Quote Originally Posted by Shruikan View Post
I'll search (30) Jayberry School this time. Hopefully there won't be any half finished dark rituals there.
Seemingly isolated away from most of the other town activity, Jayberry School doesn't seem at all like the welcoming place children should be going to learn. Attendance is low and you can tell the situation with the Stalkers hasn't helped with that either. In the meantime, you can see that the school is closed and even though they have plenty of room to grow, it's something that's likely not going to happen. It seems as though it was an attempt to make Southwarren more family-friendly and not just an industrial hub, but it doesn't seem like that attempt worked out.

As you approach the building, you can tell it's barely a few years old and was likely built when Stalkers weren't such a problem here. Now, not only is registered attendance low, but the school has been closed for a while.

You decide to search around the exterior first. In truth, if things had been under better circumstances, you figure a school like this might have been a bit more successful, but now it just sits idly and unused. You begin to think it might even be stuck that way for a few years even if the Stalkers were to be removed, but for now, it's quiet and as still as a graveyard.

You search around the exterior doesn't reveal much, but it's better than what you saw at the library last night. You then head into the inside, where it seems like things are nicely in order and classes could have started this morning, but there's nothing. The halls are quiet, the lights are off, the desks are empty, and no one is around.

The classrooms also look like they overcompensated as well. There's at least six classrooms with desks and stations for two-dozen Pokémon students, and they're all empty. When you get to the sixth classroom, it seems it's the same story until there's something about one of the desks in the back. Out of all the desks you've seen, they were perfectly fine except for this one.

There's a puddle of blood on the surface. It seems a bit old and dried, but when you approach it and take a closer look, you see there's some kind of nail jutting right in the center of it. When you zero in on it, you see there's a word etched into the metal nail and suddenly it sounds like it's screa̸̷̠̝̯̱͈̍͌͗̿̃͊̃͗͊̾͛̍̈́̀͞͠ͅming in yǫ̶̴̬̳̹͚̳͙͓̹̖̜̻̋͋̊̄ͪ͆ͯͩ̀͜ur mind.

D̠͎̘̖͕̹A̴̝ͩͣ̚M̨͇̦̫̹͔ͅN͕̮̩̬̹ͣ͆̾̿ͩ̿A̺͍̘̟͍͚̯͞T̀̌ͭ̓Iͮ̈́ ̟̯̦̞̠͛ͨ͆̈̀O̬̟̳̒ͣ́̂͊̓̈ͅN̋̌̍


There's Stalker presence all around it. You decide to take the nail and it almost ma̸̷̠̝̯̱͈̍͌͗̿̃͊̃͗͊̾͛̍̈́̀͞͠ͅkes yǫ̶̴̬̳̹͚̳͙͓̹̖̜̻̋͋̊̄ͪ͆ͯͩ̀͜u ga̸̷̠̝̯̱͈̍͌͗̿̃͊̃͗͊̾͛̍̈́̀͞͠ͅg.

Hope has suffered 1 Damage to Sanity.

Item [Damnation Nail] #Hellish Presence# (1 Sanity Damage) has been added to the Team Inventory.

You figure you probably spoke too soon. This is not much better than what you dealt with last night after all...

Hope the Alolan Vulpix (S: Ice)
Health: 4/4
Sanity: 3/4
Perk: First Aid | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2