Chapter 31 Family Ties part 3

[Litmaster]

I think the artwork from Chapter 18 shows exactly what you describe:

FOUND IT!!! Wow, I can't believe I found the actual street address of the cover art from chapter 18!

The address is 8232 Westminster Avenue, Westminster, CA. That building with the blue awnings you see there is a law office called Liem H. Do & Associates.

If you go to 'street view', then jump across the median to the other side of Westminster Ave and pan left, you can see the real-world equivalent of the artist rendering. This gives us an exact location for what appears to be the southwestern corner of the Colony compound, which definitely runs along Westminster and probably north along Monroe street. Other geographical details:

• The entire western, northern, and eastern sides of Liberty Park is composed of low residential houses and wide streets... a shitty place to be building a fortress wall.
  
  
• The nearest body of water seems to be the Santa Ana river, which is way to the east, so it looks like my 'infiltration via aqueduct' notion isn't going to fly, unless Kc dreamed up a fictional reservoir nearby...
  
  
• The Westminster police department building on All American Way is not that tall, but neither are most of the buildings in the area. Rooftop cameras would probably be close enough to observe the colony from that distance.
  
  
• THIS LINK overviews the sewer standards from the Westminster Dept. of Public Works... it says the sewer main is of 'variable size' VCP pipe, which leads me to believe that a sewer infiltration is the most likely.

Lastly, here's a picture of a typical sewer main, which as you can see is big enough for Victor to work his way through, then up through a manhole once in the Mallony walls...

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You learn all kinds of shit from listening to a Zombie podcast, eh?