Editing Psychonauts (section)

===Setting===
The story is set in the fictional Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, a remote US government training facility under the guise of a children's [[summer camp]]. Centuries ago the area was hit by a meteor made of psitanium (a fictional mineral that can grant [[psychic powers]] or strengthen existing powers), creating a huge crater. The psitanium affected the local wildlife, giving them limited psychic powers, such as [[bears]] with the ability to attack with [[psychokinesis|telekinetic]] claws, [[cougar]]s with [[pyrokinesis]], and [[rat]]s with confusion gas. The Native Americans of the area called psitanium "whispering rock", which they used to build arrowheads.

When settlers began inhabiting the region, the psychoactive properties of the meteor slowly drove them insane. An [[Psychiatric hospital|asylum]] named Thorny Towers Home of the Disturbed was built to house the afflicted, but within fifteen years, the asylum had more residents than the town did and the founder Houston Thorny committed suicide by throwing himself from the asylum's tower. The government relocated the remaining inhabitants and flooded the crater to prevent further settlement, creating what is now Lake [[Medulla oblongata|Oblongata]]. The asylum still stands, but has fallen into disrepair.

The government took advantage of the psitanium deposit to set up a training camp for Psychonauts, a group of agents gifted with psychic abilities used to help defeat evil-doers. The training ground is disguised as a summer camp for young children, but in reality helps the children to hone their abilities and to train them to be Psychonauts themselves. Due to this, only those recruited by the Psychonauts are allowed into the camp.