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

[Suicune's Fire]

Well with my health restored I'm finally in a somewhat fighting condition. Now time to complete a task I've wanted to finish since the beginning!

Madder has decided to interview Nepp the Sableye.

Interview Rapport: VERY POSITIVE
+1 Shared type (Ghost)
+1 Shared evolution stage
Intimidation +1 Interviewee weak to Fairy
Modesty +1 Weak to Ghost

Nepp is at Eternity Bank when you find him, and you can immediately see that he works there. As you enter through the bank, you can see that business seems to be as usual. It's a vast contrast to the Silver Vault Bank, which you know has suffered greatly from the Stalker invasion. You aren't entirely sure why, but you suspect that Eternity Bank was older, more established, and had loyal customers. Silver Vault may have just opened at an unfortunate time.

You wait in line for just under ten minutes before you come to Nepp, whose bored facial expression makes it clear that he has been at it for hours. As you approach, he frowns, although you have a hard time reading anything in his gemstone-like eyes.

"What can I do for you...?" he hisses, which you imagine is a part of his regular speech. You introduce yourself and ask about the Stalkers. Nepp scoffs. "Can't you see I'm in the middle of my shift?" He shakes his head, looking over his shoulder for a second. "Supervisor's on break, so you've got two minutes." He slams his glass window down, mentioning to one of his co-workers that he needs to step away and deal with a client for a moment. The Pokémon agrees and he signals to you to meet him in the waiting area on the other side of the reception desk. You do so, greeting the small Sableye wearing a tie.

His voice is low as he asks, "Are you one of those...agents?" When you answer that you are an Emissary sent to deal with the Stalkers, he shakes his head. "So you're... one of those other Pokémon? Those special ones from Utopia?" You aren't sure if the two of you are on the same page, but you explain to him that you're not from Utopia, wherever that is. "Hm. May have you mixed up with...someone else."

You ask him again about Stalker activity and if he's heard of anything strange happening. He shrugs. "I really can't help ya. I did see that Uru guy hanging around my apartment building before he was put in hospital. Dunno what he was doing there, though." When you ask him which building that is, he responds, "Summer's Moon."

"I've gotta get back," he tells you, heading back to his window.


Madder the Mimikyu (S: Ghost/Fairy)

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

[AgloMe Oen]

Lita musters all the courage she has, and decides to take the brands to Pishter Park

Oh, you know I'm excited! Aren't you!?

So you he̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅad to Pishter Park, which isn't so much of a park as it is an urban cesspool of what used to be a park before the groundwater became filthier than piss. Every tre̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅe in this joint is dead and all that's left is a silly game of last-weed-standing. Not to mention there's graffiti, trash, and rusty stuff all over the place.

You take the XTHEN and the ZEKETH brand to the Hall of Ill Omen. All the while, the XTHEN brand keeps s̡̛̘̙͟ͅę̰͕e͍͉̞̼͍͉̥͟ͅd̩̙͎͓̠ͅi͏̛͕̹̗̹̬̼͕̹ṉ̦̤̬̩̦͞g̯͡ ̜̘̹͚̟̲̣̮ ͇̠̀͝͝e͠͏̩̙̫̫̙̣̹̙̫v͚̗̪̙͔̖̲̞i̛̘̱̠̭̺͕̲͚͖l͍̣͓̹ into your mind. It mã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕kes you fearful at first, then a little angry, and then... just a little psychotic! Oh, you get used to it after a while. You're in a r̢͎̭̫͖̩͓̣̮̬̜͚͙̠̬͕̻̗͆͗ͤ̔ͣ̄͐̾͡ush and you just don't feel like taking the time to pluck it out.

Lita has taken 2 Points of Damage to Sanity.

As soon as you locate the Hall of Ill Omen, you slip on a pair of IR lenses that severely reduces the haunting effect of the macabre̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅ abstraction. Cheater. Okay, so you were r̢͎̭̫͖̩͓̣̮̬̜͚͙̠̬͕̻̗͆͗ͤ̔ͣ̄͐̾͡eady for this one, but you still struggle to put the XTHEN and ZEKETH brands into place. As soon as you hear a macabre howling noise, you cover your ear̢͎̭̫͖̩͓̣̮̬̜͚͙̠̬͕̻̗͆͗ͤ̔ͣ̄͐̾͡s with audio cancelation headphones. Well, because you'd rather not want to hear the foul moaning and screaming, of course!

