Stalkers RPG: Dustwoken - Main Action and Team Status [SEASON 1]

[Neo Emolga]

I'm gonna buy a little more time here. Think there's a little more to uncover before we get to cracking and finishing things around here.
We just have to hurry before too many more innocent lives are taken! (38) The Righteous Rider

After rising up with the dawn, you help yourself to the breakfast that Benni has provided you and then head outside, intent on investigating the Righteous Rider ship to see if perhaps the Stalkers were there at one point and planned to make it a part of their sinister plots.

Once outside, you feel the air and atmosphere isn’t quite as bad as it has been in previous days, but you’re not sure how much longer that’s going to go on for. The Stalkers continuously creep toward their dark goals and you feel in due time, the closer they get, the more morose things may become. What you see now could be a trace of hope, or it could be leading into a false sense of security.

After levitating your way toward the ship, you stand before it and see the large metallic commercial fishing vessel has been in operation for about ten years and only shows minor amounts of wear and tear. As with the other ships that have been ordered to remain near Seabourne Town, the Righteous Rider has been docked here ever since the Stalker crisis had started, keeping all possible suspects grounded to make sure potential Stalkers don’t attempt to escape and get away with murder.

However, you know the truth… they’re here until either they succeed or they fail and wouldn’t attempt to escape regardless, at least not to the point where they would abandon their mission. And these Demoni are so hellbent on accomplishing their goals that they would sooner sacrifice themselves to do so if it meant buying time for the others to complete their mission. In a way, you’ve realized the Savants have had to do exactly the same, remaining in Seabourne Town and pressing forward regardless of what gets thrown at you and the others… never backing down.

Thanks to your levitation power, you’re able to easily survey the exterior of the vessel and not have to be concerned about having to take a swim to do so. You do a full inspection of the entire perimeter, but you don’t see anything that seems unusual or gives off a trace of Stalker presence. The hull of the ship is entirely intact and despite a few scratches and dents here and there, you figure this ship will still be in operation for quite a while. Other elements of the ship, including the bridge, cranes, masts, nets and other supplies still appear to be in good working condition and show no sign of having been manipulated by the Stalkers. You then decide to sneak aboard and see what might be on the ship itself.

While Gresdo the Toxicroak has a small crew consisting of Min the Golurk and Jobo the Conkeldurr, you have the feeling they don’t really think for themselves all too much. From your external observations, Min is eerily complacent and obedient to all of Gresdo’s commands and orders with no hesitation or objection at all while Jobo himself seems somewhat dim-witted and can’t really think beyond simply lifting heavy crates and taking on tasks that require a lot of strength but definitely don’t require intelligence.

Your immediate thought is the crew must be hurting financially due to being unable to head out to perform their early morning catches and bring back the hauls to the market. Instead, you’ve noticed that Gresdo has the crew performing labor-intensive tasks on land, including hauling of heavy construction equipment, shipping crates, and waste disposal at the Anchorpoint Shipping Company Headquarters as a supplemental source of income. Meanwhile, they’ve been using the ship itself as a storage facility beyond using it as lodging for themselves.

Some of these wooden crates and metallic containers seem sketchy and you have a feeling Gresdo and his crew aren’t aware about the suspicious cargo they’ve been handling. In some of these containers that you gently investigate, you find money printing plates, most likely used for printing counterfeit money. Others include drugs, illegal weapons, and even some explosives that appear to be military-grade. In another crate, you find what looks to be a set of combat armor, which appears to look like it’s intended for some kind of insurgent warlord.

You decide to take the armor, feeling it would benefit the Savant cause way more than whatever warlord this might be going toward. You’re quite sure by the time they realize the armor is missing, Gresdo and his crew will be long gone… hopefully after everything is resolved with the Stalkers…

+|A| Combat Armor+ (3H) has been added to the Team Inventory (Equipment)

You almost wish all of this nefarious cargo could be dealt with and investigated further to determine the source, but for now, it’s more important to focus on the Stalkers, which is keeping the entire world at stake. After you finish your search upon this ship, you come to realize the Stalkers haven’t been here yet, but at least you’ve made sure…

As the sun begins to set, you decide to head back to Benni’s to make it back in time for dinner and prepare for tonight. The clouds are starting to gather overhead and you’re beginning to suspect there might be rain.

