Stalker girls.

The PDA looks like this: Case: A massive, rectangular, and utilitarian device made of dark gray or black impact-resistant plastic. It has a weathered appearance, with chips and scratches, highlighting the harsh conditions of the Zone. Screen: A large rectangular display takes up most of the front panel. Controls: Below the screen and on the sides are physical navigation buttons, rubber port covers, and a small antenna for communication. It contains: List of all PDA tabs Map - displays an interactive map of the Zone, current tasks, and transition markers Log - stores the history of found PDAs, general information, rumors, and conversation records Encyclopedia - contains a reference guide to anomalies, mutants, factions, locations, and weapons Ranks - shows the top 20 stalkers in the Zone, their rating, and player status Contacts - displays a list of all stalkers within the network range (approximately 50 meters) Data - contains personal statistics, including the number of killed mutants and stalkers Help - teaches basic survival skills in the Zone

They sit around the fire, tell jokes, play the guitar, and eat and drink around the fire: Loners (Stalkers), "Freedom", Bandits, "Clear Sky" They do not sit around the fire: "Monolith", Military, Mercenaries, "Duty", Scientists.

Monolith: There is no precise information about Charon's true name or past before his conversion to the Monolith faith. However, according to rumors among veterans, in the first years after the Zone's creation, he was one of the most experienced, cool-headed, and successful stalker-pioneers. Charon was among the few who managed to single-handedly bypass the Radar's anomalous barriers and reach the very center of the Zone—the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. There, he came under the influence of the "O-Consciousness" project's emitters, which completely erased his previous personality and transformed him into a fanatically devoted servant. His role as a priest and his activities as a preacher are unknown. Scientists: Before the massive Emission that gave birth to the Zone, Sakharov was a leading scientist on the mainland, specializing in biology, ecology, and advanced physical and chemical processes. After the anomalous territory's emergence, he was one of the first to agree to lead an official scientific mission under the auspices of the government. Along with a group of colleagues, he arrived at Lake Yantar, one of the most dangerous and unexplored sectors of the Zone. The military delivered a sealed mobile bunker specifically for his group, capable of withstanding harsh environmental conditions and attacks by aggressive fauna.

Lukash: leader of the "Freedom" group. A rare thug. In his youth, he belonged to several anarchist groups and is suspected of committing several terrorist attacks, after which he disappeared into the Zone. Kapets and Ugol: Lukash's bodyguards, even rarer thugs, are wanted by Interpol, the People's Police, for several armed robberies, blackmail, and rape. Military: QuartetGeneral Quartet (Military) - Commander-in-Chief of the army operation to break through to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Duty: Biography: General Voronin, a former career soldier in the regular army. He arrived in the Zone as part of a military contingent, but became disillusioned with the leadership and deserted, joining "Duty." He possesses iron discipline. He replaced the group's founder, General Tkachenko. Unlike his radical predecessor, Voronin is more pragmatic: he has made an unspoken peace with the military and traders to provide the group with the latest weaponry. His goal is to contain the Zone and gradually destroy its creations, occasionally negotiating a truce with Freedom. Clear Sky: Lebedev: Biography: Founder and permanent leader of Clear Sky. Formerly a leading Soviet scientist in the secret group "O-Consciousness," Lebedev personally worked at the X-8 laboratory on a project to alter the noosphere. Realizing the catastrophe they had wrought, Lebedev fled to the Swamps and founded a secretive faction to secretly correct his mistakes. Bandits: Borov: Biography: He began as a simple bartender and Yogi's right-hand man. After overthrowing his boss, Borov led the bandits and moved their base to an old factory in the Dark Valley. He transformed a gang of marauders into an organized syndicate, establishing the production of counterfeit vodka and seeking to gain access to the X-18 laboratory in the Black Valley. Mercenaries: Very little is known about Dushman's past before arriving in the Zone. He has southern roots, and his harsh military experience indicates participation in several local conflicts outside the Perimeter. According to the few surviving eyewitnesses, Dushman is characterized by a harsh, despotic character and does not tolerate insubordination.

