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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Madison</default></title>

<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> A city in Wisconsin, and former home to PRT Office 83, since the Simurgh visited it is now home to the seventh Quarantine zone in the United States.<ref name="PRTM">Cities that break from this convention but nonetheless have departments are named with special designations.
[...]
Quarantine Sites:
[...]
Madison - Q7 - Site evacuated and sealed after Simurgh event, all measures in effect - PRT Master Reference</ref>

Government and heroic organizations

Madison originally had the 83rd PRT office,<ref name="R3">PRT departments in nearby areas are staffed and set up to send their capes out to neighboring regions in case of emergency. Further, some cities have PRT offices but not departments, which aren't fully staffed and rounded out with X criteria and Y resources.

Take, for example, the small town of Stafford. Less than 15k people, three parahumans. PRT office is established in the same building that handles passports, drivers licenses, and votes - literally a one room affair with one staff member and one part time employee.

Two parahumans in Stafford are technically Protectorate, but for varying reasons don't have it in them to join a major team in the big city: - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> now it has a full Quarantine PRt department.

Watchdog

Punishment Detail

Civilians

Largely evacuated even outside of the zone. No one wants to live at a quarantine site.

Points of Interest

The Wall

Big<ref name="I18 e1">Elle opened the window into a proper exit, complete with a staircase leading to the road behind the hotel. Faultline paused to look at the looming stone wall, only a few blocks away. Three hundred feet tall, it was all smooth stone. Parahuman made, no doubt. The barrier encircled the area the Simurgh had attacked, containing everything within.

Every house and building within three hundred feet of the wall itself had been bulldozed. She couldn’t help but feel conspicuous as they crossed the open area. It was dark, there weren’t any spotlights, but she couldn’t help but be paranoid.

“Cell phones are dead,” Shamrock commented.

Faultline nodded grimly. Of course there wouldn’t be any transmissions into or out of this area. No messages of any sort would be permitted. Not even water entered or left the quarantine area, let alone communications or goods. Anyone still inside was left to fend for themselves with whatever resources they could gather.

She’d checked and double checked the measures authorities were taking, ensuring that the area wasn’t being watched for intruders. There weren’t any people on the wall, and the only surveillance was busy keeping an eye out for anyone who might be trying to make it over the top of the wall. - Excerpt from Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus 4)</ref>

Inside the Wall

History

Background

Presumably was the same as the Madison on Earth Aleph.

Protectorate department 84 substantiated here.

May have been where Professor Haywire operated, more likely where his technology was kept. Then the Simurgh came.

Afterward walls were up within a week.

Story Start

Was under Quarantine for two years. Infrastructure had largely collapsed.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

Infiltrated by Faultline’s Crew.

Post-Timeskip

Outtake process had recommenced.

Gold Morning

Unknown but all former sites were reported to be breeched.<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. - Excerpt from Glow-worm P.1</ref>

Trivia

The Quarentine Zone was the setting for a non-canon and lapsed Weaverdice campaign.

