Editing Timeline (section)

===2011===
*January
**[[Locker Incident|Taylor Hebert triggers]].<ref>“And for most of November and the two weeks of classes before Christmas break, nothing.  They were leaving me alone.  I was able to relax.”<br><br>I sighed, “That ended the day I came back from the winter break.  I knew, instinctually, that they were playing me, that they were waiting before they pulled their next stunt, so it had more impact.  I didn’t think they’d be so patient about it.  I went to my locker, and well, they’d obviously raided the bins from the girls bathrooms or something, because they’d piled used pads and tampons into my locker.  Almost filled it.”<br>[...]<br>“I panicked, freaked out.  My mind went someplace else, and it found the bugs there.  Not that I knew what they were, at that point.  I didn’t have a sense of proportion, and with all the info my power was giving me then, my brain didn’t know how to process it all.  As far as I knew, all around me, in the walls of the school, in the corners, and crawling around the filthy interior of the locker, there were thousands of these twitchy, alien, distorted things that were each shoving every tiny detail about their bodies and their fucked up biology into my head. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/01 Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.3]]</ref>
**[[Dinah Alcott]] triggers <small>(Speculative, could happen in late 2010)</small>. <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%"><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>In the months before April 14, 2011, Dinah had several incidents where she missed classes because of crippling headaches.<ref name="12.2">Thursday, April fourteenth of this year, Dinah Alcott was kidnapped from her home and has not been seen since. Dinah had missed several weeks of classes with crippling headaches in the months before her disappearance. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/30 Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.2]]</ref> At one point, Wildbow thought about including a prologue where Dinah visits a nonresponsive Taylor at the hospital, which implies she triggered before or around the same time as Taylor.<ref>More like, little girl in the hospital with bad headaches, checks a piece of paper she's holding, then ducks out.  Sneaks away to a wing of the hospital and checks on where hospital staff are talking outside a room with a superhero.  They leave, she enters, and she tries talking to the nonresponsive girl in the bed.<br>Realizes she isn't being heard and promises to talk to her again... which doesn't end up happening because kidnapping. - Comment by Wildbow on Cauldron Discord</ref><!-- https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/203890819093102592/663940665888997377/unknown.png --></small></div>
**Taylor spends a week in the hospital under psychiatric observation.<ref>This wasn’t the first time I’d needed to psych myself up to going to school.  Deceive myself into going and staying.  The worst days had been back in my first year at high school, when the wounds of Emma’s betrayal were still fresh and I wasn’t yet experienced enough to anticipate the variety of things they could come up with.  Back then, it had been terrifying, because I hadn’t yet known what to expect, didn’t know where, when or if they would draw the line.  It had been hard, too, to go back in January.  I’d spent a week in the hospital under psychiatric observation, and I’d known that everyone else had heard the story. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/09 Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.1]]</ref> PRT pays a visit to Taylor, following crisis points procedure, but finds her near catatonic.<ref>Wildbow<br>Generally the PRT will pay visits to likely triggerees - special cases, victims of extraordinary violence or disaster, etc. They paid a visit to Taylor in her hospital room, for example, though nothing came of that.<br><br>[Edit with afterthought: Crisis points, ftr]<br><br>Discreet<br>If she did get visited by a hero, I'd find it odd that she'd never mention it, especially when at one point or another she's fighting them later in the story or stuffing centipedes in their mouth<br><br>Wildbow<br>Taylor was near catatonic when she got a visit. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44301909/ Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles]</ref>
**At the very end of the month Taylor returns to school.<ref>“No, I’m almost positive.  You were that girl that got shoved in that rank locker with all that stuff they carted away in biohazard bags.  The girl who went so mental they had to have a group of cops and paramedics haul you away for the first month of the semester.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/02 Excerpt] from [[Infestation 11.5]]</ref>
*February
**Taylor starts running every morning after Sophia goaded some boys into trying to catch her.<ref>My training regimen had me running every morning, and alternating between more running and doing other exercises in the afternoons, depending on which day of the week it was.  The primary goal was to build my stamina.  In February, Sophia had goaded some boys into trying to catch me, I think the goal had been to duct tape me to a telephone pole.  I had escaped, helped mostly by the fact that the boys hadn’t really cared enough to run after me, but I found myself winded after having run just a block.  It had been a wake-up call that came about just when I was starting to think about going out in costume.  Not long after, I had started training.  After a few starts and stops, I had settled into a routine. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/09 Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.1]]</ref>
*Thursday, February 24th
**The Simurgh attacks [[Wikipedia:Canberra|Canberra]], [[Australia]]. Scion doesn’t show up, but Eidolon and Legend defeat her.<ref>'''Canberra''', Feb 24th, 2011 // Simurgh<br>''Notes'':  Scion no-show.  Legend/Eidolon victory.<br>Target/Consequence: See file <u>'''Polisher Treatise'''</u>.  See file <u>'''Lord Walston'''</u> and file <u>'''King’s Men'''</u>. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> Canberra quarantined.<ref>Secondary focuses.  Not the kind of targets that Dragon checked on with any regularity.  Quarantine areas were silent and still.  Canberra was sealed off under a dome, Madison was surrounded by walls. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/25 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26.x]]</ref>
*March
**Undersiders hit the [[Ruby Dreams]] casino.<ref>“The Undersiders.  They’ve flown under the radar so far, but more recently, they’ve started pulling higher profile jobs.  They hit the Ruby Dreams casino five weeks ago, and now they just robbed the biggest bank in Brockton Bay.  This time we were lucky enough to get in their way.  That means we finally have intel on their group.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3]]</ref>
**[[Browbeat]] triggers.<ref>A few weeks after the diagnosis, he was on a boat with a friend's family and walked off the side, into march-temperature water. To this day, he maintains that he wasn't suicidal, that the pressure from all directions wasn't a factor - that he just felt that impulse you sometimes have when you wonder "What would happen if..." and followed through. In doing so, he [suffered major physical trauma, nearly dying, and ultimately] triggered. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14723063/ Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>
**[[Palanquin|Faultline's crew]] went to [[Philadelphia]] and fought [[Chevalier]] and [[Myrddin]], in addition, they had another job involving [[Toybox]].<ref>His brusque answer only stalled the conversation for a moment before Newter got it going again, “Okay, bro, tell these girls who we went up against last month.”<br><br>“The toybox job?” Gregor asked, “With the Tinker black market?  There was nobody-”<br><br>“The other one.  The job in Philadelphia.”<br><br>“Ah.  Chevalier and Myrddin.”<br><br>Newter clapped his hands together, rocking back in his seat, “Told you!”<br><br>“And you beat them,” the dark haired girl said, disbelieving.<br><br>“We didn’t lose!” Newter crowed. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/interlude-5/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5]]</ref>
*Wednesday, March 23rd
**Lung recruits [[Bakuda]].<ref>'''March 23rd, 2011'''<br>[...]<br>“And the fact that you, a halfbreed, recruited me, a halfbreed, and built a gang of a bajillion different races, it’s totally not a freudian thing, tying back to some childhood issues.”<br><br>“No,” Lung growled. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref>
*April
**Browbeat joins Brockton Bay Wards.<ref>“We crossed paths with him once, Regent and Bitch beat him. Either he’s here for revenge or he’s joined the Wards very, very recently. My power’s suggesting it’s the latter.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/03 Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.8]]</ref><ref>“So, not exactly the best start to your new career, huh?” Clockblocker turned to Browbeat. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3]]</ref>
*Friday, April 8th
**Taylor decides to accelerate her plans for becoming a superhero due to bullying.<ref>Gestation 1.1 is april 8th, 2011. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/interlude-3-2/#comment-11509 Wildbow’s comment] on [[Interlude 3]]</ref>
*April 10th-11th