The strã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕nge, evil and abstract chamber opens and SURPRISͦ͑ͫ̅̽̐̃̾̈́̿̊̃ͨ̒̕҉̫̗̟̜̗͈̭̙̼̖͈̙̗̱͕̝̺ͅE! You get a really chilling fee̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅling as you start walking inside this underground hall where it just feels like you're going to have chronic bad luck for the rest of your life. But as you get to the end of the hall, you find a book! It's ancient and dark, and you already know right off the bat that thing is just SLATHERED with evil. You don't dar̢͎̭̫͖̩͓̣̮̬̜͚͙̠̬͕̻̗͆͗ͤ̔ͣ̄͐̾͡e touch it quite yet. In fact, you get back out for a moment, grab a few nice sticks, and use those to handle the book to get a better idea of what this thing is made of.

As you can tell, from a fir̢͎̭̫͖̩͓̣̮̬̜͚͙̠̬͕̻̗͆͗ͤ̔ͣ̄͐̾͡st glance, this thing just looks like an ordinary book, but you use the sticks to flip the book on its back and s̢̖̼̕u̵̢̪̹͖̠̺͘ͅr̳p̵̹̙̩̠̣̘r̮̲̠̭͚̗͞i̸͖̭̯̳͇̥ͅͅs̸̙̭̺͘͞ ͇͔é̘͟͟!̗͕͔̪ It's the Mark of the Soulnabber detailed in blood! Well, you know for sure that if you touched the book with that thing on there, you'd be in for a really bad time and your brain would sizzle extra crispy and you might have to dance with the devil for a while! Well, you don't want to dam̸̷̡̤͈͎̫̘͖͕̝̮ͣ͗̔ͩ̾̅̿ͭ̍ͨ́̈́̐̋͂age the book but you know you can't touch it with that Mark of the Soulnabber on there. You know it was drã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕wn with blood, so with your security sense̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅ and knowing how this lovely occult things work, to negate it, you need to mess up the mark by putting some more blood on it. It's just like pã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕inting black all over someone's artwork! Well, you prick the side of your yellow paw just a bit via a sharper stick, use a few drops of farm-fresh Pikachu blood, and you use another one of the sticks to muddy up the mark by drawing extra nonsense lines and ultimately messing up all the hard effort and nefarious artwork that went into putting that there!

#Heavy Infernal Presence# (Deã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕ls Two dam̸̷̡̤͈͎̫̘͖͕̝̮ͣ͗̔ͩ̾̅̿ͭ̍ͨ́̈́̐̋͂age to Sanity, 100% chance of causing Confusion) has been negã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕ted.

With the Mark of the Soulnabber just ã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕ lovely blotch of blood now, you use a cloth towel to pick up the Tome of the Black Creed and take it with you. You can sense a lot of lovely, unholy aura coming from this thing and you're quite sure it's a lovely and inspir̢͎̭̫͖̩͓̣̮̬̜͚͙̠̬͕̻̗͆͗ͤ̔ͣ̄͐̾͡ing piece of literature inside, but you decide not to crack it open to have̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅ a peek. It's a real bummer because the stuff you'd find inside would just blow your mind away. Literally!

Item [Tome of the Black Creed] #Heavy Infernal Presence# (Deals Two dam̸̷̡̤͈͎̫̘͖͕̝̮ͣ͗̔ͩ̾̅̿ͭ̍ͨ́̈́̐̋͂age to Sanity, 100% chance of causing Confusion) has been added to the Team Inventory.

You then run your fuzzy, yellow Pika-butt out of there because you're quite sure whatever little luck you had might have been just painfully plucked out with that fun trip. You he̩͕̱̼̪̳̹ͅad back to base with your lovely acquisition and try to forget about what you just felt and sã̵͕͓͔͇͙͇̺̲̮̩ͮͧ̊͂̓̉̂̕w back there. And yeah, a band-aid m̸̷̡̤͈͎̫̘͖͕̝̮ͣ͗̔ͩ̾̅̿ͭ̍ͨ́̈́̐̋͂ight help too.

