Riptide Episode 16: Fish and Chips

> "At sea, the crew deals with the fallout of a battle..." -*Episode 16 Official Description*
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## Summary

The crew talks amongst themselves in the aftermath of Chip and Gillion's duel. Eventually Jay and Gillion prank Chip, causing the mood to lighten. Chip apologizes to Gillion for lying to him. Suddenly, another ship begins attacking them, until they realize that it's actually Marshall John's ship.

## Episode Events

[Note: this first paragraph's events are within the recap section of the episode, not the main body]. Adult Chip confides in Arlin (even though he knows he can’t hear him), saying he thought he was doing everything right and that this was a real pirate crew. He thought that he would’ve meant more to Gillion by now. He’s sorry he isn’t the pirate Arlin wants him to be. He doesn’t know how to do this without Arlin, and wishes he could just find him already so Arlin could be captain.

Gillion heals Chip, and he begrudgingly accepts it. Jay tells Chip that she doesn’t think he’s a bad person. Jay asks Gil why honor is so important to him. Gil says that some things he does won’t make sense to them, but he hopes to teach them and to learn from them.

Jay asks why he’s out of the sea, and he says that yeah, most of his people don’t go out of the sea, that’s right. He thinks destiny brought him here for all of this. Jay reveals that she met Chip at her mother’s tavern. She was being forced down a path in life she didn’t want, and Chip provided her an opportunity to escape. She’ll always appreciate that. Gil asks if she ever thinks about that path, and she does, but she doesn’t feel she would’ve been happy “doing what they wanted me to do”.

They ask Earl what his regrets were and he says nothing. Chip won’t talk to Gil, no matter how hard he tries. Pretzel beats everyone at chess. Jay tells Gil that things can’t stay the way they are on the ship, and suggests that they both play a prank on Chip. They want to give him hot sauce. Gil has inner conflict about if this is the right thing to do.

They bring him orange juice laced with hot sauce, but he is still angry. He finally agrees to drink it if it means they’ll leave him alone. Chip immediately realizes it’s spiked and fake-drinks it. Gillion also takes a hot sauce orange juice, but fails his save, and reacts horribly to it. Chip gives him his drink, and Gil says that Chip has been double pranked. Chip begins to soften, laughing a little at Gillion’s antics.

Chip brings him milk and Gil thinks that he himself has been pranked by being given milk. Gil keeps saying people have been pranked about everything because he doesn’t understand pranks. They see the ocean begin to glow a beautiful blue through bioluminescent jellyfish and watch it together.

Chip admits to Jay that he doesn’t think he’s such a good captain, because normally crews don’t try to kill their captain. He thought he was doing things like the Black Rose Pirates did back then. Jay points out that just because what they did worked, doesn’t mean it’s going to work for everyone. Chip feels he has a legacy to live up to. Jay says that she didn’t join him because of that. She joined him because he had ambition and things he wanted to do in his life, and she admires that. She tells him he doesn’t need to live up to the Black Rose Pirates, he should just live up to himself.

Chip apologizes to Gillion, explaining that he thought those pranks would bring them together as a crew, but he didn’t think about how it would affect Gillion. Gillion thanks him, and Chip promises to never lie to him again. They talk about their duel and how Gillion kicked his ass. Chip admits that he could never stay mad at Gil. Gil says he can call Chip a friend, and Chip says that they’re like fish and chips.

Gillion does pull ups with the immovable rod. Chip learns that Old Man Earl makes orange juice with his feet. Jay loses against Pretzel at chess. Suddenly, a navy ship comes out of the blue and fires at them. They all try to pinch each other to see if this is a dream. They begin to fight the ship, until they see that the navy symbol on the flag is crossed out. On the figurehead is Marshall John, the navy soldier Gillion convinced to defect in episode 1.

## Transcription

A Google Doc of this episode's transcription is available here.

This was created by pistolwaltz and their transcription team on Discord.