Main Action and Team Status Thread [VICTORY!!!]

[VeloJello]

I'll probably change this before it comes up, but search (37) Renner Farm

[Neo Emolga]

Interview number 5, Verlisa the Glaceon.

Interview Rapport: POSITIVE
+1 Shared Pokémon Evolution Stage

You arrive at Verlisa's Treasures to speak to Verlisa. She doesn't seem particularly busy at the moment, so when you introduce yourself, she welcomes the opportunity for a chat.

"Hello there, Laura," she smirks at you. "How's life?"

You explain how you're investigating the nature of the Stalkers, and she nods.

"I guess I consider myself lucky!" Verlisa tells you. "Somehow I'm still alive. I guess I'm either lucky or just not a concern to them. Probably both."

"Have I noticed anything unusual going on?" she nods. "Let's just say I have a great view of the park, and I've seen plenty of weird things going on around there. I'm pretty in tune with the news around town, so when there's been a murder, I know about it pretty quickly."

"There's always been mist and fog in the park just before a kill," Verlisa explains. "And it always happens at night. That's not mother nature doing that, that's a Pokémon doing that on purpose! It's also not a normal fog, either. Call me crazy, but one day, probably against my better judgment, I took a few steps into the park when the mist was out and took a whiff."

"It felt almost... hypnotizing," Verlisa tells you. "It actually felt kind of comfortable and I almost kept walking into it. It was actually a struggle to tell myself not to be stupid and turn around, but I was at least far enough away from the source to pull back and get out of there. I'm glad I did, and I told myself do not go near that mist. It had to be a trap!"

"One more thing," Verlisa tells you, quickly grabbing something from her cabinet. "I don't know why, but I found this the very night before Adis died."

She then places a silver candle before you.

"He must have dropped it or something," Verlisa explains. "It was just outside the park when I found it, so I'm thinking Adis had it with him that night. I'm wondering maybe he came in contact with the mist and lost his grip on it when he got drawn into the fog. Either way, I tried to figure out what it's for, but I've given up with that. Maybe you know something about it that I don't."

Item: [Silver Candle] has been added to the Team Inventory.

[Neo Emolga]

I'll probably change this before it comes up, but search (37) Renner Farm

You arrive at the abandoned Renner Farm, which looks like it hasn't been used in decades. The main farmstead is, to say the least, in very bad shape. A lot of the wood has rotted and has broken away, and there isn't one window that hasn't been broken. Meanwhile, the house looks very dark in the inside. Quite a few plants have also wrapped themselves around the outside walls, making it look as if they're choking and trying to strangle it.

You search the interior of the farmhouse, which has only remnants of a wooden floor that has broken apart and has been overtaken by weeds and other wild plants. Many of the walls have cracked and have been peeling apart for years due to the weathering down from nature. There isn't much light inside, and the only things that seem illuminated are from sunlight. A lot of the wooden furniture is very dusty and dirty while the blankets and quilts are filthy.

When you search the main level, there is more of the same dusty and dirty furniture, but it isn't until arrive at the crumbling kitchen does something else seem to be going on. You seem to see several footprints in the dust coming from the backyard entrance, as if someone else has been here recently. You follow them and they take you to the basement.

Once you head down the stairs, you come to a cold, creepy underground chamber. At the end of the dark hallway, you come across a large, heavy metal door that doesn't look like it was supposed to be part of the original house's construction, but is here now. Some light comes in through a small, rectangular window near the ceiling, giving you enough light to see your surroundings down here.

On the metal door itself, there seems to be depiction of a Pikachu, looking as if about to stand trial with a look of anxiety on his face. Surrounding him seems to be many dark, vague, and incriminating faces among the shadows.

Just below the Pikachu, there seem to be three empty, circular slots.

There seems to be an inscription here.

"The SUNKEN Chamber opens for no one that is unwilling to render despair, anguish, and damnation upon the innocent."

The very sight of it gives you the chills...

Locked Door: {The Judgment Basement Door, Despair Slot, Anguish Slot, Damnation Slot} has been noted in the Team Records.