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In the context of an upcoming plot event, there will be a wonderful, unique chance for wonderful, unique echoes! Echoes so wonderful and unique indeed that we can only have a small amount of them, which brings us to the following: Between today and the 31st (7:00pm GMT), you will be able to submit what you would like your character(s) to pulse back; and then until the 5th, everyone will get to vote on which four of those proposed pulses shall become reality. The mods will pick between one and four additional ones of those proposals to round the whole thing off a bit, and then they will take effect over the course of a few weeks.

Now what kind of echoes are we talking about?
- HUGE ONES. More specifically: Buildings, forests, (parts of) mountains, and whatever else is immobile and large. Rules about the size of echoes are obviously suspended in this case, but we'll reserve the option to downsize things in one way or the other to make them workable.
- The echoes in question should carry some significance for the character who echoes them, but in this instance the degree of importance to the character is irrelevant: Living near/in the place or it having a moderately important position in one's life is enough. For example: Any Attack on Titan character could echo Wall Sina, any The Hobbit dwarf could echo the Lonely Mountain, any Pokemon character could echo a Pokecenter and any student of Hogwarts could echo any part of the school grounds.
- The echoes will be plot echoes and thus won't need a trigger; they will be available to characters in both Vegas and Locke.
- Please keep it to a maximum of two echo suggestions per character. In the end, a maximum of one echo per player will be granted (in case more than one echo of a player end up in the top four, the highest ranking one will be implemented).

Please peruse the form below:

Suggestions so far:
Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Hall of Justice
Bleach | Senkaimon
Danny Phantom | The Ghost Zone
Death Note | Wammy's House
Dokidoki Precure | Yotsuba Compound
Dragon Age | The Blooming Rose
Eternal Darkness | The Oublié Cathedral Old Tower & the catacombs
Generator Rex | Abysus
Golden Sun | Venus Lighthouse
Hatoful Boyfriend | St. Pigeonation's Academy
Heartcatch Precure | The Precure Palace
Hetalia | Suomenlinna
Kamen Rider W | The Narumi Detective agency slash billiard hall
Middle Earth | The Halls of the Woodland Realm
Middle Earth | Caras Galadhon, the Elven city in Lothlórien.
Middle Earth | The Lonely Mountain/Erebor
MS Gundam 00 | Orbital Elevator
Pandora Hearts | The Abyss
Tales of Symphonia | Torent Forest
Touhou Project | Scarlet Devil Mansion

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Player: Gingey
Character: Shinji Ikari | Neon Genesis Evangelion
Echo: the Black Moon's Geofront/NERV Headquarters.

Bear with me, because we're dealing with Evangelion and therefor things are gonna get weird.

NERV HQ originally existed underneath Tokyo-3(and thus would reside underneath Locke City, presumably, if echoed back), a city built specifically to be ready to defend itself against the threat of angel attacks. The building was built within a huge dome underground referred to as a "Geofront," which is essentially the inside of an alien god's spaceship(the Black Moon) that crashed on Earth. For a better idea of how that works and its size, have this reference image. Inside of it there's an entire lake and forest full of trees and shit. Reference images of the inside of the Geofront: 1, 2.

The building for HQ sits towards the center of the Geofront, and the part of it that is "above ground" is shaped like a pyramid. Because the bottom of the Geofront is not perfectly flat and in fact has a deep trench within it, part of NERV's base appears to be "underground" while still being within the Black Moon. Image reference here. NERV HQ has two main areas: Central Dogma and Terminal Dogma. Everyone at NERV has access to Central Dogma, whereas access to Terminal Dogma is very restricted.

Central Dogma is where the Evangelion units are kept, usually under heavy restraints to keep them from moving on their own when not in use since they are alive. The main area they're kept in is usually flooded with a pink substance called bakelite, which is drained when they're being launched and pumped back in when they return. People are often shown riding small boats across the bakelite. Some references: Unit 01's arm in restraints and the area the pilot boards the Eva from. There are also multiple rooms for conducting tests with the Evas, which can be flooded with bakelite if needed to get the Eva under control.