References

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-A city in Wisconsin, and former home to [[PRT]] Office 84, until the Simurgh visited.
+A city in Wisconsin, and former home to [[PRT]] Office 83, since the Simurgh visited it is now home to the seventh Quarantine zone in the [[United States]].<ref name="PRTM">Cities that break from this convention but nonetheless have departments are named with special designations.<br>[...]<br>Quarantine Sites:<br>[...]<br>'''Madison''' - Q7 - Site evacuated and sealed after Simurgh event, all measures in effect - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hqJy4YEDqpKLwbatFVBLXnhs7dDTNykSYtDUCiR9ZBo/edit# PRT Master Reference]</ref>
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   - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
 cut it up point by point if neccesary
+'''themanwhowas''':Thank you again for the comprehensive answer!<br>
-Thank you again for the comprehensive answer!
+A couple questions:<br>
+:1.What does D.D.I.D. stand for?<br>
-A couple questions:
+:2.You mentioned PRT Watchdogs. Is that a group of PRT-specific capes? What are their responsibilities besides evaluating Simurgh victims?<br>
+What measures does the PRT take to ensure that supplies aren't taken by normal/parahuman gangs or bandits? I imagine not too many guards would want to expose themselves to Simurgh Quarantine Zone threats just to make sure the supplies go where they're needed.<br>
-What does D.D.I.D. stand for?
+:3.What channels of communication are there in the quarantine zones? An official PRT embassy of sorts, with Dragon-moderated contacts, like the hospital in the Travelers interlude?<br>
-You mentioned PRT Watchdogs. Is that a group of PRT-specific capes? What are their responsibilities besides evaluating Simurgh victims?
+:4.How quickly do the first walls go up? With prefabricated and/or parahuman help, it should still take a while for 300 foot walls to go around a city, even if it's just a part of a city.<br>
-What measures does the PRT take to ensure that supplies aren't taken by normal/parahuman gangs or bandits? I imagine not too many guards would want to expose themselves to Simurgh Quarantine Zone threats just to make sure the supplies go where they're needed.
+:5.How large are the zones? A mile in diameter? Five? Ten? Is it as far as the Simurgh's psychic scream, and if so, what is that range?<br>
-What channels of communication are there in the quarantine zones? An official PRT embassy of sorts, with Dragon-moderated contacts, like the hospital in the Travelers interlude?
+:6.Even if you don't answer these questions (or just reply with your infamous mathematician's answer), thank you regardless for taking the time to answer my original question!<br><br>
-How quickly do the first walls go up? With prefabricated and/or parahuman help, it should still take a while for 300 foot walls to go around a city, even if it's just a part of a city.
+'''Wildbow''':
-How large are the zones? A mile in diameter? Five? Ten? Is it as far as the Simurgh's psychic scream, and if so, what is that range?
+:1.Can't recall.<br>
-Even if you don't answer these questions (or just reply with your infamous mathematician's answer), thank you regardless for taking the time to answer my original question!
+:2.The Watchdog group is the group [[Accord]] belonged to. Parahuman thinkers and investigative bodies keeping an eye on economy, politics and other possible shenanigans behind the scenes.<br>
+:3.Random placement. That's all they can do.<br>
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+:4.No embassy, limited communications. The PRT periodically makes announcements from the walls. There was a presence of capes and forces who established an initial presence, but they were allowed out, separately quarantined, and went through an accelerated extraction after a short duration.<br>
+:5.Fast. Within the first week.<br>
-[–]Wildbow 9 points 2 years ago
+:6.Scream's rage varies. Fight took place over hours and covered an area of the city. Covered roughly the following area: http://i.imgur.com/sRbKrDI.png<br>
-Can't recall.
-The Watchdog group is the group Accord belonged to. Parahuman thinkers and investigative bodies keeping an eye on economy, politics and other possible shenanigans behind the scenes.
-Random placement. That's all they can do.
-No embassy, limited communications. The PRT periodically makes announcements from the walls. There was a presence of capes and forces who established an initial presence, but they were allowed out, separately quarantined, and went through an accelerated extraction after a short duration.
-Fast. Within the first week.
-Scream's rage varies. Fight took place over hours and covered an area of the city. Covered roughly the following area: http://i.imgur.com/sRbKrDI.png
 == Geography/Description ==
 Describe the layout, location, climate, appearence etc. of the location.
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 ==Government and heroic organizations==
-List any notable factions and individuals.
+Madison originally had the 83rd PRT office,<ref name="R3">PRT departments in nearby areas are staffed and set up to send their capes out to neighboring regions in case of emergency. Further, some cities have PRT ''offices'' but not departments, which aren't fully staffed and rounded out with X criteria and Y resources.<br><br>Take, for example, the small town of Stafford. Less than 15k people, three parahumans. PRT office is established in the same building that handles passports, drivers licenses, and votes - literally a one room affair with one staff member and one part time employee.<br><br>Two parahumans in Stafford are technically Protectorate, but for varying reasons don't have it in them to join a major team in the big city: - [https://redd.it/42tso6 Comment by Wildbow] on Reddit</ref> now it has a full Quarantine PRt department.
+===[[Watchdog]]===
+Punishment Detail
+==Civilians==
+Largely evacuated even outside of the zone. No one wants to live at a quarantine site.
+== Points of Interest ==
-==Villains==
