Campaign:AvisNoah
"I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to play tennis with one of the senior partners. You're all the hope for our future, keep it up!" -Commander Richard "Niceguy" White
Avis Noah is named after the spaceship that was found underneath Area 51, refitted to be a fortress protecting humanity from the threat of the Angels as well as to house a city within itself, it is staffed with the very best that the UN could muster and that includes the players.
Basic Information
"As you can see even after the UN resorted to deploying a N2 mine so close to not one but two civilian settlements, they still couldn't stop the monster. It took Nerv, the mysterious organization in Area 51 to destroy the enemy, with no less than the deployment of four giant robots!"
Avis Noah is the second of the Adeptus Evangelion games running on the #adeptusevangelion channel on Rizon, started just a few weeks after Monolith to let the people who were left out have a shot at playing, it is currently the main playtesting ground of the v2 ruleset.
Backstory
Presumed to have been built by the FAR, Avis Noah is the name given by the UN (or perhaps SEELE) to a gigantic spacecraft of unknown origin underground the Nevada Desert. Full of technology ranging between puzzling, defunct and trivial, its existence was a secret until the Second Impact.
Avis Noah served as a shelter for years, and during the heavy rebuilding of the USA they started to build residences on the inside, as part of the plan to reactivate it's nature as a mothership and escape the coming of the Angels.
Eventually the Avis Noah program was scrapped in favor of the Evangelion program which seemed more reliable, and the remaining half of it was to be used to house the Headquarters of NERV-02 and to help in the development of the Evangelions.
Although Project E was officially the last line of defense for humanity against the Angels, it wasn't until 2014 that it had enough funds to advance at a decent pace, the Production Model Evangelions are proof of this advancement, made in just under a year's worth of development.
This is for a very simple reason, the Angels known now as the 3rd Angel "Sachiel" and the 4th Angel "Shamshel" were reported to awaken during 2014, the official files say that they were subdued though there is no mention how they managed to do that. In any case, this meant much better funding for the Evangelion Project which would be accompanied by the higher ups pulling some strings to get the best of the best as their staff.
As of the campaign start Avis Noah is a fortress meant to protect humanity from Third Impact, in it reside the five finished Evangelion units, two of them made by this very own branch.
Characters
Five Evangelion Pilots, with two Operations Directors (one of them now the NPC Subcommander) round the cast of this campaign.
Therese Newman, Operations Director
“Stay calm and don't panic! Fear is only natural when you are face to face with death. Don't blink, hun~”
The second of the two ODs to grace Avis Noah, she was appointed by the UN to make sure things go the way they want after one too many accidents during the direction of one Dick Ranger.
To call her a MILF would be unfair to her sex appeal, Therese is a woman of many skills and her ability to woo people is just one of many.
She is clever, with a talent for oddball ideas and with enough common sense to know when to hit the brakes, her friendly and go-getter attitude is further supported by her amazing cooking skills that make her an Angel (the good kind!) on Earth for those lucky enough to get a taste.
- Major Accomplishments: Sent three Evangelions to space and detonated a N2 Mine at point blank range to destroy a spacefaring Angel succesfully, is Luis' archnemesis and always has a good reason to make him miserable, made some really damn good pies.
Alan Anderson, First Children and Pilot of EVA 00
"Yes sir, I will find a clothing store and acquire some civilian clothes."
The resident Manufactured Alan Anderson the weapons specialist, a calm and seemingly normal kid who is shoved into the big brother role due to his seniority in time piloting and age.
Despite his frail and puny look he is an amazing marksman, and has dealt the killing blow to many an Angel... as well as some things that don't quite count as Angels.
He has his moments of weirdness, however, and in addition to his nerdiness that has earned him the ire of certain people who think he is calling attention to himself by acting like he's special.
- Major Accomplishments: Dealt the killing blow to the simulated A3 as well as well as taking part of the combination attack that destroyed A5, blasted a hole into A7 to allow Command to N2 Mine it into oblivion, shot down in personal scale an unknown Angelspawn-esque creature and hasn't taken a single point of damage since the campaign started.
George Wagner, Second Children and Pilot of EVA 01
"Take this! My love, my hate! AT WAAAAVE!"
The AT Field Tactician is a Neospartan that has been trained never to retreat, never to surrender, trained to believe that death in the battlefield was the greatest glory to be achieved in life.
