Vengeful, eternally hungry spirits left over from the Battle of Stalingrad.

>>14242341
The Nerv base is in Stalingrad, so quite enjoyable.

KGB takes notice of them

>>14242434
That's silly.

>>14242301
Tank Eva's.
Low-grade, mass-produce ballistic-based Evas not unlike that Thompson art there. Have the pilots know that those are what is behind them, should they screw up, and the tank-Eva's don't discriminate targets.
> Contempt Rahos.
Yes, contempt for the rahos (Captcha says the mass-produced ones are called Rahos)

>>14242497
I like your words.
Speak more.

Constant pressure from the Political Office to use the EVA's on America.
Especially when they discover that an AT field can resist a nuclear weapon. Oh lordy are things going to get hilarious when the US discovers that.

Expect America to start developing Jet Alones and TRidenT DAMN quickly as a deterrent.

Just to check, the Angels ARE also attacking right?

So, to mess up the party expect lots of political pressure, assassinations, spying from the US, bribery and threats to the parties family if they don't do as they're told.
At least one coup de tat by Hawkish factions of the Government on the Organisation will probably happen as well. How this would play out would be up to you.

At some point an NPC should just get taken in the night by KGB never to return.
Hell, pull it with a PC if you think you can get away with it.

For any more ideas, read 1984 and Animal Farm.

>>14242520
Don't even attempt to hide that they are most likely mal-formed rejected Eva units. All they need is a working arm to hold a gun, an eye to aim, and enough of a body to hold them up to the machinery that makes them move. Have them retching and bleeding, with teams of handlers just there to make sure the bullets all go one-way. Completely disposable, and he pilots need to know that they will always be between those bullets and the angels, should anything fail, or they go a little too berserk.
Rifle through Keith Thompson's other art. That should be our bible for Russian designs on all equipment, player Eva's included. Play up the fact that the angels are only slightly worse then what the country is doing itself.

The Evas constantly blare propaganda, both externally and directed at the pilots. When berserking the propaganda becomes distorted until it resembles masses of voices yelling furiously with sped-up Soviet themes playing in the background. The internal propaganda speakers are active during tests and such, just with the volume set at a lower level.

>>14242564
The setting is already that most more powerful countries have Eva, besides Japan as WWII never stopped between them and America in the setting. Also is pretty Cold War style between America and Rus-- Soviet Union. I just noticed my error there now.

Yes there are Angels, and one of the PCs is an American spy already.

But I like these, give more dept to what I can do.

>>14242570
I am taking many mental notes at the moment.

>>14242570
Have the pilots aware that they are expendable, perhaps have players be ready to be executed for failure by the OD. Eva destroyed taking out an angel? Too bad. They cost money, you cost far less. *blam* OD should be a commissar, always playing with a loaded handgun when talking to the players, ready for any twitch.
Have Back-up pilots of the stitched-flesh horrors too. They come from Lilith (if that is your plot) But get machined up from an early age to be utterly commendable. Think Rei, only more servitor-esque.

>>14242640
That way, no matter how many children get blammed, there will always be a willing monster ready to by loaded up into a plug to fight. Think of it as a deus ex machina should the party wipe, instead of just nuking the angel, you have these. Make it really sting if the players fail, knowing that these brainless lumps of flesh succeeded when they failed, and their next kids have to fill in, possibly having to move into the previous pilots rooms, posters still on the wall, bed still warm.

>>14242696
I have more, but only if this works for you.

>>14242725
You are a horrible horrible Anon.
I love you.
Yes I would like to see more.

>>14242725
If you have any of the pilots with the cloned background, have them know that the flesh golems are his siblings. Not where they are coming from, but know that they come from the same place, and the player could at any time become one of them if they mouth off. If there are other Eva's in other countries, make sure they are the polar opposites, bright and shiny and sleek, opposed to the hideous and metal-plated player Evas, so they know they are in something sick, then have the foes take psyche damage when faced with the horrors.

>>14242790
Foreign Eva Pilots go mad when they see your Evas? That's genius!

>>14242790
The player's rooms should have windows, so that at all times their Eva is staring at them with the hideous eyes, weeping blood. The OD says it is to help link the pilots, when the Eva's are actually linked up to provide security footage.
For mind fucks, all players have a handler, A military thug who's sole job is to make sure the kid eats at meal time, exercises at work-out time, and says exactly what is on their cue cards when talking to the public. Perhaps the players can pick their handler's disorders. Maybe once hits harder then he should, maybe one won't let the kid sleep, or calls him over-weight, maybe one is a pedophile, and watches the pilot do everything.

>>14242840
In this case, the OD either needs to be a DMPC, or else be in on the DM's work. have the OD always take the word of the handler over the pilot. If the pilot brings inarguable proof of the abuse to the OD's attention, have the handler blammed in front of the kids eyes right there, then automatically assign a new one with a new set of problems. The handler should never, ever, become a sympathetic character.
Improtant caveat, if the handler are a pedophile, never any hands-on. Ever. Too much player fuckery there. But have them watch the pilot when they sleep, take away all the inner door in their room, have clear shower curtains, that kind of thing, but never any actual physical stuff. Mental only.

>>14242912
>>14242840
I'm not sure whether to call this awesome or sick, but I'm going to use it.

>>14242912
Keep going?

>>14242938
Please do.

>>14242912
Have the handler be responsible for the pilot's synch scores.
Imagine the look on player's faces. If their scores drops, the handler will *make* them bring it up. Possibly causing all kinds of other mental issues along the way. At some point have other, non-clone pilots report to the science lab as the OD attempts to start having clones of them made, perhaps the normal genetic stock is deteriorating. Possible trouble comes about between players as the new template blames the old for putting him or her through it. have pilots have to go through propaganda classes and phobia tests, the goal being to make them fear nothing. If synch drops, the handler's job is to bring it back up. Make everything a catch-22.

>>14243013
Have a mandatory organ-donation between two pilots, perhaps one is injured in the line of duty, and the other is a match. No consent forms, the are simply chloroformed and a kidney is taken. Have the pilots have to give public addresses to the masses about how wonderful things are and how great life in the grand Soviet union is. Perhaps have a pilot assassinated mid-speech, then make another take over mid-way through while they hunt for the sniper.

