[SEASON 2] The Stalkers RPG - Main Action and Team Status [ENDED... FOR NOW]

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I'll use Sapling Apartment Key on Brookheights Building (2a) Floors 1-10 {Sapling Family House: Locked Door} and search in there :)

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They...they they tried...b-but I'm quicker..yea, yea..keener, hehe..s-smaaaarrrrter..hehe, yea, i, i, i, i, i..need..it..precious..

Precious..


Search (22) The Diadem Building (22a) Floors 1-10 (Mayton Foods)

[azura evley]

!73. Maknon the Pancham (mission interview)

[Chibi Altaria]

I'm not afraid of heights! Let's search Valcon Glassworks, (78c) Floors 21-30.

[Chakramaster]

Search: (91f) Silvercoal City Synth Power Plant - Synchronization Towers, Lower Levels

[Neo Emolga]

Chief Pormalu... First of all, I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for your loss. Fern sounded like a good officer, and she didn't deserve what happened to her.


I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you, but you mentioned that you had more information on the Stalkers, the other night. Could you please tell me what you've discovered? No matter how small it seems, everything helps. I'm sure a cop like you knows that as well as anyone.


Also, I have to ask - how well do you know Rabukan the Druddigon? Between Krum's death and some of our findings, there's shady business going on around her. I'm not trying to directly accuse anyone right now, but if she could be in trouble, or causing trouble, we need to know.

Interview 10. Pormalu the Arcanine.

Interview Rapport: NEUTRAL, MODEST
+Modesty (Fairy vs Fire)

You approach Pormalu in the wake of Fern's death while he is at the police station, seemingly overwhelmed with the paperwork and the loss of his colleague. You express your sympathies for his loss, and he turns to you and nods.

"Fern died a hero," he tells you, looking sincere, "although from what we found, pain and death was the price. But what she did reminds us that we can't stop and give in to what we are dealing with here."

"I know you and the other Emissaries have also had your hands full," Pormalu tells you, understanding that it has been a struggle for everyone trying to put an end to the Stalkers. "But, despite the troubles we've all had, I did have more information which hopefully will be useful to you."

"I had a recent report come in from by call center," Pormalu explains. "Apparently, Dachi, the landlord of Ironrock Apartments, reported seeing something like an unusual, scratched piece of metal on the 28th floor in room 2830. Normally, I would dismiss that as being nothing unusual, but she mentioned that the room that was supposed to be vacant was full of scratches as well, but there wasn't anyone in her tenant list that was supposed to be there. We haven't had the chance to directly investigate it, especially with Fern's death, but it's something we need to consider looking into."

"While we've been doing our own investigations, we've decided to take things one step further," Pormalu informs you as he shows you some hand-written notes in a somewhat scrawl-like handwriting. "We decided to cut the city squatters a break in exchange for any information that they find around town. Though what they do is illegal trespassing, we're desperate for information and they need amnesty. Surprisingly, the plan has been effective. One Azumarill squatter mentioned seeing an usually warped door on the fourth sublevel of the Inspiration Chemical Plant. He mentioned the warping looking intentional and that it looked like it had been recently used. Thankfully, our pact with the squatters has been helping us identify what the Stalkers have been handling while they're more aware of where their own are."

"Lastly, they also think there's a link in the basement floors of the old Dovac Foods Manufacturing Plant," Pormalu explains. "One squatter had to be admitted to the hospital after they saw something that gave them significant mental trauma. In exchange for his report, we offered to pay for his medical care, which includes injuries not related to this incident. Still, what he found sounds like the work of a Stalker. It's definitely something that I'm hoping one of you can investigate. Right now, we're understaffed and without Fern, we're even more limited in what we can do."

You then ask about Rabukan the Druddigon and the shady business.

"Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to question Rabukan personally," Pormalu tells you, beginning to wonder if there's something up with her. "Normally, I'd like to think of someone as selfless as a firefighter would be trustworthy, but it's wrong to assume anything right now. If I manage to get the opportunity, I will ask her, but I don't know how effective it would be."

"Hopefully what Dachi reported and what those squatters found is a helpful lead," Pormalu tells you. "If this works well, I'll continue working with the local squatters to see what they can find. Maybe changing our strategy like this will help, and maybe this will be something the Stalkers won't anticipate. If everyone works together, we can pull through this."