**Taylor finishes her costume and heads out. She finds group of gangsters from the [[Azn Bad Boys]], as well as their boss, Lung, and [[Taylor vs Lung|attacks]] them.<ref>“April tenth, criminal negligence with a parahuman ability, sixteen charges of assault, sixteen charges of battery with a parahuman ability.”<br><br>I tried to think.  April tenth?  Early in my career?<br><br>“Lung,” I said, “I attacked him and his gang.  They’re seriously charging me for attacking Lung’s henchmen?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref><ref>I had dyed and painted the costume on Friday, bought temporary costume pieces (belt, the straps for the mask and the lenses) on Saturday and finished the most necessary details over the course of my Sunday afternoon before heading out for the evening.<br>[...]<br>It was just after midnight, and I was crossing the line between one of the nicest parts of town and the part of town where the crack whores and gangsters lived. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/18 Excerpt] from [[Gestation 1.3]]</ref>
*Monday, April 11th
**Taylor joins the [[Undersiders]].<ref>I had gotten home, snuck inside and gone to bed at close to three thirty, just three hours ago. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/07/05 Excerpt] from [[Insinuation 2.1]]</ref>
**Bakuda starts recruiting civilians,<ref>“They’re scared, not loyal,” Tattletale spoke, not as out of breath as Regent, but still definitely feeling the effect of the last few minutes of running and climbing, “She’s forcing them to serve as her soldiers.  Threatening them or their families, probably.”<br><br>“Then she’s been working on that for some time,” Grue said.<br><br>“Since Lung got arrested,” Tattletale confirmed, “Where the fuck do we go?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/15 Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.7]]</ref> sticking bombs inside their heads.<ref>“How’d you do it?  You stuck bombs in these civilians to get them to work for you?”<br><br>“Everyone,” Bakuda answered, almost delirious on the high of her successful ‘experiment’ and Regent’s attention.  She half skipped, half spun through the crowd and leaned against one of her thugs, patting his cheek, “Even my most loyal.  Bitch of a thing to do.  Not the actual procedure of sticking the things inside their heads.  After the first twenty, I could do the surgeries with my eyes closed.  Literally.  I actually did a few that way.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/18 Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.8]]</ref>
*Tuesday, April 12th
**The bank robbery is planned.<ref>Tuesday morning found me running again, first thing. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/09 Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.1]]</ref>
*Wednesday, April 13th
**Taylor fails to negotiate with Armsmaster.<ref>Brian had given me three identical cell phones – all disposables – first thing in the morning, and I’d decided to go with him to the loft rather than head to school. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/20 Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.4]]</ref>
*Thursday, April 14th
**The [[Battle at the Bank|bank robbery]] occurs.<ref>“Okay.  Let’s run down the list.  April fourteenth.  Thirty two charges of willful felony assault with a parahuman ability.  Thirty two charges of hostage taking, technically domestic terrorism, each perpetrated with a parahuman ability.  Robbery with a parahuman ability.  Willful damage to government property.  Disturbing the peace.”<br><br>“The bank robbery.  I didn’t damage any property.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
**Dinah Alcott kidnapped.<ref name="12.2"/>
*Friday, April 15th
**The Undersiders fight Bakuda.<ref>As much as I didn’t want the money,  I was technically twenty five thousand dollars richer than I had been thirty six hours ago. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/24 Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.1]]</ref>
**Bakuda’s bombing starts. Using bombing as a distraction, [[Oni Lee]] releases Lung.<ref>“I’ll give you the cliff notes.  Just before she started to come after us in the Jeep, Bakuda gave the order to put another plan into action.  Bombs started going off all over the city.  Blowing up transformers to deny power to entire districts, a school, a bridge, train tracks… the list goes on.  People are freaking out.  Front page news, it’s on every channel.  They’re saying at least twenty people confirmed dead so far, with other bodies yet to be identified, and that’s not counting the four people she blew up when she was holding us at gunpoint.”<br><br>A vivid image of what had happened to Park Jihoo flashed through my mind’s eye.  He died.  He’s really dead.  I never knew him, but he’s gone forever, and I couldn’t do anything to save him.<br><br>“Here’s the second bit of bad news.  All of that?  It was one overblown distraction.  Something to keep every cape in the city busy, while Oni Lee sprung Lung from the PHQ.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/29 Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.11]]</ref>
*(Between April 14th and April 22nd) The Travelers hired by Coil.<ref>“He just got someone working for him, and this person can see the future.  And she says there is a way to help you.  Definitely.  Chances are low, but he says he’s confident he can maximize them.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/15 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.8]]</ref><ref>“I’ll be taking a chair, I think,” someone spoke from the door.  Most heads turned to check out a male figure in a black costume with a red mask and tophat.  It gave me sort of a Baron Samedi vibe.  His teammates followed him into the room, all in matching costumes of red and black, differing only in design.  A girl with a sun motif, a guy with bulky armor and a square mask, and a creature so large it had to crawl on its hands and knees to get through the door.  It was hard to describe, approximating something like a four armed hairless gorilla, with a vest, mask and leggings in the red and black style its team was wearing, six-inch claws tipping each of its fingers and toes.<br><br>“The Travelers, yes?” Coil spoke, his voice smooth, “You’re not local.”<br><br>“You could call us nomadic.  What was happening here was too interesting to pass up, so I decided we’d stop by for a visit.” The guy with the top hat pulled off the first really formal bow I’d seen in my life. “I go by Trickster.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/05 Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.1]]</ref>
*(Between April 15th and April 22nd) Bitch attacks dog fighting ring.<ref>“I have a hard time believing that, to be honest.  You were in pretty rough shape when I found you with Über and Leet’s henchmen, and those guys from the ABB.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/01 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 4]]</ref><ref>“Don’t fucking care,” Hookwolf growled, “You attacked my business.  Set your fucking dog on my customers.  Lucky I wasn’t there, whore.”<br><br>Grue gave Bitch a long look, then he spoke to Hookwolf, “That’s the kind of risk you run, doing business in Brockton Bay.  Capes can and will get in your way, hero or villain.”<br><br>Hookwolf glared at him, “It’s a matter of respect.  You want to fuck with my business, and we’re not at war?  You let me know if you’ve got an issue, first.  Let me decide if I want to move shop.”<br><br>“You mean give you a warning I’m coming,” Bitch spat the words, “That’s the dumbest fucking thing I ever heard.  Just so you know, moving to a different neighborhood won’t be good enough.  You open up another dogfighting ring, I’ll be visiting that one too.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.2]]</ref>
*Saturday, April 23rd
**Brockton Bay supervillains meet at Somer's Rock and make an alliance against Azn Bad Boys.<ref>It had been a week since the incident with Bakuda. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/05 Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.1]]</ref><ref>Maybe I was reading too much into things after seeing an eerie echo of this situation just two days ago, with the meeting of villains, but I noted that Mr. Gladly sat next to Madison’s dad, and the chair next to my dad was left empty. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/15 Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.4]]</ref>
*Sunday, April 24th
**Taylor smacks Emma at the mall.<ref>“Right.  April twenty-fourth?  One case of battery.”<br><br>“I don’t remember that.”<br><br>“An… Emma Barnes.  She appeared-” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
*Monday, April 25th
**School meeting and first raid on ABB occur.<ref>If you recall, your daughter assaulted and battered Emma just last night. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/ Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.4]]</ref>
*(Between late April and early May) Cherish joins the Nine.<ref>“Mantis,” I said, voicing the password,  “Don’t respond to her.  It’s what she wants.  Take out Cherish ASAP, if she’s here, Screamer after that.”<br><br>“''I’m hurt.  I rate second after the new girl who barely lasted a month?''“ - [[Sting 26.2]]</ref>
*Thursday, May 5th
**The Undersiders [[Battle at the Gallery|attack a PRT fundraiser]]. They escape pursuit with the aid of Coil, who reveals himself as their current employer and pitches them for the longer term. <ref>“Moving on, then.  Incidents taking place at the… [[Forsberg Gallery]], May fifth.  Five cases of assaulting a law enforcement officer.  Five cases of battering a law enforcement officer, three performed with a parahuman ability.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
*Friday, May 6th (ish)
**[[Empire Eighty-Eight]]'s civilian identities are revealed to the public by [[Coil]].<ref>"“Undersiders,” Coil spoke, “You’ve recuperated this past week?” " and similar statements from discussion in [[Buzz 7.11]]</ref>
*Sunday, May 15th
**[[Leviathan]] attacks [[Battle against Leviathan|Brockton Bay]].<ref>'''Brockton Bay''', May 15th, 2011 // Leviathan<br>Notes:  Scion victory.<br>Target/Consequence: Noelle?  See file <u>'''Echidna'''</u>.  No contact made. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>
*Friday, May 27th (ish)
