Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 5]

[Neo Emolga]

OOC: Aurorawatch may not be interested, but I sure am!

Nia readied her equipment to do some sightseeing. Search (41) Canopy Art Museum (ABANDONED)!

You decide to head out tonight to see what’s the story with the Canopy Art Museum. While Aurorawatch doesn’t see any survivability utility in it, you still feel there might be something there that could be useful or shed some more light on what’s going on with the Stalkers.

You walk your way through the Northern Reach toward the eastern side, and eventually you find the square-shaped, dark-brown building. It seems the building is quite old and a lot of the fanciful architectural features like columns and molding trims have gotten worn down over time.

You start your search around the exterior, using the last bits of daylight you can before the night claims them into the shadows. Most of the alleyways seem to be empty, however. Meanwhile, you take note that the building has taken considerable damage, which is a shame considering you imagine it might have had historical status due to the age of the building. Thankfully it doesn’t seem to be at risk of collapsing, but you feel it’s likely some of this damage can’t be repaired without removing and replacing large portions of the old structure.

You don’t seem to find much outside besides old bits of trash, so you decide to head inside, using a flashlight to illuminate the dark recesses of the museum. The old halls are very vacant and open, and as you walk, every footstep echoes throughout the open areas, giving you that eerie feeling that someone is in here with you. Sometimes you stop to make sure that the footsteps that you’re hearing are only yours and not someone else’s…

As you browse through the galleries and displays, it’s a hard sight for any art lover. A lot of the paintings have fallen down onto the floor, statues have toppled over onto the marble tiled floor and have taken significant damage, and models have fallen off their mounts and crashed to the floor in pieces, all because of the earthquakes shaking and rattling everything in the museum. However, a few art pieces are still intact and have managed to stay on the walls or remain on their display mounts, some of which only just got a bit lopsided or skewed.

The artwork itself appears in many different mediums, include oil paintings and watercolors while others are stone or wood carvings. And the subject matter is all across the board from nature scenes, architecture, recreated scenes from history and famous battles, and other similar subject matters.

Another section of the museum is dedicated to archaeological finds of ancient pottery, tools, artifacts, and murals from long ago. Sadly, many of these have been damaged from the earthquakes as well. Often you find the floor bathed with broken fragments of these artifacts along with pieces of whatever glass display cases were holding them. You carefully watch your step as you navigate your way through the galleries, taking care that your white furred feet don’t press down hard on a jagged fragment of glass.

You find one display case that looks like it fell over and broke apart rather recently. One of the items you find that fell out appears to be a protective locket made out of a whitish metal that doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before. It looks like it opened up, revealing an otherworldly ethereal essence in the form of a glowing white misty sphere that emits an illuminating smoke-like haze. You imagine whoever found this locket and sold it to the museum probably didn’t realize there was this ethereal presence inside, and now here you are, finding it thousands of years later.

You approach it and it radiates with a fiery passion of purity. You look over the locket and you wonder… did someone mistake this as a relic from ancient civilization when really it seems to be… from Utopia? It bears similar artisan qualities and features akin to some of the other Utopian relics you’ve seen recovered back at the emissary base.

You touch the fiery essence with your paw, and suddenly it absorbs into your very soul, and you quickly feel a refreshing and invigorating wave of empowerment flush over you.

Nia has equipped the [|UA| Soulfire Fury] (25% chance of dealing double damage each time a successful strike is made) Utopian Aspect.

You keep searching, though the feeling of equipping a Utopian Aspect is unlike anything you’ve felt and experienced before.

The modern art section of the museum seems to be a bit more intact with less destruction caused by the earthquakes. But as you enter, something feels wrong. Certain pieces are bathed in greasy dark-brown filth in ways that don’t seem like they were caused by the earthquakes, and they don’t seem at all like what the artist originally intended. Meanwhile, the smell is horrible and you’re quite certain you’ve never experienced a scent this ungodly.

You quickly get on your guard when you recognize the dark, tainted aura of the Stalkers. You approach one of the smaller rooms, and suddenly you see something twisted and entirely unnatural on the opposing stone wall…



=Kammo Wall Jingle= has been noted in the Team Records.

It reads like a deranged nursery rhyme scribbled with graffiti while the wall has been soiled with some grotesque and foul-smelling ichor. You’re not sure who this “Kammo” is or what dark and macabre folklore this Banette might be from, but something about the name makes you feel uneasy…

Meanwhile, in the center of the room, there is only a single display on a stone pillar mount. It looks to be a pure white egg, devoid of any color or features that suggest what unborn baby Pokémon would be inside. And somehow it’s the only art piece in this entire gallery area that’s avoided being splattered with the foul-smelling filth. You look it over and it seems to have a hole on one side, and as you look down, you see there was a metal plaque here that was supposed to have a description of the piece with the artist’s name, but many of the letters have been violently dug out.

The only ones that remain spell out something very ominous:

AboRt tHE UNboRN ChiLD

{The Unborn Child Egg: Abortion Deed} has been noted in the Team Records.

All around it, there reeks a presence of the Stalkers. You’re not sure what exactly this dark abortion deed entails, but it seems like it has something to do with the hole. You get the idea that likely something vile needs to be driven into it to perform the “abortion”, but you don’t want to imagine what happens next after such a thing is done…

After getting out of there, you search throughout the remainder of the museum, but you don’t find anything else that significantly stands out besides more art pieces that either survived or were ruined from the earthquakes.

You decide to head back to base, still wondering and feeling uneasy about that egg…

Nia the Alolan Vulpix (S: Ice)

Health: 16/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24
Battle Stance: Tactical
Perk: Medicine | Abilities:
EQUIPMENT:
Attack Weapon: [|AW| Military Dagger] (Adds 1d4 damage to successful attack rolls)
Defense Armor: [|DA| Riot Bracers] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 1 point each time Health damage is taken)
Jewelry: [|JY| Amethyst Bracer] (Reduces incoming Sanity damage by 2 points each time Sanity damage is taken, Revives player and breaks upon Death)
Utopian Aspect: [|UA| Soulfire Fury] (25% chance of dealing double damage each time a successful strike is made)
MERCENARIES:
#1: <Empty>
#2: <Empty>
PACK:

• $146 Sochas$
• Spelon Berry (Restores all Sanity)