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It was getting dark outside, but I saw a couple of Bandits passing by the bow of the Skadovsk heading north and I joined them in time to fight off some Boars and Pseudodogs. I saw another Bandit squad north of them and went farther away from the ship, shooting at various mutants that I could see in the fading light. I went back to the ship, turned on the night vision and continued to hunt mutants with my FT-200M. However, by 22:00 realizing I was in a ship full of Stalkers with lots of rubles and having no weapons to sell them, I decided to return to Jupiter where I knew I had left half a dozen behind.

My trip to Jupiter was quick as I grabbed the six PKMs I had stored there. Sure, I spent 1,000 going there and another 1,000 rubles coming back, selling 6 PKMs at 4,999 each would net me almost 30,000 rubles. While looking at my Jupiter stash I eyed my Bulat Armored Suit and decided to take it with me to refresh my memory of all of its upgrade options. I had arrived in Jupiter at 2:19am and was leaving by 2:33am. I arrived back in Zaton at 6:38am with plenty of time to do some trading to the Loners before they set out at 8am.

I went around selling those PKMs and if any Stalker was a little short, I was more than willing to help out by buying small items they had or selling things and then buying them back to pump up their spending money. I didn't mind taking a little loss, if need be, as helping get them get real firepower was the real bonus. I sold 5 of them in the bar and the sixth one to a Loner sitting next to Nimble. Then I took the Bulat Armored Suit to Cardan and had him fully upgrade it for armor, reduced weight and increased carrying capacity but discovered it had one of the third-tier choices he could not upgrade. I would have to take it back to Nitro or most like Novikov at the Mobile Lab.

I spent 15,925 rubles on upgrading the Bulat Armored Suit which was just a little more than half of the profit that I made selling the 6 PKMs. It had only two artifact slots, so it was not as ideal as the much faster and lighter Stalker ( Sunrise ) suit that I continued to wear, with the Tactical Helmet which its infrared scanner was just too advantageous to give up. When I was done, I put it back in my stash chest for now and realized it was 8am and all the squads were leaving. I asked a few and decided to go with a two-men squad going to the Saw Mill. We arrived and there was immediately a firefight with three Bandits, and it was so intense within seconds there was only one man left of each Faction. The surviving Bandit was wounded so I gave him a medkit but he was killed shortly.

Now I had the loot from the four dead, and I left the Loner and started going eastward as I usually do along the pipeline, but I detoured in the middle of the backwater and went north-west towards the high bluff next to the Burnt Farmstead. On the road outside of it, I met a SEVA suit Loner with an Exoskeleton buddy. He had plenty of money, but I was only able to sell him a lightly used pistol and 13 bottles of vodka. I went down the hill to the dock and found another firefight that had just ended with two dead Bandits, one dead Loner and one Loner survivor. I sold him a pistol after looting the three dead. I used him for fast travel back to the Skadovsk.

In the time it took me to process the and sell the low-grade loot, I went back outside and retraced the path that the Loner from the dock would most likely take. I must have made good time as soon as I got up on the hill, he magically came on-line right next to me, and we continued on. Fearing what I had seen before I raced ahead of him and sure enough the now empty location had been filled by a Bandit squad. If I did nothing he would soon be killed. In the spur of the moment, I decided to use him for fast travel to the Saw Mill where I hoped the Loner was still there. We arrived but it was at the top of the hill instead of slightly below at the campfire overlooking the Swamp.

The Loner started walking back immediately and I lingered at the Saw Mill as I heard and shot at some mutants. I went down to the campfire and found the Loner had been joined by the other squad I had met being the SEVA and Exo. I went back up the hill and went around the open-air building at the Saw Mill and as I got to the other side, I heard gunfire and sadly a two-man Bandit squad had just shot the Loner I had been trying to protect. I recovered the PKM I had sold him and watched the Bandits walk over the bridge going east as I decided to end the video.