They Are Already Here

Objectives
- ποΈ Find a location related to the Eye of the World.
- ποΈ Find the apartment of the cult victim.
- ποΈ Search the apartment of the cult victim.
- ποΈ Find the first audio cassette of the cult victim.
- ποΈ Ask Mechanic what he knows about the Eye of the World.
- ποΈ Find and kill 3 cultist priests
- ποΈ Find the point marked by the Eye of the World on the Customs map
- ποΈ Scout the area near the Sordi communication tower
- ποΈ Repair the Sordi communication tower
- ποΈ Find the point marked by the Eye of the World on the Woods map
- ποΈ Investigate the cultist house marked by the Eye of the World.
- ποΈ Find the point marked by the Eye of the World on Customs.
- ποΈ Examine the room in the lodge ruined by the cultists.
- ποΈ Find the key mentioned in the victim's note.
- ποΈ Learn more about station 14-4 KORD from Mechanic.
- ποΈ Find the key to the cult victim's apartment
- ποΈ Gain access to Mechanic
Guide
This quest will tell you about a mysterious cult that has settled in the territory of Tarkov.
You can start the quest by picking up and reading a note about the "Eye of the World", or by killing a Cultist. Notes appear in marked circles scattered throughout Tarkov.
A note in a marked circle on the Woods map.
A note in a marked circle on the Woods map.
To progress through the quest, you need to go to the Lighthouse map, to the area of the flooded village. The required house is located in the center of the eastern part of the village.
Find the required house on the Lighthouse map
Inside the premises, there is a torture room where you can find an audio cassette on a chair and the victim's apartment key on the table.
The house in the village on the Lighthouse map
The house
A circle of cultists inside the house
An audio cassette
The key
The key
The key indicates an apartment located in the central part of the city. It is located on the Streets of Tarkov map, in the courtyard behind the shopping center on Klimov Street. You need to go up to the second floor of the building. The apartment will be located on the right side of the staircase. Inside the apartment, you will notice a white door that needs to be kicked in. You need to search the room and find the first audio cassette of the cult victim.
Find appartment on Streets of Tarkov map
The apartment location on Streets of Tarkov
The door of the appartment
Inside the apartment
Door to the room
Victim's audio cassette
At this stage, the investigation reaches a dead end, and you can't do without the help of traders. You need to go to Mechanic, but he doesn't provide specific information - you need to look for information among the cultists.
Next, to progress through the quest, you need to kill 2 cultist priests. After killing them, nothing of interest is found, and the character decides that the next step in the investigation should be to study the cultists' gathering places. These are marked rooms. Upon entering, read the priest's note lying on the shelf in the closet.
A note in the stash
A note in the stash
Now we need to find 3 locations marked with the "Eye of the World", we need to search in Customs, Lighthouse and Woods.
Heading to Customs, take a toolkit with you. The location we need for the storyline, called the "Sordi" watchtower, is located at the communication tower near the "Road to Customs" exit, in an orange temporary building. First, just enter inside and the storyline will update.
Find the tower on Shoreline map
Location of the garage on the Customs map
The Garage
Now we need to inspect the surroundings - next to the tower lies the corpse of a man named Igor - apparently a former TerraGroup programmer who became a sectarian towards the end of his life. We will have to take a note from his hands, which will tell us that the "Sordi" tower needs to be repaired.
Location of Igor's body
The body near the tower
The note
Head back to the weather station, repair the "Sordi," and exit the location.
Repair location
The next stop is Woods. There are two houses in the old village that need to be visited as part of the story. First, enter the house between the village and the church, and then the house in the center of the village. Notably, this house has a board with photographs of objects important to the Cult. A piece of the Tarkov Lights newspaper is hanging on it, which can be read.
Find the required house on Woods map
Location of houses in the Woods village on the map
Inside the house
Inside the house
A board with a newspaper clipping
The last map will be Lighthouse, it's all quite simple. We come to the lower shack, find the room ransacked by the cultists and a note on its balcony.
Find the required balcony on Lighthouse map
Lower shack on Lighthouse
Cultist room
Note on the balcony
Next, exit the chalet and head towards the two-story house nearby. In front of it, there is a quad bike with the key to 14-4 KORD station, a semi-mythical station of the ARRS observation system, a stream from which was used to announce and show the first episode of the Raid series. Exit Customs.
Find the quad bike on the Lighthouse map
Quad bike with the key
Talk to Mechanic. The conversation unlocks level 1 workbench crafting. Use the crafted key to restart the station.
Crafting the key at the workbench
After completing the crafting process, take a regular flash drive and an access card with you and head to the Interchange. You need to reach the Power Plant, turn on the power at the station, and descend to the basement. Open the door with the access card, use the pass inside, and install the flash drive to download the data.
Find the power station lever on Interchange map
After turning on the circuit breaker in the server room and installing the flash drive, a safe opens at the entrance where you can retrieve the mysterious cultist tape. The quest requires you to survive and exit the Interchange.
Location of the Power Plant on Customs
Circuit breaker
Card reader
Keycard Panel
Insert the flash drive
Safe with audio cassette
After returning to the Hideout, we need to return to the Interchange and retrieve the flash drive with the downloaded data from the server. We go down to the station, where the player has the opportunity to immediately take the quest flash drive or get a hidden achievement.
Note
The required table with a button underneath it.
Button.
Flash drive
To obtain the achievement, you need to disconnect the station from external agents. This can be done using the button under the table in the server room. Now you can safely retrieve the previously installed flash drive and return to Mechanic.
Hidden achievement "And the Light Went Out"
Hand over the flash drive to the trader and collect the ARRS system specification via in-game mail. Read it, after which the storyline will end and the player will receive the "Through Other Eyes" achievement.

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