**Taylor talks to Lisa about her future. <ref>Even with the memorial being out of the way, set down in place five days after the attack, it had taken a full week before the worst of the crowds were gone.  Four times, I’d felt compelled to come see it and pay my respects, only to see the press of people and turn back.Now I was here, along with a little less than a hundred people - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/extermination-8-8/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.8]] </ref>
*Wednesday, June 1st
**The Slaughterhouse Nine are in Brockton Bay. Cherish starts to create profiles on potential candidates for the Nine (i.e., a week before she visits her brother).<ref>She’d studied each of these unknown outliers over the course of a week, watching their emotions shift as they went out about their lives, sometimes visiting the areas they tended to hang around, to get a sense of their environments.  Slowly, she’d pieced them together, created profiles, discerned which ones had powers and described them to the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine.  Each had made their picks:<br><br>The buried girl.  The arrogant geek.  The dog lover.  The daydreamer.  The warlord.  The scaredy cat.  The broken assassin.  The crusader. - [[Interlude 11g]]</ref>
**Taylor rejoins the Undersiders.<ref>'''3 Days Ago'''<br>[...]<br>I drew in a deep breath, then sighed, “And I’d like to be back on the team if you’ll have me. Please.” - [[Parasite 10.2]]</ref>
*Thursday, June 2nd
**Assault catches Chariot and brings him into custody.<ref name="9.4 eChariotRecruit">“Special duty, tonight,” Weld smiled, “You’re recruiting.”<br><br>“Recruiting?”<br><br>“There’s a kid calling himself Chariot.  Been racing around the city with a powered suit that lets him move a hundred miles an hour.  Assault finally caught up with him last night, brought him into custody.  Wound up calling the kid’s mom, got him to agree to talk to our recruiter.  You.  You’ll be meeting the kid in his home.”<br><br>“Why me?”<br><br>“Shared interests.  You’re both tinkers.  You have the best idea of how he thinks.” - [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref>
**For the first time since Leviathan, Flechette meets Parian during a patrol.<ref>“Now, onto a more serious topic.  I’m seeing that this team is really disorganized, these days.  I have no problem handling the brunt of the paperwork, it gives me a degree of insight into what’s going on that the files don’t.  I don’t even mind cleaning up the kitchen and showers here when the janitors are off duty.  But we really need to ''communicate''.  Last night Flechette went on patrol and ran into a situation with Parian she should have been briefed on.  It could have turned hostile.” - [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref><ref>“I’m staying back,” Flechette assured the girl.  “Remember me?”<br><br>“Yes.  You talked to me before the fight, pulled me away from that horrible little girl.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Flechette smiled, shrugging.  She stepped forward.<br><br>“Back!”  Parian called out.  The Gorilla slammed its knuckles against the ground again, then lurched forward, one fist raising as if to deliver a massive punch. - [[Sentinel 9.2]]</ref>
*Friday, June 3rd
**The Wards and the Travelers fight.<ref>A wind blew past them, and Kid Win blinked as a fat droplet of water spattered against his visor.  It was starting to drizzle.  He glanced up at the corpses where they hung on the walls of the building.<br><br>“The water’s going to wash away the evidence if you don’t let us go and hurry to check on the bodies,” Trickster spoke.<br><br>“Crime scene techs can’t get here in time with the roads like they are,” Weld spoke.  “And we’re not allowed to touch the evidence anyways.  Rules.” - [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref> The Wards and presumably the Protectorate suspect the Nine are in Brockton Bay because of the clue of three crime scenes with three bodies each.<ref>“Three crime scenes with three bodies each.  So it’d be nine bodies?” Clockblocker asked, “Each killed in some different way?  I don’t see what killer that would fit with.”<br><br>“Not one killer,” Kid Win answered, “Nine bodies, each for different killers.”<br><br>“The Slaughterhouse Nine,” Clockblocker leaned back in his seat, groaning, “Fuck, that’d be all we needed.”<br><br>“Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve arrived at a location in the wake of an Endbringer event,” Flechette pointed out.<br><br>“Maybe it’s them,” Weld conceded, “And ''maybe'' the Protectorate figured that much out, with the clues they have from the other two scenes.  It could be someone or something else.  Either way, it’s not our case, not even in our league, and we should stay as hands off as we can manage.  We need to talk about patrols and tonight’s duties.” - [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref>
**Flechette and Vista patrol for the first time together.<ref>“Vista’s due for a patrol, and as a young member, she has to go with someone.  Lily?”<br><br>Flechette smiled a little, “Quick to make me pay for the snark, huh?  No, it’s cool, I’ve been wanting a chance to shoot the shit with Vista.”  She extended her fist, with index finger and thumb extended to form a gun, mock fired it at her junior teammate.  Vista rolled her eyes. - [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref>
**Kid Win meets Chariot<ref name="9.4 eChariotRecruit" /> at around 9 pm.<ref>''It’s nine o’clock at night.  Don’t these kids have a bedtime?''' - [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref>
**Former E88 capes attack a convoy of food trucks; the Undersiders use the opportunity to [[Sentinel 9.6|kidnap Shadow Stalker]].<ref name="22.2 eJuneThird">“Skipping ahead a month to June third, we’ve got… complicity towards one count of kidnapping using a parahuman ability.  This was-”<br><br>“[[Sophia Hess]].” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
*Saturday, June 4th
**Undersiders [[Parasite|attack the PRT building]], fight the [[Dragonflight]]. A Dragon suit is destroyed at 4:45 AM.<ref name="10.5 e1">Signal terminated for 30 minutes and 5 seconds.  Restoring core system from backup NXDX-203 from time 4:45am on date June 4th of year 2011.<br>[...]<br>To Dragon, it was as if no time had passed from the moment she deployed the Cawthorne rapid response unit and the moment she found herself back in her laboratory. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17 Excerpt]  from [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref>
**Dinah reveals to Coil and the Undersiders that Jack Slash will [[End of the World|end the world]].
*Sunday, June 5th
** The Undersiders claim their territories. <ref>“June ''fifth''.  Treason.”<br><br>“Treason.”<br><br>“That would be, in effect, declaring war against the government of the United States of America.”<br><br>“That’s not what I did.”<br><br>“It’s what they’re going to say you did when you took over the territory.  I’d expect they already have strong arguments lined up on that front. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
*Tuesday, June 7th
**The Slaughterhouse Nine begin recruiting in Brockton Bay. Jack Slash nominates Oni Lee but bets on the wrong individual.<ref>“Yes.  See, my compatriots are all busy with a task, tonight, you understand.  I bet on the wrong horse.  Come.”  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11b]]</ref> Near sunset, he visits Purity's apartment.<ref>“How long until your mother gets back?”<br><br>That was something else.  That was the third time Jack had asked the question.  Was his captor’s patience running out?<br><br>“She’s not my mother,” Theo changed the topic.  He dropped Aster’s dirty diaper into the bin.<br><br>Jack walked up to Theo, until he was just behind the boy, his shadow cast long by the setting sun, stretching over Theo and the changing table.  Theo could feel the tension ratcheting up.  “I’m going to get upset if you lie to me.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11b]]</ref> He makes a deal with Theo and leaves with Oni Lee's body.<ref>“Well,” Jack spoke, smiling.  “I’ll be off.”<br><br>He stepped into the bathroom, turning away from the door for the second time in his entire ‘visit’.  When he emerged from the bathroom, he held the naked form of Oni Lee over one shoulder, a knife in his free hand.<br><br>“A treat for a teammate, this is,” Jack winked.  “Doesn’t need to be alive.  Just fresh.  Would you get the door, Theo?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11b]]</ref>
**At sunset, Shatterbird nominates Hookwolf.<ref>He strode across the room to the windows and gazed out at the city block surrounding the home base of the Chosen.  Glass was still raining down from the sky, glimmering in the orange-purple light of the setting sun.  Every window in view was broken, empty of glass.  Car windshields, streetlights and signs had all been affected, and the surrounding surfaces of wood, metal and fiberglass all bore the scuffs and gouges of the fragile shrapnel. - [[Interlude 11e]]</ref><ref name="12.1 eVisits" />
**At night,<ref>As casually as he was able, he glanced towards the window.  Tinted glass, bulletproof, and reinforced with a low degree forcefield.  It would be easier for someone else to go through the wall than the window, but he couldn’t see through walls.  Nothing outdoors.  Just an overcast sky hiding the majority of the moon, and a faint drizzle of rain.  No person or animal, nothing else.<br><br>Clink. - [[Interlude 11d]]</ref> Mannequin visits the downtown PRT office and nominates Armsmaster.<ref name="12.1 eVisits">“Regent got a visit from one of the Slaughterhouse Nine last night.  So did Coil, though the man is quiet on details.  Coil’s also reporting that Hookwolf got a visit on Tuesday, and one of Coil’s undercover operatives died in the ensuing carnage.  The PRT office downtown ''also'' got hit, according to Tattletale…”<br><br>“They’re active.”<br><br>“Yeah.  More to the point, they’re ''recruiting''.  