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The story so far

The story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

7 parts, from the opening to the ending (where it turned on your choices, what every ending shares). Read it before S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. This page tells the ending.

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  1. Cordon

    You woke in trader Sidorovich's bunker with no memory, rescued from a crashed truck carrying bodies through the Zone. A tattoo earned you the name Marked One. Your PDA held one order: kill Strelok. You repaid Sidorovich by recovering Nimble's flash drive from the bandits; Nimble's survival depended on what happened there. You then followed reports of Strelok, a stalker who had reached the Chernobyl power plant.

  2. Agroprom

    You followed Strelok's trail to Agroprom, where soldiers were attacking a stalker camp. Underground, you searched his group's hideout and found clues to his companions, Fang and Ghost. You also stole military documents and delivered them to Barkeep in Rostok. Those papers pointed toward secret laboratories and a possible way past the Brain Scorcher blocking the Zone's center.

  3. Lab X-18

    You entered the Dark Valley and took the missing laboratory key from bandit leader Borov. Inside X-18, mutated creatures guarded the remains of experiments with psychic emissions. You recovered documents, suffered a vision, and escaped the arriving military. Back in Rostok, the papers directed you toward another underground laboratory beneath the factory at Yantar.

  4. Yantar

    You obtained psychic protection from Professor Sakharov and entered Lab X-16. You disabled its emitter and found Ghost dead, with information leading to Guide. Whether you pursued that lead depended on you. If you did, Guide led you to Doctor, who revealed that you were Strelok himself and directed you toward a decoder hidden in Pripyat.

  5. The Brain Scorcher

    You fought through Monolith fanatics and shut down the Brain Scorcher in Lab X-19. The road north opened, drawing armed groups into the center. You crossed Pripyat and reached the power plant during a military assault. With an emission approaching, you entered the sarcophagus, where the legendary Wish Granter called to you.

  6. Behind the Monolith

    You could finish at the Wish Granter or uncover the secret laboratory beyond it. If you reached the laboratory, C-Consciousness revealed itself: linked scientists whose attempt to alter human thought had created the Zone. They had used the Monolith forces and psychic barriers to protect themselves. They had also brainwashed you, mistakenly ordering Strelok to kill Strelok.

  7. Your Final ChoiceThe ending

    Your ending depended on your path. At the Wish Granter, your wish brought blindness, crushing rubble, transformation into metal, absorption into the Monolith, or isolation in darkness. Beyond it, you chose whether to join C-Consciousness or destroy it. Joining left you wired into its collective. Refusing led you through a final battle to shoot the scientists in their pods. On that path, you ended lying in grass, alive but unsure whether you had done right.

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Written by an AI model from the game's wikis, and checked against them part by part by another before it was put here.