Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 5]

[Neo Emolga]

Feel like doing some more exploring. I'll look around (74) Luminous Shopping Center

Feeling particularly brave this morning, you decide to go where most Pokémon dread going: right into the Southern Reach. However, you know considering the way the Stalkers have been behaving, it’s only a matter of time that these dark places will need to be investigated. It seems the darker, more forgotten places in Exacta City have become ripe for Stalker infiltration…

You make a direct beeline toward the Luminous Shopping Center, flying over the West Exacta Bridge. However, you decide to begin your descent early, wisely assessing that it’s very possible some of these ghouls and chimeras may be able to fly also, or at least notice you in the sky. Instead of flying over the ruined structures, you decide to use the building ruins and other obstructions to hide and conceal yourself as you make your way to the large shopping center in the south. Meanwhile, you use your dragonfly wings to softly and quickly hover over the ground by just a few feet. It allows you to safely and quickly move and dart about, making very little noise and leaving no disturbances in the ground for you to be tracked with.

It seems you’ve chosen a wise and clever approach, as none of the ghouls spot you and you’re able to bypass the few that you find wandering in the ravaged streets. Once you arrive at the shopping center, you get a first-hand glimpse of just how devastated it is.

While it’s not the most ruined building in the Southern Reach, it has definitely sustained significant damage and even if the ghouls and chimeras suddenly stopped existing, it would be impossible to repair all the damage that has been done. You figure once Exacta City can begin recovery and rebuilding, this shopping center will still need to be completely torn down. It’s sustained too much structural damage to attempt repairing for future use…

You first decide to carefully and quietly investigate the exterior of the building, making sure you stay on high alert for any odd sounds or movements that might be from ghouls or chimeras. As you dart around the perimeter, you see this shopping mall had three entrances. Now, it has only one after tons of rubble crushed and buried the other two…

Around the outside by the southside of the building, you find something unusual, and it looks to be a battered briefcase on the passenger seat of a half-crushed motor vehicle. It looks as though the driver and the driver’s side of the vehicle were crushed by a massive, jagged concrete piece of the mall’s upper floor. The only way you’re even able to tell the driver’s Pokémon Shiftry species is by his warped and decayed leaf fan arm, the only thing sticking out from underneath the enormous slab of concrete…

You look at the battered briefcase and you decide to open it. It’s a little jammed at first, but after wrestling it open, you find it is full of contract papers, and a very sizable amount of cash. You decide to gather it all up and add it to your pack.

$310 Sochas$ were added to Carly’s Pack.

After searching around the rest of the outside, you don’t find much else besides a lot of skeletal remains, destroyed vehicles, rubble, and piles upon piles of debris and refuse…

You decide to head into the shopping center itself, and the interior is devastated. You first enter a large department store’s clothing section, mainly consisting of shawls, accessories, jewelry, and the like. However, a lot of it is ruined, ripped, and filthy. Glass display cases have been broken and jagged shards of glass lay everywhere around the cracked and broken tiled floor that used to be white, but is now sullied with blotches of filthy gray and brownish colors.

You head out of this ruined store and into the mall’s central connecting lobby, which also looks more like a warzone. You find broken glass everywhere, along with destroyed kiosks and ruined merchandise scattered around and in broken pieces. On top of all that, you find plenty of skeletal remains of shoppers that never made it out alive…

You search store after store, starting with an electronics store called FREEquency, but most of the merchandise in there is either completely ruined or it was poached by other scavengers that found their way here. Whatever remains in the form of music memory sticks, broken movie players, cracked televisions, and the like isn’t worth the trouble of gathering up to try and take with you.

You find several more accessory and clothing stores, only their situation is very similar. The only useful thing you find is a dark-gray shawl intended for flying Pokémon with slits and straps for wings. It fits fairly well, would repel some of the blowing dust and sand, and feels comfortable while providing some concealment away from the ghouls. Still, everything else looks like just ornamental accessories and jewelry.

After passing by a destroyed restaurant, another accessory store, a bookstore completely in disarray, a gift store almost completely crushed in rubble, and the food court that’s buried under piles of rubble, it doesn’t seem like too much remains in here. Still, you keep searching through the remainder of the mall and find what looks to be a childcare center sitting besides a tutoring services store and a hair and fur stylist.

At first, you don’t expect to find much in the childcare services office, but when you get to the back, you find there’s a locked door to the children’s nursery, a place for infant and toddlers to be watched over during the day while their Pokémon parents are at work. You take a look at the electronic lock and at first, it looks like there’s nothing wrong, but then you suddenly feel a Stalker’s aura slathered all over it.

Upon closer inspection of the door’s electronic lock, you can see the readout of the lock is totally scrambled and it looks like the firmware was corrupted. Still, you look around and it’s a mystery as to how the door lock is even getting power when barely anything else in the entire shopping center even works. Meanwhile, from what you can see pass the scrambled screen, it looks like there is a prompt for a 2-digit code. At first, you’re a bit surprised this lock has this basic code, but then you realize this is just a door to keep toddlers from sneaking out. Still, it looks like it’s programmed to force a manual physical key override if too many incorrect entries are put in. You figure it would be a bad idea to try using trial and error on this thing as there’s absolutely no indication of where this physical key is and who has it.

{Nursery Door Electronic Lock: <Technical> AND 2-Digit Nursery Door Code} has been noted in the Team Records.

You decide to head out and try looking through the rest of the stores, but you don’t find much. Whatever was left behind is in bad shape or you simply don’t need it and doesn’t hold anything of value for the Emissary cause. Meanwhile, other stores have been squashed under tons of rubble and you can barely get through the front entrance.

After feeling you’ve found all that you could, you decide to head out and dart your way back to the Emissary base. Thankfully, you make it back, safe and sound. Still, you shudder a bit and wonder just how many dead Pokémon are in that mall. You’re convinced you found over a hundred, and those are just the ones you were able to find in plain sight…

Carly the Yanmega (L: Bug/Flying)

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

• $460 Sochas$
• Starf Berry (Restores all Purity)