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Old Lady Creature

The **Old Lady Creature** is one of the mysterious Creatures that haunt the inhabitants of the Town, killing any that they can get their hands on. The Old Lady takes the appearance of a kind old woman.

## Biography

### Season One

The Old Lady goes to the window of the Pratt home and speaks to Meagan, their young daughter, and asks to be let inside, telling Meagan that she is her grandmother. Meagan says she is not supposed to open the window, but the Old Lady promises to keep it a secret. Meagan opens the curtain to her window, and tells the Old Lady that she doesn’t look like her grandmother. The Old Lady begs to be let inside, saying she is lonely. Meagan’s mother Lauren gets upstairs just in time to see Meagan open the window, and the Old Lady reveals her horrific true form and attacks them, killing them both.

### Season Two

While Victor and Tabitha make their way through the caves underneath the Town where the Creatures sleep during the day, they come across a large chamber. After getting distracted by the appearance of a Ghoulish Child, they begin to panic as they notice the Old Lady and other Creatures beginning to wake up, but they find the way out in time.

Randall is forced to live in the bus after being banished from Colony House. That night, he struggles to sleep while the Creatures knock on the windows of the bus. Fed up, he goes to the door and prepares to exit to confront them before remembering. Outside, the Old Lady Creature asks if he is comfortable. Randall asks them if they think this is scary, and taunts them about how they can’t get inside because of the Talisman. Randall tells them he is not afraid of them, and they leave him alone. Randall yells at them not to walk away from him. The Creatures then begin howling.

The Old Lady and a number of other Creatures surround the RV, where Boyd, Donna, Jim and Randall are sheltering for the night. They stop some distance from it, which Boyd and Donna note is extremely unusual. After the music box begins playing on the radio and the lights start flickering, Randall panics and breaks a window, making a run for it, with several Creatures stalking after him. Boyd fires the bile-covered bullets at the remaining Creatures, but they do not work and he joins Jim and Donna in fleeing in the van.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* Strangers in a Strange Land (uncredited)
* Lullaby
* Ball of Magic Fire (uncredited)

## References

1. ↑ Long Day's Journey Into Night
2. ↑ Strangers in a Strange Land
3. ↑ Lullaby
4. ↑ Ball of Magic Fire
United States

The **United States of America** (USA) is the third-largest and third most populous country in the world located primarily in the North American mainland. The world’s sole superpower, it is composed of 50 states and a number of outlying territories. The mysterious Township appears to be located within the borders of the United States. People from all over the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, have become trapped within its confines while traveling.

In the Town, there is a map of the United States in the Sheriff's Office where they keep track of everyone's location at the moment they got trapped.

## Characters by State

### Arizona

* On February 20, 2022, the Matthews family became trapped within the Township while traveling from Glendale, Arizona to Yellowstone National Park.

### California

* Before getting trapped in the Town, Tom was a philosophy professor at the University of Southern California.

### Colorado

* After leaving Boulder, Colorado for Portland, Oregon, Fatima Hassan gets trapped in the Township on February 28, 2021.

### Florida

* On February 20, 2022, while traveling to Miami, Florida from New York City, Jade Herrera and Tobey McCray became trapped in the Township.

### Illinois

* While traveling from St. Charles Illinois towards Wisconsin on July 12, 2019, Father Rudra Khatri became trapped in the Township

### Massachusetts

* While on their way to Boston, Sara and Nathan Myers became trapped in the Township on September 18, 2021.

### Michigan

* On August 6, 2021, while traveling from Detroit to Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kristi Miller became trapped in the Township.
* About half a year later, a Grand Rapids Runner Bus carrying 25 passengers became trapped inside the Township.

### Montana

* On August 3, 2018, while traveling from Bozeman to Chateau, Donna Raines and her sister became trapped in the Township.

### New York

* On February 20, 2022, while traveling from New York City to Miami, Florida, Jade Herrera and Tobey McCray became trapped in the Township.

### North Carolina

* While traveling towards Wilmington, North Carolina, the Stevens family gets trapped in the Township on November 15, 2019.

### Oregon

* While on her way to Portland, Oregon, Fatima Hassan gets trapped in the Township on February 28, 2021.

### Pennsylvania

* While on their way to Boston, MA from New Hope, Pennsylvania,  Sara and Nathan Myers became trapped in the Township on September 18, 2021.

### Texas

* On March 18, 2021, while traveling from Austin back to College Station, the Liu family became trapped in the Township.

### Virginia

* On November 15, 2019, while traveling from Petersburg, Virginia towards Wilmington, North Carolina, the Stevens family gets trapped in the Township.

### Wisconsin

* While traveling to Wisconsin from Illinois, Father Rudra Khatri becomes trapped in the Township on July 12, 2019.

### Other States

Other locations people trapped in the Township have come from based on the map in the Sheriff’s Office:

* Alabama
* Alaska
* Kansas
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Missouri
* Nevada
* New Mexico
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* South Dakota
* Utah
* Wyoming
Church

The Church in Season 1

**The Church** is the designated worship building in the Town. Adjacent to the Church is the Town's graveyard. Inside, the main floor is where Father Rudra Khatri leads services and delivers sermons, and there is a basement that is used for storage.

