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

[Suicune's Fire]

I'm taking the numbers 47 and 33 to the {Secured Computer Terminal: Four-Digit Password} at (77i) Floors 81-90, (Abandoned rooftop penthouse).

Ready for action!

I remember...she was one of the nastiest people in school...

You begin you ascent to the Skywatcher Skyscraper, fully aware that you were about to uncover the identity of the Stalker known as Philter. You had uncovered many things about this evil creature; it had possessed a Pokémon of Silvercoal City and attacked its victims under the guise of a Maractus. It would plant seeds into its victims' brains which would kill the victim within minutes. This had been seen on multiple occasions, and only one personal recount had placed a Maractus at the scene. However, Nairek, the town's only Maractus resident, had denied all involvement and appeared to have no connection to a Stalker. Despite the Emissaries' thorough investigation, that particular lead proved fruitless.

She would bully me day in and day out, so when Philter said I could be someone else...it chose to impersonate her to torment me and frame her...

You take the shaky lift to the top of the building, already beginning to fell your stomach churn as you recall the journey you and your teammates had taken to reach this point. Once you are at the top, you watch the doors slide slowly open and then stop. You have to push your fluffy body through the small gap, then you stumble out in the open, making the short walk across the roof to the penthouse door. The spores from Zeal's visit have mostly blown away, but some still remain. You make an effort to avoid inhaling them as you enter the building.

It all sounded so appealing. I hated my life, I hated my job, and I hated myself. I thought this world might be better off without me in it... Now I know for certain it needs to be rid of me.

You move through the room, remembering the four numbers 4733, and try to avert your gaze from the scribbles donning the walls, floor and numerous papers. You don't know if it was like this when Zeal entered the room, but much of the interior looks tossed, thrown aside, and even broken. You get the feeling that someone was in here recently, and that's when you notice it: the laptop is gone.

PLEASE rescue me from this hell, from this torture and this prison. I'm a killer now, a disgusting, horrific beast capable of endless death. If I'm not stopped soon...Philter will make me kill until there is no-one left.

A frown knots your face as you search the room, suddenly scared that you won't be able to find it, when you realise that there's a small light coming from underneath a carpet behind a desk. You remove it to find a recent hole with the laptop inside, still retaining a small sliver of power. You pull it out and set it on the desk, relief flooding you as you open the laptop. The image of the mutilated body parts of various Pokémon jumps out as you as you enter the four-digit passcode which you have burned so deeply into your mind that you could never again forget it.

4 4 3 7

Logging you in...

You flick your head back and forth, feeling the sickening feeling of Stalker essence begin to seep through your skin. It drills at your mind and pulls on your feathers as you try to ignore it, focusing on the laptop. Once it logs in, the entire screen turns black before the taskbar loads. There is nothing on the desktop, but you begin searching through folders. At first there is nothing to be found, so you plug in a device that you brought with you which had been used on Uru's computer to retain deleted files. It proves to be useful when documents recently discarded reveal themselves to you. There is one written document and one image which remain, but everything else is corrupt and inaccessible.

First you open the document, finding that most of the text is distorted and illegible. You scroll down, noting that it is tens of pages long, but you can only pick out certain sentences as you go along. It is a very fragmented recount of the host's process, how Philter approached them, and their feelings about it. It is more than clear that whomever was picked by the Enthraller known as Philter was tricked into believing that it could help, and took advantage of their vulnerable state. You gather that the Enthraller purposely chose an individual susceptible to manipulation. What the civilian thought was an innocent supernatural deal was, in fact, a deadly and disastrous pact of destruction and certain doom.

I'm sorry, Satia! I'm sorry, Rusco and Pillin and Garret, and everyone else it made me kill! I never wanted this... Someone must stop me before it's too late. PLEASE!

You finish reading the document, still unsure of the Stalker's identity. Suddenly an errors pops up on the screen, and you try to close it, but nothing happens. More errors spring up, and, unsure what to do, you force quit out of the application and quickly open up the image. Suddenly a projector overhead buzzes to life and spits out an image on the desk in front of you. You realise that you're looking at a hologram which the host must have created in an effort to reveal themselves as Philter. You stare at the image and take in the information you see, realising that the image was likely developed while the host was resisting the Enthraller's control. You imagine that the deleted documents were the result of Philter taking back control, but before it did so, the host was able to create the flashing holographic image...

Spoiler:

Before the laptop is completely overrun with errors that prevent you from taking any further action, you quickly copy over the image and the document to the USB you brought. The image copies over, but the document encounters errors and you are forced to remove the USB in the process. The laptop sparks, coughs, and dies. It no longer responds to anything you try to do to it, so you leave it where it is and return to base with your potentially infected USB...

...and your newly acquired information.


Ciel the Mega Altaria (M: Dragon/Fairy)

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