Turn 28
The Sun reached zenith. It's a warm day, lack of wind makes it even hotter. Deeply blue sky is completely cloudless.
Ronald Roman
Slowly approach the spooky skeleton.
[1] You want to approach the skeleton, but you really hesitate. Something disturbingly wrong is with that skeleton, and it's blank stare is so ominous that you don't dare to move.
[6] You gather your bravery and get closer to skeleton.
- I'm done playing games with you... - you say, holding your knife in hand.
Suddenly the skeleton moves lightly and it's no longer staring at the entrance, but at the ceiling. As it moved, you jumped slilghtly frightened.
Lorence "Lucky" Jackson and Nix
- Don't Look at the Gas Just Hold down the Pedal, We might just Get out of here! - Lorence suddenly breaks from his shortwhile apathy, shouting.
[4] Nix holds the gas pedal to it's limit, speeding up greatly. The truck body gets more damaged and more cracks appear on the window, but you're slowly getting out of that anomaly. Only a few kilometres to Chernobyl!
27% Fuel Left
Anna Iveson
Check out the rowboat.
[1] With Miriel you inspect the rowboat. It seems to be badly damaged, with many planks broken. Even the base structure looks like it will fall apart in rapid waters of Dnieper. You could as well build a new rowboat than repairing this one.
Nardo Polo
Once more into the zone.
- Lead the way Buckeroo. - you say to the mercenary and he takes you to their room for additional equipment.
He takes a communicator and a pocket map, then gives them to you.
- You'll need these once we're in the Zone.
Then you both leave the building and meet up with rest of the mercenaries. A truck is waiting for you all. The group is counting eight men, each of them equipped with whatever they wanted to take.
- Alright mercenaries, we're going to Chernobyl, to a place of State Agency of Ukraine on Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Our boss wants us to recover some documents and scientific research...
- What a mafia mobster would want to do with them? - one of mercenaries cuts in with his curiosity.
- The first rule of our appointments - we don't care what our clients would do with whatever we may bring them, as long as they pay us nicely. Understood? Now, to the point - we must stay unseen, and when we have, to elliminate any witnesses of our operations, then bring the documents back and get our payment. Let's go.
You all enter the truck and the engine starts shortly. You drive towards the Zone.
Dustan Hache
take a rest and reflect on everything that happened. I did a pretty good job surviving out there!
[2] You stop for a while and summarize your stay in the Zone - first the patrol, a controller, anomalies, a hermit, gathering artifacts and that strange black mutant - everything. Then you realize... that you're a bit hungry. You don't really know what helped you in there besides your intuition and a bit of luck - and even then it thrown hostiles in your face everytime. Now, you must find some way out of the forests and find a city. Contacting with debitors should be easy as pie then.
Fisk Black
You sit barely staying awake, half asleep. A strange thought comes - what about ammo?
- Wait, where are my bullets? - you mumble while checking your ammo. You have two magazines of AKM ammunition and 5 clips for Makarov's pistol. This seems not enough, especially now that a swarm is chasing the truck.
You look over to the colonel.
- You got any extra clipazines?
[1] Colonel stands up and brings up an ammo box full of magazines and clips, enough for two squads of stalkers. Then he closes it with force and shouts.
- You want ammo?! Prove that you can do anything useful with it first, and I might give you a clip or two!
Irene Dragojavich
Hop the fence.
[2] You try to climb up the fence, but it's a bit tall and for some reason you don't have enough strenght to climb it up. Luckily there's no one to see you trying, as it could make it all worse.