SEASON 5

TWISTAGEN - Jagin the Floatzel
HUSKPUPPET - Fiveria the Musharna
EXCLUDE - Shas the Chimchar


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


(36) Auto Acolytes Vehicle Repair Center (ABANDONED)


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


(19) The Shaymin Café (ABANDONED)


(33) Blue Brook Residential Buildings (ABANDONED)


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=



EXCLUDE – Shas the Chimchar
Spoiler:
Backstory
Throughout most of his childhood, Shas has been left out. Bullied, thought of as ugly, stupid, and naďve, he was left out of school gatherings, had very few friends, and found himself alone despite hating that sense of loneliness. As if life wasn’t bad enough, the OMEN strike resulted in both of his parents and his sister getting killed and now he is alone. Even in difficult times, the surviving children and adults have done nothing for him and he’s been barely able to survive on his own, relying on the refugee food bank to keep himself alive.

EXCLUDE showed itself to Shas.
For the longest time, Shas had kept his frustration and despair bottled up. His parents always tried and taught Shas to be a good boy and work hard, but given his situation now, it seemed pointless and he had begun to believe that good Pokémon were just destined to suffer. And he was almost willing to accept a life of suffering until Exclude revealed himself.

It wasn’t hard for Exclude to enrapture Shas. Exclude spoke to Shas and encouraged him to get angry and get payback rather than just submit to despair. It started with a few exercises of stealing food from a Plusle and punching a Meowth that got in his way. At first, it got him to be even more hated, but that’s when Exclude went into the next stage.

How EXCLUDE twisted Shas's expectation
It was payback time. Exclude had fully taken over Shas, much to his nefarious delight, though in this case, Shas didn’t mind it, as if letting Exclude take over the wheel was perfectly fine to him. Shas wished for everyone else to feel the same way he felt. Left out, alone, and treated unfairly.

And that was Exclude’s specialty.

Murder process and signature
Exclude smothers victims with a heavy, black ichor that envelops around them and carries it into nothingness, leaving only a few small black puddles and blots behind. It’s often impossible to tell who was the victim, if there was a victim. These blots appear all along Exclude’s route even in places where there was no victim, so you would never be able to truly tell if, when, and how it happened and to who.

The creepiest feature of Exclude’s murders is there are no details. There is no crime investigation because no one finds a murdered victim. The Doom Tracker just goes up by one with a mysterious and dark ominous message, and what’s more is the victim isn’t marked as “DEAD” on the reference sheet. Instead, they’re simply deleted, wiped, and gone as if they were never there to begin with while the remaining civilians get renumbered. Even the notes that were part of the team record (interviews, roles, items obtained) are wiped as well. If they held any key items, those items get moved over to a civilian that best replaces them and hasn’t been interviewed yet.

Font:
Rush

Summary of story/route:
Exclude’s route involves a lot of Purity damage and traps are common as well. A common theme on Eclude’s route is blackness. Pictures, objects, and things are very often blotted out with blackness and heavy, black ichor. Touching it is soul-burning and agonizing and it’s definitely not something you want to have your last bit of Purity lost to.

Memento: Happy 7th Birthday Card. It’s from Shas’s mother, father, and sister, wishing Shas a happy birthday. To Shas, it was his best birthday and he’s held onto it ever since, even long after the rest of his family passed away. This is all he has left as evidence of the memory, but it’s been a long time since he’s looked at it. On it are encouraging messages from his family, how they’re proud of him and wish the best for him.

Getting this particular memento is much tougher, but the reward is significantly higher as Shas feels more strengthened by this than other Stalkers.

(18) Graybench Industrial Warehouse
[AG0143 Module]


(27) Vinatech Sterilization Plant
{Damaged Sublevel Door: Replacement AG0143 Module AND +Electric Type+}
{Upper Ledge: +Flying Type}
[#872 Key]


(35) Keepers™ Self-Storage Center
{Storage Unit #872: #872 Keyhole AND <Repair>}
[Happy 7th Birthday Card]


Exclude's Stalker Route



In general, Exclude’s route isn’t too heavy on puzzles and just has one really tough one, but it makes up for it by having a lot of steps involved and generally requires more typings to be involved. It’s likely going to mean Emissaries will need to switch it up or get Escorting involved. In the meantime, the players will find some rather creepy blotted out pictures along the way instead. Along the way, Exclude’s route doesn’t do any Health or even Sanity damage. But it does do MASSIVE Purity damage.

