Riptide Episode 41: Growing Pains

> "The crew escapes from the Navy. Chip mourns the loss of his son. Gillion pulls a prank. Jay is looking for direction. Pretzel faces her greatest challenge." -*Episode 41 Official Description*
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## Summary

The party argues over what to do with The Compass, failing to destroy it. Chip has a heart to heart with Ollie.

## Episode Events

The episode opens with Chip and Gillion after finding out Ollie used the compass and became a grown man. Chip keeps reassuring Ollie that it’ll all be fine, that he’ll fix this. Ollie goes to his room. Chip admits to Gillion that he kept the compass. Gillion realizes he doesn’t have his Necklace of Tidestrider, and Chip gives it to him. Jay comes down. She and Gil want to destroy the compass, and Chip despondently hands it to them. But right before they attack it, he yells at them to wait, that they might need it to turn Ollie back. They don’t think that will work and attack it anyway. It doesn’t break.

Gil wants to throw it in the sea, so Chip tries and fails to snatch it from Jay. Jay discreetly uses the compass to see which direction the person who killed her sister is. Gil tries to use the Luxbris Pearl for answers for this but can’t, so he puts the compass in the briefcase of holding. Gil goes to the Grandberry Pirates ship to heal some of the sick people they evacuated. They all go to sleep. Chip wakes up to see Apple pecking at him. He asks if she wants to hang out so he can get her killed too.

Rudith, the doctor, thanks Gil for healing people, saying that he loves helping people, but the sea isn’t for him. Jay wants a map so Lizzie shows them their map. Lizzie plans to head through Allport to the Northern Ocean so she can find stronger pirates for her army. Chip says he’ll follow them. Lizzie discreetly whispers to Chip, asking him what happened to him, why he’s calling her Captain when this is his crew. Chip admits maybe looking for Arlin isn’t the best call anymore, and that Lizzie seems like the only captain around here. Lizzie shoots back not to aimlessly follow her, because that’s how he’ll get killed.

Chip checks on Ollie, who’s still as shaken as last night. Ollie says he can’t go on like this. Chip once again reassures him that they’ll fix this soon. Jay has a nightmare of her taking the place of the Navy Admiral from the attack, watching her friends pirate ships sailing off. As the days on the sea pass, Ollie begins to come out of his shell; eating and walking around more. He’s still very jittery and easily scared. Chip goes to check on him again. Ollie apologizes for using the compass, but Chip stops him and apologizes himself for giving Ollie the compass.

Ollie talks about how it made him feel like it would take him wherever he wanted to go. After the first time he used it, he felt compelled to use it even more, and kept using it over and over to check if it was still in the same direction. Chip promises he’ll make it right. He asks Ollie if he wants to go home, and he says yes. Chip says that he was a kid on a pirate ship once, too. He says that unlike Ollie, he didn’t have a home to go back to, so the sea was where he wanted to be. He admits that he thought Ollie was like him, but he isn’t. He has a home and he should go there. Ollie mentions that his mother is probably worried sick about him, but wouldn’t recognize him like this. Chip hugs him and Ollie sounds like he’s crying. He asks where John is, but Chip says he let John down too, that he got captured. Chip says that he’s not a good captain, that he’s barely a good person. He once again promises to not let Ollie down. They pinky swear on it.

Caspian almost beats Pretzel in chess but Gil makes the ship shake so the pieces fly everywhere. During that night, they hear strange sounds from the ocean. Chip goes to wake up Jay but she won’t wake up because she failed a charisma saving throw. Suddenly, a giant sea serpent attacks the ship.

## Transcription

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