ROCK 0: Character Creation

Character Creation is the first episode of Eidolon ROCK, and the second episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers the cast of Eidolon ROCK finalizing the details of their characters and preparing for the campaign ahead.

Summary
Luke Varner introduces the cast of this campaign: Molly Rhinebeck, Lexi Waltner, Iris Christianson, and Maxie Knightley. Maxie Knightley immediately makes a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. They will be covering the four Playbooks that went unused during POP #0: Character Creation.

All of the player characters are members of a gang, the Alta Drive Jawbreakers, that works in a casino, and do not start with their Eidolons.

Molly Rhinebeck
Molly Rhinebeck's character is Virginia Valentine, a former card dealer at Caesars Palace who was caught tipping the odds towards players. Her Eidolon is a Wildcard named Only The Good Die Young. The Wildcard is a complicated Playbook which shifts through all the other Playbooks and so risks being unfun. The abilities and appearance of Only The Good Die Young are constantly changing, but by default it appears as if her shadow was made of stained glass. Virginia's greatest fear is her old boss catching up with her.

Maxie Knightley
Maxie Knightley's character is Harvey D. Godlove, the Pinball Prince of Las Vegas. He has a Virtuoso Eidolon named Here It Goes Again, a real physical pinball that Harvey can launch with incredible speed and precision using only his bare hands. Harvey was invited into the Alta Drive Jawbreakers by his father-figure, Jack Stern, when he needed some cash. He wears a leather jacket with a pinball machine on the back, and no shirt underneath. Harvey's greatest fear is ending up a loser.

Iris Christianson
Iris Christianson's character is Chris Masters, a college kid who wants to be a punk but is still 'kind of a normie'. They do Urban Exploration videos on YouTube and hope to some day become famous for them. Chris is a loser who desperately wants internet approval. They ended up in the Alta Drive Jawbreakers for their hacking skills, which they developed for their urban exploration. Chris' Eidolon is Ironspy, an Infiltrator which can cloak itself from detection by merging with any metallic object, and attack from hiding with bolts of lightning. It has the appearance of a feminine wireframe of liquid metal surrounding a lightning-crackling metal core. Chris' greatest fear is no one caring about them.

Lexi Waltner
Lexi Waltner's character is a Beast, just an ordinary fox that lives in the alleys near the casino that the gang occasionally feeds snacks to. A fox would not name itself, so Lexi Waltner asks the rest of the players what they would have named her. Iris Christianson suggests Chili, and everyone immediately agrees. Her Eidolon is Little Lies, which helps her pursue her animal urges by convincing a target of something they want to be true. For example, she could convince a man running a hotdog cart to leave by making him think the hot redhead across the street had been eyeing him up and given a 'come hither' motion. Little Lies takes the form of a 'fox furry', a human woman with fox elements (e.g. snout, tail, ears), in an elegant dress. Chili's instinctive desire is for food, and her greatest fear is returning to a fox-level intelligence.

Ties
Like with POP #0, Ties at this point in the game are simply a note that you have a bond with a person, idea, or group. A bond you would sacrifice something important to you over.
 * Chris has ties with Chili, a security guard at the Stratosphere Hotel named Karl, and Harvey.
 * Chili has ties with Chris, an alley cat that shares the same area, and the nearby Pasta Emporium.
 * Virginia has ties with Harvey, Lilac Jefferson, and Cecilia Citadel.
 * Harvey has ties with Jack Stern, Chris Masters, and Virginia.