Old friend

X-8 laboratory:
Monolith trooper ×17

Pripyat-1 Underpass:
Monolith trooper ×27

After handing in all unknown chips and the chip reader to Klyonov, Arnie will want to talk. An old friend and contact of his, Claw, has been entranced by the Monolith and he wants us to find him and talk him into returning.

While he has no leads for now, a message will come in from Akill about an important job that will tie into this quest.

## Walkthrough

### Eastern Pripyat pt. 1

Akill has a Monolithian's broken PDA that needs to be taken to Sakharov for repair and decryption.

### Yantar

Sakharov needs some time to work on the PDA, and sends us on PSI Factor in the meantime. After returning from this task, he'll have some of his finds to share.

* Information on the existence of a recipe for the ultra-rare Crystal Ball artifact with true invisibility properties.
* A huge Monolith expedition being planned for X-8 laboratory.
* Data on an "Omega" detector, made to measure and isolate the emissions of a single kind of artifact.

Akill will be very interested in this information.

### Eastern Pripyat pt. 2

**It may be worth your time to completely clear X-8 and Pripyat-1 Underpass of mutants before speaking to Akill.**

After sharing this information, Akill configures your PDA to interpret Monolith radio signals. It's time to assault X-8 to see what the Monolithians are after.

The Yubileniy center will be infested as usual with the regular spawn of about 24 Monolith troopers, zombified stalkers, and controller variants wandering around the grounds. In addition to these, a turret will be overlooking both the west and east entrances into the building as well as one directly in front of the elevator down to X-8. Handle these spawns and go down into the lab.

### X-8 laboratory

Breaching the lab could be difficult, as the Monolith troopers will be allied with the mutant spawns inside. Several sentient fruit punches and burers will get in your way during the assault so be prepared with overwhelming close range damage, like a flamethrower.

Enter the "secret" section of the lab through the elevator shaft and a message will come through talking about a rogue Monolith squad absconding through the Pripyat-1 Underpass with vital information. Follow the trail into the Underpass.

### Pripyat-1 Underpass

Monolith troopers will be spread out, waiting in each section of the tunnel along with all of the normal mutant spawns. Advance slowly and carefully while making sure to kill all mutants if you did not clear them ahead of time. There will be a firefight going on in the final section of the dungeon. Four Dutiers dressed in black Monolith suits will be fighting the remainder of the Monolith squad, and Claw is there behind them.

Claw is in possession of a valuable PDA that contains the information we're looking for, but he will only fully trust us if we take care of Necessary measure for him.

## Notes

* If you are still under the effects of the truce from the Monolith parade, all Monolithians encountered will be neutral or friendly.
	+ If you still want their loot, you can simply attack them without fear of losing any reputation as group relations will be locked to 300. It generally takes two kills for the rest of the squad to turn hostile.