Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 5]

[Neo Emolga]

Ok, still at a loss on where to go, so back to the random searching...

Search: (35) Keepers™ Self-Storage Center

As the sun begins to set in the distance, you decide to hurry toward the east, using the last remaining hours of daylight to help in your ability to search before resorting to artificial light sources. Thankfully, the evening seems to be calm weather-wise. After soaring into the skies from the steel mill, you have your sights set on the Keepers™ Self-Storage Center, intent to see if there’s something interesting to discover there.

After passing over Kindred Park, you descend upon the self-storage facility below, seeing all the various garage-like storage areas. From an immediate observation, a good number of these have been broken into and many of them are just filled with things that likely won’t provide much help, including furniture, boxes of clothing, crates of personal items, and the accumulation of stuff some Pokémon had for hobbies, including models, boxes of photographs, unfinished craft projects, and many others.

In one of the storage containers, you find the Pokémon that was using this before seemed to be a weapons enthusiast. It seems as though most of what was left behind is broken or was nothing but a cheap replica. However, among the piles of cheap weapons that would likely just break if you attempted to use them for actual fighting, you find one authentic one among the pile that scavengers must have missed and overlooked. Upon pulling it out among all the others, you find it’s a very finely-crafted military war sword that must have been one of the collector’s most prized possessions. It looks like it was in a glass display case before the case was broken after an earthquake caused it to shake and fall to the ground.

You decide to take the military war sword with you. Unlike the others, you have a strong feeling this weapon would be definitely more effective in actual combat.

[|AW| Military War Sword] (Adds 1d10 damage to successful attack rolls) was added to Lycellus’s Pack.

You search through several more storage units, and while many of them are just mostly junk or have objects like furniture, toys, and knick-knacks, you find a colorful children’s toy coin bank depicting a cartoonish elated Eevee named Eddie. Surprisingly, it’s filled with a sizable amount of money, though it looks like it’s been here for a very long time and whoever was using this unit never came back to collect what was inside.

You empty the Eddie Eevee coin bank out and decide it would be best to use this money for helping the Emissary cause.

$435 Sochas$ was added to Lycellus’s Pack.

You check through several more storage units to find either junk or they were completely empty and unused. There is one, however, that feels like it has a bit of Stalker presence. When you get to Storage Unit #872, you can feel a bit of that dark taint by the keyhole, and something seems wrong when you first look at it. The lock has been struck hard by some blunt object, and there’s even some blood splattered on it. You try to make an attempt to pick the lock, but unfortunately, it seems beyond your skill and you don’t quite have the right picks for this.

From what you can tell, you’re going to need that key, and on top of that, someone needs to repair the lock, because with that lock dislodged and skewed from the way it’s been hit, the door is likely still going to be jammed until that’s realigned the way it should be.

{Storage Unit #872: #872 Keyhole AND <Repair>}

After searching through another row of neglected or empty storage containers, you find one off to the side that seems a bit suspicious. While the unit seems normal at a first glance, you notice subtle differences. The original lock was removed and replaced with a customized one. And judging from the look of it, it doesn’t appear to be that old and looks like it was replaced at least after OMEN happened.

Upon looking at the lock, it looks like you would be able to pick it, though it ends up being very complicated. After placing your tension wrench, you find it’s quite a chore to pick this one and it seems like whoever used this lock really didn’t want anyone to get inside it. But after some very patient and surgical-like manipulation, you carefully align the ten pins to the right elevation and turn the lock so it disengages.

{Shady Storage Unit: <Security>}

You roll up the garage door and you come across something… interesting. Around are what seem to be forest-green military crates. You count six of them, two fairly large ones, two mid-sized crates, and two small ones. In a white, stencil-stylized text on the side of the crate, you can make out the word “Shadowmarch” with a lot number code just below it.

Cracking open the first crate, you find it was used for armor, and it looks like someone was using this storage unit for smuggling contraband military surplus. Meanwhile, it seems like it was being used even after the OMEN strike, which has you wondering what’s going on and why this operation was happening in the first place.

