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

[Neo Emolga]

Think I'll search (46) The Silver Candle Theater House. .O.

Feeling more brazen tonight, you decide to head west toward the western deserted side of town, rapidly flickering your dragonfly wings and speeding through the dead of night as you’re intent on seeing what kinds of dark mysteries are hidden at the theater house, which seems to be one of the more intriguing locations in town with an odd history.

From the outside, you see the large theater house is in a very ugly, decrepit state, although that doesn’t seem unusual given this area of town has fallen apart and has become more of a cancer with many blighted structures. From what you can tell, it looks like it’s been like this for over 30 years now. The stone walls are coated with dirt and are crumbling while the supporting columns that once gave the theater a regal and proud appearance now look filthy and grimy as dead vines have wrapped and forked their way around them, looking as if they were trying to strangle them before dying as some last macabre death wish.

Meanwhile, the grounds have become untamed with overgrowth that looks like at one point it tried to swallow the building, but then everything mysteriously died. The vines, the weeds, the gnarled trees… no piece of vegetation was spared. Dead, knotted plants in hideous-looking clusters and thorn bushes are scattered about, looking like they all wanted to infest and devour the area before the land itself became unbearable and then everything rotted into a dead husks of their former, seeming completely mad former selves.

You dart and hover around using your wings as you inspect each aspect of the building from the ground, the walls, and nooks and crannies, quite sure there’s nothing on the ground you want to land on it for. However, you don’t find anything around the large building worth noting. Quite frankly, it’s a hideous place and in the moonlight, it looks like something fresh out of a nightmare.

You decide to head in and go through the front entrance, the way the theater-goers used to go through many years ago when this place looked far more respectable. Now, all the glass windows on the doors are broken, the brass metal frames and handles are filthy and crusted over, and something smells stuffy and stale as soon as you step inside.

Inside the main gathering area, the lighting is nearly nonexistent and it’s almost pitch-black inside, which would have been a problem if you didn’t have eyesight that could accommodate low-light conditions. The main hall, which used to be large, wide, and regal as a place where attendees would gather and buy tickets, enjoy the finest wine before the performance, or simply wait until they were called to gather in the main theater. You see the floor is made of a fine marble and you imagine it used to look nice and fancy before all this debris and rubble from the crumbling ceiling started falling all over it. Meanwhile, the main ticket desk has almost fully collapsed and almost all of the wood has rotted away, but you can tell at one point it was made by a master carpenter and had a very finely-crafted presentation to it. The area that was reserved for wine-tasting and serving has also suffered a similar fate with the once fanciful casks having broken and rotted while most of the wine bottles and wine glasses have been broken into pieces while the few remaining ones are covered in grime and would need a serious cleaning to be sanitary enough to drink from again.

The now grimy stone walls also used to display fine artwork and memorabilia from past performances. All of that, however, has now been slathered with filth and rot and now the depictions look much more nightmarish. Pictures of fine landscapes have mold and grime over them, making them look discolored and freakishly apocalyptic while paintings of famous Pokémon and past actors, now with mold and decay, make them look much more like fetid zombies. One painting of a female Goodra in fine sophisticated dress attire has her mouth covered by a blotch of black mold, and now she looks like a hideous ghoul that’s screaming with her jaw barely hanging on.

You decide to carry on and hover your way into the main theater hall. You don’t even need to push the door open to go inside as they’ve already rotted off their hinges and now lay like dead bodies on the marble floor.

As you enter the main theater, you can already see about half of the seats, which came in various sizes and forms for Pokémon of many different shapes and sizes, are now all missing while the other half are ravaged, broken in half, and/or rotting with more mold of their own, all creating a hideous display of neglect and forsakenness. You think maybe a mere two or three of these once cushioned and comfortable seats in this entire theater are still in working condition. As you look around the rest of the theater, you see the once-fancy ceiling with its regal arches, VIP balconies, and lavish glass chandeliers is now a gross caricature of its former self.

