March 16th 1955,

St. Helen’s Hosptial for the Criminally Insane officially opens and receives its first patients. Prized as the pinnacle of the field of neuroscience, its establishment promises the swift and effective treatment of psychologically unstable criminals. Backed by Christian groups, who feel at odds with the USA’s widespread use of capital punishment, the Dean of Medicine, Doctor Laurence Clarke, begins what he calls "the end of senseless aggression in the minds of troubled men."

June 12th 1960,

St. Helen’s Hosptial is hailed a raging success, as dozens of inmates leave its doors to return to a life of normality; having been treated for illnesses of the mind not thought curable. Doctor Laurence Clarke is lauded as the grandfather of a new age of medical science, and the hospital receives a large government investment to expand its wards and research.

September 9th 1965,

A patient riot erupts within the hospital. Doctors and nurses are forcibly strapped down to gurneys and mutilated by their own surgical utensils. Visiting family members, including women and children, are herded into a large incinerator down in the hospital’s basement, and are burned to a cinder whilst still alive. The police arrive enforce, and brutally put down the riot. None of the rioting patients survive the engagement, but some are rumoured to have fled the scene.

Clarke survives the encounter, but the resulting police investigation reveals large discrepancies between the kind of research he was fronting, and the kind that was actually being carried out. Human experiments, including untested surgical procedures, illegalised narcotics and practices that spanned the use of electrodes on a patient’s brain to various kinds of psychological and physical torture, were found to have taken place at the hospital over a number of years.

Patient records of the deceased were missing from the archives, and amidst the ash piles dumped outside the hospital from the incinerator, the police find human remains. It seemed the Good Doctor had been disposing of those that “failed” to survive his unsanctioned experiments.

Funding was immediately cut, and the hospital was closed by a direct order from the Federal Government. Clarke kills himself in his office by jarring a large threading needle into his eye – a bizarre end to a bizarre man.

Dean is your average teenage boy on the verge of graduating high-school. He spends most of his time at home playing video-games and doing homework. Like any other teen, he has a certain group of friends that he hangs with. They're a good laugh and even accepted Dean with open arms, proving to him that they were definitely worth being around. Dean was normally an easy target to pick on within that group at first, but soon he had grown thick-skinned to their meaningless jabs and learned to laugh at himself every once in a while. Despite this, the group still cared and backed him up whenever he needed it, and he did the same for them in return.

Being together for quite a considerable amount of time- the little group had grown onto him and vice-versa. Similarities were lacking, but their differences was what brought them together. Everyone within that small group had a little something to bring to the table, different personalities colliding together- and their friendship had survived that way for so long.

Nonetheless, Dean hadn't become a follower. His friends were messy, rowdy and downright troublemakers- the total opposite of what he was. He has his own thoughts and opinions about their choices (things people tend to lose within groups like these). This lead to many arguments within the circle and rarely has it ever gotten physical, but it has taken a toll on Dean and his trust in their judgment. He tends to doubt them every now and then, but tags along anyway to ensure a minimum amount of trouble occurs (for their sake) and to talk authorities out of arresting them if ever they do get caught.