Athens Insane Asylum- [M] OOC

[Waving]

[M] - For well everything-- Just in case

For all of you that don’t know, I go by Cry, or Alpha Female of this thread. You don’t have to join if you don’t like it. So, Lemme lay down the rules. I think you’re going to want to read them all.

Spoiler: Rules, Rules, Rules 

1. I am Game Master. I god mod. If I don’t like something, and I ask you to remove of it, do so. Or of course you can be on your marry way out of the thread, enjoying someone else’s work of art. But, I will not be the evil person. I will act fairly towards all. Also, if you have a problem, I must stress, do not argue with me. As many guidelines say, you are a guest of my game. So work with me, even if you don’t agree.
2. Proof read your posts.
3. No Mary Sues; No eye changing colors, no magical mental skills, no beauty beyond the stars, no emo, no super depression, no past of sexual abuse or abuse of any sort.
4. Let me add, I don’t want to see any character stereotypes, or clichés.
5. Perfection is not need. How can we put it…? It’s so imperfect.
6. I understand you put a little bit of yourself in your characters, well, let’s not create another you, or a perfected you. Well, this is called the OOC, out of character, thread. Is it not?
7. The writing style will be in third person. Third person. Third person. Third person.
8. No 1 liners, no 2 liners, no 3 liners. Everything must be in paragraph form, more than 3 lines. If anything under, you will be notified.
9. Interaction with characters is crucial. I mean, that is the point of creating a character in a role-play. Anti-social characters make everything difficult and make everyone want to avoid you.
10. DETAILS. Be creative in your character’s personality and your character’s backstory/history. Although, keep some things hidden until more advancement in the plot of the story happens. Appearance isn’t as important as it leads you to believe.
11. Growth. Your character needs it. Throughout the storyline, you want to be able to read back until present and see that your character as either grown for the better or become horrid. Growth in whatever direction is needed to keep things interesting.
12. When you think about your character’s past and how you are going to make it, consider its growth and future. Plan how it will go in your head, but watch out for when the story goes in motion with other people. You want to work and cope with the ideas of others.
13. Don’t control another person’s actions, unless permission is given. This also includes memories, and things of the past. If a problem comes up, post it here.
14. This adds onto details. Work hard to add details to the things around you and to things going on around you and in your mind. You want all of us to be able to understand what is going on, so we will be able to respond accurately.
15. No disappearing. PM beforehand of your leave, so we can know, and make your character an excuse of leave. We’d really hate for the other character that is involved with your character to be stuck, waiting for you.
16. Romance may be a part of this role-play, but it’s gonna be kind of awkward. Romance may be apart if this role-play, but no one day fall in love stuff. Let it bloom, and blossom. Seeing fast pace relationships are unattractive.
17. No attention … whres. We want everyone to be active players and one person can’t keep the limelight.

I’m fairly sure that should be it for the rules, and if you don’t read them all, it’ll nip ya later. On with the story, you say? Oh right… Well here’s information first. Much of this information comes from Wikipedia and here. Credit of all this goes to them.

Athens Lunatic Asylum.
Athens Lunatic Asylum is considered one of the most haunted insane asylums in history. It is located in Athens, Ohio and is best known as a site of the infamous lobotomy procedure, as well as various supposed paranormal sightings. Athens opened in January 9, 1874. Being only 2 years old, it got renamed to ‘The Athens Hospital for the Insane’. Many people started called it many different names such as: the Athens Asylum for the Insane, the Athens State Hospital, the Southeastern Ohio Mental Health Center, the Athens Mental Health Center, the Athens Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, the Athens Mental Health and Developmental Center.