Looking for a ninth to round out their group.  Regent was one candidate.”<br><br>“Who was the other, at Coil’s?”<br><br>“Coil isn’t saying.  We think, with Tattletale’s educated guess helping us out, that Hookwolf might have been another possible recruit.” - [[Plague 12.1]]</ref><ref>Remember eight people were nicknamed (not all necessarily prospective recruits), and Cherish counted Regent as a ninth (but not nicknamed)? The Crusader was Purity, who Jack Slash wanted to find (after the thing with Oni Lee fell through) before he could play his little game with her (going after Aster).<br><br>Taylor & Grue assume Shadow Stalker because she’s the person they’re most familiar with in that context, but the attack on the PRT office was Mannequin going after Armsmaster. They just don’t have all the info there.<br><br>Hope that clears things up. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/plague-12-1/#comment-2709 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Plague 12.1]]</ref>
*Wednesday, June 8th<ref>''Then her sister spends at least a week refusing to heal their mentally damaged father''.<br><br>Three weeks and three days. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/interlude-13/#comment-3947 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Interlude 13]]</ref><ref>Now she had to focus on his brain.  The needle had drawn ragged cuts through the arachnid layer, had injected droplets of acid into the frontal lobes.  More damage, in addition to what Leviathan had inflicted with the head wound, and it was swiftly spreading. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref>
**Bonesaw takes four hours to create [[Hack Job]].<ref>“And Oni Lee?” Amy was almost afraid to ask.<br><br>“Oh, I barely touched his brain.  He suffered some moderate brain damage from his close brush with death, but I revived him.  His brain’s more or less intact, even.  He can’t control his body, but he’s alert and aware, and he feels everything Hatchet does,” Bonesaw smiled wider.<br><br>“That’s horrifying.”<br><br>“It’s not a perfect mesh.  I only just started doing these mash-ups.  Still practicing.  Hatchet’s power isn’t working as well anymore, and I’m worried about physical wear and tear as they teleport, but it’s still one of my better works.  Took me four whole hours.”  Bonesaw clasped her hands in front of her, shifting her weight from foot to foot, waiting expectantly. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref>
**In the evening,<ref name="11.a eEvening" /> Glory Girl and Brandish investigate the howling of Rachel's dogs near the Trainyard.<ref>“There’s word about some strange howling near the Trainyard.  Glory Girl and I are going on a patrol to check on it.”<br><br>Amy nodded. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Bonesaw visits the Dallon household and nominates Amy.<ref>“Yes, team!  I want you to be my teammate!”  Bonesaw was almost gushing.<br><br>“I don’t-” Amy stopped herself, “Why?”<br><br>“Because I always wanted a big sister,” Bonesaw replied, as if that was answer enough. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Amy breaks her rule and heals Mark;<ref>“Pretty self-explanatory.  One of the Nine came, house got trashed, I healed Mark.”<br><br>“Why?  Why heal dad now, when you couldn’t before?”<br><br>“I only did it because I had to.” - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> he then puts down [[Murder Rat]].<ref>“Rest in peace, Mouse Protector,” he said.  He placed the orb of light in the gap where two claws crossed one another, just over her heart, then stepped away.<br><br>There was a small explosion and a spray of blood. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref>
**Siberian nominates Rachel.<ref name="11.a eEvening">Bentley and the rest of her pack drew towards the source of the howling.  Sirius stood outside an apartment block, filling the evening with that mournful, haunting sound that carried through the air.<br>[...]<br>A woman stood over the man’s mangled body, her long hair blowing slightly in the wind.  Which seemed wrong.  With the light rain, her hair should have been wetter.<br><br>Glory Girl looked over her shoulder to see the dogs, looked back to the injured man and the woman, and then flew straight up, disappearing into the gloom of the night sky.  She’d left him behind. - [[Interlude 11a]]</ref> Sometime after the 6 PM<ref>“Attention shoppers.  Please be informed that stores will be closing at five-thirty this evening, in cooperation with the city-wide curfew.  Make sure to cooperate with authorities at the entrances and exits of the Weymouth shopping center, and return to your homes by six o’clock.  Thank you.” - [[Hive 5.3]]</ref> curfew, Victoria searches for and finds her sister who ran away from home.<ref>She wouldn’t be coming back.<br><br>Amy opened her bedroom window and climbed out, pulling the bag out behind her.<br><br>It would be better this way.  Maybe, after weeks or months, she could stop worrying, stop waiting for the other shoe to drop, for everything to fall apart in the worst way.  She’d already had to face finding out about Marquis.  She’d taken a life.  She’d broken one of her cardinal rules.  She wasn’t sure she could take any more.<br><br>She just had to get away.<br><br>■<br><br>Amy cursed the curfew as she saw the figure in the air above her.  When people weren’t allowed out on the streets after dark, it made those few who ''did'' venture out that much more visible.  Not what she’d wanted, not when she was trying to avoid this exact conversation. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Amy modifies her sister's mind;<ref>Like a flame at the end of a long fuse, leading to a stick of dynamite, her power traveled from the side of Victoria’s neck to her brain.  It was barely a conscious action on Amy’s part.<br><br>Victoria let go of her, pushed her away.  “What did you just do?”<br>[...]<br>“I- I tried to keep things normal between us.  To act like your sister, keep it all bottled in.  It’s just tonight was such a nightmare, and I’m so scared, and so tired, and so desperate.  Bonesaw forced me to ignore all the rules I was imposing on myself.  All the rules I was using and following so I wouldn’t do anything stupid or impulsive.”<br><br>“Anything stupid.  Like what?  What did you do?”<br><br>Amy’s voice was a croak as she replied, “…make it so you would reciprocate my feelings.” - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Victoria flies away in disgust.<ref>“I can find someone else to fix it.  Or maybe, at the very least, I can show some ''fucking'' self-control and realize it’s my ''sister'' I’m having those feelings about.”<br><br>“You can’t.  I- Oh fuck.  You’re underestimating what I did.  Please.  If you never ever give me anything else, if you never talk to me or look at me again, just let me fix this.”<br><br>Victoria shook her head slowly, then scoffed.  “Good job, Amy.  You just did an ''excellent'' job of taking every instance of me defending you, every instance of my giving you the benefit of a doubt, and proving me fucking wrong.  You were worried about being as fucked up as your dad?  Congratulations, I’m pretty ''goddamn'' sure you just ''surpassed'' the man.”<br><br>With that said, Victoria was gone, flying into the distance. - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref>
**At around 9 PM (i.e., three hours after curfew),<ref>A teenager with a red streak dyed into her dark hair strode down the street in rubber boots.  Three hours past curfew, alone.<br>[...]<br>And all ''she'' wanted was a few minutes to pay a visit to hers.  She didn’t have to name ''that'' one.  He was familiar enough.  She smiled. - [[Interlude 11g]]</ref> Burnscar visits Labyrinth<ref>After a few minutes, he climbed into the driver’s seat.  “The men who were supposed to take over the watch are late.  Something about fires downtown.” - [[Interlude 11g]]</ref><ref>“They’d ''find'' me.  You don’t even know what these guys are capable of.  Our newest member, she replaced Hatchet Face, though he’s still around… kind of.  She can ''find'' people.  There’s no place secure enough to keep me safe until they took me to the Birdcage.  I almost think they’d be able to get me in there, if they wanted to.  Siberian?  She’d be able to get me.   Even in the Birdcage.  She ''always'' gets her prey.” - [[Interlude 11c]]</ref> and Cherish nominates her brother.<ref name="12.1 eVisits" />
**At night, Crawler attempts to meet Echidna but is unsuccessful.<ref name="12.1 eVisits" />
*Thursday, June 9th<ref name="12.1 eVisits" />
**At night, the Brockton Bay capes meet on neutral ground to discuss fighting against the Nine.<ref>“When is the meeting?”<br><br>“With a situation this critical?  There’s no time to waste.  Tonight.” - [[Plague 12.1]]</ref><ref>“Enough of that,” Hookwolf snarled, his voice hard with a sudden anger.  “We don’t fight amongst ourselves.  Not on neutral ground.  Both of you shut the fuck up.”<br><br>Faultline shook her head and leaned over to whisper something to Shamrock.  The Merchants settled themselves on the side of the roof opposite our group.  Skidmark gave Grue the evil eye.  Was he still resentful over what had happened at the last meeting?  Being denied a seat at the table?<br><br>Another series of flashes served to alert us, indirectly, of incoming arrivals.  The Travelers appeared soon after.  Trickster, Sundancer, Ballistic each stood on the back of some kind of turtle serpent.  I couldn’t make out Genesis’s form in the gloom.  What little light was available came from the moon and Purity’s radiance from where she floated above us.  I could have used my bugs to get a feel for the shape Genesis had taken, but my habit was generally to place my bugs on clothing where they wouldn’t be noticed, and Genesis was effectively naked.  I didn’t know anything about them, but they were our allies.  I didn’t want to irritate her and upset anything between our two groups. - [[Plague 12.2]]</ref>
**Just before midnight,<ref name="12.4 eWarnings" /> Jack, the Siberian, Bonesaw, and Cherish meet the Undersiders, Sundancer, and Ballistic at a parking garage.<ref>Trickster turned to his teammates, “Mind giving Noelle and me a minute to talk?”  Sundancer and Ballistic stood.<br><br>Joined by the two Travelers, we made our way up the disguised ladder to the second sub-level of the parking garage.<br>[...]<br>Four of the Slaughterhouse Nine were stepping through the entrance of the parking garage.  The Siberian was in the lead, her waist-length hair blowing in the wind from outside, her eyes practically glowing in the gloom.  Behind her, Jack Slash held Bonesaw’s hand as the young girl skipped to make it so she only walked on the yellow lines that divided the lanes.  They were accompanied by a young woman who might’ve been eighteen or so years old, who bore a striking resemblance to Alec.  Cherish. - [[Plague 12.3]]</ref>
*Friday, June 10th
