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| ROADSIDE PICNIC Literature 1971. Written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. | |||
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| 1 | Black Sparks | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Black Sparks Mentioned, but never described in the novel. | |||||||||||
| 2 | Black Sprays | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Black Sprays Black beads that are sometimes used in jewelery. A ray of light shone into one of these beads will be delayed in time and distorted. The transmission of the light is delayed depending on the bead's weight, size, and several other parameters. The light which exits the bead is always less than what entered. No other known properties. | |||||||||||
| 3 | Bracelets | Artifacts | Jewelry | ||||||||
Bracelets Somehow causes the person wearing one to become healthier over time. | |||||||||||
| 4 | Bug Traps | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Bug Traps A.k.a "Gravi-concentrates". Dangerous, invisible traps that crush the unwary. | |||||||||||
| 5 | The Burning Fluff/fuzz | Matter | Substances | ||||||||
The Burning Fluff/fuzz Dangerous substance in The Zone. | |||||||||||
| 6 | Death Lamp | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Death Lamp "Eight years ago a Stalker by the name of Stefan Norman, nicknamed Four-Eyes, brought out an apparatus from the Zone that, as far as can be judged, was some kind of ray-emitting system fatal to earth organisms. This Four-Eyes offered the apparatus to the Institute. They did not agree on the price. Four-eyes re-entered the Zone and never came out again. The present whereabouts of the apparatus is unknown. People at the Institute are still tearing their hair out over failing to buy it, and now are offering any amount for it that could be written on a check." | |||||||||||
| 7 | Dick the Tramp | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Dick the Tramp Never actually seen, this artifact seems to cause noise and shaking inside the industrial plant in the Zone. A Nobel Prize winning scientist jokes that it could be a wind-up toy that a Visitor child accidentally left behind. Possibly the only long term 'inhabitant' of the Zone. | |||||||||||
| 8 | Dr. Valentine Pilman | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Dr. Valentine Pilman Dr. Valentine Pilman: The Pilman Radiant is simplicity itself. Imagine that you spin a huge globe and you start firing bullets into it. The bullet holes would lie on the surface in a smooth curve. The whole point of what you call my first serious discovery lies in the simple fact that all six Visitation Zones are situated on the surface of our planet as though someone had taken six shots at Earth from a pistol located somewhere along the Earth-Deneb line. Deneb is the alpha star in Cygnus. The Point in the heavens from which, so to speak, the shots came is the Pilman Radiant. | |||||||||||
| 9 | Empties | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Empties Two copper discs the size of Frisbees, about a quarter inch thick, which permanently maintain an empty space of a foot and a half between each other. It is unknown how the two discs are attracted to each other or what holds them in place. No force seems to be able to push them closer together or pull them apart. It is possible to pass any object through the empty space between the two discs. The device seems to possess no other unusual properties and has the mass of two copper discs of the appropriate size. Possibly a type of a container. One unique specimen, the "full empty," has been found, "filled" with blue liquid. The blue substance sifted cloudily in slow streams between the discs, like a glass jar with blue syrup inside. The "full" specimen was too heavy for one strong man to move, and almost too heavy for two men to move. The novel states that a Stalker can get 400 for an empty w. | |||||||||||
| 10 | The Golden Ball/sphere | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
The Golden Ball/sphere Artifact Burbridge claims to have found: "The Golden Ball," said Burbridge. "I found it. There were so many tales about it. I spun a few myself. That it would grant your every wish. Any wish, hah! If that were true, I sure wouldn't be here. I'd be living high on the hog in Europe. Swimming in dough." | |||||||||||
| 11 | Golden Sphere | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Golden Sphere Also known as the Wish Machine, this universally coveted artifact allegedly grants a wish of a person standing in front of it. | |||||||||||
| 12 | Happy Ghosts | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Happy Ghosts | |||||||||||
| 13 | Hell Slime | Matter | Substances | ||||||||
Hell Slime Dangerous substance in The Zone. | |||||||||||
| 14 | Itchers | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Itchers A few centimetres in diameter. Squeezing it several times causes strange effects in a radius of a few hundred yards. Dogs start howling and barking as they sense its activation, before humans notice any effects. It affects humans in different ways: some get nose-bleeds, others starts hysterically screaming, some fall into deep depression, others go berserk, and some panic. | |||||||||||
| 15 | Lobster Eyes | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Lobster Eyes Unknown function. Very rare item. | |||||||||||
| 16 | Pins | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Pins Slightly blue and occasionally spattered with other colors-yellow, red, and green. When squeezed with fingers, a few pins generated "weak red bolts illuminating the pin that were suddenly replaced by slower green pulses." The majority required special machines to cause this effect. Unknown functionality. | |||||||||||
| 17 | Rattling Napkins | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Rattling Napkins Unknown function. Very rare item. | |||||||||||
| 18 | Ring | Artifacts | Jewelry | ||||||||
Ring Very rare or possibly unique item. Redrick found one in the novel. It referred to have the size of an actual "ring", and once spun, it never stops, seemingly defying the first law of thermodynamics. | |||||||||||
| 19 | Satan's Blossom | Matter | Substances | ||||||||
Satan's Blossom Dangerous substance in The Zone. | |||||||||||
| 20 | Schuhart's Jar | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Schuhart's Jar The full empty that Red brings back from the zone: "But you'll go down in science. That's what they'll call it, 'Schuhart's jar.' Like the sound of it?" | |||||||||||
| 21 | Shriekers | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Shriekers | |||||||||||
| 22 | Sponges | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Sponges Mentioned, but never described in the novel. | |||||||||||
| 23 | Untitled  | Themes | Gray Eagle | ||||||||
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| 24 | Witches' Jelly [substance] | Matter | Metals | ||||||||
Witches' Jelly [substance] The scientists refer to this as a colloidal gas. The substance penetrates any organic material, plus plastic, metal and concrete. Only special ceramic vessels seem to contain it. Almost everything that it touches transforms into more Witches Jelly. | |||||||||||
| 25 | Wriggling Magnet | Artifacts | Archaeological Artifacts | ||||||||
Wriggling Magnet Very rare or possibly unique item. Removed from the Zone by Stalker nicknamed Buzzard. Redrick suspects that Buzzard was granted a wish by the Golden Sphere to be able to safely retrieve and remove this unique item since it could not otherwise be reached without being killed. This theory is supported by the fact that Buzzard mentions to Redrick in the second act, "I've been to places you could only dream of". As Redrick was one of the most talented Stalkers, having explored most of the Zone, it would seem to imply that Buzzard used a wish to enter otherwise inaccessible areas of the Zone. Functionality unknown. | |||||||||||
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