Spoiler: Several Different names 

1874-1911: Athens Lunatic Asylum
1911-1944: Athens Asylum for the Insane
1944-1968: Athens State Hospital
1968-1969: Southeastern Ohio Mental Health Center
1969-1975: Athens Mental Health Center
1975-1980: Southeastern Ohio Mental Health and Retardation Center
1980-1981: Athens Mental Health and Developmental Center
1981-1991: Athens Mental Health Center
1991-: The Ridges

The first patient at the Ridges is believed to have been Thomas Armstrong from Belmont County, followed by Daniel Fremau. Fremau apparently thought he was the second coming of Jesus Christ. The Athens building had 544 patient rooms. When it opened it housed around 200 patients. The more sedate among them participated in recreational activities like boating, painting, dances, and picnics. They were offered church services and plays, and were often free to roam the grounds. Some patients tended the farms and orchards.
This leaves out any extra cruelties which might have been given without the justification of therapy. Patients were often restrained and were forced to sleep in group bunks in rooms intended for one person. One nurse was sometimes responsible for as many as fifty patients. In these conditions some restricted patients would carve messages on the sandstone windowsills of their rooms, reaching through the ornate bars to leave an anonymous word or sentence. One poignant carving still reads, "I was never crazy."

Spoiler: Treatments 

1. Water Treatment
Patients were submerged in ice-cold water for extended periods of time. Sometimes they were wrapped in sheets which had been soaked in ice water and restrained.
2. Shock Therapy
Electric shocks were administered to patients submerged in water tanks or, more commonly, directly to the temples by the application of brine-soaked electrodes. A patient held a rubber piece in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue off during the convulsions which followed a treatment...
3. Lobotomy (Original)
Patients had their skulls opened and their neural passages separated midway through the brain. This difficult and arduous procedure killed many people, but those who survived did in fact forget many of their depressive or psychotic tendencies. They also forgot a lot of other things, like how not to shit down your leg at dinner time, but with such an abundance of patients the only thing most doctors worried about was how to streamline the process. Open-skull brain surgery is a tricky business no matter how you slice it.
4. Lobotomy (Trans-Orbital)
Developed by Dr. Walter J. Freeman in the early 1950s, this simpler lobotomy became something of a craze in mental health circles up through the 60s. Dr. Freeman's method involved knocking the patient unconscious with electric shocks, then rolling an eyelid back and inserting a thin metal icepick-like instrument called a leucotome through a tear duct. A mallet was used to tap the instrument the proper depth into the brain. Next it was sawed back and forth to sever the neural receptors. Sometimes this was done in both eyes. There is some evidence that this method actually helped some people with very severe conditions, but much more often the patient had horrible side effects and in many cases ended up nearly catatonic. It also killed a whole bunch of people, too.

Spoiler: Lobotomy, Lobotomy, Lobotomy... 

Lobotomy (Greek: λοβός – lobos: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition of frequent and serious side-effects. (reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy)
The lobotomy was condemned as barbaric and psychotropic drugs such as Thorazine replaced it. Although the heavy drugs administered in hospitals at this time weren't perfect (the "Thorazine shuffle" was a term used to describe the way people move around when they're on it) they were far more humane than electric shock or radical brain surgery, and they led to recovery for a greater number of people. Mental retardation received more specialized care. Drug rehabilitation and geriatrics programs were also added in the 1960s.

On with the setting and what-not? Alright!



It’s 2012 and Athens is reopened due to the growing population of what society believes to be ‘insane’ people. Although, many of them are. The wards are divided in to different sections and by the amount of nurses caring for them.

Spoiler: Wards 

Ward 1: For the killers and psychotic sexual molesters/rapists.
Ward 2: Schizophrenic, mania and hypomania patients
Ward 3: Personality disorders
Ward 4: Insomnia and pyromania

Each Ward is with 2 nurses to them. Those nurses are specialized for the patients in their ward. Each chose their own wards to work in and they have been trained.

Spoiler: Ward Nurses, Ward Nurses, Ward Nurses... 

Ward 1: James and Seth(Waving)
Ward 2: Jessica and Sophia(Griphun)
Ward 3: Claudia and Tyrone(Imp)
Ward 4: Bella and Celeste

There are 4 hours in the day where all the patients can be together in one area, for social purposes. Patients can go out to court yard. There are game rooms with paddle ball, and other small games. There is a library, filled with limited books donated by the community.

Treatments will still be active, but small ones at tiny proportions for the mass murders and sexual molesters/rapists, such as small doses of shock therapy. Other patients will go through recovery stages and therapy to see if they can rejoin society at some point.

