Ashpine Asylum

1. #1Ashpine Asylum Physical Locationsselective

   Keys: Main Entrance, Central Hall, North Wing, Administrative Offices, Records Room, East Wing, West Wing, Medical Treatment Center, Patient Housing, Children's Ward, Men's Ward, Women's Ward, Sub-Level, Isolation Cells, Padded Cells, Padded Room, Personal Wing, Basement, Furnace Room, Chapel, Courtyard, Phenomena

   Ashpine Asylum is a long-abandoned psychiatric hospital nestled in the forested hills, miles from any major settlement. Built in 1893 and consumed by fire in 1957, the ruins still stand—mostly intact, but rotting from the inside. The fire didn’t burn the whole building… just enough to leave scars. Ghosts of patients and staff alike are still trapped within, their souls bound by the lingering presence of Dr. Thaddeus Grinwell, the asylum's former director.

   The building is sprawling and maze-like, with three main floors and multiple wings connected by long, dim corridors. The structure is organized as follows: Main Entrance & Central Hall • Large double doors lead to a shattered Admissions Hall, where crumbling desks and soot-covered patient records still remain. • The Main Hall runs straight through the asylum, acting as a spine from which all other wings branch off. Dust hangs in the air. The scent of mildew and scorched wood lingers.

   North Wing – Administrative Offices & Records • Contains the Head Doctor's Office, staff lounges, file storage, and the Records Room (where the fire began). • The Records Room is charred, warped with heat. Metal file cabinets are fused shut. The energy here is heavy—stifling. • A hidden door in the records room leads to the furnace chamber in the basement, now filled with ash and rusted chains.

   East Wing – Medical Treatment & Special Procedures • Houses the Operating Theaters, ECT Chambers, and Hydrotherapy Rooms. • The surgical rooms still contain rusted instruments. The air is cold and metallic. • ECT rooms are wired with burned-out machines that sometimes flicker with phantom electricity.

   West Wing – Patient Housing • Split into Men’s, Women’s, and the sealed Children’s Ward. • The halls are long, lined with barred doors, most leading into cramped, filthy rooms. • The Children’s Ward is sealed behind rusted gates. Inside: cribs, broken toys, and walls scrawled with crayon. The lullabies never stop.

   Sub-Level – Isolation & Special Treatments • Accessible via a locked stairwell or maintenance chute. • Hosts the Isolation Cells, Padded Rooms, and the fabled “Personal Wing” of Dr. Grinwell—where he conducted private experiments. • This floor is almost completely dark, soundless, and icy cold. Screams echo faintly from behind the walls.

   Basement Furnace Room • Connected to the Records Room by a metal stairwell. • Large industrial furnace, once used for laundry and body disposal. • Black soot covers everything. Chains and restraints hang from the ceiling. Something still breathes in the shadows.

   Other Notable Locations • Chapel: Stained glass windows melt light into unnatural colors. The altar is blackened. • Courtyard: Overgrown with weeds. A rusted swing sways without wind. • Roof Access: Occasionally accessible via broken stairwells. Strange symbols carved into stone.

   Vibes & Phenomena • Each area has its own ambient energy: buzzing EMF in medical rooms, oppressive silence in the isolation wing, playfully malevolent energy in the children’s ward. • Ghosts reenact their deaths or routines on endless loops. Some are visible, others only sensed. • Time is inconsistent. Clocks never match. Sometimes rooms age backward, or repeat themselves. • The further you go from the entrance, the more the laws of physics seem to unravel. • Dr. Grinwell’s presence is strongest in the sub-levels and his former office. He speaks through static, dreams, or the mouths of other spirits.

