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The male Urban Exploration Influencer, Marcus, says:
...so if you think about it, a skyscraper is a bit like an inverted mine, and a mine or quarry is a bit like a depthscraper! For every Tower imagine the wounds gouged deep into the Veins Of The Earth, all the excavated and gathered materials to build it... Now there is a story that when the MAGUS built their Tower 13 years ago, they were obsessed with ensuring that it would remain a monumental architectural feat unmatched for posterity. The MAGUS apparently hired some genius architect or engineer - his specialty was actually poliorcetics, military engineering, Bremer blast barriers, T-wall reinforced concrete, that sort of thing, and he had actually received a knighthood abroad for his wartime perimeter fortifications. Anyway the MAGUS entrusted the engineer with some stupendous sum of capital expenditure, 22.4 billion, in order to create a leviathan subsurface infrastructure coiling around the T1 Sky Tower, beneath the Alsephina International Finance Centre and the entire Etemenanki Plaza. The massive basilisk-like tunnel boring machines alone each cost 80m! But afterwards Alsephina institutional shareholders found out about the extravagant outlay. They were not pleased, especially given that the MAGUS was already saddled with numerous lossmaking divisions like Axiom-Galdra and Urthekau-Sylabari. So the MAGUS had to abandon the project, just bury and entomb everything where it laid beneath the ground... And to placate the shareholders, MAGUS even divested some of its long-established consumer-facing Hospitality, Resorts and Entertainment subdivisions...
The female influencer, Erica, interrupts:
Make sure you have connected the cameras, Marcus! Not like when you forgot last time and we lost everything. Set it to record to local storage, not cloud upload or streaming... away from the embankments there is no phone signal underground...
