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Aug 11, 2008 17:20

O v e r v i e w East Wing

Solitary Cells

A c c e s s
Day

► The areas marked grey are inaccessible to both staff and patients.
► The light blue areas can be accessed by the level 1 patients at the times cells are unlocked during the day.
► The dark blue areas can be accessed by the level 2 patients at the times cells are unlocked during the day.
► The green areas can be accessed by patients of both levels at the times cells are unlocked during the day.

→ The areas level 1 and level 2 patients can access during that time overlap at the showers and rec. area, which are accessible to both; theoretically, they could enter the other group's territory from there, but at the risk of being caught and punished.
► The areas marked red are accessible by patients only with a staff escort. During the day, there is no possibility of entering alone.
► The white areas are at any time accessible by the staff - not, however, by the patients. It is possible for a patient to request access to some of these rooms but only under strict supervision.
► The yellow areas mark the West Wing, which is kept closed-off from the rest of the institution. All entrances to the West Wing are locked and chained. Staff is not permitted to enter without permission from the head doctors, and patients wishing to explore will need to find another way in. → Places of Interest

The West Wing Entrance

Night

► The staff is usually sleeping or busy with experimentation and research during the night, and the security is thinner and more focused on certain spots of importance or high risk, namely the archives, the kitchen, the staff rooms, the therapy rooms, the morgue, the infirmary, and, of course, the entrance. These places are virtually impossible to get into and require mod-approval if you plan to do something there. The head offices are inaccessible to both patients and staff, still.
► The patients gain access to all areas save the ones mentioned above as under tight control. The West Wing remains locked and inaccessible. A warning: The cellblocks and hallways around them will not be visited by security at all at night. That means that all your lovely dangerous co-patients from the level 2 block and even the control room might come for a visit, and there is no chance of help.

East Wing

Control Room

→ Control Room

A room that most patients assigned to will never forget. Being put in solitary confinement here means being chained to the wall in a room that smells of generations of mad minds rotting away. The Control Room exists for one purpose only: To force the most difficult and violent cases under control. It hasn't failed in its duty once. Note: This is not where the normal solitary confinement takes place.
Patient Block: Danger Level 1
1. Cells
  
  → Floor Plan · Cell
  
  The cells are all designed the same way: a small nightstand, a dirty toilet and a washbasin with one towel - all for two patients, who are required to share. Patients have no choice but to sleep on the floor, though they are provided a single blanket. The heating system functions poorly and windows are locked and impossible to open, as well as barred and made of security glass. Just as the halls, the cells are equipped with transmitters for the intercom, which are always running. There is no light, for security reasons, and maybe it wouldn't be a wise idea to lighten up the room at night, anyway. Copies of the patients' dossiers can be found hanging on the wall.
2. Dining Hall
  
  → Dining Hall
  
  Newly built where previously a few of the cells were, the Dining Room is situated on the First Floor (for clarification: above the Ground Floor) and has exactly enough seats for all the level 1 patients, i.e. two per cell. This is where all level 1 patients are led to eat their meals under strict observation by the nurses and a few security. Knives and forks are given to these rather harmless patients, but counted after every meal, and - if necessary - the patients will be held back and searched if one piece even goes missing. The level 2 patients are never brought here; they are still being fed in their cells.
3. Hallway
  
  → Hallway
  
  The halls in the level 1 security block are generally rather lax in control, but with the nurses' and security guards' offices nearby, quick interference is possible, if required.
4. Stairs
  
  → Stairs
  
  Old and partially demolished, the stairs are not the safest especially for weakened or ill patients, but the staff is proud to announce that there have been no fatal falls in a few months.
Patient Block: Danger Level 2
1. Cells
  
  → Floor Plan · Cell
  
  Worse than the level 1 cells, these cells darkly remind of a medieval prison trying to look humane - and failing miserably. No bed, with only a thin blanket and no heating system, the only bathroom equipment a pot under the bed, and metal rings with a clear purpose on the wall - that is the way the institution's architect seems to express, "If you are not nice to us, we are not nice to you". The cells are claustrophobically small, but as in the halls, the intercom runs permanently. On one wall, the patients' dossiers are hung.
2. Hallway
  
  → Hallway · Door: Inside
  
  In the danger level 2 block, everything screams maximum security. The walls of the corridors and halls are solid, bare stone, the corridors interspersed with security doors, and all doors - of cells and otherwise - are heavy, carrying deep scratch marks and some better left unidentified. The doors have thick, wired windows with steel shutters that can be locked from the outside. The nurses' office is a little farther away, but the security guards have instant access, should it be required.
3. Stairs
  
  → Stairs
  
  The stairs follow the same strict security rules as the halls, with a door on each end that is kept locked as well. The stairs themselves, however, are dangerously narrow and deep. There are no official statistics as to fatal accidents in this block.
Patient Showers

