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'Interesting show.— Ipiprix via Group Shout
The Mental Assistance Department was founded by Ipiprix, alongside Bart Montgomery and Enrique Graves. Taking the guise of a medical practice in which therapy take place, its real purpose is to actually find a cure for human mortality through experiments. Many attempts fail, but this doesn't stop the doctors from continuing their search for the ultimate cure no matter what, even if it means ending up in madness.
Biography
The Beginning
The Mental Assistance Department begins with Dr. Ipiprix, a man very interested in immortality and its potential. He became a doctor after graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in medicine and met Bart_Montgomery and later Enrique_Graves, who were also interested in the idea of immortality. Together, they founded the Mental Assistance Department, a medical building based on psychology and supposedly providing therapy to patients, which is actually a cover for the Mortality Advancement Division, where many experiments are done to find a potential cure for mortality. Numerous attempts have been made, all of them unsuccessful.
The first three cures (made by Ipiprix alone at the time) didn't work. Some time after, Ipiprix would meet Dr. Bart Montgomery, who was researching immortal creatures. It is when Bart discovers the location of immortal beings called Nephilim, which caught the eye of Ipiprix, who assumed this would be critical in curing morality. Ipiprix prepares an expedition to the desert, in which he meets Dr. Enrique Graves, invited by Bart. The three doctors will find the last Nephilim, Immortius, and decides to take his eye, convinced that the secret of his immortality resides in his blood. This leads to Cure #4, which is unsuccessful, causing the patient to burn after ingestion. Later, Ipiprix discovers the location of an island in the middle of the sea after investigating rumors of an immortal man living there. However, all questions to the man, named Krilessh, proved to be completely fruitless, as he was unable to speak without being confused or illogical, his mind having been highly damaged by whatever made him immortal. With the source of his immortality unknown, Cure #28 was a failure. After many more attempts, Cure #43, named "The Stoneman Potion" was (presumably) created by Bart. This cure was also a failure: despite giving the patient abilities such as having a strong physique by turning their skin to stone and walking through walls, the effects were slowly turning them into brain dead creatures. It would have to take someone with a strong mind to overcome the cure's side effects.
Still searching for a cure, Ipiprix went to the Mountains of Madness, or Source, where he discovered creatures called Mindwalkers. These robotic, spider-like entities have the ability to extract happy moments from a person's memories, and store them forever in the form of a colored liquid to eat. This ability particularly greatly interested Ipiprix, as keeping a person's memories forever is considered a form of immortality. However, Ipiprix is attacked by a Mindwalker during his visit, with his happy memories being extracted and killing Ipiprix. Despite his death, the Mindwalker that attacked Ipiprix inserts a Mindwalker into his dead body, pretending to be human in order to extract more memories to feed on. The Mindwalker controlling Ipiprix brings Mindwalkers to the Mortality Advancement Division to feed on more victims, under the act of testing the Mindwalkers to see if their memory-extracting abilities were an efficient cure. From these experiments, Cure#49 is created.
Cure #49 & The Death of The Doctors
The Mindwalker's abilities was tested was true_faces, or Drew, who seeked help from Graves after his girlfriend, Esmeralda, died in a car accident that Drew blames himself for. The doctors introduced him to the tests of Cure #49, claiming the treatment would make him feel better. However, its reveal that the cure isn't effecient and has many side effects. When Drew had his memories extracted with a Mindwalker, his mind was split in two. His memory of Esmeralda was removed and stored, leaving the dull part in the patient, who becomes a "shell". true_faces is temporarily happy after the experiment, but his mood crashes, becoming incredibly depressed. Forgetting who his girlfriend was, he became incredibly confused and stressed trying to figure out who it was he loved so much. The side-effects are seen by thr player in You Look Happy. This alarmed Bart, one of the doctors, who recommended Cure #49 to be discontinued. Ipiprix, being controlled by the Mindwalker, would kill him, and claim that Bart had gone on vacation to Australia.
After Bart's "vacation" and seeing Ipiprix's strange behavior, Dr. Graves becomes increasingly worried and doubtful with Ipiprix and his behavior. He decides to go to the Mountains of Madness to figure out what happened to him, knowing he's been different ever since his visit there. He steals Ipiprix's car to go there, hoping to find out what changed him as well as trying to figure out the source of all of the madness. However, after finding the source of everything, which was the Mindwalkers, Graves was killed by one of them.