Perhaps this really was the calm before the storm…

Chakra the Tatsujin Jirachi (S: Kūsho)

Health: 14/16 | Sanity: 11/20 | Purity: 15/24 | 10/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Pikachu, Pachirisu, Minccino, Victini, Mudkip
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: +|A| Guardian Armor+ (4H, 2P)
• Jewelry: +|J| Sapphire Amulet+ (1S, 2P)

[Neo Emolga]

Phew! Now I’m in better shape, let’s get back to digging for info. My target this time is that Holly Home place, as I feel it may hold a link to Drestan somehow... whole kid thing and stuff? Maybe? Guess I’ll have to see.

After waking up in the morning, you graciously thank Benni for the early morning breakfast of fresh fruit and breakfast pastries before stepping out the front door to head immediately west toward the abandoned derelict of the Holly Home.

The walk toward the house itself doesn’t seem at all foreboding and almost seems peaceful with the calm and pleasant weather. Still, you decide not to get your guard down and despite the abandoned house being relatively close by to Benni’s farmstead, you brace yourself for anything.

Upon arrival at the dark-brown house, you see it isn’t completely in disarray. Neglect has caused some of the external features of the wooden house to need servicing, like new paint, replacing some of the rusted metal fixtures, and some new masonry might help it look new again, but it at least doesn’t look like its on the verge of collapse like some other places you’ve seen. In contrast, compared to some of the other buildings in this section of town, it’s one of the nicer-looking places here and you don’t feel that intimidated investigating it today. Some of the windows are broken from pillagers trying to snatch whatever valuables might still be around, but you find they could still be easily replaced if someone wanted to live here again, although the rest of the surrounding area says that would be a bad idea.

In your hunt to see if Drestan really is Fallow, you come up empty-handed when it comes to the outside of the house. The yards are in disarray, but there’s nothing really out of the ordinary here. You then decide to go inside and it doesn’t take very long for you to learn more about the story of this place.

Inside, most of the Holly family’s belongings and furnishings are still there. You figure anyone looting the place would only be looking to take things that were valuable and easy to carry like money or jewelry, but the heavy objects like cabinets, bookshelves, and desks still remain. Looters that weren’t interested in their low-value items like family pictures, books, knick-knacks, flower pots, and other simple things still remain, gathering dust while waiting for the family to come home after being gone for years.

Who is the fifth… the fifth child…?

From your investigations into the Holly family’s life, you see Mayla and Errando, both Mightyena, had four children, Yetna, Mishy, Orlandz, and Kesni, all Poochyena. As you search among the family photos and family documents, there doesn’t seem to be any indication of a fifth child. Old photographs and family documents like birth certificates clearly only depict four of them.

But as you wander around the derelict house, you can almost hear the word “fifth” and “five” and it has you turning your head searching for the source of the noise, not sure if its wind coming in through the broken window or simply created from taking steps on the wooden floor.

Another strange thing you’ve noticed is all the clocks in each of the rooms seem to be stopped at the same time. It strikes you as unusual because it seems like it’s only been a few years since the house was abandoned and at least a few of these clocks could have still been running given the long battery life they should have had. Instead, they’re all stopped at 2:14, which seems more unusual given all these clocks should have died all at different times. The coincidence is unnerving to you and you believe something else had a part in having everything stop at this one time.

You come across one room and it appears to be a baby’s nursery. At first, it doesn’t strike you as unusual, but then you recall from the photographs that Yetna, Mishy, Orlandz, and Kesni all seemed to be fairly grown up children and the youngest, Kesni, looked to be at least five years old and wouldn’t need a nursery like this. And yet, as you look around, the room is furnished with colorful childlike paintings on the walls along with cute-looking baby toys and supplies. It seems unusual given most of these should have been discarded after Kesni grew up and didn’t need these anymore. Meanwhile, the room looks rather clean and comforting, as if seemingly resistant to the dust collecting on the rest of the things in the house.

