ROCK 21: No Sign of Life

''This article is about the Eidolon Playtest episode. For the Eidolon, see No Sign of Life.''

"'But I got a hunch, oh it's not over yet.' -No Sign Of Life, by OK Go"

No Sign of Life is the twenty-first episode of Eidolon ROCK and the forty-fourth episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers the Alta Drive Jawbreakers as they try to escape from Washington, Columbia after the death of Harvey D. Godlove and Chris Masters' destruction of the Washington Monument.

Summary
Unknown Location

The official portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a crisis. President Dracula abolished the position of Vice-President, so his death has left no clear line of succession. He calls a meeting of all depictions of Presidents within the borders of Washington to determine the next President. Grover Cleveland hoped the meeting was to lock someone in a sanitorium.

Eidolon Battle (The Presidents of the United States of America)
Drawbridge outside Washington, Columbia

Virginia Valentine (in cat form) and Chili watch as Harvey D. Godlove dives into the lava moat with President Dracula. There's nothing they can do for him, so they head off to find Chris Masters. As they leave the bridge, a metal cacophony booms from behind them. Neither look back, but a branch wraps itself around Chili and lifts her from the ground.

Virginia turns around to find a large cherry tree has grown from the moving truck. On its branches are the presidential busts of George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and James A. Garfield. Washington does not want them leaving and helping their friend who just destroyed the Washington Monument.

Virginia climbs up the tree and knocks Washington to the ground, a chunk breaking off of his bust. Chili wiggles free from the branch, and shatters Washington more with Little Lies. Washington calls out for Roosevelt to step in and help. Roosevelt summons a ghostly grizzly bear that explodes between him and Virginia, knocking him to the ground and Virginia next to Garfield. Garfield promises not to fight Virginia and she agrees.

A cut on Chili's side starts sprouting into a cherry tree. Virginia jumps down onto Washington and smashes him entirely with the aid of Only The Good Die Young. The tree wilts away, and Garfield floats to the ground. Roosevelt launches another spirit bear, but Chili and Virginia both dive at him and smash the bust. With the threats gone, Virginia casually knocks Garfield into the lava moat. As he melts, he forgives her.

Lady Luck appears and is confused about where Chris and Harvey are. Virginia tells her Harvey is dead, catching Lady Luck by surprise as she leaves to go find him.

The Parlor of Death

Harvey wakes up in a chair in the Parlor of Death. President Henry Dracula tackles Harvey to the ground, choking him and punching him in the face. An older voice admonishes Henry, who stands up and storms deeper into the room demanding to know what the voice is doing here. The hidden figure says they were the same, and Henry's death meant his death as well. Henry punches him in the face and starts kicking him on the ground. The figure introduces himself as Count Dracula. He used to be a Master of The Estate, and Henry was his reincarnation.

Some time later, as Henry keeps futilely attempting to hurt the Count, Lady Luck appears in the room. She mocks disappointment at Harvey not getting the briefcase to New Jersey, and directs him to enter either Light Room or Dark Room.

In an argument with Harvey, Henry realizes the spell he cast to be permanent President is wearing off with his death. People will begin to realize how weird the whole situation was and he demands to be let out. Harvey taunts him over his actions having consequences, so Henry tackles him and drags him over to the Dark Room. Harvey tries to bait Lady Luck by mentioning the incomplete delivery, but she reveals the Alta Drive Jawbreakers were just a back-up plan and doesn't need them anymore.

Harvey grapples with Henry and throws him into the Light Room. Count Dracula dusts himself off, saying he'll wait till his wives reincarnate him. He walks into the Dark Room, and Harvey decides to follow him.

Unnamed Police Precinct

Chris Masters is handcuffed to a table in an interrogation room at a police precinct. The police took all his belongings and put him in an orange jumpsuit. Chris sends Ironspy through the two-way mirror to spy on the area outside. Ironspy sees the precinct in a rush, with a shotgun-wielding man posted outside Chris' room. Ironspy explodes the bullets inside the shotgun, injuring the man and causing more panic. Ironspy returns to Chris and breaks him out of his handcuffs. Ironspy sneaks back out, investigating a computer damaged in the explosion. Chris realizes internet connections are formed of metal, and disappears into the wiring with Ironspy.

