The Past

A long time ago, the Original was founded. It was a lovely and popular place, heavily adored. Patients went in mentally ill, and came out happy and prosperous individuals, loving life very much. It was a happy space, a safe place. Eventually, the Original had to be shut down. A parasite had infected the entirety of the patients. The Nurses and maids showed signs, but weren’t plagued by sickness symptoms like the patients were.

After the first shut-down, more people went ill. Former patients of the Original went mad, and need to be hospitalized in a place so cold and forbidding, it made their sanity waver more. People saw this, and begged for the Original to come back. So, a year later, The Starlight Sanctuary was founded. It was the same place, same location, same Nurses, but seemed different. Nurses were now cold and forbidding rarely speaking unless to tell a patient to acknowledge and praise their new savior, The Deity. Suddenly, pictures of the Original’s founder and healed patients were stripped away, leaving only murals of The Deity, Diamethol, and Kinneth, the gods praised so much. Nurses began to neglect their duties, and Patients began to seek escape from this once-loving prison. Few suceeded, dying in the process. Eventually, it had to be shut down again after the dead body of a maid was found strapped to a chandelier.

Now, it’s been brought back. Except the Nurses are worse, and the maids and patients live in such fear that it’s unbearable for them to do much. Fear plagues the Sanctuary like the parasite once did, and we are left to wonder.

What happened?