>>14243043
Am I the only one with ideas here, or is everyone just in awe?
And for the record, there is a reason no one will play Ad Eva with me anymore.

>>14243043
All pilots have a stun-gun-esque device implanted in the somewhere. If they try to sneak around, the OD can hit a button and drop them in agony where they stand. Maybe he does it anyway, to keep them on their toes. Players should have a lot of free time, but be too scared to use it much. Encourage relationships between pilots, then find ways to have the OD interfere with them. Two budding lovers? Fine, have them share a study class for a week or so, then have one start taking mandatory extra work-out sessions because the OD thinks they might be getting chubby.

Apply some good old Stalin-era revisionism. Have an NPC piss off superiors and disappear. Then start removing him/her from everything, from rosters to photographs and so on.

Pretty much, make that person no longer exist. Even when players ask what happened, be all like "who? What?"

Bonus fun if that NPC wasn't the cleaning lady but actually bridge staff or somebody they knew well.

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Apply upgrades and experiments to the Eva without pilot knowledge or consent. Works best if they don't inspect or care for their Evas personally or all that closely.

When they go into combat, tell them that implant they had before isn't there any longer. Maybe its been replaced by something else. Maybe not. The techs are testing something here with their Eva. Not their place to question or disrupt the experiment.

>>14243054
>And for the record, there is a reason no one will play Ad Eva with me anymore.

For the life of me, I can't see what it is. Please continue.

>>14242949
How many players are going to be in this game, and what are the pilot's genders, if you know...

>>14243162
Sadly only three.
Two male, one female.

>>14243209
Perfect set-up actually. I find that leads to the best group mental breakdowns.
>>14243144
Wonderful concept, actually. Constant tinkering with the Eva's so the pilots are never really comfortable. Maybe they have nightmares from the residual link to the Eva of having limbs removed. Maybe one of the units whispers to the pilot whenever they are in it, begging them to kill it, to end it's pain. Maybe the remains of a former pilot keep appearing when the LCL is drained, even though the body was more then recovered by now, duplicate maimed pieces of bodies and plugsuit keep forming from the fluid. Have the tech crew treat this as normal, and ignore the pilot's complaints.

>>14243284
Have one of the male pilots move into a room that was very obviously home to a female pilot before, decorated to match. Have him find a diary in a drawer still full of clothes, last entry only days before and tell of what she endured before her death in some way.

>>14243352
Unless she is gay or by, have the female pilot put into a room decorated wall-to wall with erotic posters, courtesy of the previous occupant. Maybe they've all been altered in some way, or are all upside-down. Or the room a pilot is put in is completely white and empty. Nothing but a single mattress on a floor, white walls and white sheets. Belonging have to sit on the floor in piles, and if they try to decorate the room in any way, the Handler freaks about defacing property.

>>14243352
I hope I can hit a bone in the player's fear of the innocence using stuff like this.

>>14243410
Have the pilots go through training exercises without the Eva's, learning to fight and shoot on their own, "because Eva's are too expensive for you to waste power playing in them." Make the first fight harder then it needs to be because the pilots have so little cockpit-time, then have the OD blame them for incompetence, and have them spend the next week only leaving the plugs a handful of hours a day.

>>14243441
I'm starting to run out of gentle ideas for what to do. I could go on, but I think we'd be crossing a line somewhere.

>>14243455
Continue if you wish.
I've got enough to work with for now. More ideas are welcome.

>>14243455
Please cross that line, most glorious teller of tales of the motherland.

>>14243477
Is this going to be an in-person game, or an online one? I'd love to tune in and start to offer individually-designed mental rape, based on players. The more I know about the characters, the more I can do.

>>14243477
Have them be used for a blatant act of aggression against revisionist protests in Czechslovakia as a display of soviet might. If they refuse to crush the reactionaries, they will be punished/discplined severely.

Alternatively, have them fight in the Soviet-Sino War, having to slaughter thousands of desperate chinese grunts, most of whom dont carry anything thats remotely threatening to an EVA, or, even more grimdark, ensure that the soviet conscripts have no where to retreat to, as you herd them on into the face of massive Chinese artillery.

Perhaps they discover that their Mini-Eva Rejects are piloted by political prisoners who have been "re-purposed" for the motherland? Prisoners from a Gulag?

In which case, you need to do a Vorkuta-style Uprising, where the convicts manage to seize their reject-abortion Evas and go pyscho blood crazy.

ALL MUST DIE.

YOU AND ME, PILOT, WE ARE THE SAME.

>>14243511
In Person.

>>14243533
Let's see then...
If one of the pilots has a neo-spartan background, have them be part of a small army of smiliar child-soldiers. Have them have to spend time back on the front lines with their units, whil the other pilots can only watch the propaganda-laden news and pray that their fellow pilot comes back in one piece.
Have mandatory uniforms for the pilots to wear when going to classes or the like. Give them no ability to blend in and hide what they are. If they go to a school with normal children, play up the mental issues they have. Talk to pilots about really playing out their issues when RPing their characters. Maybe the cloned one has an overwhelming desire to avoid all injury at all cost for self-preservation. Maybe the Neo-spartan is terrified of touching anyone for fear of hurting them.

>>14243638
We may have to do another thread later, once the characters have been rolled up for more evil.

Have the OD have a significant physical feature the players can't ignore, lik a missing hand, then halfway through, he's got both hands, and it is never explained. Period.
The base starts to become more and more crowded, with more soldiers around every corner. This goes on for weeks, then suddenly it is back to a skeleton crew one morning, but the players all have new clothes in their closets.

>>14243686
One day the players find all of their personal belongings missing. They have to go about the day's business naked, but no explanation is given. The next morning, all of their things have been returned, everything tagged as it it was evidence in a trial.

>>14243708
The pilots find themselves hauled away in the middle of the night into solitary confinement cells. An unknown amount of time later they are escorted back to their rooms, with no reasons ever given. Questioning why earns extra time in the work-out sessions.
The pilots come under lockdown when the base is invaded by a rebel force. They can not get involved, only listen to the gunfire and shouting, and try to keep the rivers of blood from leaking under their doors onto their belongings.

