Post by Tobey on Oct 2, 2006 20:07:27 GMT -5
((Feel free to use Camp Sunshine in your character's backstory, but please ask me first))
This lab is located in Bluefield, West Virginia, and looks like just another fairly large laundromat or corner drug store, across the street from the city's main park area. It looks abandoned, though; the way stores do when the company that previously owned them has moved out, and the next one hasn't yet moved in. The windows and doors are boarded up, and you can see the words “Johnson’s Drugstore” faintly etched on the concrete of the building wall; the way it is when the store’s sign was up for so long that it leaves an imprint even after it’s gone. The building walls are soundproof, so you would never suspect that inside the building is a constant din of sounds, smells, and chaos. The experiments are kept on the first floor, and the scientific files and equipment is kept in the building’s basement. This demonstrates very nicely where Camp Sunshine’s priorities are; the scientific work is the most important to keep hidden away, secret, protected; whereas the experiments are only priority two. Camp Sunshine is unusual in that they aren't limited to animal DNA injections. They also experiment with shapeshifting, longevity, psychic powers, and super strength, among other things. And that's what the lab puts nearly all their effort and funding into; the experimentation itself. Thus, the other aspects of the lab (organization, food, hygiene, security) are somewhat lacking. As a result, escapes are common.
Camp Sunshine is much less organized than most labs. It's the sort of lab where experiments are just stuffed in cages to be forgotten about. They don't pay attention to who was in which cage; they tend to just stick an experiment in whichever cage is nearest when they come back from testing. Each cage holds three or four experiments, and after a year or two, most of the experiments at the lab would get to know nearly all of the other experiments, despite that there are several fairly large rooms of experiments. Newcomers to the lab have their own, separate holding room, where they stay for the first couple days after being brought to the lab. This room is pretty much the same as all the others, except that the 'experiments' there aren't as drastically altered.
It should be noted that Camp Sunshine tends to use fairly concentrated versions of whatever they're injecting their experiments with. Their experimentation is fast, enough so that the changes occur within minutes, in most cases. However, don't be fooled into thinking that fast means imprecise; as mentioned before, Camp Sunshine spends most of its budget on the experimentation. Once the initial phase of alteration is over, experiments are tested to make sure the scientists know the effects of their alterations.
The lab was home to an african-american skunk experiment that called herself Flower, who had a habit of thinking up nicknames for everything. She decided to sarcastically call the lab "Camp Sunshine" (partly because Flower's mother had sent her off to what she thought was a summer camp as a result of an application sheet mixup caused by extreme lack of sleep) when she first arrived in June of 1987, and the name stuck. She's still at Camp Sunshine, by the way.
When the famous Guadalupe’s rebellion occurred, it circulated through Camp Sunshine like wildfire. Not only did it give hope to the dismal conditions at the lab, but since everyone at the lab knew each other, it was almost impossible to stop the story spreading.
Then, about the time The Pit burned down, Christina came to Camp Sunshine. She clamped down quickly on the Guadalupe rumors, punishing anyone who so much as mentioned the name ‘Guadalupe.’ She didn’t want the experiments to have any hope. The level of noise in Camp Sunshine nearly drove her crazy; she was known to give injections of her Serum to any experiment who she caught talking, especially if she’d been having a bad day. She also found a solution to Camp Sunshine’s high escape rate; she would publicly torture any escaped experiments that were recaptured, giving them numerous injections of her Blood Red Serum and letting them suffer for all to see. Some recaptured escapees were accidentally given overdoses, and died as a result; a horrendously slow, painful death, sometimes taking days, or even weeks of torture before the experiment would finally meet their merciful end. After watching their pain, and hearing the stories of how awful it was, many experiments simply lost their will to escape. Living in a cage was at least better than the Serum. A few experiments kept their resolve, of which Echo was one. In November 2005, she tried to lead a rebellion as Guadalupe had; she freed what experiments were even still willing to escape (perhaps a half dozen or so) and got out.
Then, in May 2006, Christina mysteriously disappeared from Camp Sunshine. No-one really knows what became of her, but rumors say that something went wrong, and she became one of the very freaks she hated so much.
