SEASON 5


Sin Purge Ritual!


Since the Stalkers are all done, onto the next batch of goodies!

In Stalkers Season 5, the Sin Purge Ritual works a bit differently from previous seasons. In fact, the Emissaries don’t even have to do it at all to finish! But the ending will be a big suck. Instead of the Sin Purge Ritual ending the game in victory, it instead prepares everyone for the final battle. But this isn’t made too obvious at first! The players will eventually have to eliminate every Stalker manually, but they need to get these things ready first! Once that last Stalker goes down, it’s too late to wrap up any unfinished Sin Purge Ritual components!

The Sin Purge Ritual is broken down into three parts. The more parts they do, the better the ending will be. But this won’t be apparent to them from the start!

Syrax the Espeon plays a very pivotal role in figuring out how to do the Sin Purge Ritual. Where Yasha was the guide in Season 4, Syrax is the guide in Season 5. His guidance starts small and unclear and even his own visions are a bit ambiguous of the “dark tide” that is coming, but it gradually gets more detailed as he performs more research and learns of the things they need to do. It’s wise to keep him alive, because if they don’t and he just happens to get killed by the Stalkers, they’re going to have to figure these things out completely on their own with no guidance. It will be hard to tell what is fully prepared and what isn’t!

Scattered around are Utopian pages that explain what needs to be done to fully prepare for the final battle. They're all written in runic text, which Syrax can translate. If Syrax dies, the pages can be translated if someone manages to cryptogram them with nothing to start with (which has been done before!). It'll be tricky.

When it comes to the final outcome of the ending, it depends on how many parts the Emissaries get done in preparation for that final battle with the Abyss (Eternity’s Endgame). And this is weighed in with a value of 0 to 4, 0 being the ending completely sucks while 4 means the ending is super awesome epic and everyone lives very happily ever after.

Anywho, here are the parts in question and their point values.

UNITED UNIVERSE (2 POINTS)

Definitely the biggest and most complicated thing to do in terms of Sin Ritual preparation. This involves preparing and contacting the ENTIRE KNOWN POKEMON UNIVERSE to join in on one enormous universal prayer that prepares all Pokémon of the living realm to fight back against the overwhelming tides of the Abyss’s forces. Not only does Veramo get united and ready to battle, but so does Aryia, Valdyne, Barendal, and Yaru, all the previous worlds from previous seasons of Stalkers! But wait, there’s more! The Pokémon World in the PMD games also gets contacted, and so does the human world featured in the mainstream games! And then even all the worlds beyond that, contacting every living possible soul to unite and join in the fight, refusing to let the Abyss settle anywhere in the known living universe!

Not doing this leaves the Pokémon of the living world unaware and unprepared! And when the final battle happens, they’ll be too frightened out of their minds to fight back!

HOLY DIVINEFIRE REDEEMER ARMAMENT (1 POINT)

To say the least, the preparation of this massive, holy superweapon is not something the Abyss is going to expect. It combines Utopian holy power with modern technology to essentially create a really big holy nuke that if used correctly, could absolutely cripple the Abyss’s forces and snuff out an enormous portion of their evil.

If used in combination with United Universe, the Holy Divinefire Redeemer Armament gets shot and launched right into the Abyss’s entry portal itself, sending the holy weapon right into the Abyss itself where it detonates and flushes the Abyss with purification fire that will deal a devastating blow to it. But, if United Universe is NOT prepared, it never gets that far, it only gets used in the realm of the living and loses a lot of its potential.

DAWNLIGHT RECKONING SUMMONING (1 POINT)

During the final battle, Abyss summons a massive portal to call in WEM (the corrupted version of Mew) as will as billions of Abyssal abominations like a continuous river of evil followers. Thing is, while said portal is horrific, it’s still a bottleneck. The Abyss can only pour in so many troops at once and it can only be through this horrible ethereal wormhole portal.

But two can play at this game! If the Emissaries complete the preparation of Dawnlight Reckoning Summoning, then Utopia will have their own portal to call in their own forces to counter the invasion! The only problem is that according to the storyline, it gets activated AFTER Abyss creates theirs. If they Emissaries finish everything, then hey, it won’t be a problem and Utopia can swoop in to finish the job really effectively. If this is the only thing they do, it’s going to be too little, too late…



HOW THE ENDING IS DETERMINED

Simply put, the final battle is triggered when the Emissaries eliminate the last and final Stalker. Abyss hits their breaking point. Furious by yet another failed mission, WEM decides it’s all or nothing, no more games, just a hideous, reckless, full frontal assault with all the hungering abominations the Abyss can spit out. If the Emissaries prepare well, it will be a REALLY BIG mistake for Abyss. But if they don’t, they’ll catch everyone, the Emissaries, the living Pokémon, and Utopia with their pants down and pulverize them.

If they keep Syrax alive long enough, they’ll get warnings that this is coming and to proceed with caution. The longer they keep him alive and the more they interview him, the more he’ll learn and the more warning he’ll be able to provide and say hey, let’s prepare these things first before you finish off those Stalkers, eh?

0 Points – Ultimate Catastrophe – This happens if the Emissaries didn’t finish any of these three preparations before they axe the final Stalker. This ending sucks. The Abyss devours everything, devastates every single world in the universe, and even Utopia gets swept up in the onslaught and paradise gets transmuted into a perverse horror that becomes just another torture chamber for souls. Yet another dark plaything for the Abyss. As GM, boy, I hope they don’t get this ending.

1 Point – Ravaged Existence – Well, the defense of the universe didn’t go well at all. Many lives were lost, entire worlds were ravaged and obliterated, and very little was left unscathed. The Abyss plants their dark roots into the world of the living, and only slight trickles of hope remain in the living who have to deal with the dark horrors of the Abyss as daily life. But they’ve survived. Could the defeat one day be overcome? They can hope, but it’s going to be a very long, dark road.

2 Points – Peaceful Stalemate – Both sides suffer heavy losses, but at least the day is saved and the living realm of Pokémon is preserved. In this scenario, the living Pokémon stand their ground, and repel the forces of the Abyss long enough for them to concede and return back into their shadowy lairs and hellish pits. Has the pact between Utopia and Abyss been reestablished? For a time, it seems like it, but they can never be too sure. How can anyone really trust Abyss after they’ve done all this?

3 Points – Solid Victory – In this situation, the Abyss gets HEAVILY PULVERIZED in a way that they’ll never recover from again. Not only do they get utterly kicked out of the living realm for good, but their own hellish underworld realm takes a monumental beating as well and even some of the damned are rescued, saved, and redeemed. It’s actually a pretty good ending, though broken remnants of the Abyss still linger on. They’re broken and scattered while disorganized, but they’re still around, possibly making one last ditch effort to try something to make a longshot comeback. But for now and for many millennia, life will be good.

4 Points – Ultimate Victory – I hope they get this, because this will be cool and fun to write. Abyss gets utterly OBLITERATED if this is the final outcome. Not only does their attack fail, but the portal they created gets so badly used against them that Utopia actually sweeps the hellish underworld realm with cleansing fire from the Redeemer Armament nuke and the Utopia battalions purge all evil and sin completely forever more. The transformation is so complete that what was once a hellish realm of evil and pain gets fully transformed into a peaceful, happy paradise as a place of healing and rejuvenation for all those ever traumatized by the Abyss’s dark ways. It becomes a place where Pokémon can stay for as long as they like until they’re ready to ascend into Utopia itself and enjoy a happy eternity forever. Meanwhile, the Pokémon of the living realm live happily in a world with no pain, no tears, and no wars forever more. Natural disasters end and even the very sting of death is nothing more intimidating than just moving to a new forever home.