The Black Road

by DistrustfulLie

The Zone can be a lonely and dangerous place, even for the most skilled stalker. It's hard to survive alone - most stick together to increase their odds. But some wayward stalkers walk a more solitary path - the Black Road. This is their tale.

1. The Black Road

Gather round, stalkers, eat your cold beans and questionably acquired rations, and hear a few tales of adventure, a cursed family, and, of course, The Zone.

This is the dramatic retelling of my adventures in Stalker: Call of Pripyat. I am running the Misry 2.1.1 mod, which adds many features like classes, hunger, cooking, skinning, modified durability and weapon repair, weather effects, artifact interaction, guns, and other such goodies. Check it out, you won't play CoP any other way after. I am playing on master difficulty starting with the Black Road option, which restricts your initial gear to a knife, a flashlight, and a set of clamps to interact with artifacts. I am playing the Assault class, which sacrifices many noncombat stats for brawn, toughness, and stamina. Whenever I die, the story begins again from the start. Stay a while, and listen.