Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 5]

[Neo Emolga]

I want to search that graveyard, but I am going to do it this Night Cycle instead. So, I will opt for the park. Also, I have quite a few hunches that i don't want to disclose atm, mostly because they are dangerous. I am preeeetty sure on 1 location, because of description of a few things...but, we shall see.


Search (46) Ashen Park

You decide to investigate Ashen Park to see if the rumors regarding its infamy are actually true or not. Some say it’s haunted by the many Pokémon that have used it as place to commit suicide while others also claim many murders have happened there.

You fly toward the east, enjoying the slightly more tolerable weather that isn’t trying to blow countless grains of sand and dust in your eyes. It feels a bit warmer today, but not too much so that if feels like a broiling summer day. If the scenery and situation surrounding Exacta wasn’t what it is, you might even say it’s a pretty nice day.

After soaring your way over the lonely Northern Reach, you eventually reach Ashen Park and you descend downward, quickly noticing just how sad and depressing it looks. The trees look sickly, the paths haven’t been touched in years, and the park benches and playgrounds that have been devoid of all Pokémon for a long time now. Where children used to play, there is nothing but silence and stillness. Swings with only the wind slightly nudging them back and forward in a lowly way while a slide that used to have young Pokémon lining up to climb up the ladder and go down has stood in the shade, vacant in the silence.

From what you can tell, some of the rumors were right. You do find two victims of suicide as you investigate the wooded and shrubbed areas around the park. You find the skeletal remains of a Lombre, still wearing a black, tattered shawl with a pocket. Curiously and feeling a bit remorseful, you check inside and it seems like there’s a note inside, written on an old piece of paper. You unfold it with your beak and read it.

I’ve given up.

I’m just tired of fighting everyone, everything every day. Fine, you’re all right, I’m not good enough. I’ve never been “good enough” for anything according to any of you. I told you how hard it was and you didn’t believe me. You called me stupid and lazy and all sorts of other names. You thought it was funny and that it didn’t hurt. But it does hurt. Day after day for years and years, yes, that hurts. But what do you care.

I bet none of you will miss me. Or, you know what, I bet you’re already blaming me for all the things that I’m not doing right now that you now need to do yourselves. Well, go ahead. I don’t even care anymore. You can blame everything on me now and you’ll get to see that’s not going to change anything now that I’m gone. You couldn’t even leave me in peace to rest when that’s all I wanted in return. Couldn’t even leave me with one weekend without nagging me again like you always do.

Well, goodbye.

~Beloni

You decide to put the note back and decide to leave his body alone in peace to continue searching. The deeper in you go, the more you start hearing unusual sounds. It starts as a subtle clicking sound that doesn’t seem natural to hear in a park, and yet there’s nothing and no one around that seems like it’s the source of that noise.

As you search around, you find a high, elevated cliff that has something that catches your eye as it slightly gleams in the sunlight. You look up and thankfully, it’s in an area you’re able to fly up to and retrieve.

{Elevated Cliff Ledge: +Flying Type+}

After spreading your massive rainbow wings to ascend, you find a golden key, tucked away and stashed within these short tufts of grass. From the looks of things, it seems like it was hidden here intentionally, but by who is a whole other question.

You take the key, fly back down, and look it over. It’s a very intricately designed key with a bright golden sun as the emblem on the base while the key prongs have a very fanciful motif and shape to them. It makes you wonder what kind of lock this key is for…

[Sun Key] has been added to the Team Inventory.

You decide to continue your search, wondering what else is hiding around here.

Another crumpled piece of paper tumbles by your foot as it tries to scurry into a nearby bush, but you manage to stop it with your clawed foot. You uncrumple it and read its strange, spidery words.

“I used to think about all the places I visited for the last time. The stores I used to shop at before they closed. The school I went to as a child that I’ll never see again. And the old home I used to live at with my family before everyone moved on.

And then, all of a sudden, I missed everything.”

It doesn’t quite make sense why these papers are scattered around. You find another one which you unfold and it simply reads:

“When I was younger, I wanted to be older. To enjoy being on my own, and having the money to do whatever I want!

But when I became older, I lost that fascination and just wanted my childhood back. I felt like I wasted it all just dreaming for something that never made me happy anyway.”

You toss it aside, not sure who or what wrote these things and scattered them around the park. The thing you observe is they all have something in common, in that they’re all just downright depressing and melancholy. You decide it’s better to just not look at them, as it seems like they’re trying to encourage anyone and everyone to take their own life in this sad place.

You come across a discarded messenger bag that looks like it’s been here for years. You have a bad feeling about what might have become of the original owner, likely having tossed it away and did away with themselves. There’s no sign of the body anywhere, but you look inside and find a sizeable pile of money inside.

$160 Sochas$ have been added to Sacred’s Pack.

You hope you can use it in some form to help your mission make this a better place for everyone.

As you continue, you come to the heart of this park, but a lot of it feels like it’s in suspended animation and that nothing has moved for a very long time. Park benches are dusty and vacant, personal belongings like bags, shawls, and children’s toys have been left abandoned, and the only sounds you hear are the leaves in the sickly trees above.

