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| location    = New York state<ref name="R1">[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/45tbrf/wormpossible_spoilersdoes_the_protectorate_ever/ Thread on Reddit]</ref>
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|Inhabitants = [[Nilbog]], Nilbog's creations
|image      =Ellisburg-1.jpg
| web serial = [[Interlude 16x (Donation Bonus)|Interlude 16]] (Flashback),[[Sting 26.4]]
|imagecaption= Nilbog observing the PRT team
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|type        =Town/[[Quarantine Zone]]
|location    =State of New York, [[USA]]<ref name="R1"/>
|inhabitants = [[Nilbog]] & his goblins
| web serial = [[Interlude 16.x]] (Flashback)<br>[[Sting 26.4]] (Actual)
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'''Ellisburg''' was a town taken over by the supervillain [[Nilbog]].
<!-- this is the place to put the timeline for Ellisburgs fall
how the town fell
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15111083


He can't pull anything from thin air. He needs to be in contact with X amount of helpless biomass to produce X amount of minion stuff. If the target can move, they can fight free of the enclosing sac. Once enclosed, it's a question of being transferred from one point of contact with Nilbog to another, processed as they pass through his body. The hunchback and robe are basically containers for the biomass (rendered into a slurry) that he's carrying on his person, and he wears a goblin suit (basically a created goblin with a Nilbog-shaped hole he can climb into) for the strength to haul it about.
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a town taken over by the supervillain [[Nilbog]]. As such, it is designated as [[Quarantine Sites|Site Q4]].<ref>Cities that break from this convention but nonetheless have departments are named with special designations. These were originally compass points, but devolved after the number of departments increased and things fell out of order, starting with Montreal. Of note are:<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>==Quarantine Sites==<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>'''Ellisburg''' - Q4 - Site evacuated and sealed after Nilbog event, guards - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hqJy4YEDqpKLwbatFVBLXnhs7dDTNykSYtDUCiR9ZBo/edit#heading=h.u6vofcq51y8q PRT Master Reference]</ref>


First couple days, pets are disappearing from back yards. Outdoor cats don't return. Insect population declines steeply. Open suspicions are raised about possibility of coyotes to explain the pets, or perhaps a voracious rodent population being tied to water levels with the adjacent river.
==Geography/Description==
{{Map PRT Dep US|display=Ellisburg|width=300|float=left}}
Ellisburg was a relatively ordinary mid-sized Northeastern town with a population of about five thousand people and one movie theater.<ref name="I16">[[Interlude 16.x]]</ref>


Pets disappear from inside houses. 'Shapeshifter' villain (actually larger, humanoid minions) makes appearances one after another, but nobody is getting hurt so much as they're getting scared. He strikes targets of no apparent consequence. The natural response at this juncture for a town this size is to call in cops from neighboring cities. One guy doesn't necessarily involve PRT involvement, especially when all reports suggest he's relatively harmless. Visiting police set up at the town's hotel, ready to act.
==Residents==
===Formerly===
*~5000 People
**Mayor
**Police chief
**Visiting Law Enforcement
**[[Jamie Rinke]]


Next wave of creatures serves to cut power and telephone lines, attack cell towers, and generate EM signals to scramble other means of communication. Car underbellies and tires are savaged. The creations move through the city, house to house, from the perimeter to the center, then on reaching the center, touch base with Nilbog and get the signal. They explode outward from one point, and people panic, running, they arm themselves and fight. Every time one is killed, they're dragged back to Nilbog, one adult becoming three child-sized creatures that are specialized for cutting down more adults. If the creatures report a problem (one family locks themselves in a bomb shelter, one guy uses an homemade flame thrower to attack a whole crowd of the things), he sends out a specialized creation to answer it. If any die, others carry the biomass back to him.
===Currently===
*[[Nilbog]]
*Myriad monsters, glorious goblins, cherished children
**Tall ones: long-limbed Hunters using bone spears
**Big head girl: explosive
**Lizard boy: venom spitter
**Rhino-like siege form
**[[Polka]]
***[[Dot]]


With transportation so systematically crippled, and the attention to detail of hundreds of loyal soldiers with acute senses, escaping on foot is the only option, and the creatures prove faster. Some people make it beyond the city limits, only to be attacked the first moment they stop for breath or to use the washroom in the bushes.
====Cultural notes====
The goblins of goblin town have an interesting social structure. Like the humans they were created from, they have language and tastes.<ref name="II.I3e4"/>


