![]() ![]() But the Trojans will be there, somewhere. ![]() The latest ESPN Bracketology projections have eight teams from the Pac-12 in the 68-team women’s NCAA Tournament field, and Stanford and Utah hosting regionals as top-four seeds. And at Utah, then No. 9, USC was down 20 with 3:27 left in the third and cut the margin to six with 3:09 left in the game before the Utes pulled away. UCLA and Arizona are 8-5 and both in the Top 25, and USC lost two excruciating games to the Bruins and an even more gut-grinding double-overtime game to the Wildcats last weekend. Colorado is 10-3 and the Buffaloes were ranked 25th when the Trojans beat them, in Boulder. Going into Sunday’s games, Utah and Stanford are the leaders at 11-2, and the Trojans (7-5 in conference, 18-6 overall) have already knocked off Stanford, then No. The Trojans players came to the sideline, looked each other in the eyes, and proceeded to take the fight to the Ducks in a 56-51 victory, a display of resilience and grit that has kept them in the mix in a crazily good conference. The Women of Troy trailed 20-8 after one period, against an Oregon team that clubbed them, 73-45, on New Year’s Day in Eugene and hadn’t lost to USC since January of 2016. USC is right in the middle of the fray, and maybe the events of Friday night at Galen Center are an example of why. So are other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S.LOS ANGELES - The Pac-12 women’s basketball schedule is a beast, and nobody gets through it unscathed. So with Hip, it's all just sad, confusing, dark and depressing. She can be seen wondering around late at night, into houses, smoking cigarettes, while other similar NPCs that don't leave the village (namely Fanatic) can be seen going to sleep for the night. In all likelyhood, however, just by observing Hip's NPC behavior, it is likely she acts as the Rookie villages only procuress. She refers to Sidorovich as a sort of "father figure" who always would be hard and overbearing towards her. suit for free, among other things, then go artifact hunting, this is a dubious-if shady-tradeoff. She likely just is asking for herself, however given there is also the option to produce a mere can of outdated tuna to obtain the best loner S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I toyed with the dialogue options a bit, and in my opinion there is no real reason to believe that there she actually has a customer who wants to hunt with the scoped over-under TOZ-34. In fact, she may have had a past of being raped by Freedom members, given her dialogue. Somewhere between where the player finds when she comes to the zone and then as of the events of Anomaly, 21-22 years old and a Loner, she has become nothing but jaded, overly defensive and violent. Seeing that Hip wears Flektarn in her uniform, this isn't the most obvious conclusion, but comparing this to any Wing of Freedom uniform is validation enough to make a connection. She was either coerced by or absolutely head over heels in love with some stupid, lame-brain freedomer, most likely someone high in their ranks. Why any young lady/teenage girl would have wanted to come to the zone in the first place eludes me, but having completed her quest then regretted it, I can venture a guess: With the story of Anomaly in general, she would have come to the zone when she was only 17, and was initially a Freedom initiate. "Hip"s real name is Alyena Arkhipova (Алёна Архипова, "хип"/"Khip" being her nickname in Russian, which does translate to hip) I know this article is dead and long gone, but since I don't have enough Karma on this subreddit to make an OP, I will post this here. ![]()
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