Marcin's Shooting Range

== About ==
Marcin's Shooting Range (aka. Strzelnica Marcina) was a shooting range located in the town of Verovo, Dziatyczyn Autonomous Region. Eastern Zedrutia. It was owned by Lev Marcin, a former Zedrutian criminal who has turned into a sort of a local celebrity in the area. The shooting range immediately became popular among gun enthusiasts and tourists alike, simply due to Dziatyczyn's gun laws which were not as strict compared to other voivodeships in Zedrutia. Lev's shooting range was mentioned several times in Zedrutian newspapers, but made headlines on Naród Dziatyczyn, which is Dziatyczyn's most popular newspaper companies, and was widely discussed on Lokalny Głos, Dziatyczyn's radio station broadcast. The shooting range also had its own merchandise and restaurant, both ran by Lev's wife and his son, Jakub. Andrzej Łukasiewicz is known for being one of the few personnel in the shooting range, a veteran, and a best-buddy friend of Lev.
Unfortunately, Marcin's Shooting Range would not last very long. Lev would meet a terrible fate on the 30th of July 1995 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting near the shooting range by 4 men. These 4 men allegedly had ties to the Zarveda Security Service, which was Crimsonia's secret police at the time. Despite Lev's family and Andrzej continuing to keep the place open, the shooting range permanently closed in 2001 and sold, and the location today has turned into both a museum and a commercial spot.
== History ==
=== Beginnings and opening ===
Originally, before the shooting range had been constructed, the land was originally owned by a family who built a house in the 1900s, however in the 1940s after Verovo was destroyed by the Ruralians, the house was abandoned and was put on sale in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, Lev Marcin, a man from Chotyń, purchased the large plot of land along with the abandoned house, and immediately began construction on the property. In 1972, he finished construction on the main building, and constructed two additional buildings behind the main building, which would become the shed, garage and garden. The abandoned home was renovated and turned into the family home for Lev's family. 
Eventually in 1974 as the construction had been mostly done on the property, Lev opened the shooting range to visitors and made the entrance fee free to locals in Verovo. Although it was initially unpopular, the locals unexpectedly enjoyed their experiences at the shooting range. Lev initially acquired the firearms from a salesman in Chotyń, but the guns that Marcin desired were difficult to acquire, and so it remained that way. He also began hiring a few staff to help the shooting range, and his wife and son moved into the family home in 1975. To begin their new lives, they adopted a dog which would spend most of its time in the garden. Around 1978 Lev made additional buildings in the property including toilets. In 1979 he began construction of a new building for his wife to open up another local business known as Delikatność Klienta, and a gift shop on the second floor, where it is currently maintained by Jakub.
=== Rise in popularity ===
Marcin's Shooting Range quickly became well known amongst the local community in Verovo to being well known across all of mainland Zedrutia. The shooting range made headlines on Naród Dziatyczyn, as a Zedrutian politician, Waszyński Michał, visited the property and met Lev Marcin. Lokalny Głos, or Local Voice, which is Dziatyczyn's local radio station, widely advertised the shooting range when it came to tourism in Dziatyczyn. The reason for its popularity was due to it being one of the only few shooting ranges in all of Zedrutia; Most of Zedrutia's voivodeships and government had a strict gun law, with the exception of the autonomous regions such as Chotyń or Dziatyczyn, which meant that gun usage in the region was extensive. This was all attributed to the Eastern Zedrutian hostile environment, as aggressive animals lead to around 4 deaths annually, prompting the autonomous government there to reduce their gun laws so that most citizens in East Zedrutia had their right to acquire a rifle for self defense. Another reason was due to Waszyński's visit or how it was widely advertised on Dziatyczyn's media outlets.
After the shooting range was opened, Marcin's Shooting Range quickly became well known amongst the local community in Verovo, and the shooting range would become the primary source of tourism on the town, and it quickly grew as more and more visitors came to the shooting range in trucks, buses and vehicles alike. Firearm salesmen had been offering to him deals and contracts, and Lev Marcin generated a generous source of income in the shooting range for the family. A nearby parking lot was also established beside the shooting range, in order to fit in more and more vehicles into the town. Other surrounding towns would also later on do the same thing, and several shooting areas in several parts of town were established, with support from Marcin.