>>14243749
Pilots are ordered to the medical wing for mouth x-rays, full dental work-ups, and each has a tooth pulled. Later, they are all put on a medication regimine. An attentive pilot might be allowed to look up the drug's name, only to find it is an anti-parasitic medication.

>>14243783
Assuming multiple groups of pilots due to deaths, have at least one pilot vanish one evening, only to re-appear a shivering wreck days later, and have the pilot promptly kill them self in the mess hall in the middle of dinner.
Alternately, every Angel fight leads to a minimum of one pilot death, no exceptions. Every time they go out, someone dies, regardless of skill level. Make it random for more amusement, or find ways to manipulate the players into choosing.

>>14243834
A female pilot becomes pregnant after a fight with an angel. The fetus is examined and determined to be a mix of her and the Eva she pilots. At the OD's discretion, they child is aborted, and removed for testing, the pilot kills herself, or the child is delivered and vanishes into the machinations of the complex.

Horrible Anon

Random anon here, just wanted to say that I am in love with your dark, dark mind.
Keep thinking stuff up, I don't even play AvEva and I'm enjoying every word you spout.

>>14243861
During a battle, the injuries to an Eva appear on a pilot, regardless of sync level, this may result in limbs suddenly amputating themselves. Possible opportunity to force the pilot to start becoming like one of the abortion- eva pilots in order to stay a pilot.

>>14243864
Good to know someone is. I'd hate to think I'm writing in a dead thread.

>>14243887
A fight with an angel leads to the angel bleeding everywhere when it dies. This leads to contamination of the city's water, leading to hundreds dead from thirst. Those that drink become deformed monsters strangely like the the dummy pilots...

All that shit make me sick. Keep the good work!

>>14242640
have them more glorious death for mother russia they know they are drones but will die honorably for the communist regime. also in terms of mechs bieng in working order they still had problems in terms of production in the 60's have some broken down earlier evas still be in use but modified, like had one eva missing and arm but has a howitzer gun grafted to its shoulder instead. Also we could use a few names and monsters named off of slavic myth like Baba Yaga or Chernobog

>>14243900
You're not.
I might not F5 every thirty seconds but I've been reading.
~OP

Secret orders for everyone!

Works best if the PCs have different (gov't/military?) backgrounds or allegiances. They've all got some benefactor/handler who wants one thing or another from time to time.

-Maybe they want pictures of an Eva, or a facility.
-Or to know what was said in a conversation between two other people.
-If you could be a dear and make sure the radio tower at <Location> is toppled, you'd be doing your country proud. (Said right before an Eva deployment).
-When your Eva is taken to <Location>, do not take it anywhere near <Building/Landmark>. Do not let it come to harm.

And so on. When they do these things, they get rewarded. Pretty nicely, too. And of course, they aren't supposed to tell anybody else.

>>14243947
One of the pilots inside and Eva suddenly dies, and the Eva shuts down. Upon recovery, the pilot is found to be alive and well, albeit trapped inside, but with no recordable pulse, breathing, or brain activity. Days later, they start up again, but the pilot slips into a coma, finally dying a second time permanently. The body disappears into the science division's care...

Do i even have to mention passing the players seperate notes? Perhaps one hears whispered numbers and cryptic phrases and snatches of weird music, another hallucinates other pilots turning into inside out corpses, and other weird shit, that only their pilots can see/hear/know. Get them distrusting each other IRL and you're on to a winner.

>>14243986
A peasant revolt occurs in a small rural town, and the pilots are sent to try to talk to the people. Whether it succeeds or not, the dummy-pilots appear halfway through and open fire, slaughtering the entire village around the pilots with terrifying accuracy. The pilots may or may not realize they were bait.

Number Stations! Play one in the background at the tabletop.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaXovgMIDNc

It's jamming their radios. Or whatever. Don't ask questions, Pilot. That's not for you to know.

Bullets are *not* free, Pilot!

Pilots are encouraged to not be wasteful during conflicts. AdEva has the Collateral mechanic already; add a little so firing "too many" shots is also a no-no.

>>14244054
The pilots get followers for a week, each a clone of another pilot. They have to care for it for a week and teach it. Potential abounds for both an OD study of the pilots as well as view into secret feelings an interactions. Bonus points if the clones are innocents.

>>14244065
I remember that from that Mars thing.

>>14244087
Pilots battle an Angel, only to have no difficulty ripping it apart. They later find out that it was another country's Eva, but being so different in appearance from their own, they could not tell. This sparks of a longer- running fight wit other countries, though the pilots are never told which is an angel and which is an Eva.

>>14244146
Dummy pilots start to appear more an d more, though still hideous in appearance, and start being use as base security. Pilots complain of invasions of privacy, perhaps worse, only to be threatened with cyborg-handlers if they continue.

>>14244199
A spy is found in the base, someone close to the pilots. The person is then replaced by a cloned replica, though with rather obvious flaws, and are expected to treat the duplicate the same way as the original.

That's about it for me tonight. I need sleep. I can come up with more another time, if the OP posts the party breakdown when it is rolled up.

>>14244244
I love you, anon

>>14244291
If you are female, I'll take that as a compliment. If you male, I'll settle for a brofist.

Have the Russian NERV base in the middle of Siberia or the Russian steppe. Make it very clear to the pilots that even if they run, they're not going to get far. Also, the EVAs are purposely designed so they can't deal with cold weather without certain refits, that way if a pilot tries to escape in his eva, he and his eva will enjoy the wonders of hypothermia before he either dies or is forced to beg his "benefactors" for help.

Also, the NERV base is a just a short train ride away from several gulags. After every mission, particularly if the evas have taken heavy damage, trains with cars full of prisoners roll in, but leave empty.

>>14244397
You're forgetting the "EVAs have a power cord and ~5 minutes without getting plugged in" thing right? Because that's a pretty big impediment to running away in one.

Someone please archive this thread. This shit will make your skin crawl.

