Originally Posted by
Noblejanobii
Well I think I know where your first stop is going to be.
You bet! I knew as soon as I saw it I
had to stop there. I'm a big fan of Rosemary's work after all.
I'd like to
search the Shaymin Café please!
Certainly predicted this outcome, of course!
You make your way out of the steel mill Emissary Base and head out into the open air, feeling the solemn wind gust around you and powder the grass on your back with dust while the petals of your pink Gracidea flowers are caressed by the wind. If it weren’t for the tinge of heat, you think you might be feeling a chill from it all, especially considering the grave situation surrounding Exacta.
You trot through the dusty ground, heading eastward the Shaymin Café. Sadly, you’ve already heard the news that it’s been temporarily closed, but you figure Rosemary might appreciate someone checking up on the store to make sure nothing nefarious has befallen it.
After passing by the quiet and seemingly deathly still Exacta Railway Station, the Shaymin Café stands before you with its signature beige, brown, and forest green color motifs with Gracidea Flower decorations. Thankfully, you see that it doesn’t look like any harm has come to the building and none of the windows look like they’ve been broken from looters. On the other hand, the weedy vegetation surrounding the building has grown a lot and some of the walls look like they could use a good power wash. But you feel it wouldn’t take much cleanup and a bit of tidying up outside to make it look nice again. Still, as you look toward the Southern Reach and all its ruined buildings for just a brief moment, you quickly get reminded that it could have been much, much worse…
You start by searching around the exterior, finding that it seems to be mostly the grounds that have grown a bit unruly, but not too much refuse in terms of garbage and debris have rolled their way here. Still, something back by the large, green dumpster catches your eye, and you approach it to get a better look.
And then it hits you. You have a bit of a grimace as you sense the taint of the Stalkers. It seems to be a note of some kind, written on a piece of Floette stationary. However, the handwriting is creepy and the message itself appears to be a disturbing excerpt from some deranged diary…
=Huskpuppet Diary Entry 2= was noted in the Team Records.
You’re not sure who or what exactly Rugo, Kray, and Enra are, but you have the feeling this Huskpuppet is likely one of the Stalkers. It just radiates with that kind of demonic signature. You decide to just stash it away for now, and after doing one last check around the exterior, you don’t find anything else that appears to be unusual.
You make your back toward the entrance, hoping the situation on the inside is at least okay. As you press your paw against the forest-green door, it softly swings open, ringing a tiny brass bell hung by the doorframe to signal a customer just arrived.
You step inside and as expected, you’re the only one here and it seems all is quiet for the moment. While the interior and its décor still seem to be in good shape and follow the same Gracidea Flower theme all along the walls, you see three years of time has created a thin layer of dust that leaves the air with a musky odor to it, almost like an old library.
Inside, you get an idea of what must have transpired the last time any customers were here. With a few chairs hastily pushed aside, abandoned cups and drinks that have long evaporated, and a few loose personal belongings cast aside and never retrieved after all these years, it tells you the story. As soon as OMEN utterly devastated the Southern Reach, there was panic and pandemonium as patrons abandoned their drinks and sought safety and shelter, having no idea what had just transpired.
You look around, feeling a bit disheartened that Rosemary and the others, along with all the patrons that were here, had to deal with that, but at least you’re certain they survived. For now, you tell yourself that’s what you’re here for. Here to make things right, save Exacta, get the Café and the rest of Exacta back up again, and ensure nothing like this ever happens again.
You search among the discarded and abandoned items, packs, and other containers among the lost shawls, cloaks, and other attire. Here and there, you find a few coins in purses and pockets, and by the time you’ve gone through everything, it ends up being a sizable amount of sochas that you feel are bound to come in handy.
$145 Sochas$ were added to Noble’s Pack.
After investigating all around the tables, you head behind the counter where the waiter staff and baristas would be stationed. Things still seem to be in order, but you look up toward the syrup dispenser and the refrigerator and grimace a bit, knowing everything leftover in those pumps and in the fridge have long expired by now. Meanwhile, all the bakery items have long gone stale. Despite your yearning for a fresh chai latté or a caramel macchiato right now, you wouldn’t want to taste what it would be like with ingredients that died a while ago.
Something else, however, triggers your senses and strikes you as usual. For a second, you get the notion that someone else has been in here recently, but it doesn’t look like they were here for long. But who? Instead, you keep a keen eye and look for the signs. Disturbances in the dust. Signs of someone moving things aside. It soon strikes you that someone was here to hide something. When you follow the trail it takes you a strange, stone disc, tucked safely between the register and the counter. You’re a bit baffled, knowing if it weren’t for your senses, there was no way this would be found.
You slide out the stone disc, and you find what looks like an endless, immense gathering of stars and galaxies within the disc itself, as if it was holding the entire universe within it. You hold it in your white paws, brushing over it, trying to peer into its seemingly infinite vastness…
…Divinity…
Divinity? It suddenly makes you do a double take when you hear the whisper in your ear. Whatever it was, you’re almost sure this disc, whatever it is and is used for, has to be from some realm beyond. You take it with you, quite confident that it’s important.
[Celestial Configuration DIVINITY] was added to the Team Inventory.
After searching through the remainder of the work area, you head to the back office, which thankfully doesn’t look like too much chaos had befallen it. You find the area where Rosemary keeps all the records in order, including accounting records, employee information, recipe books, and some very memorable pictures of good times from the past. Smiling patrons, a silly holiday-themed Shaymin Shortcake that Chicory had designed, the first Socha the Café had received on opening day, and many other fond memories from times past.
Looking at orderly wooden desk that Rosemary used to use for office needs, you smile for a bit, grab a piece of paper, and take one of the nearby pencils from a pencil holder.
Dear Rosemary,
It’s your friend, Noble! I came by today to check up on things, though I’m hoping by the time you read this, things are hopefully a lot better in Exacta, everyone’s back, and you’re ready to open the Café again to serve everyone’s favorite latté and teas! I know things may look a little dismal right now and there’s a bit of cleanup and restocking to do, but you can do it and I believe this is just a little hurdle everyone has to go through before things return to normal and we can enjoy all those good times together again. This is all temporary and we can all get through this with some perseverance, some help from our friends and a little determination.
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but I know what it’s like, having to deal with day after day of trying to get through a pandemic that has changed so much about the way we do things now, how we interact and hang out with friends, and what we can do with our families. It hasn’t been easy and a lot of the things we used to enjoy were shut down, canceled, and we too were told to stay home and miss out on all the things we used to enjoy doing. But despite all that, we haven’t given up on each other and you shouldn’t either! We will see those times again, soon! We both have a great future to look forward to and we’ll both get there together! And when you finally are back up and running, I hope you always remember this every time you greet your customers with that special smile of yours. Once they see you and the Café are back, they’ll be back, too!
Be safe, but most of all, be happy and always be true to yourself.
Your Shaymin friend,
Noble
Once you finish and place the note where Rosemary will find it, you smile to yourself for just a brief moment and decide it’s time to go back home.
Noble the Shaymin (S: Grass)
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Sanity: 20/20 |
Purity: 24/24
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Perk: Seinaru |
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