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Template:Locations Briarcliff Manor is the central location and focus of Asylum.

History

Located in the state of Massachusetts, the manor was built in 1908 and served as the largest tuberculosis ward on the East Coast. During this time, an estimated 46,000 patients died within it's walls. Ultimately, the Catholic Church purchased the institute in 1962 and transformed it into a sanitarium for the mentally-ill. It was run by Monsignor Timothy Howard and administrator Sister Jude. In 1965, the church sold the manor to the state, before it was shut down in 1971 and abandoned. Currently it stands in ruin.

Layout

The foyer contains a spiraling staircase that leads to the administrative offices. The common room is provided for the recreation of patients. It contains a phonograph which, at the insistence of Sr. Jude, repeatedly plays the song "Dominique" by Jeanine Deckers (AKA The Singing Nun). There are separate wards for men and women which contain rooms not unlike prison cells. A sound insulated lower level houses Arden's lab. Adjoining the boiler room is a little known tunnel that leads to the surrounding tangle of woods, which also houses the terminus of the "death chute"; it was here that victims who had succumbed to tuberculosis would be dumped, and carted to a crematory.

Known Rooms

  • Foyer
  • Administrator's Office (Used by Sister Jude)
  • Kitchen
  • Common / Day Room
  • Physician's Office (used by Arden)
  • Therapy Room (used by Thredson)
  • Infirmary and surgical bay
  • Morgue
  • Boiler Room
  • The "death shoot"

Staff

Besides the aforementioned Monsignor and Sr. Jude there are many others administering to the needs of the asylum. Various orderlies and guards look after the patients. Sister Mary Eunice provides assistance to both Sr. Jude and resident physician Dr. Arden. Other professionals not employed at the asylum are occasionally called upon for services such as psychiatrist Oliver Thredson and exorcist Father Malachi.

Inmates

The patients that reside in the asylum are varied. There's microcephalic baby murderer Pepper, the allegedly familicidal Grace, fecal-flinging bully Spivey, nymphomaniac Shelley and Bloody Face suspect Kit Walker. There's also reporter Lana Winters, whose only crime was crossing Sr. Jude.

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