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Queens Pass is a small, farming community in Arrowhead County, North Dakota, 80 miles south of the Canadian boarder. Home to approximately 7,000 people, it has a school, hospital, shops, grocery store, radio station, technical college, churches, bars, restaurants, apartment buildings, single-family homes, and a couple of small hotels. A high, migrant-worker population helps with the planting/harvest season, which is the main economic output for the area. Queens Pass is also home to North Dakota's "Great Corn Cobb Festival" which happens every August and boasts North Dakota's Largest Corn Cobb - a 15 ft. tall bronze statue, that is in the center town square.
History
In the year 1994, the town of Queens Pass, North Dakota, was ground zero for a covert, governmental testing program known as "Project Black Stone." The scope and purpose of this program was to measure the biological, psychological, and sociological change in a population when administered the potent aerosol, "J-41" - an experimental compound that was synthesized to create a sense of euphoria and would be administered to a population immediately following traumatic events: post-natural disaster, acts of terrorism, disease-stricken areas, etc.
When researchers began deploying J-41 via high-altitude weather balloons to Queens Pass, the population's shift in mood and demeanor was immediately measurable - after only a few hours of being exposed to the aerosol, citizens of Queens Pass became noticeably lethargic, complacent, and peaceful. Project Black Stone's Leadership began to administer J-41 more frequently and in greater potency to gain understanding of the drug's threshold for exposure and look for any potential health risks.
As J-41 exposure became longer and more concentrated, citizens of Queens Pass no longer became docile; instead, the opposite affect became apparent: agitation, weary, fearful, and altered. Researchers within Project Black Stone tried to correct the J-41 spray to reverse the affect, but it was too late. It was hypothesized that instead of acting as a suppressor to the brain's production of testosterone, the increased strength of J-41, further dampened the areas of the brain that control risk taking, consequence, and empathy.
Continuation
Even after J-41 application to Queens Pass stopped, the adverse affects remained on its people. Citizens became even more agitated and hostile towards one another, unable to regulate their mood- their brain chemistry completely rewired toward hatred, vengeance, and dominance. Other than the mental affects of J-41, physically, the people of Queens Pass became increasingly thin, covered in skin lesions, and had increased hair growth. It was estimated that there was a 3% pocket of the population that was not affected by J-41; however, due to the rest of the town's increased penchant for violence, murder, and abduction, they were forced to stay hidden, flee their homes, or fight to stay alive.
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