The Zone Gazette 

Zone News Network, For Stalkers By Stalkers. 22nd September 2013

The danger within. Artifact Spotlight: Fireball

by: David Kennedy, Editor In Chief by: Dr. House, Chief Scienti ic Correspondent

In recent days, It has become evident that This week we return to our coverage of the
even amongst our closest allies, we are not various Artifacts of the Zone with a
safe. It seems that, while we fought highlight of a common sight in the South:
amongst ourselves over scraps, Monolith the Fireball artifact. Even the cheapest
has used the smokescreen to infiltrate even detectors of the Zone can sometimes
our most trusted circles. Brainwashed extract one of these specimens, but what
Agents in our midst is no longer a maybe, It is their purpose, and what do they do?
is a fact. Well, every Stalker at some point in their
With so many more Free Stalkers and career will find themselves stuck out in the
CCTV footage from the German
Faction members pushing north in hopes of biology lab where the illegal raid rain, soaked completely from head to toe
treasure or glory, the risk of being captured, was conducted and with nowhere to seek shelter until it
and turned against your own is increased. dies down. Or even worse, you’ve just had
Several recent joint operations into the Zone Mutants taken in ALF raid. a long, dangerous swim across the river
Swamps and Red Forest have ended with by: Dieter Hall, Foriegn Correspondent
Pripyat and are chilled right down to your
ambush or failure. It is clear now that bones. This is where the Fireball can
Monolith may have eyes and ears almost become incredibly valuable. At the trivial
anywhere. We urge Free Stalkers to report Berlin, Germany. cost of making you thirstier than you’d
any suspicious behavior or instances of The Animal Liberation Front claimed typically be, this Artifact can warm you
memory loss. right up. It maintains a pleasant
responsibility for the raids, which took
temperature of around 75 degrees
With the conflict between Duty, place on Thursday and are estimated to Fahrenheit or 24 degrees Celsius virtually
Brotherhood, and Mercenaries kicking off have caused $1 million (£600,000) of regardless of its surroundings. The best
into a full war, And the ongoing brushfire damage. 'The ALF is taking action part is that you don’t even need an
conflict between Military and Freedom immediately to free these animals from appropriate Artifact-containing belt for this
seeming to heat up again we are at even their exploitation,' Kevin Kjonaas, a effect. Even though the Fireball is a
greater risk. We ask ourselves, when will spokesman, said. “thermal” artifact, it can be handled without
the men behind these conflicts realize that The activists are believed to have entered fear of being burned. Just pull the Fireball
while we bicker and fight one another, our the two buildings through the roofs and to out of your Artifact container and put it in
real enemy grows more dangerous. have abseiled into the laboratories, police your pocket, and you’ll begin to feel its
say. They smashed computers, tipped over effects right away. You can even hold it
and wrecked equipment, and painted safely in your hands, which makes for a
anti-vivisection slogans on the walls. great trick to impress less-experienced
The group then 'rescued' 27 pigeons, 48 Stalkers and Rookies. So the next time
mice, 36 rats and as well as five Lynx cubs you’re about to hand over a container full
that had been procured by unknown of artifacts for selling, consider keeping a
means from the Chernobyl Exclusion Fireball for yourself for a desperate
Zone, and took computer files and situation.
research notebooks. The ALF said the
group had already found homes for the
animals. An incubator was damaged which
contained human brain cells taken from
patients in a research project on
degenerative conditions.
The early morning fog burns off over
Cordon. David Kennedy 2013

Chief Scientific Correspondent Dr. House with an example

of a Fireball

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