Tinker Tailor Stalker Spy: #1,012 ( Stalker ) Loner Kruglov To The Skadovsk
1I'm not a Loner. My name is not Kruglov. My task is to infiltrate any Factions that I choose, in order to investigate and seize any of the new prototype weapons and ammunition, that have illegally entered the Zone. I have left the Mercenary Faction to join the Loner Faction. I am the Stalker.
Encrypted Diary: With the sunrise and good weather, it felt like it was time to leave Jupiter and make the trip to the Skadovsk in Zaton. I had just zapped a zombie near two Dutyers, in front of the path I wanted to take, in front of the Jupiter Plant. I assembled my 36 Companions at the Checkpoint and we were soon on the move. We met the Dutyers, who seemed transfixed on the sunrise to the east in Pripyat, where we could see the Ferris wheel against the tall apartment buildings.
When we got to the edge of the bluff, I zapped a zombified Stalker on the road near the Cement Plant. Then I heard gunfire and detected some unidentified enemy Faction member in the bushes, in the lower plains. Whoever it was, they were dealing with two Bloodsuckers. I had to shoot them to clear the way for my Companions and then I zapped the two Bloodsuckers. When I found the body, it was an unlucky Mercenary. Not sure If I had killed them or the two Bloodsuckers got to him first.
We descended to lower Jupiter and were soon going north on the road to Zaton. We were able to leave Jupiter without incident and our arrival in Zaton, where after getting my 36 Companions inside, and shooting a passing Monolith, I got my reward from Beard for the Container Yard job, which was a brand-new FN F2000 that I gave to one of my poor and needy Companions. I had to give up completing the job Cardan gave me and anotehr Loner, I was just too busy. I did complete the job for a Val and got anotehr for an artifact, that I already had on the ship. The reward was an SVD. Beard said he wanted me to talk to Owl. That didn't sound good.
* Game Note: I had taken several jobs from personnel on the Skadovsk. One was the Basic Tools for Cardan, but there never was a provided marker on my PDA. If it was supposed to be a random stash somewhere in the Zone, I had too many stash activations to know where it was. This also appeared bugged in previous games. All other set of tools for all other Repair Techs had a specific marker on the PDA, while this one didn't. Likewise, a Search the Stash job given to me by a Loner was also unmarked and appeared bugged. Telling both of these NPCs that I could not do the mission resulted in a 50-point reduction each, a loss of 100 points with the Loners. I had the Val that one of the Skadovsk guards wanted and that gave me 50 points and he immediately gave me another job for an artifact I already had on the Skadovsk.