The Evas are launched from a large elevator which can take many paths to the surface of Tokyo-3. Technical support comes from a multi-level command room, which features a large hologram display. At the bottom of the command room is the Magi supercomputer, which will reveal that there are literally brains in it if anyone pokes around in it. There are also various offices, changing rooms for the pilots, a much-used med bay, and even public baths in Central Dogma. Someone was also nice enough to put vending machines in the hallways like this place is legit and not home to a shady organization secretly trying to orchestrate the apocalypse and merge all of humanity's souls together.

Terminal Dogma is where most of NERV's secrets are hidden, hence the small number of people granted access to it. It consists of the lowest levels of NERV, and on the way down to it the wall of the Black Moon itself is visible. Within Terminal Dogma, you can find this unsettling "bedroom", where Rei Ayanami was raised. Elsewhere in Terminal Dogma is the Dummy Plug Plant, where the technology for a system that provides an artificial pilot for the Evas is found, as well as a tank full of soulless extra Rei Ayanami bodies(NSFW reference image). The Reis are used both for the artificial pilot system and as spare bodies for Rei's soul to be transferred into if anything happens to her. They are not really people on their own without a soul, and thus do little more than smile, stare at anyone who walks into the room, and occasionally giggle creepily.

But that's not all! The Evangelions the kids pilot are all cyborg clones of aliens created by NERV, but they were hardly the first ones. There is, in fact, a giant freaky dumping ground for the remains of failed Evangelions(1, 2). There's also this room that I don't think anyone fully understands, which looks cool and leads to another room where NERV has a giant crucified alien god. Lilith is the alien god who originally crashed the Black Moon into the Earth, but because their soul has been removed and forced into a cloned human body(Rei Ayanami), they cannot do anything but hang there and perpetually bleed. Somehow managing to have a never-ending supply of orange blood known as LCL, there's a giant pool of the stuff beneath them, which is extremely useful as it is what lets pilots mentally synch with their Evas(that's right, they literally force children to be submerged in alien deity blood on a regular basis). As such, this room is misleadingly referred to as the "LCL Production Plant."

Why it'd be great:

The Geofront the Headquarters resides in is its own self-contained ecosystem that players could use for plenty of stuff. There's even a lake who doesn't want an underground lake. Within HQ itself is a ton of really neat things, all kinds of scientific equipment and weird horrifying things that are likely to really freak out anyone who happens to stumble upon them--a giant aquarium full of soulless giggling naked girls, a supercomputer made of brains, a graveyard full of giant monster skeletons, and, as another player put it on plurk, "Stay Puft Marshmallow Christ." A lot of fun could be had with all of the "what the fuck" factor alone.

It'd also serve as a really great base of operations for at least the mecha characters, though I'm sure others could find it very useful for stashing large echoes and their upkeep as well due to its size(even if it does have to be downsized) and all of the technology that comes with it. People could probably live down there if they really felt the need. And from a selfish perspective as the mun of an Eva pilot, it'd make the operation of the Evangelion units in game a lot less of a problem since they're ridiculously high maintenance.

NERV HQ is so packed with stuff that I think there's a lot of potential to have it be useful and interesting to a wide variety to characters in-game rather than just the ones its most obviously suited towards(being built to be a base of operations for "giant robot" pilots and all...but seriously even in the context of that it's cool. How cool would it be to have giant robots shoot up from underground and fight monsters). Or. Well. If you want the opposite of useful...there are some potentially disturbing/confusing things about this place for your needs.

Also this would never be IC knowledge but I mean. It's connected to alien gods tasked with reincarnating dead members of their species as new lifeforms. How appropriate, right.

Edited 2014-07-31 14:26 (UTC)

If you can't go home, let home come to you!

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