Changes: 100 Rads

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In the basement by the hangar you'll find the 100 Rads bar. The place is run by the local trader who doubles up as a barman. If you want to trade, talk, get a mission or find out the latest news, that's the place to go.
― Kitsenko

The 100 Rads, also referred to as Bar, is a location featured in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Overview

The 100 Rads is a bar located underground in Rostok, in what's likely an old fallout shelter. It is run by the Barkeep and provides travelers with a place to rest, eat, drink and talk. The more adventurous can find jobs and quests, usually given by the Barkeep. The bar is full of experienced stalkers, including Snitch, a shady intel dealer, as well as several other Stalkers offering jobs of varying difficulty. The entrance is guarder by Zhorik, whose twin brother is the other bouncer of the bar, Garik, that guards the space behind the bar. No one is allowed to draw their weapon in the bar.

In the bar there's a Personal Box, where the player can store his things. There's also an off-limits locked storage space with sacks and lockers. Usually bread, vodka and energy drinks are on the tables and at the player's disposal.

Behind the bar

In the 100 Rads bar there is a room that is blocked off by Garik, a bouncer which Barkeep goes to on a few occasions. Although the bouncer persistently states that "You can't go there", if one pushes a crate to bypass him or modifies their game and either allows the player to draw their weapons in the bar or remove Garik's spawn point, the player can actually explore the room behind him although there is really nothing of interest there (save for an energy drink).

Initially, the guarded room behind the bar was meant to be used for the discussions with Barkeep about documents. Ultimately this idea was scrapped and those discussions place in the bar, however the game still contains Garik's phrase "Talk to Barkeep" from that version.

Music

The music that plays in the bar is the song "Gurza Dreaming" by the band Addaraya. The song is not included in the game's soundtrack. The loudspeakers outside the bar play the song "Dirge for the planet" by Ukrainian metal band Firelake, which contributes 2 more songs to the soundtrack.

The words "Black raven, black raven, circling above the grave", that are recited by a drunk and seemingly hopeless NPC, are a slightly altered version of the lyrics to an old and sad Russian song about a young Cossack, who lays wounded in a battlefield awaiting his end.

Trivia

If enemies are pursuing the Marked One, he can run into the bar and he will be safe. However, they will wait for him outside.
A head of a Boar and an (unobtainable) Energy drink can be seen within the kitchen.
There is some writing on the wall outside stating "If you shoot the barman, the world will end!".
The location is mentioned a few times in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. Zulu informs the player it is where he met Vano.
The Bar's TV, behind the Barkeep, displays footage from an early S.T.A.L.K.E.R. build. The same footage plays in the television sets scattered throughout the game and the series.
A "rad" is a unit of absorbed radiation dose. 100 rads is the approximate dose at which humans start having obvious radiation sickness symptoms.
In the original, Ukrainian version of the game the name of the bar is "100 Roentgen". The roentgen is a radiation-related unit like the rad, however it measures radiation exposure, not absorbed radiation which the rad measures.
Due to their repetitive and exclamatory nature, many quotes of the NPCs that appear in the bar have become memes in the game's community.

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 In the 100 Rads bar there is a room that is blocked off by [[Garry|Garik]], a bouncer which [[Barkeep]] goes to on a few occasions. Although the bouncer persistently states that "You can't go there", if one pushes a crate to bypass him or modifies their game and either allows the player to draw their weapons in the bar or remove Garik's spawn point, the player can actually explore the room behind him although there is really nothing of interest there (save for an energy drink).
+Initially, the guarded room behind the bar was meant to be used for the discussions with Barkeep about documents. Ultimately this idea was scrapped and those discussions place in the bar, however the game still contains Garik's phrase "Talk to Barkeep" from that version.
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