Ideas for strange / funny / disturbing inmates in Zandalus' community

[Douglas Muir 406]

The module doesn't give any details about the community of inmates in area E. I'd like to throw in some details about individual inmates -- as wallpaper, if nothing else.

Some of these could be real-ish mental disorders -- a catatonic, an OCD case who can't stop washing hands, a (harmless) megalomaniac, what have you. But given that it's an insane asylum in a fantasy world inside the Dreamlands, we can probably get even more creative.

Ideas?

Doug M.

[Grankless]

Briarstone is a fairly down-to-earth location. Prior to the whole dreaming thing your average client was just... a normal person with a mental illness. It was a nice place. Trying to make some Wacky Fantasy Mental Illnesses both undersells the premise of "things WERE normal til it all got messed up" and also is a little in bad taste. The fact that these are people with mental illnesses is not the source of the horror, it's that bad things are happening to them.

[DM_DM]

I see the bad taste issue, and I'm not making the patients be the source of the horror. More like... there's a guy whose hallucinations occasionally manifest as short-lived illusions, so that everyone else can see them? Or a catatonic guy who occasionally levitates? Or a dissociative patient who has become slightly transparent, because she's literally slowly fading from reality?

Trying to ramp up the weirdness factor, basically.

Doug M.

[tonyz]

Someone who believes he is Aroden. Or, for extra fun, two Arodens.