Nurses will be lodged in a separate part of the facility away from the asylum, but close enough for the nurses to access the patients in an emergency. Ward nurses will stay with their assigned partner, everything with be easy access and organized.

Spoiler: Plot, Plot, Plot.... 

Gingko is planning on escaping Ward 1 then moving slowly, having people join him to take over Athens, and then murdering anyone he thinks should die.
Details you say? That’s for the rest of us to decide…

Spoiler: IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT... 

You will PM me your Character Sheets and I will either accept or reject them. This will be a controlled RP so characters spaces are indeed limited.

Spoiler: Patient Skeleton, Patient Skeleton, Patient Skeleton.... 

Name:

Age:

Appearance:

Disorder:

Ward:

Reason for being at Athens:

Other:

Spoiler: Nurse Skeleton, Nurse Skeleton, Nurse Skeleton.... 

Name:

Age:

Appearance:

Ward:

Specialty disorder:

How you got the job:

Spoiler: My Characters :D 

Name: Gingko Dou

Age: 23

Appearance:




Disorder: Capgras syndrome, Conversion disorder, congenital analgesia

Ward: 1

Reason for being at Athens (History/Backstory): As a child, Gingko always had been hurting himself. His friend, that no one else seemed to see, would always tell him what to do, to get him hurt. Gingko knew he was different. He could fall off the top bunk bed, and not feel a thing. His parents took him in and they diagnosed him with Congenital Analgesia, congenital insensitivity to pain. Gink could not feel, and has never felt, physical pain. Later, in his teenage years, he was constantly caught talking to someone that isn’t there. Gingko got suspended from junior high, and high school many times for attempting to fight other students making fun of his close friend. His parents took him to a psychiatrist. She diagnosed him with Capgras syndrome. Gingko held a delusion that this friend was around him, and was ‘real’, when he actually wasn’t. Many times, adding onto not feeling pain, Gingko got random numbness, blindness, paralysis, and had fits, without a legitimate cause or ‘click’ to make anything happened. Ginkgo got sick of his parents always thinking there was something wrong with him. He got tired of it. At the age of 18, Gingko murdered his family. His mother, his father, his sister, and his younger brother, all of them were beat brutally. Gingko moved from jail to jail, beating more people that began to fight with him. After years of this continuous problem, they finally sent Gingko to Athens in Ward 1.

Other: He is sadistic.



Name: James Scott

Age: 31

Appearance:



Ward: 1

Specialty disorder: He works best with murderers and sexual offenders. He is able to work with their mind, and get them to keep quiet, not making a ruckus.

How you got the job: James went through medical school and became a nurse. After that, he went in and out of jobs, nothing that had to do anything with hospitals or being a nurse. James struggled with keeping his apartment, so he waited until his lease was up with the apartment, then moving back in with his mother. Strangely one day, he got a call from the new Warden of Athens and was offered a job, for when it would become reopened.



Name: Seth Gardner

Age: 26

Appearance:

Ward: 1

Specialty disorder: He works best with amnesia patients, but wanted to go with Ward 1 patients, after training.

How you got the job:
Seth applied after contacting the new Warden. At first, the Warden did not like Seth at all. He thought it attitude wasn’t right for the job. Soon, when training began, Seth proved himself and landed the job. Seth wanted to join Ward 1, seeming as it’s the most interesting to him.

Spoiler: Therapy rooms... 

Spoiler: Patient Rooms... 

Spoiler: Hallways... 

Spoiler: Patient Community Rooms... 

Spoiler: Abandoned Areas... 

Spoiler: Hallways.... 

Spoiler: Houses/Buildings... 

Spoiler: Nurse Bedrooms... 

An anti-suicide blanket is a tear-resistant blanket that is used to prevent a hospitalized, incarcerated or otherwise detained individual from forming a noose to commit suicide. The blanket is typically made of simple and sturdily quilted nylon or similarly reinforced material. The stiffness of the blanket makes it impossible to roll or fold without continuously applied pressure. The same material is used for the anti-suicide smock.





All patients will only have one blanket.

