Stalkers RPG General Chat Thread (Emissary Clubhouse)

**Neo Emolga** · 09-18-2019, 11:33 PM

Hey, just as a heads up, there's only about a day (25 hours) left to make your actions, so to anyone that still hasn't declared theirs, don't wait too much longer!

**Lychee** · 09-19-2019, 02:53 AM

Alright!

Just in case anyone logs in during the next 24 hours and hasn't decided on a thing to do and doesn't know what is most useful, here is a suggestion list! I'm not sure what everyone wants to do most, so I'll write a few options. Its just a quick suggestion, you can do whateverrrrrr (I just know that work and school can mean you don't have time to read posts and stay up to date).

Suspicious places we haven't searched, if anyone wants to do that

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@Chakramaster
Sparkstrike
- Use Medicine Perk on the Shivering Mudbray at the graveyard
- Interview Aliema the Helioptile (only available in the day) about why she's skipping work

@Scytherwolf
Carly
- Interview.. Rachta? (Your bonuses might cancel out? her parents are dead so she lives with miyanta and she has found an interesting thing recently that we should probably get off her)
- Put all 3 collected medallions into that horrible chest?

@HorusMyDude
Old Lace
- Diplomacy on vertriss, fjord, or Pakson who runs Rusty Shine (we don't know much about them, and nobody really has a typing for them)
- Do a rescue mission for Jasper, or beat up Vye?

@Arrow-Jolteon
Arrow
- Interview Samba the pompom oricorio? (they don't seem very nice, but do seem dramatic!)
- Probably best to go searching since you're nimble and likely to take less damage from traps tbh

@sammy0295
Sam
- You could heal the Shivering Mudbray in the graveyard if nobody has decided to do that yet!
- Interview Yurtag the Palpitoed? (he shouldn't be supereffective if he decided to battle, and hes a big suspect for being a stalker)

@Dragon Master Mike
Verde
- Diplomacy on anyone! There are a lot of characters we haven't yet interviewed. Sansheel the poliwhirl might be uncompliant because unsavory people visit his house.
- Take the completed holy infuser and other utopian items to Sasha, and see if she can give us instructions!

@arnisd
Brass
- Interview Orolaph the Magby or Rallodin the Quilava (I think they both live at Rusty Shine units, so they can tell us more about that too)
- Or go and learn/use scavenge from Sebbit to find us some iron ingots to make a restraint cage for orin

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**Truly** · 09-19-2019, 03:18 AM

Ok yes, it may not exist. But even if it doesn't, we get more info and possible leads at the same time, while your plan may be concrete, it is also far less likely to be useful. Have you ever heard the term "calculated risk"?

I mean, feel free. But we have leads, there's no need to shotgun the suspect list if we only have a couple of players actually coordinating. In other words, I believe focused questioning and searching are going to give us better a outcome, while players not coordinating with us are wildcards that may conveniently turn up more leads.

So to reiterate: Go ahead and interview NPCs! That's fine and great. But let's not make the selections completely at random, when we do have leads on who is acting weird, who is being disruptive, and outside of that some guesses as to who may be a Stalker, or Stalker-adjacent. Oh! And I think Dimfred has a side-mission for us.

Also, if you have suspicions, why aren't you questioning them instead then? Or you know, bringing them up more frequently so people with better typing can?

I only get one action in a day, too (despite my attempts to cram three actions into a single phase). Plus, I've been bringing up Sebbit since traits went out. I brought up the Rusty Shine Apartments and the graffiti there several times. In the end, I'm the one to do both, because the people who would be better for the job aren't.

And I did bring up, "hey look at my other thread" but got no engagement there. When people come here and ask, "what should I do?" I do my best to give them a speedy, useful answer.

I am bringing them up repeatedly, and I am then questioning/searching them myself. People either aren't hearing me, or disagree with me, but if they don't come to this thread and talk about it, I won't know which is it.

Your're thinking too short term. Those traits last the whole game. They will be the same use if we unlock scavenging in two turns as if we unlock it now but don't use it for two turns.

Sure, but we need iron ingots now.

The people who took that trait could have taken a trait more in-line with their perk. Morzone is driving me nuts, 'cause he took Diplomacy and then Resourceful -- and has stopped using either.

So I'm really happy with Noble because Investigating is potentially going to get us lucky and she's stacked everything in her favor to be really good at it. Daniel has a character thing going on where he's at war with the avatar of corruption, Nega-Umbreon. And Lillian has gone from Diplomacy -- that is, using her ability-- to being the battle bunny, after a couple of conversations went sour. Yris and Old Lace have similar niches, & are being helpful and productive.

So I'd really like to see, say:
-Lita setting up a Clairvoyance factory to sus items and then Nicklefool going out to charm them away from NPCs.
-Or maybe 4 or 5 people using Investigate to track the same suspects EVERY. DAY. because they seem to make kills one at a time in rotation, and we'd need to do it like 7 times to catch a specific Stalker in the act. Set up a Seer's guild!
-Everybody else either searching the Rusty Shine units or questioning the Pokemon who live there. Did you know all in-game kills except one have been Rusty Shiners? That one of the units smells like a rotting corpse? I'm pretty sure Aliema is going to show up as a robot without a brain, and either fight or lead the Emissaries to Marisha's workshop... again.

[Edit: Oops, Lychee beat me to it!]

**Arrow-Jolteon** · 09-19-2019, 03:30 AM

Originally Posted by Lychee

Arrow
- Interview Samba the pompom oricorio? (they don't seem very nice, but do seem dramatic!)
- Probably best to go searching since you're nimble and likely to take less damage from traps tbh

Okay! Will do. I can't think of anything else, tbh, so I'm fine with these suggestions. Will try interviewing Samba first and then head out on a search.

**Scytherwolf** · 09-19-2019, 04:45 AM

I'll do the interview first.

**Shruikan** · 09-19-2019, 07:36 AM

OK, I've gone for healing the Mudbray instead of the interview, partially because I feel I will need to heal the rest of the team tonight instead...

**Neo Emolga** · 09-21-2019, 04:37 AM

Congrats on unlocking all of the Actions, guys!

Also, yeah, while Exorcism may have been an ability in previous seasons of Stalkers, it isn't in action in Season 4 after all. What you see is what you need to work with. There aren't any secret or extra unlockable hidden abilities or actions that aren't covered in the rules.

**Suicune's Fire** · 09-21-2019, 11:06 PM

*crawls out of whatever dingy hole I've been stuck in this whole week*

Eyyy guys, what's crackin'? XD

Yeah so basically work has been insane. xD It's going to be like this until the end of September, but after that, things will settle down a bit. Sooooo hopefully I'll be able to return and do some posts then, rather than be completely MIA like I have been. Huge thank-you to @Neo Emolga for keeping this going. ^v^ I'll be able to do some posts today...finally. xD

Hope you are all well and having fun!

**Morzone** · 09-22-2019, 01:01 AM

Hey @Bulbasaur and @Scytherwolf

You both have an adrenaline orb in your personal inventory, and one of our side-quests is to deliver one. We get splinters for it but also blueprints for some special gemstone which I'm curious about. Next time either of you have a chance, just keep in mind its an easy -and safe- thing to go and complete.