Quote Originally Posted by Morzone View Post
Acting upon a tip from my good fellow Emissary, I'm going to go search Brookheights schools plaza! (35f)
At night, Brookheights School looks almost as friendly as it does during the day. Lights are on in places, friendly signs insisting that the school is a safe property are all around, and you can see children's artwork up on display on the windows of various classrooms and hallways. You would use your lockpicking abilities to break into the school if the situation required it, but you know that your destination is the plaza near the centre of the property, which requires no internal access. All you need to do is scale a tall fence which gives you little to no trouble.

You drop down onto the concrete and begin to take a look around. You know that this spot would be a popular area for students to hang out at during lunch and recess breaks, and you can see faintly drawn chalk marks as well as a few abandoned balls around the place. While you look around, you begin to feel apprehensive about a particular area of the plaza which draws you in. The closer to it you get, the surer you are that you are being drawn towards a Stalker related item or place. The feeling begins to eat at you like a corrosive poison, but you steel yourself and tread toward it, ensuring to check your surroundings with every step.

You come across a circular garden bed which looks like a giant flower pot. It's filled with soil, but currently has no sprouting plants. You assume that there are seedlings waiting to grow, but instead of feeling the warm excitement of new life, all you can feel is misery and evil. You don't want to use your bouquet to scrape away the soil, so you find a nearby stick to dig with and the deeper you go, the stronger the demonic sensation becomes. Finally you hit something, and you use to stick for a little longer before electing to use your bouquet hands. You feel a small ring, and as you go to pull it, you realise it's attached to something else. You pull harder and are greeted by a small explosion of shadowy energy which knocks you back, sending the object you withdrew flying over your head.

Pain begins to gnaw at your face as you try frantically to wipe it off, anxiety growing within you as you realise that it's not working. The longer you spend trying to rid yourself of this horrid evil presence, the more it sinks its fangs into you. Your heart accelerates as you feel the energy growing, twisting and morphing inside your mind.

Amia has suffered 1 point of damage to Health.

The energy begins to subside, and after a few excruciating moments, it feels as if it has drained completely from your insides. You take a moment to lie on the cold concrete, trying to comprehend what happened. Then you get to your feet, noting that you made a mess of the potplant-like garden bed, and turn around to see the form of an elongated, rust lantern pulsing with dark energy on the ground. You glare at it, somewhat terrified of it after what it did to you. You try to shake it off, knowing that it was probably just a one-off trap, and retrieve the lantern with caution. It does nothing but stare back at you with hollow energy.

Item [Frantic Lantern] was added to the Team Inventory.

You know that this is the only object of note around the plaza, so you take it with you while you leave, hoping that this trap had not been sprung on any of the students who had been curious enough to check on their growing plants before now.


Amia the Roserade (M: Grass/Poison)
Health: 3/5
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Lockpick | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2