#and strelok is also there

[ayliaan]

@tar-dar requested Ghost ! once in a week i’m sad he died

still trying to figure how i want to draw him, but definitly will keep the eyebrows

[yourhonor4u]

Oh, don't ask

[oceancamp]

finished stalker 2. man that was a ride

[jascnbrody]

i think its So Fun that the entire game richter is a little fussy w skif bc he's jealous of him being "favored" by the zone and u always find him in bars drinking bc he's stressing himself 😋 and then they rly dont get a good goodbye bc it's all very quick decision making on skifs part trying to do what's best for The Zone. and he is right.. bro Fuck faust for real

[wujekfoliarz]

Everytime a fan-made material depicts Strelok as a mentally unstable, well, terrorist, a Noontider gets mental reassurance and therapy

[sputniksflight]

Strelok 2.0

This is my first attempt at quick-sketching this thin idiot in his new Unreal 5 glory (and since my wrist got damaged). I've been looking at my old drawings, screenshots, and whatnot, and something... is different?

10 years can change a man, sure, but Strelok kinda looks... better now? (in-game, that is) Like, older, but... fresher?

Wha---

Also, new scanner ahoy, new laptop (Acer Nitro bby!), new phone, meaning new screens, and now I have no idea how my drawings look like in the end; will try to figure everything out soon :v

Edit: Fixed!

Edit 2:

Ok, I think I figured out the supposed difference in appearance - lightning/shading and the new engine. I compared ShoC screens with HoC - even the slight nasal curvature is the same; I thought it could be sth with the eye shape but nope, eyebrow position, even the wrinkles between them are the same *wolf whistles* Grand job GSC; reminds how important it is to stand in the right light to look better :V

[giminal]

homophobic stalker fans r unreal to me because like... Who do you think everyone is fucking .. ? theres no women in the zone.. and if gay men are brought up its often in a gross "joke" about the gay men assaulting straight men. What?? No??? i saw one time a wonderful piece of fanart of strelok, ghost, and fang in dresses and everyone on reddit was so rude about it. as if its not fairly common knowledge men in the military often used to do drag for fun? Where is the difference?

i feel like realistically yes there are many straight men in the zone but also you are very wrong if you think there's no gay men, just statistically. There were definitely men in there sewing their own clothes for drag shows, various small gay bars for those in the know, men making each other discrete gay patches for their favorite jackets. Things of the sort.

gay people always exist. everywhere. whether you think so or not. just statistically, there were definitely many gay men in the zone. this isnt some wacky concept

[arkhaichno]

poem by Борис Рижий

I saw a video of Pripyat after it snowed. This was the result

This was also an excuse to attempt to draw Strelok

[ayliaan]

some stuff i’ve gathered, style not consistent but idc

Also have Strelok x Degtyarev wip

[postal-ech]

Right

So apart from Metroid, most of you may also know me as a Lisa head.

I've mentioned Interlopers here once or twice but to refresh anyone that doesn't know, Interlopers was this weird Lisa/Undertale crossover headed by a few artists and animators of the undertale fan scene before, uh

Well

Let's just say that, if you know who the fuck ran Glitchtale, you can already assume how it all went.

Now granted she wasn't the one to originally head this thing, that was another person named Strelok - who i have no info on whatsoever apart from this individual being the one to start and direct the project before disappearing from the 'net - god only knows what or why.

I can't lie however, the initial premise was...interesting.

You won't hear that from a lot of other Lisa fans, and that's probably for good reason - Undertale and Lisa are like two polar opposites in terms of tone - with Lisa being a gory game of broken people, abuse, and their trauma left behind by that abuse...while Undertale is about two things - befriending those you can, forming connections and doing what you can or, well, defaulting to the RPG trope of violence and genocide.

I, however, still see there being some damn potential with the idea.

I'll page break it here for anyone that wants to see what I have in mind, what I've been working with, etc.

SO.

Interlopers...

I've said it before, the premise fascinated me, however there was always one big, massive flaws with it that sours the experience (apart from some who were involved with the project) - that being its story.

