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

[Neo Emolga]

Hey, I hope everyone is settling in very well!

Two things.

One, I made some extra clarifications on the Battling section. Battle Stance applies to Hostile Battles only, it doesn’t apply to Sparring Battles. In a Sparring Battle, your character will always fight until they hit 0 HP, but they will never be killed from a Sparring Battle if they lose. Just wanted to clarify that. These kinds of battles are mostly as side mission things or to possibly win free items from an NPC. You’ll see a note (Open for Sparring) next to the NPC’s name if they’re a Pokémon you can spar with.

Two, the other thing is with Money (Sochas), purchasing, and stores.

Before you can buy goods, you have to search around to see what kinds of stores are out there. Some are in pretty obvious spots, others are hidden. On the Main Action and Team Status thread (when it goes up on the 22nd), there will be a section for Exacta City Marketplace which will list all the discovered stores, their prices, and where they can be found.

When you buy things, you need to state what store you’re buying from, because two stores may sell the same thing, but one may be selling it for cheaper than another but involves going into a dangerous area while the other will not. And on that note, yes, if you shop in a dangerous area, you might run into some bad company, so you may want to bring shopping buddies along. The other note I’m adding is that you can only buy items during the Day Cycle. At night, all the stores are closed. In addition to that, if a vendor or merchant is killed by the Stalkers (or from another source), there is a chance it may completely close down their business entirely and you will no longer be able to buy from them again. Some stores are safe from that kind of treatment as they’re run by Pokémon not on the suspect list. Not many, though!

So yep, the rules have been updated with additional details that clarify these points, since they were kind of vague and missing before or were only implied.