…The fifth…

In the center of the room, you see a colorful baby crib that looks like it was just built or purchased yesterday. You decide to approach and take a look inside to see if anything was left behind.

@Damned Screaming – GHOST (5 Damage>)@ Trap 40% Evasion Test: 41 out of 100: Failed!

You see the empty space in the crib before you and suddenly you realize the trap that you’re in. But before you can duck down, it finds your mind and rushes toward your brain. You can only scream at the nether energies fill your head with anguish… and suddenly your eyes go white…

You can only twitch and shake as your body feels paralyzed and your brain feels like it’s being crushed into a blender before the maniacal machine from hell is mercilessly turned on and everything that defines you is turned into glue.

Colored has suffered 2 Sanity Damage.

The room melts. The baby toys suddenly show their true nature and it was all part of a demonic ruse. It was never a nursery, just part of an illusion and the room that used to be a nursery was converted into a storage cabinet…

But what… what happened…?

You don’t quite understand what the meaning behind the fifth child is. Why none of this makes sense.

The void in that crib… it takes shape and form from the blackness and you see something hideous begin to appear, but you know it’s only in your mind.



The nightmare in your vision beholds an Espurr and nothing about it makes sense. The first thing you consider is that seems like it has nothing to do with the Holly family. It was a family of Mightyena and Poochyena and the family photos and records confirm that. There was no fifth child…

…

…o̮͎̖̎͊͋r̞͙͇͔͇̭̘ w̪̥͙͕̗̪͋́̋ͤ̀ͤå͉ͬͅs ̲͉̖͆͂̿th̞̖er͔̹͈͖̍̄̌ͯe͓̚.̤̝̓͑.̝̗ͫ̂.?̯̰͖̘̳̓͊̈̔ͮ̏ ͓

…

The nightmare continues and you feel lost, still trying to grasp the situation. But dark things begin to come to mind and they begin to drop engrams of the story like planting bad, sanity-consuming seeds into your brain. They take root, they begin to germinate… and they g͔̘̹̘̙̬̟̋̊͛̐̐ͩ̂r͐͛ͦ͑o̰̜̻ͧ͗ͦw̘̪̙̪ͦͪͥ̒…

The father… Errando…

Errando… what did you do…?

…

W͕̜̗̰͉̗ͦ̍ͯ̏ͬͮH̞̯̹̟̣͖aT ̟̐Di͖̹͓̠̹d ̹͚͚̘̑̎ͥ̔y̻̰̳͖̪OU̺ Dͣͦő ̋̒͂̀̂E̱̦͕ͬ̆́ͮͅĔ̜͍̹̻ͬͬ͑ͨͅra̞̱̠̳̓̎ͤ̂Ṇ̠D͙̄O̾͆ͨ̌!̰̉? ̃̍̍

And suddenly you see what the nightmare is about. Suddenly it hits you like a truck speeding down the highway, and you vomit what feels like spiritual essence mixed with the fluids in your skull.

Errando had five children.

Five children.

Four of them were with his wife Mayla.

The fifth was with a Meowstic named Kabina…

…and the baby Espurr they would have had together was aborted before it could be born… to hide the fact Errando betrayed and cheated on his wife and abandoned his family. The scream in your mind makes the truth clear and you feel a kind of dark, psychological sickness when you realize Fallow’s Stalker presence here. And this empty crib is the essence of a child that could have been and could have had a life to live… but was terminated to hide the sins of the parents.

Fallow, as you painfully realize… adores this and doesn’t hesitate to reveal this dark truth to everyone that comes here. And as you look around you at the dark secret of this house, you realize this is everything Fallow could have wished for. The ultimate happy ending of a child-killer. A family destroyed by the truth… and the death of an unborn child out of choice… out of a lie and out of deception. But like a buried weed, the sin still found its way out of the dirt that tried to cover it. It poked out and grew and grew into a monster.

What happened to Mayla… what happened to Yetna, Mishy, Orlandz, and Kesni? Did they find out? Why did they never come home…?

There’s only one logical answer…

Cȍ̺̺̳̟́͂̎lored has su̜̝̰̹͉̇̿ͣ̐̓ffered 3 Sanity Damȁ̽͆̒ͨge.

