Riptide Episode 38: The People's Champion (ft. Pokay)

> "The Crew unmasks the Baron and La Alma rallies the people! Chip says goodbye to a friend. Gillion bathes in blood. Jay gets a grim reminder of her past." -*Episode 38 Official Description*
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## The People's Champion (ft. Pokay)

### Characters

Chip, Gillion Tidestrider, Jay Ferin, La Alma

## Summary

The party gathers everyone at the arena for La Alma to tell the people all the corruption behind the scenes of the tournament. La Alma says farewell to the party as he sails off into the sea. That night, the party awakens to a fleet of Navy ships firing on Joaldo island.

## Episode Events

The next morning the party gathers everyone at the arena, saying there’s a post-tournament event. When a crowd arrives, they bring out the tied up Baron with a bag over his head. They also take the ticketmaster, Wimphrey, with them. La Alma is nervous about talking to the crowd because that was The Baron’s job. Gillion bolsters him, telling him that he has the people’s heart as their Champion.

The people cheer at everything La Alma says. La Alma first apologizes for losing, then tells the people that the tournament was rigged. They gasp. He talks about how he lived in horrible conditions, and how the previous champion was poisoned. He thought this would be an island safe from the rules, a place of freedom, but it wasn’t. Gillion makes a water recreation of his narration. Throughout it, they continuously foreshadow that a man was responsible for this. Then they reveal The Baron to the crowd.

La Alma now tells them about the blackmail. A man yells from the audience what his proof of this is. La Alma says he has no proof, but simply asks them to believe him. He also points out that he gains nothing from making this up. The people believe him. Gillion makes Wimphrey the new organizer of the paramount tournament. The people rise from the stands and beat up The Baron. As they leave, the Baron whispers to Chip that this isn’t the end.

They ask La Alma what he’s going to do now. He says that fighting the party gave him the passion for fighting that he’d been lacking these past few years. He’s going to start from the beginning, go on a ship and see where it takes him. He does a wrestling move on Gillion for old times sake. Chip says that it’s time to make his own luck, and gives him the magic cat coin he pickpocketed from The Baron. La Alma admits that he thought Chip was a bad person, but maybe he isn’t. He stows away on a ship and sails out. He sees two giant Navy ships heading to the island. Pokay says that La Alma wants to be a chef.

They find the potion seller's cat, take it’s cat toy and try to figure out if the toy is important or magic for half an hour. The potion seller tells them that The Baron employed everyone in this town and bad things are gonna happen now. The potion seller needs to get off the island. Chip tells them that he told Lizzie that the party might be able to help her in her war. They all go to sleep, and Jay starts writing a letter to her mother.

There’s a huge explosion outside, and the whole town is on fire. The Navy is attacking the island. Gil doesn’t get to put on his armor so he runs in his pajamas. They meet up with John and Caspian as they’re running.

## Transcription

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