The lost expedition's camp

Threshold Institute · Site record

Name

The lost expedition's camp

In the game

The lost expedition, a raid site in the rift

Anneli Sund's expedition of year 32 was lost past the furthest marked zone (T-030, T-031). Its radio died in the gorge on its forty-second day, and it went on by Petr Lask's bearings to ground where the land did not turn (the expedition's field log, a journal find). There it camped round an old building, built like the Institute's own and broken, with a level below. In the deepest room the team found a sliver of dark, which Sund set in a containment key from the stores (the field log).

The Institute's searches never reached it. The third found only the hollow, walking in Lask's gear, and the fourth was turned back a day and a half past that ridge (T-031, T-033). In year 47 a team under Erik Halden found one of the expedition's camps two days past the hollow, and in it the mask, bedrolls, a stove and a page in Sund's hand. Tracks led further in, and none came back (T-054).

The camp's last log entry reads: "We hold the last stand until someone comes." (the field log). Sund's recording says that what the team found is still there, in a containment key, and asks whoever comes to take it home to Tomas Rehn (the last expedition recording, a journal find).

Found here

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

File	Found	Where found
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-031 Hollow	Class II	Year 32, month 9, day 30

Also named in

The last column says where in each file.

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

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

In the journal

These 3 finds lie here, in full. Reading any one of them writes the step The key in the rift into your journal.

Note · The lost expedition's camp

Expedition orders

Year 32, month 1, day 12. Team leader's copy, A. Sund. Six surveyors through the threshold today, with stores for ninety days.

Go deeper into the land beyond the threshold than any survey before you. Chart how far the land turns, and where it stops, if it ever does. Bring back what you find there.

Do not split up. Do not follow lights. Do not answer voices. Mark the way back at every turn.

Radio the anchor every evening, and turn for home before half the stores are gone, whatever you have found.

Terminal · The lost expedition's camp

Field log, camp

Year 32, month 2, day 23. Day 42 past the threshold. The radio died in the gorge. We go on by Lask's bearings.

Day 51. Camp round an old building past the gorge, built like our own Institute and broken. The land here does not turn: what we leave stays where we left it. There is a level below.

Day 53. Aho and Mo went down first and came up quiet. In the deepest room below lay a sliver of dark no longer than a finger, cold, humming when it is carried. It would not stay in a sample case, so Sund set it in a containment key from the stores. We do not know what it is. She will not leave it.

Day 60. Something followed us up from below. Lask is gone. The way home is gone. We hold the last stand until someone comes.

Recording · The lost expedition's camp

Last expedition recording

[Wind, and something scraping at a door.] This is Anneli Sund, year 32. If the Institute sends anyone after us: what we found is here, in the last stand.

We found it below the old building, deeper than any survey has gone, and it sits in one of our containment keys now; nothing else would hold it. It is cold, it hums, and it was made to be carried out of here. I think it opens something at the bottom of this place. I do not know what.

Take it home to Tomas Rehn. Do not wait for us. We are not coming home.

The journal also names this place in:

• The step The rift torn open
• The step The key in the rift
• The step The key from the rift
• Director's memo, a note at the Institute's site
• Chamber log, widening, a terminal at the Institute's site
• Research dictation, a recording at the Institute's site