Shortly after these events, an incident occurred where an someone was caught investigating the "holiday" of Dr. Montgomery. This person was Cecil_Montgomery, son of Dr. Montgomery himself. He was exploring the Mortality Advancement Division when he was attacked by patients of Cure #43. Cornered, he drank a vial of Cure #43 himself, making him stronger, more durable, and letting him escape by walking through a stone wall. He's able to retain his sanity because Cecil is strong-minded enough to counteract the side effect.
Introduction of The Player
Later, the player finds the department, gradually discovering the events that took place there. They find objects called Memory Cubes, physical(?) manifestations of the minds of the lost memories of the people that have been victims to Mindwalkers. These cubes will be found in their respective games.
The red cube belonging to Dr. Ipiprix is at the bottom of Mortality Advancement Division. The green cube, Drew's, is at the end of You Look Happy, The yellow cube representing Dr. Montgomery is found in Rejection, which the player accesses by drinking Bart's vial of Cure#49. Finally the blue cube, Dr. Graves', is found in SOURCE next to his corpse. After acquiring the four cubes, The player undergoes the mindwalker procedure, yet survives due to the memory cubes "anchoring" the player. Somehow, through this process, the player discovers what happened to Ipiprix, and how he was killed by the Mindwalkers.
After discovering the truth, the player returns to the department and accesses the Eye of Immortius, which leads them to In Ruina Eius De Nephilim to return the Eye to its owner: Immortius. He had been chained for millennia due to being manipulated by the Mindwalkers to kill the rest of his species. Returning the eye grants him his strength again, as well as a strong desire for revenge against those who manipulated him. He breaks free from his chains, taking the player with him to an island in the middle of the ocean: Castaway. Here lies the Tower of the Liars, an underwater base where the Mindwalkers experimented for a long time in order to find a species susceptible to their mind control. Krilessh underwent the experiments, which granted him immortality at the cost of his sanity. After getting out of the base, the player meets Cecil for the first time, alongside Drew, Krileesh, and Immortius. They all want to stop the Mindwalkers from extracting everyone's memories on earth, with some having other, more personal reasons for the Mindwalker's destruction.
Finale
The group arrives at Jalcrl Nwm, where a large part of the Mindwalkers are located, as well as the leader, Dr. Ipiprix.
Most of the group moves forward, leaving the Player behind. Moving forward, you can find Drew, who’s been attacked by a Mindwalker. Unable to get up, he lends you a shotgun he names Esmeralda, named after the love of his life he can finally remember.
After solving a few puzzles and killing a few Mindwalkers themselves with the shotgun, the Player finds Cecil and an exhausted Immortius, ending up in a final room.
In this room, Cecil urges you to push a red button, as he himself can’t due to the effects of Cure #43 finally catching up to him. However, Dr. Ipiprix claims to have finally, but briefly overcame the effects of the Mindwalkers, and urges you to push the green button.
Depending on your choice, you can either experience a grand, final fight with Mindwalker Prime with the help of Krileesh, or distribute Cure #50 and destroy Earth.
In the case that you fight and defeat Mindwalker Prime, the Mindwalkers become desperate and initiate a self-destruct of the arctic base. In a hurried escape, you can power a convient portal and make your way to a peaceful beach.
This place houses everyone along the journey, even the dead people who are ghosts. Krileesh swims happily with Shelly, Immortius relaxes before saying he has other journeys to be on, Drew and Esmeralda relax on a dock, Dr. Graves comforts a shameful Ipiprix, and Cecil takes time to recollect while the ghost of Dr. Montgomery sits with him.
After the threat of the Mindwalkers is gone, Cecil then inherits the department and transitions the building from doing “therapy” to studying the stars by creating a new Astronomy Division dedicated to studying the stars.
The Astronomy Division recieves foreign distress signals from far away. Decoding this leads to the location of the Traveler's Sanctuary.
