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| Ford's Sanctuary |
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.
Description[]
–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 destabilizes 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).
Points of Interest[]
- Underground Rapid Transit System: Beneath majority of the camp and specially the valley, there are subterranean railways that redundantly works on a rail-based transportation system that any of the campers and specially Ford Cruller himself can use to move from place to place quicker.
- Observation Room: Through a hallway, inside it, there is a small white room with basic stuff like: ottomans, couches, a table and a chair. However in front it’s divided by a big glass and behind it there’s a monitor along with two seats. Ford Cruller mentions that this portion of the sanctuary is where he runs some tests; the area becomes as the main place to put the brainless bodies of the campers during the events of the game.
PSI Cards[]
| All PSI Cards and their locations. (Click expand to open) |
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| 1.– On the very bottom of the sanctuary, there is a card near the entrance structure.
Information obtained from this GameFAQs page. |
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.
- As a result, the sanctuary’s theme become a more oftenly used melody in Psychonauts 2, becoming more accurately Ford Cruller’s theme to an extent
- For most of the music used in all mental worlds of Ford's Fractured Mind the melody can be heard. The ending music has a rendition of the melody, mostly referencing the ending of the first game.
- As a result, the sanctuary’s theme become a more oftenly used melody in Psychonauts 2, becoming more accurately Ford Cruller’s theme to an extent
- The underground rapid-transit system accessible through hollow tree stumps is a reference to The Secret of Monkey Island.
- In a prototype version of Psychonauts, this area was meant to be called "Ford’s Underground Lab" and it would be accessed not through the rapid transit system but the reception area, via a locker from "Janitor" Cruller’s trailer.
- Additionally, the log that is usually seen on a extended platform that leads to the center of the room was absent and instead it had a giant ladder. As for the stump, originally it was located at bottom.