re_alignment | audio; transmission from: outside of the haven

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✘ stalker | strelok

audio; transmission from: outside of the haven

[Enjoy that full minute of static, Haven. It's not getting any better. At least someone eventually starts talking... just that it's all in Russian and half-staticked out for another minute before the translator either kicks in or the man on the other end realizes that English might be easier for most people to understand.]

... -llo?

... -ve gotten los-

... -omeone come get me?

[The static increases briefly - which mostly covers a rather colorful curse that nobody needs to hear.]

I will rep-...... -ess.

... -ank you.

[The transmission cuts out shortly after that, returning the Link to its regularly scheduled silence.]

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-an't remember. Give me a mome-...

[He just has to fiddle with this Not-His-PDA for a bit and... coordinates from outside the Haven! Yay!]

[And that's enough for Blurr to know where he is and how much it will take him to arrive.] I will be there in 3'42 minutes sir stay put.

[See that blue blur (no pun intended)approaching really fast? Your taxi is here, Strelok.]

[How precise of Blurr. Luckily, Strelok is cool with waiting, fiddling with his binoculars until he sees that blur approaching.

Strelok... claps as he arrives.] Very nice! You move quickly.

[Always the most precise if he can help it. And ohhhh you are an organic! Blurr stops suddenly and blinks, then smiles a bit.]

Yesthankssir. It's what I do best. I'm Blurr.

This might come as a strange question but do you have a glyph?

[Glyph... right, glyph! He brings up one hand in a 'wait' gesture while he fiddles with his armor and the hoodie underneath it. Eventually he manages to reveal his shoulder, complete with the glyph for Nexus Prime's. Also with a tattoo that reads S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on his forearm.]

A pleasure; I am Strelok.

[The view is a momentary relief, a glyph means you won't go insane.] Ah, good. I'm part of Vector.

Itsnicetommetyou. I'm B-L-U-R-R. How come you appeared here and not int eh temple? How strange. [It's more a confused general question than one directed at the man.]

[He pulls everything back down into place and nods.] Vector. The, ah... knight, yes? Little bit stodgy.

Appear in the temple? Why would I do that, I have been here for... [Strelok pauses, eyes unfocusing as he thinks, but he shakes his head.] ... I cannot remember how long, so a long time. I just sometimes leave the Haven, and then come back.

[He thinks. He remembers one trip out... part of a trip out.

Doesn't he?]

Yesthatshim! He's a...really hardworker too.

You did? Perhaps it was before I arrived. [Odd, Blurr arrived with a lot of new refugees all of sudden, in the junkpile. after that, everyone appeared inside a temples.] You must have been away for a really L-O-N-G time. How did you survive?

I am a stalker! A stalker is always prepared, or they are dead. [He shrugs.] I keep a lot of supplies with me. Food, water, ammunition. Everything a good stalker needs.

Besides, I did not leave all that long ago, anyway... I don't think. [Maybe he should talk to Nexus about this. When he gets back to the Haven, anyway.]

A stalker. So you spy on people? [Blurr gives the man a curious look.] You don't _{seem to have}any of those here.

I've been doing patrols around this place, in and out the Haven, since the day I arrived it seems ODD that I never encountered you before. Were you hiding from the giant robot insects?

[Strelok gives Blurr a confused look in return.] No, not that kind of stalker. They call us stalkers because we got into the Zone past all their military and security. We stalked past them, yes?
And I keep them in my pack. [He shifts the backpack on his back to pat it in indication.]

Giant robot insects? What giant robot insects?

Sorry this all that is unfamilar to me. What's the Zone?

The monsters who attacked us a few weeks ago. Really hard to miss considering how they even tried to get into the temples.

The Zone of Exclusion. It is on Earth, around Chernobyl?

I do not remember any monsters. [He purses his lips and furrows his brows.] I should, perhaps, speak with Nexus when I get back to the Haven.

Chernobyl is in Europe, right? I never visited it but I wanted. I had too much work to do. [He had seen some nice European cars around and got curious.]

Maybe I should bring you to the medbay, perhaps some of your data banks are miss...ohyouhumansdonthavethose.

The rest of Ukraine is very nice, but the Zone... forget it. It's too crazy to just visit. You should visit the rest if Europe sometime though, it's very nice. What I saw anyway. [Though it's been a long time; who knows how things have gone since he went into the Zone.]

[He laughs.] Not data banks, but we have brains. They can have trouble too. [Especially Strelok's.]

If I ever get back, which I doubt, I will see if I can go there. What makes the Zone so bad, though?

Ah, brains, right. I'm sure McCoy can give it a look ad wee if you need rest or something.

It is very dangerous, even for veteran stalkers like me. Everything will kill you, no lies.

McCoy. He is a doctor, then?

So it's like...the badlands? [Blurr looks at away, to the mountain's directions.]

Yes he is. A human one too..

[Strelok glances in the same direction. That he definitely doesn't remember...] I do not know the Badlands so much. The Zone... everything will kill you, but that's not it's aim. Not really.

[It's just a consequence of things.]

Ah, so a human doctor, in more senses than one.

Sound bad enough. What's the true purpose of the zone,a side from endless murder?

[Blurr grimaces, wondering what was all that about.]

Yes. He's very good at at it, I think.

Purpose? [He laughs a little.] It has no 'purpose'. It just... is. Like the rest of nature, but a little, ah... [Strelok wags his head side-to-side in a gesture that says 'ehhhhh'.] ... warped.

We shall have to see about that. I know one of the best in the business.

Warped. [Sounds bad, man.]

Is he here too?

[He points to Blurr and grins.] Exactly. Warped physics, warped mutants. Even stalkers are a little warped.

I do not think so, or he would have called to bitch at me by now.

Warped mutants are something I never want to face. You said you where a stalker.

AH, I see. Do you want me to help you get back to the Haven?

You don't want to meet them, no. They will melt your brain to jelly for being in the room. And I am, a stalker and warped both; you have to be a little crazy to go into the Zone.

I would appreciate it if you could. I will pay you back, of course.

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