User manual GAMES PC AMERICAN MCGEE S ALICE CASEBOOK

[. . . ] 4 November 1864 Received confirmation from the Superintendent that I will be given the opportunity to treat a very troubled and difficult patient. A f t e r l o o k i n g a t h e r f i l e , I 'm a s t o n i s h e d s h e h a s survived this long. She has been nearly comatose for a year. 11 November 1864 - s to M u t e o n a s t r e t c h e r , w i t h h e r h e a d c u r i o u s l y b a n d a g e d , A l i c e s e e m3 /1 cling precariously to life. Her burns have healed remarkably in the year since the fire, but she languishes in a deep trance-like dementia. [. . . ] A pair of orderlies were cursing at her and threatening h e r w i t h l e a t h e r s t r a p s . I t s' e a s y t o s e e t h a t t h i s p a i r w a s w e a n e d from the same teat. Alice didn't respond to their tomfo tomfoolery; and the orderlies were not impressed by my reprimand. In the barren pit of the night, the m o s t d i s t u r b e d m i n d s a r e a l i v e t h r o u g h o u t t h e a s y l u m . A l i c e i s n 't stirring, so I listen to the blood-curdling shrieks, the haunting clank of shackles, the insane groaning, insufferable babble, and lunertic lunatic mutterings. After the initial convulsions, Alice's body again appears lifeless. I f i t w e r e n ' t f o r t h e s p e r a d i c s p o r a d i c u t t e r a n c e s i n h e r s l e e p , I d' h o l d t h e m i r r o r t o h e r m o u t h . I t s' i m p o s s i b l e t o c o m p r e h e n d w h a t she says. It sounds like "too glum" or "through him" or "boo-jum. " N o n s e n s e r e a l l y . I yell the utterance into her ear and prick her shoulder with a needle - she gasps, but her speech does not become any clearer. m !Sitting in this cold room w But ho r e m i n d s m e o f t h e l a s t t r e a t m e n t h e r e . T h e s h r e d d e d p a d d i n g r e c a l l s to my mind the patient who believed rats spoke to him - they lived does sh e in the padding, he said. Indeed, he believed the spirits of his ancestors constr uct spoke to him through the rats. fantasies h a v i n g s u c h d e l u s i o n s a n d w a s r e m o v e d t o t h e D o r m i t o r y . B o o ju -11/4 /74 Alice remains quiet. 17 November 1873 She didn't stir for two weeks after the last treatment. Day after day, the orderlies force the medicine-laced broth and other necessary gruel into her. y suspicions are M 21 November 1873 erlies are th e hose oafish ord erintendent's T Sup Once again, the orderlies were up to their usual misbegotten p r a n k s . W e a r y o f p r y i n g o p e n A l i c e ' s m o u t h , t h e o r d e r l i e s s t a r t e d neph ews!" f e e d i n g " A l i c e 's t o y r a b b i t , s p o o n i n g p o r r i d g e o n t o t h e s t u f f e d t o y . -13/4/74 While engaged in this feeding, the orderlies learned an essential l e s s o n i n a s y l u m p r o t o c o l - n e v e r t u r n y o u r b a c k o n a p a t i e n t . From information I've gathered, Alice woke from her comatose state and attacked the orderlies. Quite venomous in her outburst, she pursued one of the twins with a spoon. She clutched the spoon like it was a butcher knife, gouging into his fleshy cheek. [. . . ] Called her "Duchess. " 22 July 1874 From a recent conversation with Alic e : "What have you been doing, Alice ?" 25 July 1874 Her sleep is very restless one night and then calm as an infant's the next. She's become consistently unpredictib unpredictable. 27 July 1874 Alice delivered another verse to her puzzling rhyme. They taunt me about the burning as if I were to blame I clear them from my conscious with the eloquence of my blade 28 July 1874 She spoke at length of a place called the Fungiferous Forest. [. . . ]