Resolving Stalkers Season 5

[Neo Emolga]

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That's just screwed up, Neo....good job. You make me want to do a Stalker like RP myself sometimes, even if I'm clueless on how to do it. Anywho, that's four Stalkers off the list if I'm right. So, Huskpuppet. We know they're confirmed female, but which female is it?

It's... a lot of work, although don't do as much as I did. If I kept it sane and was something I could handle, eh... this poll never would have been necessary, but ah well. :P I think individually, the Stalkers were fine, but when you put them all together, it just ends up being monstrously huge collectively. Where I think this would shine more is having more graphics, less junk to have to sift through. The graphics are fun and I'm always more than happy to pop them in there. And they don't have to be puzzles either, just creepy deranged notes and crap on walls is always fun. >:3

Huskpuppet wasn't anything too fancy, just the three diary pages that you guys found and then 9 battles, but you'll get to see her background story. I'll also show Twistagen while we're here so that will cover all of them.

TWISTAGEN – Jagin the Floatzel

Spoiler:

Backstory
Architect by trade, Jagin was known to be a designer of buildings and took pride in his work. As his personality goes, he’s very meticulous with extreme attention to detail. Despite being very well organized and sometimes obsessive about quality, he was more concerned about maximizing efficiency than doing anything creative with his buildings just for time and money’s sake. However, the major stumbling block he came across time and time again was time.

TWISTAGEN showed itself to Jagin.
Twistagen approached Jagin very business-like, knowing that was simply the way Jagin operated. “Faster, better, cheaper” was the motto that Twistagen promised, though Jagin was skeptical at first and had already heard plenty of other gimmicks that failed to deliver. Twistagen not only promised to teach Jagin how to create building designs that would perform their function beautifully, but that he would have access to resources that would be able to construct these building designs quickly and effectively in very little time. What he needed Jagin’s help was finding contractors and clients that would have the spaces reserved within Exacta. Jagin, with Twistagen guiding him, would then create new and improved buildings with a new and revolutionary style that was sure to reshape Exacta’s skyline.

How TWISTAGEN twisted Jagin's expectation
What Twistagen showed Jagin were structures straight out of the Abyss, mainly to Twistagen’s amusement. Jagin, very skeptical of how his clients would react when they saw unholy ziggurats, foreboding towers, and other macabre structures, decided the deal was off despite Twistagen’s claims of efficiency. But it was too late, and Jagin had already allowed Twistagen to sink into him just enough to take over the skeptical Floatzel. Where Jagin was once orderly, his persona became deranged, twisted, chaotic, and scrambled. But never random. Twistagen forced Jagin to take what was once in order, and make it utterly distorted.

Murder process and signature
Twistagen’s victims are found with their flesh and bones twisted, pulled, scrambled, and chaotically arranged like a hideous puppet wrap. Meanwhile, Twistagen’s writings and images are puppet-wrapped and warped in macabre ways. Words are often rearranged into chaotic anagrams of their previous forms.

Font:
DK Mothman

Summary of story/route:
Twistagen has scrambled most of Jagin’s work, putting what appears to be mindless scrawl on his pictures and documents, but the letters can be rearranged to form words. “Decoding” most of Twistagen’s texts gives clues as to where the next pieces of the route are. Twistagen adores and is proud of his own chaos, keeping a kind of deranged and demonic diary of his allocates and dark work.

Memento: Jagin’s Diploma in Architectural Engineering from Goldmarch University. Despite having a rough childhood, graduating from a very tough and high-level Ivy League-like school was the start of a better life and fulfillment of Jagin’s dreams.

Thankfully, the Emissaries don’t need to go too far. The entire Memento mini-route is all at one location, but it’s got a number of steps. Also, it gives a vital clue, Jagin is a Stalker, but they definitely need to do the rest of his route if they don’t want to get wrecked when they fight him.

