Quote Originally Posted by HorusMyDude View Post
Nlqdr81.pngBest to learn about this new world. See what the willows say to the rocks.

Action One: Search Salvage Keep Library (45)

Nlqdr81.pngHopefully ah can find something interestin' here...

Action Two: Search Salvage Keep Library Upper Levels (45a)
Salvage Keep Library--a place you imagine is a trove of knowledge waiting to be explored. As you stand outside the great doors of the library, you wonder exactly what can be found inside. You also note that the entryway looks like it was built one way when it was initially constructed, and then changed to accommodate larger pokémon. You count yourself luck this is the case--otherwise you might not have fit in and would need to discover other, more forceful methods of entering. Old Lace has plenty of punching power even after all these years.

Wearing confidence on your bulged chest, you saunter through the entrance to the library, coming immediately into a small foyer which you pass through to make it to the main library sector. Even though the entrance was widened, the rest of the library seems to have retained its small pokémon-friendly arrangement. Each row between the many book shelves looks tight, but you're confident that you'll be able to fit anyway. After all, you're going to be spending quite a bit of time here looking through books, shelves, under the occasional rug, and testing all potentially loose floorboards. It's quite the task, but a task that Old Lace can handle.

After hours of searching the interior, you're just about ready to give up. You realise it's possible that you might not find anything at all, but you have a feeling that you just need to keep looking. So, you shift your focus elsewhere--outside. You excuse yourself from the library, tipping your cowboy hat lightly to the haunter librarian, who watches you silently. You aren't sure if he had been watching you with awe, fear or suspicion, but right now it didn't really matter anyway.

As soon as you get outside, you notice that at the far reaches of the property, there is a cluster of trees that appears rather out of place. Narrowing your compound eyes, you power towards the trees, eager to discover their secrets. Once you arrive there, you practically knock them over as you push past them, finding a poorly-camouflaged shack of some kind. You throw the branches and large leaves aside and begin to inspect the shack for any weakness or way in. To your shock, you don't find any. So, Old Lace does what Old Lace was made for: punch the shack.

Your massive fists collide with the outer wall, but your fingers crumple under the force and pain pulses through your hand. You are in disbelief as you try punching again and again, and attempt anything else you think might be useful. However, the shack is simply unbreakable, which baffles you. There haven't been many things you couldn't solve with your muscles, but this is one of those rare cases. You do, however, note a speaker mounted near the lip of the roof, which sits even above your towering form. You wonder if this is part of the equation to getting inside, although there's nothing you can really do at this stage.

{Impenetrable Shack: Mounted Speaker} was added to the Team Records.

Figuring that you've done all you can here, you flit back to the library to commence searching its upper floors.


Old Lace the Buzzwole (L: Bug/Fighting)
Health: 12/12 | Sanity: 8/8 | Purity: 8/8
Battle Stance: Fight
Perk: Diplomacy



Back in the library, you head straight up to the next floor, and begin scouring the carpets, hanging paintings, books, shelves, and everything in between. The librarian eyeballs you from the bottom floor, almost concerned that you have returned. However, you're careful not to annoy him by putting every book back in their appropriate place, and ensuring that you don't make a huge mess.

You continue onto the third floor, which is the top one. There's a set of stairs that takes you to the topmost level, which is only one small reading area, and only after entering this spot do you smell something absolutely rank. You follow your proboscis to the source, eventually finding some kind of fleshy lump behind one of the shelves sitting up against the wall. You move the shelf and grab it, only to realise you're holding a black-furred tail. A real tail that once belonged to a pokémon.

[Severed Tail] was added to the Team Inventory.

You nearly drop it in disgust, but keep your hold. It is absolutely vile, yet you can sense somewhere within you that this has relation to a Stalker somehow. You therefore leave with it in your hands, careful to shield it from the prying eyes of the haunter.


Old Lace the Buzzwole (L: Bug/Fighting)
Health: 12/12 | Sanity: 8/8 | Purity: 8/8
Battle Stance: Fight
Perk: Diplomacy