Anneli Sund

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Anneli Sund

Role

Planned and led the lost expedition

Years

Years 30 to 32

First file

T-029 Choir

Last file

T-056 Toxic mutant

Anneli Sund was Tomas Rehn's closest colleague (T-031). By year 30 she had begun to plan a deep expedition, and Petr Lask was already in training for it (T-029). The last file she countersigned was the clockwork's, in year 31, before she led her team past the furthest marked zone (T-030).

Her expedition, six surveyors with Lask among them, left the anchor on Year 32, month 1, day 12, with stores for ninety days and orders to go deeper into the land beyond the rift than any survey before it (T-031). The team leader's copy of the orders was found long after in the expedition's camp: do not split up, do not follow lights, do not answer voices, mark the way back at every turn, and turn for home before half the stores are gone (the expedition orders, a journal find). The radio was heard for forty-one days, and then nothing (T-031).

What happened past the radio is known from the pages that were recovered. Past the gorge the land did not turn, and the team camped round an old building that was built like the Institute and broken, with a level below (the expedition's field log, a journal find). In the deepest room lay a sliver of dark no longer than a finger, and Sund set it in a containment key from the stores (the field log). Lask's last page says the rest: "She has found what she came for. Something here was made to be carried out, and A. will not leave it." (T-031).

No member of her team was found (T-031). Rehn led three searches and then a fourth, and turned the fourth back short of any camp of hers (T-033). He asked the compass for her once (T-039), and took a key in a lone door for hers until he had turned it: "Hers opens something. This one shuts something." (T-041).

In year 47 the Directorate sent a team along her route (T-053). In one of her camps, two days past the hollow, it found the mask, and under a stone a page in her hand: "Petr is gone. We go on. What we came for lies further in, where the rest went. It is not the mask. It opens what is at the bottom." (T-054). Her last recording, left in the last stand of the camp, asks whoever comes to take what she found home to Tomas Rehn, and not to wait for her (the last expedition recording, a journal find).

In the case files

Anneli Sund is named in 10 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-029 Choir	Year 30, month 7, day 15	Addendum T-029-3
T-030 Clockwork	Year 31, month 4, day 2	What followed
T-031 Hollow	Year 32, month 9, day 30	Discovery, Addendum T-031-2, Addendum T-031-3
T-032 Cache mimic	Year 33, month 2, day 14	Discovery, Addendum T-032-1, Addendum T-032-2
T-033 Shard swarm	Year 33, month 2, day 15	Addendum T-033-2, What followed

Part III: Going through (the objects)

File	Found	Where named
T-039 Wish Compass	Year 37, month 6, day 14	Addendum T-039-B
T-041 Skeleton Key	Year 39, month 5, day 22	Description, Discovery

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

File	Found	Where named
T-053 Mutant sludger	Year 46, month 10, day 2	Addendum T-053-4

Part V: The widening

File	Found	Where named
T-054 Porcelain Mask	Year 47, month 6, day 21	Addendum T-054-2, Addendum T-054-3, Addendum T-054-4

Part VI: After the fall

File	Found	Where named
T-056 Toxic mutant	Year 48, month 9, day 30	Addendum T-056-2

In the journal

• The step The rift torn open
• The step The key in the rift
• Director's memo, a note at the Institute's site
• Expedition orders, a note at the lost expedition's camp
• Field log, camp, a terminal at the lost expedition's camp
• Last expedition recording, a recording at the lost expedition's camp