My story is about a group of teens/young adults and how they're tortured inside/underneath an old prison/penitentiary, to make it as short as possible. The thing is, the torturing isn't a planned thing. The madman/madwoman doing the torturing didn't purposely trap them with the intent of torturing them, but instead, they stumbled upon the place accidentally and now, the madman/madwoman can't let them go because he/she has a huge secret that cannot leave this place. This pretty much means that, there will be torture, but it can't be any kind of planned torture. There can't be timer-set doors, or swinging blades from the ceiling, or anything like that. The forms of torture all have to be something that can just happen. That's where my difficulty lies -- how many torturous things can "just happen"? =/
Do you have any ideas?
Keep in mind that it is in/under a prison or penitentiary, so there are definitely cells, there are definitely isolation rooms, and there are definitely showers/bathtubs. The madman/madwoman is in a security room most of the time, watching everything go down from the monitors guards use to watch prisoners. If possible, I never want the madman/madwoman to be seen.
If you can help me, thank you so much! :)
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Oct 23, 2007 - 00 42
If the place isn't pre-rigged for torture, then your madman is limited either to touching the victims, or to using existing inrastructure that has remote control.
If the issue is that the madman needs to protect a secret, why torture - why not just kill?
Some impromptu tortures the setting might support:
- Really loud noise over a PA system
- An electric door closer trapping someone's arm in a heavy door and pinching until it's severed
- Pulling fingernails with pliers
- Slicing off skin with a knife
- Shooting with rubber bullets
- Creative use of a former execution chamber (gas, or electric chair)
- Manipulation of sound and light to drive the victims to specific places making them feel hunted
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Oct 23, 2007 - 02 56
*squeals excitedly* Oooh impromptu torture....
[beats back inner sadistic SOB]
It's really not that hard, you simply have to dial back, step back from the high-tech gadgets typically used in torture and think desert style torture. Heck, watch the Saw movies and it may get that primal side of your mind a working - or then again that could just be how my twisted muse works. *laughing*
First I think you should make a list of what is painful in the simplest of degrees, and what others (friends, family, etc) would find uncomfortable and then ramp those scenerios up 10-30 folds. Write down, get straight of what all would be there and what not to make it more pausible.
Most people are very modest when it comes to being naked, even if the opposite or same sex is in the area and would go a long way from preventing them from trying to escape if they're butt naked and can't cover themselve up.
12-48hrs butt naked in either extreme cold or hot water chainned, tied up or duct tapped to the facet or better yet, one arm tied to the opposite ankle. With or without making a slash just beneath what they are bound with so that if they pull they cause themselves more pain. You even take this a step forwards, have the bad guy play on most mens homeaphobia by binding them to each other butt naked. BG (bad guy) plucks out the pubic hair of a guy (or female I guess but males would be more painful I think) and then, if there is a kitchen, poor salt or vinegar onto the plucked area. Some sort of simple pully system with again a nude figure, a rop tied too or better yet shoved through ones wrists and around a pully at opposite wall and back through the opposite ankle with the bars of the cell pressing into their back. Maybe there is bleach on the bars that may irriate the flesh especially since they're likely to be sweating. Maybe there back is all torn up some how by another method.
Okay that should get ya thinking. *laughing* If I don't stop now I take all the fun out of reading it and likely just keep babbling on. Hope it helps. Feel free to drop me a line, buddy-ize me whatever if you need more suggestions or want to question me on my sanity . *lmao*
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Oct 23, 2007 - 06 11
you tie them all to a set of chairs and then at random intervals you silently walk into the room, and do something to one of them, break a finger or toe, cut off a bit of ear, stab them in the leg. this way they are really scared because they never know who will be tortured next, and they will never know when it will happen. Occasionally just walk into the room, watch them for a few minutes and walk out, thus meaning that they don't even know for sure each time whether anything will happen.
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Oct 23, 2007 - 06 38
I'm figuring there'll be outright killing as well. I'm going to let the madman just do as he pleases really; I just need a bit of a starting point for him, I think.
serotonin, The PA system seems like a good idea. That also inspires the opposite: silence, which could come about if one of the people gets locked in an isolation booth. I also never thought of the execution chamber either! *smacks head* What an obvious thing! Thank you for the ideas; they'll go to good use =)
The random aspect of torture, kevinj, is really interesting. I never would have thought of doing something like that, but I think it adds to a certain kind of, "Please don't let it be me next," kind of thing, which also might begin turning the characters against one another. That could be really interesting. Hm, maybe I'd have one of the characters, a really sensitive one, sitting in the security room tied up and such, being forced to watch every one of her friends getting tortured? I'm sure that'd take a toll on her soul =)
JustTansy.. haha, love the excitement! My boyfriend pretty much reacts the same way to these kinds of stories! Saw will be a sort of muse for this (yay for Saw 4 coming out this weekend!), but at the same time, I don't want to be too inspired by it, as I don't want to be seen as a "copycat killer," haha. I kind of did the list idea; I made a list of things like heat, cold, sensory deprivation, etc., and then fleshed each one out a little bit. I have a few ideas, I just wanted to see if anyone else had more. This isn't my typical genre; I'm more of the teen heartache and chick lit writer than horror, so I need all the help with the sinister parts that I can get! The naked aspect's interesting as well; I'd have to figure out how to get them out of their clothes -- maybe get them stuck in something and have it be their only chance for survival? Hm. You do have quite sinister ideas, but I like it; it's the kind of stuff I can really use! Thanks =)
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Oct 24, 2007 - 06 48
Ok, I gotta tack onto the nekkid folks gig here.
Does he have access to needles? A lighter?
Bind them naked and then place needles into the most "sensitive" areas. have him come in from time to time and use a lighter with the flame held to the needle. the psychological element would be almost as painful as the physical in that they'd see the flame but it would take a few seconds for the heat to begin moving through the metal into their bodies.
Also, this is SOOOOOOOO sadistic it's horrible
forcing sexual activity on a manequin, etc. with sandpaper in the proper areas, then forcing them into a scalding saltwater bath.
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Oct 24, 2007 - 09 21
There's a prison hospital there, so I'm going to go with: yes, there are needles. I can make him a smoker, therefore giving him access to a lighter as well. I like the needles/flames idea.. and it's not one that needs set-up at all! Good call =)
And yes, that is quite sadistic.. but that's exactly what I need here.. so thank you!
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Abr 16, 2008 - 20 10
Turn up the heat. Like, if there's one thing that can generally be controlled from a control room instead of just anywhere, a thermostat would be on that list. Something that happened on Code Lyoko once sort of came to mind right now- Yumi and Ulrich are known to like each other. They're trapped in a room together and the heat is going up, so they modestly turn away from each other so they can take their clothes off (more of a problem for Yumi, being the girl).
Maybe trap two potential lovers, or even just any guy and any gal if you want, alone in a room with he heat rising. They take off their clothes, you have them right where you want them. And (IMHO)it would be easier to figure out than a way for their lives to depend on taking their clothes off. Unless that counts?
Edited because I'm having severe HTML problems today...