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Jeff, stop taking all the creepy places. I want some. Has that previous hallucination invoked some sort of morbid wanderlust in you? I mean, if it has, I suppose it'd make us a little more alike...

Anyway, I'll just go talk to 31. Rulend the Rampardos, since almost no one of our group is a rock type. Granted, the steel won't help and there's little guarantee it will earn us anything, but it's better than nothing.

I'd also like to keep an eye on the perimeter around the ritual Jeff will be attempting afterwards, but I'll likely not be able to make it.
Interview Rapport: POSITIVE
+1 Shared Pokémon Type (Rock)
-1 Super Effective Against (Steel to Rock)
+1 Shared Pokémon Evolution Stage

You find Doctor Rulend the Rampardos at the hospital, currently working on medical records. He seems like the very analytical and by-the-book type that probably doesn't like the arts too much and would rather stick with what's professional and formal. He looks up at you when you introduce yourself.

"Come on, Aurimas," Rulend tells you. "What did you need from me?"

You explain the situation regarding your investigations into the Stalkers. Rulend nods, looking like he's had to deal with quite a lot of it already.

"I was able to recently confirm that the victims discovered to be from what Officer Zick called 'NTH' are done by a kind of arsonist," Rulend explains. "Now, unlike fire types that can create their own fires, this Pokémon incinerates their victims as a means to conceal the evidence. And it's been quite effective. Some of their victims were unrecognizable and as Zick and I had discovered, they were likely not from town and thus, no one knows who are what they were prior to being incinerated. So we don't have a clear picture on all of NTH's victims, but we do know that he can't target fire types."

"NTH douses their victims with oil before lighting them on fire," Rulend tells you. "I was able to pull that fact out of one of the more recent unidentified corpses that I believe was a Mr Mime judging from the skeletal remains. I have reason to believe that due to the nature of these kills, whoever NTH is has to be small and fast. It's the only way they could have performed murders like these, especially against larger Pokémon. They let the fire do most the work, incinerating just about everything about the victim, and chances are good it was to also frame fire types and sway suspicion from them."

"I'm still in the process of working on it, but we're slowly making headway." Doctor Rulend tells you. "If you find anything else about NTH, let me know. I might be able to use that information to complete the profile of the killer."