Mercutio: With -17 SAN  and still dropping!!!!

Bailesu:  Hah!  I sold my Sanity Points to Santa!

 "Shinji..."

 He blinked, then looked around.  Absolute black
 filled his vision, obsidian night all around him.

 "Shinji..."

Mercutio: �THERE IS NO SHINJI, ONLY ZUUL.�

Bailesu:  Exactly.

 was somewhat decent.  Unfortunately, he had a small itch
 that none of his co-workers knew about.  He liked to gamble.
 And as luck did with many a gambler, it abandoned him at the
 entirely wrong moment.

Hikaru(Motomu): �Freakin� Bakunochi King.... I�ll fix HIM......�

Bailesu:  Who?

Mercutio: �Cherubim.� When they summon the Byakhee. It�s explicitly
stated that Aldeberan and Fomalhaut were visible above the horizon.
The only months those two are visible at the same time in the
northern latitudes is the months of October and November. It�s
basic astronomy.

Ghroth is busy singing the stars into position.  You don't think Hastur
would settle for being locked out of hte northern hemisphere half the
year, do you? :)

 Not enough fruit, either, although there are lots of
 good vegetables, and I can get all the stuff I need to make
 decent food, which is crucial since Fraulein Katsuragi
 doesn't believe in cooking, and Shinji has no money to buy
 anything worth eating.

Maya: You know, I always wondered about that. I got paid, I KNOW
Shigeru, Makoto, and Misato got paid....... but Shinji, who does all
the actual life-risking, sanity-threatening work in defense of mankind,
never seems to see a dime. Odd, that.

Gendo:  Are you insinuating something?

Hikaru: I just find it interesting that the 14-year old has an extensive
knowledge of liquor that has apparently been encouraged by the
woman who was supposed to be in charge of her responsible
upbriging.

Asuka:  I'm from GERMANY!!!!  We start early.

 I think today, I'll throw it all out and buy some
 decent beer...if I can find any.  Everyone with any money
 drinks sake, but I've already had enough rice to last me
 until I get too old to chew.  So, basically, I've had to add
 'Staff Nutritionist' and 'Head Cook' to my duties, along
 with piloting EVA and going to school.

Hikaru: I thought Shinji did the cooking. Huh.

Before Asuka arrived.  At least in this universe.

 raised the possibility of them achieving sentience.
 However, the precautions they had taken with them should
 prevent that.  It was possible the feeding frenzy had simply
 been a reflex action, but that was bad enough...there was no
 way to be sure what strange reflexes the things might
 possess.

Mercutio(Gendo): �I wonder how they�d react if we tapped their
knees with a hugeass hammer.�

Ritsuko:  Heh.

 Shinji had another nightmare.  So did I, but unlike
 him, I didn't wake up screaming so that NO ONE would get a
 good night's sleep.  I think I'm going to have to try and
 teach him how to control his dreams like you taught me, even
 though I don't have a feedback machine or anything.

Mercutio: �Feedback machine?�

Maya: We�ll definitly be hearing more about THIS.

Bailesu:  You are probably young enough to have successfully blocked out
the biorythyms fad of the seventies.  I hope.

 Shinji was spineless, remarkably spineless.  She
 believed that he'd probably jump at his own shadows.

Hikaru: A valuable skill to develop in an HPL-derived universe.

Bailesu:  Since it probably has the Haunter of the Dark lurking in it.

Maya: Damn straight.  And I�ll say right now that if I end up
getting shot at again, I�m going to be VERY upset.

Bailesu:  Buy your flak jacket now.

 "I was Batgirl for Halloween when I was eight..."

Hikaru & Maya: <facefault>

Mercutio: Gee, can we tell that Rod wrote this part?

Bailesu:  Nope.  I wrote this scene :)

Maya: Ah, the merchandising. It compromises NERV�s second
largest revenue source, y�know. We don�t sell a certain number
of those t-shirts each month, Gendo doesn�t get paid.

Asuka:  Hmm...so if I burn enough of them he'll go broke?

 "Something went wrong...it released fumes which
 conducted electricity well.  The whole lab went up in flames
 when a spark got to the wrong place, then ignited various
 chemicals.  Poisonous fumes went everywhere.  Dr. Akagi's
 mom died almost immediately,

Maya: !?!?!?!?!?

Mercutio: Okay, now THAT�S different. And it raises some VERY
interesting questions about the MAGI.

Bailesu:  It's not labelled an Elseworlds for nothing :)

 be an EVA pilot, and he wanted me to do my best to save
 humanity."  Her fingertips pressed into the wooden
 windowsill, and her she stood tensely.  "And then he died.
 He looked awful; his skin had turned a kind of
 blackish-green in some spots and his eyelids were puffy
 and..."  She let out a deep breath.

Mercutio: Now I KNOW I�ve read that description somewhere
before, but I can�t for the life of me remmeber where.

Ritsuko:  that would be telling.

 "Movement of the Stars, by Erich Zann," suggested
 Rei quietly.

Hikaru: Hey, correct me if i�m wrong, but didn�t he like, die
before he published anything, and have all his manuscripts
sucked out his loft window, and have his entire street wiped
off the face of the planet by an Outer God?

Mercutio: That�s true. He did. But I�m sure Rei has a perfectly
innocent, logical explanation for how she acquired his music.

Bailesu:  The Outer God hocked it to buy CDs.  Honest.

 Fuyuutsuki was beginning to wonder if someone had
 stolen part of Gendo's brain today.

Mercutio(Kouzou): *It�s as if some kind of gigantic bug is in his
head, slowly devouring his mind.*

Gendo:  We sprayed for the Insects from Shaggai.

character even for this slightly-more-unstable-than-usual Rei. Even
in a blind rage (which I doubt she was in, given her demonstrated
lack of abillity to produce coherent emotions of appreciable strength)
I can�t see her ripping a man into bloody pieces just because she
could. For starters, Rei is a pragmatist and creature of logic, and for
another, she�s been drilled in armed combat, which teaches one to
apply the bare minimum of force required and not much more.

Bailesu:  This Rei has problems which the canon Rei does not...there's
things buried which the canon Rei does not possess, both good and bad.
While she has started off fairly emotionless, she has the capability to be
far more human, or far more monstrous than the canon Rei.

Maya: I�d also like to see some more Dreamlands come up in the near
future. Hopefully, Shinji will get to partake of some kind of cool
extended sojourn there, a la �Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.� They
have a perfect lead-in for it; that one-month stretch of his trapped at
synch 400.

Asuka:  Next episode I start training him to go there!  And there is a
Dreamlands episode planned.

Bailesu:  Thanks for the review!


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