**Jack elaborates more about their tests to Regent and Bitch,<ref>“Here is what you need to know, Regent, Bitch.  Each of the Nine’s members get to put our recruits up to a test.  Some of us always give the same test, time after time, no matter the candidate.  Mannequin always asks candidates to alter themselves in a way that costs them something.  Siberian waits until half the candidates have been discarded and then hunts the remainder.”<br><br>“I hope she doesn’t catch you,” Bonesaw sounded disturbingly earnest as she spoke, “There’s no meat left for me to work with after she’s done.”<br><br>“As for me,” Jack said, “I tend to go last, when all the others have offered their tests and only one or two are left.  I like to mix things up, and unlike our dear Bonesaw, I have no interest in playing fair.”<br><br>“And if we fail?” Regent asked, “We die?”<br><br>“No, no,” Jack smiled.  “Nobody passes ''every'' test, and the punishment for failing a test is up to the individual who assigned it.  Sometimes death, yes.  Sometimes something different.  But it’s always ''worse''.” - [[Plague 12.4]]</ref> and gives them some warnings.<ref name="12.4 eWarnings">“Alright.  Well, it wouldn’t do if our candidates died before we even got around to the tests, so I came to offer you two a warning.  Two warnings, as it happens, for each of you.”<br>[...]<br>“Two of the candidates we chose are heroes, for lack of a better word, and Cherish reported that we may have trouble bringing them in close enough to introduce them to the tests.  Our dear Bonesaw has devised an ''incentive'' to encourage their cooperation.”<br><br>Bonesaw reached into her pocket and withdrew a small vial.<br>[...]<br>“And the second warning?” I asked.  I wanted him to finish.<br><br>“In…” Jack pulled out a pocket watch on a chain. “T-minus thirty-four minutes, Shatterbird is going to sing loud enough for much of the city to hear her.  She wants to make it known to everyone in Brockton Bay that we’re here, and since there’s no need to maintain surprise with our potential members, I said she should.  With this in mind, you would be well advised to stay away from anything made of glass or any beaches, and be sure to put away anything in your pockets with a screen.” - [[Plague 12.4]]</ref> Tattletale tattles on Cherish's plan to manipulate the Nine.<ref>I could see Cherish’s expression change from anger and irritation to wide-eyed horror.<br><br>Jack pinched the bridge of his nose, looking down, and I could just barely hear him mutter the word, “Disappointing.”<br><br>“It was probably her plan from the start,” Tattletale said.  “She-”<br><br>All at once, Tattletale stopped talking, and I was blind.  In that same instant, something slapped against the fabric of my mask.  Wet.  I could taste it against the fabric of my mask.  Salty-sweet, with a faint metallic taste. - [[Plague 12.4]]</ref>
**Before the Nine leave, Tattletale proposes a new challenge. Jack decides to discuss it with the rest of his group before they give out their terms of engagement.<ref>“Help her find the paper,” I said.  Jack and his team had wrapped up and were walking away.<br>[...]<br>“I don’t see what ''we'' get out of it.”<br><br>Tattletale had dropped the pen.  It was up to me to pick up the slack.<br><br>“It’s a challenge.  A game.  Changing the routine.  We can do whatever we need to, to keep as many candidates alive as we can.  You guys… do what you do.  It keeps things interesting.”  My eyes fell on Bonesaw, “And maybe it keeps things fair?”<br><br>Seconds passed.  I felt the tension ratcheting up another notch with each beat of my heart.  Every moment that passed was one step closer to Tattletale bleeding out or to Shatterbird using her power.<br><br>“I like that.  It might be a way to fix the test I want to give.  Let’s do it,” Bonesaw said, looking up at Jack.<br><br>He frowned.  “We’ll discuss it as a group.  I suspect we’ll have terms of our own to attach to this game.  Among other things, a steep penalty for when ''we'' win.”<br><br>And then he turned to leave. - [[Plague 12.4]]</ref>
**At 12:40 AM, Shatterbird announces the Nine's arrival by hitting Brockton Bay with her power.<ref>I managed to squeeze between the edge of the second fence and the neighboring building.  My phone showed the time as 12:33 at night.  I had seven minutes.  Something as ''stupid'' as fences had cost me so much time.<br>[...]<br>I held my phone in one hand, sneaking glances as I made my way from one block to the next.  The six-minute mark came all too fast.  The clock on my cell phone ticked to 12:36.  Four minutes left.  Three.<br><br>Then I couldn’t look anymore. I threw it aside, trusting my bugs to nudge it into a storm drain where it wouldn’t be found.  The time wasn’t exact; I couldn’t be sure ''exactly'' how much time had passed since Jack had told us about Shatterbird’s attack.  I couldn’t say if Shatterbird’s clock was a few minutes fast or a few minutes late.  There was no point on dwelling on the final minutes, and keeping my cell phone on me was dangerous.<br>[...]<br>The alarm clock was in the midst of tipping over when Shatterbird used her power. - [[Plague 12.5]]</ref>
**Skitter fights against Mannequin. Mannequin retreats.<ref>And you kicked Mannequin’s ass,” Trickster said.  He leaned back in his chair, balancing on two of the legs, his feet on the table.  “You had a busy night.”<br><br>“Honestly, I didn’t kick his ass.  He got some of my people, he thrashed me, I got a piece of him.” - [[Snare 13.1]]</ref>
**At night,<ref>Crawler was the first one off of the roof, throwing himself into the night air to land in the dead center of the crowd.  The others followed quickly after, Shatterbird and Burnscar launching themselves to the far corners of the massed crowd, conjuring up storms of glass shards and flame to block their victim’s retreat.  Bonesaw’s creations poured over the edges of the rooftop to herd the remainder of the crowd and keep them contained to one area<br>[...]<br>Obediently, Cherish raised herself up.  She lifted her head just in time to see a blur of white and black against the night sky, followed by a large explosion from the side of Squealer’s flying aircraft. - [[Interlude 12]]</ref> the Nine eliminate the Merchants.<ref>“In any case, we’ve hashed this out enough.  I’ll think it over tonight and have something proper to present to you and the capes of this city who will be our… opposition.  I can add some rules, to cover loopholes and keep this little event manageable.  Panacea, Armsmaster, Bitch, Regent, the buried girl and Hookwolf.  Burnscar didn’t nominate one, and I’ve already dispatched mine.  That’s six candidates, we need to remove five.  And when we’re done and we’ve established our superiority, we can kill this Tattletale, her friends, and everyone else, just to make our point.  Good?”<br><br>There were signs, nods and murmurs of agreement all around.<br><br>“Good.  Go.  Have fun.  Mop up the stragglers.  Don’t worry about leaving any alive.  They already know we’re here.  No more than five minutes before we leave.  We can’t have our grand battle with the locals so soon.” - [[Interlude 12]]</ref><ref>Coil spoke before Circus could reply.  “No. I pulled her off of a task as a precautionary measure, as I had one aspect of my long-term plans derailed last night with Trainwreck’s demise at the Nine’s hands.  I would rather she did not fall to an unfortunate coincidence of the same nature.”<br><br>“What happened?” Sundancer asked.<br><br>“They’ve eliminated the Merchants,” Coil said. - [[Snare 13.1]]</ref>
*Saturday, June 11th<ref name="13.2 eBonesawRight" />
**Morning<ref>“Did you give her a job before you left for Coil’s this morning?” I suggested. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref><ref name="13.7 eMorning">“''The Nine have captured Grue.  We mounted one successful attack this morning, we got two of theirs for one of ours.  They will be ready for a rescue attempt.  They know our powers.  Help us attack.  Help us catch them off guard a second time and stop them for good''. “ - [[Snare 13.7]]</ref>
***The Nine deliver their terms of engagement. At his underground base, Coil, the Undersiders, the Travelers, and Circus discuss plans.<ref>Brian was waiting for me as I passed through the door and into Coil’s underground base.  He held a paper out to me.<br><br>Sirs and Madams,<br><br>The terms of engagement are as follows:<br>[...]<br>We will be in touch.<br><br>“Where is everyone?” I asked, handing the paper back to him. - [[Snare 13.1]]</ref>
***After Tattletale's scouts report that Panacea is at a shelter in Ballistic's territory,<ref>“Like them.  Or Jack, or Bonesaw.  But that’s not what this is about.  Senegal just dropped by Coil’s base, and he’s passing on information from one of my scouts.  They saw Panacea at one of the shelters in Ballistic’s territory.”<br><br>“I’m not entirely sure I follow.”<br>[...]<br>“Sort of.  You’re wondering why she’s ''there'' .  She could just be there giving medical help to the injured.”<br><br>“My scouts say she’s keeping to herself, trying to avoid attracting attention.