Dream State Incident

The Dream State incident was a hostage crisis at Celebus High School on May 20, 2011, when over 90 students were taken hostage and confined to a Dream State for more than four hours by the New Jersey revolutionary Gregory Court. Shortly after the crisis began, a Dream State was established around the perimeter of the high school, which managed to misguide law enforcement and investigators during the search into the night.

Incident
At 9:07 pm, Gregory Court released a violet pulse from the Dream State, knocking out all of the students. Due to its mechanics, the students were transported to random areas of the school and campus area. At 9:12 pm, most of the students began waking up from their blackout. Charlie Fay, a junior, awoke in the main lobby; Angela Perkins woke up in the parking lot; and the majority of the other students awoke in the gymnasium. Charlie explored the middle of the school for other students before finally meeting up with Angela, who had smashed through the locked front doors with a rock.

At 9:31 pm, Court made a call to James Soeby about the expected police response. He crafted a letter to John Schew from the bomb shelter underneath the football field in an attempt to psychologically manipulate the group of students.