## History

### Season 1

During the first season, the church is the location of where Father Rudra Khatri preaches. Adjacent to it is a graveyard where dead bodies would be buried. There were a few occasions where Father Khatri delivered sermons.

Later in the season, Father Khatri hides Sara Myers in the church basement due to her possible knowledge in relation to escaping the town. After Father Khatri was killed, she was moved out of the basement by Boyd Stevens and elsewhere in the nearby forest.
Forest

The **Forest,** also referred to as the **Woods,** encompasses most of the area of the Township, surrounding the Town and Colony House. It is filled with mystery and danger.

## Geography

The Fallen Tree marks the boundary into the Township, trapping all who enter. The road extends through the center of Town through the forest. The forest surrounds the Town and Colony House, extending for miles, and the terrain gets more hilly further from Town. One feature of the forest is the mysterious Farway Trees, which can teleport people or objects. One particular such tree, the Bottle Tree, transports people who climb inside the hollow to the Lighthouse.

## History

### Background

Shortly after he first arrived in the Township, Boyd Stevens went exploring in the forest. One day, he found goats and chickens wandering near the edge of the Town. The livestock found in the forest would become a core part of the food supply for the inhabitants of the Town. Some days later, Boyd got lost in the forest after dark and happened upon the Talisman Cave, where he took shelter, discovering the Talismans that repelled the Creatures.

### Season One

After first arriving in Town, the Matthews family panics after the road keeps on looping them back to the center of town. Jim Matthews tries turning their RV around and driving in the opposite direction, but they encounter a speeding Audi heading their way, and the two vehicles swerve to avoid each other, crashing. The Matthews family and the passengers of the Audi are aided by the residents of the Town and Colony House.

Rather then send him to his death in the Box as punishment for his negligence that caused his family's death, Boyd Stevens tells Frank to go live in the Shack near the tree line and make life there. Frank opts to go into the Box, reasoning that everyone he loves is dead.

## References

1. ↑ Broken Windows, Open Doors
2. ↑ Long Day's Journey Into Night
3. ↑ Choosing Day
Dormison

**This article is a disambiguation page for Dormison**

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Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Dormison may refer to:

* Jacob Dormison, professor emeritus at Stanford University
* Dormison's Paradox
Lauren Pratt

**Lauren Pratt** was Meagan's mother and Frank's wife. Like her husband and daughter, she became trapped in the Township. While Frank was gone, Meagan, Lauren's daughter, opens a window in their home and lets in one of the Creatures, which slaughters both Lauren and Meagan.

## Biography

### Season 1

#### Episode 1

As Sheriff Boyd Stevens walks through town ringing a bell to signal that the sun is going down, Lauren tells her daughter, Meagan Pratt, to come inside. Meagan asks for five more minutes on the swings, but a passing Boyd tells her to listen to her mother. As the sun sets further, Lauren nervously waits by the door for her husband. Meagan asks her mother when her father would be arriving and that he had promised to be back before dark. Lauren just says that her father simply forgot and tells her to go upstairs and start her prayers. However, Frank is passed out drunk at the Bar, where he spends the night.

After night falls, Lauren goes upstairs and overhears Meagan talking to what sounds like an old woman, who is claiming to be her grandmother. Lauren tells Meagan that that is not her grandma and to get away from the figure. Lauren begs her daughter not to open the window, but Meagan does so at the old woman's behest. The old woman quickly turns into a horrifying monster, who slaughters them both.

The next morning, a hungover Frank walks back to his house and sees a crowd gathered outside. Not realizing what happened, he asks if they've come for another bake-off when Boyd comes outside and begins hitting and berating Frank for not nailing the windows the shut when he had a child in the house. Frank begins falling apart, refusing to believe what happened, and Boyd drags him upstairs to look at the eviscerated bodies of his wife and daughter. Frank sobs at the sight while Boyd tells him that a man is supposed to protect his family, but Frank caused their deaths instead, ordering him to look at the bodies. He then has Kenny lock Frank up in a cell. Meagan and her mother are later buried at the graveyard by the Church. During the funeral service, the RV containing the Matthews family arrives in Town.

## Legacy

The death of Lauren and Meagan are the first on-screen deaths to take place. The death of Megan and Lauren also ends 96 days free of incidents, and leads Lauren's husband, Frank, to voluntarily go into the Box.
Gustaf Anders

Celebrated VX Astrophysiologist who held the Chair of Applied Diphenhydramics at the University of Unch, Netherlands from 2007 to 2013.

## Academic Career with VX

After his successful but largely unrecognised work on core VX theories, Dr. Anders joined the faculty at U.U. in 2002.

In 2003 he instigated the diphenhydramics program in the Department of Astrophysiology and began his work on the proof of Webster's Theorem, confirming the successful proof some three years later. Much of his work was later attributed to his long-time research partner Dr. B. G. Bakke and others who introduced corrections into his macro quen plane calculations.

Remembered by former students for his axiom "Afval is slecht en jij ook!" which he maintained translated to "Just imagine and change the world!".

## Death

Gustaf Anders died from post operative complications following an accident involving a PRX3 Boson-Tracing module in August 2013.
Shack

The Shack is a small wooden shack located at the edge of the Forest. It is largely unused except as a temporary shelter.

