This woman is worse than Herbert West.

She uses a Smoking Pipe to hide her nervous twitches.

To control the negative effects of that habit, she is constantly taking Painkillers.

Through her experiments, she has found a way to transfer the negative effects of those pills to a Miskatonic U football star, Peter Sylvestre.

When she does treat patients, her methods defy modern science.

She employs an unnatural relic, an Ancient Stone, to put their Minds In Harmony.

She claims such mysticism provides Clarity of Mind.

She favors confrontation therapy, telling her patients they just have to be Fearless.

She will bolster such session with bootleg liquor, calling it her Liquid Courage method.

No wonder her patients remain "a little bit crazy" before she calms them down with the unknown brew she carries in a Thermos.

But recently, she has gone completely beyond the pale, with her new pyrotherapy treatment.

First she cuts the throat of some creature she has captured, all the while telling her patients that "If it bleeds . . ." everything will be okay.

Then she sets the corpse ablaze with Kerosene, counseling her group to find solace in the flickering flames.

Why has her medical license not been revoked?!?!?

One cornerstone of any Carolyn Fern deck I make is Peter Sylvestre + Forbidden Knowedge. She gets him to read traumatising texts so he keeps coming back for treatment, and doubles her rates. Medical Ethics aren't worth bothering with when there's monsters to fight - and that dynamite is expensive, you know...

To the Dead of Administration of Miskatonic University,

Has the whole world gone mad? Professor Norman Withers, of the Astronomy Department, has been acting odd as well.

He has been telling everyone who will listen, that, "I've got a plan!" Yet reports have it that he has Barricaded himself in study, pouring over Medical Texts and Anatomical Diagrams with his Magnifying Glass. He is a professor of Astronomy! It was one thing when he took a Laboratory Assistant and an Art Student with an Inquiring Mind over to university's library and showed them an Old Book of Lore, presumably looking for Truth from Fiction, but all they yielded were some Preposterous Sketches.

Now, however, he seems to have completely abandoned anything resembling science. He has been caught with a Grotesque Statue, Ritual Candles, something called a Ward of Protection and a Spirit Athame. When I knew him, he was Grounded, but now seems Drawn to the Flame. That man would stay up all night, but never in some Moonlight Ritual. Neither would he, with such Defiance, be so Enraptured in these Arcane Studies, nor claim that the Forbidden Knowledge found in a Book of Shadows would grant him Clarity of Mind. It is reported by some of his students that he has engaged in a Blood Pact or that he has sought to Sacrifice his Holy Rosary that he might Recall the Future and prevent some Dark Prophecy.

A concerned faculty member.

6 minutes ago, Duciris said:

To the Dead of Administration of Miskatonic University,

Just going to leave that bit of highlighting here and walk away slowly.

Well, they did mention Herbert West.

13 minutes ago, SamWeiss said:

Just going to leave that bit of highlighting here and walk away slowly.

Well I'm not going to change it now!

Which reminds me, I need to rewrite and update my Carolyn Fern deck/guide. Will probably only have 3 of those perfectly ethical and legitimate methods...