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skull ([personal profile] skulltasm) wrote2024-06-19 06:05 pm

psl: supermax

The lights in the cell block had a bad habit of flickering. There was no electrical reason for it; the prison had a dedicated power station that could power an entire city, or multiple small towns. They needed a lot of power to keep the containment grids in each cell running, to prevent the prisoners from escaping or from fucking with the guards.

Rumor had it that the lights were programmed to flicker as a form of psychological manipulation. Keep everyone on the back foot, make sure nobody felt truly at ease here. Why would they need to be at ease? They were in prison, and unlike normal prisons, everyone here was here for good reason. Freaks. Monsters. Paranatural beings who couldn't help but cause trouble for everyone.

From the outside, it just looked like a building. A plain, old, uninteresting building with no markings on the outside and a barbed wire fence around it. It was one of few structures on a little island off the coast of Washington, always obscured from view by a dense fog. There was an old radio tower on the island too, and a dock. Prisoners would arrive at the dock, be escorted into the building, and ride an elevator down to the prison proper underground.