Line #4 Fanfic/FromExclusionToFantasticZones


1	A crossover quest between ''{{VideoGame/STALKER}}'' and ''{{Literature/Gate}}'' by Qwaar. A stalker nicknamed Honeybee is seeking shelter from an emission when he finds a Gate into Falmart. He ends up rescuing [[SnakePeople a local named Pheela Ningyon]] from slavers, and things pick up from there as Honeybee and his slowly growing party try to survive in both worlds.
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3	The quest can be found [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/from-exclusion-to-fantastic-zones-stalker-gate.23397/ here]].
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5	!!''From Exclusion to Fantastic Zones'' provides examples of:
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7	%%* AbandonedLaboratory: The Gate between Falmart and the Zone is located in one.
8	* AscendedExtra: Snag. In canon he's an NPC who's only involved in a couple of sidequests. Here he becomes a member of Honeybee's party.
9	* BadassBookworm: Mage, who's quite knowledgeable about biology, Greco-Roman culture, engineering, and possibly several other fields. He's also no slouch in a fight and is thriving in the Zone despite being a new arrival. [[spoiler: As expected of a Ukrainian intelligence operative.]]
10	* BeastMan: Diana Atalanta, Apostle of the God of the Hunt. She's part-hyena.
11	* BerserkButton: Anomalies are this to Diana. In her eyes, it's a sign something is extremely wrong with the god that governs The Zone.
12	* {{BFG}}: Pheela eventually gets a PKM. Her more stable lower body and strength makes firing it much easier. Honeybee is looking to getting her to replace it with a Kord, a .50 caliber heavy machine gun.
13	%%* CombatMedic: Charcoal, who is also the first Duty member to enter Falmart.
14	%%* CuteMonsterGirl: Pheela.
15	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Mage.
16	* DeathWorld: The Zone, full stop. Between factions of humans with varying degrees of hostility, deadly anomalies, radiation, and mutants, surviving in the Zone is nothing short of a miracle.
17	* {{Expy}}: Judging from descriptions provided by the author and [[https://www.deviantart.com/ninjashade/art/From-Exclusion-to-Fantastic-Zones-641908571 fan art]], Pheela is a more modest version of [[Manga/MonsterMusume Miia]].
18	* ElsewhereFic: The Falmart portions of the story take place in a region of the Empire that's far from Alnus, and no canon characters have appeared so far.
19	* FantasticRacism: Demi-humans like Pheela are not particularly liked by The Empire's populace. However, apostles like Diana get a free pass.
20	* FishOutOfWater: The stalkers and Pheela are this in each others' worlds.
21	* GunPorn: This is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fanfic, so firearms of all sorts are expected. Note that the author based the fic on the MISERY mod, so there are even more guns than in the base game.
22	* HeroOfAnotherStory: Mage [[spoiler: aka Alexander Degtyarev, the PlayerCharacter of Call of Pripyat]].
23	* HiddenDepths:
24	** Both Honeybee and Pheela have them, which are slowly revealed via flashbacks as well as the occasional invisi-text.
25	** Honeybee thinks Mage has them. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
26	** Duty member Charcoal has medical and EOD training and may have served in the US military.
27	* ImpoverishedPatrician: [[spoiler: According to flashbacks, Pheela used to be nobility until an unknown event drove her family to ruin and eventually caused her to be sold to slavers.]]
28	* LanguageBarrier: There is a HUGE one between Honeybee and the inhabitants of Falmart at the beginning of the story, considering the local language is nothing like Russian or Ukrainian. This is somewhat averted later on as he teaches Pheela how to speak Russian and [[TranslatorMicrobes Diana's use of her Apostle abilities]].
29	* MeleeATrois: Honeybee and his party get into one with [[TheMafiya bandits]] and [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenaries]] after one of their later forays to Falmart.
30	* MindOverMatter: The burer Pheela faces and kills throws several objects around to fight her off, including a tree trunk that ends up pinning a stalker to the ground.
31	* MyHoverCraftIsFullOfEels: Pheela is guilty of this since her grasp of Russian is shaky at best. Also was said virtually word-for-word by Honeybee when trying to communicate with Diana for the first time.
32	* OhCrap: Honeybee when he discovers [[spoiler: [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Monolith]] has already made their way into Falmart.]]
33	** Mage and Charcoal have the exact same reaction when Honeybee relays that fact to them.
34	* PrivateMilitaryContractors: After coming back from his first foray into Falmart, Honeybee finds one dying from a bloodsucker attack. Him and his party end up fighting a different group later on.
35	* PsychicPowers: Controllers, poltergeists/pyrogeists, and burers. [[spoiler: Griffons mutated by the Zone also have these.]]
36	* PunnyName: Pheela Ningyon. This has been [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by Honeybee and at least one other Stalker.
37	* PuttingOnTheReich: One of the PrivateMilitaryContractors Honeybee and crew fights uses an MG3 and customized his exoskeleton helmet to resemble a German Stahlhelm.
38	* SeenItAll: Mage's reaction to seeing [[SnakePeople a lamia]] for the first time? Casually take out his PDA and take pictures.
39	* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Flashbacks peg Honeybee as one, who is implied to have fought in [[UsefulNotes/TheChechnyaWars the First Chechen War]].]]
40	* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Pheela was about to be sold to Imperial troops by enterprising bandits (not the stalker faction) before Honeybee violently rescued her.
41	* SnakePeople: Pheela is one.
42	* SparedByTheAdaptation: Mirone, who was killed offscreen by a controller in Call of Pripyat.
43	* TheCanKickedHim: How Honeybee dispatches one of Pheela's guards at the beginning of the story.
44	* TheMafiya: The Bandits are out and about in The Zone. [[spoiler: Honeybee also had a history of them, which may be why he's in [[DeathWorld the Zone]] in the first place.]]
45	* TranslatorMicrobes: Diana does this by [[SleightOfTongue force-feeding Honeybee chewed up deer heart]], giving him the ability to understand Falmart's language.
46	* WhamEpisode: The chapter Meeting with the Trapping Lord, where it's revealed [[spoiler: the [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce JSDF]] of canon GATE is also in Falmart and have fought the flame dragon. However, Honeybee thinks they're [[UsefulNotes/UkrainiansWithDepletedUranium Ukrainian military]] and is in no hurry to meet them.]]
47	** A couple of chapters later, the group meet Diana for the first time. It turns out her temple was [[spoiler:destroyed by Monolith, who set up a second Brain Scorcher further North and took Diana's surviving acolytes there.]]

Context Fanfic / FromExclusionToFantasticZones