Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed

Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed was an area in Psychonauts 1. It was an abandoned mental asylum, and was the only above-water building that remained of Shaky Claim until it was blown up during the events of the game.

Description
Thorney Towers Home for the Disturbed was a tall, dilapidated insane asylum situated high on an island in the middle of Lake Oblongata, and could be seen from Whispering Rock. The stolen brains of the campers were scattered throughout the tower and the grounds surrounding it.

The Grounds
The beach on the entrance side of the tower is lit with floodlights illuminating the small sandbar and the rickety wooden ladder built into the cliffside. The shoreline is covered in cattails and venus fly traps, and many lilipads sit in the shallow water. The cliff face has a number of tree roots sticking out of it, with the tree itself growing at the top of the cliff, just to the left of the ladder.

At the top of the ladder was the front gates, which were framed on either side by dense, curved stone walls with statues of angels set into them. The walls are covered in Boyd Cooper's chalk scrawlings, and were discolored and moss-covered. Two lanterns sat to either side of the gates. The gates were large and built of wrought-iron with intricate designs.

Past the gates was a courtyard area with a large fountain featuring a statue of Houston Thorney at the top. The courtyard was lined with a stone path that circles the fountain. A bench sat on the leftmost side, and an overturned wheelchair sat to the right. Five lanterns dotted the courtyard, and an elevator would descend to the far left section of the yard in order to take people up to Loboto's Lab at the top of the tower. Stairs led up to the entrance to the tower, which was boarded up.

Through an archway in the right wall was a path, lined by an iron fence on the right side, that led to a greenhouse, where Gloria von Gouton resided. The greenhouse would be illuminated with moonlight coming down from the ceiling. Potted plants with faces drawn on them lined the shelves. a door on the left side of the greenhouse led into the lower floors.

The Lower Floors
The lower floors of the tower were collapsed, leaving a semi-large open area covered in rubble consisting of some of the other floors and ceilings, beds, and parts of the roof and supports. One section of the floor remained free of debris, revealing the hexagonal floor of what was once part of the interior. A large part of this floor was covered in chalk drawings emulating the board of a Waterloo-O game, across which multiple miscellaneous items (such as a garden gnome, a wheel, and Loboto's teddybear [show source]) were used by Fred Bonaparte as game pieces. To the right of this, Crispin stood in front of the elevator that led to the upper floors. Torches lined some of the walls.

Above the open area was the art gallery, a high-ceilinged circular room in which Edgar Teglee was chained to a gas pipe. The floor was covered in discarded papers and paint, and all around sat paint cans and canvases depicting many bull fights. A canvas sat off to one side, while in the center was a small table illuminated by a black light. Multiple doors lined the walls just out of Edgar's reach.

The Upper Floors
The upper floors of the asylum, while mostly enclosed, were somehow more dilapidated and chaotic than the lower floors. They were illuminated by dim lights, infested with tumor-covered rats, and, in some places, filled with pools of what appeared to be acid.

Loboto's Lab
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