The Stalkers RPG - Main Action and Team Status Thread [SEASON 3] *SWEET VICTORY!*

[Bulbasaur]

Protect Tashy again.

[Shruikan]

I'll interview #33 Kanja the Kecleon, while keeping an eye out for any cuts she may have.

[Morzone]

I really feel bad for Rolia, maybe I should have brought Theo along after all just to kind of be nice to people and boost morale. Theo would probably make a great friend to her.

Anyway, since the time is opportune I'll take her advice and go and talk to Jenny the Lycanroc. Just sort of inquire into if she's anything that particularly stands out as odd, maybe some location or item someone has, or like if someone's suddenly appeared with a bunch of cuts on them or something.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I'll search Whitehill manufacturing (7a) Rooms 1-5 looking for anything to do with Yandil

[Neo Emolga]

I'll search Whitehill manufacturing (7a) Rooms 1-5 looking for anything to do with Yandil

You search Whitehill Manufacturing at night, where it seems like the old building is very quiet in the nighttime hours. You head to the first five floors, trying to see if you can find something that connects Yandil to the investigation. Inside, the building has old-style furnishings and trimming, but the equipment, desks, and technology is modern day.

As you can see, a lot of what makes up the first, second, and third floors is a lot of spacious area for large paper milling products and very large machines that make massive rolls of paper in the form of very large cylinders. Others create cardboard stock and cardboard boxes of varying sizes to be bundled with a zip-tie and then shipped off in large crates. Everything at this hour seems to be completely quiet, but you imagine during the day, these machines are probably very hard at work.

When you get to the fourth floor, this is where you see more of the administrative employees work. It seems there are quite a few employees working here, but you're not sure if they've left town and simply abandoned their belongings at work. Regardless, some Pokémon here are in charge of finance, accounting, legal, marketing, and another section on the fifth floor is reserved for technicians, engineers, and mechanics.

You find Yandil's desk here, and you discover there's papers, notebooks, diagrams, technical sheets, component drawings, test results, and engineering testing equipment just in piles everywhere. A lot of it seems pretty confusing and you can imagine having to work with all this stuff really might drive anyone insane. As you flip through some of the things Yandil has left everywhere, you can almost see from Yandi's handwriting that at times, he seems to write with rushed anger. Lines are darker and thicker, sometimes tear right through the paper, and the amount of redline markup he leaves on memos and engineering drawings gets pretty thick and ugly. His comments toward other engineers aren't very nice either. One says "This is stupid, what are you thinking?" and another says "Must I do everything for you?"

You find another complaint report that it seems like Yandil only got halfway finished before he stopped for whatever reason. As you look it over, it seems like he was going to send a report to the Pokémon Resources Department about Jeddi the Bewear. As you look through his list of complaints, it seems like either she's done a lot to Yandil or Yandil is exaggerating his claims. A lot of these claims involve stolen documents, sabotaged computer equipment, nasty office pranks, lack of hygiene, and it seems Yandil complains about every noise Jeddi makes from her random laughing, loud sneezes, the noisy way she eats lunch with a metal fork and glass bowl, and he's convinced she clears her throat loudly just to piss him off.

As you look at Yandil's computer equipment, you can see Jeddi still hasn't stopped. Right on his computer screen, she wrote "you belong at a circus, you freak" in red lipstick and you notice she left a glue trap right on his chair, which you imagine wouldn't do the Smeargle any favors if he doesn't notice it the next time he sits down.

You decide to investigate Jeddi's desk, and while her desk isn't at all tidy either, it's for different reasons. You gather that she works on the factory lines and it seems she's in charge of reordering supplies, handling machine diagnostics, and carrying out vendor orders. A lot of her desk is covered with food stains and crumbs and you notice she's not very proactive when it comes to taking care of wrappers, empty cups, and food containers. You also see she's one of those employees that steals the food of her coworkers, as you can see there's an empty bag with a nametag of "Razi" on it while another brown paper bag has "Bervo" written with black marker. They look like they've been there for weeks and she hasn't bothered throwing them out.

You search the other areas, and in one empty cubicle, you find a white feather. You're not sure if it belongs to an employee that left or one that was using the cube for some unknown, temporary reason. You check around but none of the drawers or cabinets are locked, so you figure they didn't hide anything here. You decide to take it just in case there's a chance it belongs to a Stalker.

Pokémon Sample [White Feather] has been added to the Team Inventory.

You search through the rest of the fifth floor, but you don't find too much else that raises any alarms or red flags. You just decide to head back and take note of what you found.

Sarah the Archen (S: Rock/Flying)

Health: 4/4
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Security | Learned Abilities: Escort/Protect
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[Tashy the Furret]

Gonna get crackin!

I'll get started on this [White Candle] tonight and see if this [Red Skin] reveals anything. Good luck to the rest of you guys! <3

[Neo Emolga]

Search: (43) Sunnytown Strip Mall (Abandoned)

At night, the Sunnytown Strip Mall is a pretty creepy place. It seems like from the looks of things, there used to be stores here, but they've been gone for ages and now the place has fallen into disrepair. A lot of the windows are broken, the doors aren't even locked and are falling off their hinges, and in plenty of places, things are just outright falling apart and one store even has the ceiling coming down. You keep on the lookout for anything that seems unusual, especially since several Pokémon have warned you about some of the things that have happened around here.

