Like Tears in Rain

[TenOfSwords13]

Which to choose, which to choose...

>Go through a random portal

[PointMaid]

>Go through a random portal

Skelebob walks through Kaworu's portal.

There is a calm, rocky beach in the middle of nowhere.
Asuka's mecha that Kaworu uses is there.
So is Shinji Ikari
There is also, somehow, a soda machine with Human Tang, that will never run out.

[TenOfSwords13]

This is... pretty calming. What is this... Human Tang thing?

>Inspect the Tang

[PointMaid]

>Inspect the Tang

Apparently it's not actually Tang. It has a label called LCL
(https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/LCL)

...Er, you kinda spilled some. Kinda made a bit of a mess.

[Risdio51]

>follow Skelebob through Kaworu's portal

[Kennifer]

Amy, out of curiosity... and hopefully not going to regret this decision as well, decides to

>Go through her own portal.

[TenOfSwords13]

Skelebob looks at the mess he created, and is moderately dissapointed in himself. He also realises he can't really clean up the mess, and takes no steps to rectify the situation.

[PointMaid]

Kaworu follows Skelebob through his own portal.

Meanwhile, Amy finds herself in New York. She's in a bodega not far from her own apartment. There's a bodega cat. The shop assistant is watching Seinfeld.

[Kennifer]

Amy smiles a bit... this is pleasant. Wouldn't hurt to take a slight break from things for just a minute would it?

>attempt to watch a bit to at least see which episode it is, also awww ket.

[Risdio51]

"Hello…Shinji."

[PointMaid]

>attempt to watch a bit to at least see which episode it is, also awww ket.

Looks like it's The Race. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Race_(Seinfeld)). Elaine is being put on a blacklist.

Meanwhile, in Kaworu's portal... Shinji turns toward Kaworu, clearly not expecting to see him. He seems happy enough to see him, though.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> check my holograms

[PointMaid]

> check my holograms

Oh. OH. There are timelines where Olivia never learned how to program. There are several timelines where she dropped out of school and became a hacker for hire. There are timelines where she runs a billion dollar social media company. There's a timeline where she runs the social media company, has three children and a partner she loves, but gets killed on an attempt to summit Mount Everest and her body is never recovered. That's a strange one.

[Dookie]

> Fuck it, check yours too

[Risdio51]

"It's good to see you, Shinji…how are you?"

[TenOfSwords13]

Skelebob leaves Kaworu's portal, and decides to

>Go through his own portal

I wonder what this place thinks would be important for me…

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

>also check your own portal...

[PointMaid]

> Fuck it, check yours too

Helena's holograms... She finds timelines where she'd posessed other people, with more or less success. And then there are the timelines where Helena is literally the most popular singer on Earth. Or at least the most well known. Pop, rap, folk... lots of different sounds. And then there's the ones where she was the main host of Brothers in Arms. As a posessed demon or... in one, not. Weird.

***

Meanwhile, in Kaworu's portal.

Shinji smiles, tentatively. "..Kaworu. You didn't just leave. Did you? Um. I'm... well, I'm here in the middle of nowhere. Which, as things go and the alternatives, isn't horrible."

***

Meanwhile, Skelebob >Goes through his own portal

He finds himself... in an office of the Manhattan Project? Yeah. Which isn't actually in Manhattan. But there are people doing calculations everywhere, and some, ah, dangerous experiments. Does he have security clearance?

***

>also check your own portal...

Meanwhile, Sakuya finds herself in Gensokyo, in front of Remillia's Manor...

[TenOfSwords13]

Skelebob is mildly perturbed.

Hello, what's all this then?

>poke around at what looks interesting

[Risdio51]

"Well, as long as I'm with you, any situation is a good one, Shinji."

[PointMaid]

>poke around at what looks interesting

He's defnitely getting some strange stares. Especially when he walks into a room where there's a uranium core being assembled.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Sakuya flinches as she sees the Scarlet Devil Mansion again since she got to this mysterious place......

... What is this place?

>go inside

[PointMaid]

In Kaworu's portal: Shinji doesn't seem to quite know what to say to that. "...So where did you go? And is there a specific reason you're back?"

[PointMaid]

>go inside (Sakuya)

It's definitely Scarlet Devil Mansion. ...Yep. There's Remillia. It's like she never left.

[TenOfSwords13]

Oh, this is that one place. I probably shouldn't be here touching things, again.

Skelebob returns to the portal room, his curiosity satiated for now.