(67) Ruined Rexem Skyscraper (ABANDONED)

{Damaged Elevator: ^Medium Pokémon^}

{Rubble-Filled Hallways: +Rock Type+}

{Secured Steel Locker: <Lockpick>}

[Jagin’s Diploma in Architectural Engineering Memento]

Twistagens's Stalker Route


Twistagen’s route starts relatively tame, and then goes down a very dark, grizzly rabbit hole. At the end, the Emissaries have to deal with an ugly and painful room made of flesh and nasty mechanical parts like someone messed up making a giant cyborg. To get in there, they need to find three hideous parts to open The Mechanical Chaos Flesh Door. Yeah, whoever goes inside better know what they’re doing and be ready for anything.

PATH OF THE MECHANIZED BONE KEY OF SUAGINH

Probably the trickiest of the three parts, to get the bone key, players need to crack open the Torture Cage of the Damned with the Deranged Codec and the Wrath Stone of NECOMID. The Codec requires <Technical> work on it once they get it from Salio the Murkrow with good rapport. Saadat the Dewott just needs a good rapport interview to fork over the Wrath Stone of NECOMID, which he’s honestly more than happy to get rid of (a low rapport score might make him think the Emissary is up to no good with it).

59. Salio the Murkrow

#[Deranged Codec: <Technical>] Insanity Presence – (5 Sanity Damage)#

#[Deranged Codec Primed] Infernal Presence – (5 Sanity Damage)

10. [SQE] Saadat the Dewott

#[Wrath Stone of the NECOMID] Mind-warp Presence – (2 Sanity Damage)#

(82a) Vancedyke Shipping Center – Vancedyke Shipyard and Receiving

#{Torture Cage of the MADEND#

#[Mechanized Bone Key of SUAGINH] Abomination Visions – (6 Sanity Damage)

PATH OF THE APPARATUS OF EIMYSR

Because misery loves company! The path for the Apparatus of EIMYSR is fairly straightforward. Get the Schism Key from Vio and bring it to the Schism Chamber! Only thing is Vio doesn’t give up the key easily. Despite not being a Stalker, she’s still a little crazy and possessive about it, so only Diplomacy will work.

39. Vio the Hatterene: <Diplomacy>

#[Twisted Schism Key] Angst Essence – POISON (3 Sanity Damage)#

(32) Exacta Fire Department Building

#[The Schism Chamber: Twisted Schism Keyhole] Agony Ichor – POISON (3 Sanity Damage)#

#[Apparatus of EIMYSR} – Draconic Agony – DRAGON (6 Sanity Damage)

PATH OF THE BLOODY RAZOR CHAIN MECHANISM OF TAHE

It’s got a crazy long name, but it’s quite a nasty thing. First, players need to meet up with Lucky and Isaiah and they get the [Punch Card Key] from them, which needs to be taken to the keycard reader at the manufacturing floor. After finding an usual, demonic machine, they need a Steel type Pokémon to dismantle the machine to get the [Bloody Razor Chain Mechanism of TAHE].

(3) Redstone Motel

[Punch Card Key]

(80) Boyle Factory

{Ruined Manufacturing Floor Punch Card Reader: Punch Card Access}

#{Infernal Machine: +Steel Type+} Aura of Depredation – STEEL (5 Sanity and 5 Purity Damage)

#[Bloody Razor Chain Mechanism of TAHE] Bloody Infernal Ichor Edges – STEEL (7 Health Damage, 5 Purity Damage)

IT COMES TOGETHER

Imagine a twisted room made of moving, consuming flesh with mechanical gadgets and junk mixed in. That’s this place! Whoever goes in there better make sure they’re in good shape, because there’s a lot of mess in there that they’re bound to not forget!

