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Bandits (1982)

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On the bow of the Skadovsk, I am scanning the great basin for any movement of men or mutants. Not seeing anything, I leave the ship and ascend the hill to some Bandits at the campfire. The Bandit squad leader has very little money but I'm not carrying any weapons to sell. I leave them, going up and outside the road on the side overlooking the basin below. Looking at the Dredge, it appears deserted but when I descended the bluff at the curve of the road and went down into a shelf area, I moved in close enough to bring it on-line and I suddenly see a Loner squad being attacked by Pseudodogs.

I tried shooting at the Pseuddogs coming down the shelf, but they were too close and by the time I got there only one of the three Loners was still alive. After looting the dead and talking to the Loner, I turned and started surveying the shelf I had come down on with my binoculars. I was looking for any open stashes and I noticed one of the Bandits on the hill was watching me. I noticed the tell-tale sign of invisible artifacts dancing around in an anomaly field so I equipped my own artifacts for as much protection as I could and went in to recover two artifacts. I climbed the shore on the other side and looked around at a nearby tree.

Going on the other side of it, I glimpsed the edge of a medkit up at the fork of two branches. I tried climbing the tree several times to get to the open stash, but I kept falling before I could see any of the items. I could only view them from the ground and finally realized that shooting them with my pistol was the only way I could dislodge them. After many tries and shooting many bullets, one of the radioprotectant drugs dropped on the ground and slid into the water. A medkit was next and the last item, another radioprotectant drug finally fell and grabbing it gave me the message I had found another stash.

After that I looked around on the shelf and then noticed some Boars on the upper bluff. I climbed it, killed them and continued my search for any more stashes in that pocket area somewhat behind the Ranger Station. From there I entered the Ranger Station but did not find anyone there. I passed through it, crossed the road and went to the edge looking into the basin below. At the Scar Anomaly, three Bandits came on-line and immediately moved to recover the dropped Zombie weapons that I never went down to recover. I went down to them and even though the leader had some money, I really didn't have anything substantial to sell him.

I went up the hill to check if the Scar Anomaly had any artifacts. Despite regularly checking it whenever I visited Zaton, it had been consistently empty of artifacts despite most of the other anomaly fields being productive. I jumped over the tear in the road and continued on it, coming into view of the campfire at the bend in the lower road. There I found two Zombies that I killed and looted, then I turned back around and went back to the Bandits I had left to see if I could sell any fresh loot. Nothing was viable and as I was giving up, I suddenly got notification of an incoming Emission.

I could have rushed up the hill to the Waste Processing Station and most likely would have made it, but I decided to take my second dose of anabiotics as I wanted to get the missing Achievement. I did not realize this decision would be fatal to the Bandits I had just met. I found them dead in the water having only gotten halfway across the stream. I would have waited for another occasion if I had known this. I sadly looted them and shot the nearby Flesh. Heading back to the Skadovsk with a lot more loot, I ascended the hill at the end of the docks and found three more Bandits dead, victims of the Emission too. I had to leave several pistols in order to carry all the loot back to the ship.

After process the loot I was back outside again and heard gunfire to the north-east. There I found three dead Bandits and two Loners who had won the battle. More loot again and I was able to sell one AKS-74U. I was about to go back to the Skadovsk when yet again I heard gunfire and raced over the hill to find another Loner squad who had just killed three Zombies. More loot and another sale to the squad leader. Since the hour was late, I asked him where he was going, and he said he wanted a cold one back at the bar. I agreed to join them, and we fast traveled the short distance and were soon back aboard the ship. More processing the loot, and I was inside the ship still when my infrared scanner detected Zombies outside going around the tugboat. I went out and killed them and looted. Then as the sun was going down, I shot various mutants and zapped a Bloodsucker with my Gauss gun. It was a bad day to be a Bandit.

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