To exist within the world is to exist within time. Only death may sever that.
Madness string 49772
Rather than any attempt at temptation and corruption, Mark Rein Hagen opted to punish characters with schizophrenia for stealing candy bars. Because that's what I think of when I hear gothic horror.
And into the darkness we go. Step off the precipice, cross the threshold, uncover the mystery and lose it forever.