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I'll search Silvercoal Medical Center (28d) Floors 21-30
Many medical staff members are buzzing around inside the Silvercoal Medical Center. Some are attending to patients while others are hurrying toward various offices, patient rooms and elevators. The waiting room is filled with nervous Pokémon present for differing cases and problems, while the many rooms you pass on the way to the elevators are occupied by those who are recovering from surgery or other treatment.

You make your way up to the floors specializing in oncology, cardiology and hematology. The first thing you notice is the sterile smell, followed by the white lights, many curtains, and overall glum ambience. You head down the hall, following the signs pointing you toward the specific area Uru's research pointed to, oncology. There are a few facilities which you can see are occupied by patients in private meetings with the specialists, but you know that in order to find this piece of evidence, you need to sneak in and take a look around.

There is one particular office that catches your attention. There is something inside it which grabs your senses, which you recognize to be Stalker energy. The pungent and nasty stench should repel you, but your duty as an Emissary bangs louder in your head than your instinct to flee. The door is closed, so you turn yourself invisible and turn the handle to enter. The doctor and the patient inside both fix their eyes on the door but you slip by unnoticed, heading for the desk to poke around. The doctor, a frowning Watchog, rises from his seat and makes a move to close the door as the Girafarig patient glances around nervously. You feel the Stalker energy speaking to you through a drawer, which you open to find a small instrument giving off unmistakable dark pulses.

The Watchog moves back to his seat and sits down, apologizing to his patient while you sneak around the desk and make a run for the door, opening it and racing out again. You hear shouts of anger and conclude that the doctor imagined that a Ghost-type or other illusion-caster must have stolen from his office. You realize that you do not have enough time to take the elevator to the ground floor before someone sees a floating piccolo and catches you, so you head for a small window in another doctor's office and force it open, just squeezing your shell through and flying away from the building.

You get several yards away before you land and inspect the instrument you found. You can feel that it belongs to a Stalker, and because Uru's research pointed you here, you put two and two together. The sculptures your teammates found around town must belong to Extol, as well as their corresponding instruments. There is something unsettling about the way this piccolo makes you feel, in particular the fact that its creepy dark energy seems to be mixed with a sick, foul happiness that turns your guts like they were inside a washing machine.

Item [Playful Piccolo] was added to the Team Inventory.

The piccolo's energy isn't enough to affect your sanity, but it does freak you out enough to make you want to put it down. Keeping this in mind, you take your leave and head back to base, hoping there would be no follow-up investigation to the Silvercoal Medical Center thief.

Carly the Heracross (M: Bug/Fighting)
Health: 5/5
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Science | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2