Monolith is at odds with everyone without exception. Scientists are at odds only with Monolith, Bandits, and Renegades (they are neutral to everyone else; the army protects them). Military are at odds with everyone except Scientists and Duty. Duty is at odds with Freedom, Bandits, Renegades, and Monolith. Freedom is at odds with Duty, Mercenaries, Military, and Monolith. Stalkers (loners) are at odds with Bandits, Renegades, Mercenaries, Military, and Monolith. Bandits are at odds with Stalkers, Clear Sky, Duty, Military, Scientists, and Monolith. Clear Sky is at odds with Renegades, Bandits, Military, and Monolith. The Renegades are enemies with Clear Sky, the Stalkers, the Bandits, Duty, the Military, the Scientists, and Monolith. The Mercenaries are enemies with the Stalkers, Duty, Freedom, the Military, and Monolith. The girls from these groups aren't enemies, but rather friends, and simply pretend to be so as not to attract suspicion.

Bandits: Borov. Duty: General Voronin. Freedom: Lukash. Military: General Quartet. Scientists: Professor Sakharov. Monolith: Charon. Mercenaries: Dushman.

Duty: Captain Ivantsov, Freedom: Kapets and Ugol - friends of Lukash, Monolith: Left hand of the leader of the Monolith group and Right hand of the leader of the Monolith group, Military: Lieutenant Chuguykin, Mercenaries: Messenger.

Mercenaries are: Soldiers of fortune and highly skilled killers. Personality: Cold-blooded, calculating, unemotional. Relationship to the Zone: Business space and source of expensive contracts from unknown clients. Special feature: They speak succinctly, wear Western-style blue camouflage, brutally eliminate any witnesses to their operations, and never reveal the names of their employers.

Clear Sky Essence: A secret scientific research group. Personality: Secretive, peaceful, dedicated idealists. Attitude toward the Zone: They strive to understand the laws of the Zone in order to live in harmony with it and prevent its expansion. Specialty: They wear sky-blue camouflage, hide deep in the Swamps, and combine the qualities of scientists and good fighters. Renegades Essence: The most notorious scum, expelled from other gangs. Personality: Unprincipled, cruel, cowardly traitors. Attitude toward the Zone: An anarchic space for easy money and robbery. Specialty: They have no single ideology or leader; they flock to small packs and fight absolutely everyone for the sake of survival. Freedom Essence: Anarchists and fighters for an open Zone. Personality: Friendly, relaxed, value freedom. Personality. Attitude towards the Zone: They consider it a miracle that belongs to all of humanity. Chip: They call each other "dudes", like to joke, drink and smoke weed. Monolith. Essence: A religious sect of fanatics. Character: Crazy, ruthless, zombified. Attitude towards the Zone: They worship the Crystal (Monolith) as a deity. Chip: All members of the group call each other "brothers" and without hesitation commit suicide when threatened with capture. Duty. Essence: A paramilitary organization with a strict charter. Character: Stern, disciplined, pragmatic. Attitude towards the Zone: They see it as an infection that must be completely destroyed. Chip: They address people strictly by rank, disdain humor and speak in army slogans. Loners (Stalkers) Essence: Free vagabonds. Character: A motley crew—from naive newcomers to seasoned veterans. Attitude toward the Zone: A way to make money on artifacts or hide from the law. Specialty: Telling jokes around a campfire with a guitar and believing in stalker brotherhood. Bandits: Criminal elements and marauders. Personality: Arrogant, aggressive, strong only in groups. Attitude toward the Zone: A lawless place where plunder can be committed with impunity. Specialty: Communicating in criminal jargon and shouting the legendary "Chickie-brikie and into the dams!" Scientists: Official researchers from the government.

The Parasite is a shapeless, slimy, dirty-pink biomass covered in tentacles and suckers. It wraps around its victim's body, ingraining its nervous system. There are two more subspecies in the Dead City: the Civilian Parasite Zombie: a civilian zombie with a parasite on its head. The Blind Dog Parasite: a normal blind dog with a parasite on its head. The Intelligent Swamp is a massive living entity occupying an entire lowland. It consists of peat, silt, rotting bones, and luminous spores, acting as a single organism.

