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

[Chakramaster]

I'm gonna take it a little easy for now. Make sure everything is okay at the school. Maybe I can get some lead from there.



Maybe I can even make a kids day a little better and play! At least help try and cheer them up if anything.

(18) Copper Plains School

[Neo Emolga]

I'm going to start by searching the library--maybe there's still some books in there that have clues?

As soon as the dawn arrives and you find the library has opened, you leave Benni’s farm behind and you make your way toward the old library, moving along on the old worn-down road that leads straight to Seabourne, paying no mind to the dust that settles on your small, yellow feet as you walk along. You find the library straight ahead, but before you head inside, you decide to look around the outside perimeter first. The morning sunlight is bright and easy to work with, so you decide to take advantage of it with your searching.

From your initial evaluation, the building is still in relatively ok shape, but could use some restoration work here and there as some of the old bricks could be replaced and it appears the old windows haven’t been given the cleaning they need for quite a whole. A little bit of groundskeeping wouldn’t hurt either, as it seems a few of the weeds here had settled in along the wall.

Around the back corner, you see a small ripped piece of paper that catches your eye, and when you pick it up, it seems to be the second half of some note or message:



=Sarkkan Note 2nd Half= has been added to the Team Records.

You try to look around to see if the other half of it is somewhere around, but it’s just no where to be seen. As you look off into the distance, you wonder if maybe the other half was blown away in the wind and could be miles and miles away from here by now. You hope that isn’t the case and maybe somewhere around here, the other half of this can be found…

After finishing your search outside, you head inside where it seems not too many other Pokémon have arrived. It’s quite peaceful and quiet inside among the many shelves and tables and chairs of varying sizes and heights to accommodate Pokémon of all shapes and sizes, although the furnishings and furniture are quite old and look like they’ve seen many years of use from generations of Pokémon coming and going. The marble floor almost feels cold beneath your yellow feet, and the height of the shelves almost seems overwhelming, but you investigate what you can within your reach, realizing stationed in the aisles, there are old metallic adjustable ladders and platforms for smaller Pokémon to use to reach the higher shelves. As you look up, the upper walls and ceiling almost reminds you of a gothic cathedral in style.

Many of the books seem quite old, covering histories of Pokémon civilizations and famous figures, catching your curiosity, but unfortunately you simply don’t have the time to dive into all of the books located here. Other books cover all kinds of various subjects from famous architecture, agriculture, biology, and early machinery. You can sense from the books that the Pokémon here in this world aren’t quite as technologically advanced as humans back in your own home world or Origine, but they still have come a considerable way with their engineering and societal structures. You’re convinced you won’t find anything like computers, smartphones, and GPSs while you’re here, but you’re still impressed nonetheless.

It isn’t until you get to one of the shelves in the back that things seem to take an odd turn. After using one of the adjustable platforms to raise yourself up to the 9th-level shelf, you notice the books here deal with ancient theology and mythology. Some of them even deal with witchcraft and other occult-like teachings and manuals, bound by brown and black leather covers, strange emblems, and spidery-like runes in another language that you’re convinced you’ll probably not learn in this lifetime.

You feel a presence coming from a few of the books, and from an initial investigation, it looks like some kind of strange, brown, rectangular stone tablet was placed here. Alongside of it appear to be a batch of strange black pages. You first start with the stone tablet, wondering why it was placed here. You grab the edge with your paw, and pull it out from the shelf…

Maya has inherited 2 Points of Kurosuōbā…

The tablet… it feels so strange in your yellow paws, and it feels like it’s trying to connect with you, almost assimilate with you in a way that makes your spirit shiver for a moment. You’re taken back, not sure if this is some kind of trap, but you find yourself unable to fight it, disarm it, or prevent it from settling upon you. It’s followed by a slight sense of trance vertigo, but when you try to regain your bearings, you see the tablet is written in some strange rune-like wording. And the language is odd as you look upon it. You can’t read it, but somehow, you feel like maybe in another past life… or in another time and space… you could. It doesn’t make sense to you, at first…

@[Shukufuku no jozai] - ~2 Kurosuōbā~@ has been added to the Team Inventory.

You then reach for the pages, and upon your yellow paw clasping around them and pulling them out of the shelf, you feel that same familiar feeling… yet again…

Maya has inherited 3 Points of Kurosuōbā…

The pages… you feel like you can almost understand them, but not quite enough to grasp what they truly say. It’s almost frustrating as you like you can just taste the answers, but you still feel like you’re a million miles away from them. Meanwhile, it seems like the essence of these strange, enigmatic artifacts have strangely affected you in some odd, mysterious way.

@[Burakkupeji 1 of 2] - ~3 Kurosuōbā~@ has been added to the Team Inventory.

