Without employment and without even his cats to care for, Jervis's days are empty and nights seem even worse. At least during the day he can revise his resumé and go about courting businesses, labs, and universities. After nightfall, there's nothing to do but sit in his quiet and lonely apartment and try to distract himself from the sad state of ( Read more... )

Experienced, published and award winning neuroscientist specializing in bioengineering ( Read more... )

When you leave the care of Arkham Asylum, it can not possibly live up to your hopes from the inside. This is the first thing that occurs to Jervis Tetch as he's led out of the front door and across the lawn. He carries a box containing all of the belongings that have been truly 'his' during his stay. He worried there might be some sort of media ( Read more... )

Jervis has been patient. He has been taking his medication, he has been behaving, and his stay in Arkham has been nicer than it began. He was moved from maximum security. He was allowed greater access to the library and the comforts of a more home-like room. A window to look out of and chances to walk outside on the grounds. It is still not the ( Read more... )

Sometime mid-week, there is a new face in the Arkham cafeteria. A quiet redheaded woman who doesn't seem that interested in food. Or talking to other people. Or sitting near them, either ( Read more... )

The hospital room has been a white blur with no real sense of time. Doctors, nurses, burly security and various police officers in and out and out and in and days and nights flow like water over jagged rocks. The morphine drip stops, though, and he's allowed to come up out of his sedated haze just a bit. They tell him he's being moved. Tell him ( Read more... )

Jervis might not be entirely wrong in comparing Simon to a caged beasty. He certainly has a tendency to pace as feeding time approaches. Four steps measures the length of his glass wall. Four steps turn four steps turn four steps turn, his shoulder just rubbing the glass ( Read more... )

( Always so much fun, mm? )

So, ah -- getting into Arkham Asylum to visit someone. Turns out they have background checks for that. Go figure ( Read more... )

( IRC Log: Arkham Group Therapy, Session 4 )