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I think I'll search (29) Twinbank Apartments
As the morning arrives, you enjoy a morning breakfast of berry waffles and apple tea that Benni baked and brewed just minutes ago. Once you finish breakfast with the others, you start heading to the Twinbank Apartments, used mainly by the Beachwood University students in place of a campus dorm.

While walking along the dusty roads to the dorm-like apartment building, you look up at the sky, realizing it’s about to rain soon. Considering there isn’t too much tree cover on these roads, you’re hoping to be back before it starts really coming down.

When you get to the Twinbank Apartments building, you see the dark gray-stone building is only a short walk away from the main university building itself, almost feeling like it’s still part of a small campus plot. The building itself doesn’t seem to be in bad shape, but you notice despite its close proximity, it still looks very different from the university itself. For one thing, it doesn’t look like it was built in pieces and renovated in fragmentary phases over the years. Meanwhile, the three-story apartment building seems to be in good shape when it comes to structural integrity, but the amount of litter, dirt, trash, graffiti, and other refuse due to negligence is quite abundant. But as you look around the building and look at the walls, you don’t see anything that looks overly-suspicious or seems Stalker-related. Most of these seem to be gang tags, graffiti scrawl signatures, and other various forms of rebellious vandalism.

Inside, the once-white now very faintly-gray hallways of the apartment building feel a bit narrow and you imagine two-way traffic might be difficult for larger Pokémon living here… if they can live here in the first place. While the stone-tiled floor and the plaster walls are relatively in okay condition, there are still scuff marks and signs of more graffiti, only its much more minor this time. However, judging from the slightly off-color paint patches you see on the wall, it looks like graffiti cleaning and painting over happens here quite often.

About half of the apartments are occupied while a quarter of them are being refurbished and renovated and the remainder are simply vacant and empty, waiting for a new tenant to occupy them. But you see the apartments aren’t all that bad, consisting mostly of single and double bedroom setups that each come with their own bathroom and kitchenette.

One thing you quickly notice is the noise. Pokémon living here are quite noisy and you hear rather trashy-sounding music mixing from different directions from different sources. It honestly sounds pretty awful to you, but you imagine the Pokémon living here may be used to it by now. For you, you feel that might take way too long for you to ever tolerate.

You don’t really find anything suspicious at first, but you realize one of the last remaining rooms that has been closed off is the “Middie Room” on the second floor, the site of where the last three tenants all committed suicide. When you get there, the door is simply locked, but you find something unusual about that lock.

…it’s been broken. It’s hard to tell on a first notice, but someone managed to force the lock and dismantle it without it looking too obvious, minimizing the amount of perceivable damage.

You’re not sure how long it’s been like that or who did it, but you find yourself easily able to open the door and look inside. When you step in, you see the previous tenant’s belongings are all still there, but the back windows have been boarded up with wood planks, so much so that it’s impossible to see the outside and no one can look into this apartment from the outside. It also looks like the apartment has been a derelict for a while.

As you realize, “Middie” was not the name of the last tenant. It was in fact Reyvol, a young Murkrow that used to be a student at Beachwood University like many others living here. His belongings don’t seem all that unusual for a university-age student living here and they’re all still here as if they’re still waiting for him. However, there’s a slight coating of dust, almost to imply it has been a few years since they’ve been touched. Most of Reyvol’s belongings imply he was into pop culture and trendy modern music, having large collections of records on his shelves. A lot of his class textbooks and notes are still here as well, again, all just resting there as if he was expected to be back shortly after his last departure…

But then, among his belongings, there’s a strange decoration hanging above his bed perch. At first, the burnt skeletal bird wings are easy to dismiss as some decoration, although you admit it could be considered “edgy” in a way and it doesn’t really seem to fit too well with his other belongings. But as you approach them, more and more you get a bad feeling about these skeletal wings…

…ṯ̰ͥ͌ḧ̫̤́̇ey ͑remͤͪi̦̠n̜d͉̟̓̈́ ̣̓y̰ͨõ̘u̫͍͆̉ ͓͍͔̇ͤ̉o͍͓f ͓̦͑̓ś̺̗̚o̜̖ͤ͒m̫̻͆̎e͔̮ẗ͈hi͍͇n̹̱͇ğ̤̟ͮ.͓..

There’s a faint presence of Stalker taint on them…

…there’s something about their size…

…you think you’ve seen something like this before…

…

When you put everything together, it almost makes you want to vomit…

Reyvol was the third suicide victim in this dorm. And the wings mounted on the wall… are his. Someone dug up his corpse and defiled it, removing the skeletal wings and put them here back in the very spot he killed himself, as if he couldn’t ever leave this place… this very spot where he took his own life, although you have the feeling unnatural forces had a part in that and that Reyvol’s despair may have been… influenced. Still, the rest of the body seems to be missing. And you start to wonder where it might be but then… you shiver…

…because you already know.

…the rest of Reyvol’s corpse is on display. At the Baywill Museum and Gallery, mounted on that grizzly cabinet you saw before. Instead of resting in peace, Reyvol’s remains, stripped of his wings and now defiled with Stalker taint, is a gross caricature of macabre “art” that unknowing Pokémon now pay to see like this Murkrow’s body is nothing more than ornamental decoration. Once again, you see the sheer cruelty and malice of a flying Pokémon’s death.

“God damn you, Exonull…” you mutter.

You remove the burnt wings mount, knowing what needs to be done with them next. It’s clear only Exonull knows about this and has placed these wings here the way someone hides a key to use for later.

[Brunt Wings Mount] has been added to the Team Inventory.

You then leave the “Middie Room” apartment, closing the door behind you. You then leave the apartment building, making your way north down the roads back to Benni’s farmstead just as the rain starts to come down.

When this is done, you feel the least you can do is put Reyvol’s body back together, remove it from the cabinet, and give him a proper burial once again. All the while, you hope his spirit, in whatever form he decided to become through Afterhaven, is doing well, away from the misery he encountered here…

As for Exonull, you know what you intend to do. They made it personal… you’re not letting that go unpunished…

Scy the Heracross (M: Bug / Fighting)
Health: 20/20 | Sanity: 15/20 | Purity: 20/20 | 8/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 30%
Perk: Repair
Reincarnation Forms: Heracross, Scyther, Centiskorch, Snom, Volcarona
EQUIPMENT:
  • Defense Armor: <Empty>
  • Jewelry: <Empty>