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

[Neo Emolga]

ChiChi will check out that Dorumigeto at the Rolyea House. I'll take some of the other kursouba items along to try to puzzle out how things fit together or where things go. Let's see if we can dig some answers out of it!

Tonight, as the rain lightly falls, you gather the Majutsu relics that you have acquired, put them in a spare messenger bag that Benni lends to you, and you head out into the evening, heading directly east across the barren expanse from Benni’s farmstead.

It’s quiet here tonight, and as you levitate through the air, you see yourself illuminating the area around you with an almost mystical and magical light. The power of this Tatsujin trait you have gained still seems so mysterious to you, but as you’ve come to be enlightened by it, it’s not the deadly corruption you once feared. It seems as though it’s neither wicked nor virtuous, but instead an aspect all of its own.

When you arrived at the Roylea House, you see it’s been abandoned for quite some time, but unlike some other abandoned places in Seabourne, it seems like one of the less intimidating ones to investigate.

You first search the exterior, which the yard has become overgrown, but it doesn’t seem like anything drastically unusual has happened here. Even the house’s windows haven’t been broken, but they do look like they haven’t been cleaned in a long, long time and it’s very difficult to see anything inside. Meanwhile, the painted stone block walls have started chipping to reveal the gray stones underneath the coat of paint, but no significant damage has been done.

Quite truthfully, you feel someone could move in, clean it up, and it might be a comfortable place to inhabit, although it’s quite a distance from town. Besides that, there isn’t too much else to find outside, so you decide to head to the front door to see if it’s open. A few tings and soft chiming sounds from the windchime can be heard, but tonight it seems a little quieter than usual…

You find the front door locked, but entry into the house proves to be rather easy by going through one of the windows near the front door. One of them was even left open, so you raise the window, climb inside, and take a look around.

You immediately find yourself in a living room, and it seems the glow that comes from you now is also helpful for illuminating the room around you. Most of the old wooden furniture, the old paintings, the fireplace, and the grandfather clock seem to be in pretty good shape, although a bit worn and dusty. Still, you look around and you’re still not sure why this place was abandoned. As you look through all the furniture pieces, you come to the old grandfather clock and it seems something unusual is going on.

The hands of the clock are missing.

You first don’t think it’s all that big of a deal, but then you take another look. It seems as though they were taken out very recently. The dust that was clinging to the cabinet door was recently displaced from what must have been small paws. It seems a small Pokémon was recently here and tampered with the clock, but you’re not sure why.

It makes you wonder… might something happen if you put the clock hands back?

{Old Grandfather Clock: Missing Hands} has been noted in the Team Records.

You decide to continue looking around the house, now stepping into the small kitchen that again, shares a lot of the traits of dust and slightly worn furniture. It honestly feels like it has a bit of a homey and rustic feel to it with décor that reminds you of old country living, similar to what Benni has at the farmstead. While there isn’t any running water anymore and none of the lights work, you feel it still seems to be in decent condition.

You then head upstairs into the bedrooms. One of the bedrooms seems to be fairly empty with only a desk and a few boxes, which seems to imply someone recently moved out. The dusty walls and the discolored white squares on the gray walls imply there were pictures, diplomas, or something hanging on the walls, but was removed. The only thing now is the old oak desk, which still seems to sit idly in the middle of the room, waiting for someone. You search through it and you only find old writing pens that have dried up and a few graphite pencils and charcoal. There’s also envelopes and papers here, as well as old accounting ledgers and personal finances and banking information all belonging to someone called Kraine, a Floatzel whose whereabouts you can only guess at this point.

The other bedroom is where you find the Dorimugeto Dream Gate, hidden behind the old dusty bed. As you look into it, it looks to be an open rift, still swirling like a small whirlpool of cyan, blue, and violet-colored waves and ripples.

Knowing what you need to do now, you take out the [Atifakutotaburetto] artifact tablet, containing the instructions of what your request is and what you want back from Yume. Carefully, you slide the tablet into the rift and it submerges into the energies, as if being dipped into liquid.

“Take care of this, please.” the otherworldly voice on the other side tells you in a strange language you now can fully understand. “They’re tricky to make so don’t go breaking it now.”

“I understand,” you tell them in this new Yume language. “I’ll take good care of it.”

“Now that’s what I like to hear,” they reply.