## History

### Season One

After Frank Pratt’s negligence cases the death of his wife and daughter, Boyd mulls over whether or not Frank should die as punishment, as per the rules Boyd himself put in place. After much rumination, Boyd gives Frank a talisman and tells him about the shack, and to go there and make whatever life he can there. In the end, Frank decides to accept his fate willingly, feeling like there is no longer any point in living without his family.

As they prepare for their journey into the Forest, Boyd has Sara Myers wait for him in the Shack, as the rest of the Town believes her to have run away after accidentally killing her brother in an attempt to kill Ethan Matthews. Boyd later returns, with his son Ellis following him. Ellis admits that he has been following him trying to find the courage to say something. Ellis explains that during the Colony House attack, they would have died if not for the Talisman on the door. Ellis confesses that he has been angry for such a long time, and didn’t know how to deal with it, but had Boyd not brought the Talismans back, and struggles to finish the thought. Ellis tells Boyd that Abby’s actions were not his fault and apologizes, and the two begin crying and hug each other. Ellis says that he did not want to let Boyd leave without saying goodbye. Boyd tells him that this is not good bye, and Ellis notices Sara watching them. Ellis asks what she is doing and Boyd tries to explain that he needs her for his journey, offering to explain everything when he returns, asking Ellis to trust him and not reveal that Sara is with him. Ellis agrees, and tells Boyd to come back. The two say they love each other before Ellis leaves. After handcuffing Sara, she and Boyd venture into the Forest.

## References

1. ↑ Choosing Day
2. ↑ Broken Windows, Open Doors
Paula

**Paula** was one of the people trapped in the Town, along with her husband, Reggie. They move into the Myers House after Nathan is killed and Sara runs away.

## Biography

### Season Two

After returning to the Town, Sara Myers goes to her and her brother's former house to look for her things. However, she is confronted by Paula and Reggie, who demand that she leave and give back her brother's jacket which she had picked up and that she can't have her house back. Sara begs them to let her look for her belongings, and they say that they put all of her stuff in storage at the Diner. Sara asks specifically about a ceramic ornament, but Reggie says it was creepy having her stuff here and it was creepy having her in the house now, while Paula orders her to leave. Sara asks to keep the jacket, but Paula confiscates it and orders her to leave.

Sometime later, Paula is horrifically killed in her sleep. Reggie runs outside of the house in a panic, covered in her blood and calling for help. Boyd and Kenny rush over, and Reggie leads them to Paula's body. Reggie explains that she was resting while he was downstairs and heard her screaming. He tried to wake her, but she was talking in her sleep before it was if her entire body cracked. As Reggie begins to sob, Boyd asks what Paula was saying in her sleep. Boyd tells him that he needs to tell him what Paula says, and Reggie says she kept on repeating “they touch, they break, they steal, no one here is free” before dying. Boyd asks if she was still asleep, and Reggie angrily answers yes as he continues to break down. Realizing that their dreams can harm them now, Boyd and Kenny decide to inform everyone to stick together and stay awake until they figure out a solution.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* Lullaby
* Ball of Magic Fire (corpse)

## References

1. ↑ Lullaby
2. ↑ Ball of Magic Fire
Waitress Creature

The **Waitress Creature** is one of the mysterious Creatures that haunt the inhabitants of the Town, killing any they can get their hands on. The Waitress Creature takes the appearance of a 1950s diner waitress.

## Biography

### Season Two

The Waitress and another Creature approach two of the Grand Rapids Runner Bus passengers, pretending to be human, before killing them. The incident is witnessed by Fatima Hassan, who tries in vain to warn the passengers from the safety of the Sheriff’s Office.

Led by the Old Lady Creature, the Waitress and a number of other Creatures gather outside the bus and try goad Randall into opening the doors. Randall asks them if they think this is scary, and taunts them about how they can’t get inside because of the Talisman. Randall tells them he is not afraid of them, and they leave him alone. Randall yells at them not to walk away from him. The Creatures then begin howling.

The Waitress and a number of other Creatures surround the RV, where Boyd, Donna, Jim and Randall are sheltering for the night. As they advance, they suddenly and uncharacteristically stop, simply standing around the vehicle. Later that night, the four try to make their escape, and Boyd tries to fire bullets dipped in Smiley’s bile at the Creatures, to no effect. Ultimately, all four escape the Creatures.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* The Kindness of Strangers (uncredited)
* Lullaby
* Ball of Magic Fire (uncredited)

## References

1. ↑ The Kindness of Strangers
2. ↑ Lullaby
3. ↑ Ball of Magic Fire
Jock Creature

The **Jock Creature** is one of the mysterious Creatures that haunt the inhabitants of the Town, killing any they can get their hands on. The Jock Creature takes the appearance of a young athlete.

## Biography

### Season One

After getting trapped in the Township, Julie and her mother are escorted to Colony House on foot in the midst of a storm by Kenny and Ellis. After struggling through the rain and the mud, they make it to the Colony House porch and beg to be let inside. As they pound on the doors, the Jock leads a group of Creatures to the porch and greets Julie by name, asking if she recognizes him, shocking her. Kenny tries shooting the Jock, to no avail. Right before they are on top of the group, they are let inside and the door is quickly shut behind them, locking the Jock and the other Creatures out.