Interlopers focuses on Buddy and Chara as they Firstly encounter one another, fight each other, make up, explore the underground and get attacked by an OC with a giant spoon. The initial premise is that funny man Gaster thought it'd be a good idea to send a killer to finish off a genocidal maniac, but that obviously doesn't work.

The premise focused a LOT more on the undertale side of things, rather than the Lisa side of things - though some elements do manage to crop up between the two.

There were weird choices like having pre-transition Jim Sterling acting as a character with major plot importance, once again focusing on the undertale side of things rather than having it be a nice balance between the two, some design choices for Buddy and Chara, etc. Also...a major plot points involving Yado's DNA to open up some research facility and freeing the women all locked up in test tubes but THATS FOR LATER DISCUSSION

There were some story ideas I did take to, however - Chara taking Joy in order to power through a fight leading to permanent consequences for them, some of the AU stuff the two get involved with, and with the latest animation before it all ended, being released by Jakei of Underverse fame, Buddy and Chara go to rescue Richard Weeks from a gang holding him up

So...I figured I'd come up with a rewrite of sorts.

The BIGGEST issue however, was with that plotline, it never did cover anything the Lisa fandom had produced. At the time of the animation's release, you already had Lisa the Hopeful, Pointless, Timeless and plenty of other high profile fan games out there that weaves the setting of Olathe into something bigger, something more lived in...and from what I've gathered, there wasn't any plans to really cover that.

That, and the other big issue - at least personally speaking - was the focus of having this...one headcanoned theory be the driving force for this later half of the story - where the women of Olathe were taken into a lab via the Flash - Yado's lab to be specific - and kept there to let the men rage and die out.

It never sat right with me, as it just blatantly implies that Yado is the cause for The Flash, and that kind of ruins the mystique of it. Sure, there may be other women out there in Olathe, but they sure as shit aren't all bottled up like something outta one of the Resident Evil movies waiting to be let back out in the world.

I'm not fully deep in it I'll admit. I have writing points for this rewrite in mind, discussed it with some members of the community (before jumping ship from the discord i was on cause the bad eggs of the Lisa community are ever god damn present), and made some sprite design. The overall focus will be more so on Lisa as a whole.

I don't know if I want to make it into a fan game, a sprite comic with animation, or just a fanfic with the hopes that someone who's way better at animation than I am pick up on it, but the story goes as this:

Two years after the events of Lisa: The Joyful, Buddy Armstrong finds herself lost. Despite having the trumpet in hand and the power to crush any man that comes her way, nothing has really changed. Men are still men, and new warlords crop up every other week or so trying to hunt for the Last Woman on Earth - The Queen of Olathe - and each one ends up in another shallow grave.

One day, as she contemplates her life and her identity, she comes across a strange grey door embedded into the cliff face wall, and upon entering finds herself in a sort of in-between dimension...one that vaguely foreshadows her fate with another individual.

The in-between sort of shifts and changes, it's akin to a Yume Nikki-esque dream world, a black void that displays surreal imagery

In Buddy's case, she sees a sprawling ocean, tinged emerald green to a deep sapphire blue against a pink sun...and a crimson red sky that slowly dissipates into the black void.

What eventually unfolds is the encounter with Chara, minor AU shenanigans, before returning to Olathe with one purpose in mind - to explore the land she calls her home...which then transitions into finding another woman upon hearing that there may be one out there.

The climax would be where the two teens come across Downtown Olathe, coming face-to-face with the cosmic horror of The Franchise among other things that leave a deep, cancerous scar on the both of them. The first encounter with an old Jerseyhead leaving that first impact on both of them...

And it ends in one of two ways...

One succumbs to the nihilism and violence-worship of the Franchise, killing off the other and continuing a lonely search for the other woman...

...or they power through, despite the mark the Franchise leaves on them, continuing a long journey to find this other woman...and eventually finding an old friend as a result.

I wanna take inspiration from a lot of Lisa fan games. Lisa the Undone, Pointless, Hopeful, Timeless, Vegaful, Unbreakable, Lisarune, and more. I especially want to explore the characters of Chara and Buddy in this setting - One who ends a genocide run in Undertale and dons the mask and poncho of a dead man to truly embrace the chaos of Olathe...while also hiding their own issues behind it, both in a physical and metaphorical sense...