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> Skitter, Grue, and Bitch head over.<ref>I hung up. Grue and Bitch had already returned to me.<br><br>“What is it?” Grue asked me.<br><br>“Panacea’s in a shelter, and she shouldn’t be. Tattletale finds it strange, and I agree with her. She wants us to check Panacea out.”<br>[...]<br>“She’s supposedly in Ballistic’s territory, which is close.  Five minutes there, up to five minutes to talk, five minutes to get back,” I said.<br><br>“Fifteen minutes out of our way,” Grue said.  “And anything we find out about the Nine or their candidates can potentially help ''you'', Rachel.”<br><br>She scowled.  “Whatever.”<br><br>I took that for assent and turned Lucy around.  With a shout, I got her moving.  I kept the phone in one hand while I rode, waiting for Lisa’s response. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> Skitter talks to Amy<ref>“Okay. Grue, Bitch, you want to give us some space?  Stay close enough that we can hear each other with shouts?”<br>[...]<br>He nodded and the pair of them led their dogs away.<br><br>“What’s going on?” Panacea asked.<br><br>“That’s what I was going to ask you.  Why are you in a shelter, Panacea?”<br><br>“Don’t call me that.”<br><br>I raised my hands a bit to stop her. “Okay. Why are you in a shelter, ''Amy'' ?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> and learns about her nomination.<ref>“Fuck, I wish I still had the list.” I muttered.  At a normal speaking volume, I said, “No, you can’t leave town, either, because Bonesaw prepared a plague or something. If you are a candidate and you leave the city, they’ll use it.  They ''explicitly'' said they were using it as an incentive for the two heroes that they picked as candidates.”<br><br>“Heroes,” Amy muttered.  “Right.”<br><br>“''Are'' you a candidate?”<br><br>She fidgeted again. “Bonesaw nominated me.”<br><br>“Do you know why?”<br><br>Bitterly, she said, “Why do you think?  She thought I’d be a good fit.  And because my powers complement hers.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> Amy believes she is a monster despite Skitter trying to convince her otherwise.<ref name="13.2 eBonesawRight" />
***Mannequin ambushes Skitter and Amy.<ref>I didn’t finish my sentence.  Something constricted around my throat, fingertips digging into the windpipe, and the air ceased to flow.  I struck behind me, hoping to catch my attacker, but there was nobody there.<br><br>I realized what was happening too late, when my feet were hauled off the ground.  In the span of a second, I soared up six or seven stories, the counterweight to a nine-foot tall man in featureless white armor who plunged downward to land in a heap on the ground.<br><br>''Mannequin'' .<br><br>He’d repaired himself this fast?  Did he have spare parts lying around?<br>[...]<br>Mannequin hauled himself to his feet and the chain that stretched from his arm to the rooftop and back down to me made me bounce with every small movement.  He advanced on Amy, who backed away. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> Skitter, Grue, and Bitch fight back.<ref>He left her like that, in enough pain that she couldn’t stand, but unable to drop to the ground because her hand was impaled.  Turning, he faced the incoming stampede of Grue, Bitch and the four dogs.<br><br>While I struggled to escape, drawing my knife with my free hand while gripping the chain with the other, I sent my bugs in to assist.  Same tactic as last time.  My bugs drew out lines of silk and plastered them around him.  I focused on his free hand and his legs, aiming to hamper his range of movement.  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> Mannequin kills Lucy before leaving;<ref>A low growl tore free from Bitch’s throat.  But I knew before I looked that Lucy hadn’t made it.  Two shotgun blasts directly to the chest cavity. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> Amy then runs away from the Undersiders.<ref>“Calm down,” he said.  “Panic won’t get us anywhere.”<br><br>“Fuck you! Fuck you all!” Amy said.  Then she ran.  I didn’t have the air in my lungs or the heart to chase her, and both Grue and Bitch were too hurt to give chase.  I could run and catch up, sure, but what would I accomplish?<br><br>For now, it was better to be here, with my teammates, and make sure they were okay. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref>
***The Undersiders and the Travelers ambush the Nine and capture Shatterbird and Cherish.<ref>We were close to the site of our last fight.  The Nine had been on their way to Dolltown, and we’d ambushed them, divided them, and then provoked them into extending out of position.  Having done that, we’d kidnapped Shatterbird as she lagged behind and then looped around to capture the wounded Cherish. - [[Snare 13.8]]</ref> The Nine capture Grue.<ref name="13.7 eMorning" />
**Grue second triggers and kills Burnscar.<ref>A clearing formed.  An expanse of dim light, lit only by one shaft of light that managed to come in through the corner of a window.  Burnscar’s head was pulverized, unrecognizable.  She lay limp, unmoving, dead.<br>[...]<br>''He had another trigger event.  Two new powers?  Three, if I counted the way his power was diminishing my own?'' - [[Snare 13.9]]</ref>
*Sunday, June 12th<ref name="25.6 eNineLeave" />
**Morning<ref>I nodded, stood and rolled my shoulders.  Outside of the fact that none of the sleep I’d picked up over the previous night had been in a bed, I felt recharged.  Scrapes and bruises I’d only been dimly aware of were gone, as were the more obvious, attention-grabbing injuries.  That, in turn, made me think of the circumstances that had led to my good night’s sleep and healing job.  It was bittersweet.  Like a young child that was being forced to stand in a corner, feeling as low as she ever had, her stomach full with the entire birthday cake she’d just devoured.<br><br>Okay.  Still a little out of it.<br><br>I joined Aisha and Alec in the kitchen.  “Morning.”<br><br>“Sup,” Aisha said, curt.  She’d found some frosted cereal and was pouring herself a bowl.  She gave me a sidelong glance that wasn’t so flattering. - [[Prey 14.1]]</ref>
***Cherish tells the Undersiders that the Siberian is a projection.<ref>“So we’re right?”  Lisa leaned forward.  “There’s a weakness.  She has a real body somewhere?”<br><br>“She does.  Right now it’s actually not too far from you.”<br><br>''Fifteen feet away''.  I remembered Alec’s joke.<br><br>“Near that hole the Endbringer made,” Cherish said.  “Both of them, the real Siberian and the body.”<br><br>“You know what she looks like?”<br><br>“He.  A man.  Middle aged or older.  Unkempt.  Doesn’t eat much, probably thin.”<br><br>That wasn’t what I would have expected. - [[Prey 14.1]]</ref>
**Amy repeatedly doubles down and refuses to fix Victoria's mind even in the face of guilt and people telling her to change course.<ref name="reddit eAmyBehavior">By a similar token, Amy doing what she does is understandable in the moment, but what's problematic is that in the face of guilt and people (Tattletale) telling her to change course, she twists her thinking around and doubles down and later avoids responsibility (Birdcage). The entire system, the edifice, is telling her ''no'', and outside of the heat of the moment, calm and subdued, she does it anyway. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/88522224 --><ref name="reddit eAmyFlaw">Just about every character in-setting who wears a mask and has powers (and even many who don't) are also pushed to their breaking point. It's a conceit of the setting. That's not an excuse.<br><br>It's a theme of Ward that healing and getting better only works if you can get over & get past ''yourself''. Amy remains an antagonist throughout because this is her major flaw - it's not a flaw introduced in Ward. We can see it in action when she talks to the Undersiders in Worm, in the language she uses and the approach she takes, ultimately taking Victoria away when everyone else is saying it's a mistake. And it's a mistake.<br><br>Amy is someone who decides what she wants and then rationalizes her way to it. This, when what she wants is a person, when she has a massive amount of power, is scary.<br><br>Going to the birdcage is ultimately something she does for ''herself''. Getting tattoos as a personal symbol is something she does for ''herself''. Fixing Victoria after the fact is something she does for ''herself'', when it immediately follows that she wants to reconnect.<br><br>In the course of doing these things she does massive harm. She abandons Victoria to her state for years, and Victoria has to live the rest of her life with the ramifications of what happened. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/93021530 -->
**Slaughterhouse Nine leave Brockton Bay.<ref name="25.6 eNineLeave">June ''twelfth'' was the date the Slaughterhouse Nine had left Brockton Bay.  The day that was supposed to start the two year countdown. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>
*(Between June 12th and June 16th)
