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

[AgloMe Oen]

Whoops, forgot someone else laid claim to suicidal delivery! Hmmm... Guess I can learn Restrain from the Scyther, since Briteria's a Night 'Mon.

EDIT: Actually, if it's not too much of a bother, I'd like to deliver the Flame and Insignia to Nhils' hideout. Leaving Bless back at base, in that case- it's WAY too dark in there for her. I unmask this blacksmith poser alone.

Yeah, let's leave Bless behind because well, she's DEAD. We need to be very concerned about her safety when she's like that, don't we? Ha, ha, ha!

So you strut your way toward the pretentious Rubinelle Condominiums and find the blasted door that looks like a bunch of six-year-old delinquent children spent all afternoon throwing hand grenades at this thing.

So you head over to the door and you whip out the Blacksmith Insignia Locket and the Contained Purple Flame. First, you dump the freaky fire into the canister and that thing lights up. Next, you ram the insignia of the locket into that weird locking mechanism and finally, that actually gets this stupid thing open.

Item [Blacksmith Insignia Locket] has been removed from the Team Inventory.
Item [Contained Purple Flame] has been removed from the Team Inventory.

You push it open and...!

#Inferno Flamethrower: Fire# Trap 20+50% Evasion Test: 83 out of 100: Successful!

You SHUT IT LIKE CRAZY FAST BECAUSE SUDDENLY... fire. Fire just everywhere. Ooh, so that explains the blast marks! And the charred skeleton by the corner! Looks like it used to be a Chikorita, but who can really tell? Seeing as how you're a Steel type, that REALLY would have killed you extra killy like if that gotcha. Oh, spoiler alert. Bless would have been just fine because, well, I'm not sure you noticed, but she's like kinda dead already.

Once you hear the fire shut off, you open the door again and proceed carefully all paranoid-like. It definitely seems like Nhils definitely didn't want anyone to come in here even if their stuff was stolen, and who can blame them? So when you go in because you don't care what Nhils thinks, you proceed with your farm-fresh paranoia and watch for any extra booby traps. Turns out, even just opening the door too wide will trigger that FLAMETHROWER that will turn anyone into a extra crispy critter. You head inside and the concrete chamber is definitely not at all like the rest of the building. You're wondering if you're even in the same town at this point!

You decide to be a good chap and disarm the flamethrower, just because it would make you look bad if someone else came in here and got fried when you could have stopped that!

The #Infernal Flamethrower# trap has been removed. Though it would have been funny if you left it on!

It opens into a large, circular room where the lights are really kind of dim, but surrounding the freaky, stone room are many pedestals along the ledge. On these pedestals, you find portraits of famous, renown Blacksmiths. The True Blacksmiths. The real innovators, like Noram the Mienshao, Zame the Ledian, and many others that actually knew what they were doing and weren't wasting all their time online! It seems whoever set this place up really just obsessed over these guys!

All of the frames are filled like this was some kind of private obsession museum. All except one! You take a closer look at it and you see both the picture frame has nothing on it and the plaque has nobody's name. Instead, you find a sticky note with "you'll never be like the others" on it. You rip it off to take a closer look and...!

#Mental Breakdown# Trap 20+50% Evasion Test: 70 out of 100: Successful!

COME ON! You're not making this any fun! D:

Well, turns out, that was rigged too but you're all sneaky snake and you figure it out before it lands on your finger. You get a sudden vision about what's actually going on here, but it doesn't last long enough to eat your mind like children nabbing popcorn at the movies.

It's Ferghus. Ferghus the Machoke, frustrated because he actually resorted to getting Nhils help him become one of the best Blacksmiths ever. Well, he kind of did, kind of didn't. It's like beating the world record when you cheated. And cheated as in "you did something totally profane and deranged like use civilized Pokémon for material parts" kind of cheated! So how many celebrities and politicians does that remind you of? I can name at least a dozen!

And yet Nhils has been SCREWING with him this whole time, all while gutting up Southwarren and making this bloke's passion into a travesty! Well, he's screwed down now because Nhils isn't ever letting him walk away from this misery! Be sure to congratulate him and give him you best wishes the next time you bump into each other!

The Stalker "Nhils" has been identified as Ferghus the Machoke. You're welcome, I'm putting that service charge on your tab. And don't even think about not tipping me because I'll know.
The Team Records have been updated. Yadda yadda yadda.

You look closer and discover there's a secret door behind the wall here, but you already have a feeling you know what's there. All the hard work Nhils has been up to and you know, you feel you really don't need to see that crap like the bones of one poor fool used for toothpicks, ear wax removal, or whatever. You have your answers without losing your lunch over it!

You decide to head back since you decide doing something dinky like setting up a lemonade stand or doing a stand-up routine in this silly place wouldn't really be an effective use of your time.

Well, poop, I was hoping this would have been more exciting with some pain and suffering! I won't forget this, Rusty! You OWE me!

Rusty O'Toole the Lucario (M: Fighting/Steel)

Health: 5/5
Sanity: 4/4
Perk: Security | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2