The pages aren’t complete and it seems like this is only part of the story… whatever this story is about. You frantically search the rest of the shelf, trying to find the remainder of the pages, but it seems like they’re simply nowhere to be found. It almost makes you dizzy to come here looking for answers, but now you have far more questions than you can possibly hope to answer…

You take the strange relics with you, but you decide to head back to Benni’s farm early, simply overwhelmed from everything you have found here. This presence, this feeling now encircling your spirit… you’re not sure what it wants with you. It still lingers within you by the time you make it back to the farm. You almost feel like you just simply want to sleep…

This tablet and these pages… they all seem so mysterious. Where did they come from…?

Are they even from this world… you wonder…

Maya the Pikachu (S: Electric)

Health: 16/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24 | 5/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Gardevoir, Alolan Ninetales, Meloetta, Baile forme Oricorio, Cinderace
EQUIPMENT:

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

[Neo Emolga]

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Okay, note to both self and all. Stay away from that ‘PiT’ until absolutely mandatory. O-or do go whenever, I’m not really in charge of you… sorry.

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Something to do, though… by looking through archives of past Stalker journeys, Lita’s taught me one important fact: get your bearings with those Stalkers!

[ACTION DECIDED: Search (36) Seabourne Coast Guard]
Focus on looking for anything Stalker related, but I’ll take what I get.

While ChiChi decides to investigate the police station, you decide to do your part this morning and see what the Coast Guard has been up to. While you initially feel there’s much more likelihood that evidence was found on land, it’s quite possible something was found on a ship out at sea or possibly washed up on shore. And if something was, the Coast Guard would know about it.

You head south toward the shore, trotting on the old dusty path on your two small green feet. After a rather long walk through town and admiring the many stores and houses that make up the heart of town, you eventually arrive at the docks and come across the rather large and highly secured black and gray stone building. You see it’s three stories tall and made to be resistant to the water, both low and high tides. There are only a few windows, and they’re kept secure with metal bars in front of them, making sure no one uses the windows as an entry point.

You first start by searching the exterior, but even after getting your feet literally wet in the water, you just don’t see anything that seems strange or out of the ordinary on the outside. After shrugging, you decide to just head inside to see what you can find.

The interior is somewhat spacious and while the inside doesn’t exactly feel homey or incredibly warm and welcoming, it at least seems organized and functional. The overhead lighting gives enough illumination here and there are a few Pokémon here simply waiting for their turn to be called up to a receptionist.

You decide to quietly and stealthily slip by the scrutiny of the staff and do your own looking around. From what you can see from the staff list, Malco the Toxtricity runs the show here, and judging from his composure, he’s definitely not one for fooling around and seems to take his job seriously. Meanwhile, two of his direct reports, Drestan the Pelipper and Erine the Swoobat, are also working here. Watching Drestan from a distance, you feel the pelican bird Pokémon is trying his best, but when Malco isn’t looking, he doesn’t look so sure of himself. Meanwhile, Erine, on the other hand, seems to be more of a go-getter, working hard and currently having discussion with a Vaporeon. You can’t quite make out what they’re saying, but neither of them seems to be at edge for the time being. While they don’t seem to be friends, there doesn’t seem to be any reason for alarm.

From what you can find, there doesn’t seem to be much in the ways of Stalker reports. Of the papers you find laying around, many of them are simply patrol reports, procedure documentation, and other things regarding logistics. They’ve either kept what they’ve found very secure, or they simply haven’t found very much…

When you come across one of the temporary material holding rooms, which you find is meant for holding dangerous or potentially harmful material found on the beach, in the water, or confiscated from a criminal’s ship, you find an odd batch of black papers that seems highly unusual considering the norm for papers around here seems to imply most papers used in this world are white paper materials.

You decide to pick up the stack of black papers and you suddenly feel very strange…

Colored has inherited 3 Points of Kurosuōbā…

This kind of paper… these runes etched into them… nothing about it makes sense. You feel a strange, almost spiritual hook pull you in for a moment as your green hands make contact with them, and the you feel those presences squirm their way into your soul. The runes… the words… they almost seem like something you once knew, but like a forgotten memory, nothing comes out of the darkness. But something… something about it feels important, so you decide to take these with you…

@[Burakkupeji 2 of 2] – ~3 Kurosuōbā~@ has been added to the Team Inventory.

It makes you feel a bit light-headed, almost as if you wouldn’t really mind simply lying down and letting yourself drift off to sleep for a little bit…

After you regain your composure, you search out the rest of the Seabourne Coast Guard building, but nothing else seems to appear before you. But these black pages… somehow you feel these really don’t belong here. They just can’t be normal…

Once you’ve investigated everything that you felt was work looking into, you decide to head back north to make it back to Benni’s farm. You feel you have a few more answers and new leads to look into, but there are still a lot of questions you have…

Colored the Snivy (S: Grass)

Health: 16/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24 | 3/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Diplomacy
Reincarnation Forms: Morelull, Palpitoad, Mega Audino, Pidgeot, Cinccino
EQUIPMENT:

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