Post by crowblack on Oct 14, 2013 19:46:24 GMT -6
Welcome to the Dratis institute. We are the unsurpassed medical leader in addiction and mental health treatment providing highly specialized psychiatric treatment to in-need residents of Dratis or others from all parts of the world. The Dratis institute provides the best life improvement programs and is constantly innovating new treatment initiatives.
The Dratis Mental Health Institute was opened in 1887 with the title The Dratis Institute for the Mentally Insane. Specializing mainly in criminal cases, Dratis Institute eventually expanded to all fields of psychiatric care. It lead the way in terms of innovative therapies and has since become the top institution for those suffering with different mental illnesses. Dratis Institute eventually changed its name in 1969 to The Dratis Mental Health Institute, deciding to take the route of mental health for all rather than criminal cases. Since then, the institute has been an innovative leader in how we care for patients and the treatments we create for each individual guest we accommodate.
Our institute offers a wide range of care with top physicians and psychiatric professionals. While in our care, your well-being is our top priority which is why we have perfected the wide range of programs offered at the institute. Along side our emergency mental health units, family programs, and transitional care we also offer:
Acute care programs: for individuals manifesting or admitted with severe disruption who cannot be managed within the community.
Addiction programs: for individuals suffering from drug, or other addictions.
Comprehensive psychiatric care: an intermediate care and rehabilitation in-patient program aimed at minimizing symptoms of chronic mental illness, improving quality of life and helping individuals reach their maximum level of functioning.
Eating disorder programs: leading therapies for individuals suffering with various eating disorders.
Dratis institute does its best to uphold an illusion of calm care for its patients. However, once admitted, it can become quiet obvious that behind closed doors, the institute is rather vile and cold. Its acute care programs are held in the basements of the old institute for the criminally insane. Essentially prisons below, the most dangerous of patients are kept there (including Beau Delano). Any patient admitted who is not part of a family care program is forced to bend to the wills of the doctors and nurses of the institute and while the institute 'prides' itself in innovative therapies, they illegally practice 'heroic medicine'; treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy, lobotomy, bloodletting, stressing, insulin shock therapy, water shock therapy, as well as many other treatments that remain undocumented by the staff at Dratis institute.
It is easy to find that most of the staff, and especially the director of the institute, are no more mentally stable than even their most unstable of patients. But, once admitted to the institute it is increasingly difficult for patients to be deemed 'healthy' and their families usually never know the horrific experiments which go on within the walls of the institute. Death records at Dratis are kept private as well as the records of those who have been released from the institute, no one knows the truth
Dratis is a fictional city, build largely like New York or Los Angeles. The only area I have fleshed out is the institute so you're welcome to treat the city however you like. The institute itself has only a basic layout I'd like to follow:
Basement level 1: Unfinished, old stone foundation of the institute set up much like a prison with iron barred cells and minimal furnishings. Dangerous offenders are kept here and hidden from the world. (This floor is only accessible with a staff key card)
Basement level 2: Also unfinished and dungeon like. This is the floor where all of the horrific experiments are performed. Any illegal therapies, corpses, etc. are kept on this level. This level is not on any blueprints for the institute and even most of the patients are unaware of it let alone the general public. It is an utter secret. (This floor is only accessible with a staff key card)
Ground floor: lobby and administration area. Outside visitors can wait in the lobby but behind the administration area there are locked doors. One can only get in and out of the locked doors with a staff key card. Beyond the doors are the basic residential rooms for patients with less severe cases of mental illness.
1st floor: Offices and meeting rooms for staff members and families of patients who wish to speak about their admitted loved ones.
For this RP, we will need patients as well as staff members. You're welcome to play more than one character (I would love the biographies to be posted in the characters board just to keep this board organized). If you would like to create a character sheet, I have one made up for both patients being admitted as well as applying staff members! If you would like character sheets, I have come up with a Staff Information File that can be filled out if you wish to play a staff member as well as a Patient Registration Form if you wish to play a patient. If you don't like the sheets, you don't have to use them!
This is a horror/survival RP but it should be noted that there are no fantasy elements in this RP. It is a modern horror, meant to be a twisted blood bath and a dark, torturous area for characters. If you guys have any questions about the RP feel free to PM me or post it in the OOC board for all to discuss!
Head over to Woven Myth and see if the RP is for you!