Escape (event)
One day late in April 2010, a quiet Maltonian named Captain Video was in Lukinswood, rifling through the wreckage of Jensen Boulevard Police Department for a shotgun, because he had fistfuls of shotgun shells and no way to fire them. He had been at this for several days and was beginning to seriously question the values or purpose of Urban Dead.
While finding ever more shells and no way to fire them, Video suddenly heard a transmission from the Emergency Broadcast System down the street. Somebody, jokingly, was suggesting that all the survivors go over to Owsleybank and mob the border in an attempt to break out of Malton.
The broadcaster was speaking in jest, but for Captain Video this was a call to arms. Two weeks later he was the unofficial head of an incredibly poorly coordinated army of hundreds who were hunkering down for the biggest siege in years.
This is their true story.
Escape
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Escapes |
| Escape: June 1, 2010 ~ Escape II: A Very Escape Christmas: Dec. 25, 2010 | |
| Escape III: Unannounced ~ Escape XVII: Escape Takes Manhattan: May 21, 2011 |
| Escape | ||||
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| Date: | May/June 2010 | |||
| Place: | Ellicott Place Railway Station | |||
| Result: | Zombie victory | |||
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| Groups | ||||
| - Survivors : | Escape | |||
| - Zombies : | No Escape, The Ridleybank Resistance Front, Militant Order of Barhah, Feral Undead, Minions of the Apocalypse, Extinction, Red Rum, EVIL | |||
| Commanders | ||||
| - Survivors : | 404: CaptainVideo | |||
| - Zombies : | Red Brinded Cat, Papa Globule and Adward of the RRF, Liche and Amber of the MOB | |||
| Strength | ||||
| - Survivors : | 500 survivors who were bored with Urban Dead | |||
| - Zombies : | 400 zombies driven by the scent of bra!nz in the air | |||
| Casualties | ||||
| - Survivors : | No one inside Elicott was left alive. Coupled with ruined surroundings, 500+ | |||
| - Zombies : | Approximately 100 | |||
Flipyap killed a zombie with a fire axe. (5 minutes ago)
Flipyap said "i will fight you basterds until i die" (4 minutes ago)
A zombie dragged Flipyap out into the street. (2 minutes ago)
The First Escape was a high-profile siege that occurred on the western border of Malton towards the end of May 2010.
| The "Escape Zone" |
Fed up with being quarantined in the city and unable to leave, CaptainVideo founded Escape, a group of players who were tired of the stagnant status of Urban Dead and it's updates. There he led a group of hopeful escapees to Ellicott Place Railway Station at the border of Owsleybank to perform a ritualistic calling out to Kevan, in hope they could be lifted from Malton and be taken someplace else. The date that Cpt. Video had set for the symbolic ultimatum was the 1st of June 2010, and before long ferals and groups targeted the Railway station in order to stop Video and his survivors from leaving. The event officially ended on the 26th of May when the zombies eventually killed every member of Escape, ending what had quickly become the biggest siege in the almost two years.
Timeline
April 30, 2010- CaptainVideo, in a stroke of genius, creates the Escape movement to leave Malton. Propaganda begins to be spraypainted throughout Malton.
8 May, 2010 - Escape hits 100 members, all aiming to leave Malton.
12 May, 2010 - Escape has over 200 members.
16/17 May - The counter group, No Escape, is formed by Red Brinded Cat. Escape now has over 300 members.
22 May - Escape has over 400 members. The Ridleybank Resistance Front declares its intention to besiege Ellicott.
24 May - The Woodborne Building, a longtime Rot Revive, is attacked, as it was intentionally left unbarricaded. The ease with which this food is acquired attracts may more zombies, while giving those there a reason to stay.
25 May - Woodborne is ruined by Jadkor of the RRF. The adjacent Dawney Building, which housed ~30 survivors, is destroyed by a joint RRF-MOB strike. These gains for No Escape sounds the eventual death knell of Ellicott.
26 May - Ferals breach the building, forming a beachhead of ~10 zombies before being booted by survivor firepower. Later that day, a joint strike between Auxunit 10 of the RRF and Bairn Cathairn of the MOB results in a larger beachhead of ~20 zombies.
27 May - Zombies swarm inside to kill the 300 survivors exposed by the previous day's assault. Before the end of the day, more than 160 zombies were standing in the ruined building, all survivors having been eaten or fled. Shortly after this, ~40 survivors attempted to retake the Dawney Building, to no avail.
28 May - Waller Auto Repair, which held 100+ survivors, is ruined. Most survivors fall back to restock.
1 June - In an unorganized but determined attempt to reclaim Ellicott before the climax, survivors rush in, killing and combat reviving what zombies they could, while meatshielding to slow zombie retaliation. After less than four hours of bloodshed, every survivor to remain inside had been killed, and zombie numbers remained around 140.
Legacy
Proffesor Chaos: "I hate you zombies. Looks like 400 plus survivors are going to quit. Congraulations"
A zombie: "Harmanz nah haz manbagz? HAR HAR HAR!"
Ellicott was ruined, and the alliance of major zombie groups that had made up the No Escape movement went separate ways again. Following the crushing political defeat for survivors, many participants on both side of the battle decided to join The Third Big Bash; It looked to be the next big event, and was performed by the side that had proven its worth in battle. The transition from Escape to Bash was clean, and the city wide survivor:zombie ratio gradually turned in favor of the dead.
Over a month later, survivors quietly reclaimed the no longer significant area from lingering ferals.
Escape II: A Very Escape Christmas
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