Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 4]

[Suicune's Fire]

I'd like to investigate Murder Scene #2: Scholars Guild

You volunteer to investigate the crime scene, understanding that it will likely be a gruesome experience. However, you know it must be done, so you head down the Scholars Guild shortly before sunrise to examine the area.

You come upon the scene, noting that the body has been covered with a sheet of some kind by someone who had been notified of the victim's presence earlier than you and your companions. You are partially thankful for that, and turn your attention to the place at which it happened, bracing yourself for the worst. The area is thankfully completely empty due to the absence of daylight, and you quietly duck around, checking walls and the ground.

Although you do not find any material traces of a Stalker presence here, you soon come across a disturbing message scrawled on one of the side walls. There is blood splatter to go with it, confirming your theory that only the killer - the Stalker - could have done this.

=Bloody Wall Declaration= was noted in the Team Records.

You feel shivers down your spine as your yellow spikes stand on end. Whoever wrote this sounds delusional. However, you do not expect the Stalkers to make sense anyway...

After you are certain there is nothing more to find, you pass the cloth-covered body, whose stench you can easily pick up even from a distance, and hurry back to the clubhouse to report your findings before you head out again.

[Suicune's Fire]

"Ah, good, the tower's being returned to its former glory. I'll check in with darling Vex in a moment... first, we make sure nothing's settled into the rooms."

Search Floors 1 and 2 of Trinket Tower, taking anything not nailed down as my own making sure at least that much is proper. If there's still time, check in with my darling Vex and the medic Timpani to tell them the tower's clearing up, just be careful.

You head back to Trinket Tower, determined to scour its every floor and ensure that the shadowy corruption is gone, but also that there is nothing further that is dangerous. It's not just any task that any old pokémon could do; no, this was a job for Nicklefool himself.

The first hours or so yields, to your disappointment, nothing. Eventually you manage to gather enough splinters to make it seem worthwhile, but you are substantially disappointed not to have found anything else.

Added $23 SP$ to Nickelfool's Inventory.

It's not until partway through the second floor that you begin to sense something unsettling. It's a strange gut feeling that takes a hold of you and makes simultaneously repels and draws you in. The feeling is something you want to find the source for, and something you wish never to investigate. Your curiosity wins out, combined with your sense of duty, and you come to the apartment in question, slowly opening the door.

The interior is plain, and you quickly realise that it is uninhabited. It looks like it is set up like a display home, and you wonder if this is the apartment commonly shown to those who wish to tour the building and see a sample apartment. However, it also contains a secret that you plan to unlock, and you quickly get to work. It's not long before you open a wardrobe and see a small object resting on the bottom. You stare at it for a moment, recognising it as a purple bow tie. You wait another moment and determine for certain that this is the thing that the shadowy aura is emanating from, and reach down to pick it up. As soon as you touch it, short, thorny vines extend from its ribbon and embed themselves into your wrist, draining your strength and piercing your skin.

Nicklefool the Mr. Mime suffers 3 points of Grass-type damage to Health.

You shout, swatting the vines as hard as you can, and watch as they retract into the bow tie. You wait a moment, sure that it won't strike again, and give it a small squeeze in your palm. It does nothing further, so you sneer at it and shove it into your small carry bag. It is a strange item to find associated with the Stalkers, but you are already aware that they don't care too much for sense. At least you weren't too badly hurt.

[#Bow Tie of Suffocation# 3H DMG, Grass] was added to the Team Inventory

Confident that you have searched everywhere you can, you spend a little extra time searching for either Timpani or Vex, hoping they might be in the building, but find no sign of either. You figure that they are probably busy elsewhere. You may not have caught them here now, but you're sure you'll see them again at some point.


Nicholas "Nicklefool" Foligan the Mr. Mime (M: Psychic/Fairy)

Health: 7/10| Sanity: 8/8 | Purity: 6/10
Battle Stance: Fight
Perk: Diplomacy
Trait: Charming