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The blue substance sifted cloudily in slow streams between the discs, like a glass jar with blue syrup inside. One unique specimen, the 'full empty,' has been found, 'filled' with blue liquid. The device seems to possess no other unusual properties and has the mass of two copper discs of the appropriate size. It is possible to pass any object through the empty space between the two discs. No force seems to be able to push them closer together or pull them apart. It is unknown how the two discs are attracted to each other or what holds them in place.

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.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.' The present whereabouts of the apparatus is unknown. Four-eyes re-entered the Zone and never came out again. This Four-Eyes offered the apparatus to the Institute. 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.A Stalker is said to get 20 for on the market for a battery while the price in Europe is 100. Its power to propel vehicles appears to last indefinitely. Small, easily portable, and able to replicate through a process similar to cell division. Batteries - A round black stick (also called So-So) that produced endless energy and can be used to power vehicles instead of an engine.So the price of a battery paid to a Stalker is given as 20. Other times prices are given in relative sums, for example a Stalker is paid two months salary as a bonus for getting a certain 'full empty' early in the novel. Prices are often given in the novel but never in currency, just numbers. The novel also provides some idea for the relative markup of prices as items move from Stalkers to external markets like Europe, where the highest prices can be obtained, usually about five times what the Stalker was paid.

The functioning of this market and the relative prices Stalkers are paid for different artifacts plays a key role in the plot. Stalkers will seek to gain the best price of artifacts while avoiding the police who enforce strict laws against the black market. The only legal buyer of artifacts is the Institute for Extraterrestrial Cultures, but a large black market has also evolved. Even people who were never present during the Visitation but frequently visit the Zone are changed somehow, for example by having mutated children or by having duplicates of their dead relatives return to their homes.ДЄn entire economy has developed around the Zone in the trade of items obtained from the Zone by Stalkers. A barber who survived the Visitation emigrated to a far off city and within a year 90% of his customers died in mysterious circumstances as well as a number of natural disasters foreign to the area (typhoons, tornadoes) hit his city. Humans who survived the Visitation without going blind (apparently from a loud noise) or infected by the plague caused unexplained problems if they emigrated away. (4) Not object but effects on people who were present inside the Zones during the Visitation. The 'Golden Sphere' and the 'Jolly Ghost' are among the artifacts that fall into this category. Their existence is passed along as legends by Stalkers were never seen by scientists, whose functionality is so dangerous and so far beyond human comprehension that they are better off left undisturbed. The 'Black Sprays' and 'Needles' are among the artifacts that fall into this category.

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(2) Objects whose functionality, original purpose or how to use them to benefit humans can not yet be understood. The 'So-So' and 'Bracelets' are among the artifacts that fall into this category. (1) Objects beneficial to humans, yet whose original purpose, how precisely they work or how to manufacture them is not understood. The artifacts left behind by the Visitors can be broken down into four categories: Roadside Picnic: Artifacts left by Visitors in the Zones The following text was taken from the 'Roadside Picnic' Wikipedia page before it was removed on the grounds that it was 'superfluous trivia'.