Quote Originally Posted by Chakramaster View Post
It may not be the best time to go investigating here, but at least there shouldn't be many people here at this hour either.

I'll search (15) City Hall. Just to see if anything jumps out.

Then I'l head back for some good sleep.
After the night falls, you finish eating your vegetable pot pie dinner and head out, drifting south as you float through the air to head toward Seabourne City Hall. The moonlight faintly lights the way and it’s just enough to make out most of the things in the dark, though anything that’s in the shadows needs a closer look.

When you arrive, you behold the large, old building that has been a major part of Seabourne since its very beginning, although now, especially in the dark, it almost seems imposing with its tall columns, gray stone walls, and molding ornamentation that casts strange and eerie shadow shapes upon the ground and along the walls. It almost seems spidery and enigmatic in nature in a way that the original founders never intended. But part of you wonders if this kind of imposing visage took hold only recently…

You search the outside grounds and exterior and though the bushes and the surrounding property are in good shape, something still seems off about it all. You have the feeling perhaps it might make more sense in the daylight, but for now, at night, it leaves you with an uneasy feeling, like suddenly detecting a cancer before it has any kind of profound visible appearance before the naked eye.

When you arrive at the back of the building, you see a nicely-carved stone and metal mural that looks to have been carved and crafted several decades ago by a skilled artisan Pokémon. It depicts a scene of community, time, and belonging, with a vivid depiction of the town’s founding history and the Pokémon that were a part of its past, currently part of its present, and the ones that will be part of its future, bearing in mind the old and fully-evolved Pokémon, the young Pokémon in their basic and baby forms, the middle-aged, and many other demographics of all Pokémon types and natures coming together in harmony, all crafted in stone with the Pokémon demographics depicted on metallic medallions roughly the size of a small dinner plate.

It all seems normal and like an impressive work of art on its own until you discover it has been tampered with. Where you find the inscription “the young, the youth inherit the future,” the medallion has been removed. Upon closer inspection, it looks like it was pried out with force. The edges of the stone are chipped.

As you get closer, you can sense Stalker presence as well. And if that wasn’t enough, there’s a strange, oily ichor-like substance where the medallion used to be.

{Mural of Time: Indentation of Youth} has been noted in the Team Records.

You’re not sure why the Stalker responsible for this vandalism even did this in the first place, but you concur that somewhere this missing medallion was stashed away and likely might be used for some darker purpose. But you can’t fully understand why they selected this kind of object. You’re wondering if the Stalker is trying to send a dark message, perhaps to incite fear. Or perhaps they’re hiding something like they usually do. You also don’t dismiss the fact this could be a work in progress and they might return in time, but for now, you wonder if putting the medallion back might reveal something, once you find it.

Upon investigating the inside, you find this is where both Mortek and Tayou work. The interior is well-kempt and quite clean, although tonight there is no one around as the building is closed and will resume operations tomorrow morning. There is a lot of fine furniture here, but the plain white walls seem unusually bare and lack décor that might make the place feel a bit more inviting. From what you can tell by reading a few of the documents regarding town policy, Mortek seems distrustful of most of the Pokémon in this town, and Tayou, who is supposed to be the law enforcement overseer of Seabourne, seems to be missing in action when the current time is dire and has left Dantus and Yanza to deal with most of the fallout of this situation on their own. Had it not been for you and the other Savants, you have a feeling the chances of this town surviving with these two at the helm are between nil and slim…

As it starts to get late, you decide to head back and return to Benni’s farmstead to get some sleep. But after tonight’s investigation, you have a feeling you are now understanding exactly how these Stalkers were able to infiltrate into this town and dig their evil roots into it…

Chakra the Jirachi (S: Steel / Psychic)
Health: 14/16 | Sanity: 11/20 | Purity: 15/24 | 8/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 40%
Perk: Security
Reincarnation Forms: Pikachu, Pachirisu, Minccino, Victini, Mudkip
EQUIPMENT:
  • Defense Armor: +|A| Guardian Armor+ (4H, 2P)
  • Jewelry: +|J| Sapphire Amulet+ (1S, 2P)