1-2 days of problems, nothing that would make you pack up and leave town.
They love and revere their king, following his directions in all things.<ref name="R4">'''VelocirexisaurMover''': I'm pretty sure his creations are completely loyal to him and would follow his orders, but when they don't have orders they'd basically have free will.<br/><br/>'''Wildbow''': Yup. - [https://redd.it/5sfop5 Comment by] Wildbow on reddit/</ref>
1 day of regular appearances by 'shapeshifter' at banks and elsewhere, with him more focused on getting cloth for making costumes for his favored ones than money or anything else.
Attack occurs overnight and into late hours of the morning.
-->


== Geography/Description ==
In death, they know that King Rinke will recycle them into new and useful forms and are content.<ref name="II.I3e10">“I come to save you,” she said.  “You can use me for material.”<br/><br/>“I wouldn’t do that,” he said.  “Not for one as beautiful and noble and brave as you.  No.”<br/>[...]<br/>With that, she understood what he was saying no ''to''.<br/><br/>“We need you.”<br/><br/>“No.”<br/><br/>“The others get sick and die.  They want to be recycled.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/25 Excerpt] from  [[Interlude 3 II]]</ref> <ref name="II.I3e4"/>
Ellisburg was a relatively ordinary mid -sized Midwestern town with a population of about five thousand people and one movie theater<ref name="I16">[[Interlude 16x (Donation Bonus)|Interlude 16]]</ref>.


== History ==
Their biology allows them to enjoy more myriad pleasures than mere humans can comprehend.<ref name="26.4c1">'''Anzer'ke:'''<br/>
=== Background ===
:” A bloated, coarse-looking creature lay on the ground, almost like a potato made of hair and flesh. Smaller things were busy carving gouges and holes into it.
And then in 2001, Jamie Rinke had a [[Trigger Event]], and nothing happened for a few days.


In late January, The local police started getting reports of pets going missing from backyards.<ref name="SB1">[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15111083 Comment by Wildbow on spacebattles]</ref>
:The resulting wounds regenerated, but not before the smaller creatures inserted body parts into the openings, allowing the regenerated flesh to close tight but not close completely.


the next day cell phone towers are attacked<ref name="R1"/>
:I averted my eyes from the scene, content with not letting my brain register which parts were being inserted and what they were doing after the fact.”<br/>


a number of new villains are appearing but the common motive between them pointed to the local authorities dealing with one shifter type villain
Seems pretty cut and dry to me
<br/>[...]<br/>'''Wildbow:''' Please understand where I was confused – there weren’t knives involved, and the event was consensual on all sides. Blue and Orange sexuality/amusement, if you will. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/sting-26-4/#comment-35720 Comment] on [[Sting 26.4]]</ref>


The creator of these creatures now revealed as Nilbog had successfully killed all the inhabitants and replaced them with his creations.  
==History==
===Background===
Ellisburg was a typical small American town situated in New York. Then, in 2001, Jamie Rinke had a [[Trigger Event|trigger event]], followed by a crime spree that lasted the span of a few days. Ellisburg disappeared from the grid, with no communication or power and no cars or people leaving the area. The authorities sent a small force of heroes, who gave a brief report before defaulting to radio silence.  


No one escaped the town, human or otherwise.<ref name="20.2">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/chrysalis-20-2/#comment-14482 Comment by Wildbow in Chrysalis 20.2]</ref>
After an attempt to send in cameras failed, [[Ellisburg incursion|a squad of PRT officers were sent in]] to take out Jamie, who they pegged to be a high level [[Changer]].


Faced with a town that had disappeared off of a map The PRT sent in mixed cape and PRT Squads to try and find Rinke.
They were beset by creatures pulled from the most fantastic dreams and the most horrible nightmares. They retreated, unable to stop the creatures' creator, Rinke, who now called himself Nilbog. Who had successfully killed all the inhabitants and made replacements from their corpses. His 'children.'


=== Containment ===
===Containment===
The city was walled in by the [[PRT]], whose [[Thinker]]s warned them that Nilbog had created countermeasures who would survive should they bomb the place.  
The city was walled in by the [[PRT]],<ref name="R1">Ellisburg, NY was quarantined and walled off after the Nilbog incident. - [https://redd.it/45tbrf Thread on Reddit]</ref> whose [[Thinker]]s warned them that Nilbog had created countermeasures should they bomb or find some other way to attack Ellisburg.  


