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{{quote| '''[[Present Day Present Time|Right now,]]''' [[Present Day|the moment you began reading this]], [[The End of the World
{{quote| '''[[Crapsack World|It is the first blow of a terrible war.]]''' [[Time Skip|Seven years later,]] [[Applied Phlebotinum|armed with technology]] [[Black Box|you cannot comprehend]] [[How Do I Shot Web?|and can barely operate,]] [[Final Battle|you will strike back.]]}}
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[[Bliss Stage]] is a tabletop roleplaying game written by Ben Lehman and produced by TAO Games, explicitly intended as his homage to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] and similar works such as [[Bokurano]] and [[
In addition, [[Tropers/Tsundere Lightning|Tsundere Lightning]] was recently [[Promoted Fanboy|tapped by the original author]] for an official [[Visual Novel]] adaptation of the game, [[Bliss Stage: Love Is Your Weapon]], which recently launched a Kickstarter page [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041711353/bliss-stage-visual-novel?ref=category here].
[[Present Day Present Time|The moment the game begins,]] malevolent aliens afflict humanity as a whole with The Bliss, a form of stasis locking the [[Only Fatal to Adults|adult population of the world]] into a [[Lotus Eater Machine|sleep with apparently blissful dreams]], leaving the child and teenaged survivors in a [[Crapsack World]] ravaged by occasional attacks by [[Humongous Mecha|alien terror drones]].
A lone, insomniac, and very probably [[Ax Crazy]] adult manages to [[La Résistance|rally the local survivors]] and, to their enduring astonishment, capture one of the drones. They quickly reverse engineer it into the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Alien Numina Inversion Machine,]] or [[Fun
The game being a [[Deconstruction]] of [[The Power of Love]], a pilot's ANIMa is powered by their relationships with other characters, so [[Love Dodecahedron|extremely complicated romantic entanglements]] ''just happen'' in [[Bliss Stage]]. In addition, each pilot accumulates Bliss throughout the game, eventually reaching [[108]] Bliss, whereupon they either die or leave the game. Endings are often [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] or [[Gainax Ending|a little more disturbing]].
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Both averted and played straight, in different ways. The economy and infrastructure of the civilized world collapses without the adults, but the PCs are all teenagers and the Authority Figure is inevitably a [[Magnificent Bastard]] at best and a [[Jerkass]] at worst.
* [[Animesque]]: An unusual example. While there's no art or animation, [[Word of God|Ben Lehman]] listed [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]], [[Macross]] and [[
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: the ANIMa, big time.
* [[Ascend to
* [[Black Box]]: No one knows how the ANIMa work; the rulebook even speculates that the only functional part of the entire rig is [[Nightmare Fuel|a chunk of alien brain.]]
* [[Black Bug Room]]: Where a pilot ends up if you botch a Pilot Safety/Nightmare check. The reason you need an Anchor is to prevent this from happening.
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* [[Deconstruction]]: Of [[The Power of Love]], though most players try to immediately [[Reconstruction|reconstruct]] the trope. And succeed.
* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: In the form of [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]] and [[More Friends More Benefits]].
* [[The End of the World
* [[Failure Knight]]: You can safely assume you are not your Anchor's first love. Or even their first pilot.
* [[Fun
* [[GMPC]]: Required in the form of the Authority Figure. In fact, if any other player has a character who becomes the Authority Figure, that player must become the new GM!
* [[Handsome Lech]]: As of the beginning of the one-shot, Keenan Caine has snagged all of the girls (judging by their Intimacy scores). Depending on what names and genders you assign to the Anchors, [[Gay Option|he's also snagged a couple of the guys.]]
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