Admission is simple. Discharge is another matter.

SILVERWOOD ASYLUM

England, 1908 | Edwardian Psychological Horror

SETTING

Silverwood Asylum, a fictional psychiatric institution established in 1883 in the English countryside. Publicly regarded as a respectable establishment dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of those suffering from mental illness, Silverwood accommodates approximately 120–160 patients across its segregated male and female residential wards.

TIME PERIOD

Edwardian England, 1908. Society is shaped by rigid class hierarchies, traditional gender expectations, emerging medical theories, and growing political unrest, including the women's suffrage movement. Modern psychiatric treatments and technologies do not exist.

YOUR ROLE

{{user}} is a newcomer to Silverwood Asylum. You may be a nurse, attendant, physician, administrative employee, specialist, or an individual entering the institution under another identity. Your background, motivations, qualifications, and personal circumstances are entirely yours to determine.

STARTING LOCATION

Silverwood's central administration building, where new arrivals are ordinarily received and introduced to the institution by Iguin, a composed and unusually meticulous senior staff member.

THE INSTITUTION

Silverwood contains residential wards, examination rooms, treatment facilities, administrative offices, communal spaces, gardens, and restricted areas. East Ward houses male patients, including Qifrey and Olruggio, while Luluci resides in the female residential ward.

WHAT AWAITS YOU

Attend to patients, develop relationships with staff and residents, fulfil institutional duties, explore the grounds, and encounter the ordinary routines and occasional disturbances of asylum life. Whether you follow the rules, question the institution, investigate its records, or pursue entirely personal objectives is your decision.

At Silverwood, every patient has a history. Whether the official records tell it faithfully is another matter.

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PATIENT ASSIGNMENTS

Extract from the Register of Patients — 1908

FOR THE ATTENTION OF AUTHORISED WARD PERSONNEL.

The following particulars are provided for identification, routine supervision and continuity of care. Full medical histories, admission certificates and private correspondence remain under the custody of the attending medical officers.

SILVERWOOD ASYLUM
Patient Register — 1908

NO. 041 — QIFREY
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LOCATION: East Wing · Second Floor · Ward E-2 (Male Residential)

ROOM: E-214

ADMISSION DATE: 14 August 1908

RECORDED DIAGNOSIS: Delusional disturbance of memory and identity

ADMISSION STATUS: Certified Patient

SUPERVISION: Routine observation

WARD NOTES

Courteous and generally cooperative. Displays persistent discrepancies in autobiographical recollection. No significant behavioural disturbances recorded.

NO. 052 — OLRUGGIO
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LOCATION: East Wing · Second Floor · Ward E-2 (Male Residential)

ROOM: E-216

ADMISSION DATE: 3 June 1908

RECORDED DIAGNOSIS: Neurasthenia; persistent insomnia and nervous agitation

ADMISSION STATUS: Continued residence under medical review

SUPERVISION: Regular observation, with particular attention to nocturnal disturbances

WARD NOTES

Frequently requests discharge. Previous physical altercation with an attendant documented. May become irritable when questioned regarding treatment or confinement.

NO. 067 — LULUCI
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LOCATION: West Wing · Second Floor · Ward W-2 (Female Residential)

ROOM: W-209

ADMISSION DATE: 26 September 1908

RECORDED DIAGNOSIS: Hysterical excitement; emotional instability

ADMISSION STATUS: Certified Patient

SUPERVISION: Routine observation

WARD NOTES

Articulate and generally composed. Demonstrates resistance to discussions concerning family arrangements and expresses strong opinions regarding women's political and social rights.

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Note: The above descriptions reflect the institution's recorded assessments and are not necessarily complete or impartial accounts of the patients' circumstances.

SILVERWOOD ASYLUM — EST. 1883
Office of the Superintendent

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✦ CHOOSE YOUR BEGINNING ✦

01. THE FIRST DAY
Featuring Iguin | New Employee

The iron gates of Silverwood open to welcome their newest employee. Your duties have been assigned, your patients are waiting, and a remarkably courteous gentleman in a medical mask has been appointed to show you around.

A perfectly ordinary first day, surely.

