T-003 Rift brute

Threshold Institute · Case file T-003

Number

T-003 in the catalogue

Kind

Creature

Class

Class II: dangerous, and held in a cell

Found

Year 2, month 9, day 3

Where found

The containment chamber and its anteroom

Status

Escaped

Now

At the lab and in the rift

Part

Part I: The tear

Containment procedures

T-003 is held in a reinforced cell poured to its size, apart from the standard cells, behind a door no standard cell has; it is never kept in a standard cell, whose door it cannot pass. Its cell is opened only with the whole response team present and armed with the heavy rifles. Every corridor on the sealed level dug after year 2 is wide enough for T-003 to walk it, so that the team can bring one in and the cell's crew can move it.

Description

A huge, slow creature that came through T-001 in one piece. Its reach is longer than a man's, and its blow breaks bone through a raised arm. It is very hard to put down: it takes many rounds, and it is not always dead when it falls.

Discovery

The chamber's alarm, wired in year 1 after T-002, rang at 02:40 on the third day of the ninth month of year 2. The night guard reported a thing standing in the chamber, too big for the doorway it was looking at. Mara Okafor brought the response team down in full: eight guards, two with the rifles drawn from the state's stores that same month. The fight in the anteroom lasted eleven minutes. It took the whole team and most of their rounds to bring the first one in. Three guards were carried up with broken limbs; one, Private Dag Sorensen, did not walk again. The team's own count afterwards was 61 rounds fired, 40 of them hits, and the thing still breathing when they chained it. The Institute learnt that T-001 let through more than small things that slipped out at night: it let through whatever was on the other side, whole.

Addenda

Addendum T-003-A

from Okafor's report to the Director, Year 2, month 9, day 4

It did not hurry. That was the worst of it. It walked at us down the anteroom and took the rounds and kept walking. Sorensen tried to hold it at the door with his rifle across it, and it broke the rifle and his arm and his hip in one blow. We need heavier guns. We need a cell that can hold it, and we need it before the next one, because if two of these come through at once, this team does not stop them.

Addendum T-003-B

note

The heavy rifles were granted the same month. The reinforced cell took eight months to pour; until then the specimen was chained in the chamber's anteroom under the guns of the team, in shifts. Director Varga ordered every new corridor on the sealed level dug wide enough for T-003. The corridors were dug in the years after, and the service tunnels under the level with them. The crews who dug the tunnels worked by hand lamp, and the tunnels were not yet wired (see T-004).

Addendum T-003-C

note, M. Okafor, Year 3, month 6

The response team now drills twice a month against a dummy the size of T-003, with the heavy rifles, in the widened corridors. No guard is to hold a door against one alone. Sorensen trains the new guards from his chair; he says he is the only man alive who knows how hard it hits, and he wants every one of them to believe him.

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In the file

• People: Director Ilse Varga, Mara Okafor and Private Dag Sorensen.
• Places: The containment chamber, The sealed level, The cells and The service tunnels.

In the game

The note you find in the game:

Year 2, month 9, day 3. Came through T-001 in one piece at 02:40, when the chamber's new alarm rang and the night guard reported a thing standing in the chamber, too big for the doorway it was looking at. Mara Okafor brought the response team down in full, and the fight in the anteroom lasted eleven minutes.

Slow and big, with a longer reach than a man and a blow that breaks bone.

Very hard to put down: it took the whole response team and most of their rounds to bring the first one in.

Held in a reinforced cell. Status: escaped.

Today it is found at the lab and in the rift.

It goes down after losing 4000 ml of its 9000 ml of blood. How it hunts and where it turns up: see the zombies page.

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