POP 12: Strength

"'Is it really true that you've lost EVERYTHING?' 'Everything I would consider important.' -The Narrator & James Studebaker"

Strength is the twelfth episode of Eidolon POP and the twenty-fifth episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers....

Summary
Wine Cellar, The Estate All of Quentin's Class were sampling Jegudiel-Vincent's wine when Raphael-Hubert burst through the door. Him and his wolf are staring straight at Ursa. Quentin's Class tells him to go away, but he won't leave without her. Ursa explains that he hunts Shades like her for The Estate.

Eidolon Battle
Raphael-Hubert's wolf charges at Ursa and tackles her to the ground, transforming into a net to hold her down. Quentin Brooks, Alexis Lorentzen, Sloane Parker, and James Studebaker are struggling to overcome the compulsion to drink more of Jegudiel-Vincent's wine. Jegudiel-Vincent is fretting in a corner.

Quentin had only smelled the wine, and so is able to break out of the spell by stabbing himself in the leg. Raphael-Hubert begins dragging Ursa away, and Quentin sends Speakerboxxx to stop him. Sloane shouts to James that they're here to support him, but he needs to get his head in the game and help Ursa. James rallies himself and in a drunken impulse takes off his shirt. He lets out a weak roar and rushes at Raphael-Hubert, instead knocking into Quentin who knocks into the hunter and accidentally pushes him over.

Alexis has been standing around, sipping the wine. She casually walks over to Raphael-Hubert on the ground and shoves a photograph of Jegudiel-Vincent in his mouth and steps back as it transforms. Quentin webs the hunter's mouth shut. Eye goo spurts from spots on his head as sharp edges of polaroid paper explode out into an origami Jegudiel-Vincent. Just as Sloane is about to use Start A Riot to free Ursa from the net, it transforms back to the wolf. The wolf runs back and messily pulls the polaroid Jegudiel-Vincent out of Raphael-Hubert's head, which quickly heals.

Raphael-Hubert asks Jegudiel-Vincent to call Joanna. Jegudiel-Vincent grabs a phone from the wall, but is interrupted by Start A Riot suplexing him as Ursa suplexes Start A Riot for more air time. Jegudiel-Vincent is thrown, and the phone is ripped from the wall.

Raphael-Hubert throws an eye he was holding in his hand onto the ground. It expands to cover the entire floor before disappearing. Everyone's Eidolons are gone. The murky oil texture of the air disappears. The wine compulsion vanishes. Jegudiel-Vincent transforms into an analogue clock labeled that it's "wine o'clock". Ursa turns into a literal bear, and Raphael-Hubert shoots at her with a revolver as she runs for the door.

Quentin panics and is about to text Caroline Rose, when instead he impulsively texts "HELP" to another contact labeled '?????'. On the wall next to him, black mold grows and sprouts through the cracks. It does not respond to Quentin's request for help, but it grows in his direction. Ursa is at the exit door with the hunter shooting at her and the wolf biting at her. She starts crying.

Appearances
● Alexis Lorentzen // Vivid Memories Turn to Fantasies

● Cactus Jack (First Appearance)

● James Studebaker // Time After Time

● Jegudiel-Vincent // Tik Tok

● Quentin Brooks // Speakerboxxx

● Raphael-Hubert // Hungry Like The Wolf

● Sloane Parker // Start A Riot

● "Ursula" Ursa "Bear" // Revolution Lover