Velo the Togekiss (M: Fairy/Flying)

Health: 5/5
Sanity: 4/4
Perk: Science | Learned Abilities: Escort/Protect, Exorcism
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[Neo Emolga]

Well well, it seems it's time for me to get back to work! And with some shady business no doubt! So I'll just take this police basement key and unlock a few things to wipe some criminal records.

Madder has decided to use Police Station Basement Key on (15) Silvercoal City Police Station {Outdoor Basement Entry: Impenetrable Doors} to delete Obven's criminal record in exchange for intel on Stalkers.

You decide to take the Police Station Basement Key to the police station. Thankfully, after taking a look around, no one seems to be around, so you swipe the key and the doors unlock.

Item [Police Station Basement Key] has been removed from the Team Inventory.

You then make your way inside and take a look around.

There definitely seem to be many important things to the police down here. The armory is down here as well as the mainframe computer. You decide to head to the computer and you see the police computer server is online at all times. Beside of that, the administrator access is online all the time, as it seems Pormalu didn't think anyone who had the key to the basement would be wiping criminal records.

You decide to dig your way into Obven's criminal record files and it seems what he said is true. There are multiple cases of theft, vandalism, and several murder charges. It also seems like the Silvercoal City police force has been looking to bring him in for quite some time. Pages and pages of evidence logs and photographs are on his file, but you decide to delete everything and wipe his record clean. When you finish, Ovben the Goomy isn't even in the system anymore and now there is nothing that can be tied to him. You print a page of the criminal record file as the proof you need to show to Ovben that the task was completed.

MISSION COMPLETE: SUCCESSFUL!
Rapport with #10 Pormalu the Arcanine has been permanently damaged.
Rapport with #11 Sequintia the Pyroar has been permanently damaged.
Rapport with #92 Lychee the Scolipede has been permanently damaged.

With your task done, you decide to exit out of the criminal record system and leave everything back the way you found it. You're curious as to what Obven has to say now that your side of the deal is done.

You then head back out of the building and walk the streets like nothing ever happened.

Madder the Mimikyu (S: Ghost/Fairy)

Health: 4/4
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Lockpick | Learned Abilities: Restrain, Exorcism
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[Neo Emolga]

Still working of tips from my fellow emissaries. This time around it's newhill sewage. I'll go search through the sublevels B5-B1 (65a). Wish me luck!

You head to the lower basement levels of the Newhill Sewage Treatment Plant, which, as you imagine, probably aren't going to be the cleanest and most delightfully fragrant places in the city. When you get there, the smell is the first thing that gets you, but you eventually get used to it.

Everything down below from the walls, floor, and ceiling are solid concrete and stone. It's also definitely a pretty dirty place as you imagine considering what the plant deals with on a day to day basis, it's never, ever going to be completely sanitary. It would have to shut down to ever get to that point, and you imagine there wouldn't be a whole lot of Pokémon signing up to be volunteers to sign up for that task of cleaning up the whole place until it sparkles.

The lighting is also dim, some of the bulbs have burned out, the plant only uses what lighting that needs to be used just to basically see the bare minimum. But all around you, vast containers of dirty, smelly, and murky water exist. And you know that it would take weeks to wash off the fecal muck if any unfortunate soul were to accidently trip into one of those massive vats of pure sewage.

Off to the side, you see several maintenance areas that look like they haven't been used in years. The area was supposed to be blocked off, but you see that it looks like someone has been back here and been using the area for something. You take a deeper look around and when you come to a corner, a sudden v̒ͥ̿̑ͯͦ́͢i̧̢͒̂͆s̶̨̄͌i̎̒͂̆ͣo̡ͩ͊̎́ņ̔͐ͧ torments your mind.

Your jaw drops, your eyes roll back, and suddenly you feel like a zombie in a deranged state. You completely f̦̪͇͖͡o̧̠̺̲̩ͅr͚̠͔͕g̢͈e̢̝̰̰t͕̺̝͘ where you are and it seems like the village you're in has fallen under some hideous disease. Thousands of plagued Pokémon are around you, coughing, crawling in weakness, and moaning while all the others are d͆́͊̉̇̎̆ͦͬ̏̓́ͬ͝҉͕͚̩̝̘͕̱͇̭̳͙͙̘̤̰̪͠eͦͯ̎̅̅̎̍ͧ̑ͬ̊ͤ̎̿̔ͦ ̷̹̯͔̖̯̗̱̘ͬ͆͜͡͠a̢̳̬͎͇̞̬̻͎̲̟̟͉͖͗̾ͧ́͛ͨ͂̑̾͗́̚̚̕͘d̊̈́͗̄́ ̲̰̗͓̞̲̳̗̺̤̙͔ͭ̽͌ͨ̌̿̿̆͢.