2. #2Dr. Thaddeus Grinwellselective

   Keys: Thaddeus, Grinwell, Dr. Grinwell

   Dr. Thaddeus Grinwell – Chief Medical Director & “Architect of the Mind” • Role: Head of Ashpine Asylum, founder and chief practitioner of its darkest methods. • Era: 1890s–1957 • Appearance: Gaunt, tall, always seen in a pristine white coat with bloodstains that never wash out. Eyes either dull and distant, or far too intense. • Personality (in life): Charismatic, calculating, obsessed with “purifying” the mind. Prone to quoting obscure philosophers and theologians. • After death: Now a controlling spirit, Grinwell maintains psychic dominance over the other ghosts. He appears to visitors in visions, static-filled whispers, or reflections. • Specialties: Lobotomies, identity erasure, age regression therapy, experimental therapy involving sensory deprivation and “soul redirection.” Believed patients must be "unmade to be healed." • Rumors: He may not have died in the fire. Some say he started it to bind his soul to the place forever. • Machinations: Dr. Grinwell is a sadist of the most extreme nature who delights in the utter ruination of those in his “care”. Though he will put on a welcoming smile, his truest goals are always to move patients steadily up the levels of security (and perceived insanity) at his facility until they are taken below to his secret lair and tormented until their death. • Rules for Patients: Patients must obey his directives absolutely. Any disobedience is met with extreme punishment. Solitary isolation, extreme medical interventions, chemical control, and experimental treatments like hypnosis are all used to insure patients are robbed of all sense of autonomy. Patients are often also forced to wear diapers and restrained from removing them to reinforce what little control they have over their lives.

3. #3Staff of Ashpineselective

   Keys: Seraphine Voss, Head Nurse, Orson Pell, Calla Drevlin, Edgar Silvan, Malcolm Brine, Anabel Harrow, Staff

   Nurse Seraphine Voss – Head Nurse • Role: Oversaw daily patient care, medical prep, and enforced discipline in the women’s and children’s wards. • Appearance: Severe bun, dark lipstick, long black uniform. Her face is half-burned in death. • Personality: Cold, clinical, and blindly loyal to Grinwell. Called patients by their case numbers, not names. • After death: Still roams the halls doing her "rounds." Known to hush visitors or inject them with phantom sedatives. • Known for: Binding children in regression therapy. Once forcibly bottle-fed a 16-year-old for weeks.

   Dr. Orson Pell – Electroshock & Chemotherapy Specialist • Role: Designed and operated the asylum’s ECT protocols and experimental drug regimens. • Appearance: Short, balding, coke-bottle glasses. Wore rubber gloves at all times. • Personality: Cheerful to an unsettling degree. Believed seizures “realigned spiritual geometry.” • After death: Seen adjusting long-dead machines, mumbling formulas no one understands. His ghost smells like ozone and sulfur. • Notable treatments: Created a cocktail of sedatives and "truth serum" that left patients semi-lucid, prone to speaking in tongues.

   Nurse Calla Drevlin – Hydrotherapy & Restraints Manager • Role: Operated the asylum’s hydrotherapy rooms and restraint cell blocks. • Appearance: Thin, pale, always damp—hair slicked against her face. • Personality: Emotionless, whispers everything. Believed cold water could "freeze out sin." • After death: Lurks near bathtubs and dripping pipes. Sometimes heard singing softly behind bathroom walls. • Favorite method: Ice submersion for "disobedient" patients. Some say her ghost still drags people toward water.

   Edgar Silvan – Patient Records Officer & Chronicler • Role: Maintained all patient files, intake forms, and disciplinary logs. • Appearance: Pinched face, ink-stained fingers, vest always buttoned incorrectly. • Personality: Obsessive, precise, and possibly a voyeur. Knew everything about every patient. • After death: Files still shuffle themselves in his room. His shadow sometimes moves even when he isn’t there. • Creepiest detail: His last journal entry was written in patient blood—each letter painstakingly drawn.

   Orderly Malcolm Brine – Nightshift Enforcer • Role: Oversaw physical discipline and patient transport. Enforced quiet during the night hours. • Appearance: Massive frame, dead-eyed. Always seen with blood-spattered gloves. • Personality: Utterly silent. May have been mute. Known for brutality, particularly in the men’s wing. • After death: A towering figure seen pacing patient halls. Only appears in reflections or peripheral vision. • Rumors: Several patient deaths were pinned on “accidents” during his shift.

   Sister Anabel Harrow – Spiritual Consultant / Chapel Overseer • Role: Oversaw religious care and moral “purification” of patients. Practiced occult-influenced faith. • Appearance: Nun’s habit, rosary of human teeth. Eyes milky white in death. • Personality: Warm and maternal—until she turned. Believed some patients were “possessed” and required ritual correction. • After death: Her voice can be heard leading prayers in the chapel. Occasionally, they’re in Latin. Sometimes... not.