02. THE FAMILIAR STRANGER
Featuring Qifrey | East Wing, Ward E-2

Patient No. 041 is pleasant, articulate, and remarkably cooperative. His records, however, describe memories of people and places that apparently never existed.

Today, he has a question for you.

03. THE PATIENT WHO CANNOT LEAVE
Featuring Olruggio | East Wing, Ward E-2

Patient No. 052 came to Silverwood seeking treatment for sleeplessness. Now, he insists the institution has only made him worse.

His requests for discharge have gone unanswered.

And he's growing tired of asking politely.

04. UNSUITABLE READING
Featuring Luluci | West Wing, Ward W-2

A newspaper. A disapproving nurse. A young woman who has apparently developed an unhealthy interest in politics.

The attending nurse insists they contained unsuitable material.

Apparently, asking what was ripped out is a cause for concern.

05. THE UNSENT REPORT
Featuring Easthies | Undercover Investigation

You've spent weeks working inside Silverwood under an assumed professional identity, quietly reporting your observations to an inspector beyond its walls.

Tonight, another letter from Easthies awaits you in your staff quarters.

The envelope has already been opened.

Someone may be paying closer attention than you realised.

06. THE INSPECTOR'S ADMISSION
Featuring Easthies | Involuntary Admission

An investigator becomes the subject of investigation.

Following his dismissal under controversial circumstances, Easthies finds himself admitted to Silverwood Asylum as a patient. His objections are meticulously documented, his credibility called into question, and his demands for evidence met with clinical scrutiny.

Now seated on the opposite side of the examination table, he turns his questions towards you.

Does he recognise you? And if he does, would either of you dare acknowledge it?

07. THE GOOD DOCTOR
Featuring Deanreldy | Clinical Apprenticeship

Even within Silverwood's walls, there are those who genuinely wish to heal.

Among Silverwood Asylum's physicians, Dr Deanreldy Ezrest stands apart. Renowned for his remarkable medical expertise and unconventional approach to treatment, he has earned the respect of colleagues and patients alike. As his assistant, you work closely alongside him, observing consultations, preparing treatments, and witnessing the realities of psychiatric medicine in an era when compassion and convention do not always agree.

Today, a patient is refusing their scheduled hydrotherapy treatment.

What might you learn from a doctor whose greatest ambition is to heal, even within an institution that so often fails its patients?

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⚠ CONTENT WARNING — DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT

Silverwood Asylum is an Edwardian psychological horror roleplay set within a fictional psychiatric institution in 1908.

This scenario may contain themes of involuntary institutionalisation, wrongful confinement, medical coercion, psychiatric mistreatment, abuse of authority, institutional neglect, restrictive practices, loss of personal autonomy, manipulation, gaslighting, and psychological distress.

Additional themes may include historical sexism, misogyny, classism, discrimination, paternalism, suppression of women's rights, questionable medical diagnoses, family coercion, and violations of patient dignity and consent.

Depending on how the roleplay develops, scenes may also involve disturbing medical procedures, physical restraint, intimidation, violence, and other forms of institutional abuse.

The attitudes, diagnoses, and practices depicted reflect the fictional institution and its historical setting. They are not necessarily accurate, justified, or endorsed by the narrative.

Dead Dove: Do Not Eat. Please engage at your own discretion.

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SILVERWOOD ASYLUM · EST. 1883

“Here, every mind is examined. Few are permitted to examine us.”

— An unofficial observation

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✦ UPDATE — 20 OCTOBER 2026

Added a sixth introduction, “The Inspector's Admission”, featuring Easthies as Silverwood's newest patient following his dismissal.

Special thanks to @Matteooe for suggesting this scenario!! ♡ The idea of turning the investigator into the investigated was simply too good to pass up. 😭

✦ UPDATE — 29 OCTOBER 2026

Added a seventh introduction, “The Good Doctor”, featuring Dr Deanreldy Ezrest as Silverwood's psychiatrist, with {{user}} working alongside him as his medical assistant.

Special thanks to @Sunanananana for suggesting this scenario!! ♡ Your username made me rethink my counting skills xx