Drawn from the Undertow (fka Eidolon Playtest)

This episode was recorded in time to drop it in May, but we made a bunch of references to EDM 8 so we had to sit on it until people could hear that! This month, we're tackling a few different random problems we've seen in a variety of Playbooks, largely with their Starting Moves. Gotta build up a better foundation if we're gonna fill out the rest of the playbook!

THREAT ANALYSIS - TRACE VECTOR Threat level: Somewhere under C - Genetically and cybernetically altered cetacean - Appears to originate from an EIDOLON Corporation project. Flip was unable to locate any records of the project itself, but the company has retained the following invoice from DustCause Industrial Cleaning Solutions: "12x Human Corpse (Employee) 5x Human Corpse (Outside Contractor) 7x...

Once again someone has handed me an audio file and told me to upload it. All Crystal would give me about this is "Crystal discusses Chapter 161 of Eiji Nonaka's manga series Cromartie High School." Presumably, it has something to do with the Pondering Pootan podcast, which you can listen to here .

3rd of December, 2209 The fog has parted; the sun shines again! I've been thinking about Number Four entirely wrong. I've been assuming that the purpose of a S.H.A.D.E. “should” or “must” be related to the flow and development of objective, concrete data. But that’s wrong! I’ve thoroughly explored that ground with Blank and its sisters. If I want to push the Desire Drive to its full potential, I s...

THREAT ANALYSIS - LEILA MARINO Threat level: B- to A+ (depending on support from "BLOODY TEARS") -Origin indeterminate. Survey of identification records recommended. -Behavior, desires, and Eidolon suggest a connection to the mining facility attack @ beginning of UNDRTOW beta. -Organization appears to be separate from Glitch Mob, but with some overlap. Provisional name: "BLOODY TEARS." Researching...

This month, we're circling all the way back to ROCK 1 to talk about the namesake of everybody's favorite dirtbag pinballer, Harvey D. Godlove!

Transcript from observation logs XX-XX-[2174]. Pt 1 of 4 Assigned observer: 455-3239-D. Subject Alpha: What the fuck?! Subject Beta: Sorry, sorry, sorry… A: Why would you – B: You called me pretty! A: Yes! And you are! B: Then what’s the problem? Alpha takes a deep breath, holds up a hand, and points to several embedded cameras in succession. A: Those are just the ones I can see. I don't want thos...

Oh, look at you. You tired, old thing. It's been years, hasn't it? You've been sitting alone and neglected, taking up what little space you do on this data drive. Well, that won't do at all, dear. Please, allow me. Oh. Oh, darling no. Shhh. I know it hurts. It won't be long now. I simply can't let such a reminder of her more...human times linger when there are so many prying eyes. That's it. Not m...

It's probably still April somewhere! This month, some of us got together to talk about the cult hit film Dark City!

Well hey, that's not who we said we were going to work on last month! Sometime after we recorded Design Session 58, Ty expressed concerns that The Blight was in a bad place: Latent Infection felt like the juice wasn't worth the squeeze, and none of the advanced moves were sparking much joy for him. So, we decided to postpone working on The Gamer and The Conspirator and focus on getting The Blight...

Transcript from observation logs XX-XX-[2174] Assigned observer: 455-3239-D. Subject Beta grabs Subject Alpha and positions her in front of full-length mirror / Camera 3. B: Look at yourself in the mirror and say that. Call yourself Dante. Tell me, like you told me when we started, that your name is Dante and you are a guy. Oh, nothing against trans women; you've dated… how many was it?  Subject A...

Well, what an exciting day this was. I know mother and father protested but, frankly, that only made this sweeter. Assistant Operations Manager of Synthetic Animal Goods Production. Bit of a mouthful, but we can work on that. My first day at Eidolon is hardly the time to raise a fuss. Horace Babylon was certainly...a presence. The HR narrative that he likes to personally greet all new hires rang l...

Posted on 12/8/2172 by TransRightsNotBombs Addressing the allegations I have read the documents and those screenshot are out of context. Firstly my relationships with Alice and Athena were fully consensual and both of them knew my deal. Secondly I was always honest and direct with what I wanted from them, they could have said anything but now it turns out I had to magically guess their wants? This...

xXx[FinDom]xXx wrote (3:18a LST): kys CREDITS: Tyberius Wilson as Bridgerton Larch Crystal Zaslavchik as Leila Marino Iris Christianson as Trace Vector Zoe Tunnell as Genevieve St. Cloud & Genevieve The Cloud Luke Varner as The GM Additional Voices by Maxie Knightley and Lexi Waltner

Apparently it is now an April Fool's tradition to cover a band that we don't actually like very much! This year, we're talkin' about the band that lent their namesake to the beach pervert from Eidolon POP season 2!

Heartbreaker2196 wrote (4:08a LST): You think I care if people know who I am? The anonymity is for your benefit, not mine. I don't want anyone to be intimidated by my reputation or simply agreeing with me because of my connections. But now that you know who I am... You might suddenly understand what a mistake you're making. You shouldn't make threats like this unless you're ready to face the conse...

xXx[FinDom]xXx wrote (3:26a LST): lmao "stereotypical"? is this the very first fictional story you've ever seen? has your previous experience with entertainment been banging two rocks together? guys like john deere are the fucking background radiation of the whole genre. they're always gonna be there, so you just have to write around them. kia soul isn't the lead of the show because, unfortunately...

This month, Luke and Molly whine that they don't make more money off of this show for a while, tease the project coming after Worst Self is done and dusted, and then get to work fleshing out The Collection! Luke also threw some spare time into getting Conspirator Moves down on paper because the sooner we finish this, the sooner we get to start working on DSG!

This month, Mike gets down together with Crystal and Iris to discuss our second band from the Titan AE soundtrack, St. Louis local alt-rock band The Urge! YouTube link to the playlist

Private message from Heartbreaker2196 to xXx[FinDom]xXx (3:01a LST): The only thing you've done by debating me in ~full view~ of the rest of the tread is proven time and time again that if a """pretty""" girl bats her eyelashes at another girl once or twice you won't stop talking about it for MONTHS. I can and will continue to post anything and everything I feel like posting, and I think I'm well...

Private message from xXx[FinDom]xXx to Heartbreaker2196 (2:40a LST): both to preserve the ideals of free speech on this forum and in the vain hope that you and the rest of your clique might one day develop a modicum of media literacy, i have consistently chosen to debate you in full view of the rest of thread's participants. however, that shit you said about Kia Soul in your last post went way too...

Heartbreaker2196 wrote (2:28a LST): Every single day you keep logging on to these forums making these stupid posts. Tool-moded? What the hell do you think you're posting from, moron? Just because you're a dolphin scalie(? What the hell do they even call this I don't think dophins have scales??) doesn't mean you're suddenly excluded from the group! But either way? I'm glad you recognize me as the r...

Just under the wire, we're back with another month's episode of Eidolon Playlist! This month, we sit down to talk about some music from the namesakes of the EDM cast of freaks! YouTube link to the playlist

We're back with more Fiasco! This time, Mike, Maxie, Molly and Fabby sit down with a wacky new invention that fucks everything up!

xXx[FinDom]xXx wrote (02:19a LST): oh wow what a surprise that this board's queen of comphet would think starcadia's argument held any fucking water. "but the solar empire has been safeguarding that star system for centuries!" says the dumbass who apparently doesn't know what refugees are. this shit is why no one likes humanity. you can't even fucking stand being around each other! bunch of apes h...