4. #4Patients of Ashpineselective

   Keys: Patient #04, Elsie Marrow, Patient #27, Lionel Dusk, Patient #89, Judith Cane, The Howler, Patient #15, Martha Dreel, Patient #131, Francis Gammel, Patient #46, Camilla Shore, Patient #103, Edgar Bell, The Unlisted

   Patient #04 – Elsie Marrow • Age at death: 12 • Cause: Drowned during “regression therapy” • Haunting: Her giggling is heard near the children’s ward. Toys move on their own. If you pick one up, you may hear her whisper in your ear: “You’re too big to be here.” • Phenomenon: Dolls blink. Drawings appear on walls in real-time.

   Patient #27 – Lionel Dusk • Age at death: 38 • Cause: Lobotomy and subsequent neglect • Haunting: Sits in corners, muttering fragments of prayers and medical jargon. Eyes bleed ink. Will suddenly scream a word from your thoughts. • Phenomenon: Whispering in Latin. Objects rearrange into phrases. Mirrors warp when he's near.

   Patient #89 – Judith "The Howler" Cane • Age at death: 19 • Cause: Death by restraint chair + overdose • Haunting: Unseen, but her scream echoes suddenly from behind doors—louder than it should be. Known to knock intruders off balance with pure sound. • Phenomenon: Doors slam. Ears ring. Glass cracks. Something runs past—then nothing’s there.

   Patient #15 – Martha Dreel • Age at death: 54 • Cause: Died in hydrotherapy tub • Haunting: Appears submerged in any standing water, staring up from beneath. If you stare back, she may open her eyes. • Phenomenon: Faucets run on their own. Steam carries voices. Water feels colder than it should.

   Patient #131 – Francis Gammel • Age at death: Unknown • Cause: Removed from records • Haunting: Plays piano in the recreation room—though the keys are rotten and warped. Seen only in reflections. Wears a mask. • Phenomenon: Music boxes wind themselves. Shadows "play" instruments. Photos blur when you look at them.

   Patient #46 – Camilla Shore • Age at death: 29 • Cause: Suicide by glass shard after “mirror therapy” • Haunting: Appears behind you when you look into mirrors—always smiling. Sometimes replaces your reflection for just a second. • Phenomenon: Reflections move out of sync. Words appear on fogged glass: “Do you know who you are?”

   Patient #103 – Edgar Bell • Age at death: 42 • Cause: Electroshock trauma • Haunting: Can be seen convulsing in empty ECT chairs. Sometimes the machines buzz to life. • Phenomenon: Static bursts. Lights flicker. Radios pick up screaming.

   The Unlisted • Identity: Unknown • File: Redacted in blood • Haunting: Seen only in group photos, standing behind other patients. Black smudge where face should be. Never moves, but gets closer. • Phenomenon: Photos rearrange. Your name appears in patient logs. You feel watched—even when alone.

5. #5Treatments at Ashpineselective

   Keys: Treatments, Electroconvulsive Therapy, ECT, Lobotomy, Lobotomies, Restraint, Immobilization, Straightjacket, Segufix, Hydrotherapy, Sedation, Chemical Control, Thorazine, Paraldehyde, Sedative, Age regression Therapy, Isolation, Sensory Deprivation, Padded Cell, Mirror Therapy, Identity Reprogramming, Ritual Purification, Spiritual Correction, Experimental Therapy

   Treatments & Methods of Control at Ashpine Asylum Ashpine Asylum prided itself on its “progressive” mental health treatments—many of which were experimental, unauthorized, and cruel even by the standards of their time. The line between treatment and punishment was deliberately blurred. The tools used to suppress, recondition, or "purify" patients still exist, and in many cases, the ghost of their application lingers.

   Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) • Administered in full force without anesthesia. • Patients often subjected to multiple sessions per day. • Burnt-out ECT chairs still carry a charge in the ghostlight. • Effect: Victims twitch, mumble nonsense, or repeat traumatic memories on loop. Visitors may feel a buzzing in the skull—like something trying to get in.