Around one of the buildings, you find what looks like a child's chalk messages. Or are they from a child? You're not even sure for certain, but they are unsettling...



=The Deranged Chalk Warning= was added to the Team Records.

You set it aside for now decide to keep looking. So far, you haven't run into this dark and hideous thing they've been talking about, and you begin to think maybe it's gone or perhaps was just an illusion to them and never existed in the first place.

But then you turn around the corner...

#Threatening Gaze# Trap 20% Evasion Test: 82 out of 100: Evasion Successful!

And you immediately turn away when you see it out of the corner of your eyes, dodging a real bullet right there and then.

Objective {Odd-Looking Statue: Missing Shroud} #Threatening Gaze# (3 Sanity Damage) has been noted in the Team Records.

It's... a Mimikyu statue without its shroud. In other words, Mimikyu in its true form, likely instilled with some even greater evil. It suddenly makes sense what was going on but as far as you know, you don't have what it takes to disarm this grizzly thing and you're quite sure that unless someone finds the cover that supposed to go on this macabre thing, you're only going to fry your mind even just looking in its general direction. It really doesn't surprise you several Pokémon have already been mentally traumatized by this grizzly thing.

It seems like they were right. There's a high potential a Stalker really is making use of this place, but you don't quite have what you need to go forward. Maybe at a later time, but for now, you've seen all there is to see without getting too much closer to this macabre thing.

You decide to head back and report this to the other Emissaries before they accidently stumble into this. You figure you might be able to come back once you have the shroud that will prevent anyone else from losing their minds to this thing.

Pixel the Porygon-Z (M: Normal)

Health: 5/5
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Science | Learned Abilities: Investigate
Failed Assassinations: 0/2

[sammy0295]

Search (25) The Copperplate Hotel (Abandoned)

[ARandomTool]

Search: Machine Depot #1. Sounds like my kinda place, fixing stuff and not getting killed by rusty things.

[Neo Emolga]

Hi Franny!

We're back! How are you? Pretty busy lately? Just wanted to know if anyone came in with some suspicious cuts. We're on the lookout for a medium sized 'mon with mostly green coloring, and they should have cuts, like from a razor leaf attack. Have you seen anyone come by with that description?

Interview Rapport: POSITIVE
+1 Shared Pokémon Type (Ghost)

You find Franny the Mismagius taking a break after what seems like a long shift. She's enjoying a cup of coffee in the medical break room, which you imagine must be pretty helpful when it comes to trying to stay awake and focused after many long hours of work. But it seems like she's finished what she needs to get done and there isn't too much else lined up on her work plate for now. You greet her and she seems happy to see you.

"Oh hi there, good to see you again, Madder!" Franny greets you with a grin. "I've been working pretty hard as usual, but I'm hanging in there. But thanks for asking, you're the only one who really comes in to check up to see how I'm doing!"

You inquire about seeing any medium, green Pokémon coming in with cuts, especially from a Razor Leaf attack. She looks curiously at you, but she shakes her head.

"I can't say I have," Franny tells you, looking a bit glum she's not able to help you with that. "Someone with suspicion... you know, there's a chance that they didn't check into this hospital because of that. Wouldn't be the first time I've heard of someone trying to do the job themselves instead of having a professional look into it. If that's the case, they probably tried to bandage their own injuries, but as I know from personal experience, Pokémon that do that may not do the best job. And sometimes they don't always stop the bleeding correctly. From a medical standpoint, a Razor Leaf may not have caused severe bleeding or severed any major arteries. However, even in those cases, hemostasis isn't easy to achieve if they didn't have a sutures or hemostatic matrix kits. Their bandaging might be a really messy job, may have bled through in a few places, or weren't applied correctly. You'd probably be looking at a rushed job, especially if they didn't stick around after taking on an injury like that."

"It also depends on what kind of Pokémon they are," Franny explains. "Some Pokémon would barely get cut from that while others would take on some serious pain. If you're not sure about their species, then the only way to determine that is by going on how they reacted. That might help you gauge just how hurt they were."

"I wish I could help you more, but I can't really say much unless I know the species of the afflicted," Franny tells you, looking a bit sympathetic. "You might want to try asking Kexin. He's a doctor here, and he's a Sceptile, so he's more familiar with what grass-type attacks could do and what kinds of injuries might result from a Razor Leaf attack. He's also the really precise and analytical type. That guy definitely knows his stuff, but I think he would also need to know the species. Heck, he might ask you for their height, weight, date of birth, what they last ate, what their blood type is, and all the other stuff you probably don't quite know. He's kind of funny for that."

"Well, I should wrap things up," Franny tells you. "My shift's almost over and I could really use some time at home for a while. I hope you find this guy. Sounds like he's nothing but trouble, really. But I'll see you around, Madder! Always nice to chat with someone friendly!"

She then heads off to finish up her last remaining tasks before clocking out.

Madder the Mimikyu (S: Ghost/Fairy)

Health: 4/4
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: Lockpick | Learned Abilities: Exorcism
Failed Assassinations: 0/2