Deals with the Devil = Shaking Hands with America?

"An inside look into the foreign deals the government is making with the West..."

By Yana Oshibka
Oshibka Press Writer

Let me be clear, people. I am no drama queen, nor do I lean on any particular side at all. I’m here to write what I want to write, and write about things that I’m legally allowed to write (Looking at you, cops.) That being said, the times are certainly changing and, well, I stumbled on a particularly interesting paper.

Now, I’m not allowed to publicly show the paper. That’ll probably put me as higher priority or something. That’s up for you guys to dig up (wink wink). I will talk about it though. Did you know that despite the Inner Net disallowing us from contacting the other side and all, government officials can just ignore that restriction and do Fuck All with that power? Well of course you knew that, that was obvious. Practically public knowledge that you knew since you were a wee baby. But you don’t know the details.

Yes, we all know about the rumors about the Stalker Trade and how stalkers sell their crap to gov’heads to sell it at a higher price. Basic scammy capitalism and what not. It’s more complicated than you might think though, however. Did you know that foreign parties are able to, say, ‘commission’ a specific artifact for their liking? Now, the Zone is an unpredictable mistress who doesn’t obey requests, isn’t she? So what can you do if you need something from her, but she just won’t give it to you) Well. There’s always the knock-off way of doing it. Oh you know, grab whatever similar Mutant you got lying around, extract what you need, and sell it off like it’s the real deal!

Wait, you don’t know what I mean? Are you telling me that you don’t know what goes on in the walls of the Facility? Oh wow, sorry to spoil you with the tea. Well, I can’t exactly say more or else I’m on the chopping block for realsies, but hey. The more you know.

(Psst, the filename is “razor”)