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* In the horror RPG ''[[Kult]]'', most asylums are hellholes and torture chambers where people only grow more insane. This includes the doctors. {{spoiler|In fact, such asylums tend to work as holes in the [[Weirdness Censor|illusion]] that humanity inhabits; portals to Inferno and other nasty parts of the dark Reality surrounding us.}} |
* In the horror RPG ''[[Kult]]'', most asylums are hellholes and torture chambers where people only grow more insane. This includes the doctors. {{spoiler|In fact, such asylums tend to work as holes in the [[Weirdness Censor|illusion]] that humanity inhabits; portals to Inferno and other nasty parts of the dark Reality surrounding us.}} |
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* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' sourcebook ''Asylum'' describes one of these in detail. The sample asylum has many, ''many'' reasons to be weird by nature (ranging from its proximity to ancient mounds to the religious cult that sprung up on the grounds to the occasional patient riot), and each patient profiled for plot hooks has a [[Multiple Choice Past]] with options ranging from "just plain normal mental illness" to "some really weird shit." |
* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' sourcebook ''Asylum'' describes one of these in detail. The sample asylum has many, ''many'' reasons to be weird by nature (ranging from its proximity to ancient mounds to the religious cult that sprung up on the grounds to the occasional patient riot), and each patient profiled for plot hooks has a [[Multiple Choice Past]] with options ranging from "just plain normal mental illness" to "some really weird shit." |
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* ''[[Planescape]]'' has the Gatehouse, an asylum run by the [[Determined Defeatist| Bleak Cabal]], who also use it as their headquarters; doesn't alway fit the trope, but it does sometimes, depends on who is running the faction. |
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** In the adventure module ''Harbinger House'', the eponymous institution was not intended as such, it is a safe and humane asylum run by the Believers of the Source (aka the Godsmen), with rather exclusive requirements for patients. They are all believed to show potential for ascending to godhood. (The Godsmen believe ''everyone'' has this potential, the asylum here being for mentally ill Cagers who show it the most.) Of course, the plot of the story involves it becoming such {{spoiler| due to a new physician who is secretly be a succubus.}} |
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