### Season Two

After Donna Raines fires a shotgun into the front wheel of the Grand Rapids Runner Bus while trying to corral the passengers inside before dark, a number of passengers scatter. Brian and Kelly seek refuge in the bar. The Jock and another Creature follow them and knock on the door, saying they were on the bus and begging to be let inside. Brian, thinking they are fellow passengers, opens the door.

The next day, it is revealed that the Creatures killed Brian, and then pinned Kelly's head to a tree with a metal rod. Somehow, Kelly remained alive until the next day, when she was discovered by Ellis Stevens and Kenny Liu.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* The Kindness of Strangers (voice, uncredited)
* Tether (flashback, uncredited)

## References

1. ↑ The Way Things Are Now
2. ↑ The Kindness of Strangers
3. ↑ Tether
Cowboy Creature

The **Cowboy Creature** is one of the mysterious Creatures that haunt the inhabitants of the Town, killing any they can get their hands on. The Creature takes the appearance of a cowboy, in western wear and a hat.

## Biography

### Season Two

After some of the bus passengers scatter while Donna and Kenny try to corral them inside before dark, Fatima tries to convince the passengers caught outside to seek shelter in the Sheriff’s Office with her. Ellis has to drag her inside just the Cowboy and another Creature round the corner. The Cowboy tips his hat at her and tells her that he is spoiling all the fun, angering her, and Ellis pulls her away from the door. After seeing two passengers fall prey to the Creatures, Fatima goes back to the door and starts yelling at the Creatures to stop smiling. The Cowboy Creature stares blankly and tells her that she'll feel better if she comes outside.

Boyd exits the Clinic and calls out for the Creatures to come to him. The Cowboy and several other Creatures arrive, while Smiley confronts him. Boyd cuts his hand and then Smiley’s throat before pressing his wound to Smiley’s. This transfers the worms infecting him to Smiley, killing the Creature. The Cowboy and the other Creatures walk over and calmly inspect Smiley’s corpse, ignoring Boyd before walking away.

The Cowboy and a number of other Creatures surround the RV, where Boyd, Donna, Jim and Randall are sheltering for the night. As they advance, they suddenly and uncharacteristically stop, simply standing around the vehicle. Later that night, the four try to make their escape, and Boyd tries to fire bullets dipped in Smiley’s bile at the Creatures, to no effect. However, all four escape the Creatures.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* The Kindness of Strangers
* Pas de Deux (uncredited)
* Ball of Magic Fire (uncredited)

## References

1. ↑ The Kindness of Strangers
2. ↑ Pas de Deux
3. ↑ Ball of Magic Fire
Lighthouse

**The Lighthouse** is located deep in the Forest of the Township at least a day's journey on foot from Town. Oddly, it is not located near any body of water. It has appeared in the visions of a number of Townsfolk, and is associated with the mysteries of the Township. The Lighthouse is accessible via the Bottle Tree, a unique Farway Tree that transports people to the Lighthouse.

## History

### Season One

Tabitha has a vision where she digs in the basement, and Jim calls her up for dinner. As she climbs the stairs, she has a vision that cuts between walking through the main street of town and ascending the stairs of a tower. She hears what sounds like a ship’s horn. As she continues climbing the tower, she finds several objects on the ground, including Ethan’s toys, and shouts that she told him to pick them up, seemingly not noticing that anything is amiss. She picks them up, but knocks over a glass bottle, which rolls down the stairs, and asks someone to pick it up. Tabitha then hears the sound of a phone ringing and a baby crying, and tells Jim to get the kids because something is wrong. As she grows more nervous, she notices the wall above her is inscribed with various years. She then looks up, she notices Jim dangling from the ceiling, and suddenly his mouth opens as if to scream but the sound of a car horn emits, flashing her back to the RV crash, and Tabitha wakes up in her bed.

During their journey through the Forest in search of answers, Boyd Stevens leads Sara Myers in the direction of the light and sounds they encountered the previous night. After they struggle due to Boyd's injuries to the top of the hill, they find that the source of the light and the noise is the Lighthouse. Before they can reach it, night falls, and Sara is led by the Boy in White to a Farway Tree, which sends them to different locations.

### Season Two

Victor takes Tabitha Matthews to the Car Graveyard where they find his mother, Miranda's, car. They look inside the trunk and find drawings, and Victor realizes that they were made by his sister, Eloise, memory of whom he had blocked after her death. Tabitha then notices a drawing of a lighthouse and asks what it is. Victor explains that Eloise said it’s where their mother was going that night, to save the children locked in the tower.

With her daughter possessed by The Musicbox Monster, Tabitha Matthews decides to go to the Lighthouse to try and free the Ghoulish Children somehow and break them all out of the Township. Victor leads her to the Bottle Tree and gives Tabitha his lunch box, which he packed with snacks for her. Tabitha thanks and hugs him before going inside the tree. She is then transported to the entrance of the Lighthouse. Tabitha climbs the steps of the Lighthouse, and hears a child’s voice say “anghkooey” from up above. She ascends to the top floor and gazes out at the vast expanse. The Boy in White then apologizes, saying this is the only way before pushing her through the window. Tabitha then wakes up in a hospital, seemingly back in the normal world.