He presents a serious, perfect soldier persona but his heroic spirit gets the best of him and forces him to make foolish, if brave, decisions.
On the flip side, though perhaps he does not see it that way, his courageous heart of a hero has earned him many an admirer and he has a dedicated club of fangirls who melt at his feet.
- Major Accomplishments: Took part of the combo that destroyed A5, stood up in personal scale to one of the unknown Angelspawn-like creatures and an Angel, was the MVP for the other Not-Angelspawn fight during the A6 mindtrip, launched a Chainsword telekinetically with enough force to completely destroy simulated A9's head after it regenerated, and stole a cripple kid's NERV ID to buy food with it leaving said cripple unable to enter his own house.
Luis Medeira, Third Children and Pilot of EVA 02
"I CAN'T DIE HERE! I CAN'T LET EVERYONE DOWN!!"
Luis is a rebellious kid with anger management issues, his amazing physical endurance and hotblooded attitude allowed him to survive the extremely harsh training camp he got sent to after being confirmed as a potential EVA pilot.
His lack of patience has landed him in many a bad spot, such as getting beaten by his first Operations Director, or being thrown into jail by the more down to earth second one.
His opposition to authority doesn't contribute to this, and it has gone so far as to the point that he assaulted a figure of superior rank, and got an electroshock discharge to the chest for his efforts.
- Major Accomplishments: Endured the mental attack from A6 and the ego barrier breach by the unfinished EVA 04 without any external aid, was the MVP for the A8 encounter, completely destroyed the body of the simulated A9, and turned a cripple kid's wheelchair sideways after said kid started hostilities with Sani.
Sani Loituma, Fourth Children and Pilot of EVA 03
"To be honest, the entire class has acted insensitive, rude, violent and outright barbaric. Me included."
Sani is a smart girl, probably the only one of the quartet with enough social graces to not make a fool of herself all the time unlike the others, this usually ends up with her standing aside as the chaos follows the others around.
Sani lacks proper combat training, and thus she resorts to what her Eva has proven to be pretty capable of doing, biting, pecking, scratching and otherwise fighting like a little girl.
In addition to her strange relationship with whatever it is that lies inside her Evangelion, she seems dependent on the Commander's approval which has up till now always been there, but she is scared and the trials of battle are starting to get to her.
- Major Accomplishments: Has gone multiple sessions without ever disappointing the object of her dependency, dealt enough damage to the simulated A3 and to A5 to enable others to destroy them, saved Grace Winfield in Eva 02 from going insane due to A7's mental assault, started a fight with a cripple kid by slapping him for making terribly offensive jokes.
Morgan Nevril, Ninth Children and Pilot of EVA 05
"Howdy! Hola! And hello! And sorry I'm... Late."
An energetic, talkative girl that likes to laugh a lot, she was appointed by the UN rather than Marduk to provide assistance in the defeat of the Angels and has been given the very first of the Mass Production EVA Series for her use.
Despite being relatively new to Evangelion combat, Morgan is an extremely dangerous close combat specialist, with the capability to make use of her Eva's particular quirks as a finished product rather than a prototype.
For whatever reason, the poor girl seems to be always stuck in the middle between other people in a potential relationship, her happy-go-lucky personality, dependency on others to keep her focused, as well as her huge rack are all probable causes for this phenomenon.
- Major Accomplishments: Utterly destroyed simulated A9's head pretty much by herself once while dodging it's attacks and neutralizing it, is an amazing cook and charmer the likes of which only Therese Newman could rival, and is one of the school's top sought after women which has ended up in her providing everyone with lots and lots of fanservice.
The Supporting Cast
Richard White, NERV 02 Commander
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh Garfield, you silly cat. What won't you do for lasagna?"
Jokingly referred to as Commander Colgate, Commander Santa Claus and Commander Niceguy, the head of Headquarters is a family man with a pleasant demeanor and an aversion to swearing.
He's been showering the pilots with gifts and uses every chance he has to show his support for them, going so far as to buy them a large apartment for themselves complete with furniture and electronic equipment.
How such a man got into this position is a mystery, but he was a part of the large staff shuffle that happened a few months ago.
He recently snapped at Luis, Sani and Therese much to their surprise and that of everyone who heard of the incident, this happened even after he volunteered to personally mediate in what was currently troubling them.
