The Zone… how on earth do these people survive here? How did I survive around these parts?! As if the mutated animals and bandits aren’t enough, strange radiation induced anomalies and the radiation itself make most of the Zone deadly. The few bastions of civilization have been reduced to out of the way, bandit-ridden structures and some well defended settlements. Almost everybody I met so far either carried a gun, or had somebody else hired for protection – looks like the Zone took its toll on every inhabitant.

I was hired to help a local guy raid a bandit camp not far from here in return for information, so hopefully I’ll have more answers for my next entry.