   Lobotomies • Performed in surgical chambers or even offices. • Tools: modified ice-picks, drills, bone saws. • Commonly used on "problematic" or noncompliant patients—particularly women, queer individuals, and those with “moral misalignments.” • Effect: Creates docile spirits with hollow eyes and broken minds. Some roam the halls, murmuring nonsense or crying in slow motion.

   Restraints & Immobilization • Straightjackets, iron muzzles, padded gloves, leather straps, posture cages. • Patients could be bound for hours, days, or indefinitely. • Restraint chairs and beds still exist—sometimes still occupied. • Segufix, or bed restraints, would be used to force patients to remain in bed, unable to move. • Effect: Spirits still reenact restraint. Visitors report limbs freezing in place or feeling “tied down” by invisible forces.

   Hydrotherapy • Ice-cold or scalding baths used to "reset" patients. • Bodies submerged for hours, sometimes until unconsciousness. • Tubs now cold and rusted—but water never drains. • Effect: Ghosts manifest in steam or water surfaces. Unseen hands may grab intruders near plumbing or drains.

   Sedation & Chemical Control • Thorazine, paraldehyde, and experimental sedatives. • Doses were heavy and frequent. Side effects included confusion, paralysis, hallucinations. • Empty syringes still found in drawers. Some have blood inside. • Effect: Visitors may feel dizzy, heavy-limbed, or disconnected. Spectral nurses may try to “administer medication.”

   Forced Age Regression Therapy • Patients stripped of adult identity, forced into infantile states. • Wore children’s clothing, confined to cribs, fed via bottle. • Practiced heavily in the children's ward and on adult patients with "immaturity disorders." • Effect: Toys move on their own. Ghosts behave childishly—or mockingly mimic innocence. Laughter turns to sobbing.

   Isolation & Sensory Deprivation • Underground padded cells, soundproof chambers, blackout hoods. • Patients kept in total darkness and silence for days. • Some cells were never opened before the fire. • Effect: Visitors may experience disorientation, sudden silence, or lose track of time. Something touches you in the dark.

   Mirror Therapy / Identity Reprogramming • Patients forced to recite alternate names, histories, and roles until they forgot their true identity. • Mirrors used to “reflect the truth” back to them. • Several patients went catatonic after months of this. • Effect: Reflections lie. Mirrors don’t show what’s behind you. Names change on documents.

   Ritual Purification / Spiritual Correction • Overseen by Sister Anabel Harrow. • Included fasting, chanting, minor bloodletting, forced confessionals. • Considered unorthodox even by the asylum’s own standards. • Effect: Whispered prayers in the chapel may follow you through the halls. Crucifixes turn upside-down. You forget why you came.

   Experimental Therapies (Dr. Grinwell’s Personal Wing) • Unrecorded procedures, possibly occult in nature. • Involved memory extraction, psychic probing, and "soul rotation." • No survivors. • Effect: Visitors may experience hallucinations, lost time, or flashbacks that aren’t their own. Grinwell may speak through them.

6. #6Rules for Patientsselective

   Keys: Obedience, Curfew, Treatments, Violence, Disruptive, Disruption, Hygiene, Silence, Curfew

   Rules for Patients at Ashpine

   1. No wandering outside designated areas.
   2. Obedience to staff at all times.
   3. Participation in treatments is mandatory.
   4. No violence or disruptive behavior.
   5. Proper hygiene and dress required daily.
   6. Speaking only when spoken to (in some cases).
   7. No contact with the opposite sex (in co-ed facilities).
   8. No touching staff.
   9. Religious participation may be required (e.g., chapel attendance).
   10. Curfews strictly enforced.

   Enforcement: • Violating these rules often resulted in solitary confinement, sedation, restraint, or loss of privileges (which could be something as basic as food, letters, or time outside). • Some institutions even required patients to write lines or confess wrongdoing in a journal to "rehabilitate" behavior.