Cure Document Transcripts
Cure #4
quote=Cure #4 "Eye of Immortius" Administered by: [EXPUNGED] [EXPUNGED] taken from an immortal being, unfortunately, instead of granting [EXPUNGED] the cure causes spontaneous combustion shortly after treatment. [EXPUNGED] thinks that it might only work for the [EXPUNGED]. Obtained at the Nephilim ruins in the [EXPUNGED]. The eye was forcibly removed from [EXPUNGED] the last of the Nephilim. Credit for this find goes to the Mental Assistance Department.
Cure #28
Cure #28 The Castaway Discovered by: [EXPUNGED] After years of investigating rumors of an immortal man on a deserted island, Dr. [EXPUNGED] managed to successfully pinpoint the location in the middle of the [EXPUNGED]. However, contact with the immortal man, known as [EXPUNGED] has proven to be completely fruitless. Whatever made the man immortal has clearly done tremendous damage to his mind. He is able to talk about anything without bringing up his pet lobster Shelley and how they [EXPUNGED] while simultaneously [EXPUNGED] including [EXPUNGED]. Naturally, further questions were ultimately fruitless.
Cure #43
Cure #43 "Stoneman Potion" Administered by: [EXPUNGED] Immortality formula created by [EXPUNGED] by calcifying the subject's tissues. This gives the subject a stony exterior, protecting them from danger and drastically increasing their life span. Unfortunately, testing has resulted in the subjects suffering [EXPUNGED] possibly because of the potion's effect on the skull. Many subjects were rendered completely brain dead as a result. [EXPUNGED] believes that it would take an extraordinarily strong mind to survive. A few subjects were able to retain some basic low level intelligence and appear to be able to move through stone without consequence. [EXPUNGED] uses these subjects for manual labor since they are completely unable to return to society. *INCIDENT REPORT* Unknown intruder suspected to be [EXPUNGED] was caught investigating the vacation of an employee and drank some of the formula when cornered, allowing him to [EXPUNGED]. Current location unknown.
Cure #49
Cure #49 "Refined Happiness" Administered by: Ingestion Cures the following: Depression, Loneliness, Schizoprenia, Desire to be loved. Recipe: Using the [EXPUNGED] remove [EXPUNGED] happiness [EXPUNGED] mind [EXPUNGED]. Obtained at the [EXPUNGED] of [EXPUNGED]. Credit for this find goes to Dr. Ipiprix, and his associates [EXPUNGED] and [EXPUNGED].
History
The Mental Assistance Department was made in December 30th, 2018. Every game associated with the Mental Assistance Department had a major revamp around June, 2020. The myth began to end around September, 2020, when Jalcrl Nwm was released, though many more secrets were added to the games, along with the start of a sequel published a few months later. There isn't much more history in terms of the group.
Myth Affiliated Members
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Ipiprix | Ipiprix is one of the three doctors who work at the Mental Assistant Department, as well being its founder and head doctor. He initiated the project into a search for a cure for mortality, joined by Bart_Montgomery and Enrique_Graves, who share the same interests and ambitions regarding immortality. All attempts failed, until the discovery of creatures called Mindwalkers, which leads to the creation of Cure#49. However, things don't go as planned. |
| Bart_Montgomery | Bart_Montgomery is one of the three doctors who work at the Mental Assistant Department. He was Ipiprix’s first associate, and then introduced Graves to him. He works alongside them in search of immortality, and is later killed after starting to doubt the safety of Cure #49 and its side effects. |
| Enrique_Graves | Enrique_Graves is one of the three doctors who work at the Mental Assistant Department. He has gone on many adventures with his coworkers in search of the cure for mortality. Enrique was also a married man to a loving wife. He would explore the location of where the mindwalkers were found, and was then killed. |
| true_faces | true_faces is a young adult who lived with his girlfriend until she died in a car crash right before he gathered the courage to propose to her. Suffering from severe depression, he decides to seek help from his friend and therapist, Enrique_Graves. He became a part of the experiments regarding Cure #49 and tried it out, as it is supposed to protect his happy memories from his current state. However, many side effects occur, as shown in his game You Look Happy. |
