The land beyond the rift

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Name

The land beyond the rift

In the game

Beyond the rift: the creatures that roam its land

On the far side of the rift lay cracked stone under a dead sky, among roofless ruins of buildings like those on earth and wrong in every detail. Trees stood with their roots in the air, and past the edge of the land lay a void no one could walk into (T-017). The first survey set its anchor where it arrived, in year 24, and every survey after it came home by the anchor (T-017).

The land did not hold still. Each midnight about a quarter of its zones took a new layout, and no map of them held; only the ruins stayed where they stood (T-017). Two kinds of zone never shifted: the zone where a traveller arrived, and a zone where one had last slept on a bedroll. The surveys called that held ground, and slept nowhere else (T-017).

The surveys and the retrieval runs numbered what was out there: the twin rifts and the bubbles (T-018, T-019, T-020), the grey flats where the rain fell upward (T-021), the plain of black glass between the spires (T-023), the well on the eastern arm (T-024) and the tether on the western (T-028). Past the last marked zone a ridge led on to a frozen town and a field of glass, where the fourth search for Anneli Sund was turned back (T-031, T-032, T-033). Further in, past the gorge, the land did not turn at all, and there her expedition made its last camp (T-031).

Found here

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

File	Found	Where found
T-017 Shifting land	Year 24, month 3, day 9	The land beyond T-001, from the first survey’s arrival
T-018 Twin rifts	Year 24, month 8, day 17	The land beyond T-001; twelve sites, far apart, none near the anchor
T-019 Slow bubble	Year 25, month 2, day 4	The land beyond T-001; seven sites, none near the anchor
T-020 Fast bubble	Year 25, month 2, day 11	The land beyond T-001; seven sites, none near the anchor
T-021 Upward rain	Year 25, month 10, day 3	A stretch of grey flats in the land beyond T-001
T-022 The hanging moment	Year 26, month 4, day 21	A roofless ruin at the edge of the grey flats, and since then in other ruins beyond T-001
T-024 The well	Year 27, month 5, day 14	The land’s eastern arm beyond T-001, where the ground thins to a spine between two reaches of void
T-025 The copied camp	Year 28, month 1, day 19	Some kilometres west of the anchor beyond T-001
T-027 Statue	Year 29, month 3, day 27	A held zone beyond T-001, among a survey’s tents; since then in the open land and the ruins
T-028 Tether	Year 29, month 12, day 8	The land’s western arm beyond T-001, near the edge of the void
T-033 Shard swarm	Year 33, month 2, day 15	Beyond T-001, a field of glass along a crack in the void, a day and a half past the hollow’s ridge on Petr Lask’s bearings
T-037 Rewind Clock	Year 36, month 1, day 27	The rift, in a hollow under a fallen roof, the nest of the clockwork (T-030)
T-040 Blood Coin	Year 38, month 2, day 3	The rift, on the trader’s (T-026) cloth, among its goods
T-041 Skeleton Key	Year 39, month 5, day 22	The rift, in the lock of a door that stood alone in an open field, with no wall on either side of it
T-042 Endless Battery	Year 40, month 8, day 30	The rift, in the cold room’s (T-013) equal there, a bare concrete box where the run’s lamps went dim and frost grew on their sleeves
T-054 Porcelain Mask	Year 47, month 6, day 21	Beyond the rift (T-001), in a camp of the lost expedition, two days past the hollow (T-031)

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-017 Shifting land	Class III	Year 24, month 3, day 9
T-021 Upward rain	Class III	Year 25, month 10, day 3
T-024 The well	Class III	Year 27, month 5, day 14
T-025 The copied camp	Class III	Year 28, month 1, day 19
T-028 Tether	Class II	Year 29, month 12, day 8
T-030 Clockwork	Class II	Year 31, month 4, day 2
T-032 Cache mimic	Class II	Year 33, month 2, day 14
T-033 Shard swarm	Class II	Year 33, month 2, day 15
T-037 Rewind Clock	Class I	Year 36, month 1, day 27
T-038 Tomorrow Radio	Class I	Year 36, month 10, day 5
T-039 Wish Compass	Class I	Year 37, month 6, day 14

Also named in

The last column says where in each file.

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-023 Listening field	Year 26, month 11, day 2	Description, Discovery, Addendum T-023-1
T-026 Trader	Year 28, month 9, day 6	Addendum T-026-1, Addendum T-026-3
T-029 Choir	Year 30, month 7, day 15	Addendum T-029-2
T-031 Hollow	Year 32, month 9, day 30	Discovery, Addendum T-031-2, Addendum T-031-3

Part III: Going through (the objects)

File	Found	Where named
T-035 Still Watch	Year 34, month 9, day 2	Discovery
T-036 Mending Jar	Year 35, month 4, day 19	Discovery

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

File	Found	Where named
T-045 Burrower	Year 42, month 7, day 2	Addendum T-045-2
T-052 Mutant crawler	Year 46, month 6, day 17	Addendum T-052-3

Part V: The widening

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

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 journal names this place in:

• Expedition orders, a note at the lost expedition's camp
• Field log, camp, a terminal at the lost expedition's camp