Lukash's signet

In order to gain more information about the situation, Fang wants us to go undercover at the mercenary base in the Warlab. Besides the merc uniform, the mercenary signet ring that once belonged to Lukash will be needed to complete the disguise.
== Walkthrough ==
=== Lukash ===
Go to Army Warehouses and talk to Lukash about his ring. The ring is not with him - a Monolith leader named Spider took it from him, and you need to find him at Radar.
After the talk, Shura the Gynecologist messages you all of a sudden. He wants you to investigate recent disappearances of Hunters. This leads to A friend's gift.
=== Spider's group ===
Head over to Radar. The Monolith squad will be around the Dark Valley transition. Once you reach the halfway point on the road to the transition, enemies will start slowly spawning on either side, locking you on the road. Those on the south will be better armored and carry more deadly weapons such as M60 and VSKK "Vykhlop".
Search the bodies to find Spider, and the signet ring on him.
At any point after this, you will become a mercenary once you equip a mercenary outfit. If you take it off, you'll fail the mission.
* To make subsequent quests easier, make sure you have 10 Smoke grenades and that you've bought the Radar to Army Warehouses transition from Informant, and at least 30,000RU with you.
* Mercenaries, Traders, Avengers, Bandits will be either friendly or neutral towards you.
* Try to find a Modernized mercenary exoskeleton as it will be the best armor of the faction.
* Take a sawn-off shotgun or a large caliber pistol such as Desert Eagle Mark XIX with you.
* If you want an alternative way to complete one of the quests down the line that involves less fighting, either finish the Black Doctor's exoskeleton storyline, or prepare additional 50,000RU. The outcome will be the same, though.
=== Mercenary undercover ===
Head to Warlab, and once inside, equip the armor to become a mercenary. The mercs have already occupied the laboratory and you can find Panther, the mercenary leader, in the lounge. She will give you several missions, starting with Phone for Panther.
Complete Panther's missions, and you will automatically be converted back to a Loner at the end of this sequence.
=== Finishing the quest ===
Talk to Fang at the Bar for a reward, and you can now go to Army Warehouses and return the signet to Lukash. He wants you to lead the Assault on the Military Laboratory, and you should speak to Vitamin who enters Lukash's room.
After completing the quest, Panther contacts you again, saying that the mercs had to leave the Warlab due to a large pack of pseudodogs occupying it.
== Notes ==
* Oddly enough, Spider is wearing a regular Monolith exoskeleton and not their specialized tank armor.
* Spider's ambush in Radar can be turned on its head with some creative usage of the returner.
** Approach the ambush area from out of bounds. Set your return point just behind the fence and jump over to trigger the spawns. Use the returner to hop out of bounds again and you can snipe the ambushers at your leisure with a huge height advantage.
** You may need to perform this maneuver more than once to massage the spawns into occurring.
* There is a full condition Modernized merc exo in the attic area of X-8 Laboratory.
* The vanilla stash location at the top of the elevator shaft is a good place to store your regular armor and anything else you don't need to take with you while undercover, such as your Grav-suit.
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