(25) NECC Chemical Plant

#[The Mechanical Chaos Flesh Door: Keyhole of ANGUISH AND Socket of MISERY AND Disrupted Engine of HATE} Hellish Infernal Charge – ELECTRIC (5 Health Damage, 5 Purity Damage)#

@FLESH WARPING CONSUMPTION (7 Health Damage, 7 Sanity Damage, 7 Purity Damage)@
THE LIVING FLESH ROOM – [Twistagen’s Phylactery]

BONUSES

These extra wall messages give some insight as to who to talk to for pieces of Twistagen’s route. If they can unscramble them, the first will lead them to Salio the Murkrow while the second will point them toward Vio the Hatterene. Not necessary to find, but helpful nonetheless.

(15) Sunberry Motel

Graphic: =Twisted Wall Message=

(36) Auto Acolytes Vehicle Repair Center (ABANDONED)

Graphic: =Macabre Stone Message=

Puzzles:


[Deranged Codec] Puzzle


[Deranged Codec] Solution


{Secured Steel Locker: <Lockpick>} Memento Lock


Secured Steel Locker Lockpick Solution

Graphics:


=Twisted Wall Message=
Actually reads:
“You can talk to Salio
Salio sleeps with it
But it drives the child mad
Maybe he can be
My future disciple”

Gives the players a clue that Salio the Murkrow has the Deranged Codec.


=Macabre Stone Message=
Actually reads:
“I can sense in the darkness
Vio
Damn Vio
That stone does not belong
To her
Consume her
Consume her whole!”


THE LIVING FLESH ROOM VISION

HUSKPUPPET - Fiveria the Musharna

Spoiler:

Backstory
Once a kind and gentle soul, Fiveria was the kind of lady that loved to sew and create dolls and plushies for children, very often free of charge. As a widow, it helped her get her mind off of the recent loss of her husband, Ebber the Grumpig, but she enjoyed the feeling of creating little dolls and plush toys for good children, especially for their birthdays and holidays.

As time went on, Fiveria’s paws became crippled with arthritis, and trying to do the work she used to love was becoming more and more painful. For her, it was depressing, and soon enough, the feelings of loneliness and helplessness were closing in on her again.

HUSKPUPPET showed itself to Fiveria. Huskpuppet whispered to Fiveria during one of her nightly prayer sessions. At first, Fiveria believed the dark spirit was in fact good based by her arrival, and Huskpuppet played it off that way. The dark Enthraller first lied to Fiveria, claiming her dead husband was in good hands when really Huskpuppet had no knowledge regarding his whereabouts. And then, pretending to be sympathetic about Fiveria’s arthritis pains, mentioned that she might have a solution for that. Fiveria, liking the idea of being able to use her paws again, was expecting Huskpuppet to bestow a cure, but Huskpuppet fooled Fiveria into thinking it was more of a exercise and physical therapy process.

How HUSKPUPPET twisted Fiveria's expectation
Fiveria slowly surrendered herself to Huskpuppet’s guidance and control, wanting to regain the full use of her paws and create dolls again. What first started off as a few simple hand exercises eventually turned into assimilation. At first, Fiveria was slowly feeling better, but Huskpuppet told her in order for her to fully recover, she needed more control. Once it was too late to go back, Huskpuppet took full control over the Musharna’s body, and used her passion to create abominations.

Murder process and signature
Victims are first impaled through the eyes, and then the grotesque process of sucking out all their innards through their eye sockets and mouth begins until they are completely empty, warping bones and large organs in order to vacuum them out. Then, once the dark work is completed, victims are filled with a demonically possessed stuffing, causing the corpses to become reanimated.

Font: Skeetch

Summary of story/route:
Huskpuppet’s route is combat hell. Almost every step of the way involves running into a gutted and reanimated victim or some demonically possessed doll that attacks whoever runs into them. Meanwhile, Sanity damage is a common theme.