=== Monster-Town ===
===Monster-Town===
Ellisburg was maintained in a state resembling a fantasy kingdom by Nilbog's creatures until the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] came calling.
Ellisburg was maintained in a state resembling a fantasy kingdom by Nilbog's creatures. In order to protect his Kingdom and its children Nilbog fortified it, adding deterrent organisms. These efforts were detected by the PRT and was one of the many reasons they did not remove him.<ref name="SB2">'''RedX:'''Twenty years of fallout cleanup is better than everyone dying to uberlocasts. It's arguably better than the moral and psychologial hazard of letting Nilbog continue to exist.<br/><br/>'''Wildnow:''' I find there's a trend, and you definitely see it highlighted in PRT quest, but you see it in arguments like this too.<br/><br/>The first mistake people make is forgetting the person involved. Nilbog was a human once, who watched TV and rented movies. He was lonely, odd, but fairly intelligent.<br/><br/>He has a sense about nuclear weapons. He knows about armies and all that. Crazy as he becomes, he retains that.<br/><br/>That's the first mistake. Forgetting that there's a man there, spending weeks and days with his creations, he loves them, they're his art, his existence. But he has his good moments, and he has his depressive, paranoid moments, where he thinks about how they're dying a little faster every generation, and that there's a very real possibility that people might try to assassinate him, or take his creations away from him by fire, gun, or bomb.<br/><br/>He thinks about these things. He dwells on them, and he takes measures.<br/>[...]<br/>The PRT has a sense of this. They consider every threat, and they have thinkers and Dragon working to monitor major problem sites. They get a squad of thinkers to check on Nilbog every week or two, and they get responses like "Black!" "Nine!" "Trojan Horses, Director."<br/><br/>They think about leaving him alone, and they get a response of "Yellow", "Three" "Poisoned apple trees, sir." from the same three thinkers.<br/><br/>They leave him alone, they keep a close eye on him, they have research teams and tinkers work on developing ideas that might get a response from the thinkers that isn't quite so grave, and they keep things quiet, so the public doesn't realize how dangerous that particular situation really is. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024590 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>


When Nilbog was removed his subject/children rioted<ref name="26.5">[[Sting 26.5]]</ref>.
===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
Things continued in this state for over ten years until the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] returned after a two year stasis.


It was destroyed by the forces of the [[Protectorate]].
The children paid host to five foreigners over the course of hours even putting on a banquet and entertainment.<ref name="26.4c1"/> This was inconsistently appreciated.


Nilbog was kidnapped by [[Jack Slash]], causing his children to [[Ellisburg Riot|riot]].<ref name="26.5">[[Sting 26.5]]</ref>


<!-- == Residents ==
Forces of the [[Protectorate]] attempted to contain the threat.
List of Nilbogs creations.


Tall ones: long-limbed Hunters using bone spears
===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
It was believed by the public that the denizens of Ellisburg were on the loose.<ref name="P.1 e1">'''► Nutty'''<br/>'''Replied on August 17th, Y1'''<br/>@ Boosher – This article, search for Nancy Y’s statement.  People traveling across the US to get to portals are being warned about multiple threats.  Word on the capevine is that with everyone having pulled out, all former quarantine zones are breached.  In the US and elsewhere.  Nilbog is the one everyone knows about.  He’s in custody, his children aren’t.  If you’re paying attention to hero groups and their movements, they’re making lots of trips out.  They’re tired and people say they’re aloof.<br/>I say they’re fighting a hard fight and they’re keeping their distance from public and media because they don’t want us to know it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/glowworm-p-1/ Excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.1]]</ref> They were trying to scramble and make a living while fighting everyone else.<ref name="II.I3e4">Those of her kind who ventured into the human’s civilization didn’t tend to return.  She knew it was a risk.  She knew she had a one percent chance when it came to this.  She’d said her goodbyes accordingly.<br/><br/>Blackspot would be left in charge.  He’d been unwell lately, and he might be too unwell to lead their group.  He was thirteen and that made him old, and after their discussion, her communicating in broken English and gesture and him communicating in chirp, he’d agreed.  She suspected he’d made the decision because he hoped she would bring their king back somehow.  It was Blackspot’s only chance at being recycled and made into new life.
<br/><br/>Lump would be second in command.  Lump had been injured a year ago, after running into humans.  He barely moved now.  When he died, the group would be more free to move, but they wouldn’t leave him behind until then.<br/><br/>Lump was one of the only big ones that were left. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/25 Excerpt] from  [[Interlude 3 II]]</ref>


