Inside Lab X-19, going down the stairwell leading to the lower floor will lead to a room with a numerical keypad next to a locked door. Both entrances are guarded, and all areas around the base are monitored by snipers. The other entrance is a blown out wall surrounded by radiation levels that are off the charts. The external base has only two entrances the road to the main entrance is guarded by a Monolith sniper. The entrance to the lab is hidden in a very large and well defended base. Dangerous mutants and Zombified Stalkers also inhabit the area, making this area hazardous to travel through. Alternatively, instead of the direct route via the road, one can also take the forest route, but it is filled with pockets of radiation and anomalies. Members of the Monolith faction are deployed on all of the roads in the Red Forest, leading up to the Brain Scorcher and Pripyat. The controls to the Brain Scorcher were installed deep within Lab X-19, an old Soviet bunker filled with many generators and other machinery. After the Brain Scorcher was deactivated, word spread quickly and many Stalkers of different factions started to move to the center of the Zone, under the presumptions that there was a Wish-Granter or a treasure trove of artifacts waiting there. In Shadow of Chernobyl, Strelok, using the psi-protection helmet given to him by Professor Sakharov, enters Lab X-19 and proceeds to deactivate the Brain Scorcher. In Clear Sky, Strelok acquires a psi-protection helmet given to him by the Ecologists in Yantar, and travels to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, without shutting down the Brain Scorcher. The path to the Brain Scorcher and the installation itself was heavily guarded by a large number of Monolith soldiers. While the majority of Stalkers who came too close to the Brain Scorcher became zombies, Strelok's Group were able to slip past the Brain Scorcher, most likely with the help of Guide and reach the center of the Zone. The psi-emissions generated by the installation were effective at mind controlling trespassers and subjecting them to the will of the collective, creating mindless zombified stalkers out of some and raw recruits for the Monolith faction. When the Zone was created, the Scorcher was activated by the Common Consciousness in order to obstruct the way into the center of the Zone. Īfter the Soviet Union's dissolution, the Group continued the research started in Lab X-8 and adapted the installation at the Scorcher, most importantly, Lab X-19 located in an old bunker underneath the facility. Its design was created in Lab X-8, in Pripyat. While superficially appearing as a massive radar installation, the Scorcher was from the beginning, created as a massive mind-altering antenna, designed to suppress aggression (codenamed Rainbow).
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