Tiberius had tracked this prey all night. He'd found the perfect overwatch position. He was in such a good mood that he'd even brought out the [i]special[/i] ammunition. He was going to enjoy watching their heads explode. There was nothing more satisfying than dealing the coup d'état to an unsuspecting opponent. This was it. He lined up the shot... inhale. He began to squeeze down on the trigger... hold breath. The enemy was just waking up, lifting his head into the perfect position while his parter remained asleep-unsuspecting.

[i]Brepbreep brepbreep[/i]

The sound of his PDA startled Tiberius causing him to miss his shot, and consequentially, release a long and loud stream of furious curses. His PDA still making that irritating noise, Tiberius scoped back in and found that the two men he'd tracked down for the last week were now long gone. The half-bottle of vodka they'd stolen from him would never be avenged.

He contemplated smashing the PDA just to spite whoever contacted him, but he remembered that 1: He was running low on money, 2: He was running low on vodka and stealing it hadn't been panning out lately, and 3: 1+2= Tiberius needs work if he wants to keep living in a drunken stupor, and smashing the source of work would be detrimental to his noble, alcoholic cause. Finally satisfied that he'd over-analyzed the situation, Tiberius pulled his PDA out and gave the message he'd received a look.

"Let's see... Yantar. Yantar? I live near there, so it's convenient. I know the area, so no surprising me with traps. Lots of money... and money means booze... ah, hell. I might as well give things a look. I need to kill something since this little piece if shit PDA just cost me two gib explosions."

Realizing that he was talking to himself, Tiberius soundly slapped himself while pocketing his PDA with the other hand. He quickly looked around to make sure that he was the only person in the area. There were a few other Stalkers, but none of them were aware of his presence. With that as assurance, he quickly sprinted back to his lair, which was a few hundred meters away, packed up what supplies he could carry, and set out on the short hike to the Yantar labs.