Meet the Patriarch

 is a storyline task that may appear in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha.

Overview

 * This task will be triggered when the player has agreed to find Nomad's Belongings as a prerequisite to Nomad helping gain access to Lab X10.
 * The task will not spawn if the player does not pay the 5000 Ru 'fee' when first entering Radar.
 * The task consists of four nested set-piece sub-tasks which end when the player's actor talks to the Patriarch.

Destroy the helicopter.
Rank increase: +4 Relation increase: Monolith +100
 * Discussed in more detail in Destroy the helicopter.

Kill the mutants

 * There are two mutant infestations to eliminate.
 * The first is outlined in Kill the mutants.

Kill the mutants
Rank increase: +4 Relation increase: Monolith +100
 * The second infestation is also outlined in Kill the mutants.
 * Collectively they gain the following enhancements to the player's character:

Meet the Patriarch
Rank increase: +4 Relation increase: Monolith +10
 * Having survived all of these minor predations, the player is finally introduced to the Patriarch and a short dialogue ensues.
 * The rewards for this particular sub-task are:


 * As a further reward, a scripted blowout is triggered and the player should make best speed to Nomad's little hut for shelter.
 * Attempting to use the Monolith Blowout shelters will turn them hostile unnecessarily.

Trivia

 * If the player has employed Main Mission Strategy exploits such as not freeing the Duty prisoner and has not bothered with the Sin missions, it is very likely that faction alignment is with the Bandits' faction.
 * Jumping to the NPP will still have the player with a +460 point rating towards the Monolith too, making passage to the Sarcophagus and Generators much less fraught.