big head girl- explosive
A Queen would later lend some of the king's former subjects aid.<ref name=9.8e1>“Hello,” the small creature on Amy’s shoulder said, voice high.  A few people glanced over.[...]“You have a machine body, and you don’t smell much like flesh or blood.”<br/><br/>“Be polite,” Amy said.<br/><br/>“It’s good!” Dot exclaimed.  “So special, to have something made like that.  A lot of love and care.”<br/>[...]<br/>“My Red Queen does good work with a lot of love too,” Dot said.<br/><br/>“I’ve seen the work she does,” Sveta said.<br/>[...]<br/>“My Red Queen has fixed a few of my kind.  Big ones, weird ones.  She could fix you.  She can make you just as wonderful in shape and strong enough you don’t need the body.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/15 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.8]]</ref>


lizard boy-venom spiter
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[...]

==Quarantine Sites==

[...]

Ellisburg - Q4 - Site evacuated and sealed after Nilbog event, guards - PRT Master Reference</ref>

Geography/Description[edit]

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Ellisburg was a relatively ordinary mid-sized Northeastern town with a population of about five thousand people and one movie theater.<ref name="I16">Interlude 16.x</ref>

Residents[edit]

Formerly[edit]

  • ~5000 People
    • Mayor
    • Police chief
    • Visiting Law Enforcement
    • Jamie Rinke

Currently[edit]

  • Nilbog
  • Myriad monsters, glorious goblins, cherished children
    • Tall ones: long-limbed Hunters using bone spears
    • Big head girl: explosive
    • Lizard boy: venom spitter
    • Rhino-like siege form
    • Polka

Cultural notes[edit]

The goblins of goblin town have an interesting social structure. Like the humans they were created from, they have language and tastes.<ref name="II.I3e4"/>

They love and revere their king, following his directions in all things.<ref name="R4">VelocirexisaurMover: I'm pretty sure his creations are completely loyal to him and would follow his orders, but when they don't have orders they'd basically have free will.

Wildbow: Yup. - Comment by Wildbow on reddit/</ref>

In death, they know that King Rinke will recycle them into new and useful forms and are content.<ref name="II.I3e10">“I come to save you,” she said. “You can use me for material.”

“I wouldn’t do that,” he said. “Not for one as beautiful and noble and brave as you. No.”
[...]
With that, she understood what he was saying no to.

“We need you.”

“No.”

“The others get sick and die. They want to be recycled.” - Excerpt from Interlude 3 II</ref> <ref name="II.I3e4"/>

Their biology allows them to enjoy more myriad pleasures than mere humans can comprehend.<ref name="26.4c1">Anzer'ke:

” A bloated, coarse-looking creature lay on the ground, almost like a potato made of hair and flesh. Smaller things were busy carving gouges and holes into it.
The resulting wounds regenerated, but not before the smaller creatures inserted body parts into the openings, allowing the regenerated flesh to close tight but not close completely.
I averted my eyes from the scene, content with not letting my brain register which parts were being inserted and what they were doing after the fact.”

Seems pretty cut and dry to me
[...]
Wildbow: Please understand where I was confused – there weren’t knives involved, and the event was consensual on all sides. Blue and Orange sexuality/amusement, if you will. - Comment on Sting 26.4</ref>

History[edit]

Background[edit]

Ellisburg was a typical small American town situated in New York. Then, in 2001, Jamie Rinke had a trigger event, followed by a crime spree that lasted the span of a few days. Ellisburg disappeared from the grid, with no communication or power and no cars or people leaving the area. The authorities sent a small force of heroes, who gave a brief report before defaulting to radio silence.

After an attempt to send in cameras failed, a squad of PRT officers were sent in to take out Jamie, who they pegged to be a high level Changer.

They were beset by creatures pulled from the most fantastic dreams and the most horrible nightmares. They retreated, unable to stop the creatures' creator, Rinke, who now called himself Nilbog. Who had successfully killed all the inhabitants and made replacements from their corpses. His 'children.'

Containment[edit]

The city was walled in by the PRT,<ref name="R1">Ellisburg, NY was quarantined and walled off after the Nilbog incident. - Thread on Reddit</ref> whose Thinkers warned them that Nilbog had created countermeasures should they bomb or find some other way to attack Ellisburg.

