Mad Scientist Lab

Shelves stuffed with jars containing various preserved specimen, all pale and gross. They move sometimes, inside their jars.

The room of chimeras.

I've always been a fan of rooms with giant dead things. Like the ones in evangelion that you see every now and again. Just skeletons or partial corpses of giant things in an otherwise austere and sterile environment.

The mandatory clone vats. Can't have a lab without them. Must be vertical glass cylinders, preferably filled with green goop.

Animals with eyes grown in unusual places, they wink at the player.

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>>44627451
Even if it's biology based, I'm sure you could put a lot of dangerous chemicals around. Tubes and dishes filled with bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other microorganisms could fit too.

>>44627451
Comfy chair in the main room.

>>44627789
The footstool is alive, but unable to move or communicate.

>>44627946
>My screaming chair
>Not able to scream

AM plz go

>>44628252
I Have No Mouth And I Am Warm And Comfy.

>>44627620

Alternatively, green goop is spread across the floor with giant holes in each of the vats. Half formed clones violently dismembered using a fire ax and are spread across the floor.

"Project Phoenix didn't work out."

A nursery or classroom for the experiments that have worked out, looking almost disarmingly normal amidst the rest of the laboratory's sterility.

>>44628624
Bail Nobra

An elephant sized venus flytrap

>>44627451
Clones of famous celebrities

Clones of himself

Clones

>>44629444
An elephant small enough to fit in a terrarium.

>>44627451
A morgue.

Suits the creepiness factor of it

>>44629474
Clones of clones of clones.

>>44627451

Few dozens hibernated clones of one of the player characters

Large, covered in heavy fiberoptic cables that lead into large metal boxes that are affixed around the room on the walls and ceiling. The cables are broken and frayed into thousands of individual fiberoptic filaments, each end blackened and melted. The floor, a tiled white ceramic, is warped and distorted. A black, swirled crater sits in the center of the room, surrounded by the ends of the cables. The room reaks of burnt plastic and chemical odors. It makes your eyes sting. The lights in the ceiling have been smashed inward, as though by a shockwave. The walls and ceiling are covered in short metal ridges and appear to have been designed to function as a heat sink. It looks like there was a console set into one corner of the room, but it has been reduced to slag and splattered against the wall. There are several black char marks on the walls and floor that resemble human shadows.

Dead things hung from flesh hooks on the ceiling, drained of fluid and half dissected

>>44627752
>Even if it's biology based, I'm sure you could put a lot of dangerous chemicals around.
Having worked in a molecular biology lab, can confirm. By and large it's a lot more tame than a stereotypical chemistry lab, but there's definitely some pretty toxic and/or volatile stuff that you use reasonably regularly.

And if you're a mad scientist type, odds are you're synthesizing a lot of your reagents in-house rather than ordering them from Thermo-Fisher or the like, so at that point you can have pretty much any of the same hazardous chemical stuff as you'd have in a chemistry lab.

A reinforced gymnasium-type room for testing the physical capabilities of your abominations.

Banks of freezers with

A quarantine room for contagious specimens. Hazmat suit required for entry.

A clean room for specimens with sensitive immune systems (which for a mad scientist might mean more "will mutate into something very nasty and dangerous when exposed to normal microflora", rather than "will die to the common cold"). Hazmat suit also required for entry, to keep your own germs away from the specimens.

>>44634671
*Banks of freezers with cell cultures, bodily fluid samples, body part samples, entire bodies...

Thought of the quarantine room idea and got so wrapped up in it I left off my earlier thought halfway.

A nice mahogany coat rack

A kick-ass sound system.

To play the hits (or the classics), while you play God.

>>44634962
What music would be in a mad biologist's playlist?

What is the optimal soundtrack for playing God?

>>44635019
Bach

>>44627946
"And this is my screaming chair. Don't be afraid! It can't scream. How would I get any of my screaming done if I were always being interrupted?"

>>44637302
I had to put on my album of Bach concertos now, thanks to you. I hope you're happy.

>>44637947
I prefer his chamber music. Sounds more like lone genius than times-a-changin'.

>>44638064
I generally do too, it's just that the only album I have that's specifically just Bach happens to be a Brandenburg concertos compilation. So convenience/laziness won out.

>>44638154
Well that's like his grand opus. Can't go wrong there.

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>>44627451
I doesn't matter what you put in there, just use whatever sounds most scariest from the arsenal of the era. Lobotomy tools? ECT straps? Radiation therapy machine? Lots of little cages?

What matters is that you foreshadow slowly and with atmosphere. The players should dread what's behind the next door more than they fear it when it is revealed. No undead mutant creature is scary if you just drop it in front of the party.

Start with a scene that raises questions but could still be explained away. Then make a mundane explanation even less likely, but still possible.

Then you show a pushed in wall, torn out door frame, or any other feat of supernatural power and disregard. Maybe add a blood trail.

Next there's some lab notes or a journal outlining a little of the sick inhuman experimenting that went into bringing the creature into this world. Conclude it with a dire warning or implication about the danger the thing poses. This is also a great place to put Chekhov's Gun and tell the players what must be done.

Now go back and show how something big must have disturbed a scene after the party investigated it. Use noises and tracks, make the players feel watched.

Challenge time! Use an action sequence, can be a fight, a chase, running away, breaking down a door in the nick of time, whatever gets the dice rolling. It is important that there is a real threat, and that it cannot be defeated, only avoided.

Only now you start the showdown, reveal your creature in person, and press the PCs for real.