Drawbridge outside Washington

Virginia and Chili run towards the Washington Monument. They pass a coin on the grown, and Franklin Roosevelt threatens them with Dune Buggy. They knock him into a sewer grate and reach a police perimeter set up around the entire National Mall. They overhear on police radio about the shotgun explosion at the precinct, and guess this is where Chris is. Little Lies convinces a cop he needs to go back to the precinct, and Chili and Virginia sneak into the back seat of his cop car.

The Dark Room

Count Dracula is surprised Harvey followed him, and tells him that Harvey will soon dissolve and turn into material for Demons. Dracula is immune to this effect, due to spells cast in life. Dracula attempts to enter a self-induced fugue state to pass the time until his wives reincarnate him, but Harvey keeps annoying him with comments and questions. Dracula tells Harvey that if he wants to leave, he would have had to cast the reincarnation ritual while he was still alive.

Flashback to Harvey as a child eating dirt, binding him to his home soil. Harvey unintentionally drawing arcane sigils through the air one night playing pinball. Harvey accidentally getting Virginia, an angel, killed in ROCK #6 and absorbing her essence (countdown clock). Harvey's remains intermingling with the melted remains of Henry Dracula, a vampire. Without knowing it, Harvey had completed the ritual.

Harvey's jaw starts to dissolve, indicating the absorption process has begun. He runs for the exit door as more of him starts fading, with Count Dracula warning this is futile. He reaches the door, opens it, and is blinded by the light from outside. In the split second before he disappears, Harvey sees the Dark Room lit up and that they had been surrounded by Demons watching them this whole time.

Drawbridge outside Washington

Harvey wakes up in a bubble of air at the bottom of the lava moat. He leaps out of the moat onto the drawbridge and discovers that his skin is pale, he has fangs, and he's feeling a stinging sensation from the sun. Harvey gets under cover and texts the group chat. Only Flamingo Chris responds, telling him Chris is locked in a police precinct.

Unnamed Police Precinct

Chris explodes out of a computer in an office deeper in the precinct. He grabs a long coat and reading glasses to try and disguise his prisoner uniform. He walks outside and is immediately identified by a cop, who shoots him in the shoulder.

Chili and Virginia pull up outside the precinct, hearing the gunshot. Chili runs in and causes a distraction. Virginia finds Chris upstairs, and deals in as the Infiltrator to return to human form. She pulls out a gun and kills the cop. Three more come running and shoot at Virginia, but Ironspy deflects the bullets back into them.

Chili is cornered in the breakroom, but Harvey flaps in as a bat and flies in the police's faces. They dodge through them and meet up with Chris and Virginia outside. They steal a cop car and drive it out right into a traffic jam. The earth shakes and the giant Abraham Lincoln from the Lincoln Memorial stands up and starts to announce that President Dracula is dead. He stops himself, looks at Harvey's car, and announces that the President is actually alive. By merging with his essence, Harvey has become the subject of Dracula's spell to be permanent President. Harvey uses The Presidents of the United States of America to command the Abraham Lincoln statue to pick them up and carry them out of Washington.

The Alta Drive Jawbreakers get set down on the highway. Chris realizes that his PSP (and Flamingo Chris) are still back at the police precinct. Virginia insists they don't have time, and they drive off to New Jersey.

Ending Scene
Unknown Location

A knock on a door. Jack Stern opens the door to find Ruby Wednesday. Ruby tells her father that for the last day, she has been shattered into little pieces and kept in Frasier Lilith's office. She reconstituted recently, and has nowhere else to go. Jack Stern lets her in.

Appearances
● Chili the Fox // Little Lies

● Chris Masters // Ironspy

● Count Dracula (Last Appearance)

● Flamingo Chris

● Harvey D. Godlove // No Sign of Life

● Henry Dracula

● Jack Stern // Pinball Wizard (Last Appearance)

● Lady Luck // Poker Face

● Ruby Wednesday (Last Appearance)

● The Presidents of the United States of America


 * ● Abraham Lincoln (First Appearance)


 * ● Franklin D. Roosevelt // Dune Buggy (First Appearance)


 * ● George Washington // Peaches (First Appearance)


 * ● Grover Cleveland (First Appearance)


 * ● James A. Garfield // Crappy Ghost (First Appearance)


 * ● Theodore Roosevelt // Tiger Bomb (First Appearance)

● Virginia Valentine // Only The Good Die Young