## References

1. ↑ Into The Woods
2. ↑ Oh, the Places We'll Go
3. ↑ Forest for the Trees
4. ↑ Once Upon a Time?
Trudy

**Trudy** was one of the people trapped in the Town who lived in Colony House. She had a habit of hoarding the clothes that she liked.

## Biography

### Season One

Ellis and others arrive with several newcomers to Town. After they are let in, Ellis ties the unconscious Jade to a bed, while Trudy asks about the cars. After Ellis stops Trudy from stealing Jade’s watch, she remarks that he’s attractive. As Ellis leaves, he has her promise not to touch anything, though she stays just to look at Jade.

The morning after Julie moves into Colony House, Trudy greets her and asks for her pillow back, explaining that it’s like a security blanket for her, which she calls Meredith, explaining that the things that matter should always have names. As Trudy leaves, Julie says she has a shirt just like hers, and Trudy says she got it out of her suitcase, explaining that they share everything at Colony House, bothering Julie.

Jade wanders muttering to himself while carrying a radio when he passes the Bar, where Trudy asks him what he’s doing. Jade explains that the radio helps him think. Trudy says that he’s even cuter when he’s awake, explaining that she had watched him while he slept. Trudy declares it’s too bad he chose Town, otherwise she would have “rode him like an alabaster dragon.” She then walks away, leaving Jade stunned.

During the party for the anniversary of Fatima’s arrival in Town, Fatima finds Trudy sitting by herself and asks what’s wrong. Trudy says she knows Fatima does not like her, which Fatima denies. Trudy remarks that it’s a nice party, and Fatima tells her that she will also get one, but Trudy ominously says she doesn’t think she will. Fatima tells her to take off her shirt, surprising her. Fatima admits that Trudy drives her crazy sometimes, but she is not alone, lending her the sweater Trudy likes, delighting her. Fatima tells her to think of it as an early anniversary present. Trudy is touched by the gift, and leaves to find a gift for Fatima.

Trudy prepares to give Meredith (her pillow/security blanket) to Fatima. Overhearing laughter, she goes into a nearby room but the door is shut behind her. Surrounded by three of the Creatures, she begins panicking, and Jasmine calls her by name, explaining that they know all their names. The Creatures then begin mauling Trudy. After killing Trudy, the Creatures attack the rest of Colony House. During the ensuing chaos, Ellis searches for Fatima, and he sees Fatima’s bloodied sweater on Trudy’s body. Thinking it is Fatima, he approaches the body and discovers it is actually Trudy.

## Appearances

### Season One

* The Way Things Are Now
* A Rock and a Farway
* Silhouettes
* All Good Things...

## References

1. ↑ The Way Things Are Now
2. ↑ A Rock and a Farway
3. ↑ Silhouettes
4. ↑ All Good Things...
Brundles

The **Brundles** is the name bestowed by the inhabitants of Colony House on a nearby lake that they use for recreation.

## History

### Season One

After noticing that Julie Matthews is having a difficult time adjusting to life in the Township, Fatima Hassan suggests to her boyfriend, Ellis Stevens, that they take her to the Brundles. Ellis and Fatima lead Julie to the Brundles, a small lake where the residents have built a dock and added toys. Julie is shocked to see the happy, normal atmosphere the place has. Fatima remarks that it’s like being anywhere else in the world, prompting Julie to ask how Fatima remains positive. Fatima then explains that she grew up in Iran until she was 11, with an outspoken cleric for a father. On one of her  birthdays, men came for her father and her mother instructed her to hide. Her father was dragged outside the house and shot. Fatima concludes that there will always be monsters in the world wherever you are, and that she promised herself that she would not allow them to scare the life out of her. Ellis then returns from the water, and says that Fatima looks too dry, picking her up and carrying her to the water. As they walk back to Colony House, Ethan, Julie's younger brother, comes running up to them after Sara Myers tries to kill him.

### Season Two

After the arrival of the Grand Rapids Runner Bus, Fatima Hassan is in charge of helping Elgin adjust. As they talk, Elgin asks if there is a nearby lake or pond, and Fatima leads him to the Brundles. He asks about the name, and she explains that it was called the before she arrived. Fatima asks Elgin how he knew about it and he says he saw it, and realizes that Elgin was the one on the bus who had the dream. Fatima tells him that many people have strange dreams or premonitions, recalling that Nadia used to say it was like the place was calling out to them, but only some were listening close enough to hear. Fatima tells him that people have obsessed over the dreams, but none of them have been able to come up with any answers.

## References

1. ↑ Silhouettes
2. ↑ Tether
Eli

**Eli** is one of the people trapped in the Town. He lives in the Town proper rather than Colony House.

## Biography

### Season One

After the attack on Colony House, the residents are temporarily resettled in Town. This causes friction between the two groups, and Tom and Eli lead a group of people to the Diner to try and claim the supplies stored there, but they are prevented from doing so by Tian-Chen Liu. When Sheriff Boyd Stevens arrives, he asks what's going on. Tom explains that the Colony House people are using up their supplies, and if he has to choose between himself or the Colony House people raiding the Diner, he’s choosing himself. Boyd says that no one is raiding anything, but Eli points out that the Creatures weren’t supposed to get into Colony House either. Boyd chastises them for acting like animals, and promises that they will figure it all out, telling them to go home in the meantime. The crowd disperses, grumbling as they do.
Kevin

**Kevin** was one of the people trapped in the Township who lived in Colony House. His loneliness caused him to fall in love with one of the Creatures.

