I may never ascend to the Heavens…
6:36:05 PM Jake, the DM: We pick up, then, two weeks after the battle, with you three and your now-healed backup pilot called down to the hanger to hear of *something* happening to the EVA units...
6:37:29 PM Jake, the DM: As soon as you reach the hanger, you can tell what they were talking about.
6:37:52 PM Elsa/Kommy: "Was ist das?"
6:38:25 PM Jake, the DM: Cernobog, 41, and 40 have all...changed. Significantly. Cernobog more than the others. His already obscene musculature has swelled even further and stronger, the beast looking even tougher than before, and now sporting a pair of gargantuan, daemonic wings sprouting from his back.
6:38:45 PM Jake, the DM: Similar mutations seem to have occured in 41 and 40...though they haven't bulked up like Cernobog has...
6:39:07 PM Jake, the DM: The only one seemingly unaffected is the huge, heavily metallic Mephistophiles. For now.
6:39:19 PM Tanya/Kassie: Tanya says nothing, just grins eagerly at Cernusha.
6:39:38 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev: "We...have no idea how this happened, pilots."
6:39:54 PM Elsa/Kommy: "I'm the only one here with one of these things that doesn't cause mayhem, aren't I?" :p
6:40:08 PM Griet/Shame: "What....."
6:40:23 PM Griet/Shame: "What....so...40 can FLY now?"
6:41:07 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev: "They likely don't permit flight of any kind, of course...I mean, basic physics makes it impossible unless these things are heavily affected by the AT field, but we have no idea why the damnable things would sprout wings. At least Cernobog's sudden growth spurt seems to be attributable."
6:41:07 PM Tanya/Kassie: "You could cause mayhem if you *wanted*, Schnitzel…… When do we get to test these things out?" :p
6:41:28 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchevhev: "We suspect the growth happened after he devoured the core-tissue from Vrag-08."
6:42:00 PM Elsa/Kommy: "See, this is why you have to be careful when eating aliens."
6:42:27 PM Tanya/Kassie: Tanya nods, since… that makes sense. "…do we have any reason to assume that suddenly sprouting wings won't continue to violate the laws of physics as we know them?" :p
6:42:42 PM Griet/Shame: "....this is incredible. Can we....try them out?"
6:43:05 PM Tanya/Kassie: "*shrugs* Tell that to Cernobog. He's the one who had the idea to turn it into a buffet." :p
6:43:13 PM Griet/Shame: *is eager, almost shivering with restless energy. Exciting!*
6:43:26 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev: "Only Mephistophiles is to be activated today. We need to study this further before we let anyone into the affected EVAs. You remember what happened with 45-E, right?"
6:43:55 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev: "We need Wingleader Faustus to do a few basic scans and check for AT irregularities in the affected EVAs..."
6:44:01 PM Elsa/Kommy: "Ja, frau major."
6:44:05 PM Tanya/Kassie: *resigned sighs.* "Understood, Doctor."
6:44:17 PM Griet/Shame: *pouts a bit*
6:45:03 PM Jake, the DM: Helmanetski: "Reasonable enough."
6:45:21 PM Elsa/Kommy: "When do you want me to do it, frau major?"
6:45:21 PM Jake, the DM: Helmanetski: "I really, *really* hope my EVA didn't mutate and trash itself after just one fight..." :P
6:45:26 PM Jake, the DM: *Doctor.
6:45:41 PM Elsa/Kommy: Doktor. :p
6:45:48 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev: "As soon as possible. Before one of the others decides to try sneaking into a cockpit." :P
6:46:33 PM Elsa/Kommy: "Ja, ja. I'll go make sure they don't start eating us or flying off." :p
6:46:48 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev: "It is a completely legitimate concern." :P
6:46:58 PM Elsa/Kommy: I trot back to my quarters, suit up, and get into my plug.
6:47:40 PM Tanya/Kassie: "*shrugs and smiles guiltily.* …I can't say for the others, but. yes. yes, it's a completely legitimate concern." :p
6:48:23 PM Griet/Shame: *looks all wide eyed and innocent. "oh we would never....."*
6:48:39 PM Tanya/Kassie: "I would." :p
6:48:41 PM Jake, the DM: Tuchechev sighs. "Wingleader? All systems normal so far?"
6:50:17 PM Griet/Shame: *mock-elbows Tanya in the ribs, great now they'll never give us a chance to sneak in!*
So, to sum up: on Tuesday nights, I get on IRC with a couple friends from high school and roleplay as a socially special, emotionally stunted, genetically engineered and raised by a scientist and a Spetsnaz veterean Russian robot death machine pilot girl named Tanya, who is trying to fight off and destroy extraterrestrial horrors with her three friends and their giant robot death machines. Her giant robot death machine is codenamed Cernobog and HE CAN FLY NOW.
Her friends are: Griet/Bobo, a snarky, somewhat finicky, South African survivor of a pseudo-Apocalypse (she hunts lions, and hoards things, and pulls a lot of BOOM! HEADSHOT maneuvers because she's amazing with a rifle); Elsa/Schnitzel, an equally socially-and-emotionally stunted German girl, and… she and Tanya have mutual crushes on each other, but Griet is the only one who realizes this; and Andriy Helmanetski/Newbie, the token boy and the token NPC.
…Cernobog is also one of Tanya's friends, since. well. The game is set in the universe of Neon Genesis Evangelion, so, "robot" here means, "…well. we THINK it's a robot. It's also sort of organic, and it has a soul thing, and gets called a synthetic cyborg… uh, your guess for the right word here is as good as ours." …He's a giant, excessively violent, murderous monster of doom and destruction, who likes tearing apart and then devouring his enemies.
Tanya calls him, "Cernusha" and would totally curl up and cuddle with him, if given the opportunity. And he'd probably cuddle back because his attitude about her is like, "This is my person. She loves me and I will protect her." …a-yup.