And one who had gotten what she wanted, clawed her way to the top, only to find that the top offers nothing but a horizon beyond...and it's better suited to find something worth living for - more than just endless violence with wanna-be warlords and up-and-coming gangs.

The first sprite I've had in mind for this comes in the form of this slightly older Buddy, with a design that reflects her current situation, her past, and what has changed between then

The other one is a concept drawing by a homie of mine, Rayne, to represent Chara's willingness in embracing what Olathe is - another world to fight, with endless amounts of challenge.

I've made a sprite based on it, but...

Its...

Kinda shit.

With Rayne making their own sprite using Buddy as a basis

I want to make something original for Chara, so for all I know, this sprite is still gonna be worked on as I figure out how to keep to a good stylization that stays faithful to Lisa as a whole.

I might be leaning towards a sprite comic again but I can't fucking help but imagine complex animations with high-effort choreography - martial arts and sword fights against humans and mutants and strange people, surreal visuals that really tap into the mind of joy addicts and the subtle, supernatural aspect of Olathe.

I'll be working on this for a bit, but I hope this can inspire others into making their own versions of this idea - might as well, given the original is dead and gone right?

Who can say

Future is a mystery, as one cool frog lover once said.

[shinglescat]

With all its faults, i enjoyed the story of Stalker 2. It feels like home.

After 2nd pt, I grew to love Faust, easily one of the most memorable and iconic characters of the franchise. I still wish monolith and ex-monolith had more screentime besides being the go-to adversaries for exploration shootouts. The few quests they had are not enough, especially given the tragedy of Strider and his entire group. I'm still not over his death, he of all people in the franchise deserves better. The way he tried to shoot himself right after the Signal went off broke my heart. And the death scene, where he's free of monolith influence again, realizing he nearly killed Skif........................

Surprised by Korshunov, like super surprised. First time i did Varta-Varta-Strider-Strelok-Doctor (i also did permutations of the last two to see the three other endings), and this time I did Spark-Spark-Varta-Strelok-Doctor. I expected him to be a typical soldier bossman, someone who would betray me and who would try to off me, but nothing like that, and he actually respects Skif and does not consider him to be a meat on legs. He's very convincing, menacing but not evil, likable also. The "i can't even bury them" speech hit right in the heart - he's got his men at the top of his priorities, and it's a breath of fresh air to see a military man in a media to not think of his subordinates as of disposable.

Dalin Jr. is the same revelation. I thought he'd be a scumbag, a scientist without morals, another trickster, but nope, man with a heart of gold following after his not so good father. Feeling a bit guilty for not trusting him the entire time the first playthrough. I laughed my ass off during that one section at the institude where Korshunov casually watched Skif assault Dalin, as if it's a regular occurence at the place.

Scar is one big holy shit. I both love him and hate him. He's definitely not something i thought him to be from Clear Sky, but he's entertaining nonetheless. He is actually the ruthless and crazy motherfucker i believed Korshunov to be, with absolute fuck all about human lives. Proper terrorist. And his S2 story tying with CS - i can't help but pity him, groomed to be used as a modem by people with power.

Separate mention to Spark's Star. The guy had at most 10 minutes of screentime total, but he's got some real good chemistry with Skif.

Richter is a whole nother beast. He's like an autistic golder retriever puppy. Jesus, man, just kiss Skif already, you aren't gonna see him ever again anyway.

I swear, if the game was less depressing, Skif, Richer and Star could be boyfriends.

Strelok is everything i thought he'd be and would become. Definitely didn't disappoint, tho at one point i questioned where tf he got so much money hiring all those mercs lmao. He definitely had his brain scorched with an idea, but he's somehow still rational about everything else. Clever, stubborn in his ways, rigid, unable to see thru some subtler parts.

Really glad to meet Doctor proper after so many years. He's everything I expected him to be and more. What I didn't expect is him throwing heavy as fuck lines constantly, making me question every single step.

Degtyarov... had crininally little time after introduction. Certified badass tho.

Oh my god Agatha the bitch. This is the ruthless person I believed Dalin to be. The Varta ending is easily THE BAD one because of who she is, who she is serving and what their plans are, though not even remotely as depressing as Scar's. The old hag had my homie Korshunov follow her without any doubt. Ugh I wish there was a way to knock some sense into him....