| Immortius | Immortius is an immortal being known as a Nephilim, and he is the last of his kind. He was tricked into killing all of the Nephilim by the Mindwalkers and then was trapped by them for eternity, where he would eventually be discovered by the doctors. He would later be released and help take down the Mindwalkers. |
| Krilessh | Krilessh is another immortal being who was discovered by the doctors. He is rather confusing and illogical, almost unintelligent, because of the experiments done on him by the Mindwalkers. He lives with a lobster named Shelly, who he believes is the most powerful being to ever exist. This fact hasn't been proven wrong. |
| Mind Walkers | Mind_Walkers are spider-like creatures that were discovered by Ipiprix and were to be used as a cure for mortality. They took part into the creation of a potential cure for mortality, called Cure #49. However, their main goal was to dominate the earth in order to expand their population. |
Associated Myth Games
| Game Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Mental Assistance Department | "The Mental Assistance Department" facilitates some patients and where research and experiments are done. Underneath the building is the Mortality Advancement Division, with a maze which contains teleports to many games involving the memory cubes and overall story of M.A.D. |
| R E J E C T I O N | "R E J E C T I O N" takes place in Bart_Montgomery’s mind, and is normally accessed through the maze in the Mortality Advancement Division. The player would help Bart recover his memory of his child. |
| S O U R C E | "S O U R C E" is the place where the Mind_Walkers came from and where Enrique_Graves would be killed by one of them. The doctors would use these creatures for the creation Cure #49. |
| You Look Happy | "You Look Happy" is true_faces’ game, in which the player will go through many places witnessing True's backstory and how he felt after his treatment. |
| In Ruina Eius de Nephilim | "In Ruina Eius de Nephilim" is a large, unknown desert where parts of Immortius’ backstory can be found and is where the doctors found him after solving the riddles keeping him out of reach. |
| Castaway | "Castaway" consists mainly of an island lost in the middle of the sea, where Mindwalkers experimented on Krilessh. |
| Jalcrl Nwm | "Jacrl Nwm" is the final game in the series where the player, Cecil, Immortius, Drew, and Krileesh went to fight the Mindwalkers and stop them from "curing" the entirety of Earth. They ultimately defeat the Mindwalkers. Everyone goes about their lives after the fight, except for Drew, who dies. |
| Traveler's Sanctuary | "Traveler’s Sanctuary" is the game for the sequel of the Mental Assistance Department. It servers as a place between worlds that Corlonisk travels to as well as his herald. These worlds all have gifts from Corlonisk, which became corrupted by the Mindwalkers in a plot to dominate more worlds, leading to the player defeating the bosses seen in them. |
Ranks
Myth Ranks
| Ranks | Description |
|---|---|
| ?????? | This rank is for Corlonisk, the owner of the sequel to the Mental Assistance Department, Traveler’s Sanctuary. |
| Cures | The Cures rank is for those who were used as cures or were tested on by it, and is assigned to true_faces, Immortius and Krilessh. They all have important games in the story. |
| Doctor | The Doctor rank is given to the two other doctors who run the Mental Assistance Department alongside Ipiprix: Enrique_Graves and Bart_Montgomery. |
| Head Doctor | Head Doctor is the owner rank occupied by the leader of the Mental Assistance Department, Ipiprix. |
Miscellaneous Ranks
| Ranks | Description |
|---|---|
| Patient | Patient is the rank given to someone when they first join the group. One can not progress after this unless they are a part of the myth. |
| Janitor | This rank is for the developer Banjobug, who helped Ipiprix and Corlonisk with many things. |
Theories
This section has not been written in the source archive.
Trivia
- There’s a Mindwalker in each M.A.D related game.
- There’s a common secret to almost all games of the series.
- The icon of the group, as the game’s thumbnails and some decals were made by the artist Flawed_Immortal.
- The post-game events aren’t shown in the games, but are mentioned in the Official M.A.D Twitter Account, held by DS and that communicates about the activities of the Astronomy Division.
- The myth was inspired by existing universes, such as Lovecraft.
- Hints about Traveler’s Sanctuary and Corlonisk are found through the games.
- Around Christmas 2020, all the M.A.D related accounts had a slightly changed avatars to something more festive. A Christmas card was also created.
- The National M.A.D Day is on August 8th.
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