POP 3: The High Priestess

"'💀 💀 💀  🍿 🐉' -Sloane Parker"

The High Priestess is the third episode of Eidolon POP and the seventh episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers...

Summary
Sloane Parker is lying on the couch in her dorm room watching a movie. The rest of Quentin's Class are in attendance. The lecture hall is packed, and Quentin Brooks stumbles through a lecture until a librarian friend of his he had arranged to show up arrives and delivers a lecture on the Dewey Decimal system. He leaves and Alexis Lorentzen follows.

Quentin tells Alexis that he doesn't really know what his history with The Undertow is, other than that he and his friends went there before. He still wants to take the fight to Michael Clark, and Alexis notes they barely fought off his cockroaches in The Undertow so they should fight him in the real world. An older woman passes by and stops to apologize to Quentin for putting him in the basement classroom. She says he deserves better since he's a published author. She acts like she knows Quentin, but he does not know who she is.

Class lets out, most of the students are confused and irritated by the surprise lecture on library sciences. Ursa texts Sloane to tell her class was full. After Sloane texts back, Sloane notices a laminated sheet of paper on her dresser labeled BUS SCHEDULE. It says the next bus to take them to The Undertow will arrive at 7:07:07:07... (the :07's continue an uncountable number of times). It also gives a number to call to convert this to human time, but trying to parse the number gives Sloane a headache. She texts a photo of the paper to Ursa.

Ursa shows it to James Studebaker and explains the situation to Quentin and Alexis. Alexis summons a copy of the rotary phone in POP #1 that dials The Estate. Angela answers the phone and asks for either a 47-digit passcode or another department they wish to be connected to. James walks away, not wanting to be involved. Quentin hangs up and tries again, now needing to provide a 48-digit passcode. He guesses a wrong passcode, so Ursa grabs the phone and asks to speak with Joanna.

Appearances
● Alexis Lorentzen // Vivid Memories Turn to Fantasies ● Angela ● Caroline Rose ● James Studebaker // Time After Time ● Joanna ● Quentin Brooks // Speakerboxxx ● Sloane Parker // Start A Riot ● "Ursula" Ursa "Bear" // Revolution Lover

Trivia
● Quentin Brooks declares the start of this episode is May Day, meaning it is either the 1st of May or the first Monday of May. ● During his stumbled lecture, Quentin Brooks performs a musical number about the importance of saving the school. Anyone who was listening gets a bonus the next time they attempt to "change the world through song". For some player characters, this bonus remains in place most of the season.