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(CoC) The Snake Pit

*Adon and Arthur begins a systematic search, trying to find the oldest records, the ones from when the asylum was moved from one building to another. Many of the files are disorganized, haphazard, and scattered about the room. Several seem to be in the farthest corner, in the dustiest file cabinet. It takes a bit of time to gather them, and the two place their files on a table to sit down and read them. Daisy searches about for anything the two might have missed, occasionally bringing another file to their attention.*

*The three begin reading and discover that many of the patients from that time had severe relapses in their progress after the fire. This seems to be expected by the doctors, but many became violent and aggressive treatment was perscribed for many of them. A few had to be lobotomized for their own safety and the safety of others. It's not terribly unusual treatment, but it had to be done to quite a large number. Also it's evident that at least four patients escaped during the transition phase between asylums. One was recaptured, two were found dead, and one vanished. The two that were found dead died of exposure, while the one that vanished, a Charles Trent Xavier, was noted to be a hemophiliac with delusions. He is presumed dead.*

*Eugene is hunting for specific references to Dr. Willson's treatments, and is scribbling things down at a tremendous rate. Agatha explores the room, picking up random files and dropping them again. However, eventually she gets to a corner where crates and boxes are piled high. She finds herself drawn to it, and runs her hand down the stack. Something is back there, something... she quickly shifts several boxes, moving nearly a dozen before she finds the one she wants. It's a small wooden crate, slightly scorched, with a lock on it. There is something eerie about what's in the box...*
 

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Agatha is intrigued about the box. "By the Goddess....", she murmurs running her hands over the box. she quickly plucks out her hairpin and begins working with the lock...
 

*Within a few minutes' worth of worth, Agatha has opened the latch. Inside are several musty files, thick with dust and slightly moldy. Sitting down to look them over, Agatha soon finds a common thread. All are charts of deceased patients from over a twenty-year span at the old asylum. Most of the diagnoses are various forms of dementia and delusions, usually accompanied by scraps of hand-written journals from the patients, or odd drawings they did. The causes of death range from old age, to heart attack, to unknown. However, it seems that Dr. Willson was their chief physician in all the cases.*
 

Agatha looks up from her find and giggles. "Olley-olley-oxen-free!", she babbles. Then, she breaks out her most theaterical pirate voice, "AAARRRrrrrr, mateys! methinks some burried treasure's been found!"
 

Adon mumbles to himself, oblivious to his surroundings while absorbed in reading the patient files. "Lobotomy...hmmm...lobotomy again...good God. Absolutely horrible..." Adon removes his glasses to wipe his eyes. "Xavier...hmmm. Xavier..."

OOC: Do the patient records say where the escaped inmates that died were found? Does Xavier's record locate a hometown for him? What would Xavier's age be today if he were alive?

Adon turns to the others. "I have not found anything conclusive, except that the fire at the former asylum seems to have had a terrible impact on these wretches. Eugene, what have you unearthed?"

At Agatha's outburst, Adon turns to her, "Yes, Agatha? You find something?"
 

Agatha nods and brings the box and tomes over. "T'was burned and brilling in the rovsey wood and the mome raths t'were locked, but wit' eyes-a-shinin' and claws-a-gnashing did break it - that jabber-hairpin-wock!" Agatha giggles slightly and hands the find to Adon...
 

Hrothgar said:
OOC: Do the patient records say where the escaped inmates that died were found? Does Xavier's record locate a hometown for him? What would Xavier's age be today if he were alive?
*Of those patients that died, one was found drowned in a cistern, the other washed up underneath a pier. Xavier was actually a local, he was born in Arkham. Tragically, he was a child patient, barely twelve years old at the time of the fire. It was indicated he was institutionalized because he kept attacking his teacher, insising he was a demon. He began to attack other people in his delusional state, and was institutionalized at age ten.*
 


OOC: I will make it known to everyone. :)

"From my current readings, it seems four patients escaped during the transition to this asylum after the former burned. Two were found dead, one was apprehended, and a Charles Trent Xavier was never found," Adon relays to the group, telling them all he has found. "Strange that the two deaths were both due to drowning..."

"Er...thank you, Agatha," Adon smiles gently at the fiery-haired woman as she brings the box over. "I think we all owe Agatha a great deal of gratitude," Adon says as he sifts through the box Agatha brought to the group, "Treasure indeed...Dr. Wilson's files!"

Adon frowns and sighs at the box. "I hope these files help illuminate this mystery." Adon looks up at the group and smiles. "My old eyes are not what they use to be. Please, help me read through these."
 

Agatha doesn't seem to hear Adon...she merely stands there, mouthing "demons" over and over again. Her eyes have a distant, glassy stare...
 

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