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

[Suicune's Fire]

Since I feel kinda clueless at the moment. I'm just gonna roll with the current advice. Taking the Philter Diary pages to the Philter Hideout. Gathering all the needed items I need and preparing myself mentally.

The two diary entries written by Philter's host rest neatly in your bag as you enter through the Skywatcher Skyscraper, taking the lift to the topmost floor. It spits you out on the rooftop, which you cross to come face to face with a door. It feels foreboding standing so close to what you know is a Stalker's hideout, but so close to the finish line, you know that you cannot waver.

You reach into your bag and draw out both diary pages, knowing that whatever happens once you scan them using the console beside the door, you will be protected by knowledge and skill alone. Keeping this in mind, you flip up the plastic casing covering the panel and hold the first page under the dotted red lights. It flashes, but emits no sound. You're not sure what this means, and you hesitantly put the first entry away and take out the second one to scan. This time, there's a high-pitched screech which prompts you to hold down your long ears and grimace.

You dash out of the way right before the door explodes, sending toxic spores everywhere. You remain at the edge of the rooftop as the spores settle, littering the ground. You pull out a rag from your satchel and cover your face with it as you carefully step through the blasted door and creep inside.

All about the room are violent scribbles and writings in various sizes. They maintain the same consistent style, and the more you read, the quicker you realise the consistent theme: conflict. By the looks of it, conflict between Philter and Philter's host. Whoever it is begs for escape, but Philter torments them to no end, teasing them about their life: a lack of friends, an fruitless job, no family, and the constant reminder of the host's day-by-day depression and self-loathing. This is confronting to see, but not confronting enough to rattle your mind.

You have a look around, and aside from the abundance of messy, aggressive text splashed across each wall, there doesn't seem to be anything here that stands out...except a lone laptop resting upon a desk. It's plugged in to a power source, which you know means you'll be able to access it, so you come around the other side of the desk and open the laptop. Instantly you are met with a horrific image of butchered Pokémon parts composed as a statue of an Aromatisse. You shudder, understanding the reference as you try to guess the password to the laptop. No matter what you enter, you are not granted access. The only clue that you can see is that there are four lines beside one another, presumably indicating a four-digit password.

Object {Secured Computer Terminal: Four-Digit Password} was added to the Team Records.

You contemplate taking the laptop with you and bringing it to someone who can hack it, but you suspect that removing the laptop from this desk, removing the power cord, or trying to hack the laptop would result in some kind of failsafe mechanism which could potentially destroy the laptop and its contents. It would not at all be surprising if a Stalker had set up such security.

You elect not to risk anything, so you simply shrug and slink away from the desk, making a note of what you saw here to relay back to your team.


Zeal the Pikachu (S: Electric)

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