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At the reccomendation of their fellows, Lycellus found themselves picking towards Greenlawn Manor. The previous owner had died in a simmilar way to the recent death, perhaps they were one of the stalkers first victims? Either way, the manor was in a more dangerous local, and being the only one with any form of armour, Lycellus felt that they were the most likely to survive if things go badly.


Equip [|DA| Bronze Guard]

[Search (47) The Greenlawn Manor]
You decide to investigate the Greenlawn Manor on the far eastern side of the Northern Reach. From what you’ve heard, it’s been abandoned for decades, even long before OMEN became a problem, though you imagine that calamity has only made things worse. But even though it’s been vacant for a while, you’re hoping ghouls and chimeras haven’t decided to make it their new home.

Still, despite all that, as long as it still stands, you figure the fact it’s been abandoned in a time like this makes it possible someone saw potential in the fact it’s been forgotten about for so long, making it an ideal place to conceal things.

You head out, flying through the dusty skies as a slight dry heat can be felt in the air. Still, it has very little impact on your skeletal like body. Meanwhile, the bright sunlight up above may be a bit helpful in your search, especially considering the number of clouds obstructing it seem to be few in number, leaving a mostly blue and grayish open sky today.

Once you arrive at the manor, you find yourself unable to enter the building due to your large size, but you figure there’s enough windows to be able to gaze into most of the rooms and retrieve what you need. As you expected, the old manor building is in very bad shape with splintering wood frames, boarded-up windows, cracked and crumbling stone pillars, and many other signs of disarray. Meanwhile, roof tiles are broken, missing, and cracked while signs of the wood rotting are quite common and pieces of the building have collapsed upon itself. You figure this whole manor is beyond restoration and would likely need to be torn down and have something else built in its place to make any use of the land here.

The grounds are in bad shape as well with dead weeds scattered about in patches. What used to be area for outside receptions looks terrible as well. Weeds have wrapped around rusting metal chairs while stone pathways are barely visible from the overgrowth. What was probably once a beautiful flower garden is now overwhelmed with weeds and dust galore.

You begin to think searching this forsaken place might be for naught until you come across an old mid-sized metallic shed that looks like it has held up better than most of what’s around here. The door lock is thoroughly rusted, but thankfully, it has deteriorated so much so that it crumbles to the dusty ground with even just a light swat from your claw. You don’t even find yourself needing to pick it. You open the shed door and look inside, being too large to enter, but thankfully it’s small enough to peer into and reach into with your large claw.

Inside, it looks like an old storage area for a wide variety of various old and antique items. Due to the nature of the shed, most of these items were preserved fairly well, though you suspect you may just be the first Pokémon in many decades to be looking upon these lost artifacts and relics that must have belonged to Danrays the Arcanine’s personal collection way back when.

You find several family heirlooms, including an orange and black flag with a fancy-looking family crest, silverware, pottery, artwork, and many other similar items until you find an old but still very formidable warhammer that looks like it’s been passed down for many generations. The quality on this powerful weapon with its solid steel shaft and intricately-designed head with carefully placed engravings make it clear whoever made this put a lot of work and effort into making this not only as strong as possible, but so it would last many generations. The engravings signify members of the family that survived the harsh wars of long ago, making you suspect this was used in all of them.

You decide to take it with you knowing it will prove useful in the battles to come.

Lycellus has equipped the [|AW| Veteran’s Warhammer] (Adds 4 damage to successful attack rolls).

You search through more of the remaining items, finding loose and forgotten coins in some of the old wooden furniture heirlooms. In total, it amounts to 120 Sochas, which you figure has a lot more practical worth for your cause as opposed to sitting here.

$120 Sochas$ has been added to Lycellus’s Pack.

After rummaging through the back, you come across one last item that might have some use to it. It appears to be a large glass globe that was likely used for a large, almost aquarium-like fountain that was disassembled. Thanks to the glass being a few inches thick, it’s survived the long passage of time with barely a few noticeable scratches.

You recall Syrax’s site plan for the Holy Starmap needing something of this nature, so you decide to take it with you, feeling this may be exactly what he’s looking for.

[Large Glass Globe] has been added to the Team Inventory.

You go through the rest of the items, which are mostly old antiques and furniture pieces. While you imagine quite a few of these may fetch a high price if they were to be appraised, it seems that might only be for another time when prosperity was still around and Pokémon were willing to spend great amounts of money on old treasures like these. But now, those who still have money are saving for the essentials and whatever survival and security they may bring.

You decide to head back to the manor itself, trying to investigate however you can through the boarded-up windows. However, it seems like most of the manor’s rooms have been stripped bare of anything of value while the elements have done a number on the building over time. You get a pretty good idea of what several decades of hot, dusty windstorms can do to an old building like this that never got any maintenance the whole time.

You mostly only find forgotten light fixtures and rooms with floors and walls falling apart and remnants of ceiling dangling down in creepy ways. Quite frankly, even if you were small enough in size to enter, you believe it wouldn’t be much to discover inside and it would be really nothing more than a haunted house tour.

Ultimately, you’ve decided there’s nothing else to find here except old traces of the past. You find out that while it’s true that no one has been inside this building for a very long time, you still managed to find several useful items in the shed even though it seems like the Stalkers were never here.

You then head back to base to drop off the glass globe and make preparations for tonight.

Lycellus the Eternatus (L: Dragon/Poison)
Health: 24/24 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 16/16
Battle Stance: Tactical
Perk: Security | Abilities:
EQUIPMENT:
Attack Weapon: [|AW| Veteran’s Warhammer] (Adds 4 damage to successful attack rolls)
Defense Armor: [|DA| Bronze Guard] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 1 point each time Health damage is taken)
Jewelry: <Empty>
Utopian Aspect: <Empty>
MERCENARIES:
#1: <Empty>
#2: <Empty>
PACK:
  • $195 Sochas$