>>14244475
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/requestinterface.html

Archive it yourself.

>>14244445
EVAs are still capable of covering huge distances, especially going at full sprint.

Also, pretty much the entire Science and Medical teams are made up of Nazi scientists who got picked up by the Russians postwar. They're skills are extremely valuable to NERV, so they're essentially given carte blanche on the whole project. They're not afraid to admit that they're Nazis, and even boast about their past works in front of the pilots.

Usually, during the night or even in the middle of the day, the pilots will find themselves snatched away and taken to the lab for "tests". On the way they should hints and brief glimpses of the other experiments the Nazi scientists are working on.

>>14244556
My bad, didn't think about that. Or S2 organs.

Here's something:

A part of Pilot training is to show what happens when you try to escape in an EVA. At the training facility there is always somebody who tries to run (sometimes its not even staged). They then demonstrate the explosives underneath the pilot's seat in the plug. Clean and simple (for the EVA at least. The plug can be reused after the innards are replaced).

Every now and then, an enterprising pilot disables the plug-bomb. Or the EVA starts to run amok after the pilot is salsa-fied. That's when they show off the much larger explosives at the base of the EVA's skull and bottom vertebrae.

Other years, they don't use a plug bomb or a decap-blast. Sometimes there's just explosives that amputate the EVA's limbs and leave it twitching, ready to be recovered. Or a hidden cyanide injector in the plugsuit. Or the field around the base hides an electric "carpet" strong enough to fry the entry plug's contents yet keep the EVA alive. Or a miniature, leaking barrel of nuclear waste, slowly poisoning the EVA and pilot; long after the EVA dies and the pilot runs from the corpse, his guts will melt and he'll shit blood.

The thing is, every Pilot who wasn't trained at the same place and time as another (training usually done in large batches) is convinced there's a different anti-runaway measure in place.

The truth? Some of these are used typically the plug and skull bombs. But mostly the demonstrations serve two purposes: they teach Pilots not to run and let the Military test new anti-EVA weapons.

>>14244714
>>14244445
I'd shy away from S2 organs, since they have a habit of starting the Eva version of the Rapture or creating pocket dimensions at random.

This is set in the 60s in glorious USSR, no sissy extension cables allowed. Have them running on huge nuclear reactors that are humps on the back.

"Capitalists shall tremble before my 20 story atomic superman!"

And have the Americans making the same claims about their Robot counterparts.

Have the Soviets planning to use the Evas in a battle field roll where they can excel. Use them as mobile shield generators for armored spearheads. This is a logical counter measure to the small(5-50kt) tactical nukes that had been deployed in Europe at the time.

And just as you said, nukes can hurt them, and this would be a nuke happy setting. Compared to N2 weapons, which have a yield of 30Kt max given what is shown, even a one Megaton nuke will penetrate any angel's shield every time.

>>14244958
And remember that any thermonuclear weapon can be scaled up indefinitely so long as you have the necessary lithium, deuterium, and tritium. An arbitrary number of fusion stages can be added to the fission primer. And we know that at least 30 stages could be initiated using modern technology. Also remember that the efficiency of the bombs actually increases as the yield and number of stages does. This could result in a battleship sized nuke with a yield greater than 900 Teratons, twelve times more than all the energy released by the bolide that killed the dinosaurs. And with a directional warhead 60% of the energy can be directed into a cone with an angle of 40 degrees. And this weapon can be launched into orbit using nuclear pulse propulsion then deorbited on any target, or used against a space based target albeit with less efficiency since there is no atmosphere to be excited by the gamma rays released and carry a blast wave. It could also be used as a mine that would not only smash the Angels shield and rip it to sub meter sized pieces but also launch those pieces into space with over 100,000g of acceleration, pulping anything that remains.


Have an Angel realize that the power of SOVIET SUPER SCIENCE outstrips its own. Have it steal or construct one of these doomsday devices one its own.
"The Angel has acquired Tsar Bomba, what do comrades?"

>>14242640
Have a second OD that is a 40k style Commissar. Have them sit at the table in a Commissar style cap and watch the other players. They don't get to use abilities in combat as long as the Operations Director is alive, but they have a Nagant in case of repeated or unwarranted failure, and a silenced revolver in case they start getting uppity.

>>14244983
What of the Space Race during the Cold War?
Evas should totally get involved.

Sauce on OP's Pic?

>>14244983
>"The Angel has acquired Tsar Bomba, what do comrades?"

Build a bigger one to replace it! Also deny any of this is happening when the outside world asks.

>>14245065
I bet you could find a way to use AT fields to get objects into space, or at least die trying.

I'd probably go with "AT fields kinda get fucked up operating outside of Earth's biopshere" myself. Along with "If you try hard enough in low space/upper atmosphere, you can totally use those fucked up AT fields to create a Tang-blast."

The Angels haven't figured that one out yet...

Or maybe its not true. Kind of how scientists thought detonating the first nuke was going to burn the atmosphere away.

Either way, once the US figures out the Russkies are going to try EVAs in SPACE, they're going to react.

>>14245065
Launch Eva's into space using Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. It can lift 2 million tons into orbit but evas are only the size of a destroyer(about 10-20 thousand tons displacement) so it should be easy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)


Soviet Eva vs US giant retro robot on the Fucking Moon!

>>14245101
Keith Thompson. Google him, he does some crazy stuff.

>>14245112
The US are the ones that came up with orion, so have the them do it first and the soviets respond by putting their Evas up their.

"The brave cosmonauts of the Soviet Union will be the first to leave their giant foot prints on Luna!"

US: "On no you don't commies! Launch Unit Liberty!"
Unit Liberty: "COMMUNISM IS THE DEFINITION OF FAILURE ON THIS OR ANY OTHER WORLD."


Asuka Petrotski: "Die damn you, creation capitalist pig dogs!"

Unit Liberty: "I SHALL RIP YOUR SHIELD ASUNDER WITH THE MIGHT OF AMERICAN JUSTICE."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Cw3_qGwE

Unit Liberty: "AT FIELD DETECTED! PROBABILITY OF MISSION HINDRANCE 0%. FIRING POSITRON CANNON AND DEPLOYING TACTICAL THERMONUCLEAR WEAPON." *chucks nuclear bomb at the eva*

Hell fucking Yes.

