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#35 - Eve Manners
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Once again, I very recently did a write-up for Eve, so I'll cheat and re-post it here for the time being!

The entire campaign may just hinge on one single session, one single story as told by one single woman. Eve Manners, who gave the last bits of her life to tell the party the story of Area 50. I... don't know if I can do Eve justice in a write-up. I've been turning over in my head how to tell her story. She meant such a great deal to me, so much more than I could explain in simple words. Here was a woman whose only crime was to love the wrong person in the eyes of a fearful, culturally stunted society. She was captured, dragged away by anti-communist goons and forced into a firing line. Eve Manners was killed - and that was where the torture truly began. Brought back to life just to see if it was possible, Eve would spend the next chapter of her existence in a 58 year-long half-life.

After the party cracked open Area 51, there came a message through back channels, Morse code, that lured them back to the scene of science's greatest crime. There, they learned of Eve Manners' tragic life. Of a woman whose comfort she relied upon for strength - a woman who was then killed, her brain scooped out of her skull and strung up inside of a house that began to lumber into animation thanks to her sentience. A house that so desperately wished to remember her past life, the happy memories, the music - yet because of prodding, trauma inflicted by Dowling's men, she could not sing.

Eve spoke of Randall Dowling, a man from another Earth, who began to incubate the first stirrings of a disease called Morticoccus, which functioned much like the Anti-Life Equation. This Randall Dowling, under orders from Tex Thompson, seemed to lay the groundwork for so many projects that have since found their way to Darkseid's hands. Randall Dowling - who also is from Jenny Sparks' world.

Eve spoke of the first Hunger Dogs. Of a Robotman who silently watched over these projects before their end - a Robotman which now lays in pieces within Z'onn Z'orr's robotics laboratory. So many threads, spun together by Eve as she walked the party through the ruins, like a ghost through her old haunts. And in the end, Eve Manners bid them farewell. For 58 years were over. The half-life was complete. Eve's last act was one of a hero - and the inspiration for a new act in this campaign. Without Eve Manners, I think the emotional impact of what Darkseid's deeds have wrought wouldn't be so visceral, so deeply meaningful. Eve Manners led a life entire comprised of loss and grief, love stolen and pain endured. Yet she persevered until the last possible moment she could to provide just one iota of meaning to her existence. Sometimes, that's all we can hope for. Sometimes, that's all we have in us. Sometimes, the greatest heroes leave just a single, almost invisible mark, to carry the torch, to let out that last gasp, that final cry. It's up to the rest of us to hear it, to know it, to never let its call be denied.

Another Round One draft pick falls here at #34!