The Keeper has crossed the threshold. Descending past the deepest known blueprints of the Archive, he follows the severed phone line into the absolute dark of sector Zero. The rules of the ledger have kept the facility safe for decades, but whatever has been waiting at the foundation of the earth is finally ready to make itself known. As the Keeper reaches the bottom of the abyss, he is about to discover what happens when the oldest secrets of the archive are violently brought into the light.

The Archive is shivering. As the Keeper descends into the lower levels to trace the origin of the impossible phone call, he discovers that his absolute authority is no longer the most terrifying presence in the facility. Every cursed object, including the prophetic bone dice, is violently reacting to a massive tremor echoing up from beneath sector 9. Listen as the warden reaches the absolute bottom of the blueprints, only to find a chewed through concrete wall and a spiral staircase leading down into an unmapped abyss.

Dead silence is the only acceptable baseline in the Archive. But today, the silence is broken. Item 84-B, a severed bakelite rotary phone designed to ring only for the living, begins to scream across the Keeper's desk. Because the Keeper's heart stopped beating long ago the call can only mean one thing: something else with a pulse is breathing in the dark. Listen as the facility's warden answers the severed line and hears the terrifying sounds of sector 9 waking up.