Sound the alarm for an Angel attack.

Deploy EVAs. Let them wait, staring with weapons ready at a blank snowscape.

Have them wait. Components of their EVAs start to ice over. The pilots are not allowed to maneuver in any way to compensate.

After a marathon of standing, facing West, staring at a blizzard, call the pilots back. Tell them they've routed the enemy but criticize their efficiency.

>>14245275

Soviets got to have their own Magi computers right?

Gotta do something with all those failed EVA pilots, right?

Why not combine the two? You have brains fused together and hooked to a computer interface. They know EVAs, they know AT fields, they know Angels. Freed of their bodies and pumped full all kinds of crazy drugs, they become remote viewing, hypercognitive *things*.

Who are also kinda crazy. And suffer burnout frequently. Which means replacing parts.

Anyways, the PCs should get to know the bridge crew, or at least recognize them on sight. They're a tired, haggard crowd. Maybe just as much as the Pilots.

When a new crewmember arrives, they're fresh and clean and alive. Not for long, after time spent around the "Magi." If a PC ever goes near the Magi (which they shouldn't. That knowledge is classified, Pilot. you do not belong in this wing. Go back.), their AT field and ego barrier is assaulted by the mass of minds.

BUMPING FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

I know it might not be as cool as nuke mines, but what about neutron mines?

Tank comes rolling when suddenly; *click* *poof*: Empty tank.

>>14248066
Have the players find an entire field full of empty tanks. Just sitting there. Thousands of them, like they were going somewhere, and then everyone disappeared. They're all still sealed up, from the inside, and if the players open them up all they see is dust.

Wow.. and I though normal evangelion was fucked up.
My hat's off to you guys.

I've always wanted to run AdEva on the grounds of the old Chernobyl Plant.

Perfect zone for secret project to unit human race in one collective conscious. The ultimate in collectivism!

>>14249300
How about if the Liberty Prime units are also "piloted".

Being slightly nicer and hoping for a propaganda boost the Americans take the brains of severely retarded and crippled children and put them in robots to give them a new life after brain rewiring. In reality though most of these children are not retarded, just unable to communicate or not disabled at all. The real robots that do have retarded brains are just for testing and prototyping of new mechanical bodies. Even the human sized ones are atomic powered Iron Man like weapons of war. The largest are 40 story tall Liberty Prime rip offs.

And why children? Neurologic plasticity, the brains of children can more easily recover from damage done during surgery and adapt to control the robotic body in about 4 years. Of course the children get the finest "education" from the government to make them loyal and productive members of American society, and a hard wired vacuum computer constantly intruces thoughts that burning FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CAN ONLY BE PRESERVED BY ELIMINATING THE COMMUNIST THREAT AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

Bump for dialectical Marxist-Leninism.

>>14249643
I'd like to see the of time.
Asuka Petrotski: Don't you understand that the plutocratic bourgeoisie that control your nation also control you comrade.

Unit Liberty 41: TACTICAL ASSESSMENT: COMMUNIST INDOCTRINATION OF THIS UNIT IS AS IMPOSSIBLE AS COMMUNIST VICTORY ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

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>>14249750

>>14249756

Finland only has one Eva, but it is a fine one. The White Death, the Protector, is built for stealth, for steadiness, for accuracy. It is a sniper. You would never think that something so big could move so quickly, silently, blending into falling snow like a breath, gone before it is noticed. It has many eyes, and many cameras. Its arms are long. Its legs are heavily braced, concealing outriggers that help to keep it motionless when in combat. It carries a positron weapon of unprecedented range and power, capable of piercing a comparable Eva's AT Field from miles and miles away.

The new invasion of Europe cannot proceed with this machine still in operation. It must be destroyed, but you will have to find it first.

>>14249887
That's.. really awesome.

>>14249887
maybe it has an experimental AT field that can be warped to act as a sort of active cloaking device, at the cost of protection. SO, either the unit is visible and has a normal AT shield, or the eva is invisible but has no AT field protection.

Soviet high command is convinced this is some sort of technological invention on their part, and the pc's have to attempt to recover the finn eva as intact as possible.
Soviet high command doesn't know that the ability is purely a manifestation of the finnish eva pilot's will due to some mutation or somesuch, and the pc's WILL be punished if they don't produce this wonderful cloaking device

India and China are both mass-producing Evas or Eva-like machines. Their excess population gives them plenty of material. Their large production capacity gives them the means. Evas are cyborgs, after all. Biological creatures, constrained by machines. Why grow, when you can mold? The poor and the dead have become useful, in this new age. The crematoriums and funeral parlors will be emptied, the half-way houses, the orphanages, the prisons and the tenements cleared out. Economic rebirth, the firstfruits of Communism and Capitalism both. That is why the streets, once so full of the downtrodden and forgotten, now blister with clean steel and shining glass, with no wandering vagrants to mar them. Russia, too, with its scattered Siberian camps and concealed political prisons, has its fair share of components.

And so the gods will walk. Their woven flesh, human and divine, filled with the fragments of screaming souls. Born from a science poorly-understood, and the mystic truths unfolding from the mother of man. It is said, in this war, that there is no good, only degrees of evil. If you ask the Americans, with their synthetic cells, their Buzz Aldrin and Coca-Cola, the Right go with God, and Democracy is the highest pursuit that can be known by man. But if you speak to the lost and the damned, who form the limbs and the hearts of the demons who fight Angels, what will you say?

Remember MKULTRA, the CIA's pet mind-control project. Hell, remember everything the CIA has done. Remember all that research, all the experiments taken from Unit 731. And that's only what we've been allowed to know about. So much has either remained classified or was purged from the records. If anything, the United States has been as bad or worse than everyone else, at least at certain levels.

