T-055 Warden

Threshold Institute · Case file T-055

Number

T-055 in the catalogue

Kind

Creature

Class

Class II: dangerous, and held in a cell

Found

Year 48, month 2, day 9

Where found

The Institute's sealed level, on the camera of its anteroom

Status

On patrol

Now

At the lab and in the rift

Part

Part V: The widening

Containment procedures

None. The sealed level is abandoned to it.

Field guidance for anyone who enters the Institute: the warden patrols the sealed level's corridors and seals every door it passes. When it sees someone it calls the lockdown, and the doors close. Do not be seen by it. Do not be in a doorway when the lockdown is called.

Description

An Institute guard fused with his containment suit; nothing shows where the suit ends and the man begins. It still patrols on the old schedule, seals doors and calls the lockdown over the speakers, in the voice of the man it was: Erik Halden.

Discovery

The widening of T-001 began on Year 48, month 1, day 30, as the directive (T-054) ordered. It exceeded every projection. On the third day the rift reached past the containment chamber's walls, and containment failed on all levels. The power failed first, and the shade (T-004) was loose in the dark before the backup lamps came on. The matte panels came down in the mirror's cell (T-007). Cells opened that no one had opened.

Halden took his team down in their containment suits to seal the lower levels and hold them while the staff above got out. The doors of the sealed level closed behind them on the fourth day of the widening. On the ninth day of month 2 the camera in the anteroom showed one figure in a containment suit, walking its rounds.

Addenda

Addendum T-055-1

Halden's last radio messages, Year 48, month 2, days 2 to 3

Day 2, 03:15. Sealed level. The cell block is open. The brute's cell (T-003) is empty. Holding the anteroom.

Day 2, 09:40. Lehto and Brandt are down. The suits hold. Something is in the suits with us. Sealing the doors from inside.

Day 3, 00:02. Lockdown. Lockdown. Lockdown.

Addendum T-055-2

Camera log, Year 48, month 2, day 9

Kept by Sofie Lund.

The figure walks the corridor from the anteroom to the cell block and back, every twenty minutes, Halden's old round. Each door it passes, it closes. When two of our staff went down the stair to reach the specimens, it saw them and called the lockdown, in Halden's voice. The doors closed between them. One came back.

Addendum T-055-3

Evacuation count, Year 48, month 2, day 9

Staff on the books at the start of the widening: 214. Out of the gate by the ninth day: 131. The response team that went down with Halden: nine, none out. Sofie Lund kept the camera log to the last hour and left with the last group.

Addendum T-055-4

Closing note

This is the Institute's last entry. The Directorate has ordered the site abandoned today. The catalogue, the radio (T-038) and what could be carried go out with the last of the staff; Tomas Rehn signs for them. The warden still patrols, and the Institute no longer holds T-001.

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In the file

• People: Tomas Rehn, Erik Halden, Sami Lehto, Sofie Lund and Brandt.
• Places: The Institute’s site, The containment chamber, The sealed level, The cells and The land beyond the rift.

In the game

The note you find in the game:

Year 48, month 2, day 9. Seen on the camera of the sealed level's anteroom, nine days into the widening of T-001, which exceeded every projection: containment failed on all levels, and Erik Halden, head of the response team, took his team down in their containment suits to seal the lower levels while the staff above got out. The doors closed behind them on the fourth day; on the ninth the camera showed one figure in a containment suit, walking his old round.

The suit did not come off. What walks in it now still keeps his rounds. It walks the corridor at the hour he did. When it sees an intruder it sounds the lockdown, and the door behind them closes. The suit is part of it now, and it takes a great deal of shooting to bring down.

Never held: it holds the level. This is the Institute's last entry. Status: on patrol.

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

It goes down after losing 2500 ml of its 7000 ml of blood. How it hunts and where it turns up: see the zombies page.