Post by azina on Sept 27, 2005 23:39:53 GMT -5
Okay, this is bothering me that I took this little bit of writing out when I did back in Chapter 13. It's actually background into the the history of Arkham and the ward where Crane and his mother are. It might bring a little insight into why his mom knows what she does ... or maybe not. I love ambiguity. Remember these paragraphs occur before I first revealed she was in the asylum
This older ward was commonly known as the Lost Causes Ward, because it housed those patients with little or no hope of recovery. When Dr. Crane first entered Arkham as a young doctor, these patients fascinated him the most. They were the most extreme, sometimes the most dangerous and violent, and Dr. Crane fancied perhaps his highly unorthodox methods could help these patients when all other “acceptable” and “ethical” treatments had failed. Some of these “lost causes” Crane did manage to bring back from the brink, much to his astonishment, others remained in their own self-made limbo of dementia and delusion.
This ward also had a unique character that the sanitized and altogether modern wing of Arkham didn’t have. As the oldest section of the asylum and it had little or no improvements since the Terrible Fire 90 years ago, which scorched this ward and killed most of the patients either locked up or so heavily medicated they couldn’t escape before the flames ripped through the place or suffocated the patients with smoke. Supposedly it was started by the infamous Mad Lucy who found a stray match and set herself ablaze.
As if this ward didn’t have a sinister enough history, it harbored a continued reputation of being haunted by the restless spirits of the insane. Some of the nurses reported they could hear their tormented spirits howling on some nights at the end of the East Corridor, but Dr. Crane suspected it was for another reason. He believed in another rumor, that there was a hidden corridor and a large interior facility located somewhere deep within Arkham – but that was still a fable of Arkham. No one ever dared go look for it; nobody wanted to find it, save the ever-curious Dr. Crane.
This older ward was commonly known as the Lost Causes Ward, because it housed those patients with little or no hope of recovery. When Dr. Crane first entered Arkham as a young doctor, these patients fascinated him the most. They were the most extreme, sometimes the most dangerous and violent, and Dr. Crane fancied perhaps his highly unorthodox methods could help these patients when all other “acceptable” and “ethical” treatments had failed. Some of these “lost causes” Crane did manage to bring back from the brink, much to his astonishment, others remained in their own self-made limbo of dementia and delusion.
This ward also had a unique character that the sanitized and altogether modern wing of Arkham didn’t have. As the oldest section of the asylum and it had little or no improvements since the Terrible Fire 90 years ago, which scorched this ward and killed most of the patients either locked up or so heavily medicated they couldn’t escape before the flames ripped through the place or suffocated the patients with smoke. Supposedly it was started by the infamous Mad Lucy who found a stray match and set herself ablaze.
As if this ward didn’t have a sinister enough history, it harbored a continued reputation of being haunted by the restless spirits of the insane. Some of the nurses reported they could hear their tormented spirits howling on some nights at the end of the East Corridor, but Dr. Crane suspected it was for another reason. He believed in another rumor, that there was a hidden corridor and a large interior facility located somewhere deep within Arkham – but that was still a fable of Arkham. No one ever dared go look for it; nobody wanted to find it, save the ever-curious Dr. Crane.