Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 5]

[Neo Emolga]

Okay, Neo. You wanted this. You can't fool me. I know your game, flying squirrel. We are just tiny birds in a flock of bigger birds, waiting for the biggest bird (me) to come swoop down and scare away the bad birds trying to invade our bird kingdom. I know you. We are not pawns in this web of suffering, Neo. We shall not die here, Neo. I know. I’ve died a thousand deaths, Neo, each time reinventing myself brighter, stronger, and purer than before. From the midst of destruction, I became the creator of myself. From the midst of darkness, I became my own source of light. I am that light, Neo. I WILL BURN BRIGHT, NEO! TAKE ME TO THAT PLACE. I WANT THAT BEAUTIFUL SCENARIO. THE PLAN IS SIMPLE, BOYS. THIS IS THE CONTENT. IN THE NAME OF THE QUEEN, TEMPER US!


Okay, I promise i am not high lol
ANYWAY


Interview (52.) Syrax the Espeon.
LET'S MAKE THIS ESPEON'S EFFIN YEAR. even tho i kinda wanna investigate the place.

Interview Rapport: Due to special circumstances, the GM is overriding his own Rapport system and saying EXALTED AND WORSHIPPED BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS GOD for this one.
Because reasons. I make the rules. You also get to enjoy the honor of knowing you made Stalkers RPG history by getting Rapport this high. Also, you get the Supersized Jumbo Family Fun Pack of Intel tonight!

Having learned that an Espeon named Syrax still leads monthly masses at a church dedicated to you might be a good avenue for insight, you head there for the evening, wondering just how much Syrax knows and what he might be able to do to help. As his deity, you’re quite sure everything he knows will become presented before you.

As the night falls, you fly east toward the Hymn of Rebirth Cathedral. Despite the night sky of the Northern Reach seeming gloomy, you illuminate it with your rainbow trail and aura. Every flap of your giant wings generates a bounty of color and illumination as you begin your decent toward the cathedral, which depicts you, Ho-oh, in many awe-inspiring ways from statues of you on the roof, depictions of you on the stained-glass windows, and with rainbows as a common theme upon the molding and trims surrounding the large ornate building. In all, it’s a very beautiful cathedral.

Upon landing before the cathedral’s main doors, you don’t need to go far to meet Syrax. In fact, the violet psychic cat Pokémon comes to you, opening the doors at the top of the stone steps. He stands before you in complete awe with his mouth wide open before kneeing to the stone ground, bowing his head.

“MY LORD AND MY LIEGE!” he cries out in passionate reverence, reciting scripture passage that he has obviously memorized and preached at plenty of masses. “For he will appear before you in your darkest time as a light, a guide out of the darkness for all to observe and behold!”

The timing of your arrival couldn’t have been more perfect and literal considering the night hours. Seems like you’re doing pretty well fulfilling prophecies tonight! You decide to go along with his expectations, portraying yourself as his deity immortal as the rainbow-colored aura and light emanates and flows around you.

“Indeed, it is I,” you tell him, knowing you really don’t need to introduce yourself before him as he already knows exactly who you are. “The guide that you seek in these days of darkness. Tell me, disciple, about the calamity that plagues these lands, this city of Exacta. For I hear the cry of Veramo in these troubled times as our brothers and sisters fight against a darkness they do not know and fight to comprehend. Word of the OMEN calamity, and now that of the Stalkers, agents of Abyss within the heart of the city itself.”

“There are six, my liege.” The Espeon tells you, looking upon you faithfully with reverence. “They walk among us as you said. These Enthrallers, these enemies of Utopia, have assimilated six of our own, though regrettably I do not yet know the exact hearts and minds they have overtaken.”

But you show your understanding toward Syrax, not condemning him for not knowing, but graciously thanking him for whatever knowledge he can share.

“Disciple, tell me for I have only just arrived,” you ask of him. “What are their names, and what are their atrocities?”

“The first of them is Labyrinth, my lord.” Syrax informs you. “Heart in light, but watching from the safety of the shadow, I have learned much about this Stalker. They have lured our brothers and sisters into bewilderment, lost within mazes of their own mind that only they can see, as if in another realm while their bodies wander in a trance within our own material plane. I myself have come across the victims only to find them braindead from the travesty of this sin.”

“The second among them is Obscene,” Syrax continues, reporting all that he knows about this Stalker. “The travesties of this Stalker run deep, embedding their dark acts of cruelty and malice in the form of deception that target the youngest and most vulnerable among us. Our children, our future. The dark perversion that this Stalker is capable of includes demonic children’s writings, songs, and imagery, flooded with the dark evil and sin that only Abyss is capable of. Their victims, our own brothers and sisters, killed by this Stalker, are then maliciously inserted into these dark creations.”

“Astralnox is the third among them,” Syrax tells you. “For many I have associated with, this is the Stalker they fear most. No information is secret from this abomination, as their vile specialty lies in knowing any and all about their victims, information that never could have come to light otherwise without wretched powers and influence at stake. With this knowledge, they destroy our brothers and sisters with their greatest fears and regrets. I have known several, once Pokémon of sane mind, lost to madness after finding themselves at the mercy of this Stalker, having seen their own worst nightmares personified before them.”