## Biography

### Season One

Due to his loneliness, Kevin fell in love with one of the Creatures, who had the appearance of a beautiful young woman and called herself "Jasmine." Kevin would leave her bouquets of flowers for her to find and sneak off into a bathroom to speak through her through a window.

During the party for the anniversary of Fatima's arrival in Town, Kevin sneaks away to see "Jasmine." “Jasmine” tells him that she only came to say goodbye, distressing Kevin. She asks him why he won’t let her inside, and he says he can’t but begs her to stay and talk to him. She tells him that she can’t keep coming to see him knowing that she will never feel him, and that he is frightened and disgusted by her. She adds that she is just as lonely as he is, and it was not her choice to be as she is. As she turns to leave, Kevin tells her to wait, and says there’s a party downstairs, but she is the only one he can really talk to. He asks her to promise that only she will come in, and she says that once they shut the window none of the other Creatures will enter. Kevin then retrieves a crowbar and begins removing the nails keeping the window shut. Kevin opens the window and Jasmine hops inside, shutting the window behind her. The two embrace and begin kissing. However, Jasmine scratches him with her claws and bites his tongue off before mauling him to death. After killing Kevin, the Creature washes the blood off and lets more Creatures in, who attack the residents of Colony House.

## Appearances

### Season One

* Book 74
* All Good Things...

## References

1. ↑ Book 74
2. ↑ All Good Things...
Dormison's Paradox

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Dormison's Paradox is the unintuitive observation that D-separated active paths can cause vector collapse under certain conditions.

Although it had been known to Soviet researchers since the late 1960's, it was first explicitly described by Jacob Dormison of Stanford University in his 1978 paper *Applications of Yerga's Law in Quantal- and Deval-mechanical Vector Stabilization Math Methods*.
Stringoomba

Stringoomba is a monster in the insmaniverse. It is the fifteenth Pain and Suffering Island monster.

## Bio

*"Stringoomba lived a normal life in the Mario universe until a gaping portal opened up under his feet. He arrived in PAS island and noticed that the mutation effects gave him horns which he now uses to play the cello. He doesn’t know how to feel about this but it’s a better lifestyle then having to worry about being killed by an Italian plumber I guess. Are we gonna tell him about Mariof ixer?"*
What is a VX module?

The **VX Module** (named after its original manufacturing company, Volt Xoccula) is the primary locus of the VX System. "VX System" describes a series of Volt Xoccula machines and computational arrays developed over the past 76 years. The term is sometimes extended to include encabulators as well.

VX Modules are primarily utilized as an alternative method of computing, in which various correlations are drawn and recorded between electrically active points in a statistically unbalanced chemical markup, reducing reactivity in its final solution. In doing this, the module achieves a state of System-state Emulation with the final chemical solution. Utilizing data polled throughout this process, and by outputting signals of the designer's choice during operation, the VX System can compute any mathematical or logical problem and interact with the physical world in very immediate ways.

The VX Module is compatible with a myriad different parts (also 'modules') which are interchangeable and variously modifiable, outfitted to the user's need While this introduces a somewhat steep learning curve for VX newcomers, it makes the potential uses of the VX Module (and the other modules which comprise the VX System) virtually limitless.

In the broadest sense, a VX Module is a transductional modulator for myriad types of orthorgonoenergetic signals. The most common process run by VX Modules is the for retrodisinverting of efferent quantum magnitudes in samples of Fluorine-21, emulating a Turing-complete computational unit with the controlled decay patterns of the gas. Given sufficient time and ingenuity, both hobbyists and industrialists have put various versions of the VX Module to work on problems ranging from quark flipping, to real-time retromolecular spectography, to game theory algorithm development.

VX tournaments often focus on solving physiotemporal logic problems, photon-neutrino manipulation, or making nifty music and lights from scratch. Recent research into VX has focused on the implications of Yalgeth's Limit and Colmobonalism.

## Quick Links

List of VX manufacturers

VX Module Versions

System-state Emulation

Delta
Christopher E. Gallaghar

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**Christopher E. Gallaghar** (8 June 1955 – ) is an Irish-born VX pioneer best known for inventing the neutrino delta firing ring and laying the groundwork for the systemic superarray.

## Early Life

Born in Ulster, Gallaghar was known for his love of tinkering with things and his exceptional abilities with mathematics. He was an avid collector of Lego; at last count his collection numbered approximately 450,000 pieces.

## Work with VX

Gallaghar first rose to fame with a short paper published in the January 1981 edition of *Vector Analysis* in which he described "a circular array for the modulation of deltas via short bursts of neutrino activity"; the neutrino delta firing ring soon became a standard piece of equipment in Western VX practice.

The systemic superarray is widely considered Gallaghar's crowning achievement in VX. The array and the teutonic theory behind it were first set out in a series of articles serialized in *VX Monthly* between April 1983 and May 1984. Gallaghar continued working on the superarray for the next decade before switching to another line of research, saying that the superarray "was a nice toy to play around with, but [he]'s got bigger and better things to do with [his] time now". What exactly this project was is unknown, as he had not made it public prior to his disappearance; limited exchanges with other prominent members of the VX community have been made public, and these letters appear to hint at a completely new procedure for delta reduction.