Huskpuppet’s route involves finding nine of her puppets, all of which used to be normal, living Pokémon. Each of the nine puppets is carrying a fragment of the Undeath Keystone which is needed to unlock her DEMONIC PUPPET WORKSHOP, which isn’t a place for the faint of heart (and involves more attacking reanimated puppets). These nine puppets are scattered about Exacta City in random locations, but there are three diary entries. Each diary entry gives a clue as to the behavior of the three puppets and where they can be found. So either the Emissaries will stumble into these puppets at random, or they can use these entries as a guide and be prepared. Chances are good it’ll be a combination of both until the Undeath Keystone is completed.

Memento: The Worn Heart Plush. It was Fiveria’s first creation in a sewing class she made as a child, and she originally made it for her mother. It brings happy memories of how her mother was impressed by its creation, and she tried to hold onto it the best she could despite all that’s happened.

If the Emissaries try to present it to her early, she claims she has no interest in it and “isn’t buying anything today.”

68. Racha the Skwovet

[Bunnelby Doll Head]

(51) Frasha’s Seafood Restaurant (ABANDONED)

{Headless Bunnelby Doll: Missing Head}

[Forgotten Metallic Footlocker Key]

(85) South Valley Industrial Storage Units (ABANDONED)

{Forgotten Metal Footlocker: +Grass Type+ AND ^Large Pokémon^ AND Forgotten Metallic Footlocker Keyhole}

[Worn Heart Plush Memento]

Huskpuppet's Stalker Route



Huskpuppet’s puppets behave like normal combatants, but besides doing Health damage, they’ll also attack the Emissary’s Purity. Their Loot Wheel behaves as follows:

HUSKPUPPET PUPPET LOOT WHEEL
100% Chance – 50-300 Sochas
20% Chance of |AW| Adds a 1d6 of (Randomized Element) damage
20% Chance of |DA| +2 Maximum Health Stat
10% Chance of [|JY| +2 Maximum Sanity Stat
5% Chance of |AA| Infernal Vigor (10% Chance of doubling damage)

(54) Exacta City Maximum Security Prison (ABANDONED)

Enco the Electrode “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 1=

(65) Kothmart (ABANDONED)

Vraid the Kabutops “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 2=

(68) Petro Now Gasoline and Convenience Store (ABANDONED)

Rabin the Dustox “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 3=

(72) Valsa Hotel Ruins (ABANDONED)

Rugo the Panpour “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 4=

(76a) The OMEN Crater – OMEN Crater Northwest, Ruined Residential District (ABANDONED)

Kray the Nidorino “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 5=

(81) Ruined Vancedyke Warehouses (ABANDONED)

Enra the Hariyama “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 6=

(58b) East Jadewater Apartment Building (ABANDONED)

Teeshay the Hatenna “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 7=

(53) East Exacta River Bridge (ABANDONED)

Ercho the Thwackey “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 8=

(66) Greenyard Apartment Ruins (ABANDONED)

Mappa the Dreepy “Puppet” Encounter
=Fragment 9=

(88) The Headmaster Houses (ABANDONED)

#{Undeath Vault of Reanimation: Missing Undeath Keystone} Infernal Deranged Essence (4 Sanity Damage, 2 Purity Damage)

DEMONIC PUPPET WORKSHOP – Huskpuppet’s Phylactery

DIARY ENTRIES

(22) Kenja Apartment Building

Graphic: =Huskpuppet Diary Entry 1=

(19) The Shaymin Café (ABANDONED)

Graphic: =Huskpuppet Diary Entry 2=

(33) Blue Brook Residential Buildings (ABANDONED)

Graphic: =Huskpuppet Diary Entry 3=

Puzzles:


=Fragment 1=


=Fragment 2=


=Fragment 3=


=Fragment 4=


=Fragment 5=


=Fragment 6=


=Fragment 7=


=Fragment 8=


=Fragment 9=


[Undeath Keystone] (Completed)

Graphics:


=Huskpuppet Diary Entry 1=


=Huskpuppet Diary Entry 2=


=Huskpuppet Diary Entry 3=