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Mad Scientist Laboratory

The place where Science! happens. Usually pronounced "lah-BOHR-ah-tor-ee" in ominous, stentorian tones.

Every Mad Scientist has to have a lab. This is typically a refurbished dungeon of some sort, with aging stone walls. It also must contain the following lab equipment:

•An operating table. Two if the Mad Scientist does brain transplants. Optional, though, is the winch for raising the table up to the roof.
•A big honking Jacob's Ladder (the thing that looks like a rabbit-ear antenna with an electrical arc between the posts)
•A Tesla coil.
•a roof that opens to the sky, to let the lightning in and/or the Death Ray out.
•A 60s-style mainframe computer with big dials and switches on the front. Add spinning tape reels for extra credit.
•Bits of animals and people preserved in formaldehyde.
•A whole bunch of glassware, especially test tubes, beakers, flasks of colored liquid, distilling columns, condensers, burettes, bunsen burners, and that thing you get when you hook a bunch of them together.
•Optionally, depending on your flavor of Mad Scientist, you may find a wall generously populated with chains and manacles (just to make sure the experimental subjects stay handy and don't wander away) and a big worn chalkboard filled with equations.
•Dusty piles of incomprehensible failed experiments, which may or may not suddenly become a danger to anyone wandering around unsupervised.
•May be in the dungeon of the Haunted Castle, or on an isolated tropical island.
•Big levers or control panels (that may or may not explode).