ROCK 1: Jumpin' Jack Flash

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, their acquisition of Eidolons, and battle with Eidolon user and leader of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers.

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 doing in the mostly empty casino, 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 begins bragging about his pinball scores.

Suddenly, Ruby Wednesday walks in excited and 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 explains that at the meeting for The Dead Pharoah 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 and discovered he was running a drug lab under the casino. She then orders the Jawbreakers to go to the lab and destroy it and steal everything they can.

After this 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 Jawbreakers arrive at the Crossfire Hurricane, the casino of the McLeod Plaza Jawbreakers, immediately noticing the security camera above where they parked. They shrug this off and go through the employee entrance around back, entering the casino. Chili runs in immediately and enters the casino, causing havoc and distracting a waitress, allowing the rest of the crew to explore the building. They attempt to use an elevator but discover the it requires a key to use. As Chris attempts to pick the lock, the party is accosted by a security guard who has noticed their suspicious activity. He interrogates them but the party offers the excuse 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 manages to correctly guess the password by Dredging the Undertow: "Gobstopper".

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 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 down, 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 now 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 lack of power to avoid the grasps of a security guard 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 crew discusses what to do next and Harvey suggests to send 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 the crew goes through with Harvey's plan. Chris descends first but as he does he hits a rusted, jagged pipe 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 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. Chris attempts to call the elevator to the bottom floor and the rest of the crew enters on the way down, but the elevator hits and crushes the pipe hanging out. At the same time the dumbwaiter arrives at the bottom floor with Chili, but with the door closed.

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 party. Jack then declares that he is going to kill them. He reveals that he intentionally put false information on his phone knowing Ruby 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 immediately goes to hit Jack over the head with the crowbar but he 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 and his lucky pinball falls out of his pocket and rolls away. Virginia tries to grab the briefcase while Chris attempts to help by grabbing a custom snowglobe containing a miniature Crossfire Hurricane and hurling it at Jack. Chris throws the snowglobe but it shatters in the air above Jack's hand.

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 is now able to 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.

Appearances

 * Cecilia Citadel / Fortune Teller (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)