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At about 2200 with darkness enveloping the Skadovsk, I decided I had probably sold as many weapons as I could in Zaton, so I grabbed my excess from my main stash and got Pilot to take me to Jupiter. I arrived a little over four hours later and found everyone huddled inside Yanov Station. After dumping most of my load of weapons, I took a small selection and went back outside about 3am. It was dark and so much less safe than standing on the upper deck of the Skadovsk.

I went inside Zulu's tower, and despite claiming he was leaving Pripyat and returning to Jupiter, he was nowhere to be found. I saw mutants at the northern pond but kept going down the road to the east and arrived at the Cement Plant shortly. At the top of the tower I saw some men being attacked by a Controller and I was unable to save the Stalker I saw on the left. I zapped the Controller with my Gauss rifle and raced to the top to help. I found two surviving Loners, their leader standing over the dead.

I decided to hang out for a while, enjoy the view and see what was going on back in Jupiter. I climbed on the roof of the shack at the top and saw a few mutants at the Quarry and some Zombies I shot with my FT-200M at the Plavni Anomaly. I caught a Bloodsucker crossing the road coming from the north and zapped it. I made the mistake of going to a corner of the platform and getting pinned by one of the Loners. I struggled for a while and even saw another Bloodsucker that I zapped again using my Gauss rifle just below us, but not knowing just how long I would be trapped, I loaded a Manual Save I had first made when I got on the roof.

This time there were no Bloodsuckers below us, which was actually a rare sight coming from the swampy area, but two Zombies appeared to the east and slowly made their way to the tower. I decided to watch the action and see when the Loners would notice them. The Zombies got almost all the way to the tower when the Loners noticed. Just about the same time they showed up in Mini-Map range. Then the Loners started shooting at them. The Exoskeleton Zombie was shot again and again but kept getting up. Then they made it to the stairs and started their way up.

I decided to step in when the first Military Zombie made it to the top of the steps and II blasted him with my Eliminator. One of the Loners got wounded and before I could give him a medkit he was killed. The remaining Loner killed the Exoskeleton Zombie and I looted the dead. With a load of loot and no sold weapons, I got the Loner to give me fast travel back to Yanov Station.