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

[Neo Emolga]

Well...let's see if there's anything left to find in the remaining unsearched areas. Search (26) The Embermark Plant

With the arrival of the new day, you help yourself to the pancakes that Benni has provided and after sharing a few discussions and your investigation findings with the rest of the Savants, you head out, making your way toward the Embermark Plant.

Upon stepping outside, you see the daylight has dimmed considerably and it makes you wonder if it has something to do with the weather, or if in fact the damage that the Stalkers have done is starting to take effect upon even the atmosphere and surrounding environment. If the later is true, you have a bad feeling it’s only going to get worse as the Stalkers continue to make progress toward their dark endeavors.

After arriving at the plant itself, you start by searching the exterior first. Focusing your attention, you try to detect any presence of Stalker belongings and artifacts and you can almost sense a very faint presence coming from within the building itself. However, you don’t recognize the individual signature. At first, it strikes you as something new that you haven’t experienced before. Upon focusing some more, you realize the signature isn’t a new one, it’s a mixture of two…

Fallow and Languished to be precise.

You make one more search around the perimeter of the building, noticing the structure’s condition seems to be in relatively good shape, although with some wear and aging here and there. Still, nothing about it strikes you as unnatural.

You then prepare to head inside, bracing yourself for what you’re about to see. You find the best way to cope with the sights of many slaughtered Pokémon is not to think about it too deeply. Once you step into the factory, you find it’s not as difficult as you first expected and part of it makes you wonder if you’ve become desensitized to it all. There are many hanging carcasses and slabs of meat and bones, but nothing appears to be recognizable as the Pokémon they once were. Whatever skin, fur, and feathers they once had are long gone. Meanwhile, without their heads, the carcasses seem eerily devoid of personality.

Meanwhile, many stainless-steel tables, platforms, and conveyor slides snake about the large open plan structure. Overhead, several racks of metallic hooks and hangars are present as well, displaying one carcass after another. As you focus, you sense Fallow’s presence, and you follow the unholy radiation coming from it.

It leads you to a pile of blood-stained meat cutting tools and equipment, but one of them is deceptively a key, made to look like a cutting tool as it rests besides the others.

[Bloody Metallic Key] was added to the Team Inventory.

As you look it over, it suddenly sparks a memory you had from a previous investigation just a few days ago back at the hospital. Back on the basement level, you recall the bloody door at the abortion clinic. Judging by the shape and size of the key, you think this may very well be the key that unlocks the door.

You then search the lower level of the plant and you find there’s an old sewer entrance here. It seems the plant was using this underground facility to dump waste and refuse many years ago, but stopped in recent days with new regulations. However, it’s now flooded and the valve that would have opened the underground floodgate seems to be missing. You have a feeling none of the employees noticed this as the sewer was almost entirely abandoned.

As you investigate the empty block-shaped hole where the valve should have been, you can detect that Languished has tampered with this recently. Still, you remember that the old valve itself is back at the farmstead. Chakra mentioned it earlier and how out of place it was at the Percho Mill. For that reason alone, you decide to make note of it that this could very well be the place where it belongs.

{Flooded Sewer: Missing Valve} was noted in the Team Records.

At the same time, the water is simply putrid and not even a water Pokémon could swim through this without getting terribly sick while a poison Pokémon couldn’t do it either because the water is quite deep. It seems Languished had a reason for flooding this sewer entrance, the same way a Pokémon would bury something they’re trying to hide. At a first glance, it looks deceptive, looking like an accident happened here.

You realize you’ll need to come back with the valve if you want to find out what Languished might have hidden further into the sewer. Give the strange and unsettling nature of this nature, you can only guess, but you have a feeling they went through a lot of trouble to hide it. All the more reason to find it and undermine what they’re trying to do here.

You then decide to head back to the farmstead to once again prepare for tonight. Part of you wonders if you should head to the hospital to find out what’s hiding in the abortion clinic, but another part of you is wondering where this flooded sewer tunnel leads…

Scy the Tatsujin Heracross (M: Kūsho)

Health: 20/20 | Sanity: 14/20 | Purity: 19/20 | 10/10 Kurosuōbā | Dodge Rate: 30%
Perk: Diplomacy, Repair, Security
Reincarnation Forms: Heracross, Scyther, Centiskorch, Snom, Volcarona
EQUIPMENT:

• Defense Armor: <Empty>
• Jewelry: +|J| Diamond Necklace+ (2S, 2P)