Ford's Sanctuary

Ford's Sanctuary

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Ford's Sanctuary
Location	Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp

“Located deep beneath Whispering Rock lies Ford Cruller‘s secret sanctuary. A subterranean rapid-transit system links the sanctuary with the above camp through various hollowed tree stump terminals scattered throughout Whispering Rock. He observes holograms here to find problems to send Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello to end. In the sanctuary there is a block of the Psitanium that fell into what is now Lake Oblongata. The Psitanium located in here is the only thing that can keep him sane. If he wanders away from here he suffers from Multiple Personality Syndrome.

Here, Raz can trade in mental cobwebs for psi cards, and psi cards and psi cores for psi challenge markers.”

–Old Psychopedia description

Ford's Sanctuary is Ford Cruller's hideout beneath Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. It is accessed via a series of secret entrances in the shape of hollowed out tree stumps. PSI Cadets can use the available equipment to unweave their mental cobwebs, allowing them to rank up, thus unlocking new psychic gifts. Ford Cruller can always be found here.

Story

“I... I can’t leave this cave, Razputin. Not as the Ford Cruller you know.”

–Ford Cruller

Cruller's mind is multifaceted, and he is seen throughout the camp in Psychonauts as a janitor, admiral, cook, and park ranger. The sanctuary is located near a mother lode of Psitanium, a psychoreactive material that boosts the mental abilities of psychics, but further destabilises the mentally unstable. So as long as Ford is in the sanctuary, his multiple personas pull together into the Psychonaut Ford Cruller. After a psychic duel he was left shattered, and his mind split apart. From the safety of his sanctuary, Ford could send agents Oleander, Nein and Vodello out to the field. They keep quiet about this because they know that if the Psychonauts found out Ford has been assigning them all their missions, they'd stop approving them.

Later in the game, the brainless campers are kept here for recralianilzation. By using the bacon, Ford can bring you back here any time you like using teleportation (except past the point of no return).

Trivia

• The wanted posters in the post office in the Milkman Conspiracy are identical to the wanted video screens in Ford's Sanctuary and in the Motherlobe.
• On the PC version, if you ask Ford about the equipment while he's in the observation room, he will respond, "No tests going in there right now. Maybe later.", despite currently watching children and waiting for Raz to bring all the missing brains.
• The sanctuary's theme is included in the soundtrack as part of the title theme for the game, rather than being a separate track.
• The underground rapid-transit system accessible through hollow tree stumps is a reference to The Secret of Monkey Island.