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Antoine If Unit 01 is online, that's where Ant needs to be. He heads after the sisters and loads up in his own entry plug. "Feels weird. Dunno if it's the Angel or the startup."
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Sebastian von Falkenrath Fate: 0/2 Wounds 11/15 Sebastian didn't walk to his EVA, he marched. Right alongside the twins he marched straight to the hangar bay, determined to enter Unit 00. He slipped into the Entry Plug, bracing himself for the inevitable rush to the back of his head, the confinement, the clanging and the taste of blood. But he didn't experience any of it. It was dead on arrival, the monitors failing to pull up, the controls failing to light up, no pressurization, no LCL. Sebastian kept clicking the controls over and over again, same result, dead on touch. Soon clicking became grabbing, grabbing ending in a light punch. God Sebastian was tired of this day.
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Hong Li Hong Li was not so quick to the hangar. Unlike Sebastian, he does not enter his entry plug. "Are you sure you can't get Unit 02 online?"
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Junko Kurosawa Junko was confused. What good was she without her Eva to pilot. Nevertheless she decided to follow the others, as she was instructed; hopefully the captain knew what he was doing. In the end she stood there with Hong Li, afraid that she could do nothing. Her hands visibly trembled.
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Thomas Bryant "A singularity...?" Bryant rubs his face, then crosses his arms. You've gotta be fuckin' kidding me. "...Fine. Thanks for the heads up, Han. Get up here if you can, but if not just stay put and we'll come get you when this is all over." The captain leans over and switches the outgoing intercom channel. "It's a shitstorm, Oshi. Han's saying we're in some kind of singularity or something, but we're just guessing until we get the MAGI report. Now listen, I need you stay there and help the pilots any way you can. It's going to be really bad news if we can't get anymore units going, so I need you to stay down there and handle things." "And you guys..." He turns around to face the bank of technicians. "...You got anything for me yet?"
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The technicians keep at the computers, rerouting this to that and inverting the polarity of the neutron flows and so on. "Oshiro locally overriding us explains 01 and 03, but we can't see any reason why..." Sebastian You futilely push and pull at controls, trying to cargo cult the startup sequence, until it works! LCL floods in, controls light up...but there's no external power so you have 1 minute- no, wait, 3 minutes- wait, 25 minutes? The battery counter spirals upwards until it caps itself at 88:88:88. As you connect with your Eva, on the other hand, you feel a terrible sentience from the machine...like it's exactly as frustrated as you are. Evangelion Cages Unit 00 appears to come to life all of a sudden, powering up as if nothing had happened. Oddly, it almost looks like it's straining against its bonds somehow, despite not actually moving. Soon, Units 02, 04 and 05 start powering up too, like animals leaving hibernation. Oshiro is at a loss for words. "Guys, you might want to get in your plugs, I think maybe the damage to the base must've shorted the start up sequence, or something." His uncertainly is uninspiring. Command Deck "Sir! The nonfunctional Units are activating!" "But they're not drawing any power...?" "They're not berserking either, they shouldn't be activating spontaneously like this." The MAGI report comes back: quote:ANOMALOUS EVENT ANALYSIS
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Hong Li "I'm not sure about this, but I don't seem to have a choice!" Hong Li steels himself as he enters his plug and prepares for synchronization.
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Thomas Bryant Bryant stares at the screen with shock and frustration, then slams his tightly clenched fist into the console. "Dammit!" No. There has got to be another answer. The captain takes a quick, deep breath, then switches the command deck radio back on. "Han, are you there? Can you hear me? The Magi reports came in. I really hope the words 'Dirac Pocket' mean something to you that we don't already know."
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Elizabeth Hargrave "Hurry up and get this entry plug in place, Oshiro!" Liza pulls the hatch closed. She grabs the controls, impatient to get synchronized.
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Antoine "This is really weird..." No helping it, though. Gotta knuckle under. Everyone needs you right now. NERV goes under, there's nothing to protect the city from more Angel attacks. Of course, that probably means the end of the world, too, so nobody will be around to care anymore. "Might as well do this."
