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Threshold Institute · Case file T-011

Number

T-011 in the catalogue

Kind

Room

Class

Class I: harmless while it is left alone

Found

Year 15, month 8, day 2

Where found

The stores room on the sealed level's north side

Status

Unchanged since the breach; it does nothing to anyone who stays out

Now

At the lab and in the rift

Part

Part II: The rooms turn

Containment procedures

T-011 is in use, the only threshold in the building that the staff work in every day. Everything carried in and out of it is logged by the stores clerk. Tins and medicine taken from its far shelves are opened and checked before they are issued; a sealed tin found empty is entered in the log. No one walks past the far shelves. T-011 is measured every month, not once a year.

Description

A room larger inside than its walls: six metres by four outside, nineteen by eleven inside. Its pull is true and it does not loop. At its far end stand shelves that no one built, holding supplies in the Institute's own crates, stamped with the stores' mark: tins, lamp batteries and medicine, some of it older than the Institute. Half the tins are sound. The other half are empty when opened, though they were sealed.

Discovery

The yearly measurement ordered after T-010 was done by Dr Selma Kader and Tomas Rehn with tapes and a theodolite. On the second day of the eighth month of year 15 they measured the north stores. Rehn walked it on his rope, and again with Kader on the other end, and they got the same numbers every time. No one could say where the far shelves had come from. The Institute learnt that the rooms did not only take; they could give, and what they gave could not be trusted to stay. A tin that is sound when opened is safe to eat; the medicine from the far shelves cured what medicine cures. What the staff did not like was that the far end was always stocked, though no one stocked it.

Addenda

Addendum T-011-A

from the stores log, kept by clerk Elsa Moberg (extracts)

Year 15, month 9. From the far shelves: 40 tins of meat, 12 lamp batteries, one case of field dressings. Stamp: ours. Batch numbers: none I can find in our books.

Year 15, month 11. 19 of the 40 tins empty on opening. Seals unbroken.

Year 16, month 2. The far shelves are full again. Nobody has carried anything there.

Year 16, month 5. A box of batteries on the far shelf has the stamp of the year 32 stores. It is year 16.

Addendum T-011-B

note, Dr S. Kader, with Rehn's comment in the margin

"T-011 is not larger. It is nearer to somewhere else, and its far end is there." In the margin, in Rehn's hand: "Then the somewhere else has shelves, and stores, and someone to stamp them." It was the first time anyone at the Institute put in writing that something lay beyond T-001 to be reached. The battery box stamped year 32 was kept; what became of the stores of year 32 is told elsewhere (see T-031). The yearly measurement went on. Two years later a guard on the sealed level fired a shot that no one heard (see T-012).

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In the file

• People: Tomas Rehn, Dr Selma Kader and Elsa Moberg.
• Places: The Institute’s site and The sealed level.

In the game

The note you find in the game:

Year 15, month 8, day 2. Found by the yearly measurement ordered after the elsewhere door, when Dr Selma Kader and Tomas Rehn took tapes and a theodolite to the stores room on the sealed level's north side. Rehn walked it on his rope, and again with Kader on the other end, and the numbers came out larger than its walls every time.

A sealed room on the lab's lower level whose door does not open into it. Through it lies a hall three times as wide and three times as deep as the room, nine times its floor.

3 to 5 of the lab's zombies wander the hall, none within 6 tiles of its door. The hall's own door is its only way out, and it leads back to the corridor in front of the room. It takes people, creatures, animals and grenades, with a whoosh and a flash at both ends; bullets hit its walls. Found behind a warning plate that bears its code and a small door with a wide floor behind it. No one has stood on the room's own floor.

Status: unchanged since the breach; it does nothing to anyone who stays out.

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

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