For the Varta ending, Strelok literally says they're going to use the Thread project for something during that one infiltration mission with the TVs, but he doesn't know exactly what for. I followed Korshunov's reasoning and logic that the Zone is to be destroyed, but somehow, i disregarded Agatha completely. And then the ending hit me. Ye, the Zone is gone, but something far more sinister is in its place, with project X finished after so many years and its goals fulfilled. And those TVs at the end, being creepy. Nah, never picking that one again.

The Scar ending is easily the most depressing one. First Korshunov kills Richter, but then turns out that O-Soznanie is legit and exists in the subtle matter, and Dalin is ecstatic to finally be able to talk to his father. And then the O-Soz representative sends you to the generators, and it's surprisingly peaceful and not dangerous at all, rainbows everywhere, and you chill near the blue campfires under emissions with your now suddenly alive-but-not-really Richter and other dead homies from the subtle matter (Strider is suspiciously absent), and Richter shows you the way like a fucking disney princess. And you think, hey, it's not as bad as I thought it would be. WRONG. You get to the X-lab, and Scar is having a life crisis cuz his entire life in the Zone was a lie, his memories have been imprinted from another stalker, and he himself was programmed for this exact job, but then he comes thru and decides to go into the fish tank anyway. And then it's butterflies, poppies, unicorn farts everywhere, all dead people are alive, and Skif be having a grand time of his life chatting with homies.... UNTIL THE FUCKEN CAMERA SHIFTS, and turns out it's all in his head. Yeah no, never again.

The Strelok ending is probably a good one. Or at least neutral. He gives his reasoning, he tells everyone to fuck off, he prohibits exit and enter into the Zone, and he's now the entity guarding her like a loyal dog. The Zone supposedly (because let's face it, this balding mofo's in charge now) has no masters anymore, no one can abuse her ever again, but she's not free either. Tho it's kinda a weird one with him. He wanted the Zone gone, but now he put her under his own protectorate? I mean, it's been 10 years, a man can change, but... would be interesting to hear a more elaborate explaination than "she gave me a new life" or smth.

And then the Doctor ending. Some say it's a bad one, but I really do love it the most. I knew i wouldn't be able to kill him as Strelok wanted, and he gives very compelling arguments against Strelok's crusade... and you spare Doc, run to hide into the basement of his house from the emission... only to find more notes down there, talking about the O-Soz agents and him using them and scaners and alpha-artifacts for something... makes you question if he wasn't the mastermind behind all this. Maybe even his couriers were behind the explosion at Skif's khrushovka. Maybe it was a setup to bring an outsider to make his plan come true. And then, at the end, as the Zone finally frees herself of her shackles, expanding worldwide (i doubt it's an actual expansion, more like local anomalies appearing worldwide), Doc morphs into Faust and makes you question the entire Doctor's story. Was it Faust the whole time? Was he not killed by Skif? Is he a manifestation, an illusion? Was it Faust himself that is the mastermind behind all this? And then remember that reactivated monolith-Strider tried to kill doctor. Was it a coincidence? Was it a command to kill Doctor Kaymanov by O-Soz, was it a command by O-Soz to kill Faust while pretending to be Doctor because he's sorta gone rogue/against his original program, or was it a command by Faust himself to get Skif to trust the illusion?

And the awesome part is that all of the endings-related parties are right about their respective things.

This is the game narrative-wise I wanted Veilguard to be tbh. But here I am, left alone to geek out about stalker 2 instead. Oh and in this game they drop some serious lines, most notably Doctor, as I mentioned above. His "But how does one know the value of freedom if one has never been free?" hit me like a truck. Strider's monologue after his death about monolithians being puppets brings tears to the eyes.

Ugh, this makes me think what kinda ending woulda been if Strider was alive and still himself, if he went into the aquarium instead of everyone else.

Oh by the way, the Faust theme, 0:40 - 0:50, I swear I can hear "let me out". Not creepy at all, but checks out.