Lita the Pikachu (S: Electric)

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

[Neo Emolga]

I'd like to search 35e. Brookheights High School, correct?

You decide to head to the highest floors of the Brookheights School building where the High School-level grades are. You notice most Pokémon here are older and despite the Stalker attacks, classes are still going on, but you notice that night classes and activities have all been canceled for the time being.

In addition to that, a lot of the notices for after-school activities and sports have been taken down and will remain closed "until further notice." Most of the high-school students here seem to be bored, but unlike Northwind, they're at least learning and doing their due diligence when it comes to testing, classwork, and projects. Morale may be low, but it's still there.

Attendance is slightly less than normal and some classrooms are empty. There also seem to be several empty lockers that haven't been used. You find one such locker without a number, and when you search it, it seems something was quickly put inside. You take a look at it and it seems to be some kind of armor fragment. You're quite sure you've seen something like this before, only this time it seems to be another piece of the set.

Item [Dragonstar Armor Fragment 2of4] was added to the Team Inventory.

Despite what's been going on with the Stalkers, you have to admire the students and teachers that are still working and trying their best here to keep life going on. After making one last round through the remaining floors, you head back to base with your findings.

Laura the Umbreon (M: Dark)

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

[Neo Emolga]

<Repair> [Gold and Ruby Necklace: <Repair>]

Working throughout the day, you put your repair skills to use and fix the broken connector ring on the necklace. You discover the main reason for the ring breaking was simply just from old age and wear and tear, but it's definitely not beyond your ability.

You manage to fix the necklace and after testing it with some straining and pulling, it holds together quite well and it definitely seems like the mishap that happened with it before won't happen again.

Item [Gold and Ruby Necklace] has been updated in the Team Records.

Sam the Deerling (S: Normal/Grass)

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

[Neo Emolga]

im going to give the gold/ruby necklace to the ninetails

You take the Gold and Ruby Necklace to Hattika the Ninetales. At first, she seems a little stressed, but when she sees you come with the necklace, suddenly her eyes light up.

"You found it!" she exclaims, very excited to see it. "Oh, I was so worried I would never see it again! I know, to some, it may just be a necklace, but to me... it means so much. I feel like my mother is with me when I see it."

Item [Gold and Ruby Necklace] was removed from the Team Inventory.

She puts it back on, closes her eyes, and you swear you can see a tear of joy in eyes.

"Thank you so much..." she replies to you as she slightly trembles with emotion. "I've had to deal with... so much lately. It's good to know there are really kind hearts and gentle Pokémon that are among us... even in these times..."

"Here, take these," Hattika tells you, handing you a fresh Cheri Berry and an Aspear Berry. "It's the least I can do. You have my most sincere thanks."

Items [Cheri Berry] and [Aspear Berry] were added to the Team Inventory.

"You can do it...!" Hattika tells you, struggling with her emotions. "It may seem difficult at times, but I believe in you all! Please... save our city! If anyone can, it's you!"

MISSION COMPLETE: SUCCESSFUL!

Katzu the Sneasel (M: Dark/Ice)

Health: 5/5
Sanity: 2/4
Perk: First Aid | Learned Abilities: Escort/Protect
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[Suicune's Fire]

Night has fallen over Silvercoal City
Submit your Day 5: Night Cycle Actions now!



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[Scytherwolf]

I'll search (35c) Brookheights School Floors 11-15.

[Noblejanobii]

As much as I don't want to, I guess I have to return to those ghastly apartments. BUT ONLY BECAUSE THE SHAYMIN SAID SO.

Madder has decided to lockpick Locked Door: {Apartment 397: <Lockpick> / +Fighting+}.

[The Nonexistent Tazz]

Not risking going into the berserk state for no real reason.

Rest now. Happy sleep time.

[AD]

Taking the Adrenaline Syringe to the Muuna at (85) Solace Plaza