So it wouldn't surprise me if America's EVA program was just as horrifying and creepy as the USSR's, just in different ways. Pilots get everything they could ever want. Large televisions with every channel ever (censored, of course, and never live). An unending supply of candy and soda, not to mention the comic books. Action figures, sports equipment, American flags on every conceivable surface. Patriotism so thick it's suffocating. The best therapy money can buy, of course, and an omnipresent cadre of men in black suits. As long as you profess a thorough hatred for the Reds, say your pledge every day and keep your uniform clean, they'll promise to let you see your parents. Just remember not to scratch the stitches on the back of your neck.

I mean, there's really nothing to worry about. The budget is essentially unlimited. Engineering standards are higher than NASA's. The best and the brightest are lined shoulder-to-shoulder, all breaking their backs to make the best war machines on the face of the Earth. The Saturn V put men on the Moon. The EVA will protect them on Earth.

Can Poland into Eva?

>>14250736
1960s Poland is part of the Warsaw pack, they have a provisional eva from the USSR.

So we have
USSR fielding Atomic Soviet Supermen Evas.
India and China are benderizing tens of millions of undesirables to make slurry with Evas based on human flesh can be made.
The US just said fuck it and makes cyborg Iron Giants with 5 meter thick armor plating that can withstand tactical nukes and space battleships propelled by nuclear explosions.

Kruschev: "Once the alien threat has been eliminated all the world will recognize the inevitability of communism and throw of the shackles of oppression."

Indira Gandhi: "To defend our precious India we must be ready to make sacrifices must be made."

Mao: "No man can give too much in the defense of China and Her people."

Lyndon B. Johnson: "We will stand firm, and by the grace of God and the power of Man we will drive back any and all foes that oppose the cause of freedom."

>>14250657
Unit 731 was the Japs not the Yanks.


What are the Japanese doing in all this, they don't really make their own weapons other than their tanks. I imagine their giant death machines are basically copies of the US and named Gigantors.

>>14251227
The Americans bargained a certain degree of protection for those involved in the Unit in exchange for research data. That's what I was referring to.

>>14251102
I'd like to see an Angel try to mind rape one of these Coldwar pilots and get indoctrinated by the propaganda it gets exposed to.

"The angel proletariat does all the work while Adam feeds one our labors. Death to the aristocrat!"

"Angel must have the freedom to choose it's own evolutionary path and the its right to bear terawatt output laser weapons shall not be infringed, fuck yeah!"

Cuban Robot Crisis Campaign: and angel has attacked Cuba, the US is sending its nuclear armed killbots and the Soviet Eva team has been deployed to the defend the nation of Cuba.

The US considers the angel threat to close to leave it to the Soviets, and the Soviets think the US will immediately use it's unstoppable doom bots to depose Castro once they nuke the angel.

Kennedy, "we will not allow the placement of nuclear powered supernatural giant robots just off the coast of America."

Kruschev "Then you must first remove your Constitution class continental siege unit from Turkey!"

>>14251565
>continental siege unit

This setting needs Bolos.

>>14249887
This might do it.

jesus christ /tg/

this cold war era eva shit is far and away better than the actual setting in the series hahahaha
I wuv you guys

flebump

>>14251921
Amazing what happens when you come up with something more than "Christian symbology lol."
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Humans are made of LCL, right? We've all seen EVA-related disasters where the Pilot or associated personnel dissolve into LCL. They're written off as a loss, dead and useless.

What if...you could reverse the process? Turn a puddle of LCL back into something human? And what if you could control the process, to revive a specific person? Bring them back together, unharmed?

Now imagine strategic sites all around the country, linked by pipelines full of LCL. Using yet to be built technology, you convert people into LCL, pump it to their destination and reconstitute them fully upon arrival.

It's no teleportation but its just as good.

>>14253736
Unless there's leakage. Or contamination.

No one wants to talk about Maintainable Crew # 12, even if it was allowed. Or the first Sixth Children.

>>14253736
Better yet, you could just package the LCL and ship it by air. That way you don't have to deal with the issue of LCL mixing in the pipes, or building all the goddamn pipes in the first place.

>>14253825
That just means the methods of separation and collection need to be refined further. Progress can't be made if you throw your hands up and give up at the first sign of trouble.

>>14253835
Transporting barrels of LCL defeats the entire purpose. Its a a way to move personnel around without interception or attack en route!

(Besides, this is the "fucked up Cold War EVA thread," not "plausible and practical Cold War EVA thread.")

>>14253887
>Its a a way to move personnel around without interception or attack en route!

I forgot that pipes were naturally indestructible.

>(Besides, this is the "fucked up Cold War EVA thread," not "plausible and practical Cold War EVA thread.")

There is a line between "awesome impractical shit" and "dumb impractical shit."

I will say, though, that I like the idea of rendering people down to LCL and then putting them back together again somewhere else. I just think the nationwide network of pipes is fucking retarded.

>>14253931
The european oil pipelines would like a word.

But, yeah, usage of the pipes should result in occasional accidents. People finding themselves with minor deformities, or even brain damage...

Or someone else's memories. Someone who doesn't seem to be in records anymore...

>>14254055
There's a difference between pipes transporting a vital natural resource and pipes transporting liquefied people. Also, I do believe we were talking about the USSR.

>>14254093
It's definitely possible, if a logistical nightmare.

Also, Scrap metal armour for EVAs. Strength in numbers, not individual quality...

This thread is still alive I see...

>>14254093

>Fictional Parody of USSR

Well all bets are off then. Carry on.

>>14249643
Liberty Prime vs Angel.
kgo

>>14254208
Parody? Pff. In reality, things were actually WORSE.

>>14254254

I fail to see how "Tubes full of people goo with only a 50% chance of sucessfully reconstitution becoming nation wide mandated mass transit" could possibly be worse.

>>14254268
>Tubes full of people goo with only a 50% chance of sucessfully reconstitution becoming nation wide mandated mass transit

...no one said that.

>>14254268
More like pilot and essential personnel escape route.

With experiments into cloning certain personnel via copying their LCL's exact properties underway?

