You new here? That's all right, you'll settle in soon enough... You know, the Zone is a tough teacher. I'm Beard, the local bartender. Got any questions, you come to me, y' hear?

Beard

Beard (Ru. Борода) is the bartender and leader of the Skadovsk during the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, he is found in exile upon the Shevchenko.

Background

Call of Pripyat

He is the bartender on the Skadovsk and also runs an artifact trading business with clients outside the Zone.^{[quote. 1]} He was one of the first stalkers to arrive at Zaton, eventually establishing a camp and bar in the Skadovsk with the help of Grouse, among others.^{[quote. 2]}

Beard employs a number of stalkers for his business, namely a group of artifact hunters led by Crest and Sledgehammer, and a security detail led by Spartacus. He has been involved in a conflict with the local Bandits leader, Sultan, who has been attempting to take over the Skadovsk and Beard's business for some time.^{[quote. 3]} In spite of this, Beard also welcomes Bandits aboard the ship, stating that not all of them are bad people.^{[quote. 4]} He also does not get along with Owl, partly because of the latter having relations with Sultan's bandits, but also because of Beard's monopoly on the artifact trade in Zaton.^{[quote. 5]}

Heart of Chornobyl

Sometime after (or perhaps as the result of) the events of Call of Pripyat. Sultan managed to take over the Skadovsk, renaming it "Sultansk" and exiling Beard. Beard and his followers took up residence in the nearby Shevchenko, a modest base compared to the Skadovsk. In Heart of Chornobyl, Beard longs to return to the Skadovsk and retake his position at its helm.

Appearances

Call of Pripyat

Beard is one of three traders in Zaton (the others being Owl and Tremor), although he only sells consumables such as food and vodka, although his trade offer may be extended to include low-tier artifacts depending on the completion of certain side missions on the stalkers' side. He will also warn the player about incoming emissions when in Zaton.

Beard offers various missions on aiding the Stalkers in Zaton, some of which branch out into more missions, and ultimately lead to gaining the achievement One of Ours if the player completes enough of them. Most of the missions given by Beard can be countered by taking one from Sultan which puts the player on the opposite side of the mission for profit.

Beard can also give the player missions to find specific artifacts he needs; the player will be given a period of time to find the artifact, and if the artifact is not found in time, another stalker in the Zone will find it and the player will have the option to buy it off the other stalker or trade a "high-end shooter" for it before they make it to Skadovsk and give it to Beard. Alternatively, if the player is an avid anomaly-diver, they can gather artifacts and return to Beard to ask which artifacts he needs - he'll pay a hefty fee if the player has it immediately available, and the player won't have to worry about competition from Beard's artifact hunters. He will stop asking for artifacts if two of his "artifact squads" are killed.

If the player decides to side with Sultan and obtain the Boss achievement instead, Beard will no longer offer his artifact hunting missions and changes his dialogue accordingly. Instead, the player can demand a payment once per day (randomized between 500 and 2500 RU). If this is not collected, especially if the player is in another area, it will accumulate.

Trading

Main article: Beard/Trading

Related missions

• Strange Phenomenon: Beard requests the player to investigate the source of strange lights observed at the Dredge Station.
• Missing Stalkers: At the end of the mission, Beard must be informed about the truth behind the disappearance of stalkers in Zaton.
• Bloodsucker Lair: The player must inform Beard of the existence of a Bloodsucker Lair underneath the Krug Antenna Complex, after what Beard will devise a plan to destroy it using chemical weapons.
• The Hit: The player can talk to Beard after receiving this mission, who will proceed to alert Spartacus of the impending raid.
• Transaction: If the mission The Hit has been completed for the Loners, then Beard will ask the player to assist Spartacus into disrupting the arms deal between Morgan and Sultan's bandits.
• Tempting Business: Beard will give the player a Svarog detector when interrogating him about the deal with Owl, stating he's no longer interested in buying it anymore.
• Compass: Beard asks the player to obtain a rare Compass artifact from Noah.
• Shady Business: Sultan asks the player to bring Beard's business under his control, which requires the player to deliver the Compass to Sultan and eliminate Beard's artifact hunters.
• Artifact order: a repeatable mission offered by Beard, which requires the player to find a specific artifact.

