Pequena Carpa Sanatorium

*For the episode with the location name, see The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2.*

## Pequena Carpa Sanatorium

### Characters

* † Ana Vitória Batista (patient 22)
* † Nurses (Luciene Costa, Marinete and Rosa)
* † Lurdete Batista (patient 21)
* † Patients (03, 09, 12, 32, 56, 62, 71, 78 and 91)
* † Verruckt
* † Virgulino Batista (previously)

## Appearances

* The Secret in the Forest
* The Secret in the Forest - Part 1

### First appearance

The Secret in the Forest - Episode 1 - "Team Kelvin"

The **Sanatorium of Pequena Carpa** is a key location present in The Secret in the Forest, explored by Team H during 2nd episode. It is one of the most troubled places in the entire city, the scene of grotesque experiments carried out on humans. After some research at the Carpazinha Library, the team of Order agents go to the location to try to find more information about a person called Virgulino Batista, known in the city for the legend of the "*Lunatic Doctor*".

## History

The Pequena Carpa Sanatorium was created by Dr. Verruckt, between 1910 and 1915, with the aim of creating a cure for the mental illness that the doctor's mother had. The process of developing the cure consisted of several tests on his "human guinea pigs," patients at the sanatorium, with the aim of developing schizophrenia in them- the same mental illness that the doctor's mother had- using mainly shock therapies.

Virgulino Batista, a psychiatrist who worked at the sanatorium at that time, saw how Dr. Verruckt treated his patients, decided to resign in 1917, and a year later he was lynched and buried alive by local residents, after discovering that he was carrying out experiments with his own family. Virgulino's wife, Lurdete Batista and his daughter, Ana Vitória Batista, were taken to the sanatorium after the incident, due to their deteriorated mental state after their mysterious encounter in the Cave.

Verruckt followed his experiments at the sanatorium for decades after these events, until an event described in documents found at the site: On July 23, 1950, while Verruckt was performing shock therapy on the patient designated with number 71, he turned into a monster that is called the Electric Scratcher, and ended up killing the Doctor and his nurses, causing the end of the Sanatorium.

## Entrance to the Pequena Carpa Sanatorium

The first view of the Sanatorium that the Investigators have is that its entrance is abandoned and destroyed with stains of old, dried blood everywhere, with three large windows that, together with lamps on the walls, illuminate the room, at its feet there is a huge carpet and a wooden floor. Even though it is daytime inside the Sanatorium, it is very dark and the fog makes it difficult to see. At the end of the room there is a table with armchairs and papers thrown on the table and on the floor behind some rubble. Furthermore, on the right side of this entrance there is a closed gate with bars.

Cristopher goes to the table full of scattered documents and there he finds most of the empty sheets with several grooves and handprints, suggesting that there was some kind of fight at the place that scattered all these papers. They find a document with Patient 71's therapy record.

## Staff Room

In this room, the agents find a Blood Zombie inside. After killing him, they analyze the place further and recognize it as an abandoned and bloody staff room, as if a fight had taken place inside a long time ago. There is a sofa covered in blood in the background with a bulletin board on the wall and several papers scattered around.

Elizabeth finds a note in this room about the new location of the place's keys.

## Director's Office

    This room is an old office, but the best preserved room in the place, with no signs of struggle and no creatures inside.

The group discovers that the office belonged to the director of the sanatorium, Dr. Verruckt. On the table, there are several papers with medical terminologies and orders for medication packages. Furthermore, there are studies on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs on the human brain and how they could be a cure for some type of disease that he was desperately trying to cure. Along with these papers they find key number 4 that was missing.

## Supply Depot

    The sanatorium warehouse is a completely disorganized and destroyed place, with boxes and tools scattered around the room. The place is very dirty and smelly, with rusty syringes, psychiatric medicines and rotten canned food. On the right, there is a metal shelf with mechanical materials stored on it and a corridor next to it that leads to another space with a table with papers thrown on it and two humanoid Blood Zombies underneath it.

After killing the creatures, they calmly examine the room and find several thrown keys numbered from 1 to 6, missing number 4 (found in another room), they take them all and leave.

## Archives

After a quick look around the room behind the large gate, the group decides to go to the archives first. They test all the listed keys, but none of them work, except the untagged key. This way they can unlock the files. Before opening the door, they hear a knocking sound on the wall inside the room, but upon entering, they find nothing inside. Inside the room there are several boxes, papers and shelves, all dirty and dusty. Some of the cabinets are knocked over and loose sheets of paper are scattered on the floor.

The group finds some files on redirection of electrical charges, shock therapy and patient 71's file.

When analyzing this document, the researchers came to the conclusion that this sanatorium used electrical charges in sessions carried out on patients under the effects of hallucinogens. After reading this warning, they continue to look for more about the nurses, especially Luciene who was mentioned in the letter. They find several files, most of which are employee arrival and departure cards and along with that they find her CV which showed that Luciene was not capable of working as a nurse, her former job being as a cleaner at the Carpazinha Public Library, and who was hired without any medical knowledge, appearing to have been put in the job just as cheap labor, just like all the other nurses. The other reason for hiring these nurses would be to keep anyone with knowledge of the field (other than Verruckt) out for their unethical treatments. Before leaving, one of the investigators knocks on a cabinet and, as he does so, the lights shine more intensely and then return to normal, then everyone hears a noise on the other side of the wall.