Russian here, in fact the USSR was not very grimdark in the 60s, especially during Khruschev's rule. I'd recommend a more optimistic setting, with most people enthusiastic about any kind of new technology, even the more disturbing aspects of Eva production, nuclear power seen as the answer to everything, propaganda trumpeting about glorious Soviet science bringing communism ever closer to victory, research teams trying out radical new ideas. Nobody wants to look back; life might have been hard so far, but technocracy will solve all problems soon. Something appropriate to lighten the mood, like the pilots being ordered to write NERV wall newspapers, Evas being painted with slogans for the November 7th parade, or a well-meaning civillian official trying to enlist assistance for moving a mountain or digging a canal.
Feel free to add something different, though, such as espionage or political dissent, just don't make it all comissars and gulags; there's enough of that elsewhere.
I don't believe you people have read the Strugatsky brothers' earlier works; if you had, you'd know exactly what kind of atmosphere I have in mind.

Glorious Communism bump

It's painfully clear from reading this thread that most of you got your idea of Soviet life from Glenn Beck or are deliberately exaggerating.

>>14255122
Your powers of perception are legendary among my people.

>>14254268
Yeah, don't think that was said. Seemed more like "super secret Soviet-NERV" thing to me.

>>14255197
^

>>14255122
Because a game about giant cyborg alien/human hybrids piloted by emotionally damaged teenagers sent to fight alien monsters that are trying to wipe humans out and bring back their creator using the powers of the mind is *such* a realistic and balanced setting that it requires strict attention to realism. Am I right, comrade?

>>14244598
Not realistic. Unlike the Americans, the Soviet response to guest-scientists was typically to coerce them into revealing their knowledge, torture them to make sure they're telling it all, and execute them like the worthless animals they were once they had outlived their usefulness. There's a reason so many Nazi vermin fled desperately for the American/British lines.

>>14255232
You can have a fantastic setting without resorting to pathetic, facepalm-worthy anachronisms like the trigger-happy commissar who shoots you in the head for sneezing without covering your mouth. Shit like this takes me, at least, out of the game.

It's more fun to play a fantastic setting if you think it could plausibly grow from the political environment and culture of the time. Take the "higher-up disappears, is retconned out of everything" bit. Yes, that's more of a purge-era thing, but it's believable; it happened.

>>14249300
Protip: that's the plot to STALKER.

>>14255348
You're so desperate to prove your history degree wasn't a waste of money, aren't you? Must be fun playing with you.

Nobody's forcing you to accept these ideas into your personal canon, you know. If you don't like them, try contributing your own to the thread instead of shitting on other peoples' contributions.

>>14255348
>You can have a fantastic setting without resorting to pathetic, facepalm-worthy anachronisms

It's funny to me that you're saying this on /tg/. Anyway, you're right, we can. But sometimes we put them in anyway, and if you don't like it, you're certainly under no obligation to play, or participate in the discussion. This thread is thoroughly covered in ridiculous horror ideas and even more ridiculous Soviet weirdness. If you'd like a more realistic portrayal of the Cold War era as an AdEva setting, perhaps you should start a new thread.

>>14255405
Suck a fuck, you butthurt little baby. You don't need a degree to know "DURR THE OD IS A COMISAR AN HE BLAM U BUT FURST U GO TO GULAG" is stupid, stupid, stupid.

>>14255479
So much butthurt. Sorry if I hit a nerve there.

This entire thread isn't "DURR THE OD IS A COMISAR AN HE BLAM U BUT FURST U GO TO GULAG" as you so eloquently put it. There's a good amount of paranoia, body horror and just plain weirdness.

>>14255122
While I certainly realize that the ideas I postulated last night are anything but truly historically accurate, the point of the setting is not to maintain accuracy. In that regard, you would really end up with very little being different from the original series. The point of it all is to play up the propaganda version of what the communist red was like, in order to achieve a far more entertaining setting to the delight (more more likely, horror) of the players and the DM involved.

>>14255628
And yes, I'm back.

>>14255637
More ideas please

>>14255728
I actually did some mulling over the concept for what the abortion-evas would have for weapons, as well as how a few might look.
And a few more ideas for mind fuckery, but they need a bit more refining first.

>>14255766
First of all, continueing the theme, the setting needs to be as distinctly anti-nuclear weapon as possible. Nerv would not be allowed to deploy nuclear weapons against the Angels, because the use of said weapons would of course trigger a response from the United states in a nuclear war. for all the posturing, no weapons can be used. Which means they have to come up with new ideas.

about the mystery pregnancy horrible anon suggested earlier. seems to me theres lots of possibilities with that one.
e.g. can have the aborted fetus survive and then grow in a lab into a grotesque hybrid, looking half like the pilot and half like the eva, then have it follow the parent around as an experiment, could have it go nuts and shot full of holes bleeding and spasming right in front of the pilot.
eg2. could have the fetus grow into an abomination which then escapes and attacks the pilots killing some of the parents friends, tearing chunks out of them, swallowing some, then when its being put down by either the remainder of the pilots+parent or security come up with a way for the parent to recognise the abomination as its aborted fetus grown big.

>>14255793
The first one designed, (and floolowing the pattern, Captcha say it is Andreae)
The basis is a quartet of massive legs, used to stabilize the system and absorb recoil from the weapons. Above that is a turntable, mounted on it is the armored torso of one of the earlier mentioned mass-produced Eva's. Torso only, as well as enough of a brain to maintain and manipulate an AT field, but nothing more. The weapon itself was once a cannon from the deck of a battleship, re-designed to allow for continuous fire. In it's current state, it is able to fire 60 rounds per minute of either High-explosive, or White Phosphorus shells. The Eva is mounted with four of these auto-cannon, with a simple computer-assisted aiming system. By providing shocks to the Eva's exposed brain, the operators can extend the AT field out in front, providing a firing cone for the hail of shots to connect with the Angel. (Or player Eva.)

>>14255910
You wouldn't have happened to read the the failed /tg/ Dyad homebrew would you? Minus the fetus and AT fields parts, sounds pretty spot-on for that setting.

>>14255910
Second design, the crawler. (Untesrat. Interesting name Captcha). This unit is mounted on train cars, the upper torso, head, and part of one arm of an Eva, bolted down, with part of the face removed. Four eyes, attached to extended optic nerves, run from the face up a support frame, giving the body a complete 360 degree field of view. The various cars of the train can be changed out, while the AT field of the Eva provides a protective umbrella for anything aboard. Used for mass-transit, cargo, or military movement of highly dangerous or Angel-desired objects, pilots included.