## Disappearance

Gallaghar was last seen on October 4, 1996, after leaving a VX conference in Dublin. He gave a speech on reducing delta spread when attempting to limit the phase variance on a Louchard array when feeding to a charge buffer, after which he stopped at a Wimpy's. The last known person to see him alive was Katherine Yalgeth. A popular theory at the time was that his disappearnance has to do with the Troubles, but recently-released correspondence between him and Lester Mayfield seems to hint at underlying mental troubles. Current theories hold that his disappearance was either voluntary or is connected to a psychotic episode. His whereabouts are as yet unknown.

Some theorize that Volt Xoccula or similar companies were behind the disappearance, the idea being that his project would decimate their market share. A common rejoinder to this is that VX would simply begin selling equipment to facilitate this new procedure, if indeed this is what he was working on.

Vince Santana and Lanie Shore claim to have met Gallaghar at a bar in Los Angeles in 2006, but this claim remains unsubstantiated.
Hannah Vermeulen

Hannah Vermeulen is a Belgian scientist and pioneer of the modern VX movement.

She was active and publishing until mid-2010, at which point she became secretive about her work. Her current location or employment isn't known. She is still listed as an adjunct professor at the University of Brussels, but not against any faculty.

When referred to at Gottingen 09 as "The new Yalgeth" she is supposed to have quipped "Mais, je n'ai pas son courbes" ("but I don't have her curves") which appears to be a reference to her waif-like appearance but is of course a reference to the Yalgeth Vectors, the "lost" set of equations which according to some, contradict not only Connery, but invert entirely the field of VX superpositionality.
Gottingen 09

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The Gottingen 09 Conference was a semi-official VX conference hosted by the Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik at the university of Gottingen during its summer holidays, August 3-8 2009.

Details are hard to come by, because the university has disavowed the conference, owing to the Telhartic Controversy but among the attendees were Jakob Mertens, a student of Katherine Yalgeth, and Hannah Vermeulen, often jocularly referred to as "The New Yalgeth".
Measures

There are many measures unique to the Field of VX. This page outlines a number of them.

One of the most fundamental is the delta, which is a hypoaxial fractional concatenation of the output and performance of a VX system. This measure is often used as a benchmark for assessing the skill level of a VX engineer, with higher values indicating a higher level of skill.
Josef Böre

## Biography

Dr Josef Böre was a theoretical physicist born in 1910 (disputed, as there was no birth certificate) in rural then-Yugoslavia. After receiving a scholarship from Oxford, he moved to the UK in 1928, where he was contemporaries with other noted VX scientists like Michael Allbright-Hannover and Julian Laguonne; notably, Böre was in Laguonne's graduating class and the two were partners in several projects. Around 1935 Böre began developing signs of what was thought to be psychosis (although he was never formally diagnosed), and this played a crucial role in the development of his later theory.

## Contributions

Böre in 1936 wrote a paper, titled *Auf die Essenz von Geisterteilchen*, which was a comprehensive attempt at unifying non-phaneron particle theory with Syncretic World theory, the two of which were at the time thought to be unrelated. Böre demonstrated that non-specular radiation originating from what was then referred to as "ghost vectors" in phaneric theory (now known to be simply hyperyalgethian dimensions )  has a non-negligible effect on all positive-mass particles in native 4-space, and that any region with a high concentration of non-specular radiation is correlated with a spontaneous particle generation rate of effectively zero. It was not until the develpoment of the Hawking Radiation theory that Böre's analysis was given a concrete mechanism of action. However Böre undoubtedly laid the groundwork for what has now become the modern VX field of Börean non-specular radiometrics.
Librarian Creature

The **Librarian Creature** is one of the mysterious Creatures that haunt the inhabitants of the Town, killing any they can get their hands on. The Creature takes the appearance of a librarian.

## Biography

### Season Two

Elgin rushes out to get Colony House’s van in order to drive Ellis, who was accidentally stabbed, to the Clinic. He is able to get to the van, but as he struggles with the keys, several Creatures, the Librarian included, begin to advance on him. The Librarian innocently asks him where he is going. Elgin is able to get the van started and picks up Ellis and Fatima before driving them to the Clinic.

The Librarian and a number of other Creatures surround the RV, where Boyd, Donna, Jim and Randall are sheltering for the night. As they advance, they suddenly and uncharacteristically stop, simply standing around the vehicle. Later that night, the four try to make their escape, and Boyd tries to fire bullets dipped in Smiley’s bile at the Creatures, to no effect. However, all four escape the Creatures.

## Appearances

### Season Two

* Pas de Deux
* Ball of Magic Fire (uncredited)

## References

1. ↑ Pas de Deux
2. ↑ Ball of Magic Fire
Retrostability check

A retrostability check (or more colloquially : *retrocheck*) is a security procedures that aims to reduce possible overloads in the main couplers of a module. It is performed through the Restrostability check equation, sometimes called the *Retrocheq*.

## History

The paternity of the retrocheck procedure has been vehemently disputed. Altough some attribute it to austrian mathematician Lukas Stringengrotten, others suggest that in fact, Karl Blankenburg might have discovered a considerable part of the equation before Stringengrotten published his first drafts.

