Krieger Institute

Krieger Institute

Welcome to Krieger Institute, a gated mental health clinic tucked away in beautiful Upstate New York's Forest surrounded by trees with Lake Geist to your far right and a courtyard featuring a garden, picnic tables, and basketball court with a small playground for visiting families. In the West Wing, you'll find the in-patient rooms where they'll be paired with either a nurse, depending on their 'risk' level. Down the hall from the bedrooms, on floor level in the West Wing is our cafeteria where everyone receives their food with plastic utensils and foam trays and where they also must take their daily medications. Food is bland and at least one nurse is stationed at each table. If the patients have visitors, this is the safest place to go considering all the guards. On the upper level of the West Wing, you have the hobby rooms where they can practice art, read, puzzles, and watch television.

Every day patients are expected to attend all meals and events:

breakfast at 8:00

lunch at noon

group therapy sessions

dinner at 6:00.
If no appointments are scheduled for you as a patient between meal times, Recreation time where allowed is until 5:30, either outside in the gated pavilion, the club room or hobby room.
The East Wing is where all the action happens. On the ground floor we have our lobby and doctor offices. Once a week our patients have a confidential session with our doctors, evaluating their health and wellness and risk levels. Once a month they are evaluated by the COO, the head doctor, on whether they are ready for the real world or if they must stay. Because the majority of the patients are high risk, they rarely make it out, if ever. The lower level to the East Wing is where the labs and training rooms are located. The training rooms or gyms are used to test the patient's blooming abilities. They'll either be participating in simulations, fighting other patients, or learn to trust each other in different scenarios.


In the labs, patients receive their initial evaluation and diagnosis if they haven't been diagnosed already. Their experiments push the limits of their 'natural' mental illness until a supernatural ability emerges from it. For instance, someone diagnosed with Pyromania can emit intense levels of body heat enough to spark a fire, a Bipolar's opposing personality takes. Someone with DID could have a special ability for each alter. A Clinical Lycanthropy patient will act like a real werewolf during the full moon and sprout thicker hair, muscle, and teeth while still looking mostly human. Below the basement is the confinement floor. Those in need of a timeout from others are locked away here until they learn to behave.

Where do you fit in as a patient? Will you make it to the second floor or to the real world? Or will you be stuck here becoming a lab rat for the head doctor's army?