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Sebastian von Falkenrath Fate: 0/2 Wounds 11/15 Sebastian could feel the presence of the EVA inside his mind, pressing against the small of his back where his spine splintered and gaped open for the rest of his rib cage to press upon his spine like grapes. He gripped the controls and snarled helplessly. He became like the EVA, a wolf pup growling at an intruder mirroring the gargantuan predator god that loomed above him, the microcosm seeking to tie to the macrocosm. He remembered a day when he was wrestling with the sons of the fellows of his father. He remembered how playfully they seemed to throw their arms at him, barely even trying to contain him dressed in their perfectly manicured jeans and polo shirts. They weren't even trying, and for a moment he wasn't either. But then they managed to take hold, one around his legs and one around his right arm and chest. They were laughing, as though it were a joke, but in that moment something happened to Sebastian. The constriction around him, the snakes that seemed to surround him now, compelled him to realize the magnitude of this playful situation. He was stuck. He hated that. He needed to push, to shove, to get these people off of him, get free. And so he pushed, and as Sebastian began the impactful thrash that ended that wrestling match, so too did Sebastian slam the pedal to the floor and shout. "LET ME GO!!!"
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Junko Kurosawa Junko tripped on the way to the EVA. She had actually mostly got herself together, the tripping was just a result of pre-battle nerves. She was still apprehensive, that was to be expected, but she had recovered from her previous “meltdown” After getting in place she closed her eyes, hands on the controls, and took a deep breath. She counted to 10 and breathed out. She was ready.
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Bryant "Okay, I'll try and keep this short and simple," Han responds. "You probably know our universe isn't infinitely divisible - that there's a limit to how small you can go. Well, this applies to space-time as well. There's a limit, called the Planck limit, which is the smallest possible unit of time or space that can exist. Normally, it's physically impossible to get any smaller unit of space-time. A Dirac pocket is a miniature universe, contained within a Planck unit. It's a full universe, with a normal set of physical laws and the normal passage of time, but infinitely small and infinitely short-lived in the host universe." He takes a moment to let you process this, before continuing. "Now, if this is true, and I've no reason to doubt the MAGI seeing as my own observations and math roughly line up, then the most reliable way to get out of this Dirac pocket would be to synchronize all six Evangelion Units' AT fields, and force them to maximum output. This would put enough strain on the Eva's power cores that there's a good chance at least one would go off. Since until very recently this was all theoretical physics I can't say if any of the pilots are actually at risk or not but given that AT fields essentially bend reality at higher outputs, with any luck we can collapse the Dirac pocket and all this will have never happened." The techies chime in. "Sir! The Units are powered, synchronized and ready to go! We're just waiting for the order, sir!"
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Jenna "Well, what's the worst that can happen?" Jenna smiles. "We could all die, but we're going to do that anyway if we don't. Let's go."
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Antoine "While I'm not as enthusiastic as her, I agree. By the numbers, guys."
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Elizabeth Hargrave Elizabeth is already getting her unit moving. "Hurry up!"
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Thomas Bryant "You've gotta be loving kidding me." Neither the words coming from Han nor the words coming from any of the pilots were particularly re-assuring. Don't those kids understand what's at stake here?! Bryant simply stares ahead for a moment, with a grim look on his face, before he gives the orders. "Do it. Get every available Eva unit synced up and set to output at maximum. And I need everybody not directly involved in that to get ready and get ready for an emergency." "Understood?" The captain turns around to get confirmation from the command room crew. But as he looks around, he stops when he makes eye contact with Commander Koizumi. There is a clear look of unease written across his face.
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Hong Li Though the other pilots are enthusiastic, Hong Li still doesn't feel reassured. "I really don't think it'll be that easy, guys. It was hard enough just getting here!"
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Junko Kurosawa “Lets go!”, Junko shouted. All the time while the words “I’m ready, I can do this” repeated in her head
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Technicians scramble around the Ops Center as the Units are linked. "All hands, prepare for emergency AT activation!" Oshi barks. The Evas are set loose from their cages and every available watt of power pumps into their umbilicals as the elevators shoot them into...nothing. The screens are black. It's not like the sensors are malfunctioning, so much as there's nothing at all to report. The only sign that you've left the launch tunnel is that the internal temperature of the Evas is slowly rising, given that there's no medium to dump heat into. The training of the technicians holds, however; they're only marginally weirded out by this, and continue the preparations for the AT sync. "Deploying fields in 3...2...1.." The fields shimmer as they normally do at first, but as the output keeps going higher they shift into the visible spectrum, a mass of yellow light about the Evangelions. "Internal temperatures are reaching dangerous levels!" Tachibana yells. "Core breach on Unit 03 imminent!" There's a flash of light, and Jenna's vitals spike before flatlining. Even so the field strength keeps climbing. "I..I think it's working!" "The MAGI are reporting background radiation is returning to normal!" "We're picking up atmosphere!" Just then Unit 02 spikes and explodes; the core surge was too fast for the computers to pick up. The field keeps growing; it's become self-sustaining. "We're almost there, almost ho-"
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Bryant, Elena It's a pleasant drive down from the train station towards Tokyo-3 as you shuttle Elena from the train station to the apartment. She's a new transfer in from NERV Boston; Unit-08 is coming in by sea and should be up and running sometime later this week. In the meantime she gets to meet the team and focus on settling in. It's going to be hard to adjust to life after Sebastian though, ever since his father got him recalled after the Incident. The Kids The first thing you saw after the Incident was a white sickbay roof. Jenna and Hong are in intensive care; you survived, somehow, and your Evangelions are being put back together. They work, but they're in no state to fight at the moment. The others are still recovering, but you're at least able to walk unsupervised without looking like a Christmas tree decorated with IV tubes. You've been allowed to visit Jenna and Hong before you have to attend a NERV mandated psychological evaluation, since the higher ups are concerned about Everyone except Elena takes a Willpower test at +20, if you fail take 1d5 Insanity. Jenna and Hong are alive, sort of, but you're both drugged out of your gourds; you can walk and do things if someone's there to help you.