Dick Ranger, NERV 02 Subcommander
"IS THIS THING ON? Alright, listen up dumplings. This might be real battle but it 'aint so different from training. Actually I'm lying. Be prepared to soil your plugsuits Children. Now, you there... where is my pizza?"
An angry military man with a no-nonsense attitude, not particularly liked by the pilots -or by anyone else either save the Commander-, he was recently displaced from his position by Therese Newman and has been promoted to Subcommander since then.
When asked as to the why, all the Commander had to say was that 'without him, none of us would be here', it is worthy of note that he obtained his original position as OD during the massive staff change.
He is also stingy with the pizza he eats during operations, even if no one has had a chance to eat anything for half a day.
Maximo Gallo, Head of Project E
"LCL is el Sopa del Life, it es total safe."
The Local Chief Science Guy is a serious-looking spanish man in his mid fifties with a long beard he loves to stroke, his english is absolutely terrible and the sheer amount of 'What the Christ' in every sentence of his has given some of the cast headaches more than once.
He programmed the combat simulator codenamed 'Super Evangelion Wars' and has been working exhaustively on the development of the Mass Production Eva Series.
He has recently proven to everyone that he was the total jackass Luis said he was, by shocking the kid with a taser not once or twice, but three times and laughing thereafter.
Much like the rest of the important staff, he's been put in this position in the last months.
Daniel Upton, Communications Officer
"Treasure your desire for knowledge, you may regret having so much to learn later."
This nerdy, skinny guy in glasses is the right hand man of Maximo as well as the one in charge of monitoring the status of the Evas constantly, he seems friendly enough if a bit awkward around people.
He is enthusiastic about his job and gets completely lost in it when important developments are afoot, his only way to bond with people is by talking about his job, which is a terrible idea and as such he tries not to indulge in it too much.
Seems to have realized what kind of person the man he used to admire is, and has buried himself in his work to stop thinking about it.
Emma Jameson, Communications Officer
"Another drill? *sigh* What a bore."
A laid back brunette tasked with keeping track of Angel activity and gossiping around HQ, she can keep her cool under pressure and that is what earned her a promotion during the defeat of Sachiel and Shamshel, when most other operators proved they were terrible at their jobs.
She is accepting and easy to be around, just don't try to get her to actually put some effort into anything or it will end in tears for everyone involved.
Timothy Jameson, Bartender of NERV HQ Cafe
'Tim nods silently'
Emma's brother, Tim is a quiet fellow who makes for a very good listener and not much is known about him as a result, he does however get a bit more talkative and teasing with people he personally knows like his sister.
Grace Winfield, Fifth Children and Backup Pilot of EVA 02
'Grace sighs and facepalms'
Grace is the tall and calm counterpart to her older sister Charisma, she has longer hair and pink emo bangs as well as several piercings.
She is more open to people than her sister, though having to babysit her constantly puts a damp on any sort of meaningful personal relationship she could try to have with anyone.
Grace is the only backup pilot to have seen actual combat, and almost goes completely insane in her first deployment against the extremely dangerous A7.
Charisma Winfield, Sixth Children and Backup Pilot of EVA 03
"So what are you, a terrorist child trained from birth? A clone of an ancient soldier? An enemy amongst humanity in human form?"
The short, fat, spoiled, genre savvy and ironically also the older sister of the Winfield Duo, she is almost impossible to get along with and is only liked in school because of her penchant for comedy.
Trained to specialize in AT Field manipulation, she is angry that Sani got "her" Evangelion and even angrier that Kenneth and Morgan got the newer "better" ones.
Kenneth Stark, Sixth Children and Original Pilot of EVA 04
"Fuck you."
Ken had the best raw data of all pilots and so he got selected for EVA 04, this backfired horribly when the unit went crazy during the activation test and Ken lost the use of both his legs due to the specific nature in which the Evangelion hurts its pilot.
Even before he had the 'cripple' card to play as a defense, Ken was a massive asshole that used the 'racism' card due to his african american heritage, this went straight to hell when he made one too many abortion jokes, got slapped, threw a pie, then got his wheelchair turned over. Oh and someone stole his ID in the meantime.
He hasn't been seen ever since.