An anti-suicide smock, or turtle suit, is a tear-resistant single piece outer garment that is generally used to prevent a hospitalized, incarcerated, or otherwise detained individual from forming a noose with the garment to commit suicide. The smock is typically a simple, sturdily quilted, collarless, sleeveless, gown with adjustable openings at the shoulders and down the front that are closed with nylon hook-and-loop or similar fasteners. The stiffness of the garment makes it impossible to roll or fold the garment without continuously applied pressure while not impeding the mobility of the wearer. The same material is used for the anti-suicide blanket.




Patients that are suicidal will wear this.

All patients will wear medical scrubs. Safe and tear proof.


Transport belts are for added security with higher-risk prisoners are made of leather, chain, nylon and steel components. All patients moving from place to place, Must have one on. No matter what Ward.

[Auki]

Hey, Waving! In accordance with the Mature rules, you need to provide a rating in the title (e.g. [M], [R], etc.) and a reason for the rating posted in the first OOC post (e.g. Rated [M] for potential violence).

And also, if you’re looking for more players, don’t forget to make use of all the features that RPA has to offer. You can submit your game to the Roleplaying Games Directory here and if you post here, you can ask the Staff to advertise your roleplay in their signatures.

Most importantly, make sure to apply for Roleplay of the Week!

[Imp]

How about R for Retar*gets shot*

Expect my CS laterz 2nite, yo

[Echo]

Oooh. Asylum. I want in

[Waving]

Sounds good. The skeleton is up there, and you PM me your CS when done

[Skeletor]

O.O I love this idea. I hope I can come up with an ideal character for this...

[Waving]

That would be lovely

[Waving]

Name: Harley Youngblood

Age: 24

Appearance:
Harley has a very thin, tall, boy-ish appearance. She has short, blonde hair with dark tips and dark brown eyes.



Disorder: Severe Schizophrenia.

Ward: Ward 2

Reason for being at Athens: After being removed from her original home at the age of sixteen when her parents were charged for neglect for the second time and being investigated several times by DCFS and the police, Harley began to show signs that she may have schizophrenia. Her foster parents were content with Harley at first, but were very poor and didn't have enough money to pay for the treatment, therapy, and medicine that she needed to get help with her condition. Harley was passed from family to family who each found that they just couldn't deal with her until she was sent to Athens at the age of eighteen and has been there ever since. To this day, she still has trouble discerning between reality and fantasy, thinking logically, having normal emotional responses, and is a bit socially inept. It just keeps progressing and getting worse. She often sees and hears things that aren't really there and has trouble "functioning in the real world." Harley believes it's mostly because the people that were supposed to be taking care of her just didn't take the time to get her the proper help she needed. She can write very well and keeps a journal. Just when she begins to think nothing's wrong with her...the voices and images come back to her and reminds Harley of just why she ended up there in the first place.

Other:
She has to take Perphenazine, a psychosis medicine meant to help with her schizophrenia. However, it doesn't really seem to help a lot.


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[Waving]

Name: Seraphim Fate Savior

Age: Surprisingly, only 19

Appearance:

Spoiler: Your first impression of her 

Spoiler: The last thing you see in your final moments 

Disorder: Schizophrenia(born with this) and Congenital analgesia(received when struck by lightning. Somehow, because of that, her sensory system/nerves failed to function properly).

Ward: 1. Why? Well, she's a murderer of course!

Reason for being at Athens: Accidentally killed a guy that worked at the place. You know. He was pretty dedicated to his work too, unfortunately. Instead of the police, he called the asylum. Smart guy. Well, he's dead, and Seraphim's trapped in that stupid asylum that could be worse than prison.

Other: She's a genius. Don't underestimate her; one moment she could be that average teenager, and the next, she's the last person you see before you, you know. She was born a psychological prodigy, and so she's got some superiority and inferiority issues as well. She thinks she's superior than those human scum she sees around her everyday, but it can't be helped, seeing that she was the queen of wherever she went. School? Turned it into a warzone. Work? Well, it's a mafia now. Just a bit of manipulation. It's unfortunate that she underestimates her opponents too much, and has to deal with the consequences.

[Echo]

Awesome, two bios are up! ;D