**Amy takes Victoria to an abandoned house. Believing she is a bad person who proved Bonesaw<ref>“Ready to join?” Bonesaw asked, looking for all the world like a puppy when her master had the leash out, ready for a walk.  Eager, brimming with excitement.<br><br>“No,” Amy said.  “There’s no way.”<br><br>“Why?  Whatever’s holding you back, we can fix it.  Or we can break it, depending.”<br><br>“It’s not- don’t you understand?  I don’t want to hurt people.”<br><br>“But we can change that!  We’re not so different.  You know as well as I do that anything about anyone can be changed if you work hard enough.” - [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> right by breaking her rules,<ref name="13.2 eBonesawRight">She shook her head.  “Don’t.”<br><br>“Don’t what?”<br><br>“Don’t make me out to be a good person.  Bonesaw has a better idea of who I am than you do.  Maybe I wouldn’t have thought so, three days ago, when she first met me, but then I fucked up.  I proved her right.  Every fear I had about being like my dad came true.”<br><br>I didn’t have a reply to that.  I couldn’t pry, and I couldn’t elaborate.<br><br>“So you’re the supposedly good person who was pretending to be a crook, and I’m the monster who was pretending to be a hero, but when the dust settled, we both wound up being villains.  Funny how that works.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/31 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.2]]</ref> she decides she might as well be selfish and take what she really 'needs' from Victoria.<ref>She's someone with bad coping mechanisms and a natural bent toward absolutist black and white thinking. When her coping mechanisms fail, she nosedives into the 'black' in her black and white thinking without even really trying to stop herself.<br><br>All of Amy's behavior is framed even before she takes Victoria to the abandoned house and alters her in mind and body. You can see it in effect in the frustrating Undersider conversation where she's healed Victoria. She's rooted in a toxic kind of faith, where rather than start from logic and then work her way to an appropriate conclusion, she starts from the endpoint she wants and the conclusions she's worked out in advance and works her way backward.<br><br>Confronted with an impassable obstacle between where she is and that conclusion, she stonewalls, throws up a total and complete, unthinking resistance, rather than amend her stance. This is uncompromising and inflexible. She decides you're a bad guy? Nothing you say will really change her mind. She decides ''she's'' a bad guy? Might as well be selfish then, take what she really 'needs' (her intent, not mine) from Victoria, then make amends by going to the Birdcage, where bad people go.<br><br>This is not, I find, an especially uncommon way for people to be & to think. I know a lot of people with that kind of mentality, but most of the time, their lives don't really provide many opportunities for people to really see it in action. At most, a few wonky life events might bring out the worst in them, where reality and the conclusions they're clinging to get far enough apart you can see the disordered thinking between A and B. For Amy, the S9 definitely count as a wonky life event, and she has the power to stray ''well'' away from healthy thinking. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/83507509 --> Amy makes the decision, that is hers and hers alone,<ref>'''shadowmist321:''' Jack slash's power lets him send popup ads that influence the users behavior, such as being really into body modding (panacea?) or skeptical about using something they have access to (skitter: maybe I shouldn't choke him to death with bugs)<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Jack Slash's power specifically utilizes the ''network'' side of things to sabotage the people who'd work against him.<br><br>It's largely defensive, but his personality (goes back to breadth, he grew up with this power and filled in the blanks around it) lends itself to being manipulative and finding weaknesses. It's him as a human that gets to Panacea in a weak moment, while the broadcast part of things utilizes the network to hold her at bay and keeps her from going on the offensive. There's no real influence or push here and (I feel the need to stress) her decisions over the following days and weeks are hers and hers alone. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/nt15eg --> to mutate and <span class="spoilerblur">repeatedly sexually assault Victoria over the span of days<ref>I think you're viewing the segments in isolation but not actually looking at how and why one flows from the last, or what she's ''really'' confessing to.<br><br>Throughout, she's implicitly talking about using her sister as relief for stress and loneliness, and as a plaything to be twisted and molded. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/59522675 --><ref>So the question is... paying attention to the bolded parts... what do you think Amy is talking about doing here? What doesn't she want Victoria to remember, that she'll spend time later atoning for? How does she alter Victoria to make Victoria 'happy', that changes Victoria's body and makes it hard to backtrack? What are these 'breaks', do you think?<br><br>She says in this quote she spent days in this loop and process. What's your interpretation of what happened over the course of these days?  - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/59522675 --><ref>When it comes to Panacea specifically, it was the casualty of me being an inexpert writer at the time I wrote Carol's interlude, that I didn't convey the subtext in a way that most got, and then I sort of didn't know/pay attention to the subset of the fandom that was having a 7 year conversation or whatever about Amy in the meantime, building on the fanon take of her, and sometimes demonizing Victoria (sometimes in a very misogynistic way). I put faith in my audience that they'd draw the allegory between violation of bodily autonomy (sexual assault) and violation of bodily autonomy (being transformed), and the people I was talking with most were people who seemed to get that link, so I extrapolated to the audience as a whole. But in reality there were large fanfiction circles who were clinging to other ideas and misconstruing one comment of mine.<br><br>At the end of the day, I strongly feel that this goes beyond what you imply, princezilla88. ''Time passes'' between when she takes Victoria and when Carol finds her. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/ms9ygt --></span> until Brandish interrupts her by arriving at the scene.<ref>They stood in the mist of a ruined neighborhood.  Amy had stepped outside within a minute of their arrival, blocking the door with her body.  There was no resistance in the girl, though.  It was more like the obstruction was a way of running, of forestalling the inevitable.<br>[...]<br>''Where to go?''  Brandish glanced to the rooms to the left, then down the hall in front of her.  She looked back and saw Amy with her back to the wall.  She moved toward the staircase, glanced back at Amy, and saw a reaction.  Fear.  Trepidation.<br><br>Before Amy could protest, Brandish was heading up the stairs, taking them two at a time.<br><br>“Carol!”  Amy shouted, scrambling up the stairs.  There was the sound of her falling on the stairs in her haste to follow,  “Stop!  Carol!  ''Mom!''“<br><br>Only one door was still open.  Brandish entered the room and stopped.- [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref><ref>'''Wildbow:''' More like:<br><br>1) Amy makes headway on healing Victoria, made more difficult by mental state, skewed perspective<br><br>2) Amy takes a 'break', wakes Vicky up, talks, backtracks healing in other directions, etc. (let's not get into etc)<br><br>3) Rinse & repeat 1&2, insert panic, downward spiral, further perspective skew<br><br>4) Gets caught/interrupted as Carol arrives, banging on the door - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/59522675 -->
**Amy demands and succeeds at being birdcaged.<ref>“She went to the birdcage because she wanted to,” Jessica said.  “And we let her because there were serious concerns about her unleashing an epidemic if she had another psychotic break.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref><ref>People keep dwelling on that.<br><br>Amy: "I want to go to the Birdcage."<br><br>Authority: "We have uses for you. We can get you help."<br><br>Amy: "I want to go to the Birdcage. I don't want any part of any of this."<br><br>Authority: "The birdcage is permanent, no, that's unreasonable."<br><br>Amy, dull monotone: "I can make plagues, I ''will'' make plagues, I can make organisms that devour plastics, metals, glass, and stone, there is ''nothing'' you can do to seal me away, unless you put me ''there''. Please put me in the Birdcage before I snap again. I'm done."<br><br>Do you ''really'' want to tell her 'no'? - Comment by Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17113315 -->
*Thursday, June 16th
**Around 10 PM, the flesh blob Victoria (whose mind is still not fixed) has a session with [[Jessica Yamada]] at the Asylum.<ref>'''Thursday, June 16th, 2011, 22:11'''<br>[...]<br>“We’ve been over this, Victoria,” Jessica said.  “You know that’s something I don’t have any power to give you.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref>
*Friday, June 17th
**Genesis, Skitter and Trickster threaten the mayor of Brockton Bay to force him to argue against condemning the city. Turns out his son is Triumph, and Triumph's girlfriend Prism is having dinner with them. <ref>“Seventeenth, five charges of assault and battery.  One charge of aggravated assault with a parahuman ability.  One charge of criminal extortion.”<br><br>“Attacking the mayor,” I said, almost relieved to be able to pinpoint the crime in question.<br><br>“And his family, it seems.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
*Saturday, June 18th
**Travellers and Undersiders [[The Dragonflight Roosting|fight the Dragonsuits]], taking Emily Piggot hostage.<ref>“June eighteenth.  Destruction of government property, four counts.  Hostage taking, assault and battery of a law enforcement officer. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>
*Sunday, June 19th
**Mayoral debate. Coil openly attacks, faking his own death and a lot of journalists'.<ref>June nineteenth, complicity in another count of treason.  Complicity in manslaughter, nineteen counts.”<br><br>I nodded.  ''Dragon and fighting in the debate''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref> Thomas Calvert is appointed acting PRT director. He meets with the Travellers and Undersiders for totally legitimate reasons, pretends to set Dinah Alcott free but instead shoots Skitter in the chest, [[Monarch 16.11|locks her in a room set on fire surrounded by mercenaries with machine guns and grenades]], and fails so hard to kill her that she shoots him in the head.
