POP 17: The Tower

The Tower is the eighteenth episode of Eidolon POP and the thirty-sixth episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers the events from Quentin Brooks' past, as he and his classmates become servants of, then seek to undermine, The Estate.

Summary
Rather than open with a summary the events of the previous episode, as Luke Varner usually does, he expresses mock confusion about the fact that there were no events previously. After a few lines in this vein, he announces that it is "flashback time".

After the theme music, Luke Varner then proceeds to explain how this episode will be structured. Each player has been assigned a character in the flashback group, with Tyberius Wilson playing a younger version of his character, Quentin Brooks. Luke Varner has provided everyone with a small bio, their Eidolon, and will provide details of each level up they do throughout the session. The episode is structured as a series of vignettes. Each character will level up between the vignettes as time progresses.

As the episode proper begins, Luke Varner asks Ursula when she thinks it all went wrong. Ursula says there are many possible answers - when they got caught, when they accepted the job, when they chose their course. The actual answer, she says, is when everyone trusted Henry and thought he was a friend.

At this point, everyone's characters are announced. Fabby Garza is playing Ursula Bexar. Fabby Garza jokingly dismisses any similarities between that name and her main character, Ursa. As mentioned, Tyberius Wilson is playing Quentin Brooks. Zoe Tunnell is playing Caroline Rose. Mike Painter is playing Ron Moreau. Luke Varner similarly jokingly dismisses any similarity between Ron Moreau and Ronnui. Crystal Zaslavchik is playing Cactus Jack, who will be introduced later.

Finally, Luke Varner mentions that in each vignette, some characters will have hidden agendas they must fulfill in order to maintain continuity.