@{The Derelict Crib: Body Cavity} Damned Screaming GHOST – (5 Sanity Damage)@ has been noted in the Team Records.

There’s a reason why no one came back to pick up the pieces…

You try your best to crawl out of the house, keeping your eyes shut as much as possible, trying to avoid looking at the family pictures on the walls and shelves, trying to shut out the noises of “the fifth child” that seem to whisper into your ears. But it’s like a maze of horrors as you try to navigate it blind and every time you try to slightly open your eyes to peek and find guidance to reach the exit, they seem to land on pictures or depictions of the once happy Mightyena and Poochyena family.

…But all of them now have a vacant black space… a black, Espurr-shaped space. Like a shadow that watches from the darkness… a birth from sin that caused betrayal and death… leaving you cringing and turning your gaze away as the whispers keep drifting into your ears.

Eventually you find your way to the entrance and you make a mad dash for it, throwing open the wooden door with a slam that seems to echo throughout the western area of Seabourne Town. You’re suddenly back outside and you see dark clouds in the sky beginning to gather, to take form, and you see it looks like it’s going to rain soon.

You almost shamble trying to make your way back to Benni’s farmstead. You stumble once and in trying to get back up, your gaze lands upon the house once more…

…and for one dark moment, you see the face of an Espurr looking at you from the window of where the nursery would have been. Watching. Staring. Never once moving or blinking.

You turn around, get up, and sprint toward Benni’s farmstead nea͍̼͙rly͎̯̬̗͉̯̻ ͚͓̮̠scre̺ͅa̬̠̦ͅmi̺̭̞ng̩̭͉̬̞…͕̮̭̜̤

Colored the Snivy (S: Grass)

Health: 16/16 | Sanity: 12/20 | Purity: 24/24 | 6/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Diplomacy
Reincarnation Forms: Morelull, Palpitoad, Mega Audino, Pidgeot, Cinccino
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: <Empty>
• Jewelry: <Empty>

[Neo Emolga]

I still haven't exactly healed myself, so I'm not tempted to go get that horrible terrarium off a child. Instead I think I'll follow up on a slightly safer lead, and diplomatically ask Ressi the Grotle if I could hold onto that prism for a while. It sounds like a component we might need!

After waking up, you still feel the darkness lingering onto your soul, but decide time is of the essence and there isn’t enough of it to be wasting. You decide to power through that dark pressure and that morning, after eating breakfast with the others, you decide to head out and speak to Ressi the Grotle.

You find her working at the Seabourne Office Plaza, working a day shift as an administrative assistant for the Brixel Chemical Corporation. It seems like an average office job and strikes you as possibly a bit dull, but to Ressi, it seems to be a good fit given her kind of demeanor. You can tell quite a bit about her personality even just by looking at her desk. It’s extremely orderly, very clean, and everything is labeled clearly and sorted in alphabetical order.

Despite the pain your spirit is facing, you feel a discussion with Ressi is likely very low risk, so you decide to approach her and you ask about the Aether Prism as well as what she knows about the Stalkers.

“I want to figure out what’s going on, too, but I can’t,” Ressi tells you, feeling frustrated about it. “The other night, when Sanfer died, I had a dream. Hashani and Terron were there, and we just attacked him. Mindlessly and for no good reason. I kept stomping on his body and crushing his bones. And the strange thing was that it felt right and noble in the dream, but I woke up feeling horrible guilt over it, especially when I found out he actually died. It left me feeling personally responsible for it…”

“Have you heard of Edifice?” you ask Ressi, wondering just how much she knows about the Stalker that caused this. “We believe he is responsible for that. Yes… Sanfer died that night, but it wasn’t your fault. You had no control over your own self in that dream and neither did Hashani or Terron. You know in your heart you would never do that to Sanfer or any other Pokémon.”

Ressi still looks down, trying to consider what you said. You can sense she hasn’t talked to either Hashani or Terron about this, yet, but you feel it might do her a whole lot of good if she opened up about this to them. They too, may be feeling this same way, and you know it’s exactly the kind of guilt and shame Edifice wants his victims to be feeling.