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Hong Li Insanity: 1 Willpower check: 71 Insanity: 1 Hong Li has not left his bed since he woke up. This was his second major injury in as many Angel attacks. As he stares at the ceiling, he curses his luck. Is he fated to suffer 81 misfortunes like the monk Sanzang? His mind is stuck in a fog of both pain and painkillers and he feels like the world is moving at half speed.
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Jenna WP: KillPrime, 74 = 74 NUTSO: 5! Jenna wakes up, opens her eyes. Still alive. "gently caress." There's an old TV episode on. MASH. The theme song is playing. Jenna fails to get the irony, as old TV was not a big part of the Neo-Spartan program, but somehow, she feels like it's right.
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Elizabeth Hargrave [Insanity: 8] Elizabeth leans over into Jenna's view, a frown on her face. "You finally woke up? It's about time!" [18:41] <Krysmbot> Gorbash, 93 = 93 Well poop. [18:47] <Krysmbot> Gorbash, 2 = 2 I got 6 Insanity earlier.
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Jenna "Yeah. I guess I did." Jenna looks her sister in the eye. Drugged wooziness overrides her usual quiet (and filters.) "Now go and get something to eat, I know you've been here the whole time."
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Elizabeth Hargrave Elizabeth leans back and crosses her arms, looking away. "As if! I'm just here to - well, you know!" She stays quiet for a moment, then, "Do you want anything?"
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Elizabeth Hargrave "Okay." She gets up, and shakes a finger at Jenna. "Don't go anywhere while I'm gone! If you fall asleep again fine, but that won't get you out of talking to me when you wake up!" With that she leaves to find something to eat.
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Elena B.D.-2 Elena blinks at the Tokyo-3 landscape through her glasses, taking the place in. The canyons between the highrises are particularly enthralling - she's not used to big buildings that aren't partially submerged or mostly underground. "Thank you for coming to pick me up, Captain Bryant," she says. Her voice is cheerful and devoid of an accent. "I'm looking forward to meeting the people behind the files." Elena brushes some hair out of her face and grins up at the Captain. "It was a long plane ride, you know?"
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Antoine The general's son is dozing by the window. True enough to the music coming from the old TV, there is early morning fog. He gleans nothing of the future from it, though, so that part is just a bit too fanciful. He doesn't want to go too far, staying here to keep an eye on his wounded teammates. Jenna was a bit... fragile, and Li was roughed up pretty bad. Someone's got to look out for everyone and he's going to until someone better comes along. [19:48] <Vicissitude> 1d100 vs WP 53 [19:48] <Hashutbot> Vicissitude, vs WP 53: 51 [1d100=51] Hashutbot loves me 
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Thomas Bryant "I'm sure it was," The Captain says, plainly. "All the way across the US and the Pacific. That's quite a trip." He glances over, briefly, as the car turns into a small parking lot. "How are things back over there, by the way? Not too bad, I hope." "Anyway," The car stops next to a white, high-rise apartment building. "Welcome to Japan. I'm sure you'll make a few friends here. I just hope you don't mind eating rice every day." Bryant laughs at his own lame little joke. With the way he's smiling and making small talk, it almost seems like today might be a completely normal day. WP: <Krysmbot> Takanago, 47 = 47 47 + 20 = 67 vs 40 Insanity: <Krysmbot> Takanago, 1 = 1 Just Try Me would bring the insanity point gain down, but it's already at minimum. This brings Bryant to a total of 4.
