cans and establishes that the grate’s locks are broken and rusted.
Appearance
Hidden rooms reached through a metal grate, ladder, and narrow pipe-lined passage, with a floor mattress, desks, shelves, stored cans, and a stove. Empty cans have accumulated; the grate locks are rusted and broken.
Role
The concealed rooms are Jimmy’s long-term refuge beneath the server room, with food storage and communications equipment but compromised access locks.
Relationships
Sources — 21 recorded facts, by chapter
- The hidden rooms are reached by a long ladder and a narrow passage carrying pipes and wires.
- The hidden workspace contains shelves and two desks, one with a computer and one with an open book.
- The hidden workspace has surveillance equipment that displays multiple views of the silo.
- Jimmy’s father says the refuge has a storehouse, bunkroom, showers, and enough food for four people for ten years.
- The hidden rooms include an apartment-like room with a stove, table, and chairs.
- The hidden room has a desk and chair made from real wood.
- The hidden room contains a floor-to-ceiling shelf of metal containers, one of which Jimmy opens to find a book.
- The small apartment contains a table for four with a book being repaired using needle and thread.
- The apartment has a locked pantry opposite the stove.
- The pantry contains long rows of shelves filled with canned food.
- The pantry has separate switches for a light and a noisy fan.
- The bunk room has multiple empty beds.
- The refuge door uses a four-digit keypad with ten thousand possible combinations.
- The refuge door rejects further code attempts until the next day after three incorrect entries.
- The refuge door’s code is 1218.
- The refuge door’s keypad accepts the intruders’ code and changes its indicator from red to green.
- The refuge door’s code remains 1218 when the intruders discover it.
- The refuge’s cameras remain broken when Jimmy prepares to leave.
- The open hatch allows intruders to reach Jimmy’s sleeping quarters during a major power outage.
- Solo’s home beneath the servers contains a large accumulation of empty food cans.
- The locks on the grate over Solo’s hiding place are broken and rusted.