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"All right, thank you." Lita replies, pocketing the silver candle.

She then continues to (19) Doctor Rulend's Home--maybe some medical evidence would help?
You come to Doctor Rulend's home with the intention of trying to find as much medical evidence as you can. From the outside, the gray-stone house seems normal, although isolated in its own spot in town with vacant lots on all sides, save for the park which begins behind it.

The exterior of the house seems normal, although it seems strange no one ever built anything within close proximity to the house. There is some plausible thought that no one wanted to be living too close to him due to his natures. Still, you don't find anything around the property that would insinuate that there's something suspicious going on.

You check the interior of the house and find there are many journals, medical textbooks, and the like. But one thing you find that most Pokémon don't seem to know about is his love for puzzles, which might also explain his life desire to be a doctor. In some areas of his house, you find word searches, crosswords, and brain teasers, as well physical puzzles involving blocks, rope, and the like. During your investigations, you find one of the familiar ivory bowls here in plain sight, with a note of "Adis" and nothing more. You decide to take it, although it seems unusual considering all of the other ivory bowls that were found were slightly hidden. It almost seems Rulend didn't believe there was much worth behind the bowl.

Item: [Ivory Bowl] has been added to the Team Inventory.

You then come to Rulend's home office, where his medical journals are. Many of them are regarding treatments, medical practices, and the like, but you do find a more recently-used journal that is on the top of Rulend's desk.

Entry - 10-4
Subject: Officer Nart, Quilava

Officers Adom and Zick have requested my assistance in determine cause of death with some of the more recent "Stalker" cases. They attempted to get my assistance with the previous victims, and while I was able to give them a general cause of death, the bodies were far too decomposed to make a full medical evaluation. Not to mention there were far too many and my medical staff is limited.

Officer Nart was one of the more-recently killed victims that Deputy Zick claimed was murdered by "Epitaph," a known "Stalker" alias. Cause of death was difficult to determine with the body wholly destroyed, but the level of bodily damage easily indicated "Epitaph" didn't just want the victims killed. They wanted them destroyed beyond all reclamation, linking to a type of psychological profile that "Epitaph" is acting out some kind of fantasy of violence. Zick's reports of "Epitaph" claiming these Pokémon were "just meat," implies a psychological state that simply killing these Pokémon was not enough, and that wholly destroying them was part of some additional objective.

Officer Nart was crushed with a heavy, blunt like object, though I was able to discern that the initial cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. Reading Nart's case file indicated that Nart had several accreditations and was highly decorated as a police officer in the force.

Entry - 14-7
Subject: "Epitaph" Prognosis Evaluation

After further research into the records of "Epitaph's victims, I have discovered my original conclusions aren't what I had anticipated. To perform the kinds of murders that "Epitaph" has done, it would take an extreme amount of indifference for both the sanctity of the Pokémon's body and the value of a Pokémon's life. It is clear that the killer's desire is beyond the kill itself and that some byproduct is necessary for some unknown objective. Wanton and complete destruction of the remnants may be the killer rendering judgment upon what they feel is "unneeded" byproduct of what the kill what originally intended for.

The nature of the victims almost implies randomness, so I was able to rule out that there is any selective killing going on besides killings of opportunity. With the signature of "just meat" as a pattern to what is usually found at the crime scenes, I have concluded that "Epitaph" is not concerned with who is killed, but what they're killed for.

When I examined the bodies, I noticed certain parts were missing and not accounted for even among the crushed components. It leads me to believe these parts were removed prior to the complete destruction of the body while the remainder was wholly destroyed as "just meat," perhaps implying that the remainder is of no use to them. This means only certain components of the bodies hold value, but I cannot determine why there would be perceived value in these particular missing body parts and organs. My only conclusion is there is some other intention for these "raw materials" while the rest are judged by them to be "just meat."

You flip through the remainder of Rulend's journals, but most of it reinforces what was already stated in the Prognosis Evaluation.