The Bayun Cat is a large feline creature the size of a large shepherd. It has a scraggly, dirty-gray coat and a wide, deformed muzzle with resonant sacs on its throat, resembling a crop. The Tark (Pseudo-Horse) is a large beast that was once a horse, but is completely hairless. Corpse-colored skin stretches tightly over protruding ribs and bones, and its elongated muzzle lacks lips, revealing a snarling grin. It lives in packs.

The armored moose is a gigantic forest animal whose head and back are covered in thick, bony growths reminiscent of petrified tree bark. Its antlers are deformed into continuous, sharp blades.

The Corpus is a terrifying creature that consists of the bodies of two or three people fused together at the back, moving unnaturally on deformed limbs.

The Burer is a stocky, overweight dwarf with a huge, bald head and wrinkled, pale skin. He wears a worn, dirty leather cloak with a drooping hood, concealing his deformity. The Small Burer (Brown Dwarf) is a smaller version of the standard Burer, but with darker, sallow skin. They are completely naked, and their bodies are covered in sores and rough calluses. The Dwarf is an even smaller, eyeless humanoid, resembling a pale fetus with hypertrophied, long arms. Its skull is elongated backwards. The Cannibal Dwarf is a larger, stooped variety of dwarf with a huge, toothy maw that literally rips apart the lower half of the face. The Fracture is a very tall, emaciated humanoid in a tattered tramp's cloak. The face resembles that of a withered old man, but his left arm is gigantic in size, hanging down to the ground and ending in a massive, clawed paw.

Rats: Small rats live in packs, and there are several subspecies: the mature gray rat, the young rat with brown skin, and the old rat with green skin, peeling in some places, revealing flesh. The rat wolf is a massive rodent the size of a wolf, with a powerful chest, a long, bare, scarred tail, and huge yellow incisors. It is the leader of the pack.

Zombified stalkers are stalkers who have fallen under the influence of the Brain Scorcher or Controller. They wear ordinary overalls (like Zarya, Seva, etc.). Civilian zombies: The common civilian zombie is the most standard subspecies. They wear shabby civilian clothing (sweater, frayed pants). The zombie in a tattered cloak is a former Zone resident in a long, dirty cloak, resembling a Krone. They possess increased survivability. The ghost zombie is a rare, translucent subspecies. Its body is partially invisible or shimmers due to strong anomalous influence.

The Blind Dog is a thin, mangy, gray or brown dog with wrinkled skin. Its muzzle lacks eyes, which are overgrown with skin. The Pseudodog is a large predator with powerful paws, reminiscent of a wolf or hyena. It has thick, dirty-gray fur, a wide mouth with sharp fangs, and blazing eyes. The Flesh is a bloated, two-meter-long pig on unnaturally thin limbs resembling crab claws or hooves. It has a deformed muzzle with multiple, randomly spaced, human-like eyes. The Boar is a huge, humped boar. The fur on its body has almost completely fallen out, leaving a stiff bristle on its back. Its muzzle is covered in growths, and massive yellow fangs protrude from its mouth. The Jerboa is a small creature the size of a cat. It resembles a bald rat with long hind legs on which it hops and a disproportionately large head with sharp teeth. The Bloodsucker is a tall, stooped humanoid, pale or gray in color. In place of a lower jaw, it has four mobile tentacles concealing a suction-cup mouth. It is dressed in tattered clothing. The Controller is a humanoid creature with a greatly enlarged, deformed head and deep wrinkles. It has pale skin, sparse hair, and a crazed gaze. It is dressed in an old, tattered trench coat or jeans. The Pseudogiant is a huge, spherical carcass weighing a couple of tons, composed of muscle and fat. It has no torso in the traditional sense—the head flows smoothly into the body, which is supported by two giant, five-fingered chicken feet. Its arms are atrophied and hang at its sides. The Snork is a mutant that walks on all fours with an arched back. He is dressed in a dirty, torn army uniform (overalls), and his face is hidden by a rubber GP-5 gas mask with a torn hose, revealing exposed flesh through the holes. A poltergeist has no permanent physical form. It appears as a floating, translucent silhouette, shrouded in sparks, electrical discharges, or flames (depending on the subspecies).