Endings

Main article: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Endings#Zaton

Beard has two possible endings depending on the player's actions during the course of the game:

• If the achievement Boss has been obtained, then the ending reveals that Sultan's "order" has settled firmly on the Skadvosk, which prompted Beard to leave the ship and explore uncharted regions of the Zone with a group of stalkers.
• If the achievement One of Ours, then the ending reveals that Sultan was forced to leave the Skadovsk following his foiled takeover attempt, prompting Beard's business to flourish even more and his bar to become almost as popular as the 100 Rads.

Heart of Chornobyl

Related missions

Dialogue

Gallery

Trivia

• So far, he is the only unique stalker in the entire series to be seen using a radiation suit without the helmet.
• He is the only trader in-game that can purchase Batteries and their homemade variant from the player, and does so for full price (2000 RU per pack of 10 and 6 rounds, respectively). This may stem from a developer's oversight, as both ammo varieties are not listed among the goods he can and cannot buy, which defaults to allowing him to buy at the default price, unlike other traders.

References

v · d · e Loners
Locations	Cordon Garbage Agroprom Dark Valley Bar Yantar Army Warehouses Red Forest Zaton The area around Jupiter Pripyat Kazkovyi Camp
Notable members	Clear Sky Amit Aydar Drifter Father Valerian Forester Hound Lefty Orest Shilov Strelok Stringov Thrush Van Valka Squint (mentioned-only) Vasyan Wild Napr Wolf Shadow of Chernobyl Arnie Baldy Bes Clumsy Dark Valley scammer Doctor Fanatic Fang Father Diodor Fox Freeman Garik Ghost Guide Hunter Journeyman Master Mole Nimble Oleg "Fiend" Gusarov Otter - (Mentioned Only) Petruha Rookie bar stalker Scarecrow Seriy Smartass Snitch Sparrow Stalker commander in Pripyat Tolik Trenchcoat bar stalker Vampire Yurik Zhorik Call of Pripyat Awl Barge Beard Bonesetter Cardan Crab Crest Danila Garry Garmata Grizzly Hawaiian Joker Mace Mitay Nitro Noah Owl Petruha Pilot Topol Senka Sledgehammer Sliver Snake Snag Spartacus Spirit Torba Trapper Tremor Tuna Vano Heart of Chornobyl Gaffer Hamster Lens Multitool Mykolayich Richter Warlock Whale Scoutmaster Medulin Rascal Banzai
Equipment	Armaments PMm Noiseless pistol (PB1s) Fora-12 HPSS-1m Martha Walker P9m Kora 919 Shotgun Hunting Rifle Chaser 13 SPSA-14 Eliminator Viper 5 AKm 74/2U Akm-74/2 AC96/2 Vintar BC SA Avalanche Tunder S14 IL 86 TRs-301 SGi 5k GP-37 FT-200m RGD-5 Grenade F1 Grenade Armour Gas mask Curtain helmet Leather jacket Trenchcoat Stalker suit SEVA suit Radiation suit Exoskeleton

v · d · e Traders
Shadow of Chernobyl	Sidorovich Barkeep Colonel Petrenko Sakharov Skinflint
Clear Sky	Sidorovich Borov Tooth Cold Docent Suslov Kolobok Mitay Sakharov Ashot Ganja Hermit Flea Market trader Flea Market night trader Shilov Thrush Renegade/Mine Trader
Call of Pripyat	Hermann Beard Bonesetter Hawaiian Owl Tremor
Heart of Chornobyl	Merchants Owl Bison Wreck WO Komisarov Birch Eugene Ragman Arkhyp Lichen Beard Hamster Huron Lyova Fan Rascal Sidorovich Viktoria Dorozhnyuk Quiet Sgt. Khoteyev Bartenders Sonya Kalyna Hera Ganja Barkeep Bobber Boozer Hawaiian Warlock Pythagoras Ed