The Lone Peak Psychiatric Clinic, originally Lone Peak Asylum, was set up post-WW1 as part of a government-backed initiative into the emerging ‘Shell Shock’ sickness of the War. Later, as Shell Shock symptoms decreased with the end of hostilities, Lone Peak expanded into civilian use. In the late forties it became the Psychiatric Clinic.
During the course of its operation, the Lone Peak facility was effective in its role. It had one of the highest psychiatric cure rates in the Californian State, but it also had the highest intake rate.
In nineteen sixty-one newer, more modern facilities had been constructed, and after a combination of budget cuts, staff reductions and the mysterious disappearance of Director Dr. H Ralls and several of his staff, Lone Peak Clinic was shut down. No buyers paid any interest into it whatsoever, and so for almost forty years it remained the old asylum abandoned since the nineteen sixties which all the kids call haunted.
In 2007, Morris Giles set up in Lone Peak, though was shut down several months later by an unlikely alliance of the White Hats Chance and Alessandra Hunt, the vampire James and his followers Darlome and Vincent as they rescued Cole Matthews, leaving the complex battle-scarred. He fled shortly thereafter.
Sometime later, Kyle Ashton, tracking Morris in service of Ambrose Delancre entered the Clinic. For two hours he suffered delusions of various degrees, to which he claimed were hauntings, before encountering an insane vampire in the basement, left behind by Morris, and escaping.
Besides the main door, long since opened up by various squatters, the only other access to the Clinic is through a secret sewer-entrance that leads into the basement. A high wall covers the Clinic’s grounds, with only one main gate. At least one insane vampire prowls the basement, keeping away any unwanted visitors, and there is speculation that there maybe more. The Clinic itself contains a reception, offices, commons rooms and padded cells, is strewn with trash and, since the rescue mission, battle damage. There is also rumours that it is haunted by a particularly troubled spirit.
A number of features remain from Morris’ occupation. The main commons room is still daubed with runes and arcane symbols, and there is a large circular pit dug into the floor. Throughout the facility there are also scattered arcane books and devices, leftover from Morris’ army.
Besides these leftovers, to any observer the place looks as if it was left in a hurry, never to be bothered with again.
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Location Profile: Lone Peak Psychiatric Clinic
Lone Peak Psychiatric Asylum is played by the abandoned Melbo Mental Insitution.
Some interior shots:
Location Profile: Lone Peak Psychiatric Clinic
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