The Angels
Sachiel, the Third Angel or A3
You see it: Birdlike skull and long, black arms, the creature is on top of you, strangling you with bony hands. It whispers "Return...Body...This One" in a calm, almost psychotic tone as its masked head tilts to the side like a clock hand. A faint glow is coming from inside hollow eyes, as if staring deep into your soul.
Sachiel, the Third Angel that was defeated months ago by mysterious means, is now somehow part of EVA 02 and attempted to wrestle control of the Evangelion from Luis Medeira's hands during the battle with A6. It is believed this was enabled by Zadkiel's abilities and that the Angel is otherwise forced to remain docile at all times.
Shamshel, the Fourth Angel or A4
Gabriel, the Fifth Angel or A5
The Angel looks like a pale white deformed humanoid, with a slender, almost skeletal, body too small for its unnaturaly long arms with clawed hands and legs that end in webbed feet, it has multiple round black eyes and its head is bisected vertically. It walks hunched, dragging its large claws on the road below. (...) Leaping like a frog towards Luis, in mid air it -opens- its head, revealing several rows of teeth inside.
Nicknamed "Clown" by Maximo, Gabriel possessed tremendous physical strength as well as strange magnetic field controlling powers. Gabriel had its core hidden inside the head, which it revealed briefly to deflect incoming projectiles or to create a singularity that sucked up everything in a nearby area.
After a long and grueling fight in which EVA 03 lost its leg, a lucky shot from George and Alan dealt enough damage to make the core, and the rest of the Angel, explode.
Zadkiel, the Sixth Angel or A6
You see a black humanoid, featuring a core in plain sight in its abdomen. It has a large, round head with a single closed eye resting on top of its lithe body, sprouting long hair-like tentacles from the back. It lacks hands and feet, instead having claws that resemble beaks. The creature slowly hovers over the ground, towards Nerv 02.
Nicknamed "Rhasta" by Maximo, Zadkiel demonstrated an array of skills capable of assaulting both Evangelions and Pilots at once. It could shoot powerful blasts of energy from both its single eye and claws, but the real danger was in how it disrupted the pilot's control of their Evas. For some, this was mere synchronization disruption, but for Evangelion units 02 and 03 it meant having to face the Angels lying inside of their Evangelions.
Fortunately, they overcame this and destroyed the core... though perhaps they went a bit overboard, seeing how the Angel ended up exploding in the middle of the base.
That was not the last of Zadkiel, however, it infected the minds of the pilots and continued to exist in their unconscious forcing them to endure a group nightmare until they were successfully decontaminated.
Raphael, the Seventh Angel or A7
The available footage shows for a few seconds a red creature not entirely unlike a fish with a single eye in the center of the body in orbit over the Earth. The creature threw a chunk of -itself-, shedding off skin like a snake, at the photographing satellite before the signal was lost.
The Seventh Angel was nicknamed "Bait" by Maximo, it existed within a Sea of Dirac and was capable of extremely quick regeneration. It attacked from orbit, sending bombs capable of leveling cities at quickening intervals as it kept regenerating the lost mass. Worse, anybody within the Dirac Sea would experience hallucinations while feeling that someone else was trying to open their heads and get inside, causing severe mental damage as their worst fears and traumas came to the forefront.
Raphael was destroyed by detonating an N2 Mine inside of it, even in death its explosion caused seven rings of multiple colors to expand and further mentally assault anybody within range.
It is believed Raphael was luring the Evangelions away from Avis Noah to allow Sandalphon a clear way into the fortress.
Sandalphon, the Eighth Angel or A8
Once the blast begins to clear up, you see in the middle of a crater a creature with a scaly, snakelike body, spiky knobs along its sides, and a toothy, round mouth surrounded by tentacles. An orange, bubblelike barrier surrounding it, that quickly fades away... the unharmed creature keeps advancing.(...) The Angel is large enough for it to swallow you whole if it tried to do so, its teeth open and close in a menacing fashion as it approaches you.(...) It opens its mouth one more time, revealing a shimmering red organ inside, before releasing a torrent of molten rock in your direction.
Sandalphon attacked while most of the Evangelions were in space, and the available units had to stall for time while the reinforcements from space arrived. For a sneak attacker Sandalphon did not pull any punches either, melting away armor in its way and heating the LCL enough for it to cause burns to the pilot even if the plug wasn't breached.
