Silent Hill: The Carnby Sessions.
0: Preparations.
Within the dark, dank bowels of the decrepit Brookhaven Asylum, creatures stir. Things of inhuman form and mindless hunger, that hunt and stalk those that enter the facility.
The Nurses of Brookhaven, dressed in their blood-stained smocks, wander aimlessly with broken pipes, loaded revolvers and rusted scalpels in hand, ready to administer to the "needs" of anyone they stumble across.
However, a cluster of Nurses have been given a very special assignment: To escort the Patients of Brookhaven to the third-floor Sun Room, for Therapy.
They moved as a group, each Nurse dragging a patient in tow, up the darkened stairs and through the door of the Sun Room.
In Silent Hill, the name Sun Room means very little. However, it fit the description in that it had enormous windows which allowed the white gleam of fog to shine through. The tile floor was lime green, as were the walls. Hideous, but effective and cheap.
At the center of the room, twelve chairs sat in a wide circle. Sitting in the chair at the twelve o'clock position, a single figure awaited his patients and his nurses: Dr. Carnby.
Dressed in a white coat and grey suit, the tall, lanky man brandished a clipboard, taking frequent notes as his patients were paraded into the room. His glasses sat perched on his hawkish nose, his black hair neatly combed. He had a predatory look, similar to a bird of prey.
He watched passively as each patient took a seat, starting from his right to his left. He would have to maintain careful notes of these sessions. Otherwise, they lost their meaning.
First, one Mr. Edward Dombrowski. A man in his mid-twenties, perhaps a bit older, with unkempt blonde hair and wild blue eyes. A life of overeating had given him a boyish appearance, with a round face and all around chubby appearance. A diagnosed schizophrenic with rage issues and disassociative memory lapses. A low-priority patient.
Next came an older Gentleman, one Mr. Harry Mason. He had come to Silent Hill years before, and had aged considerably since. His features were marred with the wrinkles of a hard life, and his soulful eyes seemed distant. Death will do that to a man, though. He was suffering great emotional distress at his lot in the afterlife, and was quite despondent.
Next in order was one James Sunderland. An interesting fellow, with serious delusional tendencies and violent behavioral issues. He also seemed to have various psychosexual issues, primarily involving his deceased wife and women in general. It seems he had murdered his wife as she lay dying of a terminal illness. Currently, his skin was a light blue, and his hair short-trimmed and brown. Just as he head been in death, having driven his car into Toluca Lake.
The first of the group's ladies, one Christabella LaRoache. Lanky black hair and pale skin drew the eye, while a swath of blood coating her white dress maintained one's attention.An excessively violent and antisocial creature, this young girl had experienced quite the trauma: Rape, sodomy, torture and then death. Of course, such things can quite painfully bind one to Silent Hill. She had grown incredibly powerful in the past, but had been taken down a notch several times. She hated the Good Doctor. Perhaps therapy could help her.
Angela Orosco, age, undetermined. Mentally, she seemed to be a child, but she was clearly an adult. She had been raped by her Father, and after years of abuse finally snapped. She had stabbed the abusive man to death with a butcher's knife before fleeing to Silent Hill. Her Death came from asphyxiation in the burning of the Lake view Hotel. She was a black-haired, fair skinned woman with a quiet demeanor.
The next patient was an unusual one: His name was unknown to the Good Doctor, aside from the fact that he referred to himself as Ike. He appeared to be in his early twenties, with long black hair and a goatee. His issue was that he seemed to have difficulty accepting his death, and if anyone tried to convince him of the truth, he would go into a hysterical fit. Unfortunate, as he seemed to be a very talented artist.
Vincent sat in the next position. A man in his mid-20s, Vincent was a wickedly intelligent fellow with a sparse beard and glasses. He gave an air of intellectuality, as well as an odd sense of comfort. He was a schemer, and had previously been a member of a powerful Cult in Silent Hill. After his Death by stabbing, Vincent had come to the Brookhaven Asylum as a matter of course. His primary issue was that he was, undeniably, afflicted with a superiority complex. If he couldn't be the best, he refused to be at all.
Vincent sat to the left of Walter Sullivan, a most intriguing individual. A Serial Killer and complete psychopath, he had imprinted a Mother figure onto an odd, inanimate object: A room. He had been raised in an Orphanage near Silent Hill for several years before his killing spree began, and had only been relegated to Brookhaven after his death. He was a young man, with long, stringy hair and deep-sunken eyes. His mental problems were quite obvious.
After Walter, there was only an empty seat. Dr. Carnby had reserved this seat for a new patient that he knew would join them some time in the near future. For now, it would remain empty.
The final Patient was another woman by the name of Maria. She had been born in Silent Hill, and had died there. Three or four times, to be precise. She was a creation of the town, but she seemed primarily unaware of this fact. She had serious codependency issues and emotional instability. She was a young woman with grey-green eyes and blonde hair that nearly reached her shoulders.
All of the patients wore the same thing, save for Christabella: Blue-green institutional pajamas and matching slippers. Christabella refused to wear anything but her own blood-stained dress, and was violently opposed to any attempt to change her.
Directly to Dr. Carnby's left, another Doctor sat in silence. With deep set red eyes and a pale, unhappy face, Dr. Troy Abernathy seemed to be more a patient than an associate. He had been bent to Dr. Carnby's will, taken from Christabella's control and forced into an advisory position. The man had untrimmed brown hair and a five o'clock shadow. His clothes consisted of a brown suit and a buttoned white coat.
As each Patient took a seat, the Nurses that had accompanied them began to depart in silence. Usually, in a normal Asylum, a Doctor would never go unattended with nine potentially dangerous patients.
Brookhaven is not, however, a normal Asylum. Dr. Carnby knows all too well that his "Patients" won't be going anywhere. Besides...
In Silent Hill, where is there to go?