Craske Triangle

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The Craske Triangle is an enclave centered around the The Craske Museum in western Heytown. The name derives from the close cooperation between Cornelius General Hospital, the the Usher Building, and Goldney Place Police Department, and is used to describe both the neighborhood around the museum and its permanent residents.

The Triangle is currently protected by the Mad Craskers, the Holy Order of the Pint, and many devoted, unaffiliated survivors. Both Dowdney Mall and Giddings Mall are nearby and frequented by Triangle residents. The Craskers maintain the 26.07 MHz radio frequency on the transmitters in the Triangle, but also listen closely to 26.06 (Dowdney Mall/Dribbling Beavers channel) and 26.70 (Giddings Mall) to coordinate defenses.

The Heytown suburb page and the Mad Craskers page both keep pretty up-to-date information on this region of Malton. The Mad Craskers Forum is active at all hours of the day and night (no matter your timezone).

History

The neighborhood, for as long as anyone has treated it as one, has been under almost constant attack by offshoots of forces laying siege to Giddings Mall and Fort Creedy; in fact it was after The Shining Ones' April, 2006 destruction of Fort Creedy that the Triangle's residents first began organizing to deal with the unique problems posed by the neighborhood's layout and strategic importance.

Throughout April and May (2006), the Triangle thwarted repeated attacks, until late May when for the first time both the Usher Building and Cornelius General fell at the same time. With only the PD, Nuttycombe, and the safehouses to repel the attack and repair the damage, the neighborhood was effectively overrun for nearly a week before survivors began again to assert control and enjoy a significant degree of safety.

Neighborhood

No longer strictly a triangle, the enclave has grown encompass several nearby landmarks.

Barricades

Local barricade policy has been a subject of controversy owing to the fact that Cornelius General Hospital falls within the jurisdiction of Spracklingbank, which has adopted the Uniform Barricading Policy. A silent compromise seems now to have been reached, with the hospital treated as a special case and Free Running access points maintained elsewhere in the complex. The end result more closely resembles Giddings Mall's policies than it does the UBP.

For the sake of usefulness, this section will leave all such matters to the appropriate talk pages. Following are the actual, likely barricade levels travelers will find in the neighborhood, as mostly agreed upon and usually maintained by the permanent residents of each building.

  • Club Swabey at 78, 35 is kept at VS for newbie survival and Free Running entry. Count on entering through this building.
  • Nuttycombe is always barricaded to EH.
  • Goldney PD is usually kept at VS+2 except when under attack.
  • Cornelius is often at VS+2, but moves quickly to EH when attacked. Do not rely on it for an entry point.
  • The Usher Building is always barricaded to EH.
  • Every other adjacent building is an actual or decoy safehouse and will likely be barricaded to EH.

Revives

The recently deceased in need of revivification should stand at Mester Square. If you wish to be eligible, ever, for revives in this neighborhood, do not kill zombies standing at Mester Square. That you were also a zombie at the time is not a valid excuse. You will wind up on the DNR list and your revive requests will be ignored.

News

  • Please add new news entries, field reports, etc. at the bottom of this section. Sign and date your report by adding --~~~~ at the bottom like so. (Remove the nowiki tags you'll notice while editing the page.) And don't worry about screwing things up, that's what wikis are for!
  • If you're really squeamish, use the talk page. If you're even more squeamish, post a reply at the Craske Triangle Blog.
  • Entries here will be archived weekly, or so.
  • This section is emphatically POV, so rant all you like, but please move arguments to the talk page when they arise.

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  • The hospital has been overrun again. 14 zombies outside and 33 bodies.
  • No zeds yet outside Nuttycomble, Godson, or Craske. I did not get a look outside Usher or the PD.
  • The siege of Giddings Mall has ended and "the horde has moved on." I took a walk down that way and am pleased to report that they have not moved on in our direction.
  • A reminder that the mall is only 5 to 7 blocks from here. Only the northeast corner is powered at the moment.

--einexile 22:53, 10 June 2006 (BST)


  • Was dragging myself to the nearest RP at Mester when I noticed a weird group of numbers. There are 10 zombies and 27 dead bodies in front of the Hospital. There's one zombie each at the Craske Museum, the Godson Arms and the Usher Building. Seeing as the hospital was just recently attacked, the high dead body count is expected, but why the zeds would stick around is beyond me... Could be nothing but better to be safe than eaten.

