Council Basement A) Follow the directions. B) Go straight unless otherwise instructed. You are not expected to go through any solid objects or up or down anything greater than ordinary step height (stairs, of course, are a series of step-height things, so you will take them). You will take no elevators, escalators, dumbwaiters or ski lifts. C) If you go outdoors, stay on paths or roads or sidewalks. You won't need to cross open terrain. D) Follow each instruction as soon as possible (within the bounds of instructions B and C above). Begin at HQ (The Spofford Room). You want to be a free man? Head towards him. Take a left and spiral downward until you see a sign (or most of one) saying PUSH TO OPERATE. Do it, and do what the results invite you to do. Continue straight until you get to a tall, multicolored truncated cone (or nearly cone-ish solid). Turn right immediately past this solid. After you pass a building labeled with a symbol for Saturn on your left, turn left. Continue till you hit a wall, turn left. Turn right (without going through a door). Turn right. Turn left where you can go down the steps. Imagine you're entering a circle. When you reach a point opposite your entry point, leave the circle (bearing left if you have a choice). At the next fork, go left. Go through the double doors ahead of you (if you have a choice, take the ones marked "DOOR"), then the next double doors, then take a right. Head east, downstairs as many flights in a row as you can (following the direction indicated by the sign for a place with a Greek letter in its name). Go left at the bottom of the stairs (through a door if you have to). Go right, left at the support pillar, through the exit door, left at the exit sign (not mounted on the wall), past the elevator and take a right through the exit door. Go up the stairs, outside, and down the ramp. The ramp turns north at its end; you turn right and head east. Go up a short flight of steps to, but not through, a revolving door. Turn left. Go down the steps. You'll see a standpipe in front of you. Turn right. You'll see a sign on your left (****** ******** **** ******). Turn right when you do. Bear left and down if you can't go exactly straight. When you get to a group of mirrors, push the square panel closest to the most mirrors. Go that way. Pass vending machines on your right. When you reach a wall, go up. Go through the door, turn right. You'll see the last name of a famous poet on the wall. Turn left. Turn right when you reach a tree, in the direction of the pay phones. Pass them on your right. Before you get to a portrait, bear left, and go through the double doors. Then go through the double doors. Then go through the double doors. Then go through the double doors. Take the nearest down staircase as far as possible. Pass through no doors until you pass a vending machine. Go through the double doors. Go through the double doors. Turn left and pass vending machines on your right. Stop at the next numbered door on your right. Find the only entrance to this room that is marked with the word "ENTRANCE." Look behind the fire hose.