Post by Jo on Jan 31, 2008 7:56:08 GMT -5
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.p l o t & h i s t o r y.
It was the year 1875, the year Doctor Laurence D. Hopkins established possibly the greatest but also the most mysterious insane asylums ever known. Yes, many patients who supposedly had diseases that were said to be untreatable were cured, all traces of insanity removed from their minds and bodies, but how events like these occurred, nobody ever found out. Even the patients, who were constantly kept on strict watch, were never allowed to venture down into the basement or lower portion of the hospital, as if the hospital was keeping something… secret down below. As if the place couldn’t get any more insane, patients with only mild mental problems ended up reaching such an extreme version of their disease, they became destined to stay enclosed inside of the hospital’s walls forever. Entering the lower half always had a different outcome; those who were utterly insane might exit seeming as normal as possible, while those who used to be fine seemed to be completely different people.
After a ghastly accident occurred only 7 years after the hospital’s opening date, people became suspicious, even some of the patients gathering up enough courage to wander away at night and attempt to enter the lower, unknown territory of the asylum. This accident that had caused it all, caused all to become suspicious, was the death of a patient. Yes, death was common at the asylum, but not when an experiment so simple, one that has never in medical history created an injury, fails. Rumors of it being a murder began to spread, along with the fact that many who entered the lower portion exited acting as loopy as ever, some claiming that the person who had accompanied them on the trip to the lower half disappearing. In an attempt to fix the problem, Dr. Hopkins’s simple response was that the patients were only delirious and were imagining the whole idea in their drugged up and insane minds, his excuse resulting in failure.
Afraid of what might happen, Doctor Hopkins closed the asylum down and abandoned it, letting it sit alone for 126 years before a hopeful soul discovered what remained of it. With a huge sum of money and large dreams, Milo McBain completely renovated the hospital and opened it up in the year 2008, changing all except for the lower portion and the strict policies that accompanied the hospital in its glory days.
Patients continue to be kept on strict observance, while even getting close to the large doors of the lower half is utterly impossible, the reason as to why still yet to be discovered. As suspicions grow and rumors spread, the truth of what really happens will hopefully find its way out, no matter how hard the staff attempts to shush the patients and ban them from anything and everything. Some people, so desperate to know the secrets, sacrifice their minds by simply pretending to be insane, their mind regretting the whole process the minute they exit the lower half as a new person with a new mind… a mind that’s delirious.
.s u m m a r y.
After the insane asylum was shut down by Doctor Laurence D. Hopkins, another doctor, Milo McBain, to be exact, renovated its abandoned walls and opened it back up, shutting all of the suspicions away in a closet of darkness and keeping all of the mysteries away from the patients and outside world. Still, nobody knew why those who emerged from the banned lower half seemed awfully different, as if they were no longer themselves, those who were only slightly insane becoming complete nuts while others who were said to be destined to insanity ending up having all of their mental flaws removed.
Why McBain keeps such a strict watch over his patients and doesn’t dare explain what happens down below, that’s still yet to be found out, but others have quite a different view on the matter and have such a giant desire to know, they’ll even sacrifice their own sanity for the opportunity to see the truth. Many people, only pretending to be insane, will enter the asylum with high hopes of discovering the answers by the end of the month, but they’ll instantly regret this process of posing the minute they enter the lower half… it’s unavoidable, entering the lower half sooner or later, but the outcome? Well, let’s just keep on telling ourselves that the doctor prefers to have everyone at the asylum delirious. Being in the state of delirium tends to keep the secrets from leaking out…
