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

[Neo Emolga]

This time I'll search (41) Anclyne Public Library
To rescue the books

You decide to head to the western side of town and check out the Anclyne Public Library, which seems extra creepy considering it's been abandoned for a while. The outside of the brown-stone building has seen much better days, also. It looks like it's slowly falling apart and you feel in a few more years, the parts of it might even start collapsing.

You search around the outside and you have a bad feeling about this place's mold issues and maybe this is the real reason why no one goes here anymore. Some kind of strange, foreign fungus that's like foam in shape and texture and has a light brown color has been eating away at the outside woodwork. And after looking at how it has grown around the building, you have a feeling it likely only gets much worse inside. Besides age and being victim to the elements, you don't really find anything significant about the outside.

You head inside and you realize your mission to save the books might be too late. The moldy foam fungus has swarmed over entire shelves of books and is all over the walls and ceiling, creating a musky, foul-smelling odor. You estimate only about 10% of the books haven't been at least somewhat eaten away by the fungus. While some shelves just have a little bit, there are a few that don't even look like bookshelves anymore and look like they've been completely coated by large mounds of it.

The only areas of the library that haven't been affected yet seem to only be for references and a small portion of the nonfiction area that seems to only cover law, taxation, and politics. Even after just flipping through a few pages of one of these books, you're pretty much convinced this dry and boring material for reading might as well be fungus food anyway.

You almost give up finding anything of value in this place before coming to one area that looks like someone actually might have been here recently. There are some areas where it looks like something just outright sucked the life out of the fungus and killed it, leaving blackened, dead, powdery remnants of it that almost look like soot. You follow these trails before they take you to what looks like some office room that was being eaten away by the fungus before whatever did this wave of death came along. You find the wooden door nearly crumbled away like peanut brittle and has already fallen off its hinges. You step inside and what you see next shocks you a bit.

It seems to be a stone altar with what looks like a Grumpig lying on his back. But something seems horribly wrong. It almost looks like the Grumpig is supposed to be some kind of sacrificial victim. At first, you almost think of trying to free him from the chains that are holding him down, but then when you look closer...

...you realize he's not normal. Parts of his flesh are missing and even the bones are showing in places. There's also dark ritual markings on his chest, indicating the parts that are supposed to be lacerated with something noted to be the "Dagger of Blood" to cause as much bleeding as possible. But you find no trace of any sacrificial dagger anywhere.

The Grumpig suddenly jolts and becomes awake, kicking and jerking violently and feverishly while squealing with a grizzly and macabre wail. It almost seems like something, maybe even the fungus, has rendered him into some zombie-like state. His eyes are completely cloudy and white while he quickly begins foaming at the mouth like some kind of rabid animal.

Objective {Unfinished Sacrifice: Ritual of Blood} has been noted in the Team Records.

You decide to leave before someone hears the squealing. It seems as though you're not sure where this Dagger of Blood is... or even you're even ready to use it quite yet...

Hope the Alolan Vulpix (S: Ice)

Health: 4/4
Sanity: 4/4
Perk: First Aid | Learned Abilities: Rescue/Escape
Failed Assassinations: 0/2