T-027 Statue
Threshold Institute · Case file T-027
- Number
- T-027 in the catalogue
- Kind
- Creature
- Class
- Class II: dangerous, and held in a cell
- Found
- Year 29, month 3, day 27
- Where found
- A held zone beyond T-001, among a survey's tents; since then in the open land and the ruins
- Status
- Loose
- Now
- At the lab and in the rift
Containment procedures
Section titled “Containment procedures”Beyond T-001, teams walk back to back in the open: one face forward, one face back. The watch is handed over by word ("I have it"), and no one turns their eyes away until the other has spoken. At night the watch is never fewer than two. In the cell block, a statue is held in a sealed cell under a camera and an observer at the window at every moment; the observers are changed by word, as in the field, and the cell's lights are on backup power. No one enters its cell alone.
Description
Section titled “Description”A grey, rough figure the height of a man, its arms half raised. Under one pair of eyes it is stone, and it does not move. When no one looks at it, it moves, fast, and it strikes what it reaches. It does not hunt so much as wait for whoever watches it to stop paying attention: a blink, a turn to reload, a look down at a map.
Discovery
Section titled “Discovery”A survey under Viktor Saar camped one night in a held zone (T-017) and woke to find the figure standing among the tents. It had not been there at dusk. The watch had seen nothing; it had come while he looked the other way. The team watched it all day, and it did not move. At night, when the watch went from two to one, it came three tents closer.
Addenda
Section titled “Addenda”Addendum T-027-1
Section titled “Addendum T-027-1”incident log, Year 29, month 3, days 27 and 28. Compiled by V. Saar
Dawn, day 1. Figure found in camp, two tents from my own. Not there at dusk. Night watch, surveyor E. Strand, saw nothing.
Midday. No movement while watched. I order the camp struck. We walk back toward the anchor. The figure is behind us every time we look, never closer, never further.
Night. Watch cut to one man to rest the team. At the change of watch the figure is three tents nearer, facing the sleepers.
Day 2. Surveyor E. Strand turns to reload and is struck from behind. When we turn, the figure is stone again, its arm where it had been. Strand does not walk again. We carry him to the anchor, two watching the figure, two carrying.
Addendum T-027-2
Section titled “Addendum T-027-2”from Mara Okafor's training notes, Year 29, month 4
Saar's team came home because they watched it without stopping. That can be taught. I have the teams walk the range back to back with a man moving behind each pair, and anyone who turns without saying "I have it" first is out. It is the first rule we have ever had that takes two people to keep. A man alone out there has no way to keep it.
Addendum T-027-3
Section titled “Addendum T-027-3”containment note, Year 29, month 10
A statue brought through T-001 by the sixteenth survey under four watchers, and sealed in a cell on the sealed level after a recovery that took nine hours. Officer Erik Halden of the response team proposed that its cell be watched by camera as well as by the window. The proposal was taken.
What followed
Section titled “What followed”Rehn wrote that the statue waits for you to stop paying attention. The next thing found did not wait at all (see T-028).
In the file
Section titled “In the file”- People: Tomas Rehn, Mara Okafor, Erik Halden, Viktor Saar and E. Strand.
- Places: The sealed level, The cells and The land beyond the rift.
In the game
Section titled “In the game”The note you find in the game:
Year 29, month 3, day 27. Brought out of T-001 by a survey under Viktor Saar, which camped one night in a zone the land had not shifted and woke to find the figure standing among its tents, where it had not stood at dusk. The team watched it all day and it did not move; at night, when the watch went from two to one, it came three tents closer.
A figure of pale stone that moves only when no one looks at it. Watched, it holds still and a round hardly marks it; turn away and it is nearer, and quick. No camera ever caught it moving.
The cell was watched by one camera too few. Status: loose.
Today it is found at the lab and in the rift.
It goes down after losing 2500 ml of its 6500 ml of blood. How it hunts and where it turns up: see the zombies page.
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