Stalkers RPG Season 5 General Chat Thread (Emissary Hideout - The Abandoned Steel Mill)

[Lychee]

OOC: Its certainly right, but sometimes these puzzles can be solved in multiple ways! Unless Neo is really good at sudoku design, you probably had to make a few logic assumptions to fill it all in, and therefore maybe at one of those you had to go in a different direction? It looks possible to switch number positions... So perhaps when we get the 3rd piece it won't match up with what you've done in those squares and it'll be more clear which numbers need swapping?

Also! We are beginning to get a bit of inventory stash happening in some characters and not in others-- does Lita want to give her spare bow to another pokemon to use? Do people want to use their own money to buy berries to heal themselves, or do our healers want to use up their turns doing it for free? I dont mind either way, just from a teamwork perspective it's good to figure it out!

[Chibi Altaria]

OOC: Yeah, I considered the possibility that there may be more than one way to solve it. Well, can only find out when we get the other piece! I gave it the good ol' college try. xD

And yeah! I was going to ask Emerald the other day but I forgot cause homework. It would be a good idea to hand out some weapons to those who don't have any.

@Ho-Oh I noticed you sustained a bit of damage, I can get Nia to heal you for the night cycle if you want? It just means that I can't act that turn.

[Neo Emolga]

OOC: Yeah, I considered the possibility that there may be more than one way to solve it. Well, can only find out when we get the other piece! I gave it the good ol' college try. xD

And yeah! I was going to ask Emerald the other day but I forgot cause homework. It would be a good idea to hand out some weapons to those who don't have any.

@Ho-Oh I noticed you sustained a bit of damage, I can get Nia to heal you for the night cycle if you want? It just means that I can't act that turn.

Yeah, I had to edit that last post for Ho-oh a bit.

The first time I did it, I was in a bit of a rush and I realized I totally miscalculated something, but had it been right, it still would have been seriously unfair anyway (bad luck is normal, but this would have been just outright wrong). So it may read a tiny bit differently.

But if you want the juicy details of what changed behind the scenes...

Spoiler:

Scared gets hit with an Electric attack, not a Rock one. My mistake was thinking Rock would have done triple damage to him (I had a long day XD), but nooo, it does 4x the damage to a Flying/Fire type, which would have been 20 Health Damage and 20 Sanity Damage, which would have been enough Sanity damage to kill him in one shot! That, to me, just seemed like a ridiculous amount of fatal damage in one regular trap that offered next to no way to prepare in advance, so I changed it to something that sure, isn't nice at all, but isn't just grotesquely unfair like how it would have been before.

So there you have it.

[AD]

Thank you, but you don't need to heal me. Save your action for the important voyage of the mansion that is going to kill us.

[Chibi Altaria]

Nia wobbled into the base, paws scuffling against the floor. She was beginning to feel the after effects of her encounter with the OMEN (mainly due to it being her first real battle against them), but otherwise unharmed. She let out a small sigh of relief. The mission had gone better than expected, thankfully she had her quick wits and type advantage on her side.

Okay... Nia inspected her spoils fully for the first time. I have a new dagger now, so I may want to hand the rogue's dagger to someone else who needs it. Sochas, a spelon berry, basic riot bracers and an amethyst bracer...this seems like it could be very useful. The alolan Vulpix gently rubbed the inlaid amethyst gem with a paw.

Now I guess I'll wait for everyone to return so I can tell them about the building. Maybe Misty can help inspect the lower level. I should also talk to Sacred, or Flare, and Lita and Lycellus have expertise in security that could be useful for those locks.

[EmeraldSky]

@Chibi Altaria

Lita equips the Combat Bow. "You need me to inspect a lock? I'd be happy to check out the TV station ruins if I had help--just in case I run into the same freaks you did."

[Chibi Altaria]

@EmeraldSky

Oh, Lita! Nia smiled at the Pikachu. Yes, I just returned from investigating the Broadcasting Offices. The lower level is submerged, but there is a locked storage supply and equipment hold on the upper levels. I'm afraid that isn't my area of expertise, but I bet you could do it! You might find something useful and the equipment could help Crez!

Nia raised a paw to her muzzle. You're right, though, you should take someone as backup. Those OMEN guys are nasty, I just happened to be lucky that time.

[EmeraldSky]

@Chibi Altaria

I would appreciate some melee support, just in case.

[Syrax the Espeon]

Hello again, I hope you’ve all been well. I wanted to present an offer to you.

Recently, I have been studying to advance my skills and experience with Clairvoyance. It’s one thing to be able to build upon this as a psychic Pokémon, but I’ve been trying to learn the methods needed to pass on these skills to other Pokémon, even ones that aren’t psychic like myself.

At the same time, I have been trying to gain a better understanding of what sort of darkness defines these Stalkers and what traits resonate with relics of Utopia. As I’ve realized, you Emissaries are special, able to pick up on these auras while normal Pokémon cannot detect them, often to their own demise when they stumble upon these evil relics these Enthrallers have been leaving behind.

I believe I may have discerned a method to pass my experience with Clairvoyance down to you as well. It’s a skill that took me a few years to learn, but I believe I can pass down the essentials to you when it comes to learning the connections and linkages behind some of these relics you’ve been finding.

Tried as I might, but I still haven’t been able to teach normal Pokémon these skills. My last apprentice, a young Sealeo named Rajan, simply just couldn’t learn it without having necessary psychic capabilities. It was hard to see how much it frustrated him, but I realized it just wasn’t meant to be.

Even among psychic Pokémon, this skill would take me roughly four months to teach them, and I'm afraid we don't have too much time to be able to do such things.

However, what Emissaries possess is a similar but different kind of power. This power is a kind of mystical intuition that no other Pokémon have, and it resonates in alignment with psychic Pokémon powers and their connection to the ley lines. When I realized this, I discovered ways I could teach you what I know in Clairvoyance in a way that can be quick, using the traits and aspects that only Emissaries have.

Let me know if you’d like to learn this skill from me. I have used to quite a few times to discern what’s the right direction to take to seek the answers. Just note that while Clairvoyance can be a very powerful tool, it can only show you the path you need to take to find the answers you seek. You will need to be the one that goes down that path…

Best of luck in all your endeavors. You have my support.

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52. Syrax the Espeon has been recognized as a teacher of Clairvoyance!

[Shruikan]

Lycellus craned their neck down to look at Lita. "I can go along with you if you'd like? Assuming I'm not needed elsewhere that is... Either way, how about you take my armour with you for extra protection? You're a lot squishier so you need the extra defence more."