T-051 Mutant brute

Threshold Institute · Case file T-051

Number

T-051 in the catalogue

Kind

Creature

Class

Class II: dangerous, and held in a cell

Found

Year 46, month 4, day 3

Where found

The nuclear plant's turbine hall

Status

More of them walk the plant's reactor building and turbine hall

Now

At the nuclear plant

Part

Part IV: The planet and the pollution

Containment procedures

The one specimen was held in the reinforced cell built in year 3 for the rift brute (T-003), the only cell the Institute had big enough, until it died in its fifth week. Feeding was done from the gantry above; no one entered the cell while it lived. The cell's door was welded shut on the second day, after the specimen bent its frame with one blow, and the feeding hatch above it was moved twice out of its reach.

Field guidance for the nuclear plant: it is huge, slow and very hard to bring down. Its reach is longer than a man's, so keep further away than seems needed. Its blow drives through armour; plates take only part of it. Bring more rounds than you think you need.

Description

One of the infected (T-048) twisted by the nuclear plant's pollution into something worse: twice a man's weight, its arms grown long. More of them walk the plant's reactor building and turbine hall.

Discovery

Halden's team went into the nuclear plant in sealed suits after the joint map (T-050) showed it as the worst ground there was, through the turbine hall, and found what the survivors had spoken of.

Addenda

Addendum T-051-1

Incident report, Year 46, month 4, day 3

Filed by Erik Halden.

It came out from between two turbines, slowly. We had it in the lamps for ten seconds before it reached us, and in those ten seconds we fired most of what we had. It still reached me. My plate took part of the blow; two of my ribs broke anyway. Rehn had asked for a living one, so we did not finish it when it went down. We chained it to a pallet and pulled it out with the plant's own forklift. Three more like it in the reactor building and the turbine hall. On the way out, at the rear of the line, we lost Ole Sandberg. Nobody saw what took him (T-052).

Addendum T-051-2

Medical note on Erik Halden, Year 46, month 4, day 4

By the Institute's doctor, Leah Mbeki.

Two ribs broken under an intact plate. The plate stopped the edge of the blow, not its weight. No poison in the blood: the sealed suit held. Halden asks to be fit for the next trip within six weeks. I have said eight. He will go in six.

Addendum T-051-3

Test log, Year 46, months 4 and 5

Supervised by Tomas Rehn.

Comparison with the rift brute (T-003): alike only in size and in the damage they do. The rift brute came through T-001 whole. This one was a man; there are a wedding ring and a plant badge under the skin of its left hand.

Day 36: the specimen died in its cell. Its blood carries the pollution at ten times the measure of an infected's.

What followed

Note by Rehn: the plant has made out of the pollution what the colony's lab made out of the planet: a place where it is thick enough to make new things. Halden has asked for a second trip, by day, and to walk at the rear himself.

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In the file

• People: Tomas Rehn, Erik Halden, Ole Sandberg and Leah Mbeki.
• Places: The cells, The colony and The nuclear plant.

In the game

The note you find in the game:

Year 46, month 4, day 3. Recovered from the nuclear plant's turbine hall by Erik Halden's team, which went in in sealed suits after our joint map showed the plant as the worst ground there was, and found what the survivors had spoken of. The team lost a man on the way out.

The plant's pollution twisted the infected into something worse. Huge, slow and very hard to bring down.

Its reach is longer than a man's, and its blow drives through armour; plates take only part of it.

Held in a reinforced cell until it died. Status: more of them walk the plant's reactor building and turbine hall.

Today it is found at the nuclear plant.

It goes down after losing 4800 ml of its 10000 ml of blood. How it hunts and where it turns up: see the zombies page.