Hi! This is Luke Varner, host, GM, and producer on Eidolon Playtest, an actual play podcast that playtests the RPG me and my friend Molly Rhinebeck have written: EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self. EIDOLON is a game inspired by the manga series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, as well as the Persona video game series. It's a game where groups of friends learn to channel the power of their soul into powerful and outlandish spirits called Eidolons, and use that power to fight against malevolent supernatural forces. Our podcast is broken up into two different campaigns, which release episodes on alternating weeks. In Eidolon POP, a college professor and four of his students are pulled into a mysterious shadow world known as The Undertow, where they find a magic mansion called The Estate, which contains the power to rewrite reality. In Eidolon ROCK, a group of Las Vegas gangsters stumble upon a briefcase full of drugs that grant their user superpowers, and have to drive across the country in three days to deliver the briefcase to a buyer in New Jersey. Both campaigns are a ton of fun and really tonally distinct, with POP generally featuring more interpersonal drama and ROCK being more action-heavy. This is episode 7 of Eidolon POP, which makes it the 13th overall episode of the podcast. To set it up a little bit, POP #6 ended with the team being locked in The Estate's dungeon. They'd gotten themselves "hired" as the mansion's cleaning crew, then "fired" when they went against the wishes of their boss, Joanna. Unfortunately, being fired by The Estate carries severe consequences, and they're slowly being erased from reality. If they don't do something soon, it will be as if none of them had ever been born. They tried to fight back against Joanna, but ended up thrown in jail instead, with nothing to do but wait out their erasure. It seemed like everything was hopeless, when suddenly a mysterious woman known as Lady Luck appeared and offered to help them if they agreed to work for her. This is where the episode you're about to listen to picks up. I hope you enjoy it!
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