The Zone has no way out. The Zone where risk is assigned on the roster. The Zone where artifacts are a way to make it to tomorrow.
Want to know where monsters in the Zone—like bloodsuckers, snorks, or pseudo-giants—came from? Who was the first Bog Doctor? Why was Yuri Semetsky punished? Where do anomalies come from, and what’s the purpose of artifacts?
Then welcome to the Zone, in the times when there was neither “Duty” nor “Freedom,” nor free stalkers.