This lab is located in Bluefield, West Virginia, and looks like just another fairly large laundromat or corner drug store, across the street from the city's main park area. It looks abandoned, though; the way stores do when the company that previously owned them has moved out, and the next one hasn't yet moved in. The windows and doors are boarded up, and you can see the words “Johnson’s Drugstore” faintly etched on the concrete of the building wall; the way it is when the store’s sign was up for so long that it leaves an imprint even after it’s gone. The building walls are soundproof, so you would never suspect that inside the building is a constant din of sounds, smells, and chaos. The experiments are kept on the first floor, and the scientific files and equipment is kept in the building’s basement. This demonstrates very nicely where Camp Sunshine’s priorities are; the scientific work is the most important to keep hidden away, secret, protected; whereas the experiments are only priority two. Camp Sunshine is unusual in that they aren't limited to animal DNA injections. They also experiment with shapeshifting, longevity, psychic powers, and super strength, among other things. And that's what the lab puts nearly all their effort and funding into; the experimentation itself. Thus, the other aspects of the lab (organization, food, hygiene, security) are somewhat lacking. As a result, escapes are common.
Camp Sunshine is much less organized than most labs. It's the sort of lab where experiments are just stuffed in cages to be forgotten about. They don't pay attention to who was in which cage; they tend to just stick an experiment in whichever cage is nearest when they come back from testing. Each cage holds three or four experiments, and after a year or two, most of the experiments at the lab would get to know nearly all of the other experiments, despite that there are several fairly large rooms of experiments. Newcomers to the lab have their own, separate holding room, where they stay for the first couple days after being brought to the lab. This room is pretty much the same as all the others, except that the 'experiments' there aren't as drastically altered.
It should be noted that Camp Sunshine tends to use fairly concentrated versions of whatever they're injecting their experiments with. Their experimentation is fast, enough so that the changes occur within minutes, in most cases. However, don't be fooled into thinking that fast means imprecise; as mentioned before, Camp Sunshine spends most of its budget on the experimentation. Once the initial phase of alteration is over, experiments are tested to make sure the scientists know the effects of their alterations.
The lab was home to an african-american skunk experiment that called herself Flower, who had a habit of thinking up nicknames for everything. She decided to sarcastically call the lab "Camp Sunshine" (partly because Flower's mother had sent her off to what she thought was a summer camp as a result of an application sheet mixup caused by extreme lack of sleep) when she first arrived in June of 1987, and the name stuck. She's still at Camp Sunshine, by the way.
When the famous Guadalupe’s rebellion occurred, it circulated through Camp Sunshine like wildfire. Not only did it give hope to the dismal conditions at the lab, but since everyone at the lab knew each other, it was almost impossible to stop the story spreading.
Then, about the time The Pit burned down, Christina came to Camp Sunshine. She clamped down quickly on the Guadalupe rumors, punishing anyone who so much as mentioned the name ‘Guadalupe.’ She didn’t want the experiments to have any hope. The level of noise in Camp Sunshine nearly drove her crazy; she was known to give injections of her Serum to any experiment who she caught talking, especially if she’d been having a bad day. She also found a solution to Camp Sunshine’s high escape rate; she would publicly torture any escaped experiments that were recaptured, giving them numerous injections of her Blood Red Serum and letting them suffer for all to see. Some recaptured escapees were accidentally given overdoses, and died as a result; a horrendously slow, painful death, sometimes taking days, or even weeks of torture before the experiment would finally meet their merciful end. After watching their pain, and hearing the stories of how awful it was, many experiments simply lost their will to escape. Living in a cage was at least better than the Serum. A few experiments kept their resolve, of which Echo was one. In November 2005, she tried to lead a rebellion as Guadalupe had; she freed what experiments were even still willing to escape (perhaps a half dozen or so) and got out.
Then, in May 2006, Christina mysteriously disappeared from Camp Sunshine. No-one really knows what became of her, but rumors say that something went wrong, and she became one of the very freaks she hated so much.