+=== The Wall===
+Big<ref name="I18 e1">Elle opened the window into a proper exit, complete with a staircase leading to the road behind the hotel.  Faultline paused to look at the looming stone wall, only a few blocks away.  Three hundred feet tall, it was all smooth stone.  Parahuman made, no doubt.  The barrier encircled the area the Simurgh had attacked, containing everything within.<br><br>
-==Civilians==
+Every house and building within three hundred feet of the wall itself had been bulldozed.  She couldn’t help but feel conspicuous as they crossed the open area.  It was dark, there weren’t any spotlights, but she couldn’t help but be paranoid.<br><br>
+“Cell phones are dead,” Shamrock commented.<br><br>
-== Points of Interest ==
+Faultline nodded grimly.  Of course there wouldn’t be any transmissions into or out of this area.  No messages of any sort would be permitted.  Not even water entered or left the quarantine area, let alone communications or goods.  Anyone still inside was left to fend for themselves with whatever resources they could gather.<br><br>
+She’d checked and double checked the measures authorities were taking, ensuring that the area wasn’t being watched for intruders.  There weren’t any people on the wall, and the only surveillance was busy keeping an eye out for anyone who might be trying to make it over the top of the wall. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/interlude-18-donation-bonus-4/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus 4)]]</ref>
 ===Inside the Wall===
-*George L. Mosse Humanities Building Built in the 1960s
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- - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
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- - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
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- - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
-PRT Quarantine Zone #7 - Madison
-Formerly PRT Office 83, Madison was the site of a Simurgh attack, which took place over thirteen hours at the tail end of 2009. The area is a 'no man's land' within, as communication with those in the area is deemed high-risk with massive potential for causal fallout. PRT teams are brought in for a series of duties, described below, and rotate out on a schedule. These teams are hard to find and prepare, as they often center around a thinker who the others know, so they can support them and identify any odd behavior, they must be cleared & signed up for crisis events, with a great deal of counseling and evaluation prior to their assignment. Such cohesive, balanced and capable teams are often more comfortable elsewhere, and the PRT faces the awkward position that sees this being treated as a punishment detail.
-Within the walls, infrastructure is failing, some power effects linger from the 2009 fight against the Simurgh (runaway Master minions, a cloud of energy, and unstable tinker tech rubble), there is a high number of dangerous case 53s, and the unevacuated human element is just as dangerous, with a number of newly triggered individuals and bandits.
+<ref name="R2 e1">🐦'''PRT Quarantine Zone #7 - Madison'''<br>Formerly PRT Office 83, Madison was the site of a Simurgh attack, which took place over thirteen hours at the tail end of 2009. The area is a 'no man's land' within, as communication with those in the area is deemed high-risk with massive potential for causal fallout. PRT teams are brought in for a series of duties, described below, and rotate out on a schedule. These teams are hard to find and prepare, as they often center around a thinker who the others know, so they can support them and identify any odd behavior, they must be cleared & signed up for crisis events, with a great deal of counseling and evaluation prior to their assignment. Such cohesive, balanced and capable teams are often more comfortable elsewhere, and the PRT faces the awkward position that sees this being treated as a punishment detail.<br><br>Within the walls, infrastructure is failing, some power effects linger from the 2009 fight against the Simurgh (runaway Master minions, a cloud of energy, and unstable tinker tech rubble), there is a high number of dangerous case 53s, and the unevacuated human element is just as dangerous, with a number of newly triggered individuals and bandits.<br><br>Outside of the quarantine zone, all possible citizens have been evacuated, but some facilities and neighborhoods remain occupied, primarily by a low-level criminal element. Ironically, in a city with so much of a PRT presence/focus, the area is lawless, as authorities have other critical things to focus on. - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
-Outside of the quarantine zone, all possible citizens have been evacuated, but some facilities and neighborhoods remain occupied, primarily by a low-level criminal element. Ironically, in a city with so much of a PRT presence/focus, the area is lawless, as authorities have other critical things to focus on.
+<ref name="R2 e2">'''Quarantine'''
-Quarantine
 Evacuation and quarantine measures during/after the fight were prompt and reasonably effective, though a number of individuals slipped still past the initial defenses, which included armed forces (both military and PRT) and quickly erected chain-link fences with barbed wire.
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 Three years after the incident, the PRT restarted the process of outtake, each individual undergoing a background check and screening by a PRT-approved thinker. To minimize the effects of cumulative influence, the PRT rotates out directors and teams.
-Objectives are:
+''Objectives are:''
+*To maintain the safety of the public outside the zone, first and foremost.
+*To combat the Simurgh’s influence wherever possible.
+*Contain the Case-53 element within the walls.
+*Maintain the quarantine perimeter against attempted breaches.
+*Provide supplies and necessary services (water, power, shelter, medical) to those within.