→ Showers

The showers are communal and unisex. They are open concept aside from small partitions in some areas, and benches down the center of the main area. The shower heads are on the walls.
Recreational Area
1. Billiards
  
  → Billiards
  
  A room for socializing and entertainment, providing billiard tables and classic card and board games. The room is open to patients during recreational times and under remote watch by the security, otherwise mostly used by the staff members themselves on their breaks. It is entirely possible that in their hectic jobs, one or the other might forget or lose something in this room.
2. Library
  
  → Library
  
  The most private and laxly watched place for patients in the asylum, the library usually only has one or two nurses on duty, both to prevent accidents and to help the patients with problems or book choices. Naturally, the selection of books available is carefully censored, but even the staff may miss one thing or the other.
3. Pool
  
  → Pool
  
  Located in the south-western corner of the recreational block, the pool area is the largest source of sunlight for patients. Its is encompassed entirely (save for the connection to the building) by glass; however, the glass is 2 inches thick and entirely unbreakable. Aside from the pool, there is seating and a small section for working out with weights. This area can be used by the patients during their recreational time, but for those assigned to exercise therapy, the nurses will lead courses. Due to the potential danger of "accidents" in this area, it is under close watch by the security.
4. Quiet Room
  
  → Quiet Room
  
  A quiet, sunny room in which speaking is absolutely forbidden. It is generally used for meditation or reflection, and "difficult" patients have no access. The nurses are fairly quick to enforce the rule about silence in here.
5. Studio
  
  A place where the patients can follow their creative instincts or try to channel negative feelings to find an outlet in arts. Scissors and other potentially dangerous instruments are handed out only by the nurses, to trustworthy patients. The nurses lead different courses there during the recreational times, but independent work is also encouraged. Some patients may be assigned to this scheduled occupational therapy.
6. Music Room
  
  A small, neat room, this area has been set aside for musical practice and related therapies. Equipped with an old, out-of-tune piano and several equally dingy instruments, the room always has a nurse at hand to prevent theft. Disruptive patients will be immediately removed, to protect others' peaceful experience.
Staff Offices
1. Doctor Offices
  
  There is no clear layout for a doctor's office; these can be furnished completely according to the doctor's wishes, in regards to design and functionality. The doctors are free to treat their patients either here or in the therapy rooms.
2. Nurse Offices
  
  → Nurse Offices · Medicine Cabinet
  
  The office in which the nurses on duty can normally be found has a storage of rudimentary medicine and patient files. Here, the nurses are on call and meet for shift handovers.
3. Security Offices
  
  → Security Office · Medicine Cabinet
  
  The equivalent of the nurses office for the security guards, the office has a far richer supply of medication (primarily sedatives &c. used to restrain troublesome patients). The security guards can be found here while on duty, unless they are attending other duties or are patrolling the corridors and cells.
Therapy Rooms

The therapy rooms are strictly reserved for psychotherapy and group therapy sessions.
1. Electroshock Therapy Room
  
  → Electroshock Therapy Room
  
  As the name suggests, electroshock therapy (more generally called by its friendlier name, "electroconvulsive therapy" or simply "ECT") is carried out here. Before administration, the patients are occasionally given muscle relaxants, if the staff considers the risk of the patient breaking his own bones during the shocks too high. The treatment is, however, also the traditional method of sending a patient into unconsciousness before a lobotomy. In most of those cases, the patient never knows what is going to happen after he passes out.
2. Group Therapy Room
  
  → Group Therapy Room
  
  The room in which group therapies, in the past also group confessions, are held. Those are usually performed under a doctor with assistance of one or two nurses, with at least two security guards (depending on the size of the group) supervising the session.
3. Pain Room
  
  → Pain Room · Pain Room: Experimentation
  
  A room best known for its dreadful name, the Pain Room officially has the purpose of treating pain. Nobody knows the exact nature of the experiments that have been carried out here in the past.

Administrative Block

→ Corridor · Corridor: Opposite View

The corridors of the Administrative Block are narrow, silent paths between the blocks, only brightened by the daylight behind barred windows or, at night, by dim, bare light-bulbs.

Archives

→ Archives

The archives are a place that patients are absolutely and under all circumstances forbidden to enter. They store records of former patients, and, as the rumour goes among the older staff, about staff members and uncommon incidents in the past, too. The only person in possession of keys is the old archivist, a man with a bare head like a skull and a slow, toothless smile. He can be found in one of them, always changing location, and it appears that sorting through his files with characteristic slowness is all he ever does. He does not answer questions and nobody has seen him outside of his archives, except when he changes location, wandering through the corridors soundlessly, paying no attention to whatever may be going on around him.
Auditorium / Chapel

→ Auditorium

Once intended as a space for public announcements and asylum-wide meetings before the introduction of the intercom, today the auditorium is largely out-of-use and in need of significant maintenance. Despite its disrepair, the room provides a potential area for patient performances, religious services, or large meet-ups, should patients or staff find the motivation to restore and make use of it.
Boiler Room