After checking all the cells, the group decides to go back to the archives to research more about Virgulino, the patients and a person called "Ellen" who one of the patients couldn't stop talking about. Upon arriving there, they find a patient exchange history sheet that detailed each change and arrival of other new patients, as well as a resignation letter written by Virgulino.

## Shock Therapy Room

The agents notice the lights flashing in reaction to their presence in some way, and decide to approach the entrance to this room. However, a huge electric creature breaks down the door and comes out, causing the group to have to fight with it.

After an attempt to tend to their injuries and comfort the investigators who were mentally affected after the battle with the creature, the group heads towards the room they left and finds a shock chair in the center of the room. There is blood scattered everywhere, a table is seen in the corner full of bloody tools. Also seen are several scattered cloths and the remains of a doctor wearing a lab coat. The name engraved on the lab coat was "Dr. Verruckt", and the skeleton had a broken jaw, as well as the other bones in the body.

As soon as the investigators see the room, one of them quickly goes towards the table on the other side and there he finds different tools, epilepsy medicines and LSD dose papers, as well as a large, rusty key. In this room, they also find a fuse that they needed to open the gate that gave access to the cafeteria.

## Dining Hall

The cafeteria is a room with several round tables and chairs. There is a gate with bars that prevents passage from the main corridor to this location. The agents were only able to open it with the control panel that they fixed with the fuse. There they find three humanoid blood zombies.

As the group enters the cafeteria, they see a hallway on the left side, which leads to the cell area.

## Cells

Going down the corridor, the group finds six cells numbered from 1 to 6. Inside each of them there was something specific, with cell 4 being the only one that already had the door open.

### Cell 1

At the door of the first cell, the agents find Patient 32's file which reports on the patient's rant about someone called Ellen. Inside, they find a very thin Humanoid Blood Zombie and a pentagram drawn on the wall with some writing on the wall like "Death Gods eat apples", for example. The group easily kills the zombie and heads to the next cell.

### Cell 2

At the door of the second cell, they find Patient 91's file which reported signs of the patient's self-cannibalism, and inside they find a Bestial Blood Zombie with only 3 arms. They face the creature and move on to the next cell.

### Cell 3

On the door of the third cell, they found the file of a patient identified with only two question marks ("??"). In this cell, Joui hears a strange song that repeats in a loop in his head. When they open the cell they find nothing relevant other than a black silhouette of a person marked on the wall with ash.

### Cell 4

The door to cell 4 was already open when the agents arrived. The record found was that of Patient 71, who reports that he felt itchy in his stomach, as if something was infecting his insides. The cell was empty with only traces of blood everywhere and some thrown papers. The group deduced that the patient transformed into the Electric Scratcher, the monster they saw coming out of the Shock Room, and killed all the nurses and Dr. Verruckt.

### Cell 5

On the door of cell 5, they find the file of Patients 21 and 22 that reported their obsession with each other and the spiral symbols they drew. It is said that they repeated phrases such as "The Five Guardians", "The Cradle", "Infinite Labyrinth" and "Our Saint". Inside, they come across a creature that resembles a black larva originating from the junction of two bodies, in addition to drawings of the spiral symbol on the walls several times. When they kill the creature, it releases a strange black liquid. They realize, after touching this slime, that it is extremely hypnotic and addictive. The group then pours gasoline into the cell and burns it, which dispels the black slime.

### Cell 6

This room is the only one that does not have any identification record about the patient who lived inside it, when opening it all they see is a bloody mattress in an empty room and none of the investigators entered the room to find out if it was really empty, so it is not known if there was anything else inside that cell.

## Evidence and Information

 Sheet with notes talking about the Patient 71 found on a table.
 File room
 Resignation letter from Virgulino Batista.

## Curiosities

* The phrase written on the wall of cell 1 "Gods of death eat apples" is a reference both to Death Note, the Master's favorite anime, and to The God of Death, the final enemy of The Secret in the Forest campaign.
* The Sanatorium is where Joui Jouki contracted Hoplomania, an obsession with firearms and Catapedamania, the urge to jump from high places. And it was also where Cesar Cohen contracted Cryophobia.
* In the 16th episode of Deconjuration, the investigators find a sheet of music called "Spiralem Melodiam Pt. II" and play the music on it. Joui remembers that this song is the same one they heard in cell 3.

## References

1. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 07m27s)
2. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 08m39s)
3. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 18m37s)
4. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 35m37s)
5. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 36m26s)
6. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h40m26s)
7. ↑  The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 47m36s)
8. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 49m21s)
9. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 51m54s)
10. ↑ Keys to the Cells and the Room Sanatorium Archives in The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h17m39s)
11. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h26m33s)
12. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h34m29s)
13. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h41m37s)
14. ↑ Information about the nurses at the Sanatorium in The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h49m57s)
15. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h53m20s)
16. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h56m05s)
17. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h58m05s)
18. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h28m55s)
19. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h29m43s)
20. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h28m56s)
21. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h16m24s)
22. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h27m14s)
23. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h40m53s)
24. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h43m15s)
25. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h44m52s)
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h45m17s)
27. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 4h16m36s)
28. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h48m57s)
29. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h53m34s)
30. ↑ Sludge Effects on The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 4h05m35s)
31. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 4h15m34s)
32. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h21m37s)
33. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h22m55s)
34. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h56m40s)
35. ↑ Deconjuration - Episode 16 (*watch on YouTube* at 1h48m39)