ROCK 1: Jumpin' Jack Flash



 "'Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday. Who could hang a name on you?' -Ruby Tuesday, by The Rolling Stones"

Jumpin' Jack Flash is the first episode of Eidolon ROCK and the fourth episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers the Alta Drive Jawbreakers in their acquisition of Eidolons and subsequent battle with Eidolon user and leader of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers, Jack Flash.

Summary
The episode begins at the casino of the Alta Drive Jawbreakers, currently (though not always) under the name of "The Bleached Skull" with an engraving of a cow skull as a logo. The Jawbreakers are sitting and doing nothing in the casino which is empty aside from one man gambling in the pit. The bartender Jennifer strikes up a conversation with them but quickly becomes disinterested and annoyed as Harvey D. Godlove begins bragging about his pinball scores.

Suddenly, Ruby Wednesday walks in excited while muttering to herself about something before seeing the rest of the Jawbreakers and yelling at them for sitting around doing nothing. After some back and forth, she changes the subject and explains her excitement. She says that at the meeting for The Dead Pharaoh last week, Jack Flash — leader of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers — asked Ruby to get his phone from his car. After walking out to the car initially planning to destroy his windows she noticed that his phone was unlocked. She looked through his files and discovered he was running a drug lab under the casino. Sensing an opportunity, she orders the Jawbreakers to go to the lab and destroy it. Since the lab isn't connected to The Dead Pharaoh, Ruby concludes that he can't tell on them since that would require admitting the presence of the lab. She also asks them to steal some stuff if they can saying that they are struggling when it comes to money and couldn't handle someone winning a large sum of money at the casino.

Suddenly the lone gambler in the pit screams in excitement after winning $175,000, putting $5000 of chips on a single spot on a roulette wheel. Ruby walks over to him, enraged, hits him until he passes out, and orders the dealers to search him and change the sign out front.

Sneaking into the Casino
The Alta Drive Jawbreakers arrive at the Crossfire Hurricane — the casino of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers, immediately noticing the security camera above where they parked. They ignore this for now and go through the employee entrance around back, entering the casino. Chili the Fox runs in immediately and enters the casino, causing havoc and distracting a waitress allowing the rest of the Jawbreakers to explore the building. They attempt to use an elevator but discover it requires a key to use. As Chris Masters attempts to pick the lock, they are accosted by a security guard who has noticed their suspicious activity. He interrogates them, but they lie and say that they are members of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers and have lost their keys. He accepts but asks them for a password to prove that they are telling the truth. Virginia Valentine manages to correctly guess the password by Dredging the Undertow: "Gobstopper", and the guard lets them pass.

They take the elevator down to the basement and discover a concrete room with generators and water pumps but lacking people or any kind of drug lab. Theorizing that there may be a secret lower basement, Chris investigates the pipes to see if they lead downwards. He discovers his intuition was correct —  pipes and cables lead downwards —  but also discovers that they seem like they carry less power and water than would be necessary for a drug lab.

Cutting back to Chili, we discover she is running around and causing havoc in the restaurant after failing to find food in the casino. Chris attempts to help Chili in her goal to find food by cutting the power but accidentally electrocutes himself in the process. Chili manages to use the power outage to avoid the grasp of a security guard who is attempting to catch her and bites him on the ankle. She runs into a dumbwaiter and hits the lever to activate it with her tail, causing it to descend. The Jawbreakers discuss what to do next and Harvey D. Godlove suggests sending the elevator back up with the door pried open so they can descend down the shaft, not realizing this will not work with the power off. Suddenly a backup generator activates, and they decide to go through with Harvey's plan. Chris descends first, but he hits a rusted and jagged pipe on the way down, bringing it out and blocking the way down for the others. Chris opens the elevator doors at the bottom of the shaft and discovers something very much unlike a drug lab.

The doorway opens into a large well-lit room looking somewhat like an apartment: it contains a large TV, a sofa, a kitchenette, a bedroom area, and a variety of furniture. A man is sitting in a large chair by the TV with a large polished metal briefcase on a coffee table in front of him. The other Jawbreakers: Virginia and Harvey in the elevator and Chili in the dumbwaiter, arrive at this room at the same time.