--Tom Aunders 8:27AM, 11 June 2006 (EST)


  • It must be all the sweet, innocent scientists without Free Running who arrived at our doorstep expecting the only hospital within shouting distance of Fort Creedy and Giddings Mall to be weakly barricaded. Shrug. At any rate I think a lot of those dead bodies want to be zombies. The revive request url has been tagged outside the hospital for quite a while now and we've seen that pile of bodies twice before in recent memory.
  • The one really alarming thing I'm noticing is that people are no longer sleeping in the PD. This seems like a dangerous situation but I haven't had a chance to peek in all the other buildings, so I don't know if we're losing numbers in general or if people are just abandoning the resource buildings.

--einexile 15:22, 12 June 2006 (BST)


  • Aight here's the lay of the land this evening. I'm going to try and organize this into a table later but I'll post the raw numbers for now. Yes, I know some of these numbers are dangerous; so are ignorance and disorganization, and more dangerous still are people who obsess over the former while neglecting the latter.
  • (To make sense of the format: The first line says that the Usher Building has 22 residents and is barricaded to Heavily. Yes there is a generator, yes it is powered, no there is no transmitter. There are 0 zombies inside and 2 outside, 0 bodies inside and 8 outside. Yes there is useful tagging inside and yes there is useful tagging outside. The 0 barricades at the Cornelius entry indicates just that; an R there would indicate the building has been ransacked.
  • Usher - 22, H | Y/Y/N | 0/2, 0/8 | Y/Y
  • Nuttycombe - 5, EH | Y/Y/N | 0/0, 0/? | N/?
  • Vellacott - 2, QS | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/1 | N/N
  • Godson - 11, EH | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/? | N/?
  • Craske - 29, EH | N/N/Y | 0/0, 0,? | N/?
  • Cornelius - 0, 0 | N/N/N | 0/3, 0,36 | N/Y
  • Goldney - 9, H | Y/Y/27.54 | 0/0, 0/? | Y/?
  • 78x37 warehouse - 1, VS | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/5 | Y/N
  • Steeds - 5, EH | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/? | N/?
  • Mester - 1 zed standing, 16 bodies, tagged

--einexile 00:51, 13 June 2006 (BST)


  • The issue of barricades at the hospital has come up again. Reading this, it will be pretty clear what my opinions are on the matter. What you need to do is decide whether you want the DEM and their thugs in the MFD running the local hospital. There are fair arguments for the UBP and the Distributed Defense doctrine; I happen to think they are laughably simplistic and a recipe for countless wasted AP and lethal chaos in the resource supply. They are also no fun.
  • The decision, as I see it, is to repopulate the hospital and PD with people now residing in useless safehouses, where it literally takes infinitely more AP to check resource building barricades and equipment. If we do not retake the hospital in short order, the MFD will assume control. History shows that under these conditions the hospital barricades will - despite assurances to the contrary - be enforced at VS regardless of siege status, players lacking Free Running are scattered to several locations & left to fend for themselves, and the hospital will be in an even more constant state of flux depending upon how bored the MFD are with the place and the amount of drama it provides them.
  • If we retake the hospital quickly, we can apply as a block for membership in the Alliance of Giddings and be afforded some protection. If this does not happen it is my belief that the hospital will be split off from the greater Triangle and we will have no say in how the place is run.

--einexile 02:51, 13 June 2006 (BST)


The neighborhood this evening...

  • Usher - 32, EH | Y/Y/N | 0/0, 0/? | Y/?
  • Nuttycombe - 4, EH | Y/Y/N | 0/0, 0/? | N/?
  • Vellacott - no zeds outside; no other data
  • Godson - 9, VH | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/2 | N/N
  • Craske - 29, EH | N/N/Y | 0/0, 0,0 | N/N
  • Cornelius - 13, VH | Y/Y/N | 0/0, 1/14 | Y/Y
  • Goldney - 3, EH | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/F21 | N/Y
  • 78x37 warehouse - 5, VS | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/2 | Y/N
  • Steeds - 1, EH | N/N/N | 0/0, 0/1 | N/N
  • Swabey - 9, VS | N/N/N | 0/0, 0,4 | N/N
  • Mester - 2 zeds standing, 10 bodies, tagged

--einexile 23:51, 14 June 2006 (BST)


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