To make it to the final Chamber of the Divided Zero, players need to collect three medallions. [Medallion of Oblivion], [Medallion of the Void], and [Medallion of Erasure].

PATH OF THE MEDALLION OF OBLIVION

This path isn’t too complicated. Players will first need to get into the Ethereal Chamber, which is only accessible to Ghost types. They’ll get the Hollow Soul Stone, which then gets placed into the Missing Soul Statue, which then produces the Medallion of Oblivion.

(46) Ashen Park (ABANDONED)
{Ethereal Chamber: +Ghost Type+}
[Hollow Soul Stone]


(23) The Becker Building (ABANDONED)
{Missing Soul Statue: Missing Soul Stone}
#[Medallion of Oblivion] Black Expurgation Presence (10 Purity Damage)#
=The Blotted Depiction=


PATH OF THE MEDALLION OF THE VOID

Similar to the Oblivion’s path, this path takes the same kind of structure, although with some more Purity damage along the way. So a bit more hazardous. If they’re not careful with making sure they’ve got high Purity to spare, some players may end up dead from this!

(76b) The OMEN Crater – OMEN Crater Northwest, Ruined East Residential District (ABANDONED)
{Rubble Ravine: +Ground Type+}
#[Cold Black Key] Black Expurgation Presence (5 Purity Damage)#


(83) Exacta City Treatment and Desalination Plant (ABANDONED)
#{Gateway to Nothingness: Cold Black Keyhole} Black Expurgation Presence (5 Purity Damage)#
#[Medallion of Erasure] Black Expurgation Presence (10 Purity Damage)#


PATH OF THE MEDALLION OF ERASURE

While lighter on the hazards compared to Void’s, this one is trickier for the sudoku puzzle parts. Thankfully, the puzzle doesn’t cause Purity damage either. It’s just more unsettling.

18. Mika the Boltund
Puzzle Graphic: =Blotted Sudoku Part 1=


(5) Electrical Substation
Puzzle Graphic: =Blotted Sudoku Part 2=


16. Princess Samona the Amaura
Puzzle Graphic: =Blotted Sudoku Part 3=


Finishing the sudoku will create the [9-Digit Code 1993381627] item.

(29) MoonCrest Corporate Offices (ABANDONED)
{Empty Tumbler Number Lock: 9-Digit Code}
#[Medallion of Erasure] Black Expurgation Presence (10 Purity Damage)#
=The Smothered Depiction=


IT ALL COMES TOGETHER

The end of Exclude’s route has black, black, black everywhere as if the Rolling Stones got their way. Whoever does this better have their Purity in good shape and better make sure those Medallions are disarmed, or they’re getting swallowed. Disarming the door itself is also needed or the @@ will just outright kill you. :x

(48) The Cobal Estate (ABANDONED)
#{Chamber of the Divided Zero: Mark of Oblivion AND Mark of the Void AND Mark of Erasure} Black Expurgation Presence (10 Purity Damage)#
@Endless Sea of Existence Purged – (15 Purity Damage)@
THE INFINITE BLACK – [Exclude’s Phylactery]


Puzzles:


Fully visible sudoku puzzle (Reference only, or in case they really get stuck and need a hint after collecting all three parts)


=Blackened Sudoku Puzzle Part 1=


=Blackened Sudoku Puzzle Part 2=


=Blackened Sudoku Puzzle Part 3=


Final solution to the Blackened Sudoku Puzzle after Parts 1, 2, and 3 are combined and the puzzle is solved. The 9-digit code that gets created will be 193381627

Graphics:


=The Blotted Depiction=


=The Smothered Depiction=


THE INFINITE BLACK