+*Maintain the peace and continue regular PRT duties in respect to the now sparsely-populated Madison periphery.
+*PRT deals with number of incidents, including breakout attempts, ‘infected’ and ‘at risk’ individuals attempting to slip through outtake, crises within the site, such as hostages, gangs taking over supply drops and managing interactions with those within.
-To maintain the safety of the public outside the zone, first and foremost.
+The quarantine remains a controversial subject in the public debate, with many suggesting that outtake should be prohibited, while others say that it’s inhumane as it stands. The PRT may well need to step into the public debate to shape the narrative and control expectations. - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
-To combat the Simurgh’s influence wherever possible.
-Contain the Case-53 element within the walls.
-Maintain the quarantine perimeter against attempted breaches.
-Provide supplies and necessary services (water, power, shelter, medical) to those within.
-Maintain the peace and continue regular PRT duties in respect to the now sparsely-populated Madison periphery.
-PRT deals with number of incidents, including breakout attempts, ‘infected’ and ‘at risk’ individuals attempting to slip through outtake, crises within the site, such as hostages, gangs taking over supply drops and managing interactions with those within.
-The quarantine remains a controversial subject in the public debate, with many suggesting that outtake should be prohibited, while others say that it’s inhumane as it stands. The PRT may well need to step into the public debate to shape the narrative and control expectations.
+<ref name="R2 e3">Outtake
-Outtake
 The outtake process, following from the now-defunct D.D.I.D. measure (revoked in Summer 2010), involves a long series of checkups by PRT staff and allowed staff within the quarantine zone. Individuals must maintain appointments with counseling services regularly over ten months, missing no more than ten out of eighty.
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 An impromptu discussion follows, with the PRT officer, outside contact, the quarantine individual and (if viable/possible, the outtake screener, see below) conversing. For the individual, this is the first opportunity to reconnect with their old life. For the PRT officer, the conversation should be observed for discrepancies or alarm bells.
 One of three stress tests are chosen at random and conducted; the subject’s response to stress should be measured and noted. The deception may be bypassed if staff decides there is no need, depending on the ability of the screening thinker. The goal in this is to provoke the subject, knowing that the vast majority of Simurgh afflicted are poor at handling stressors. Stress tests include:
-Notification that they have failed to pass procedure and must remain within the quarantine zone for another ten months/for life.
+**Notification that they have failed to pass procedure and must remain within the quarantine zone for another ten months/for life.
-The outside contact cooperates by providing sufficiently stressful news: the death of family to Endbringers, death of a child, loss of something valued, etc.
+**The outside contact cooperates by providing sufficiently stressful news: the death of family to Endbringers, death of a child, loss of something valued, etc.
-A Medical examination is conducted and they are told they have a terminal illness.
+**A Medical examination is conducted and they are told they have a terminal illness.
-Final screening by PRT thinker, typically a different one than the two prior screenings.
+*Final screening by PRT thinker, typically a different one than the two prior screenings.
 The subject undergoes a medical checkup.
-The individual is freed, with mandated checks six times a year. The individual should avoid high-profile events, and has their drivers license marked.
+*The individual is freed, with mandated checks six times a year. The individual should avoid high-profile events, and has their drivers license marked.
-More severe and problematic measures under the D.D.I.D. act have already been removed from the process (including the tattooing of those leaving quarantine).-->
+*More severe and problematic measures under the D.D.I.D. act have already been removed from the process (including the tattooing of those leaving quarantine). - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/3ec7eu Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
+-->
 ==History==
 ===Background===
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 ===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
 Infiltrated by [[Faultline’s Crew]].
-<!--===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
 ===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
+Outtake process had recommenced.
 ===[[Gold Morning]]===
-===Early-[[Ward]]===
+Unknown but all former sites were reported to be breeched.<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. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/glowworm-p-1/ Excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.1]]</ref>
+<!--===Early-[[Ward]]===
-https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4plwx6/spoilers_worm_a_bunch_of_questions_about_cauldron/d4n0yg1
+<ref name="R5 e1">Cauldron capes were explicitly ''more'' stable. Case 53s (barring Shamrock, Madison and Dealer C53s) all had a reason for being dropped where they were, with individual programming. - Excerpt from a [https://redd.it/4plwx6 Reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
 CYOA stuff
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 ==Trivia==
-*It was later the setting for a non-canon and lapsed [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtJ665DCAINHLkosEqrOoFD5I60zM0vNq5IU-xlN8DQ/ Weaverdice] game that took some ques from the quest.
+*The Quarentine Zone was the setting for a non-canon and lapsed [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qtJ665DCAINHLkosEqrOoFD5I60zM0vNq5IU-xlN8DQ/ Weaverdice] campaign.
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