[UA] House on haunted hill

[Eslington ~]

You could make them Revnants instead of demons. Since "People in need
abused by those who are supposed to help them" is a common thread
there you could make them all the same type. Though you'd probably
need to design a new kind of revnant for the game.

Haven't seen the film myself mind, so I don't know what to suggest.

Since you mention haunted asylums, you might want to also check out
"Thief 3: Deadly Shadows."

There's a level set in a building which used to be an orphanage.
Then they converted a wing to become an asylum (where the doctors
experimented on the patients) while cramming all the orphans into the
other wing.
Then it burned down.
Now it's haunted by an orphan (killed by an unrelated supernatural
entity) and patrolled insane unkillable zombies.

Fun place to visit.

One of my favourite levels in any game of all time.

On Jan 16, 2008 6:03 PM, Fidel Santiago <pperez333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have watched "House on Haunted Hill (1999)" and "Return to house on
> haunted hill".
>
> > The film sets the action in an abandoned asylum, The Vannacutt Psychiatric
> Institute for the Criminally Insane, where mass-murders were undertaken in
> the past. The head of the facility, Doctor Richard B. Vannacutt (Jeffrey
> Combs), performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the
> patients, killing many of them in the process. The hospital was shut down
> when many of the so-called "patients" escaped, killing almost the entire
> staff and burning the hospital. Vannacutt had rigged the building with
> numerous iron gates actuated by cranks and levers to serve, for the most
> part, as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they
> escape. Some of these barriers are subject to huge clock-like timers that
> would not open for twelve hours. During the fire, he released these gates
> keeping the inmates, employees and the fire itself contained. After several
> unexplained deaths during reconstruction on the house, mostly the owners of
> the house, it was dubbed The House on Haunted Hill.
>
> The 1999 film is, for me, better than "Return ..." but the second one tries
> to explain the reasons for what happened there: all around a demon symbol,
> templars' god "Baphomet".
>
> I think there is a straight translation to UA, apart from the fact that
> demons, in UA, can´t interact with the physical world. With or without the
> intervention of an ancient demons artefact (Baphomet sculpture in the film),
> it is obvious that the grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the
> patients" and the fact that a lot of them dead is enough for producing a lot
> of lost souls trying to share its own pain with the living. Maybe Vannacutt
> is some kind of ultra demon and has made the house a prison, or the artefact
> can trap the demon inside.
>
> Vannacutt  asylum can be played in several ways: PCs are trying to get the
> artefact, to catch a lot of demons with some dark objective, they are a NI
> team trying to clean the house, ...
>
> --
> Fidel Santiago.
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