High Captain Trent steps forward to address the assembly, "We are doing all we can. The afflicted have become… changed. They are crazed, and often charge the barricades with no regard for their own life. We have raised high-walled barricades and had to go so far as to set some of them aflame in order to hold the quarantine. Even so, I fear a riot is imminent and we may not be able to hold back the tide. The entire northern ring of the city is now under quarantine, from the Green Streets to the Barracks. I fear we have precious little time."