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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5214692" data-attributes="member: 1210">Oh hell yeah.I ran an awesome couple of sessions in the Asylum for Advanced Mental Treatment in my halfling campaign some years ago. It was awesome and creepy and moody and atmospheric. I found old B&W pics of an asylum for visual aids and had all kinds of creepy things going on- from magical electroshock therapy to trepanation and trepaniering. If you're interested in the write up of it, it begins <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/65887-sound-mind-halfling-way-11.html#post1707437" target="_blank">here,</a> when the pcs meet Timothy, a refugee from the Asylum, while they are on their way there.The creepy visuals and descriptions of maybe horrific, maybe helpful "treatments" going on really worked to creep out the pcs. They saw the treatments when they put on a circus type show and got a tour afterward iirc; the whole time, the doctor showing them around was talking about how "our techniques are the most modern and effective", and how "ignorance" had long prevented the use of such methods, which could help all these poor insane people. The pcs were really off balance, not sure if the asylum-keepers were totally eeeevil or if they were actually well-intentioned. It was awesome.</blockquote>