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So the rumor of this place is there's some unexplained clicking sound. I wonder what could be causing that. Maybe this place is due to some investigating. So I'll put my detective hat on and do some sleuthing here myself!

Search: (41) Oceanwatch Condominiums
As the moon appears in the sky, you head southeast toward the eastern docks and where the Oceanwatch Condominiums are. You imagine most Pokémon that live here are home by now, but you figure you can still get in plenty of searching without being noticed.

When you first arrive, you decide to look around the exterior of the building, even though the moonlight is just about the only illumination you have to work with save for the faint light generated by a few street lamps nearby. The main three-story building itself is in generally good condition, but you still find traces of litter here and there as well as some minor graffiti on the walls.

As you search along the walls, you find there is a small indentation in the gray brick wall and when you investigation it further, you find one of the bricks seems loose and can be pulled away. You then look inside, not really expecting to find anything, but it seems a strange book cover was hidden here. You decide to pull it out, and the most unusual sensation happens…

Chakra has inherited 2 points of Kurosuōbā…

It leaves you feeling a bit odd, even though for some strange reason, there are no pages in the book and it looks like some kind of circular plate or marking on the cover was removed. But you’re not sure why or by whom. All the while, after looking at both sides of the cover, you swear it doesn’t at all seem like a normal book cover, but you can’t quite understand or fathom what makes it different…

Still, you take the cover with you and put the stone brick back into place.

@[Kaba] - ~2 Kurosuōbā~@ has been added to the Team Inventory.

Your best guess is someone wanted to disassemble this book to prevent it from being reassembled, but didn’t want to destroy it. You’re not quite sure why this is the case and what would prompt this kind of action. Perhaps this was a way to protect the book and come back to it later?

You then head inside the condominiums, entering through the main lobby before finding yourself standing before a flight of stairs. In terms of interior décor, you find it rather uninspiring, mostly having bare white walls, rather stale-looking lighting, and a few houseplants that look like they haven’t been cared for very well. The edges of the leaves are browning and it doesn’t look like they’ve been watered for days.

You search around the hallways, unsure if you’re going to hear that odd clicking sound. When it finally reveals itself, it comes along as faint tapping at first, and you try to estimate where it’s coming from. Initially, you think it’s coming from the far end of the second floor, but when you search around there, the way it echoes misleads you and makes you think it’s now coming from further down the hall past rows and rows of apartment doors. And when you try to go there, again, it seems to move, as if playing a labyrinth game of hot and cold with you. You’re not sure if it’s some kind of anomaly or if something or someone is fully conscious and aware that you’re trying to track them down, but nonetheless, your attempt to find out what’s doing this keeps going unfulfilled despite your best intentions to save the Pokémon that live here some sanity from this pesky noise.

What started as determination quickly becomes frustration and then ultimately a forfeit. Instead, you decide to simply search and sweep the building, trying to tune out the clicking and tapping noise while you work.

In one of the recently abandoned condominiums, you find what looks like a piece of jewelry that must have been either left behind intentionally or the more likely case, fell out of a moving box or container by accident and was left behind, never noticed by the original owner. You put it up and realize there is a small minor blessing on it, likely created by some sort of mystic or priest. You’re not even sure what religion or sect was responsible or what the protective runes on it even mean, but wearing it makes you feel more at ease, as though it’s giving your spirit a bit more courage and endurance even in the darkest of places…

Chakra has equipped the +|J| Blessed Armband+ (1S, 1P)

When you search the rest of the building, you don’t find anything else that seems out of place. Meanwhile, you’ve taken note of all the Pokémon that live here, which consists of Sanfer, Nimsher, Zakra, Malco, Drestan, Erine, Dantus, Yanza, Hashani, Talchea, and Nali. Even at a late hour, there’s still plenty of noise and for some reason, it’s common for Pokémon to have loud and harsh arguments that you can hear through the walls. It could be from the tapping… or something else entirely…

You feel you’re not going to be able to solve this mystery for now and it’s already getting late. So you decide to head back to Benni’s farmstead and get some rest…



Later that night…

You come back to Benni’s dark and quite farmstead to find the Appletun has already gone to sleep for the night. Still, you decide to head over to the storage cabinet to add the Kaba cover to the rest of the items here, wondering what most of them are even for.

But then, as soon as it gets close to the other items… something happens…

For a moment, the cover forces itself open, and then the Burakkupeji black pages seemingly leap out of the cabinet all on their own and gather within the book itself, all in order and all facing the right direction. The whole time, you can’t understand what is happening, but as soon as the book is filled with its missing pages, it closes on its own, and then the Shōchō emblem leaps from the shelf it was stored on and locks into place on the front cover as if pulled into place by powerful magnetism…


@[Kaba] - ~2 Kurosuōbā~@
@[Burakkupeji 1 of 2] - ~3 Kurosuōbā~@
@[Burakkupeji 2 of 2] – ~3 Kurosuōbā~@
@[Shōchō] - ~2 Kurosuōbā~@

Have been combined to create the @[Shadoumemorizu no hon] - ~6 Kurosuōbā~@

Chakra has inherited 6 points of Kurosuōbā…

Now in your hands, the strange book lies completed, all while you feel you’ve been swept away into a strange, dream-like trance and just came back from vising a world so incredibly far away. Clearly, this book and the effect it has on you are connected, but you’re not sure what it means. But it feels like you’re closer to understanding why. This book… clearly it can’t be from this world… can it?

You flip through the pages, and despite the odd markings on the black pages, you feel like you can almost understand it, even though you’ve never read any book like this before and especially not in this mysterious language. You almost feel in another time, another place, you could distinctly read this.

What does it all mean?

You feel like you’re so close to the answers, but they still feel like a world away at another time…

Chakra the Jirachi (S: Steel / Psychic)
Health: 14/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24 | 8/10 Kurosuōbā Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Pikachu, Pachirisu, Minccino, Victini, Mudkip
EQUIPMENT:
  • Defense Armor: +|A| Scale Armor+ (3H)
  • Jewelry: +|J| Blessed Armband+ (1S, 1P)