Bargate Prison

> **Type**: Prison Construct
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> **Faction**: NWO
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> **Location**: Dogger Bank
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> **Node**: 14/7 (tass: oily sludge)
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### Overview

Located in the middle of the North Sea, beneath the dark grey waves, lies the most feared prison on Earth. The squat, windowless, brick structure sits on the ocean floor, 23 meters below the ocean surface. It is where the Technocratic Union holds traitors and other magical criminals.

It has five cell blocks, radiating out from a central ward, making it look like an enormous starfish. Each of these have three tiers of 62 cells, with an open corridor in the middle. In the middle of the central ward, the administrative tower houses the staff, a library, and an infirmary.

### History

Bargate Prison was built by the NWO and the Void Engineers, intending to serve as the most secure corrections facility in the world. It opened to great acclaim on January 1, 1861, and quickly received murderers and violent criminals from Great Britain and Belgium.

The project quickly ran into trouble. Within months, it became clear that being confined in the darkness under the sea had severe detrimental effects on the sanity of Sleepers. Without access to fresh air or sunlight, insomnia, depression, and panic attacks became endemic among both inmates and guards.

Almost exactly one year after the opening, on Christmas Eve of 1861, the ocean floor under Cellblock 3 and 4 gave way. The outer wall of Cellblock 4 cracked and the cell block was almost immediately flooded, causing the death of 132 inmates and 7 guards. Only by sealing the main doors to this cell block was the rest of the prison saved. Shortly after, a crack in the roof of Cellblock 3 was discovered, and this section was abandoned and sealed off.

At this point, the mundane governmental backers withdrew their support, and all but a few of the most dangerous inmates were transferred to more conventional prisons on dry land. Unwilling to abandon the project, NWO repurposed the prison to hold supernatural criminals.

### Current

In the late 1930's, Bargate Prison is a damp and dreary place, holding somewhere between 90 an 120 prisoners. Water is continuously leaking in and the ground level is partially flooded. The steady rumble of the large diesel engines that power the heavy duty bilge pumps is ever-present. The air scrubbers (cutting edge in 1861) are now tired and worn down, giving the air a salty, metallic taste, with an oxygen content barely enough for human survival.

Supplies, prisoners, and staff arrive by ship. This ship docks at a platform that is only brought up to the surface once every three weeks. When the platform is raised, an elevator connects the central ward of the prison to the surface.

### Rumours

* When the prison was build, it disturbed the lair of some ancient monster that feeds on the sanity of the inmates.
* V Section is conducting human experiments in the sealed Cellblock 3.
* The Warden, Garton Haggarth, is a Nephandus who is trying to summon an Urge Wyrm.
* Cellblock 4 is a portal to the Underworld and is haunted by hungry ghosts.
* The prison was build to seal a rift in the tapestry that would allow all the horrors of Malfeas to enter the mortal world. The souls of those locked up here is what fuels the seal.