In the year of 1990, the game begins here at the peak of Marcin's Shooting Range. Although not much can be seen around here, almost all buildings on the shooting range can be accessible. Lev Marcin can also be spotted inside the main building of the shooting range, where he is resting on the counter. There is no way to interact with him whatsoever, and he is just simply standing there for the rest of the entire game. 
=== Death of Lev Marcin and final years ===
In the year of 1995, approximately 5 years after the game took place, Lev Marcin and his family had just woke up in the morning to do their daily routines, preparing to open the shooting range and go as usual. That was until when Lev Marcin approached the gate, 2 black trucks later on drove to the entrance of the gate, and later on a group of over 4 people in black clothing, vests and balaclavas eventually came out of the truck armed with rifles and sprayed at Lev Marcin. He immediately died from his wounds, and after causing a chaotic scene, and as the local sheriff was driving towards the scene, the 4 people attempted to escape, before being ambushed and eventually, killed off by the locals after they crashed their trucks as the local sheriffs came to chase them off. After Lev Marcin died, his shooting range was passed over and inherited over to his wife, Zosia. His wife, was unable to maintain such a huge facility and as a result would employ several staff in order to maintain it and continue the shooting range for another 6 years. The family received compensation and huge amounts of money from the donations with support from the locals.
=== Closure ===
In 2001, after nearly 6 years and struggling to maintain the shooting range despite the generous amounts of income, the shooting range was run down, and in June of 2001, Zosia Marcin sold the property and moved back to Mikov, where her son also moved to work at a business. Lev Marcin was buried at the graveyard back in Verovo, but later on was moved far away by the request of Zosia Marcin to a graveyard in the outskirts of Mikov, where he was buried beside his mother. After Marcin's Shooting Range had been closed down, the area was abandoned for a brief period until new owners had bought it. During that brief amount of time, the shooting range was mostly empty, with only a few furnitures being left behind. Some guns had been sold over to salesman, including Lev Marcin's personal customized rifle, which had been sold at around 32,400 Zedrutian Krolaw in an auction, due to the value of the item and the person who owned it.
=== Modern day ===
After Marcin's Shooting Range was closed down, ever since the 2000s, Verovo was going back to its usual status as it was before the opening of the shooting range. Parts of Verovo were dilapidated and left behind as usual, and the tourism that Verovo benefitted from never came back. Marcin's Shootign Range, after being abandoned for a brief period of time, was purchased by new owners, in which they later on demolish the old fencing surrounding the property and used the empty plot to construct a supermarket on it. The remaining buildings, such as the main building, Lev Marcin's family home, garage and shed, and what was once Delikatnosc Klienta was also repurposed into commercial use. Delikatność Klienta was turned into a restaurant, with the former gift shop turned into a home for the owners of the restaurant. The main building was eventually turned into a small museum and memorial dedicated to Lev Marcin, whilst the garage and shed was turned into one warehouse for a store which was constructed near the former site and absorbed it within their boundaries.
For the rest of the buildings, Lev Marcin's family home, made out of bricks and stone, was repurposed into a local post office for the town of Verovo, after the old one had been burnt down from across the town. The walls, and the doors from inside the house were all still intact to this day. The toilets, which were located on the left side of the former shooting range, were eventually converted into public toilets for the locals and remaining tourists to use. The old entrance to Marcin's Shooting Range is still there, albeit the signs had been already taken off and moved to the main building, where it was showed off on display, and the gates had been taken off and used to replace one of the farmers gates in the town, after his one had been rusted away and broken by a drunken local. What else was remaining of Marcin's Shooting Range was converted to one medium sized parking lot. In conclusion, the shooting range after Lev Marcin had died had changed drastically compared to what it was over a decade ago, and locals still reminiscence about the days when the shooting range existed.
Somewhere in 2005, a medium but nearly gigantic, rest stop including several gas stations and fast food chains were built beside the left side of the former shooting range next to the brand new grocery store which had been constructed, providing the unused toilets a purpose. 
