Stalkers RPG Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 5]

[Neo Emolga]

Since I don't think I can do anything else for the side mission...

I will check Dret’s Brewery and Home.

You decide to head south to investigate Dret’s Brewery. Today there’s a bit of a wind storm and you find it helps to take a shawl with you, but it isn’t too bad where it feels like the dust and sand is to the point of being intolerable.

Upon arriving, you see Dret has a pretty sizable piece of land to his name and it seems the brewery does pretty well for itself. You decide to search around the exterior grounds, and in the process, you come across an abandoned Spelon Berry that looks like its very close to ripening. You decide to pick it up, not sure if someone lost it, or there’s a berry bush nearby and this fell off of the branches, but either way, you decide to take it with you, just in case another one of these Stalkers tries to unleash another grizzly mind assault on you.

[Spelon Berry] (Restores all Sanity) has been added to Lita’s Pack.

You then approach the brewery itself, and it seems like it’s open for business and Dret is busy handling drink orders. You can tell from the look on the Mightyena’s face that he’s trying to keep busy and still provide for himself and his son, but you can see the pain in the eyes from the very recent loss of his wife, Mika.

While other Pokémon around you order drinks, you take a look at the drink menu itself to see what’s available.

(6) Dret’s Brewery

Dret’s Brewery
Run by Dret the Mightyena

DRINK MENU

• $[Caffeine Delight] 200 Sochas$ (A special brew of caffeinated beverage that gives the one that ingests it enough energy to search two places the next turn.)
• $[Strong Oran Cider] 100 Sochas$ (An alcoholic beverage that grants +1 to Interview Rapport, but inflicts 2 Sanity damage. Effect lasts one turn, can only use one per turn.)
• $[The Vigor Monster] 150 Sochas$ (An empowering drink that adds a temporary +5 bonus Health points over your maximum amount. These bonus points cannot be healed.)
• $[The Lucid Dreamer] 150 Sochas$ (An enigmatic drink that adds a temporary +5 bonus Sanity points over your maximum amount. These bonus points cannot be healed.)
• $[The Wandering Star] 150 Sochas$ (A mysterious drink that adds a temporary +5 bonus Purity points over your maximum amount. These bonus points cannot be healed.)

Dret’s Brewery has been noted in the Team Records.

You decide maybe you’ll come back for something later. For now you check around the yard itself, and in the morning sun, you notice a slight glint of light shining in the dusty brown weed-like grass. You take a closer look at where the shine is coming from, and when you approach it, it seems to be the other half of the Talisman you got from Duante.

You pick it up and intend to see if it can be reunited with the other half.

[1st Half of the Talisman of the Stars] has been added to the Team Inventory.

After finding that, you decide to investigate Dret’s home. It’s a very somber situation inside. While Dret has been able to keep things in order and relatively clean for now, you can definitely see he hasn’t even come close to letting go of Mika. There are still pictures of her with the rest of the family, a place for her at the kitchen table, even her bed, personal belongings, and even pictures of her traveling adventures and her journal are all still there, ready and waiting as if she could be coming home any minute now…

You don’t find anything unusual or sense anything that feels like a Stalker’s taint while searching through Dret’s home, but nonetheless, while the Stalkers didn’t strike you in body, mind, or soul today… you couldn’t help but feel a sense of sorrow in your heart as you walked out of that house…

When you get back to the steel mill, you find the other half of the Talisman of the Stars, and even without adhesive or repair tools, the two halves reunite and once again, the Talisman is made whole once more.

The two halves of the Talisman have become [The Talisman of the Stars].

With that done, you decide to think over how you want to prepare for tonight.

Lita the Pikachu (S: Electric)

Health: 16/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24
Battle Stance: Tactical
Perk: Security | Abilities: Clairvoyance
EQUIPMENT:
Attack Weapon: [|AW| Steel Bow] (Adds 1d4 damage to successful attack rolls)
Defense Armor: [|DA| Bronze Guard] (Reduces incoming Health damage by 1 point each time Health damage is taken)
Jewelry: [|JY| Prismatic Amulet] (Bypass all Pokémon type-related barriers and obstacles upon encountering them)
Utopian Aspect: <Empty>
MERCENARIES:
#1: <Empty>
#2: <Empty>
PACK:

• $495 Sochas$
• [Starf Berry] (Restores all Purity)
• [Spelon Berry] (Restores all Sanity)
• [|AW| Combat Longbow] (Adds 1d6 damage to successful attack rolls)
• [|AW| Razor Composite Bow] (Adds 2 damage to successful attack rolls)