TL:DR i want more monolithian stuff, i want justice for my bestie Strider AND I want a romance-dating DLC because Richter and Star are definitely boyfriend materials for Skif lmao.

[desolated4rtist]

First time drawing Strelok!!

And also my first post on here! I still gotta figure out this site :,)

[genesisarclite]

Stozhary on AO3

So, remember I said I was writing a Stalker 2 fic where I tormented Skif and made him "earn that hug"? And how it kept getting longer and longer? Well... here it is. 100% pure self-indulgence, Grade A dark amber, combining emotional angst with sexual and romantic tension so thick you can cut it with a KNIFE. When you, THE AUTHOR, are the one begging them to just kiss already, there is a PROBLEM.

Ahem. Anyway. Here it is. Go read it for me, please.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63313567

I spent waaaaaaaaaay too much time on this and enjoyed writing it waaaaaaaaay too much. I'm pretty sure there will be more of these two from me in the future.

...I have a type when it comes to ships, don't I?

(also, there are some mild spoilers for the Strelok ending in a few places, so just keep that in mind when reading)

[rubberjohny]

hey, is it possible to get angles of Streloks face model? and also how do you get these assets? im trying to make my own figures from Stalker HOC

You just need Fmodel with Stalker mapping file

[katerenko]

My silly stalker sketches

(Yeah, іt's colour highliters and markers there)

And also my little sis sketches :>

I like that she guessed the height difference between Ghost and Strelok, even though I didn't say a word about it to her :D

[shalebridgecradle]

Tag Game: Latest Fanfics!

Thank you @crownleys for the tag!

Rules: post the beginning lines of your most recent 10 5 published fanfics, then attempt to tag 10 people!

So AO3 tells me I haven't published anything since 2022 because I am a busy, depressed gremlin with no free time these days and also *gestures vaguely to...everything*

Also I might have spent the first 6 months of this year indulging a project that was supposed to be like 5 pages and ended up at uhhhhh 65. (help??) And it's unpublishable. But it's technically done and sent to the one person on Earth who tolerates my randomly catapulting word vomit in their general direction, which is almost like publishing, so I'll include its first lines here for giggles.

Tagging @chyrstis, @dan-lee99, @whirly-wind, and anyone else who feels like doing this!

dear fellow traveller

aka "so I put S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Half-Life 2, and one of my OCs from some unpublished TWDG fanfic into a blender and gave myself terminal brainrot and a new OT3 over it."

The first time Tatiana met Strelok, he nearly bled to death. Marie called her into White Forest’s hospital on a rainy spring afternoon. Grabbed her at the doors. “There’s a patient,” she explained, pulling her down the hall by her elbow. “Russian–I think. Shit. No English, anyway. One of the recon teams found him out by the river.”

2. tesfest23, day 5

The day Thrud discovered his wife could levitate was the same day he fell off the cliff. These two events were, of course, directly related.

3. tesfest23, day 4

Serana regards the weatherworn chest before her with open suspicion. With the tip of her index finger she lifts the lid. Hinges creak. Wood shifts. She doesn’t even examine the contents before letting the lid slam shut again in a whumpf of dust. She whirls on the two adventurers behind her, arms folded across her chest, brow furrowed. “This is the most absurd idea I’ve ever heard.”

4. tesfest23, day 3

Master Neloth bent to inspect the fallen creature. “They’ve grown teeth now. How charming. Was this really worth interrupting my tea?” Eira’s scarf slipped down to her chin; she didn’t bother tugging it back into place. All the better to scowl at the Telvanni wizard, as any sensible soul would never do. “They’re changing. Evolving. The gulakhans thought you’d wish to know.” “They’d wish me to know every time an Ashlander stubbed their toe on a rock.”

5. the city & the city

one time, I played Thief 4 / Thief (2014) and proceeded to black out and have an "I take a hammer and FIX the canon" moment. I don't know either.

It begins with a job. Basso needs rent money. Some rich taffer up Dayport way covets his neighbor’s coffers. The hows and whys have never mattered to Garrett, just the how much. “It’s this painting,” Basso explains over a late dinner. “You’ll know it when you see it. Ugliest thing you ever laid eyes on, which I guess is why it’s worth a fortune. Art, am I right?”