ChiChi has used the [Atifakutotaburetto]

@{Dorimugeto (Dream Gate): Atifakutotaburetto} - ~3 Kurosuōbā~@

What comes from the Dorimugeto after that is one of the most mysterious relics you think you’ve ever laid eyes on. As the [Artifakuto] comes forward from the portal, you take it in your small black hands, and from a first look, it almost looks like a mechanical device of sorts in a diamond-shaped container that allows you to see all of its inner working components. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen, but the closest thing you can compare it to in terms of things you’ve seen before is an engine. An ancient engine made and forged in Yume, the realm of dreams. And it also seems to consist of several crystals of multiple rainbow colors, charged and running with a glowing liquid-activated mechanisms.

@[Atifakuto (Artifact)] - ~4 Kurosuōbā~@ has been added to the Team Inventory.

In addition to that, it seems a mysterious piece of jewelry has emerged as well, just a moment before the Dorimugeto gradually closes and disappears without a trace. You pick up the necklace, seeing it consist of three overlapping stars, one of cyan, one of light blue, and one of violet as a mysterious chain made of otherworldly metallic material forms a loop. You’re not quite sure what it does, but you wear it around your neck and suddenly… you feel a mysterious revealing power come over you…

ChiChi has equipped the +|J| Dreamwatch Necklace+ (Wearer gets notified if they speak or have spoken to a Stalker)

…suddenly, you’re shown a vision. A dream-like revealing realization of past time and answers you seek. An otherworldly, dreamlike awareness you didn’t think was possible…

…Raboa the Drapion…

…Zakra the Kadabra…

…Dantus the Dragapult…

…Kulsso the Rampardos…

…

…these four Pokémon… the ones you’ve talked to in the past… are innocent. None of them are Stalkers…

…none of them are struggling to fight a Demoni from within…

It almost baffles you for a moment, but suddenly it establishes a newfound trust for these four Pokémon. None of them are hiding as your enemy.

When you arrive back at Benni’s farmstead, you put the Atifakuto into the cabinet, and when it rests besides the [Kagami], it generates a reaction. Suddenly the Atifakuto seemingly springs into life and rapidly grows whip-like appendages which then latch onto the Kagami mirror. It then opens and transmits through to the mirror and melds with it’s glossy, reflective surface to become the Shadoutsuru, a collection of mysterious hand-held devices and instruments that look almost like art tools, but with a strange presentation that almost reminds you of magical devices that remind you of wands and wizarding tools.

The [Kagami] and the [Atifakuto] have been combined to create the @[Shadoutsuru] (Shadow Tools) – ~6 Kurosuōbā~@

Suddenly it seems to make sense. To you, as a Tatsujin, you’re able to instantly discern what these are for and suddenly you’re captivated by the power these tools have when you realize what you can do with them.

Anything you can dream up and draw… becomes real. And it doesn’t even require supreme artistic talent. All you simply need to do is close your eyes, and let your imagination wander, peering into Yume through your dreams and thoughts. In the hands of a Tatsujin as yourself, it seems and feels like magic you’ve used every waking day of your life, as simple of an activity as washing your hands or singing a song you know so well.

Before you on a piece of paper, you created a nature scene of a flowing river, born from a place you saw in your imagination. And not only that, but on the paper, things move. The branches of the trees you had drawn now sway with their leaves rustling. The river you had drawn now flows. You swear it’s like watching a movie on a piece of paper…

And then you realize with these tools… you have essentially become a goddess. The truth is soon realized that you’ve just created a whole new world on this paper, now existing in another time and place in another dimension. With these tools, you could write a book about a world and it would become actualized… a race of creatures or new Pokémon could be born and would live in worship to you as their creator who brought them forward from the nothingness.

You realize you need to put these away for now until the time is right to use them. But as you go to sleep tonight, imagining all the wonders and creations you could forge into real places. Endless worlds you could visit, endless societies of creatures or Pokémon you created would be forever in your debt as they owned their entire existence to you.

And it all connects together when you think about why…

…Why imagination is more important than knowledge. Because knowledge will be power in knowing what is… but imagination can be power in knowing the infinite possibilities of what could be…

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: +|J| Dreamwatch Necklace+ (Wearer gets notified if they speak or have spoken to a Stalker)