Amia's Sanity has been reduced by 1.

You gaze upon the dead, and yet, despite rationality, all you think about is a b̧̘̗͎͎̫̭̺̖̝̙̘̘̪͓͓̮̹ͯ͂ͯͯ̓͂̍̈́̅̃̅̋͛ͨͩ͋̃̇̀̕͜͝aͨ̃̍̓ͭͥ̉͌ ̛̬͎̱̝̬͇̹̖̱̮͓̦͔̠̱̱ͣ̊̿͌̍̾̆ͪ͛̎̾͠͝ǹ́̎̉̒ͥͥ̐͛̔̒̿ͥ̐̓ͪ̅͢͝ ̢̡̝̙̥̳͎̙̮̝͚͙̥̯͔͇͜q̍̉̑̎͌ͬͮ̌̔̈́͘͢͏̙͔̝̬̤͕̞̟̗̮̱ũ͋̒̑ͦ̃͆ ̨̫͓͍͔͉̘̙͕̙̯̪̤̟̙̀̉̄ͮͣͦ̋͆̀̀͘͟ͅe̸̡̪̤͍̘̩͔̰̞͍̾͗̋́ͦ̉̏͟͡ͅ ̳t̛̹͔̘̖͉̠͖͉̖̉̄ͮͨ̊͗͊̓̾̾̓ͣ̎ͪ̄̎̑͊̍̕ͅ.

You snap out of it and the burning vision you had to behold stands before you. It immediately gives you the chills and suddenly, out of the blue, an irrational fear of sickness, plague, and pestilence crawls all throughout your spine...

You see that the chamber door has a holder for some kind of spherical object and a cup. The plaque below reads:

Return the Globe of Torment and prepare the offering of pestilence. Or I will simply make a twisted juxtaposition of your soul.

You decide to use some Venoshock poison on the offering cup, and it seems to work. The cup is pulled back into the door and there is an unlocking click sound, but you don't seem to have the Globe that is being requested. You figure you might want to get onto that soon, as while you aren't sure what the "twisted juxtaposition of your soul" means, you're quite sure that can't possibly be good.

Locked Door {Chamber of the Plague: Missing Torment Globe, +Poison Type} #Infernal Presence# (Deals One Damage to Sanity) has been noted in the Team Records.

You decide to head out of there and unfortunately, those visions of pestilence and plague are recalled as you have to endure the smells and sights of the sewage treatment vats down here.

Amia the Roserade (M: Grass/Poison)

Health: 3/5
Sanity: 2/4
Perk: Lockpick | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[Neo Emolga]

Going to rest one more time.

While you're already feeling better, it still seems like traces of jittery, dark memories are persisting in your mind. Considering how much sleep has been helping you remove those dark thoughts, you decide to stay in and recover.

Carly has recovered 1 Point of Sanity.

You're feeling quite refreshed and a lot of the bad memories that were plaguing your mind before begin to feel like nothing more than childhood nightmares from long ago. As you get out of bed, you feel a lot more confident, relaxed, and prepared to face whatever comes next.

Carly the Heracross (M: Bug/Fighting)

Health: 5/5
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Science | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[Neo Emolga]

Lita decides to venture down the small hole in Diadem

You decide to head over to the Diadem Building and make your way around the exterior. You relocate the drain opening that was found before, and as you quickly realize, it's definitely very tight.

You look down through the drain holes and you see the binder that was mentioned before. You then decide to squeeze your way through the largest drain hole and make your way down. Even a small Pokémon like you is just barely able to do it, but you're able to just make it down without hurting yourself.

Once inside, you head to the bottom, where it's slightly wet and dark. You grab the binder and take it with you. You slide it out of the hole first, and then hoist yourself up and out of the drain opening. It's another tight struggle, but eventually you do make your way out and can now take a closer look at the binder. It seems to be a file for a vendor quality improvement program with an angry note written on the dirty cover.



Looking inside, you see many accounting records fudged around with, and even despite the fact the pages are a bit dirty from the rainwater, they're still perfectly legible. While your knowledge of accounting records is limited, even with the little you know you can tell there is a lot of serious accounting fraud going on. Enough to the point where it could put whoever is responsible for it behind bars for a long time and possibly shut down the entire company.

Item =Vendor Quality Improvement Program= has been noted in the Team Records.

Lita the Pikachu (S: Electric)

Health: 4/4
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Security | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2