→ Boiler Room

The centre of Edelweiss' heating system and at the same time an utility room, a place where even the staff is usually unwanted by the institution's workers. Most of the heat produced here goes, of course, to the laboratories, the infirmary, and the staff rooms.
Courtyard

→ Path · Courtyard

The courtyard, once home to a beautiful garden area and running fountain visible from the Solarium, now appears scorched and seriously neglected. The walls of the surrounding buildings are blackened by mysterious fire damage, the fountain has run dry, and live trees, flowers, and shrubbery, while not totally absent, are the exception to the rule. Though potentially a relaxing place for recreation, it will remain unwelcoming and run-down without significant, staff-guided improvement.
Entrance Area

→ Entrance Hall · Foyer

It is unlikely many patients will ever remember seeing the entrance to St.Edelweiss or have the chance to walk through it. The few 'visitors' to the asylum are greeted in this area. There is a small foyer also serving as the waiting room.
Head Offices

→ Hall · Superintendent's Office: Waiting Room · Superintendent's Office

The hall is the only place within this tract that is semi-accessible for the staff, though only on explicit demand by the Superintendent. And just like the invitation itself, everything else will be delivered and said through the Superintendent's secretaries. The Superintendent's office is completely inaccessible, and patients or staff alike who try to force their way through will find an unmoving, locked door - if they even get this far.
Infirmary

→ Infirmary · Laboratory · Pharmacy · Pharmacy: Medicine Cabinet (Drawer) · Operating Room

The infirmary is well-equipped to take care of seriously ill or wounded patients. Of course, it depends on the judgement of the individual staff members what is counted as "serious" in those cases. The infirmary is led by the nurses, but doctors are known to often visit and supervise the patients and the work here, according to preference. Here, one can also find the institution's own pharmacy - as well as three operating rooms and a laboratory for blood tests and more.
Kitchen

→ Kitchen

The kitchen is off-limits to patients, but accessible to doctors. They provide the food for the patients of both danger levels as well as for the staff. There are kitchen staff available at all times, if the doctors wish to request specific dishes.
Laundry

→ Laundry · Ironing the staff uniforms

Populated by nurses mainly, this is the place where the staff's and patients' laundry is done. While the staff usually has their clothes available again quickly, the patients usually have to wait an entire day before they get their only set of clothing back, with no replacements in the meantime.
Morgue

→ Morgue · Morgue: Table · Morgue: Nurses · Laboratory

The morgue is, in the words of the staff, a sad necessity, as deaths due to chronic illness (these are, after all, even if on smaller scale, treated in Edelweiss as well), accidents, or violence by the patients against themselves or one another can occur, albeit rarely do. The morgue is generally absolutely off-limits to patients, although staff appears rather busy there at times. It has its own laboratory and an amazing collection of forensic files.
Solarium

→ Solarium

The solarium could be considered the heart of the East wing. It is a brightly lit hallway, with tall barred windows spanning it's length. Within the solarium is comfortable seating, chess tables and a classical piano. In essence it is essentially a large sitting room and commons.
Staff Rooms

→ Staff Dormitory · Staff Dining Room

The Staff Rooms include the bedrooms of all staff members - the dormitories with six beds per room for nurses, assistants, and security, and the single bedrooms for the doctors. In the Staff Dining Hall, the staff can spend their meals together while off duty. It is situated in the centre of the Staff Block, and, while the nurses and security guards on duty usually have their meals delivered to their offices by the kitchen staff, the only place where staff members of all professions usually meet.
Storage Rooms

The storage rooms are permanently locked, except of course for staff, but anything taken from here (among other things some of the personal belongings of the patients) must be strictly documented. Interestingly, the patients may recognise some of their personal objects - others seem to be completely unfamiliar to them.

West Wing

Solitary Cells

→ Solitary Cells

In the easternmost parts of the burnt down West Wing, these small cells are the first and apparently only thing that the institution's staff has so far restored of this area. The smell of burnt wood and more still lingers in the air, along with the rot of months of neglect. Patients considered too uncontrolled even for mere restriction are chained to the walls here and left behind for a night or two to cool down. How long this takes depends entirely on the staff member responsible for bringing them here. There is no heating, no protection against the cold floor, and usually, other than medication and water to drink, no food is given either. And somehow, with the dead (but perhaps transmitting) intercom on the wall and left with only yourself and the cold, you can never feel quite alone in the darkness.

Places Of Interest

The West Wing Entrance

Constantly chained and locked away from the rest of the asylum, the West Wing is spoken of little by the staff. The small story that will be given upon questioning is that the wing took on significant fire and structural damage and is presently awaiting extensive restoration. The close security and ban on patients or staff entering the Wing is ostensibly to prevent injuries and accidents. However, though the wing is said to be out of use, there have been nightly sightings through the windows that seem to hint at life in the West Wing - life that searches for contact.

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