crawling into a partially open air-vent, located near the ground. He had to make sure to place the grated iron vent cover on more securely once inside, so as to be less suspect. He crawled along in the vent channel for nearly two hours before coming to a section that had an opening in the wall. The opening led to the old and forgotten New York subway system which had been constructed in the early twentieth century, but abandoned and unused for nearly fifty years now. The hole, though big, was not quite large enough for him to get through and so he had to take the small hammer that he carried in his pack and use it to slowly chip away laboriously at the hard concrete in order to enlarge it. It took more than an hour to get the hole to size. He then placed an anchor in the concrete of the vent chamber floor and tied his rope to it. He threw the rope into the opening and then, holding onto the rope, carefully maneuvered his body out of the vent chamber and began climbing down towards the bottom. He was perhaps two-thirds of the way down when the anchor unexpectedly came loose and he fell the remaining seven feet. He was completely taken by surprise, his heart racing fast, but luckily he was not injured at all.
Once he had picked himself up, gathered all of his equipment together, checked to make sure that he had not lost anything and that nothing had been damaged, he began following the subway track in a southerly direction. He was heading for an area that was about five miles from where he now was, a place secretly known as Underworld Control. It was one of the last vestiges of liberty from which the freedom fighter movement operated. He had
Rick Phipps was born in 1964 in Denver Colorado, and grew up in and around Longmont and Berthoud Colorado. He moved to California in 1983 where he lived for ten years in Blythe on a ranch that had no electricity. There he helped power a small community with Photovoltaic Solar arrays. He also built solar ovens, grew hydroponic tomatoes, and built solar water heaters. He moved to Orange County in 1998 to join staff at the Church of Scientology of Orange County. He then moved to San Francisco and and was a staff member at the local Church of Scientology. From 2006-2009. He now resides in Dallas and is a staff member there.
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