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''' | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a town taken over by the supervillain [[Nilbog]]. As such it is designated as site Q4.<ref>TCities 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> | ||
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The city | The city had been walled in by the [[PRT]], whose [[Thinker]]s warned them that Nilbog had created countermeasures who would survive should they bomb or find some other way to attack the place. | ||
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When Nilbog was removed his 'children' rioted.<ref name="26.5">[[Sting 26.5]]</ref> | When Nilbog was removed his 'children' rioted.<ref name="26.5">[[Sting 26.5]]</ref> | ||
Forces of the [[Protectorate]] attempted to contain the threat. | |||
==Post-[[Gold Morning]]== | |||
It was believed by the public that the Goblins of Goblintown were 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> | |||
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Ellisburg was a town taken over by the supervillain Nilbog. As such it is designated as site Q4.<ref>TCities 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:
[...]
==Quarantine Sites==
[...]
Ellisburg - Q4 - Site evacuated and sealed after Nilbog event, guards - PRT Master Reference</ref>
Geography/Description
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</ref>.
History
Background
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">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 minionstuff. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 days of problems, nothing that would make you pack up and leave town.
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.
- Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>
the next day cell phone towers are attacked<ref name="R1"/>
a number of new villains are appearing but the common motive between them pointed to the local authorities dealing with one shifter type villain
The creator of these creatures now revealed as Nilbog had successfully killed all the inhabitants and replaced them with his creations.
No one escaped the town, human or otherwise.<ref name="20.2">If they had, the strike team would have gone in with more info than they had. - Comment by Wildbow in Chrysalis 20.2</ref>
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.
Containment
The city had been walled in by the PRT, whose Thinkers warned them that Nilbog had created countermeasures who would survive should they bomb or find some other way to attack the place.
Monster-Town
Ellisburg was maintained in a state resembling a fantasy kingdom by Nilbog's creatures until the Slaughterhouse Nine came calling.
When Nilbog was removed his 'children' rioted.<ref name="26.5">Sting 26.5</ref>
Forces of the Protectorate attempted to contain the threat.
Post-Gold Morning
It was believed by the public that the Goblins of Goblintown were 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>
References
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