(http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq131/renmei_2008/evangelion-kaji-600.jpg)<br/><br/>Hi all.<br/><br/>Here's the main cast as at approximately Ep.9, "Both of You, Dance like You Want to Win": Toji isn't a pilot, Kaworu hasn't appeared, Kaji is still alive and not yet doing anything too naughty, Gendo has no suspicions about him, Ritsuko still trusts Gendo, Asuka is still a good pilot and<em>reasonably</em>well balanced, Shinji is showing an interest in Rei, Asuka is showing an interest in Shinji (or rather she doesn't yet despise him) and is besotted with Kaji and Misato and Kaji haven't yet rekindled their college days romance.<br/><br/>It's the 'happy time' of the series.<br/><br/>EVA Pilots:<br/><strong>First: Ayanami Rei<br/>Second: Soryu, Asuka Langley<br/>Third: Ikari Shinji</strong><br/><br/>NERV Staff:<br/><strong>Commander Ikari Gendo</strong><br/><del>Deputy Commander Fuyutsuki Kōzō</del><br/><strong>Chief of Operations Major Katsuragi Misato<br/>Chief of Science Division Akagi Ritsuko<br/>NERV Special Inspector Kaji Ryoji</strong><br/><del>First Lieutenant Hyūga Makoto<br/>First Lieutenant Ibuki Maya<br/>First Lieutenant Aoba Shigeru<br/><br/>Others:<br/>Suzuhara Toji<br/>Aida Kensuke<br/>Horaki Hikari</del><br/><br/>I've marked the important characters in bold, Gendo isn't essential (his key decision takes place before the game starts) but he could add something to the story and he and Rei may end up doing a subplot (don't they always?)<br/><br/>Shinji is the main character in this game. Hi Hunter *waves*<br/><br/>Kaji is a key character too, as important as Shinji maybe. Note the game title is "Kaji's Other Job".<br/><br/>We need a Ritsuko too, the 'testing' and 'medicals' will be important. *wink* I will have to NPC her until we find another female - if you know any more girl NGE fans on E, please point them this way.<br/><br/>I'm going to withdraw the other characters from use, they don't add anything to the game and their interaction in this 'alternate reality' doesn't particularly work.<br/><br/>Remember Ep.25 (or was it 26?) where Shinji imagined an alternative existence where he, Asuka and Rei all went happily to school together and Misato was their teacher? Well consider this game to be an additional episode or two of the series, inserted at around the Ep.25/26 slot but being a flashback to around Ep.9 and 10. NERV, the EVAs and the angels are all 'real', the characters are all 'really' doing the same tasks and living the same lives except Shinji's mind adds a small twist...<br/><br/>The whole game takes place in Shinji's head. Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe<em>this</em>is the real reality... It's therefore practical and desirable to have a slightly more 'gung ho' Shinji. *panders to Hunter for being the hero and playing a character he didn't really want to*<br/><br/>Ep.9, "Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!":<br/><br/>Asuka joins Shinji's class at school and moves in with Misato and him in their apartment. As Asuka adjusts to Japan (and everyone else adapts to her), the Angel Israfel attacks. Asuka appears to easily defeat the Angel, but it reveals that it is capable of splitting itself into two identical copies. Using its dual copies the Angel is able to defeat both Units 01 and 02. As Shinji and Asuka bicker, Fuyutsuki bemoans the embarrassment. NERV is forced to hand over command of the operation to the UN, and an N² bomb is used against the Angel, destroying 28% of its body. From this, it is estimated that it will take six days for the Angel to recover. Determining that it will be impossible to fight the Angel's "twins" without a perfectly coordinated dual attack strategy, Misato puts Asuka and Shinji in a training regimen which has them spending as much time together as possible (literally doing almost everything together, even sleeping near each other) in order to synchronize their biorhythms. Additionally, they try to learn a dance routine which will be incorporated into the movements they will use in their Evangelions to attack the Angel. By the end of the six days, the training appears to be a failure, but Asuka and Shinji pull off the routine almost flawlessly, destroying the Angel.<br/><br/>Ep.10, "Magma Diver":<br/><br/>The Evangelion pilots are excited about their upcoming class trip to Okinawa, but are upset when they receive orders that because they have to be on-call in case of an Angel attack, they cannot leave Tokyo-3. Shinji, Asuka and Rei instead use the NERV swimming pool to relax and Asuka goes shopping with Kaji. An Angel in an embryonic state is discovered deep in the magma of a dormant volcano, and in the hopes of gaining greater insight into the Angels, Asuka is sent to capture it by lowering Unit 02 into the magma, while it wears a special giant coolant suit for protection. However, the Angel soon awakes from its embryonic stage, and Asuka is forced to battle the Angel while deep beneath the surface of the magma, Shinji rescuing Unit 02 and saving Asuka's life. After the mission Asuka, Shinji and Misato enjoy a relaxing hot springs bath.<br/><br/>The game will be set in those two episodes and we can have a biggish gap between angel attacks.<br/><br/>You'll see the main thrust of the plot in the intro post in Gendo's office. I've done a follow up intro post in Ritsko's office. If you want a tagline for the game it's; "Sex is good for synch-rates."<br/><br/>Threads:<br/><br/><strong>OOC (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24330.msg954054#msg954054)</strong>(Plan stuff, complement good play and tell us if you need a break to do other things)<br/><strong>Misato's Apartment (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24333.msg954057#msg954057)</strong>(Beer! Junk food! Girls in towels! Asuka and Shinji fighting! What more do you need?)<br/><strong>Apartment 402 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24334.msg954058#msg954058)</strong>(Fun with Rei)<br/><strong>Gendo's Office (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24331.msg954055#msg954055)</strong>(White gloves and stern looks only please)<br/><strong>Terminal Dogma (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24336.msg954060#msg954060)</strong>(or: Bad Things Down In The Basement: stuff connected with Instrumentality, the Dummy Plugs and cloning Rei)<br/><strong>Ritsuko's Office and Lab (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24332.msg954056#msg954056)</strong>(Includes medical poking and prodding and testing and erm, sample collecting)<br/><strong>Tokyo-2 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24337.msg954061#msg954061)</strong>(Shopping and relaxation for Asuka! Drinking and romancing for Misato/Kaji/anyone else)<br/><strong>NERV (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24335.msg954059#msg954059)</strong>(Everywhere else in NERV such as EVA testing bays, escalators, synch testing lab, lifts, escalators, long corridors, more escalators, any vanilla rooms/offices, some more lifts and the swimming pool used in Ep.10)<br/><strong>School (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24338.msg954063#msg954063)</strong>(Non-funny note: This is now a high school as the children must be aged 16 for Elliquiy site rules so are no longer in the last year of middle school/junior high (Japan's 9th grade) but are in the second year of high school (Japan's 11th grade). The game takes place in an imaginary 2017, not 2015).<br/><strong>Outside (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=24339.msg954064#msg954064)</strong>(to be used for EVA battles, Magma Diver scenes, Kensuke camping trips, Shinji soliloquies, hot springs! outdoor sex and Anything Else (tm))<br/>