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It's arrived! Exactly four weeks from date of order to receipt - no complaints there.

I've only had a brief look through Luna so far, but it looks very good indeed. The actual book itself really does look amazingly authentic; it could just be me, but I'm sure it even smells old.

Replicant wrote:It's arrived! Exactly four weeks from date of order to receipt - no complaints there.

I've only had a brief look through Luna so far, but it looks very good indeed. The actual book itself really does look amazingly authentic; it could just be me, but I'm sure it even smells old.

We dug them up out of the soil

My construction of the Colney Hatch box starts today. I'm done with the trilogy and Witches'Almanch.
I have to find several small items linked to insanity in an hospital and I just buy this.
A XIXth century Warren wooden Mouth Opener.




This time I won't need as much items as for the Coney Island set, but they've to be visually intriguing.

At Outlaw, Rick promotes this box.
http://www.outlaw-effects.com/store/the ... y-box.html

I'm sure I've seen one of those before.
It was opening, but not mouths.

Lenoir wrote:I'm sure I've seen one of those before.
It was opening, but not mouths.

Lenoir wrote:I'm sure I've seen one of those before.
It was opening, but not mouths.

No problemo, you plug it wherever you want...
(If you plug it in another hole, you'll scream from pain and will open your mouth. It works in any condition...)

Man o man, that is really harsh! Remember electro shock therapy did not start until 1938...

You will also love Luna 1935!!!

First try at the Warden's box.
Whistle, mouth opener, poison bottle(remedy), Waddington letter cards, photographs circa 1890, spoon, cigarettes...

Nice...I have a bottle I dug up from the foundation of my house

Keys, more photos, cloth, leather straps....

There is also a nice official letter on line from CH about how to escort patients out of the facility...

I fill up the bottle, add an old medical chronometer, a mirror, a funnel, a deck of cards, keys... The spoon has a rabbit engraved.
The warden assisted the nurse who used at very regular times the spoon for the potion: we've the "white nurse with a rabbit spoon" (white rabbit and the chronometer), the funnel in case of the patient didn't want to open her mouth (the hole), the playing cards (with the queen of hearts at the face, of the deck), the potion (drink me), the mirror etc.
You get it ?
I just find a 1910 postcard with nurses from a "Glenwood, Iowa Childrens State Asylum"* (I will make it fit into the story) on Ebay.
All the keys are perfectly balanced, they can easily rotate in the palm, if needed.

Next step...
I add a thimble too. Something that was confiscated from the patient.

* Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa (IA)
* Iowa Institute for Feeble Minded Children
* State Hospital School; State School for the Mentally Retarded
* Started in the 1800s as the Iowa Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children (the first such asylum west of the Mississippi River)
* Four young nurses are shown in this real photo postcard. The one marked with a tiny "x" at the bottom of her apron writes to her aunt, "I am sending you a picture of four of us girls at the Inst. in our uniforms."

I've just ordered it as well, I wonder how long it will take customs to let it through


Still waiting for my Sanctum/Kioku package, but I'm patient. Looking forward to it!

There is a documentary on the history of the madhouse on the bbc iplayer at the moment. May be of interest to Luna owners.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _Madhouse/