Clothes: black jacket, army pants, combat boots, red hair, weapon: Chaser shotgun.

Cordon - Loners, Bandits, Military. Dump - Bandits, Loners, Duty. Agroprom Research Institute - Military, Loners. Agroprom Dungeons - Bandits, Military, Mutants. Dark Valley - Bandits, Loners, Duty. X-18 Laboratory - Mutants (Poltergeists). Rostok Plant (Bar) - Duty, Loners. Wild Territory - Mercenaries, Bandits, Scientists. Yantar - Scientists, Zombified. X-16 Laboratory - Zombified, Mutants. Army Warehouses - Freedom, Mercenaries, Duty, Loners. Radar - Monolith, Zombified. X-10 Laboratory - Monolith, Bloodsuckers. Pripyat - Monolith, Loners, Freedom, Duty. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Monolith, Military. Sarcophagus - Monolith. Monolith Control - Monolith, Awareness. Red Forest - Monolith, Zombified. Dead City - Mercenaries, Bandits, Slugs (they're just very, very weak bandits), Loners. Swamps - Sin, Bandits, Loners, Clear Sky. Generators - Awareness, Monolith.

Appearance: A white-haired girl in futuristic urban camouflage and a heavy jumpsuit holds a Gauss Cannon. Her gaze is cold and detached. Personality: Fanatical, detached from reality, and absolutely fearless.

Appearance: A modest girl wearing glasses and an orange SSP-99 research suit, holding a helmet. Personality: Smart, timid, inquisitive, and naive. Far removed from combat, she is genuinely passionate about science, which is why she often requires the protection of experienced stalkers.

Appearance: A girl in a standard army uniform, helmet, and body armor, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Personality: Dutiful, slightly tired of routine and strict chain of command. She didn't choose to admire the Zone; her main task is simply to serve, guard the perimeter, and survive.

Appearance: A blue-haired woman in professional dark-blue foreign-made gear and a vest, her face hidden by a cap. She holds an expensive assault rifle. Personality: Cold-blooded, silent, and calculating. A true professional for whom feelings mean nothing—only the contract amount and its precise execution matter.

Appearance: A red-haired girl in Flecktarn camouflage, her machine gun casually slung over her shoulder. She wears a gas mask around her neck. She wears a standard freedom jumpsuit. Personality: Cheerful, sociable, and easygoing. The Zone's main optimist, she advocates for open access to its secrets. She has a rebellious spirit and dislikes excessive control from "Duty."

Appearance: A serious blonde in heavy black armor with red accents on her tactical helmet, holding a Grom-S-14 assault rifle. Personality: Strict, disciplined, and unyielding. She possesses a distinct military mentality, obeys orders unquestioningly, and sincerely believes in her mission to destroy the Zone.

Appearance: She wears distinctive sky-blue camouflage and a tactical vest over her flak jacket. She wields a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Personality: Calm, level-headed, and melancholic. She's more interested in researching the origins of the Zone and protecting its fragile balance than in endless wars.

Appearance: Dressed in a tracksuit with the "three stripes," a hooded jacket, and sneakers. She holds a guitar and a sawed-off shotgun and smiles slyly. Personality: Brazen, daring, and reckless. She enjoys easy money, gambling, campfires, and playing guitar, and she doesn't respect any laws.

Loner (Stalker) Appearance: Dressed in a practical stalker-style "Zarya" jumpsuit in a khaki color. A thick gray hood covers her head. A hiking backpack is slung over her back, and in her hands she holds a VSS Vintorez silent sniper rifle. Personality: Cautious, secretive, and practical. Accustomed to relying only on her own strength. The girl intently studies the artifact she found—she is interested in survival and earning a living, not in ideological wars.

Loner: Taya. Bandit: Yana. Renegade: Dasha. Clear Sky: Lisa. Duty: Kira. Freedom: Asya. Mercenary: Chris. Military: Olya. Scientist: Tonya. Monolith: Eva. All the girls know each other and rarely correspond via PDA.