Insylum

Excession

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FOLKLORE MEMBER
Invitation Status
  1. Look for groups
Posting Speed
  1. 1-3 posts per day
Writing Levels
  1. Advanced
  2. Adaptable
Preferred Character Gender
  1. Male
Genres
Horror, fantasy, sci-fi.
Welcome to the Carlsbad County Schizophrenia Annex.

You may not remember why you're here. And that's okay, we're going to help you. You'll receive the best psychiatric care we can provide. There will be Group Therapy every day, you'll get some TV time and some relaxing arts & crafts. If you need some extra time with a therapist, you only have to say the word. Don't worry. We'll help you remember. We'll help you confront what happened, and overcome your issues.

But it's late now. Let's show you to Ward 23, where you'll be staying. I'm afraid we've got quite a strict lights out policy.


...and the lights go out and the clock strikes midnight strikes thirteen the bell tolls tolls thirteen times in the hour between midnight and twelve oh one and the doors the doors open every room of Ward 23 the doors open and THE DOOR opens THE WAY is revealed in a childish chalk outline in a gaping maw of mahogany teeth in a trapdoor the WAY into the Night World into The Clock Factory into The Whisper Labyrinth into the Castle where twin suns sink behind the lake and

No one will believe you


The Location
Built circa 1897, the Carlsbad County Schizophrenia Annex has been renovated, rebuilt, and added to so much it's barely recognizable from where it was. A well-kept garden for guests and visitors sits alongside a dusty exercise yard like something from State Pen. Modern prefab offices sit in the shadow of baroque nineteenth century architecture. Grimy brickwork storage rooms hide behind clean white facades.

Parts of the asylum are just locked off - too old, too unsafe.

It's got all the facilities you'd expect - the garden, the yard, the kitchens and pantries, the canteen, offices, therapy rooms, wards, closets, maintenance tunnels. Most of the old wards and offices are in the main building, a slightly mismatched hulk of stone, brick, and sun-bleached gargoyles. The prefabs mostly contain breezy, open rooms where visiting family might on occasion be housed, or where day-patients receive counselling.

But we're concerned about the patients. The ones in Ward 23.

You don't remember why you're here.

You don't feel crazy. You don't act crazy, do you?

But you remember... nothing. Someone - family, friends, your doctor - must have signed you in here. For good reason, right?

Hopefully, while here, you can recover your memories...
 
@Excession
Yo! I really like the idea of this. Hope you are still looking for people to join and to get this thing rolling. I am always interested in these kinda... mysterious plots which have mental unstabilities involved ^^
 
It's still open, but you're the first person to express interest. Hopefully a few more happen by; I have such sights to show you.
 
Oooo. This is neat. O:
 
Could really do with a couple more folks onboard. Four is a good number to work with.
 
A little bitta forum necromancy has led to this;

Name: Lena
Apparent Age: 19
Appearance: She is a short girl, with mousy shoulder-length hair, often mistaken for being younger than she is. Never seen out of a hoodie and jeans.

Vitality: 5
Lucidity 5
Memory: 0

Truths:

* "Is Helena here?" "Lena" "What?" "It's Lena, not Helena."
* We're out of rolling tobacco again. Great.
* The smell of oil paint and turpentine has practically seeped into the walls. Someone should crack a window.
* "The first year studios are haunted, you know. Decades ago they used to be the dormitories where the girls slept."
* Taco friiiiiies!! We need to stop for taco fries!!
 
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Gonna put that in the character thread, but Alexandra used the one I'll expect everyone to use - name, apparent age, appearance, and five things which are true. I'll have more examples up in the index, too.
 
This looks so goooooood!!! I wanna join!

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Are you still looking for players?
 
I do love a good asylum rp! I'd love to part take in this fun, if I may?
 
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I do need one more person, so make a character and we'll begin.
 
I can fill in that void I suppose. I need some more group RPs.