Plasmid Therapies

Plasmid Therapies is a spa in the Adonis Luxury Resort of Rapture. The spa offered a variety of treatments for the customers, such as the Rapture-exclusive Plasmid therapy.

History
Everyone needs a day off, even in a location like a Rapture, built as a utopia for the hardworking bright-minded citizens of Earth. One such place was the Plasmid Therapies, part of the Adonis Baths, which provided its patrons with a sauna, tanning salon, mud bath, and the rejuvenating Plasmid-based therapies, that used the likes of Electro Bolt. Customers could also buy various ADAM-based products from the Gatherer's Garden, such as then Slim-Down and ReJuvena Gene Tonics.

As the Rapture Civil War war broke out at the end of 1958, the Plasmid Therapies along with the rest of the Adonis was largely abandoned, and suffered major structural damage and thriving sea life emerged from the leaking cracks of the facility.

BioShock 2
10 years after committing a forced suicide, Subject Delta awakes from a Vita-Chamber in the Adonis Luxury Resort. He continues through the ruined resort until reaching the Adonis Baths, where the electricity is out, making exit impossible. He notes the pool room generator and figures that activating it will be his best chance at escape. An Audio Diary left by "Big Kate" O'Malley, the supervisor of the facility, hints that the Plasmid Electro Bolt could be Delta's solution. He heads to the Plasmid Therapies, where a sign in the entrance hall advertising the Electro Bolt-based Plasmid therapy suggests that he is in the right place.

Entrance Hall
Soon after entering, gunshots can be heard from the reception and a female Splicer emerges, falling over a candle lit-table and dying. The perpetrator, a deranged doctor, struggles with his gun in the said reception.

The entrance hall housed the facility's Finnish smoke sauna, which is locked with a keypad. The numbers 1540 has been written in the steam on the glass in the inside of the sauna. unlocking the door causes the corpse of Rachelle Jacques to fall out. She was seemingly locked inside the sauna and died of the heat and dehydration. The sauna contains her Audio Diary Fitness, some Rapture Dollars and Drill Fuel. The hall leading to the facility's tanning salon and mud baths has been blocked off by the collapsed ceiling. A Little Sister Vent is set near the reception entrance. A tennis racket and ball on the floor indicates that the facility housed a tennis court in some form. Despite the fact that most of the Plasmid Therapies are inaccessible, the reception and Plasmid Therapies are open for Subject Delta.

Reception and Plasmid Therapies
After dealing with the Splicers, Delta enters the reception of the area. Delta heads straight ahead towards the Gatherer's Garden and as he approaches, a vision of a young girl appears in front of his eyes as she chants "Father!" Various messages are written with crayons around the Gatherer's garden for Delta, indicating that they are left by a girl named Eleanor. Eleanor has also left a gift for Delta, in the form of the much needed Electro Bolt Plasmid. Delta injects the Plasmid and falls to the floor. As he looks up, he sees a young girl, a Little Sister, who has a message for him. She explains that that Delta needs to find Eleanor and as soon as she finishes her sentence, a long skinny armored creature comes screaking out of the broken wall and snatches the girl, breaking the reception door as she runs out. Delta is able to unlock the malfunctioning door with his new Plasmid and can now leave and jump-start the pool area generator.

The reception was were citizens could buy various services and wait for the scheduled appointments. Further inside is the Plasmid Therapies where the patients would get invigorating Plasmid treatments. The reception is in an overall dire state, with leakage, grime, and debris in the dimly lit area. A small garden outlines both sides of the entrance, with an EVE Hypo resting on the edge of the garden under the door control. Someone has apparently been living behind the reception desk, as a mattress, suitcase, candles, paper butterflies, and several books entitles Unity and Metamorphosis can be found there. A cut out of a woman from the "Rapture's Best and Brightest - 1952" poster (a copy of the full poster hangs in the reception) has been put up on the wall with the text "Lamb is Watching" written next to it. The Cash Register is unlooted and a EVE Dispenser hangs on the wall, which was once used by the Plasmid therapists and other staff of the spa. Most of the seating areas have been destroyed and a large hole can be found in the wall next to the reception counter. Further down is the Gatherer's Garden, with the messages to Subject Delta, as well as some children's toys. Here Plasmid Therapy treatment room 1 and 2 are found, both partly flooded and thriving with coral. The therapy beds exist in the center of both rooms. In treatment room 1, a burnt female Splicer rests in piece on the therapy bed. She was likely a customer of the deranged doctor encountered earlier. smoke is still coming from her body, so the event occurred shortly before Delta arrived. An armchair has been toppled and a pack of Nico-Time Cigarettes sits nearby. Treatment room 2 has no "customer", and the only loot for the player are Oxford Club cigarettes and a few dollars.

New Plasmid (Found)

 * Electro Bolt - Reception and Plasmid Therapies, on the Gathere's Garden.

Coded Lock

 * The sauna - 1540

New Enemies

 * Thuggish Splicer
 * Leadhead Splicer

Audio Diary

 * 1) Rachelle Jacques - Fitness - Entrance Hall, in the sauna.

The Protector Trials
The Plasmid Therapies exist in The Protector Trials, the arena-based downloadable content for BioShock 2. The entrance to the facility can be found in the map based on the Adonis Luxury Resort level: The Adonis Baths, but the Securis door is locked, making the interior inaccessible. A cubist painting can be found in the entrance hall, which also exists in the main game. Once the Little Sister starts to gather ADAM, Splicers will come running from the Plasmid Therapies to stop the unidentified Alpha Series Big Daddy and his Little Sister.

Behind the Scenes

 * The code to the sauna, 1540, is a reference that has been used in several games made by previous employees of Looking Glass Studios since the creation of the System Shock game series, the predecessor of the BioShock games. In System Shock the first locked door could be opened with the code 451. In BioShock, 0451 opens a locked closet in Twilight Fields Funeral Homes. In BioShock Infinite, 0451 is the code to unlock an elevator in the Grand Central Depot. The number itself comes from the title of a book by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
 * The Plasmids sign was designed by Laura Zimmermann for the original BioShock.