You pull out the first set of armor, which has an insignia of a triple overlapping crescent moon insignia, which seems to indicate the faction emblem associated with Shadowmarch. The armor looks completely brand new and never used before. It makes you wonder if Shadowmarch has any kind of relationship with Aurorawatch, though considering the nature of the smuggling, you imagine it’s likely that it isn’t very good.

Still, you decide to finally give this particular set of black, interlocking plates to good use. This configuration seems to be adaptable to your body size and frame, creating a protective mesh that allows for movement, but offers reliable protection against enemy assaults.

Lycellus has equipped the [|DA| Shadowmarch Commando Mesh Armor] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 4 points each time Health damage is taken, prevents Super-Effective damage effects)

Meanwhile, you find a second suit of armor, looking slightly different from the first, though it shares similar attributes like the black interlocking plates with the same Shadowmarch insignia. You decide to take this suit of armor along, also, just in case someone else needs it.

[|DA| Shadowmarch Special Forces Armor] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 4 points each time Health damage is taken, prevents Super-Effective damage effects) was added to Lycellus’s Pack.

You then open the second large crate, and inside you find a rather large black metallic rocket-launcher like armament that looks like it has never been fired before. You realize besides it is one of the mid-sized crates and when you break it open, you see it’s full of rockets, likely the ammunition needed for this armament. Again, they’re all marked with the same triple moon Shadowmarch insignia…

[|DA| Shadowmarch Azathoth Armament] (Adds 3d8+8 damage to successful attack rolls, requires following to turn to be used to reload after each attack) has been added to Lycellus’s Pack.

Thankfully, the armament comes with a fairly large chamber hold to store the rockets, and with there being a whole crate of them, you’re quite sure there’s enough to last for a while. It seems like it was created as an experimental prototype weapon, though you have no idea where they could have performed such advanced weapons research and development. It definitely doesn’t look like it was done here in Exacta City…

In the second mid-sized crate, you find more Shadowmarch military gear, including radio headsets, navigation equipment, MREs, batteries, and other such supplies. While useful in a combat setting, you don’t think you’ll need these, but nonetheless, they seem highly-advanced and further support the conclusion that whoever Shadowmarch is, they’re extremely well-funded and heavily financed.

After clearing out the last of the storage units, you find one of the last few has something… unusual. From an initial standpoint, it looks like it was thoroughly raided and cleaned out by other scavengers, but you feel a faint, holy presence coming from it.

When you investigate it further, you find what appears to be an ever-burning white fire torch of holy flame that gives us a comforting, white holy glow. Meanwhile, even the torch base seems to be a rod of pure whitish metal that doesn’t seem like any kind of metal you’ve ever seen before.

You figure it was hidden here in haste, but no one thought to look into this further since then. You decide to take it with you, feeling it has to be something that Utopia had intentions to use.

[Whitefire Torch] was added to the Team Inventory.

After searching the last of the storage units, you decide to fly back to the Emissary base and get some rest before tomorrow morning.

Lycellus the Eternatus (L: Dragon/Poison)

Health: 24/24 | Sanity: 15/20 | Purity: 11/16
Battle Stance: Tactical
Perk: Security | Abilities:
EQUIPMENT:
Attack Weapon: [|AW| Veteran’s Warhammer] (Adds 4 damage to successful attack rolls)
Defense Armor: [|DA| Shadowmarch Commando Mesh Armor] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 4 points each time Health damage is taken, prevents Super-Effective damage effects)
Jewelry: <Empty>
Utopian Aspect: <Empty>
MERCENARIES:
#1: <Empty>
#2: <Empty>
PACK:

• [Sitrus Berry] (Restores all Health)
• $825 Sochas$
• [|AW| Military War Sword] (Adds 1d10 damage to successful attack rolls)
• [|DA| Shadowmarch Special Forces Armor] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 4 points each time Health damage is taken, prevents Super-Effective damage effects)
• [|DA| Shadowmarch Azathoth Armament] (Adds 3d8+5 damage to successful attack rolls, requires following to turn to be used to reload after each attack)