S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Zone of Influence

Zone of Influence
Have you ever examined the pads of your fingers through a magnifying glass? A smooth surface turns into a crimson field, scratched with grooves. The Zone plays a similar role in investigating human psychology. A microscope for the soul makes it possible to see what people are worth when they are driven into extreme circumstances.

What is the price of your moral principles, little human? What are you really capable of—not in a calm and well-fed world of abundance, but under fear of your own death? The true features become tangible, protruding. Yes, the Zone’s magnifying glass will show where the rot is and where the truth is. And an honest person will inspire admiration—while those pathetic envious people will hide everything in the black depths of their souls. And low deeds will produce a shared feeling of malicious glee: “We’re all like that—so what are you doing, playing the angel, if you don’t have little wings.”

Look through the psychological microscope at the path of militia sergeant Dmitry Ermitál and deliver a verdict on humanity—whatever it may be!

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Dmitry Ermitál’s journey continues. And the Zone does not let you relax. Whoever was there will never say “make yourself at home,” because you can’t get used to the Zone. The Zone doesn’t look for friends and periodically expels overconfident stalkers.

But how much a small piece of land can hide! Paths multiply, everything is interconnected, and the Zone is like the center of a spider web—like the key to all questions. Do you still have questions?

What is happening to Ruslan Yershov’s world? What becomes of the beloved hero? Close your eyes and listen… and the whirlwind of adventures will take your breath away! The Zone is dangerous, the Zone is treacherous—never, for a moment, can you lose vigilance. The rush makes your heart beat faster! The effect of presence is guaranteed—only be careful: don’t feel the Zone so strongly that it becomes real! Otherwise—God forbid—you’ll open your eyes and find the Zone’s hall empty around you, while Sergeant Dmitry Ermitál is smiling beside you…

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Everything ends sooner or later. And the path of the beloved hero comes to its end as well—time to gather the stones.

It’s time, time to put all the dots over the “i”!
And now a scatter of adventures is being assembled into a single mosaic, from which it’s hard to remove even the smallest fragment— the canvas of the picture will immediately become incomplete.

This is the foreboding of completion. We’ve reached the home stretch, dear listener… It’s sad that the hour to leave the Zone’s world has come. But how comforting that the winding path full of trials is behind you.

Find out what awaits Dmitry Ermitál in the end! Gather all the threads into the final knot and admire the unity of the pattern. What happened? Elegant macramé entanglements of intrigues and secrets? Lacy adventures in every color of the rainbow? Or a little chain-snake of events along which the main hero moves step by step?

Still… the Zone doesn’t give unambiguous answers. And everything is up to the author’s will! Maybe we will be witnesses to the continuation of Dmitry’s adventures…