Wether your mind was held together by a crude mixture of misplaced courage and blatant optimism, or madness already gained purchase, perching you at the precipice of lunacy, there was no sigil or warding against the stabbing coldness of fear chasing your sense of adventure ever downwards your back. A devil stalks these halls, and only the foolish, or the desperate, would go in search of him.
Minds came here to die. Such was the nature of this place, and every corner bore witness to it. Wether you were born into lunacy, or fell victim to the unfortunate buck of a horse, an inflammation of the brain, the vices of morphium and masturbation, homosexuality or female hysteria, in this vivid, colorful menagerie of the abnormal and wicked, your sanity would be sucked down the drain alongside the bucket of feces that was your only companion in the lice-ridden padded cells, keeping you captive with redundantly robust metal doors. An elaborate effort to keep someones body locked in place, where sedatives even a vetenarian would nowadays be hesistant to apply already chained your mind. Not a place to cure and shelter the most vulnerable of our society, but a blackened box to silence the vexatious annoyance of your abnormality, the injections and tonics, bindings and electric shocks, the icebaths and the cages were tools of opression and force, nightmare and horror.
But nothing compared to the final, crowning cruelty of diseased science. An iron throne of simple, austere design, thick potent bindings of horse leather on legs and arms, and a hemicircular metal cages to keep your head in place. The procedure of the lobotomy brought with it the withdrawal of all sedatives, to allow the confirmation of its doings mid-process the patient needed to be awake and responsive. For the last time.
Such was the nature of this place. But know, it was not this very nature that attracted the devil you sought to find...but it was the nature of the devil that gave birth to this place.