When you go down from the Lobby of the Illuminati, there is a room called "The Freemason's Passage":

This passage appears to lead deep beneath the city of New Thalos, away from
the Mason's Guild down a passage of smooth white stone, hung with various
tapestries displaying pyramids, compasses, all-seeing eyes, and the smugly
smiling face of a man in a powdered wig. Above you lies a heavy door that
leads up into a place of power.

I wonder if there was ever a connection from new thalos to illuminati - does anyone know if it exists/existed?

never actually existed... that room has been there since the very first opening of the zone.

my guess is that the builder was hoping for a secret tunnel - but he might not have gotten it approved by the imm staff (way back when).

it also could have been a remnant from when the imms were looking at re-evaluating the actual MUD geography - but it didn't get very far off of the ground.

The zone came from another mud that never made it off the ground, so it was given to us so it could at least get used. I don't think we ever realized that connection point is there...

sounds like something worth visiting... hmm....

Is there an assembly of some sort there? The reason I ask is because I read the 'vellum' that loads in one of the crates, and it had a 'clue' on it... (I don't have it in front of me atm, but it was computer/network related) stating that a network wasn't there or something.... Add to this, the 'network' mobs of HAL and Sirius, and the autoexec.bat that loads in a crate ...and I'm thinking there might very well be! Any ideas?

I didn't think there was an assemble in the zone, but maybe Grimple knows ...