You make your way to the depths of the Asylum where Atwater's 'accomodation' was located. It was on the same level as John Doe's cell but you manage to get directions to where his cell was. The lights flicker as you proceed down the corridor, which seems to be longer than what it could be. At the end of the corridor shadowy shape sits, doubtlessly a guard who stops you when you get about ten feet away from his post.
"Naow jest hawld on the-ir folks. What is it yo'll be a'wantin' dawn hereabouts, dontcha know this is awff limits to folks such as yerselfs." He spits a gob of tobacco stained phlegm onto the floor as if to show his contempt of all and any who dare to intrude upon his area of control.
When you show him the letter you got from Hardstrom he changes his tune and becomes solicitous.
"Sorry folks but I git my orders from the man himself not to let anyone in ... I was jest a-doin me job, be sure to tell him that Benny is bein' alert a-dawn here. Hef ye any word on how the search is goin' they don't see fit to tell me a-naught, as is their right I s'pose, but I'd like to know how the search is progressin' ivory once in awhile. Heor Sister ... lemme git that door fir ye." he says as he rushes to open the cell door.
"Ah'll git the light on fer ye."
The cell door is right on the back wall of the corridor and there seems to be, in the gloomy, flickering light cast by the corridor's lamps nothing amiss with the door that you can discern. Upon entering the room, the first thing that hits you is a foul stench of rot and decay, though it's source remains hidden from you, it seems to pervade the very air of the room. As the lights flicker into luminescence, you can see that the room, approximately 10' by 8' with a bed and table with chair and a empty chamber pot by the head of the bed. The walls, ceiling and floor appear solid enough with no visible ways out. What passes for outside light would come in through the decaying rusted up window set high above the wall opposite the bed. A slight breeze issues from this window. The bed is slept in and the sheets dirty and unkempt.