*Monday, June 20th
**Noelle breaks out of her containment in the middle of the night.<ref>June 20th:  Massive deployment to Brockton Bay.  Unspecified class A threat.  Cape wives on the boards confirm: something’s up. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-19-scourge/19-y-donation-bonus-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]].</ref> At 4am, Tattletale calls Faultline asking if she can hire Labyrinth for a thing, and Contessa calls on Faultline's Crew asking if they'd rather stop investigating Cauldron or die.<ref name="18.f">Oddly enough, there was a wait at the front desk.  A young woman, dark-haired, wearing a suit and fedora, with luggage on wheels.<br><br>''Arriving at four in the morning?''<br>[...]<br>“Yes?” Faultline spoke into the phone<br><br>“This is Tattletale,” the voice came through. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-18-queen/18-z-donation-bonus-4/|Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.f]]</ref> Ignis Fatuus speaks, exposing Cauldron's connections to the Case 53s, the Triumvirate, and the PRT in general. The Travellers go home, except Trickster is imprisoned and Echidna is dead. Weld, Gully, and other case 53s leave the Protectorate, later forming [[The Irregulars]].
*Tuesday, June 21st
**Cauldron reveals its secrets to Legend during the inner circle meeting.<ref>'''June 21st, 2011, two years ago'''<br><br>They gathered where they had met innumerable times in the past, but they were quiet. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 27.x]]</ref>
*Sunday, June 26th
**Legend publicly announces he's leaving the Protectorate.<ref>♦  Topic:  Legend Leaves the Protectorate<br>In:  Boards ► Teams ► Protectorate<br>Brilliger (Original Poster) (Moderator: Protectorate Main)<br>Posted on June 26th: - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-19-scourge/19-y-donation-bonus-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]]</ref>
*Friday, July 8th
**Summer high school classes open in Brockton Bay.<ref>The remaining summer months would feature special arrangements for classes, to make up for the weeks of classes students had missed in the wake of the Endbringer attack.<br><br>
The eighth of July.  Tomorrow. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-19-scourge/19-y-donation-bonus-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]]</ref> Taylor goes to stop [[Greg Veder]] outing her by accident, and gets outed on purpose by [[James Tagg]]. That evening, she holds court with with the Teeth, the Fallen, and Accord<ref>He studied the girl.  She was composed, despite the fact that less than twelve hours had passed since her identity had been revealed to the world. [[Interlude 20.y]]</ref> and then [[Imago 21.1|assaults the PRT in retaliation]].
*Thursday, July 14th
**Taylor surrenders to the PRT, kills [[Alexandria]] and [[James Tagg]], and signs on as Weaver. <ref>Stickied Topic: Alexandria Discussion (July 14th) Goes Here [[Interlude 22.x]]</ref>
*Tuesday, July 26th
**[[Behemoth]] attacks [[New Delhi]]. Scion kills Behemoth.<ref>'''New Delhi''', July 26th, 2011 // Behemoth<br>Notes: Scion Victory, ENDBRINGER KILL.<br>Target/consequence: See file <u>'''Phir Sē'''</u>. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>
*Between November and December <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%"><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>Before being sent to foster care in the fall (i.e., before Christmas), Kenzie is in third grade: she belongs to the age range of 8 to 9 at the time.<ref>She tore the notebook paper out of the pad, then popped open her binder, slotting it in at the end.  It was easier to stay in her room and be quiet, and better still if she was doing homework, because it was hard for anyone to complain about her doing her homework.  There wasn’t enough work to do to fill whole afternoons after school and before bed, so she’d started to work ahead.  A lot of it was dull or confusing, but after a while, she’d started to make a game of it.  It was her hope that she could finish the entire third grade math textbook before Christmas.<br><br>Binder closed.  Books put away in her bag for school tomorrow.  She turned her music and television off, then turned off the light in her room. - [[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref> According to Houndstooth, she was in fourth grade<ref name="II4.4 eFourthGrade" /> during Spring 2013.<ref name="II2.5 eWards" /> Thus, Kenzie must have started third grade in Fall 2011.<br><br>At one point, Kenzie tells Victoria that she triggered when she was 9 years old.<ref>“Oh, Kenzie,” Victoria said.<br><br>Yep, she got it.<br><br>“In my defense, I was nine, and I was really, really oblivious,” Kenzie said.  She smiled.  “I wanted to do my part and make something really awesome happen, so the coolest, most awesome person in the world might adopt me.”<br><br>“It was going to happen either way, if it was going to happen.”<br><br>“So I’ve been told.” - [[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref> She later contradicts herself by telling Riley that she triggered when she was 8 years old.<ref name="II20.e4 eAge" /> However, Kenzie was with her first foster parents for at least two months before child services assigned her new ones;<ref>A gentle shaking stirred her from her sleep.  Her eyes popped open.<br><br>“Oh hey,” Antonio said.  He stood over her bed.  Her bedspread had the space opera pattern they’d picked out while shopping two months into her stay.  A lava lamp in the corner was casting out illuminated shadows across the room. - [[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref> she was still in third grade at the time.<ref>“-Ha ha.  I’m serious.  I’d want a kid like her.  I’d be the embarrassingly proud dad if my kid was half as great as she is.  I am ''psyched'' to wake up every day and spend time with you two.  I want to do that more.”<br><br>“Keith, you can’t.”<br><br>“We can talk to people about options.  They haven’t mentioned the bio parents much, but they were incarcerated, and it seems like some bad stuff went down.  We could figure out what the requirements might be, make sure we’ve crossed our ‘Q’s and dotted our ‘i’s, right?  We’d be the absolute worst foster parents if we took the first foster child to pass through our doors and then half a year later, started asking about adopting them.” - [[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref> The weather conditions on the day of her trigger event also suggest winter has not started yet.<ref>Andrea dropped her off at the new foster house, and Kenzie hurried inside without a word.<br><br>She almost hyperventilated, as she went straight to her room. - [[Interlude 7.x II]]</ref> Thus, Kenzie likely triggered sometime after her birthday in 2011 because she otherwise turns 9 sometime between November and December 2012 in fourth grade.<sup>[[Timeline#2003|&#91;*&#93;]]</sup></small></div></div>
**[[Kenzie Martin]] triggers.
*Friday, November 25th
**The Simurgh attacks Flight BA178.<ref><b>Flight BA178</b>, November 25th, 2011 // Simurgh<br>Notes: Loss?  Plane destroyed, Eidolon/Pretender drive off Endbringer.  Marks start of guerilla tactics from Simurgh and Leviathan.<br>Target/Consequence: Incognito Chinese Union-Imperial heir.  See files:<br><u>'''America/CUI conflict 2012 A'''</u><br><u>'''UK/CUI Conflict 2012 A'''</u><br><u>'''America/CUI conflict 2012 B'''</u><br><u>'''Yàngbǎn'''</u> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13 Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>