“The fourth among their dark ranks is Twistagen, a demonic Stalker of extreme, wanton barbarism,” Syrax informs you. “The bodies of their victims are twisted, misshapen, and ravaged beyond reclamation and almost beyond identity. Their foreboding words of darkness and evil are almost rendered incomprehensible like a deranged language of evil. Where there was once order, Twistagen leaves nothing but macabre anarchy in their wake.”

“Fifth among them is Huskpuppet, a most wicked lieutenant of evil,” he continues. “I myself, disciple of the Sacred Fire, have seen the deranged abominations that this Stalker is capable of. Our own brothers and sisters who have befallen the taint of this Stalker had their insides grotesquely dug out of them through their eyes and mouths, only to be refilled with an otherworldly impure and unholy material that reanimates them into their cohorts of chaos. Devoid of mind and soul, these wretched undead horrors live again to attack the innocent, and those among us they once loved while their defiled mastermind lurks and commands them from within the shadows.”

“And at last, the sixth among them,” Syrax states to you. “Exclude. For the longest time, I believed there were only five Stalkers, until I discerned this dark truth. Exclude does not leave victims behind, my liege. Exclude eradiates and obliterates their very existence in such a way that their victims aren’t killed, but plunged into a full erasure so severe that those among us no longer know them by name, by face, by family, or by memory. I had to search deep to find the source of this malice, and it came to me in the form of black ichor, and the devastation left behind is subtle, but beyond clarity once recognized. Empty picture frames, mysterious blank pages in the middle of diaries, vacant rooms in houses that the victims’ families suddenly cannot explain. Where there was once life and a living being, now only emptiness lies, a life so forgotten, but with remnants of emptiness as the proof of this demonic expurgation.”

Stalkers Status in the Team Records has been updated:

Stalkers Status:
0/6 Stalkers Eliminated

LABYRINTH
OBSCENE
ASTRALNOX
TWISTAGEN
HUSKPUPPET
EXCLUDE

“LOATHE,” You state, realizing the dark word that this group of Stalkers has associated themselves with.

“Yes, loathe,” Syrax confirms. “The word of hating, abhorring, and despising. I fear this legion of Abyss is one of their most elite, enraptured in the lust of this macabre word.”

“But you mustn’t fear, my disciple,” you remind him, reassuring him. “Within us lies hope, and hope will overcome hatred.”

Syrax nods, and bows before your wisdom.

“I have done extensive research into what may be a countermeasure,” Syrax informs you. “While I have some information, much of this time has been devoted to protecting our followers. What I have learned through my insight is that Utopia did deploy their angels here, but lately there has been no word of them, and I can only assume their mission was compromised. I don’t know the exact details, but one of the important pieces of information I discovered was that they were here, trying to find a way to combine their holy relics and artifacts with our technology.”

“Have you learned what that might be for?” you ask Syrax.

“Alas, I do not know…” Syrax sighs, ashamed to present disappointing news. “I have only pieces, including this.”

He presents to you what appears to look almost like an engineering drawing, only the writing and depictions almost look like Seinaru to you.

[Site Plan Holy Starmap: Large Glass Globe AND Puresilver Globe Mount AND Celestial Essence] has been added to the Team Inventory.

“This appears to be one of Utopia’s plans,” Syrax tells you, “I’ve done extensive research on it, and it appears to be a device that can reach and contact worlds throughout the universe. Its construction is unlike anything I’ve ever seen, but it follows the observations I made previously. It combines our technology with Utopia’s relics, and if successful, these creations can far surpass the possibilities that either realm alone were capable of.”

It sounds like a major undertaking, but the premise of it all almost excites you. This, if it can be put together, may just something extreme that Abyss will never see coming. But ultimately what it will be for and what the original objective of it still seems to be a mystery.

“My liege, I will do what I can to find the answers and understand what they were sent here to do.” Syrax pledges his loyalty to you. “I will continue their holy work to see that it comes to pass. As soon as I learn anything, I will inform you with haste.”

“And I will be with you, my disciple,” you assure him. “We aren’t alone. We have existed in other times, other places, beyond realms and realities that Abyss cannot comprehend. To them, we are enigmatic, we blend in, we disappear, and they only discover the truth when it is too late for them. Tell me, disciple, surely you have learned that of the Emissaries in your teachings?”

“Indeed I have, my liege,” Syrax tells you, looking curious. “But what of these brave warriors and scholars should I know?”

“They are among you now at this very moment,” you assure him. “And with your help, they will purge LOATHE and their ilk.”

He bows before you, and you have refreshed his soul and confidence.

“I must go and continue our work,” you tell him, preparing to head back to base. “There is still much that needs to be done.”

“Understood, my liege,” he bows. “I will speak with you again soon.”

As you turn and spread your rainbow wings, you nod to him and offer your assurance. And then in a majestic display of color, you flap your wings and fly off into the night sky, imagining that must have been a heck of a sight and experience for him to behold.

Sacred the Ho-oh (L: Fire/Flying)

Health: 24/24 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 16/16
Battle Stance: Heroic
Perk: Seinaru | Abilities:
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Defense Armor: <Empty>
Jewelry: <Empty>
Utopian Aspect: <Empty>
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