== Locations ==
=== Main building ===
This part of the property was the main building of Marcin's Shooting Range. This was one of the first parts of the shooting range that Lev Marcin had constructed out of wood. This main building was where most of the weapons on the shooting range were located, placed on the tables for visitors to pick up and use. Grenades and Molotov's can be found stored inside the building aswell, where they are stored on a metal shelf on the corner of the building. After Lev Marcin had died, a staff replaced his position on the counter, and later on in the year of 2001, Marcin's Shooting Range was closed and eventually abandoned, later on purchased by owners.
By the 2010s, the main building was converted into a memorial and museum for Lev Marcin, where they displayed items from the former shooting range for all locals in Verovo to see. The old entrance of Marcin's Shooting Range was put on display inside this building, and a plastic mannequin was placed behind the counter to resemble Lev Marcin. Some improvised firearms, and souvenirs from the former gift shop at the shooting range including signs and parts of his former car, doghouse and what was supposed to be a teleporter, was also displayed on this building.
=== Toilets ===
The toilets was also a separate additional facility for Marcin's Shooting Range, and was constructed by Lev Marcin himself in order to meet up with the demands of tourists and visitors to the shooting range. Although not much really can be known about the toilets, Lev Marcin had put on a warning that if any of the toilets had been damaged, the perpetrator would be forced to pay a hefty fine of over a hundred Zedrutian Krolaw in order to fix it. After Lev Marcin's death, and the subsequent closure of Marcin's Shooting Range, the local town of Verovo later on turned it into toilets for public use, for locals and possibly other people who was looking to go to town to rest by. These public toilets were unfortunately, dilapidated, and by 2020, the town has begin to decide on whether or not to do extensive renovations on the toilets or demolish it in order to construct a new one. 
=== Garage, shed and garden ===
The Garage, shed and garden were for personal use only, and restricted to only Lev Marcin and his family. Lev Marcin had it constructed behind the main building after he had the main building finished and completed, and also included a garden in the middle of it by nailing the metal sheets into the wooden poles stuck to the ground. In the year of 1990, the garage was currently used, with Lev Marcin wanting to turn an old small car into one that could be useful for rough terrain around the areas and primarily out of fun. The shed was used as a small family storage, with shelves being filled almost to the brink with foods, and survival kits. Televisions that weren't used, including old electronics and some which had been brought over for free from a flea market, were stored into the shed, with Lev Marcin probably working on dismantling some of them. The garden, located in between the garage and shed, was of course a garden for Marcin's wife, Zosia, and a home for the family dog, where a dog house including food and litter for the dog had already been set up. On the entrance to the garden, Lev Marcin put up a sign warning everyone of dogs. Unfortunately, after Lev Marcin's death and the closure of the shooting range, the garage and shed was eventually brought up, and merged into one building as a warehouse as new additional facilities for a store which had been recently opened. The dog house was eventually moved into the museum dedicated to Lev Marcin and his shooting range.
=== Marcin family home ===
The family home was built for the sole purpose of Lev Marcin's small family to live there together in the shooting range. It was of course, for personal use aswell, and visitors of the shooting range were often restricted from entering the house aswell. The house was built from brick and stone, which stood out compared to the buildings in the shooting range. It is located in the corner of the shooting range, beside the Delikatność Klienta and behind the main building. It consists of over two floors, with a living room and one narrow kitchen. The living room also serves as the place for Jakub Marcin to rest, as his bed is in the corner. On the second floor, there would be only two rooms, the bathroom and the master bedroom, where Lev Marcin and his wife slept. After the death of Lev Marcin and the closure of his shooting range, the Marcin family home was turned into a post office, as the nearest one in Verovo had been mostly burnt down. Today, it still remains, and the interior of the house including the doors, and original walls were kept mostly intact, including the kitchen which is now largely empty and the bathroom, which now served as a toilet for the rest of the employees. The shower was also dismantled.