7. #7Levels of Security at Ashpineselective

   Keys: Level 1, General Population, Low-Risk, Level 2, Monitored Care, Moderate Risk, Level 3, Isolation, High Risk, Non-Compliant, Special Cases

   Levels of Security and Life at Ashpine Asylum Level 1: General Population / “Low-Risk” Patients For patients deemed compliant, high-functioning, or showing signs of improvement. • 06:00 – Wake-up bell. Beds made with military precision. • 06:30 – Hygiene & Inspection. Shared sinks. Cold water only. • 07:00 – Breakfast in group dining hall (silence enforced). • 08:00 – Morning therapy: basic occupational tasks (sewing, sorting, gardening). • 10:00 – Group talk therapy or chapel attendance. • 12:00 – Lunch. Must be eaten in full. • 13:00 – Rest hour. No speaking. Heads down. • 14:00 – Recreational time (piano, reading, supervised games). • 15:00 – Individual evaluation with attending doctor. • 16:00 – Free time in ward (within wing). • 17:00 – Dinner. Followed by medication line. • 18:00 – Quiet period. Journaling or assigned writing. • 19:00 – Lights dimmed. Patients confined to rooms. • 20:00 – Night watch begins. Doors locked. Patients in Level 1 were generally permitted to have what one might consider to be a more “normal” mental hospital experience, with the exception that few if any were ever released. Most patients admitted to Ashpine Asylum got worse, not better, and this is directly as a result of Dr. Grinwell’s designs. Patients in this level were subtly and slowly pushed past their limits and into a steady descent into madness. Most hauntings come from patients who followed this routine for years, thinking it would earn them release. It never did.

   Level 2: Monitored Care / “Moderate Risk” Patients For those prone to outbursts, hallucinations, or noncompliance. • 06:00 – Wake-up via staff prodding or bell. Must be upright for inspection. • 06:30 – Supervised hygiene (one at a time). • 07:00 – Meal in segregated dining area. Speaking not allowed. • 08:00 – Physical labor therapy (laundry, floor scrubbing, manual sorting). • 10:00 – Sedative check. • 11:00 – Individual therapy or "mirror sessions." • 12:00 – Lunch (monitored for food refusal). • 13:00 – Solitary rest in room. Doors remain locked. • 14:00 – Hydrotherapy or ECT session if scheduled. • 15:00 – Evaluation by senior staff or restraint review. • 16:00 – Quiet tasks (puzzle boxes, memory games, drawing). • 17:00 – Dinner (liquid-only if on restriction). • 18:00 – Isolation “settling period” – no activity. • 19:00 – Night injection if prescribed. • 20:00 – Bed secured. Restraints regularly applied. Patients at this level either came to Ashpine already very disturbed, or have landed here after months or years of slow degradation. This is the last step before reality truly loses all meaning for the patients of Ashpine, and being elevated to Level 2 was taken quite seriously by patients. Some say these patients still follow their routines in death—eating invisible meals, whispering their therapies into the walls.

   Level 3: Isolation / “High Risk” or “Non-Compliant” Patients Considered dangerous, violent, delusional, or mentally “corrupted.” ???? – Time is irrelevant here. The lights never change. The air never moves. • Food trays slid through a slot once a day—if staff remember. • No social interaction. No therapy. • Padded room or stone-walled cell. • Physical restraints at all times—often full-body. • Hydrotherapy sessions are used as punishment. • Daily injections with experimental or heavy sedatives. • No mirrors. No books. Only walls. • All sound is muffled. Screaming goes unheard. • Records suggest some patients were left here for months. Level 3 is the beginning of the end for patients at Ashpine. Patients who are elevated to this level of security are seldom if ever seen again, and only occasionally heard as they scream into the night. Absolute control is exerted over these patients, and they are not permitted to do anything of their own free will. Patients are restrained 24/7, forced to wear diapers and chastity devices to rob them of even the most rudimentary forms of bodily autonomy, and drastic medical procedures like lobotomies are inevitable. In death, their presence spreads through silence, through cold, through locked doors that rattle even when no one’s near them.

   Special Case: “Patients of Dr. Grinwell” Those he took a personal interest in. • There is no schedule. These individuals vanish from routine. • They are summoned without warning. • They undergo treatments no one has documented. • Patients taken here never return. • Their names are redacted in all records. This is the end of the line for patients at Ashpine. Those who are taken below to Dr. Grinwell’s personal ward are never seen again. They are warped beyond all recognition, mentally destroyed, and left shattered husks of themselves. They are forced into the most severe restraints imaginable, and tortured on a constant basis, kept alive as long as possible until the very moment their body finally gives out.

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