It was nicknamed "Switch" by Maximo, due to how it combined its attack with Raphael. It was killed by Grace in EVA 02, however the one that did most of the damage (as well as surviving its deadly assaults) was Luis in the extremely dangerous EVA 04.
List of Season 1 Episodes
Episode 00: Pilots
The first four Children are finally gathered, and the first thing Command does is toss them into the simulator to fight A3, or Sachiel. Despite the simulator being set to 'Easy', it still took them a great deal of effort to finally kill it, earning a B- rank.
Episode 01: The Steel Ark
The pilots get a chance to finally meet the Man In Charge as well as some of the other staff, as well as some of the classmates, pilots like them, they will spend time with for the rest of the school year. In the middle of it all, the Fifth Angel arrives.
Episode 02: Detestable Visitor
Gabriel is ambushed by the UN and forced to regenerate for a few hours, during this break the four Evas are transported to the battlefield and they engage the Angel overcoming their fears. George shows to the world his first display of burning spirit when footage is leaked.
Episode 03: A Moment When Tension Breaks
Dick Ranger proves his name befits him when it is his turn to debrief the pilots, proving he is worse in temper than even Luis, the Commander pays them a visit to give them free pizza and they all get to see the leaked footage in TV. Despite this, classes continue...
Episode 04: Love is a Battlefield I
As the relationships between pilots develop, their efforts to go unnoticed fail spectacularly. Some are loved, some are hated, but they all become known. Phys Ed proves to be a fun experience despite the lack of physical training most of them had, and their teachers are awesome.
Episode 05: Love is a Battlefield II
Zadkiel attacked during Valentine's Day and was defeated after it attempted to release the Angels bound within the Evangelions, after its defeat, strange creatures plot from the shadows outside of the Earth Sphere...
Episode 06: Acperience
The pilots are trapped in a strange dreamscape version of the Avis Noah they've been living in, desolated and whose only population seems to be even stranger, hostile creatures with A.T Fields. The pilots survive against the multiple foes this place presents them, as the people at the base strive to get them to wake up.
Episode 07: Onstage
After their recovery the pilots finally get to meet the Seventh Child as well as their new Operations Director, Therese Newman. In the middle of all this a movie about the Evangelions is being made, and Luis starts to get on Newman's bad side... enough to have to sit out for the rest of the next battle, against an orbital enemy.
Episode 08: Grace Winfield Dies in Space
In a plan that only two of the four Devas approved, most of the Evangelion units were sent to space to neutralize and detonate a N2 Mine at point blank range in Raphael's face, and Grace Winfield is to be in EVA 02 as Luis' backup. Things take a turn for the worse when it turns out there was another Angel on the surface waiting for them to leave the base defenseless, Alan in EVA 00 and Luis in EVA 04 have to hold off Sandalphon on their own until the cavalry arrives.
List of Season 2 Episodes
Episode 09: Morgan Strikes
Morgan is the new pilot in town and she has arrived just in time for the Founding Anniversary of Avis Noah NERV Military School, with a wicked Festival full of contests to participate in. Furthermore, the pilots were already inscribed to take part in the Dancing Event!
Episode 10: All of You, Dance Like You Want To Win!
The festival is full of fun and games for everyone involved, from fencing duels to cooking competitions to the much awaited Miss Avis Noah Contest! Not everyone is okay with the way things developed in the various contests, but it all works out in the end, and the pilots pass with flying colors!
Episode 11: Spending Time in Preparation
With exams over, the pilots are to have one last trial before their next real fight, to try and disable what Deva predicts A9, or Zeruel, will be and to recover the Angel's Core as intact as possible to further study it. It offered little resistance as the task was easy, perhaps too easy, but it would soon be known that the pilots' worst enemies are themselves...
Episode 12: Cosplay of the Soul I
After the events of last Friday, the Commander has an exercise for the pilots, working on the same crazy rationale that had them practice dancing only more extreme. The pilots are to act and dress like each other for an entire day, to further cause problems, A9 chose that very day to attack and the Commander orders the exercise to go on... even worse is that A9 wasn't what they were expecting at all, but a completely different looking Angel.
Awards
Total XP: 5200 (Not Counting Drawbacks)
Genre Points: 1 for each Pilot.
Technologies Researched:Tier 2, Super Solenoid Generation, Positron Technology
Surplus Remaining: 0