Monster-Town[edit]

Ellisburg was maintained in a state resembling a fantasy kingdom by Nilbog's creatures. In order to protect his Kingdom and its children Nilbog fortified it, adding deterrent organisms. These efforts were detected by the PRT and was one of the many reasons they did not remove him.<ref name="SB2">RedX:Twenty years of fallout cleanup is better than everyone dying to uberlocasts. It's arguably better than the moral and psychologial hazard of letting Nilbog continue to exist.

Wildnow: I find there's a trend, and you definitely see it highlighted in PRT quest, but you see it in arguments like this too.

The first mistake people make is forgetting the person involved. Nilbog was a human once, who watched TV and rented movies. He was lonely, odd, but fairly intelligent.

He has a sense about nuclear weapons. He knows about armies and all that. Crazy as he becomes, he retains that.

That's the first mistake. Forgetting that there's a man there, spending weeks and days with his creations, he loves them, they're his art, his existence. But he has his good moments, and he has his depressive, paranoid moments, where he thinks about how they're dying a little faster every generation, and that there's a very real possibility that people might try to assassinate him, or take his creations away from him by fire, gun, or bomb.

He thinks about these things. He dwells on them, and he takes measures.
[...]
The PRT has a sense of this. They consider every threat, and they have thinkers and Dragon working to monitor major problem sites. They get a squad of thinkers to check on Nilbog every week or two, and they get responses like "Black!" "Nine!" "Trojan Horses, Director."

They think about leaving him alone, and they get a response of "Yellow", "Three" "Poisoned apple trees, sir." from the same three thinkers.

They leave him alone, they keep a close eye on him, they have research teams and tinkers work on developing ideas that might get a response from the thinkers that isn't quite so grave, and they keep things quiet, so the public doesn't realize how dangerous that particular situation really is. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

Post-Timeskip[edit]

Things continued in this state for over ten years until the Slaughterhouse Nine returned after a two year stasis.

The children paid host to five foreigners over the course of hours even putting on a banquet and entertainment.<ref name="26.4c1"/> This was inconsistently appreciated.

Nilbog was kidnapped by Jack Slash, causing his children to riot.<ref name="26.5">Sting 26.5</ref>

Forces of the Protectorate attempted to contain the threat.

Post-Gold Morning[edit]

It was believed by the public that the denizens of Ellisburg were on the loose.<ref name="P.1 e1">► Nutty
Replied on August 17th, Y1
@ Boosher – This article, search for Nancy Y’s statement. People traveling across the US to get to portals are being warned about multiple threats. Word on the capevine is that with everyone having pulled out, all former quarantine zones are breached. In the US and elsewhere. Nilbog is the one everyone knows about. He’s in custody, his children aren’t. If you’re paying attention to hero groups and their movements, they’re making lots of trips out. They’re tired and people say they’re aloof.
I say they’re fighting a hard fight and they’re keeping their distance from public and media because they don’t want us to know it. - Excerpt from Glow-worm P.1</ref> They were trying to scramble and make a living while fighting everyone else.<ref name="II.I3e4">Those of her kind who ventured into the human’s civilization didn’t tend to return. She knew it was a risk. She knew she had a one percent chance when it came to this. She’d said her goodbyes accordingly.

Blackspot would be left in charge. He’d been unwell lately, and he might be too unwell to lead their group. He was thirteen and that made him old, and after their discussion, her communicating in broken English and gesture and him communicating in chirp, he’d agreed. She suspected he’d made the decision because he hoped she would bring their king back somehow. It was Blackspot’s only chance at being recycled and made into new life.

Lump would be second in command. Lump had been injured a year ago, after running into humans. He barely moved now. When he died, the group would be more free to move, but they wouldn’t leave him behind until then.

Lump was one of the only big ones that were left. - Excerpt from Interlude 3 II</ref>

A Queen would later lend some of the king's former subjects aid.<ref name=9.8e1>“Hello,” the small creature on Amy’s shoulder said, voice high. A few people glanced over.[...]“You have a machine body, and you don’t smell much like flesh or blood.”

“Be polite,” Amy said.

“It’s good!” Dot exclaimed. “So special, to have something made like that. A lot of love and care.”
[...]
“My Red Queen does good work with a lot of love too,” Dot said.

“I’ve seen the work she does,” Sveta said.
[...]
“My Red Queen has fixed a few of my kind. Big ones, weird ones. She could fix you. She can make you just as wonderful in shape and strong enough you don’t need the body.” - Excerpt from Gleaming 9.8</ref>

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