Meanwhile, the performance stage is another horrid sight to behold. Half of the wooden stage has collapsed in on itself while the other half is splintered and rotting as well. Still, despite it being a sad and pathetic sight of what used to be a rich, lavish place for sophisticated Pokémon to enjoy an evening of socializing and fine performances, you don’t find anything out of the ordinary, though you imagine those with weak nerves would have bolted out of here way before they even got to this main theater area.

You then search the back area where theater performers had access to dressing areas, props, makeup supplies, and things of that sort, although you find more rot and neglect here as well all along the floor, walls and ceiling. And most of those costumes, makeup supplies, and props are all still here, although like the rest of the theater, they’ve fallen apart, dried up, and rotted over.

Past the many collapsed lockers and cabinets where the theater staff and performers once kept their personal belongings, you see an odd, mirror-covered door that shows a dim reflection of you. You take a closer look at it and it seems like it’s the entrance to some kind of special, back area that might be for the lead performer. You try to grab the fancy door handle and pull it open, but it seems like it’s locked and then suddenly…

#Grim Visage – GHOST (7 Health Damage)# Trap 20% Evasion Test: 78 out of 100: Failed!

Out of nowhere, the entire mirror S͕̠̻̭h̿ͫ͛ͤͨ̃ͣa̹̣͈̤̺̯͍ͦ͒͗̓ͩ̉ͤt̮̩ͥ̇te͚̺̝͕̝͐̌̋ͬ͌r̃͐ͥ̆ ̬̖͖͎̖͔͐̉s͎͂ ̟̑i̻͎ͅn̫̺ͫ́̇ͅt̩̭̲͆̉̚o̘͍͔͗̊ͤ ̮͖̟̼͓͈p̯̼̪͛ͭ̚ie̠̞̮͓̳͉͈ͭͭ̌ͨ̾ͤ̅c̯͈̺͙̖̭ͩ͑ͬ̾̊ͯes̘̱̐̓̿ͣ ̳̗ and you almost yelp in horror as you suddenly feel invisible, blade-like knives and sharp edges violently slice into your carapace…

Scy has suffered 3 Health Damage (4 Damage resisted by +Commander Armor+)

Your armor takes most of the damage, but you still feel the pain. And it’s pain that you can’t understand. None of the shards even touched you before they fell to the ground. But… it was as if the mirror and your reflection became a sudden extension of your actual self, but… how is that possible? you think…

Nonetheless, you look before you to see the mirror, now in a pile of pieces. Besides the door, you see two circular indentations, and the only things you see scribbled here are “fragility” and “hideousness.”

{Broken Mirror Door: <Repair> AND Indentation of Fragility AND Indentation of Hideousness} has been noted in the Team Records.

You think you can put it back together with your repair ability, but something… seems off. It’s like the reflection of the mirror… your reflection… is f͇̯̋̄r̫̲̯̫̖̊̌͂ͥͮo͆̆̏̾̈́̊̃z̠͆eͫͨ͌n̩̳̻̯͎̭ͅ into the shattered pieces…

All the while… the whole thing just seems so…

…so…

…̈̓̒ͭ̊ͩiṇ̥͈̰̱̞̾̓̈́͗̏̾̒ͅh͍̖̞̦̦̹̙͗ͬ͛̈ͧ̽̿e͎̜̐͂re̐̃͑̽ͪ n̝̝̯̞̮̏ͤ̃͛̓͒ͅt̹̤̳̺̻̺͖͑̓̾̈́͗̌ͤly̗̳̩̙̳̣͂̆̆̄͆̔ ̹̰̥̮͛̃̈́ͧë̖̯̔v͖̹͓̰͈͖̓̃̔͑ͮͣ͑ͅil̫̲̤̯͓̰͋ͩ͒́͗̑…̖̟̞̅̾͒̃ ͎

Scy the Yanmega (L: Bug / Flying)

Health: 21/24 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 16/16 | Dodge Rate: 20%
Perk: Repair
Reincarnation Forms: Heracross, Scyther, Centiskorch, Snom, Volcarona
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: +|A| Commander Armor|+ (4H, 2S)
• Jewelry: <Empty>