Originally Posted by
Noblejanobii
Hmm... well based on my interview with Benni, I think searching the Kako facilities is a first priority. So, I'll start out
searching (3) Kako Industries Field.
Based on what was found in Benni’s orchard, you’re wondering if something else was stashed away at the Kako Industries Field where they grow row after row of tancorn. If there’s more raze buried here, you’re quite sure the police will want to know and it might prompt them to assist and support your investigation even though you’re here to stop the Stalkers, not for a drug bust.
It’s a short stroll from Benni’s farm, although the night sky and the darkness feels like it may present a bit of a challenge when it comes to trying to find anything that might have been hidden. Still, you decide to give it your best shot although there’s quite a lot of area to cover tonight. All the while, the breeze gently passes through the stalks, creating a soft and placid rustling sound. Meanwhile, it feels nice and gentle as it passes through the leaves on your back and through the petals of the Sakura flowers on your head.
You start from the north and head south, doing a kind of horizontal sweeping zig-zag pattern search to make sure you cover the most amount of ground possible and don’t go over anything twice while possibly missing a spot. While it isn’t difficult or taxing at first, it does become tiresome and tedious rather quickly. Tancorn, while new and interesting at first to you, quickly loses its novelty when stalks and stalks of it become the only things you see for hours to come. And all the while, you don’t find anything all that unusual among the stalks…
…at least not until you get toward the southern area.
The whole while up to this point, you were almost thinking this wasn’t going to yield anything and would only amount to good walking exercise, but then you find what appears to be a spot that the tancorn just doesn’t seem to grow all that well. And it strikes you as odd considering the rest of the field is in pretty good shape and has been well-maintained. So when you come across this one particular section, the few stalks planted here are small, haven’t been growing too well, and you’re quite sure the tiny and unappetizing husks of tancorn grown here won’t ever be sold on the market. But you’re curious as to why this is.
Using your Shaymin senses, you try to focus and empathize with the stalks as if to speak with and understand them. Just why are they never able to grow well? Surprisingly, the answer becomes clear to you quite quickly.
…there’s something solid underneath them and the stalks yearn for deeper, more refreshing soil, but they are denied. Something the roots can’t penetrate at all is just underneath them and as a result, the stalks barely get any nutrients here.
Carefully and respectfully, you replant the tancorn stalks away from this spot and put them among their peers in areas with deeper and richer soil. To these stalks, it’s like no longer having a rock to sleep on, but instead a nice fluffy mattress. You definitely know they’ll grow much better here and it already seems like they greatly appreciate the relocation.
With that out of the way, you then try to see what exactly this solid obstruction under the soil even is in the first place. You use your two pink paws to brush off the dirt and it seems like it’s some kind of underground hatch entrance. At first, it almost reminds you of an ancient in-ground mausoleum. You find the old metal ring handle that is used to open the hatch, and at first, it takes you quite a super-Shaymin effort to yank it open, but once you do, the ancient stone hatch slides open, revealing a strange staircase underground. Already, you’re expecting to find out this is some kind of tomb and you’re going to be finding a lot of dead Pokémon skeletons.
You feel up for adventure tonight, so you head downstairs into what looks like a very old and ancient temple entrance that must have been used many years ago. The strange, dark markings on the stone walls almost look like creepy voodoo to you. However, so much of it is damaged and crumbling apart so you feel it’s unlikely any of it is capable of cursing or hurting you. It isn’t until you get to the main, cryptic-looking stone door that you see something happened here a while ago. The Taika Temppeli, as this place is called, was destroyed. By what, you’re not quite sure, but it’s possible just regular wear and tear and old age might have been responsible. There doesn’t seem to be much to salvage here until you find the remnants of an old book that was left behind. It’s in bad shape and a lot of the pages are missing and torn or are too soiled and filthy to read, but some of the pages and ancient passages are still legible. You feel mainly only about 15% of the book is still legible, but at least it’s better than nothing.
From what you can read, this book appears to be some kind of old tome or prayer book and it appears to be connected with this temple. And this temple, as described in the book, seems to be an ancient ritual place. However, looking at it makes you think something along the lines of blood sacrifices and holocausts were likely done here and maybe this place is better off in pieces. The book describes “The Phudistus” ritual, but it’s not quite clear what this really is about. At least not at first, but in the later pages, it mentions “cleansing” and the purging of evil. But when you look back at the entrance, you see the whole thing is in ruins and has collapsed in upon itself. Part of you wonders maybe whatever remains should just be collected and put in a museum and call it a night. The whole feeling of the temple feels somewhat dark to you anyway.
But when you get toward the end of the book, it almost seems as though not all hope is lost for this ruined place. It speaks of the sacred texts, the “Taika Tekstit” as they are called. And then it mentions the Palauttaminen Mantra, the words of restoration. With these two combined, “what was once broken and fallen may become whole once again.” The texts describe a moment in ancient history when this was used to restore an ancient ziggurat that was destroyed in warfare, but now made whole again.
It has you wondering… would that actually work for this temple? Is this some kind of perhaps… constructive kind of voodoo? Maybe there’s only a one in a million chance of ever finding these relics anywhere, but you still make note of it, just in case.
{Destroyed Taika Temppeli: Needed Taika Tekstit AND Palauttaminen Mantra} has been noted in the Team Records.
Though everything associated with this place seems dark and creepy, it does make you wonder if it might hold some kind of answer when it comes to dealing with the Stalkers. After all, being one with the darkness to defeat another agent of darkness doesn’t seem like it would be that absurd to you in concept and practice. But you still feel it would be smart to be on your guard either way.
You decide to head out and by the time you return to the surface, you yawn and feel a bit too tired to continue. You then head back to Benni’s, thinking a nice cool glass of water and then a trip to bed would feel quite swell right about now.
Lewisia the Shaymin (S: Grass)
Health: 16/16 |
Sanity: 20/20 |
Purity: 24/24 | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Gallade, Arctozolt, Galarian Rapidash, Mawile, Hisuian Typhlosion
EQUIPMENT:
- Defense Armor: <Empty>
- Jewelry: <Empty>
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