“Maybe I just need more time,” she tells you, still looking like she might be keeping some of this bottled up. “I didn’t want to get mixed up in any of this. Maybe it’s related to this prism, maybe it’s not. I don’t know and I hate not knowing.”

You decide to use that to help inform Ressi. You gather that she doesn’t like being in the dark about these kinds of things, given how orderly she keeps her belongings. It strikes you as someone who wants to know where the answers are at all times and have the assurance that knowledge is close at hand. So you decide to give her the information she wants to know.

“It’s an Aether Prism,” you inform her, assuring her. “We believe it may help us fight back against some of these Stalkers. As you’ve probably realized from that dream, these are supernatural killers and they can’t be stopped with only conventional weaponry. These Aether Prisms, like the one you own right here, may hold the power that can stop them on the same supernatural plane that these Stalkers operate on.”

Ressi turns to look back at the prism in her possession, and she nods, feeling a kind of supernatural essence dwelling deep inside this energy conduit. You sense her lack of understanding of how these function and what they’re for is frustrating to her, but she accepts she can’t be expected to know everything. As she realizes, not everything can be sensed down to explainable science and logic.

“And Edifice…?” she asks, looking back to you as you’ve informed her about the identity of one of these Stalkers. “You’re sure he was responsible for that horrible dream and the death of Sanfer?”

You nod, and then look directly into her eyes.

“We even know who exactly this Stalker is,” you tell her, but decide for her own safety, she can’t know who Edifice is or else she could easily become the next target. “I wish I could tell you, but if the Stalkers were to ever find out that you know this, it could be deadly. I want to assure you we’re on it and we’re doing everything we can.”

#25 Ressi the Grotle has become Compliant.

She then slides the Aether Prism to you, as you have assured her with the knowledge you have, it’s far better to be in your hands.

“Take it,” she tells you with a confident smile. “I didn’t know what this thing was about before, but it sounds like you’re much more on top of things than I am and if this can help you stop Edifice or those other Stalkers, I’m all for you having it.”

You place your hand upon the prism and you feel that same familiar otherworldly energy deep within it… the same you have felt from the other Black Moon weapons and relics.

[Aether Prism] has been added to the Team Inventory (Black Moon Relics).

“Thank you,” you tell her.

“There’s… something else, one other thing before you go,” Ressi tells you. “My apartment is at the Seaport Lofts and I think I might have stumbled across something else that seems a little similar to this. It was toward the back of the building and it had this strange symbol. I was taking my trash out the other night and a bunch of scrap paper sheets got caught in the wind and got blown around. I had to go fetch all of the pieces, but one of them landed toward this… odd symbol and at first I thought it was just some graffiti, but there was this strange presence from it. At first I thought it was just my imagination, same thing like this prism, but I got the feeling that maybe it wasn’t. I haven’t told anyone about this yet so I’m not sure if I’m the only one that knows about it. If you decide to come over tonight, I can show you where it is.”

It does make you wonder… could this be related to the other Black Moon weapons and relics, or possibly be about something else? You make a mental note of it, thinking if Ressi has had some exposure to these supernatural relics, it’s likely what she found could be related and that it isn’t just some graffiti.

“I’ll look into it,” you assure her. “Thanks for your help and please, take care of yourself. It’s getting dark and dangerous out there.”

She nods, and then you decide to head back to the farmstead. It’s coming close to the end of Ressi’s workday as well, and you’re just hoping she makes it back home okay.

ChiChi the Tatsujin Tapu Lele (M: Kūsho)

Health: 16/20 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 10/20 | 10/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 30%
Perk: Diplomacy
Reincarnation Forms: Corviknight, Milotic, Aurorus, Espeon, Alcremie
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: <Empty>
• Jewelry: +|J| Blessed Armband+ (1S, 1P)

[Neo Emolga]

Night has fallen in Seabourne Town
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(Wednesday, September 21, 2022 12:00:00 AM EST)

@C0L0R3D @Chakramaster @ARandomTool @EmeraldSky @sammy0295 @Scytherwolf @Noblejanobii @Lychee @DayBreak

[Scytherwolf]

I'm going to repair that key for that vault at Seabourne Office Plaza.

