Monster Hunters by Gaslight - Whitechapel, London, Hell?

[Cornelius]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

The mediaeval Bedlam in Bishopsgate was demolished in 1634. The second was in Moorfields, and that was demolished in 1815. At the epoch of Icelander's campaign Bedlam is at St George's Fields in Southwark (in the Lambeth Road). It's several miles from Icelander's setting and on the other side to the Thames, not at all close in London terms.

And so?

There's no need to have the hospital right in the middle of London. The influence of the spirit can be far reaching, or maybe is only influencing those who come to visit the patients and so on so forth. And I don't think that Icelander's player, even if based in whitechapel, are actually chained there.
They will move around and what would be the point of setting the campaign in the world' most important city of the time, if you are not using her whole?

Originally Posted by johndallman

We are in the era of actual treatment of the insane: this Wikipedia article gives some background.

OH, I'm sure that the treatment were the best of the times. And maybe the responsable of all the mistery won't be some mad scientist or dreadful warlok, but a very caring and compassionate doctor, which unwittingly did something quite hazarded. The last a group of PC would suspect.