TURN 03 - Alexeibuy
(2) rolls of duck tape: $20
Cap opener $5
(5) space blankets $50
roll of string $5
Buy the winter clothes, a spare frameless backpack and sleeping bag, and have them delivered to the hotel.
Total cost of goods, $1100, cost of delivery $10.
Hmm. I'd rather not buy it, but when a GM makes this many references to cold:
...one begins to wonder if it might be best to take the hint.
((Yes. The average temp. in Feb is about -4C. Around 0 during the day and -8C at night. In the Stalker post-Visitation world, the Japan Zone has had a cooling effect on the northern part of Hokkaido since it blocks out some sunlight, making it a tundra wasteland. That in turn has had a slight cooling effect on the rest of Hokkaido. So game temperatures are colder than IRL. I am being kind now, but unless people start to kit up they will be cold and wet and die from exposure.
))
Head to gun club next
Alexei and Yumiko walk out of the store and begin talking. They hear a faint, "Arigatougo..." as the automatic doors close.
Continue chatting up Miss Asakura
She hopes Alexei will be safe in the Zone.
"I appreciate that you're so concerned about me."
"It is only natural to be concerned, Mr. Konovalov. I do not wish anyone to harm from that place. Why is it that you became a Stalker? You have money it looks like. Why do you risk your life? If I had money I would move as far away as I could from here."
some attacks that have happened recently in homes in the borderlands
"What happened? What sort of injuries on the dead?"
"I don't really know. My aunt said the paper said the bodies were.. I don't know how to say... umm.. it was hard to tell who they were. They were attacked and some parts were missing. It's pretty horrible, right? Do you understand? The people of Ebetsu want the government to do something but they don't. That is why so many people around here hate the government. They have left us."
As they walk slowly, she talks of some attacks that have happened recently in homes in the borderlands. She
is safe because she lives in the city, but her mother and aunt live Ebetsu where two or three have been killed.
"Your family lives in the borderland? That must be very difficult."
"My hometown was there. I mean, it is there. It isn't gone, yet! I was a child when the... you say Visitation, yes? We say
Kyouki no hikari, or
kyouhi, which means, umm, the light of madness. I was a child when it came. We are used to it here. Where does your family live, Mr. Konovalov? Are they safe from the.. Visitation?"
They arrive at the gun club. The entrance leads into a shop, a small place with counter-to-ceiling metal grilles covering the counter on the left side of the room. On the right leading away from the door are shelves and racks with all kinds of paraphernalia. There is a door in the grille-counter at the far end of the store. Behind the grille there are lots of guns hanging on racks; handguns, shotguns, rifles and automatic weapons of many designs. Alexei can also see explosives; various sizes of mine, grenades of peculiar shape and function and other things unrecognizable. Possibly bombs? Chemical weapons? Biological? He cannot read any labels.
There is one old bearded Japanese man wearing a baseball cap in the store, a customer, who's leaning at the counter talking to the man behind the counter. The clerk looks old, maybe in his fifties, but clean shaven with short clipped black hair and a black eyepatch. He looks at Alexei and Yumiko and doesn't smile or say anything. He looks ex-military. On second thought, Alexei thinks there is no way anyone could hire a man like this, he must be the owner. The bearded customer looks at Alexei then Yumiko and says something in Japanese. Yumiko responds in a jovial manner. The exchange seems friendly enough. Yumiko says,
"He thinks you have paid for me and want to impress me by shooting some guns!" The customer raises his hand, pleading, and says in rough English,
"Hey, she is a pretty lady! I do the same thing, if I'm younger, ehehe." The owner still doesn't smile. He says plainly with a perfect American accent,
"Don't listen to him, foreigner. You're going into the Zone, right? What can I get you?"
Weapons
Pistol $400
Magnum Revolver $600
Sawed-off shotgun $250
Pump-action shotgun $400
Hunting rifle $500
Sniper rifle $1,200
Submachine gun $1,200
Assault rifle $1,800
Automatic shotgun $1,200
Accessories
Silencer $120
Laser sight $300
Bipod $100
Telescope sights $200
Boxes of Ammunition
Pistol (full clip/18 revolver rounds) $30
Rifle (full magazine) $100
Shotgun (10 rounds) $30
Sniper rifle (10 rounds) $300
Grenades
Molotov's cocktail $10
Hand grenade $40
Smoke grenade $30
Clothing
Gas mask $150
Bulletproof vest $800
Camouflage fatigues $50
Wetsuit $300
Breathing apparatus $300
Rain poncho $20
Safety goggles $5
NBC suit $600
Combat suit $2,000
Zone suit $20,000
Misc
NVGs $1200
Binoculars $100
Compass $10
Camo net $100
Mess kit $10
Portable stove $70
Lighter $30
Armoured briefcase $200
Entrenching tool $25
Lockpick $100
Sedatives, 20 pills $20
Ceramic container $5,000
Rad-proof container $800
Incidentally, is this the same girl who gave me her room key earlier?
Yes
Also, try as I might, and even on 200% zoom-in I am unable to read some of the text on the map. Only nine locations are itemized in turn 3, but I count 11 text labels on the map besides the hotel, park and subway. What are the other two locations?
There's also a TV Tower in the park, University grounds and the Historical Government office.
Kasumi & Corban tomorrow.
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