Maintenance Rooms
Maintenance rooms are locations within a building or structure that house critical infrastructure. There may be water heaters, electrical breakers, elevator machinery, and other elements located within these rooms. They may connect to maintenance tunnels, elevator shafts, or the ventilation system. They may contain catwalks, pipes, conveyor systems, and ladders. They may require a key or keycard to enter.
| Synonyms: maintenance closets, utility closets, electrical rooms |
| Example Mythonyms: Maintenance Room 3, the basement electrical closet |
Designing Fictional Maintenance Rooms
Maintenance rooms are about function over form and fictional maintenance rooms aggrandize this industrial tone. Pipes and ventilation shafts may hang over head, catwalks may be used to reach large machinery, and valves, levers, and buttons may be displayed in the open.
Consider what types of maintenance can be performed from this location. Can the power be shut off, servers reset, or hangar bays doors opened? Maintenance rooms, like maintenance tunnels, provide worldbuilders designing game-oriented and narrative worlds opportunities for characters to alter their local environment. In narrative worlds, maintenance rooms may be the only location from which some pressing problem can be fixed – but getting there may be difficult.