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Elena Elena looks a little confused at the rice comment, but follows along behind the captain. "Boston is doing well, at least," she says. "First Branch brought a lot to the city. I couldn't tell you anything about the rural areas that you haven't heard on the news, but the city's bustling. The Bruins are having a good season, the e-ration lines are shorter, and Unit-08 is sort of famous. A lot of people are really proud of what we made, even the reclamation squatters that live out in old Downtown." Elena pauses, staring at the sidewalk for a moment. "Your file didn't have much about your time with the Corps of Engineers. Were you deployed when they built the city's levees?"
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Junko Kurosawa Insanity: 1 Willpower check: 88 + 20 Insanity: 1 Depression Wp: 52, 2 degrees of failure Depression hours:3 + 2 "The sky seems grey today", Junko mumbled to herself. It would be a while till she took off her patented grey tinted glasses. After sighing to herself repeatedly, she let her head hang off the back of her chair and stared at the ceiling. She was useless that day; no matter how she tried to think it, the truth was clear. She would have had a greater effect if she hadn't been there that day. It's not to say that she actively made things more difficult, it was just that her contribution (in her mind) was negligible, and looking around she could clearly see the result. "It's gonna be long day."
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Bryant, Elena With Alan gone, there's room for Elena to settle in. As much as you want to help her get familiarized though, you get a call from Oshiro. "Captain, they just called a meeting, and they want you there for debriefing. The Commander and Lt. Takenaka are on their way; the Minister of Finance wants a personal meeting with NERV-01." The Kids A nurse comes soon, and calls time on visits for Antoine and Jenna. You've got a counselling session to go to, anyway. It's a short walk over to the psyche office, and as you enter you're greeted by an almost offensively banal room; beige couches and armchairs, surrounding a pine table with 90s style white wallpaper with flecks of colour. The shrink is already there, and as you enter he greets himself. "Hello everyone, I'm Doctor Honda, but if you like you can call me Habiki." He motions to the couches. "Please, make yourselves comfortable." Once everyone is settled in, he continues. "Before we begin, I'd like to try something with you. I'd like you to introduce me to the person on your left," he says, smiling. "We'll start with you, Hong."
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Thomas Bryant Bryant gives Elena a surprised look for a moment, then smiles. "Oh, you read my file too? You're certainly prepared." He puts his hands in his pockets and looks out at the sky. "Yeah, I was. That was a helluva job. It's kind of amazing how much the cities have improved since then-" Then, suddenly, he is interrupted by the sound of his cellphone ringing. "Hold on," the captain turns around and puts the phone next to his ear. "Hello?" "...Now?" He sighs. "Fine, I'll be there." Bryant hangs up, turns back towards Elena, and frowns. "Sorry, kid, I gotta go. Got called in for a meeting. If you need anything, call Oshi. His number should be around here somewhere."
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Hong Li Insanity: 1 Hong Li manages to limp over to the couch and sit down, looking to his left and seeing Elizabeth with her sister. "W-Well, that's Elizabeth Hargrave. She's from a wealthy British family. She's kinda arrogant and usually goes ahead first in any exercise we do. She's also a little rash and impatient. S-Sorry Elizabeth."
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Elizabeth Hargrave "Stop apologizing! And that's all you're going to say?" Elizabeth rolls her eyes at Hong. She nods her head in Junko's direction. "She's Junko Kurosawa. She's really quiet and isn't very confident and she's afraid of practically everything - including me. She keeps to herself mostly, though I think she likes Antoine."
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Elena Elena gives the captain a cheerful smile. "Yes sir," she says. "Thank you for all your help. Good luck with your meeting!" Her few belongings sorted and put away, Elena takes a seat at the computer. It doesn't take long to call home, and she composes a happy little note for her friends at NERV Boston. Still, that doesn't take long. The girl sits quietly for a moment, contemplating her next course of action. Inventory was taken. There were some appropriate devices just a few meters away, there was a convenience store they'd passed on the way in, and she still had a good chunk of her travel stipend in her pockets. Best guess at when the others would return... This could work. Elena will attempt to go shopping with the intended goal of making dinner for everyone once they get back. Let's see how badly this goes.
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Junko Kurosawa Although still in a grey mood, her cheeks did turn a tinge of red at Elizabeth’s statement. Luckily for her, Antoine was not sat on her immediate right. No need to confront or reveal these feelings at this moment at time. In addition to this, what Junko had been thinking had been confirmed. She was useless, Elizabeth had basically said it. Well... she hadn’t used those words or anything similar, but the intention and meaning was clear as day. After processing all of this, Junko realized it was her turn to talk. Without moving her head from her hands, nor the position of her gaze, Junko started to talk. “That’s Jenna, she’s strong, brave, talented, just like her sister.” Junko took a breath to say more, but decided against it. That was it, no more to say.
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