In the center of it all lies a fountain, bone-dry and devoid of water. As you approach it, you feel something about it seems a little unusual, and you lean in to take a closer look to see if you can discern what exactly seems to be the source of this unusual…

…N̟̭͍͍͚̮͙͔͋ͨͯ̿̏ͮ́i̥͋̂ĝ͖̥̟̘̗͙̖̗͋ͥ̚h̹̬̘͇̯̬͍ͦͫt̉ͫ̿̇͌ ͉̯͈͎̘́ͥm͈̜̼͔̹͓̺̼ͭ̅ͩ̆̎̎͋ā̘̹͔ͤ̔̓ͅr̠̬ͪ̽̏͊͒ͦ͐eͨ̐ͣ ̬̆ͅ

#Deranged Electrical Discharge - ELECTRIC (5 Health Damage, 5 Sanity Damage)# Trap 20% Evasion Test: 13 out of 100: Failed!

Sacred suffers 10 points of damage to Health and 10 points of damage to Sanity.
The #Deranged Electrical Discharge# has been broken.

You shriek in agony as jagged, murderous forks of thunder and lightning strike at you from all directions, paralyzing you in severe agony as your cry falls upon deaf ears. T͈̤h̜̫̙͕̱e͖͉̗̲̗̞̣̺ ͔̰͇̻h̬ọ̙̻̪̣r̗͎͉̯r̠͙̳̲̳o̤͈̮̘̜̱̜r͉̳̝̳͕̺͎̘ ͈̻̰̭̬̝̥̭͇a̟̖̩͕̯̹̯n̖͔̦̩̝d̩̟̣̦̰͙̘ͅ ̗͓͖̱p͉̜̭͈ͅa̞̠͓̦̱i̳̤̖̪̼̠ͅͅn̲̼̳̼̺͕̥ ̝̭͙͖͙o̥f̯̤͓͖͇̞ ͈̭̳͇̦i̗͈̹̤̘t͔̥̘ ̮͙̹̲a̫̮̗̩͎l͍̬̗͇͖l̜̭̰̰͇͔͓ feels so severe that you almost harbor the idea of just dying and giving up to escape it h̤̪̰̪̥ͅo̺̠̭͚̲̱͈w̖̟e̯̹͇̜v͇͇͎̖͉̪̮ͅe͕̜̤̱̰͎ͅr̫͇̠̯ ̘̬̘̙̖̜̗y̼̖o͙͇͈͓u͔͎͍͎̩ ̘̞̝̮c͇̤͚̫̣a͉͙̳̭̦n͍͍̜̤̦̞͕.

“Only once the vitals of the victim flow here once again will answers be given.”

“W-Who’s there!?” you exclaim, barely able to contain and ensure the severe physical and mental agony you’re in as forks of electricity still course through you.

But no one responded. No one came.

But you were certain you heard a whisper. And yet no one else is around. Where could it have come from, you wonder.

You then look down upon the fountain itself. There’s an old, dirty plaque before you. And it nearly makes you jump out of your skin.

{Dried Fountain: Offering of Blood} has been noted in the Team Records.

…

ONLY ONCE THE VITALS OF THE VICTIM FLOW HERE ONCE AGAIN WILL THE ANSWERS BE GIVEN.

…

The very words spoken in the whisper are now there before you as a plaque engraving. But… how? Why would anyone put such a macabre sign in this place? You check behind you again, but nothing.

But you realize what the request is for. Blood. And a lot of it, enough to make the fountain flow again. But why, and for what dark purpose?

You almost flee from it, really not wanting to deal with such a hideous thing right now. You continue looking, almost ready to just abandon the rest of the search until you come across a strange ditch that looks like it should lead to an underground hole, but it stops short. When you try to interact with it, it just stops you and you see the hole is protected by some shadowy, dark purple-colored portal.

{Ethereal Chamber: +Ghost Type+} has been noted in the Team Records.

The odd thing is… it seems like only those that are dead can pass into this place. It makes you wonder if it’s connected to the suicides. It can’t be a coincidence. You can only wonder what’s beyond that gate, but it isn’t for you to know right now.

You decide you’ve had way more than enough and it’s time to fly back home. It hurts to flap your wings now, but you fight the agony, still feeling the darkness going wild in your mind.

Your wounds, the mental agony… they feel so right and they hurt beyond anything you’ve felt before, but the stones… it’s like they were never there. But how can that be? You’re convinced it wasn’t just your imagination, but it’s like it knew what exactly would inflict the most pain and horrific agony upon you.

You fly furiously back toward Emissary Base. Ashen Park… there’s definitely something very, VERY wrong going on there…

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

Health: 14/24 | Sanity: 10/20 | Purity: 16/16
Battle Stance: Heroic
Perk: Seinaru | Abilities:
EQUIPMENT:
Attack Weapon: <Empty>
Defense Armor: <Empty>
Jewelry: <Empty>
Utopian Aspect: <Empty>
MERCENARIES:
#1: <Empty>
#2: <Empty>
PACK:

• $245 Sochas$