=== Delikatność Klienta ===
Delikatność Klienta was a restaurant which was located inside Marcin's Shooting Range. Also known as Customer Delicacy in the Polish language, the restaurant was built because of a simple request made by Lev Marcin's wife, Zosia. This was not the only restaurant in the town of Verovo, as there had been only a few in the town. This was the restaurant usually visitors and tourists coming to Marcin's Shooting Range would often go to. A gift shop was also included on the second floor in the restaurant, selling things such as hand crafted pottery, including wooden guns for collections, and things such as souvenirs and merchandise. This gift shop was maintained by staff that they would usually hire, until Jakub Marcin reached the age of 17. Ever since then, Jakub Marcin would always maintain the gift shop, and kept it functioning for other visitors.
After Lev Marcin's death, and the subsequent closure of Marcin's Shooting Range, Delikatność Klienta was bought by a different owner, and once again was finally repurposed as another restaurant. The facade of the building had been changed to different colours, other than that most of it hadn't changed much. The interiors had been repainted with accent walls and along with the Gift Shop, formerly owned by Jakub Marcin, it was turned into a medium sized apartment.
=== Unnamed building ===
This was one of the buildings in Marcin's Shooting Range, and unfortunately does not have a name. Initially to other visitors, some had thought that this building was either a storage room or according to some staff working there, a workshop where Lev Marcin maintains his guns. However, this was not the case, as this building had harbored Lev Marcin's secret which had possibly got him killed, a teleportation machine. He had apparently managed to reverse engineer apparently what was supposed to be a machine which teleports you from one place to another, and placed in several other places which had been leased out as fighting areas. This was also not the case, as this was more than just a teleportation device. How it functioned is clearly unknown, but it can also travel through time from the past and somehow, unfortunately for some people including Lev Marcin, they weren't one of the rare types of people who could witness the future and the past. None of Lev Marcin's family have ever heard of such a teleportation device, and would usually call those who supposedly encounter it as deluded and would occasionally slander them. 
In the official timeline, the unnamed building, would be what others would usually call it, a storage room, and whenever somebody had entered it, there was a 86% chance of them ever encountering Marcin's supposed teleportation devices and nobody would see anything suspicious whatsoever, however some were aware that Marcin had carried heavy equipment into the building and Jakub Marcin had stated one time that he spent 4 days during vacations, (for example Zedrutia's independence day on November 1918) inside the so called warehouse. In the game, the unnamed building was not a storage room, but in fact 4 teleportation devices lined up on the wall powered by an advanced generator, with what seems to be a small temporary office and laboratory by Marcin. The player, is one of the 23% of the people who would be able to see the lab itself including the teleportation devices, and while it can be visible for them by looking outside, they are actually teleported into a sort of interdimension without being completely aware that they walked into it, and then via the teleportation devices, could return back to the planet without any trouble or difficulty being faced through. Some of Teleportation devices teleport you to current year to diffrent locations, some of them travels you to future, most of teleporters were teleporting you to diffrent private places that were used for paintball, and one is a time machine that teleports you to third great war era city. 
In the end, the teleportation devices and the anomalies which had been discovered from it were a danger and posed a threat to national security, and possibly got Lev Marcin assassinated by the Crimsonian officials, with nobody knowing of their motives other than the fact that Crimsonia had a reputation abroad for killing political dissidents, and those who had been accused of being dangers to the state. As some of the people and the local villagers had experienced eerie types of things after the shooting range had been closed down, some rumors had surfaced as some had seen the lights turn on with some of the curtains lifted and what seemed to be teleporters and a lab along with what some describe as a blue feeling along with the blue atmosphere in the building. As suspicion grew, it had pretty much convinced the locals in Verovo to avoid walking towards the unnamed building, as it had a sort of anomaly surrounding it. The building was later on demolished, after the property had been brought and divided up between several owners. What was left of the building, was now an empty patch of land, but some who owned what was left of the shooting range had planned to add an additional building on the former site of the unnamed building.
== Known inhabitants ==
=== Main inhabitants ===
* Lev Marcin
* Zosia Marcin
* Jakub Marcin
=== Staff ===
* Jozef