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I'll search (19) Overlook Apartments
Tonight, after eating a shepherd’s pie dinner at Benni’s and giving yourself some time to focus, you head southeast toward the Overlook Apartments. The whole journey down, you swear the air feels deathly still and your paws pressing on the grit of the road are the only things that seem to make a sound for miles around you.

From what you heard about the rumors surrounding this place, the Overlook Apartments were made to replace an older Steiner apartment building that was haunted, but this new structure has had issues of its own, including strange dreams involving a furnace and new medical diagnoses that were never part of the family history. Part of you wonders if it’s simply coincidence or if it might have something to do with Edifice and the dreams they have been inflicting on the civilians here.

When you arrive, it almost seems as though the Overlook Apartments are one of the, if not the newest buildings constructed in Seabourne. When it comes to the buildings in the center of town, it seems they get the best treatment and are the soonest to get new additions while everything on the outskirts seems mostly forgotten.

You first spend the last few hours of daylight searching around the exterior. From what you notice, the dark gray walls are quite clean, the windows are in good condition, and the grounds seem pretty well-maintained. If you hadn’t heard the rumors, you wouldn’t have suspected of anything being wrong with this place.

When you head inside, you find the interior seems fairly normal, in good condition, and nothing seems suspicious. There’s a few empty rooms that don’t have tenants, but you feel even after just searching through them, nothing seems wrong and you personally find it wouldn’t be a bad place to move into if the rent was reasonable.

You search both the first and second floors and nothing seems to go awry. You find there’s a basement level, which usually isn’t used by tenants and it seems to be only for regulating the water, electricity, heat, cooling, and other utilities. Most of the area has many pipes and wires along the concrete walls. They’re a bit rudimentary, but they get the job done especially considering the Pokémon here are still about seventy years behind humans in terms of technology. Meanwhile, down here in this cold, concrete area, the lighting is very dim and you imagine no one really goes down here unless they need to.

It almost feels like there’s really nothing much to find here at first, but then you come across something strange and unusual. There’s a chalk drawing on the floor, and it looks to be a child’s crude depiction of a Pokémon’s skeleton. There’s also crude drawings of eyeballs, and when you look around the room, you suddenly spot something eerily familiar rolled into the corner of the maintenance room.

There, rolled into a corner besides a few sticks of chalk and an old wooden top, you spot one of the eyes and you realize it’s the second Eye of Shadow that belongs with the one that was already found with Kulsso the Rampardos. It continues to excrete a black, vile ichor and it now sits in an oil-like puddle of it. You’re already well aware these things are rigged with a booby trap, so you decide to look for some kind of long tool that can help you disarm this thing.

In the janitorial closet, you find a long shovel that feels like it should do exactly what you need it to. After taking it to the eye, you aim the back end of the spade and quickly strike the eyeball…

#Spirit Hemorrhage – DARK (4 Purity Damage)# Trap 80% Disarm Trap Test: 51 out of 100: Success!

The mechanism in the eye triggers as it thinks an unsuspecting victim touched the eye. Suddenly, it causes a burst of black ichor to be ejected as a hidden blade embedded in the eye strikes out, only to hit nothing but air. It causes more black ichor to be splattered on the concrete floor, but at least now its disarmed and won’t cause harm to anyone.

Grabbing a spare rag from the janitorial closet, you wrap the eye carefully and take it with you, knowing exactly what it’s for…

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

With that taken care of, you can’t help but look back at the chalk drawings. The Stalker responsible for these may very well be a child and no one suspects a thing about it…

You then head out and make the walk back to Benni’s farmstead. The still, night air persists and it almost seems too quiet for your liking…

Lewisia the Shaymin (S: Grass)
Health: 16/16 | Sanity: 20/20 | Purity: 24/24 | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Gallade, Arctozolt, Galarian Rapidash, Mawile, Hisuian Typhlosion
EQUIPMENT:
  • Defense Armor: +|A| Sentry Armor+ (2H)
  • Jewelry: <Empty>