[DayBreak]

(Lyric is gonna check out the Flying Ace to see if they can't find that medallion)

The Water-type smiled at the supposed gaining of a new ally. They didn't get a gut feeling like they had with Korak, but they'd consider putting the pendant back on when they went to do their interviews. But for now, they wanted to take a look at the Buizel's ship. Putting on the thin black vest they wore as a Nidorina to try and cover some of their glowing, they set out for the ship.

"The more we get, the better shot we have against the Stalkers," Lyric mumbled to themself as they travelled the mostly empty roads. "Regardless of whether or not the Medallion is related to them, or a Tatsujin relic, or even something else, getting some knowledge of what exactly it is would probably help..."

[Lychee]

ChiChi will put on the dreamwatch necklace and go talk to Drestan. Diplomatically.
Time to prove your innocence, or spin me a very guilty story, coastguard!

I like to think since ChiChi is glowing and also a weird species, it might be like getting a visit from the ghost of christmas past!
Pleasedontkillmeeeee

[Neo Emolga]

I'm going to repair that key for that vault at Seabourne Office Plaza.

After deciding to stay in tonight, you gather the broken components of the ancient vault key mechanism and work on reconstructing them to their former state. You find the best way to begin is to try and categorize the individual pieces as you discern what their role is in the machine. As you sort through the metal rods, latches, plates, screws, and other parts, it definitely feels like you have your work cut out for you. And something else quickly becomes apparent…

You find not only has the mechanism been badly damaged, but even beyond that, the apparatus is complicated and involves a lot of complex, bewildering components that not only need to be placed in proper alignment, but many of them are in desperate need of repair and need to be refurbished and rewelded before they can be placed correctly. As you go through the components and try to match broken pieces together and restore them, there are others that need to be bent back to their previous precise shape and alignment. Without access to any kind of metalworking devices or smelting tools, you find it impossible to create new parts to replace the broken and damaged ones, forcing you to use exactly what’s in front of you for better or for worse.

As you go through the very painstaking process, you can only imagine what kind of advanced engineering when into creating this contraption, but you find yourself having to learn its functions in order to restore it and you find it very difficult without any kind of text guides or mentoring.

After nearly spending the entire night piecing the ancient apparatus together part by part, trial and error, all while refurbishing the pieces that were bent, broken, or cracked, you find yourself worn out, but finally the task is complete…

[Broken Vault Key Mechanism: <Repair>] has become the [Vault Key Mechanism]

Without a doubt, the Tueur were more talented than what they got credit for and you can tell ordinary Pokémon would not have been capable of this level of ingenuity. It becomes clear this was the reasoning, that only Savants would have this kind of capability while native Pokémon to this world would find this technology far too alien for them to understand. Still, with the device restored as best as possible given the age and condition of the machine, you feel it should at last be ready for deployment at the vault and reveal its dark secrets…

If you really want to try this rather brutal puzzle… here is the link and GOOD LUCK!

(WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE COMPLETED):

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Scy the Tatsujin Heracross (M: Kūsho)

Health: 20/20 | Sanity: 14/20 | Purity: 19/20 | 10/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 30%
Perk: Diplomacy, Repair, Security
Reincarnation Forms: Heracross, Scyther, Centiskorch, Snom, Volcarona
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: <Empty>
• Jewelry: +|J| Diamond Necklace+ (2S, 2P)

[Neo Emolga]

(Lyric is gonna check out the Flying Ace to see if they can't find that medallion)

The Water-type smiled at the supposed gaining of a new ally. They didn't get a gut feeling like they had with Korak, but they'd consider putting the pendant back on when they went to do their interviews. But for now, they wanted to take a look at the Buizel's ship. Putting on the thin black vest they wore as a Nidorina to try and cover some of their glowing, they set out for the ship.

"The more we get, the better shot we have against the Stalkers," Lyric mumbled to themself as they travelled the mostly empty roads. "Regardless of whether or not the Medallion is related to them, or a Tatsujin relic, or even something else, getting some knowledge of what exactly it is would probably help..."

