The containment chamber

Threshold Institute · Site record

Name

The containment chamber

Part of

The Institute's site

The containment chamber was the first thing the Institute built. Ilse Varga had it poured around the rift before anything else: concrete three metres thick, with one door that opened only from the anteroom, and two guards in the anteroom at all hours (T-001). The first rule was painted on its door: no one entered the rift, touched it or put any object into it without the written order of the Director (T-001).

Everything that came through in the first years came out here. The first stalker crossed the dark of the anteroom on the hundred and seventh night (T-002), and the response team fought the first brute in the anteroom for eleven minutes (T-003). The chamber was inspected every week, and in year 7 the inspection found the growth spreading over its floor from the foot of the rift. It was burnt back from then on and always came back (T-006). The old records room off the anteroom was the room that turned upside down (T-014).

From year 24 the surveys went through the rift from the chamber (T-017). In year 48 the widening carried the rift past the chamber's walls on its third day, and containment failed on all levels (T-055).

Found here

The files that name this place in their line on where the threshold was found:

File	Found	Where found
T-002 Rift stalker	Year 1, month 4, day 17	The anteroom of the containment chamber, at night
T-003 Rift brute	Year 2, month 9, day 3	The containment chamber and its anteroom
T-006 Growth	Year 7, month 6, day 9	The floor of the containment chamber, at the foot of T-001
T-014 Upside-down room	Year 20, month 7, day 13	The old records room off the chamber’s anteroom

Named in containment procedures

The files whose containment procedures name this place, to hold a threshold here, to keep one away, or as a rule for the place:

File	Class	Found
T-001 The rift	Class III	Year 1, month 1, day 1
T-002 Rift stalker	Class II	Year 1, month 4, day 17
T-006 Growth	Class II	Year 7, month 6, day 9
T-041 Skeleton Key	Class I	Year 39, month 5, day 22

Also named in

The last column says where in each file.

Part I: The tear

File	Found	Where named
T-005 Echo	Year 5, month 11, day 28	Addendum T-005-B
T-007 Mirror	Year 9, month 3, day 14	Addendum T-007-B

Part II: The rooms turn

File	Found	Where named
T-008 Dark room	Year 11, month 5, day 6	Discovery
T-009 Gravity room	Year 14, month 3, day 22	Discovery, Addendum T-009-A
T-013 Cold room	Year 18, month 12, day 5	Addendum T-013-B
T-016 The watchers	Year 23, month 4, day 27	Discovery

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-017 Shifting land	Year 24, month 3, day 9	Discovery
T-026 Trader	Year 28, month 9, day 6	Addendum T-026-3

Part V: The widening

File	Found	Where named
T-055 Warden	Year 48, month 2, day 9	Discovery

In the journal

The journal names this place in:

• Director's memo, a note at the Institute's site