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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
When the early morning arrives, you decide to head over to the Copper Plains School, located right in the heart of town. After levitating your way toward the school itself, you draw a bit of attention to yourself as other Pokémon in the streets look toward you, wondering who you are and why they’ve never seen your species of Pokémon before, but you try not to pay too much mind to it and carry about your business. Instead, you carry on with a confident smile that assures passersby that you’re not up to trouble.

When you arrive at the school, quickly you can see the large light-gray stone building looks like it’s been here for quite a few years and you can easily tell it wasn’t always a school. From your best guess, you imagine it was originally built to be a multi-level factory with large assembly lines, mainly manual ones for the most part. The grid-layout windows give you that impression as well, and those were never renovated with something different. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of exposed pipes and ducts, which look like they aren’t used anymore, but were most likely used to expel exhaust or other fumes.

Overall, the building does seem somewhat bland without much character to be impressed about when it comes to architecture. You also take a look around and notice there’s no playground, no sports field, no recreational area, and not even a path to take a walk or a park bench to relax and enjoy the outside. To you, considering this is supposed to be a school for kids of various ages, something doesn’t seem right about that…

You decide to search the exterior first, trying to see if the Stalkers were around here. There’s a little bit of litter here and there, but at first, you don’t notice anything too out of the ordinary. By the back loading dock, there’s an old dumpster and a few empty metal barrels besides a pile of splintering wood crates and broken down pallets. You feel a strange sensation coming from something tucked away behind one of the barrels, so you decide to take a closer look. It almost seems to be a white and red ball, and when you place your hand on it…

#Blood Hemorrhage – NORMAL (4 Health Damage>)# Trap 40% Evasion Test: 72 out of 100: Failed!

Chakra has suffered 2 Damage to Health (halved from Steel resistance)

Immediately you snap back and drop it, realizing some hideous mechanism in this sphere tried to pierce into your hand using a spiked protrusion that was previously embedded in this device. It struck a little bit, causing you to wince in sudden pain, but thankfully it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Carefully, you take a second look at this nefarious contraption, and you see it looks like whatever caused it to react this way can’t trigger it again.

Carefully, you pick it up a second time, and look it over. It almost seems to be an eye of sorts. A strange, hideous bleeding eye. And you’re not even sure if this is your blood… or the blood from something else. But it continues to drip every now and then, dropping a crimson teardrop of blood every two or three minutes onto the ground. And it never seems to stop…

Having a strong inclination to believe this is some macabre Demoni device, you decide to take it with you, especially since there’s a possibility a child Pokémon could discover it here and hurt themselves.

[Eye of Blood] has been added to the Team Inventory.

After reviewing the outside of the perimeter, you decide to head inside to see what the interior of the school is like. And upon entering, you find it quite drab in nature. The walls are plain white, the tiled floor is a dull brown and black marbleized motif, and the hallways and walls are totally bare and feel so lacking in color and life. But then as you recall, this is an experimental school attempting to focus far more on technical skills like math, writing, and science with nothing of the creative arts like music and painting. However, you didn’t think they would purge out any semblance of color or creativity here as well…

You go from classroom to classroom and most of them look the same save for variance in the learning materials on the walls, mainly taking the forms of charts, posters, and reference materials. From an initial review, you feel like they really went out of their way to purge out any form of distraction that students might face here. Instead of colorful learning materials that catch the eye and fun and creative books, everything seems so black and white when it comes to what these kids look at all day long. You can definitely sense all day, math and technical literature is being pounded in these students’ heads without much of a break to just do something fun for a while. By giving them nothing else to focus on save for the lesson at hand, there’s very little room to be distracted by something else.

You find there’s quite a number of young students here, including Sal the Torchic, Kammia the Starly, Krago the Staravia, which you learn is the big brother of Kammia, and Betta the Zigzagoon among others. And a lot of these students just seem to be anxious, quiet, depressed, or just complacent with this setting, as though they have come to expect nothing fun or interesting to come out of any of this situation. It seems to you like it’s been this way for years, only lately it seems like it has only gotten worse with the anxiety induced by the Stalkers and the rise in murders.

It seems the only teacher still teaching here happens to be Hashani the Novern, and judging from the photographs, he seems to be fairly old. He also doesn’t seem to be very cheery at all and presents the lectures and material with a very pessimistic attitude, as if he expects the students he’s teaching to not perform perfectly. And judging from his paperwork you come across, anything less than perfect scores merits extreme disappointment.

From the ledgers and staff lists you find in the administrative office, there used to be three other teachers. Hetton the Slowking, Culkant the Floatzel, and Quan the Marshtomp. But as you flip through the pages, there doesn’t seem to be any indication of what happened to them and where they are now, but you get the feeling that they were here not that long ago. It makes you wonder if they left and ran for their lives or if something terrible happened to them…

You continue to search through the administrative office and you find some rather unpleasant discoveries. You didn’t suspect it at first, but it seems Copper Plains School is incredibly strict when it comes to discipline, enough to the point where they’re willing to inflict physical harm on a student for disobedience. You find some rather unpleasant disciplinary tools including a striking baton and even arm, leg, and appendage restraints along with muzzles and cuffs. There’s even security guard body armor, which seems wholly unnecessary, but it is what it is.

You decide to take the Security Armor and put it on, feeling you’ll put it to much better use than whatever seemingly cruel intention previous wearers of it may have had in the past…

Chakra has equipped the +|A| Security Armor+ (2H)

It’s a bit snug in some areas, but otherwise it seems to fit you just fine. You feel as though the interior plates and padding should be able to provide a little protection against what you might encounter, especially considering the grotesque eyeball you came across earlier.

After not finding much else around here, you decide not to linger around, almost feeling like you wished you didn’t come across the ugly truth behind this school. You decide against sticking around to get some playtime with these children, having a feeling this is definitely not the place for that kind of activity to happen, and they would be far better enjoying that outside of school…

Chakra the Jirachi (S: Steel / Psychic)
Health: 14/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24 | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Pikachu, Pachirisu, Minccino, Victini, Mudkip
EQUIPMENT:
  • Defense Armor: +|A| Security Armor+ (2H)
  • Jewelry: <Empty>