Main Action and Team Status Thread [VICTORY!!!]

[Neo Emolga]

Lita drops the key in her bag to show her teammates later and decides to continue by searching #2: The Police Station

As you approach the Serenity Town Police Station, you see that nothing seems too suspicious about the exterior of the gray, stone building. You check around the sides and back, but nothing seems to be out of place.

Searching the inside, you Sheriff Adom and Deputy Zick don't seem to be at their desks at the moment, likely out in the field trying to make sense of the current situation. Sheriff Adom's desk is stuffed with papers regarding several of the findings regarding the victims. You find one page in particular that seems to stand out the most:

"Dear Mayor Pashner,

The recent mix of killings from the Stalkers seems to reveal they have murder signatures. We found several victims decapitated, other victims drowned, a few burned to death, others crushed to a pulp, a few with their throats slit and their hearts removed, and a few where their eyes impaled and smiles carved into their mouths.

There has to be a pattern here, but I'm not sure. Most of these are Deputy Zick's findings and I've been trying to make sense of it, but there's a lot going on in that Jolteon's head that I'm just not sure about. He thinks quickly and is trying to make the best conclusion, but he doesn't want to give me information he feels might be "jumping the gun" too much. As a result, I have to say things still seem inconclusive. He's been working a lot of overtime and until he gives me a finalized report, I have been focusing more on security and trying to prevent yet another murder.

~Adom

As your investigation continues, you carry on to what seems to be Deputy Zick's desk, which has been cluttered with paper, notes, and scribbles. His investigation notes are hard to make out simply because he has a lot of things crossed off, arrows drawn from one word to the next, and things seemingly out of order or in orders you don't catch onto. But one piece of paper seems to stand out from the rest and looks like it's a report that he's been working on for a while as a "final draft" of sorts.

"Adom,

Okay, I think I'm finally onto something.

I've sorted out the ways these Stalkers have been killing Pokémon around Serenity Town. We have quite a few bodies, more than I'd like to count, but they seem to all have six different signatures.

- Decapitation
- Eyes impaled and carved smiles
- Cremations
- Slit throats and hearts removed
- Bodies crushed
- Drownings

I've been over this several times, but all of the bodies have fallen into one of these signatures. They're pretty clear. Because of that and other things I've found, I'm drawing one conclusion out of this.

There are SIX Stalkers out in Serenity Town.

I know, it sounds like a lot and it's a little freaky when I think about it. I did a little work and after reviewing some of the bodies, I found certain names coming up. I think they're Stalker call-signs or something like that.

"Shadefetch" - I found a few of their ramblings going on about erasing identity. Their note about "no more smiles, scowls, laughter, or voices" on Farsal the Panpour's decapitated body seem to connect whoever this is with the decapitations.

"Undone" - I found a note with "happy to not see the ugliness - by Undone" on the body of Ketter. He had his eyes impaled and yes, it's something I haven't been able to unsee when I'm trying to sleep.

"NTH" - Whoever this is, they're obsessed with numbers. NTH seems to be a scorekeeper, as I think he's been tracking the kills of the other Stalkers, which is probably why they've resorted to using call-signs. I have no idea what their goal is, but I'm thinking maybe I don't want to know. Well, actually, I do, but I doubt it's pretty. Also, there seems to be a link to NTH with the cremations. NTH will use the ashes of the victims and make numbers with them.

"Koax" - Koax has to be a poet or something. It's creepy, but Koax will kill someone by slitting their throat, will rip their heart out, write a poem either on the body or besides it, and then sign it with "Koax." I also find ripped papers and poems of theirs everywhere. Some of them I've been able to complete for the most part, but others were missing too many pieces. It's annoying what a little rain and wind can do to compromise a crime scene.

"Epitaph" - I don't know who "Epitaph" is, but they're disgusting. They're the ones responsible for mashing up the bodies. They ramble on a lot about Pokémon eating Pokémon and then just saying "we're all just meat, Epitaph." I'll definitely be able to sleep better once this "Epitaph" is out of existence.

"Non" - I've only found Non's name once. Whoever this is, Non is responsible for the drowned Pokémon. I don't know how Non does it, though. By the time the bodies are found, whatever was used to drown them was washed away. I've also tried to keep a lookout sentry monitoring the lake, but they never catch Non in the act.

That's all I have for now. I'll be trying to keep in touch with you as I find more stuff, but a lot of this is pretty perplexing.

~Zick