## Mathematical structure

The retrostability check equation involves nine parameters that need to be obtained from the main bus drive, and possibly extracted from additional thermo-combinators, in order to produce the Psi-7 value. The Psi-7 value then determines wether or not it is safe to push the module at maximum capacity.

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1. **Stable Leptons** - The number of immobile or extremely slow leptons inside the hypercollider.
2. **A.R.G.E.L.O.S.** - The proto-voltaic balance of the alimentation, expressed in λ per second.
3. **Stringengrotten's constant** - Safely usable at 78.4512(157865213)
4. **Free particles in the voltaic cycle** - Said roaming particles can only be counted after the A.R.G.E.L.O.S. balance has been determined.
5. **Baryons** - Internal and external baryons
6. **Coupled power** - ALL the power that is CURRENTLY coupled to the module being evaluated
7. **Blankenburg's constant** - 66
8. **Semi-locked particles** - Quantic transitive particles oscillating between the main rotor and the main concussive hexo-transmitter.
9. **Helix rotations** - Number of rotations of said hexo-transmitters per seconds.

## Safe and unsafe scenarios

A restrostability check is considered successful is the Psi-7 Value returned by the equation is lower (or, rarely, equal) to Rekiev's lock.

If the value is greater than Rekiev's lock, the VX is then considered unsafe and needs to be adjusted according to the proper procedure.
Yalgeth's Law

## Description

**Yalgeth's Law** states that the achievable δ (Delta) is bounded by the Nth root of Yalgeth's Constant (0.599708838) where N is the number of spacetime dimensions in which the energy vector is manifested. For our familiar 4 dimensions of spacetime, Yalgeth's limit is 0.88. In 5 spacetime dimensions, Yalgeth's limit is ~0.902 and in 6 it is ~0.918. As the number of dimensions approaches infinity, Yalgeth's limit tends to 1.

The increased Yalgeth limit at higher dimensions is not purely abstract. At very small scales as encountered during nanoVX research, hidden extra dimensions that are compactified have been reliably demonstrated to produce anomalously high δ readings, which have at times been incorrectly reported as "Hyperyalgethian δ values". This is of course not correct, and simply a consequence of higher-dimensional influences.

However, while the true value of δ does not exceed Yalgeth's limit in 4-spacetime, the dimensional influences are indeed present, and the anomalous values can be artificially harnessed in order to increase computational accuracy with respect to the principles of system-state emulation. In this way a VX module can be modified to perform the same computations as a conventional computer, making nanoVX equipment some of the most common modifications for VX users.

## Implications on v→ Fields

The boundaries placed on δ by Yalgeth's law have far reaching effects outside of dimension-dependent coronography. One of these effects is v→ field nontransferability. While the existance of analogous dimensions allows local v→ field values to be tranferable on single-particle cases, extra particles being introduced into the equation (e.g. inside an atom) shifts superimposables from <inversive/subersive> to <conversive/subversive>, breaking the analogy. This in turn renders all v→ field values entirely unique to their specific locations and nontransferable. In nontransferable v→fields, each combination of baryons must be categorized into Toroidal, Radial, Polar, Spiral, Circular, Planar or Yalgethian. Yalgethian v→ fields (discovered by Katherine Yalgeth herself in 1961) in particular are exceedingly rare among stable isotopes, with the only examples being Helium-3 and Xenon-132.
Delta Phase Modulator

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A **Delta Phase Modulator** is a VX module component which modulates the frequency-domain n-space profiles of delta signals. The Delta Phase Modulator is an essential component of any modern VX system, and has been part of the core module since the introduction of the VX5. Delta Phase Modulators, or DPMs, as they are often abbreviated, have recently found new use in enabling rapidly accelerated trans-finite element modeling, but their primary purpose remains the synchronization of delta modulation between two or more VX modules, allowing VXers to communicate and cooperate on particularly difficult problems.
Ferrocore

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The **ferrocore** is responsible for channeling threads (sometimes referred to as paths) and stabilizing flux in a VX unit. A typical rig will need 4-6 ferrocores in order to remain stable.

Due to the corrosive nature of the hypervolt interference run through it (often around 2-9 MTr), the ferrocore wears out quickly and is one of the first modules tested during system diagnostic tests. The first replacement of the ferrocores on a rig is seen by many VX enthusiasts as a rite of passage into expert-level experimentation.

Though the Synclex Corporation claims that its chromium cores, introduced in 2010, circumvent the problem, comprehensive field testing has yet to confirm this claim.

The ferrocores are controlled by the central control unit via PROFIBUS (whose contacts resemble somewhat widened serial connectors) in all models after 1992, whereas earlier models usually use three-prong HH cables as defined by UTF-5. However, it is not unusual to see early models with peer-to-peer trielectric cables.
Rheodestabilization

Rheodestabilization occurs when the Rheodiamic pins in your Voltamic module are resonating at an unstable rate. This can have a greatly negative effect on system delta and is extremely dangerous during maintenance. To fix this problem, acquire a small vile of a cyclohexanehexone-plitanium solution from your local VX shop (or get some online) and pour it all into the funnel on top of your voltamic module (it should be labelled "Recalibration fluid"), then restart your system and run a C-class diagnostic test 2A. If all readings are positive, continue use as normal. If not, restart your system in maintenance mode and recalibrate your system.