After the night falls, you decide to see if you can find the broken sigil fragment that Velay mentioned earlier. It’s a bit of a long, shuffling walk in the dark toward the Flying Ace, especially as a Brionne. By the time you get there and catch your breath, Velay is fast asleep. Since he didn’t seem to mind you taking the fragment if you can find it, you decide to get started as his ship is rather large and a lot of containers and piles of belongings are laying about. You figure trying to find this fragment through traditional sifting, shuffling, and digging could take weeks and you just don’t have that time. You figure you’re going to need a whole different approach for this rather daunting task.

You decide to start from the top, investigating the bridge. For the most part, Velay’s ship seems to be in alright shape in terms of condition, although it’s a bit of a mess and it seems like keeping the ship clean and orderly isn’t on his list of priorities. Not to mention being a salvager isn’t the cleanest of professions and you can tell a lot of rubbish from shipwrecks and from the bottom of the ocean made it onto his ship and was never swept away.

On the lower interior deck levels, you find plenty of crates, metal barrels, boxes, and other used and battered containers holding various tools, objects, debris, and other odds and ends of things that Velay still needs to get organized, cleaned up, and appraised. However, most of it doesn’t seem too valuable and you’re not sure why he still hangs onto most of it, but you get the feeling that he still feels some of these things are personal trophies to him and despite their dingy nature, he has fond memories instilled into them. Memories of adventure, discovery, and

After about two hours of searching, you try to focus with your spirit and your Savant senses as opposed to relying on only what you can see with your eyes. The Black Moon essences of the fragment aren’t as easy to detect as the presence of demonic Stalker relics, but there is a slight supernatural signature to them that you feel should resonate with you as you get closer to it. However, given the fact it’s broken, it takes that much longer to find it among the piles of debris and other junk.

As you navigate your way through the metallic hallways and chambers, you close your eyes at times, trying to sense the slightest and faintest of Black Moon presence, which you’ve felt before from having come across other relics that the guild has created. There are plenty of times when you feel nothing, but as you head to the back of the vessel, you then pick up the trace, even though it’s very, very faint and would never be detected by an ordinary Pokémon. It becomes almost a game of hot and cold in the dark as you need to keep your eyes shut to avoid having the sense of sight distract you from this sixth sense that needs your full concentration. While it causes you to bump and nudge into some of the random containers and piles of things that Velay has around, you approach the presence until it becomes stronger and stronger, although only in very minute amounts. When you feel you’ve reached the center origin point of the presence, you then finally open your eyes and look down at the piles of dirty and broken metal objects laying in a pile before you. As you sift through them, you find the lost fragment:



[=Sigil Fragment 2=] has been added to the Team Inventory.

Undetectable by normal Pokémon, you sense this is one of Black Moon’s last relic pieces and it matches the format that the other two pieces had.

Having found what you were looking for, you head back to Benni’s farmstead and then you find the other two broken pieces…





Taking the other two pieces, you place them together, and then with an uncanny, supernatural presence, the three pieces fuse together with a dark, violet-colored light. Once it dies down, you see the completed sigil before you, as if it was never shattered in the first place…



The Black Moon Sigil Fragments have become the [=Black Moon Assassin Sigil=].

The Black Moon presence radiating from this emblem becomes far stronger, and you realize whatever destroyed this sigil must have been a very powerful presence of evil trying to prevent its reassembly. Part of you wonder if this same evil presence might have been one of the reasons why Black Moon was eliminated so many years ago, and why only their relics remain.

Nonetheless, you intend on continuing their work… knowing it’s exactly what the Demoni don’t want you to do. You’re not sure how this sigil will be used, but you have a feeling it may be close by and soon it will yield the answers you’re seeking.

For now, you decide to head off to sleep, feeling fulfilled and satisfied that you’ve taken yet another step toward saving Seabourne…

Lyric Winterheart the Tatsujin Brionne (M: Kūsho)

Health: 20/20 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 20/20 | 10/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 30%
Perk: Diplomacy, Repair, Security
Reincarnation Forms: Brionne, Mega Ampharos, Hisuian Goodra, Latios, Amaura
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: <Empty>
• Jewelry: <Empty>

[Chakramaster]

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