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

[Neo Emolga]

I want to talk to Zakra the Kadabra! They're a lecturer at the uni, Caily says they saw them with an unusual stone tablet! I will certainly pay diplomatic respect to their knowledge as a teacher, but my goodness, I reckon I need to hold that tablet for a bit!
My friends and I have found a few artifacts that are similar and seem like relics of an ancient civilization right under our very noses! Isn't that cool, Zakra? Imagine, imagine if even the school here was right ontop of some massive buried ziggurat!
(I would love to bait her into telling me anything extra about the old texts/locations/relics, if she knows anything!)

You decide to pay Zakra a visit, having heard about the ancient stone tablet she has from Caily. You have a hunch that it may be related to some of the other relics you and the other Savants have been coming across, but you first want to see it for yourself.

You find the engineering professor between classes, although lately student turnout has been low due to fears of the Stalkers. And lack of compliance, which seems to be one of the more major reasons why students aren’t showing up to class, but are still expecting to be passed.

You greet her and introduce yourself, and from her initial composure, you find that yes, Caily was right. She definitely has a very testy, arrogant, and egotistical aura about her. Trying to get her to respect you right away might prove difficult, but you’re confident you can make it possible.

You explain about your interest in her stone tablet, and that you and your friends have come across other similar artifacts that you think might be related, but she almost instantly scoffs at the very idea.

“You?” she almost laughs. “I’ve spent quite a few hours researching this tablet, its very material and natures, and its purpose, and even with my own superior intellect I haven’t been able to yield answers. Nor have I been able to discern what this language is. You truly think you can derive these answers without haven’t even seen it yet? Preposterous!”

“Oh come on, at least let me see it,” You smile to her. “Give someone else a try, why not?”

Despite it having already perplexed all of her students and herself, she decides to let you have a try. All the while, she still scoffs, thinking this will only just be another amusing display of watching yet another Pokémon struggle and fail.

She takes you into her office, which is very meticulously organized and arranged in a very maximum efficiency manner. Her solid oak desk, her bookshelves, and the arrangement of the furniture are all done with efficacy in mind with very, very few personal items. As you can tell, she keeps things very professional.

From her desk drawer, she slides the ancient stone tablet out, and lays it out before you on the desk. The ancient stone looks familiar, very much like the Kagami tablet plate you found at the Seabourne Police Department earlier.

You look it over and place your black, knob-like hand upon it, gazing at the ancient text with your eyes…

…and suddenly it feels like the rest of you slips away… drifting…

ChiChi has inherited 4 points of Kurosuōbā…

…drifting…

…and then all of a sudden you realize everything…

What really is Kurosuōbā? What are these strange relics that have been found before you, like this one… like all the others…?

You realize what they’re all for. Where they’re all from. And it’s suddenly an answer you were never expecting, but it all makes sense in the end.

…YUME…

…the place the soul visits while the body sleeps. The realm of dreams. A parallel dimension that exists in another physical universe, but where far, far more is possible in reflection of the wonder, terror, and even the ambiguity of dreams. In other times, what it could make possible was called magic, or witchcraft… but only by those that didn’t understand and didn’t believe…

…and what you’ve found goes even far beyond the lucidity. Beyond what one can achieve long after they have become aware they are dreaming… aware they are in Yume, and have turned it into a handicraft, creating powerful artisan tools and relics that simply couldn’t be made anywhere else but in Yume through the power of their own dreams…

…but what if you were told there was a way to connect Yume to Vie? What if you were told the bridge could be through a Savant… one like yourself? Able to make what was only possible in Yume possible in Vie?

You realize this is where the tablet and the other Kurosuōbā-inducing relics are from. They are arcane relics that were created in Yume, the realm of dreams, and were brought into the physical realm of Vie. And it all makes sense why Zakra and the others would never be able to understand these artifacts or their purpose. Or who made them. Or where they are truly from.

Reading the tablet, you understand the mission that was attempted here in Seabourne… and how it connects to you… and the Stalkers…

The mementos…

…before they became Stalkers, each of these Pokémon had a life… a life of achievement, reminders of love from family and friends, feelings of fulfillment, and these all became memories… memories embedded into various belongings…

…you realize what can become possible. Find these mementos and construct the Dream Altar… the Yume no Saidan, fueled by the power of the Shiryoku, the orbs of vision, the relics that will remind the victims of who they really are.

• Reconstruct the Yume no Saidan…
• Obtain a Stalker’s Memento…
• Use a Shiryoku to empower the victim with Yume’s strength…
• And speak the Stalker’s name… their true name… the name they have as a Pokémon, and not the name of the one enslaving them…

…They will awaken… remember who they truly are… and be empowered… by their own hopes and dreams… and Yume will channel that power through them to crush the Demoni that hungers on their spirit to commit abominations… travesties that can now finally come to an end…

ChiChi has become Tatsujin.

Your body becomes like white as you are surrounded by an otherworldly glow, and Zakra can only gaze upon you, spellbound, unable to comprehend what she has just witnessed. And suddenly she is humbled by her lack of understanding as you harness this knowledge and tell her… relinquishing your newfound knowledge and insight.

#32 Zakra the Kadabra has become Compliant.

“Never… never could I have imagined something like this could be possible,” Zakra tells you, almost feeling shame and humiliation for having so recklessly harbored wrongful thinking. “Forgive me, for I simply did not know and I was wrong to assume.”

She hands you the tablet, realizing you will put it to its true intended use as the Tatsujin you have become, as if it was always yours to begin with…

@[Atifakutotaburetto] (Artifact Tablet) – ~4 Kurosuōbā~@ has been added to the Team Inventory.

As you hold it in your hands, the texts upon it tell you it is a summoning order, a request for the Atifakuto. And this is just one part of the Shadoutsuru, a series of shadow tools needed to construct the Yume no Saidan. The other part you already have… the Kagami, the mirror which you suddenly realize is a channel to Yume. It will be one more critical step you need to complete.

Your glowing hand upon the tablet gives you insight and focus… and a place comes to you in a vision… and you recognize it as the Dorimugento, a dream gate… located at the Roylea House… there you realize the Atifakutotaburetto can be sent into the gate, and Yume will deliver and fulfill the request…

“Dream gates… never would I have imagined there are such things…” Zakra tells you, still grasping what has just transpired. “…or even a realm called Yume to begin with. I know there are many dark secrets in Seaborune. Places that most Pokémon don’t venture into. I believe these dream gates… these Dorimugeto as you call them… they must have been hidden for a reason.”

“Tonight… when you dream… focus your attention on Yume and where else it might connect in Seabourne. For me, when I meditate in this physical world, I know this helps me to remember what was lost, to clear and defog the ambiguity, and from that, I gain new clarity. But perhaps this is something you can try in Yume… and maybe you’ll learn something with the power you have gained…”

And in that moment of realization, you now understand why the goals and aspirations of all are also called dreams…

ChiChi the Tatsujin Tapu Lele (M: Kūsho)

Health: 16/20 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 10/20 | 10/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 30%
Perk: Diplomacy
Reincarnation Forms: Corviknight, Milotic, Aurorus, Espeon, Alcremie
EQUIPMENT:

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