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

[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