>>14256014
No, it just seemed like a pretty effective concept. Wall of bullets down an AT-field cone.

OP, base your campaign on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNrRwGrNzsc

>>14255910
>a cannon from the deck of a battleship, re-designed to allow for continuous fire
>60 rounds per minute

>>14256018
Third design, nothing good from captcha here. The grab trap. nearly-complete Eva, six arms grafted around a torso, with the head mounted inside the chest cavity. Deployed in a location deemed most likely for the Angel to approach from, it's designed to grab and hold anything that comes over it, player included, if you feel like screwing them that way.

>>14256128
My captcha declares Aviven.

>>14256147
Works for me. Not picky.
>>14256128
Fourth design, cheapest to produce. Small-scale Evas, possibly stunted in growth along the way. Mostly machine, mounted with a multiple-barreled automatic weapon. designed solely to drown the target in as many rounds as possible, possibly many of said weapons mounted on the frame.

>>14256211
Calling it an early night. These ideas just don't seem to be up to my standard. I'll be back.

>>14255569
A good third of the ideas are of the stupid IN SOVIET RUSSIA variety. The body horror/evil organization horror really need not be criticized, since it's a trope of Eva and most governments have many, many organizations that are, distinct from the government itself, utterly evil or at least amoral. The CIA serves as an excellent example, but they were also INEPT and evil during the Cold War.

I could easily see a paranoid Soviet intelligence/research agency assigning each of its pilots with a handler whose resume probably includes government-sanctioned murder.

On that note, maybe more failed experiments and...reluctance by the staff to point out errors for fear of punishment?

>>14256334
Because if they do they get shot at by the commissar and shipped off to a gulag right?

Try harder okay? 5/10 for effort.

I'm completely new to /tg/ but this sounds awesome. (combining one of my favorite animes and a game).

But this is mostly brain thinking right? Can't do anything with it yet.

>>14256377
Not trolling. Soviet science did have issues. See also: Lamarckism meets botany, hilarity and imprisonment of a certain researcher ensues.

Any ideas of your own? I'm all ears; just saying what comes to mind.

I know the eva limitation stuff but if we go with the nuclear back pack idea then the defecting pilot/scientist idea is back on the table.

play up the warsaw angle more

make them go on tours of warsaw nations, do a tour in eastern germany. Have them go on a good will train stop tour around Russia. During the tour, Angels keep showing up a few days later at the stops they make, almost as if they are following them

Light hearted missions where they must help out with farming or mining with their evas

And on the subject of evas while fucked up evas can be cool, make sure that during any PR event, they are in fancy cover up paneling. This may necessitate remaking some scenes of battle for the papers, or cause a problem when there is an angel attack during a PR journey.

Remind the players of what an important symbol they are. They don't keep up a good face in public because its required, but because they look in the faces of their classmates and the only thing keeping them from complete terror is the knowledge that fellow Russians can keep them safe.

also, send them to Afghanistan.

taking inspiration from horrible anon, so much money and development have gone into the EVA that they need to use re purposed items from other military branches. Artillery guns, bomb grenades.

Sputnik as an angel detection system, also, to explore the trident.

The white sphere is in the arctic or antarctic? Move it to the arctic circle if its not so it can become an appropriate battleground.

>>14256434
nope

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Adeptus_Evangelion

Also while I like the grimdark and horror in this thread, 60s Russia was, at least to people there at the time, optimistic.

It's all about contrast. You can have the handlers, and people disappearing, and horrible experiments, and classified everything, but the Evas are painted to be magnificent wonders of soviet science, the pilots are heroes (think Yuri Gagarin).

Everyone but those directly involved in the project believe that the Evas will solve all problems and lead the USSR down a glorious road.

This superficial brightness only makes the grimdark more grimdark.

As a minor point, I recommend renaming the Evas to something non-religious. Religion was something people were put into camps for. (As another note: this gives you a reason for the Evas to have religious connotations if people's bodies are used to manufacture them. The memories of religion and faith and political opinion are literally what the Evas are made of.)

>>14258676
At last, someone who got it right. As an alternate suggestion to the folks who want it totally 40k, change the era to WW2. That's as fucking grimdark as it gets; whatever horrors the pilots witness, they must go along and stop at nothing to win, as the Nazis are guaranteed to be doing worse shit. The "feeding Evas with prisoners" or "looking for a reason to melt people down en masse" bits fit them just fine.
>>14254445

>Light hearted missions where they must help out with farming or mining with their evas
This can be made into not-so-lighthearted emergency relief assignments: Dams bursting (lol japan), HUEG wildfires, important ship/sub wrecked and cargo/crew having to be rescued, mine collapsing. If you'd like some additional complications/challenge thro in some Lovecraftian shitkicker amidst the ongoings.

guys, it's perfectly possible to blend both horrible dark KGB soviet grimdark and glorious communist dream within this setting.

For all the shit going down with the EVA project, the masses still live in what closely resembles the actual times of the 60's. Their only exposure to the EVA's is through PR stunts, which range from parades/public speeches to civil engineering jobs (dam building, railway laying, ship rescue, etc etc)

However, the EVA pilots/personnel are locked away within the compound, and when their EVA's go out for PR stunts, the suits are actually remote controlled. When they give speeches, the internal mics are on but the external speakers only give a previously written/approved speech.

I mean, this ideas don't have to be mutually exclusive by any means. In fact, I think it even enhances the terror of the situation by making the EVA pilots even more helpless. Even when they have their "milk run" missions of grand-standing and parade speaking, they are kept safely isolated from the working class, locked within their own EVA units without any control, not even able to speak, but still doing a glorious service to the motherland.

Of course, this makes all the praise that their superiors heap upon them ring flat and hollow, because they aren't actually doing anything. This doesn't mean they are not praised, of course.
In fact, these PR runs may be the only positive reinforcement that the pilots receive, and bring temporary vacations (supervised, and only within approved locations and times, of course)

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