Room 202
Room 202 is one of the patient rooms of Bishopsgate Mental Asylum — specifically, one being haunted by unknown rat-like creatures. It is currently being investigated by Nurse Moore. Though technically a patient room, it actually is used for solitary confinement.
Overview
Once housing a patient named Martin Holly, notice of the oddities surrounding 202 began when the man presumably committed suicide by tearing open his own wrists and mangling his face to the point of unrecognizability.
On investigation, the last six patients housed in the room, despite all initially presenting different pathologies, all rapidly began manifesting the same symptoms, including hallucinations of scratching, chewing, and other rat-like sounds in the walls, a feeling of being watched, "biting" sensations, and nightmares of being eaten by small, carnivorous creatures.
As with many cases in the sourcebook, the authors provide multiple explanations, which are as follows:
- Option One: The room is home to a group of Beshilu, rat-like spirits that jump into and ride a victim's body until it falls apart. They have been chewing open the border between spirit and flesh in Room 202 for quite some time.
- Option Two: Room 202 is a Locus, through which a variety of spirits pass. These spirits feed and grow stronger on the madness of those within the room. As such, they drive the inhabitants further off the edge so as to gain strength.
- Option Three: The creatures plaguing Room 202 are of the flesh. They feed on blood and, now that they have grown larger, on flesh. They are incredibly territorial and, as such, remain in Room 202.
- Option Four: The "creatures" are only the product of a prank from a pair of orderlies — one that escalated when the orderlies laced the bedsheets with nettles. When Holly died tearing himself apart in fear and pain, the orderlies began removing all evidence. Even Nurse Moore is in danger for digging too deeply.
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Room 202 patient, creatures beside him
Room 202 creatures