Virginia recognizes this man as Jack Flash, the leader of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers. He recognizes them as the other Jawbreakers and begins to talk casually with them until hearing Chili's yelping from the dumbwaiter. He goes up to it to open it and Chili runs to the rest of the Jawbreakers. Jack then declares that he is going to kill them. He reveals that he intentionally put false information on his phone about a drug lab, knowing Ruby Wednesday would see it and send the rest of the Jawbreakers to destroy it. He says that he can just send the security footage of them destroying the casino, and The Dead Pharaoh will come and kill them.

Eidolon Battle
Harvey D. Godlove immediately tries to hit Jack Flash over the head with the crowbar, but Jack waves his arm, and the crowbar splits in half as a deep cut appears on Harvey's shoulder. Harvey falls over and crashes into the coffee table causing his lucky pinball to fall out of his pocket and roll away. Virginia Valentine (Original) tries to grab the briefcase while Chris Masters attempts to attack Jack by grabbing a custom snowglobe (containing a miniature Crossfire Hurricane) and hurling it at Jack. However, the snow globe shatters in mid-air above Jack: spraying him with water but not harming him.

Virginia opens the briefcase and discovers it is full of rows of syringes containing a glowing orange liquid. Harvey urges Virginia to take the drugs, assuming that is how Jack got his Eidolon, but Jack kicks him in the head. Jack grazes Virginia with his sword, but she manages to duck and injects Harvey with a syringe. His pinball begins vibrating as it has become Harvey's Eidolon, Here It Goes Again. Harvey now can see Jack's Eidolon Killing Time, which looks like an energy sword emerging from his left hand. He summons his pinball back to his hand and throws it at Jack's sword to defend against him.

Chili the Fox feels sympathy for her friends after seeing them get hurt and jumps Jack. She gets grazed by his sword but distracts him long enough for Virginia and Chris to inject themselves with the drug. They regain some strength and obtain the Eidolons Only The Good Die Young and Ironspy respectively. Virginia's shadow gains the appearance of stained glass while an electric ball with liquid metal wires in the shape of a woman forms in front of Chris. Virginia's Eidolon then becomes a sword with the appearance of stained glass. At the same time, an elegant woman in a sequined evening gown appears lounged on a counter in the kitchenette, but this goes unnoticed.

Harvey holds up Here It Goes Again and says: "Fix is in, baby!" before throwing his pinball at Jack and hitting him in the gut. Virginia uses her new sword to fight Jack and brings him to the ground, pointing the sword at his throat. She then pushes him up against the wall and puts her sword closer asking him where the money is. He refuses to reveal this, so Virginia kills him.

After the Battle
The lady on the kitchen counter yawns and complains that the fight has become boring. Virginia Valentine asks her if she knows where the money is, but she says she doesn't care. Seeing that they are no longer in danger, Harvey D. Godlove excitedly grabs a vial of the drug and sticks it into Chili the Fox. This causes her to yelp as an elegant fox woman appears next to her: this is her Eidolon, Little Lies. She suddenly gains the relative intelligence of a human and can now understand her friends' speech, however only Chris Masters can understand her when she speaks.

After patching up some of their wounds and grabbing whatever they can find, the Jawbreakers decide to leave. They take the briefcase and exit through a secret stairway that opens out to a parking lot on the opposite side of the casino. They notice some police cars there, and remembering the security footage, they make a quick getaway.

On the drive back, Chris attempts to relax by playing his PSP, but Chili begins asking frequent, incessant questions as she tries to understand the world around her with her newfound intelligence. Harvey and Virginia, not able to hear Chili speaking, wonder if Chris is okay. They pull up to the casino and notice the sign says no longer says "The Bleached Skull" but now says "The Whole Hog" and has a cartoon pig on it.

A concerned woman then walks up to them asking where The Bleached Skull is. She says her husband went there several hours ago but has not come back: this being the man who won $175,000 at the beginning of the session. Virginia offers a quick lie saying that the casino in question is on Alta Drive North instead of Alta Drive South. The Jawbreakers then enter the casino with the briefcase.

Appearances
● Cecilia Citadel (First Appearance)

● Chili the Fox // Little Lies (First Appearance)

● Chris Masters // Ironspy (First Appearance)

● Harvey D. Godlove // Here It Goes Again (First Appearance)

● Jack Flash // Killing Time (First & Last Appearance)

● Lady Luck // Poker Face (First Appearance)

● Ruby Wednesday (First Appearance)

● Virginia Valentine // Only The Good Die Young (First Appearance)