The time period is 1700, technology is on the brink of bringing people out of the era of candle light and horse and buggies. As science is developing more and more it brings out the curiosity in people. One such Doctor Reed, from a small town in Harmony, Ohio, becomes captivated by the human mind. He wants to study it from every angle, but there are.. Limitations that he must abide by. The doctor ran an asylum institution that mostly housed and treated the criminally insane and people with severe mental illnesses. His curiosity progressed into obsessive madness and Doctor Reed started to torture his patients. He replaced his entire staff with less caring souls and the Asylum turned into a horror house. Because no one cared about what happened to the criminally insane there wasn't much protest to the doctors' studies on his test subjects
A new rule was made five years in of the asylums transformation: Patients must be between the ages of eighteen and thirty to be admitted. Once a patient reached the age of thirty-one they were transfered, leaving in worse conditions then what they started with. This was their first mistake. A transfered patient was in such bad shape that Harmony Asylum was reported against. It turned into a federal case and all researched was seized as evidence. Just when the asylum was thought to be doomed, all charges were swept under the rug and Harmony Asylum was said to be doing their job. The government then encouraged them to continue their studies and placed their own men in charge of running the institution.
The years moved forward to present day, as did the Asylum. The age requirement remained the same. High security and a special team of Seekers were set up later in the years when patients started to make a break for it. Doctors and Nurses were required to live on Asylum grounds for weeks at a time. Family and friends were encouraged never to return. Those that did return for visitation were monitored, making their patients look very hostile and dangerous, which in truth wasn't necessarily a lie. If a patient were to speak out about any of their treatments then they and their visitor were said to be shot on the spot. A threat that kept the patients in proper order.
The town of Harmony shrank after being taken off the map, people that remained eventually forgot that the Asylum even exists.
![[ ]](http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee124/NikoBoo/harmony%20asylum%20images/001512-Copy-12.jpg)
