Stalkers November 2025 - After Action Report:
Location: Gardaban Power Station, Georgia
Author: Comet
Teams: Hounds and Badgers
The safe zone near to the power station had been set up by wayfinders before the teams had arrived, at a heavy price. Many of the original team setting up the trading post had already fallen victim to The Zone by the time the STALKERS had arrived.
The STALKERS were sent out to scout the area and begin scavenging for supplies for the civilian settlements in the area. While out in The Zone, the Hounds managed to find and locate several personal effects of the fallen team, including a guitar that had belonged to Artyom, a STALKER from the wayfinders. They also began to locate and decode several audio and text logs which directed them to the sites of both supplies and some more interesting items.
Meanwhile, the Badgers had taken some casualties due to the high levels of radiation onsite. These casualties were later spotted as Rad-Zombies, a cause for concern. After finding a series of paintings that had been spotted in the area previously by reconnaissance, the Hounds managed to brute force their way into a safe left in the trading post by previous occupants, finding a highly sought after power cell hidden inside.
Further audio logs revealed the location and means to disarm a pair of missiles containing an unknown chemical warhead, explaining previous sightings of a strange chemical fog in The Zone. Through cooperation from the Hounds and the Badgers, the warheads were brought back to the trading post for further examination but they remain highly volatile and their purpose unknown at this time. This would unfortunately be the last time the Badgers were seen with their minds intact as the last of them would fall victim to the radiation soon after.
An emission brought on by a storm rolled in shortly after sunset and the remaining STALKERS hunkered down for the night.
In the morning, after the storm had mostly cleared, the Hounds were successful in further scavenging, locating further supplies, audio logs, and high priority items. Over a thousand solid gold coins were found in stashes left by bandits, which will be instrumental in further electronics production by the nearby settlements.
The Hounds also located a series of vats of unknown radioactive material that had been twisted into an anomalous entity by The Zone, which was determined to be the source of the Rad-Zombies. This was swiftly and bravely destroyed by the same team of STALKERS. Finally, with the Rad-Zombie threat eliminated, the Hounds were able to locate a series of Artefacts that the last night's emission had empowered, using ALPHA-detectors built by The Doc.
The Hounds managed to secure a very generous supply of chits for the surrounding settlements. The immediate area of The Zone surrounding the settlements and the power station has been pacified. For now.
