"Please, listen to me! After a week on the island, I noticed strange things in the island itself. The soil was bizarre, utterly devoid of any nutrients despite the waves constantly depositing new materials on the beach, and also demonstrated strange pH balances - far, far more Basic than anything in nature. And the further inland I got, the worse it became, until, at the center of the circle created by these oddities, I found this horrible Gate, half-buried under piles of rock. No plants would grow near it, and no animals, not even insects, would approach. Would that I had been half as wise! But in my hubris, I thought to study the Gate. No force on earth could open it, nor could anything close it that last half-inch. No tool could scratch it, and there was no way for me to study what it was made of. But what I did not realize at the time was that the radiation seeping from that crack was slowly altering my mind, planting the seeds of ideas that would lead to the Asylum."
He paused.
"I then met William Lane. A physicist from the Miskatonic University, he was eager to study the effects of Hellgate radiation ever since one of his professors encountered a Hellgate in the Amazon. With both our minds warped by the Hellgate, we decided to find people that seemed particularly susceptible to Hellgate radiation - that is to say, between the ages of 14 and 21, intelligent, and who had had a recent traumatic experience - and see how the Hellgates affected them. We would bring them here, keep them drugged, and study how prolonged exposure affected their minds. Then we would kill them, dissect and study the corpse, and bury their remains here in the basement. We...we must be standing above nearly a hundred of them. All innocent...all because of my madness. I came here now to atone. To try, with my last breaths if I have to, to destroy the Asylum and bury the Hellgate once more."
OOC: As a note, there's nothing on any side of the Hellgate. For all intents and purposed, it looks like a statue of the Gate of Truth. (
http://ginnodangan.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/fma59-21.jpg)
