Riptide Episode 47: What Binds Us

> "Three friends make an oath." -*Episode 47 Official Description*
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## Summary

The group gets out of the train and get chased by Blossom Bossom's henchmen, eventually escaping through the postage chute. They head to the orphanage to give the owner all the money they stole. Chip, Gillion, and Jay have a chat on the roof, make their oath, and name themselves the Riptide Pirates.

## Episode Events

The retainer asks where theyre taking them and if gillion is really a king. Gillion says no but that he wants to show the young king the full expanse of his kingdom. The retainer requests to not let the people know that the young king is the actual king. They talk about the deal with the Bossom Blossom, plans for the near future, and the kidnapping in general.

Gillion pulls out the conch and calls Caspian to try and get a hold of Lizzie. Gillion mentions that he and Caspian call every night. Caspian is put on speaker to talk to the group! Caspian says that he and the crew set sail early so they’re 2 days ahead. Upon mentioning this Chip demands to speak to Lizzie and does so for a bit. He hangs up and the train arrives at the Blossom district a bit later.

They step out onto the platform and the trio notice more suspicious people than normal including a warforged in a long back leather coat pacing around the platform. This is the same warforged that was with Alphonse earlier. The crew is almost out of spell slots so Gillion casts fog cloud to give them cover to escape, which he flavors as Chip farting. Gillion slaps Puddle’s rear end and charges him with electricity using a smite to use him as a distraction. The horse distraction works and most of, but not all, of the suspicious figures follow it. The warforged is moving through the fog to attack the group. Puddle is used as a giant horse taser by releasing the electricity within him and tazing half the enemies surrounding him before running back to the group, who then runs to the post office. A chase starts.

The retainer gets up on puddle along with Gillion. As they’re dashing through the city, a man is pushed out of the building but before the one who pushed him can join the fray, Gillion/puddle intimidate them both and they freeze. Jay hits the approaching warforged with a small rock to get his attention. Jay cliimbs a building. Chip and Ollie turn into an alley and are faced with a maze of barrels and crates. Ollie gets through just fine but Chip slips and falls through them. The flask of oil is thrown between Chip and the warforged and Chip lights the fire to cut off the warforged. As Gillion is riding towards the post office, he is faced with a low hanging pipe that he barrels right through, splitting the pipe and flooding the narrow road with steam. Jay parkours across the roofs, stumbles, and falls onto a bent pipe and gives her a large, bleeding gash on her leg. She fell into the alleyway that Chip and Ollie were in, so Chip and Jay run as Ollie goes to hide.

Gillion blasts throught the door of the post office and announces that he has a package as he drops the fog cloud to reveal the retainer and king. The post office lady pulls out a machine gun and asks if anyone was following them. Puddle leaps into the chute with the other 2 on its back and Gillion starts running to find the other 2. Chip and Jay are being followed by the construct and they jump into a trash can to hide. Jay falls and they fail to hide. Ollie points Gillion towards Jay and Chip before running towards the post office. As the warforged finds Jay, Gillion yells at it to distract it. The warforged turns it attention towards Gillion and slashes at him with a newly forged axe from its arm. Jay tears off her sleeve and ties it around her leg to stop the bleeding. Chip throws ball bearings on the ground behind him as he and Jay run away. Before he runs with the group, Gillion turns to the warforged and uses prophetic screwup. This is the first time using prophetic screwup with the new rules and Gillion fails his roll. He slips on the ball bearings that Chip laid out and falls prone onto the ground. The Warforged’s axe turns back into his fist and little reactors glow with steam as he hits Gillion. The Warforged also slips and falls prone thanks to the ball bearings! Chip and Jay drag Gillion out of the encounter and into the post office. The 3 jump into the chute. Gillion heals Jay. Chip rides Gillion down the chute like a skateboard. They come out of the chute at one of the ports on the first level of the kingdom and meet back up with the rest of the group. Chip leads the group to the orphanage. On the way, Gillion and the king have a conversation about being a ruler and about being born into expectations.

They reach the residential area of the slums district and walk through it to reach the center that has the orphanage. One of the kids runs straight into Gillion and falls flat on their back. New Gillion title: Walking Fish! The kid is a young girl with rosy cheeks and bright red hair. The paperboy, Isaac, walks up to the group and tries to sell them a newspaper for 10 gold. Chip gives the king the briefcase with the money in it to give to the kids. The king gives Isaac 25 gold for some newspapers and he immediately runs off to get the owner, who promptly invites them inside.

Before they walk inside Jay pulls Gillion inside and talks to him about what he was telling the king about having to face what they were born into, which is exactly the opposite of what Jay’s been doing. Gillion tells her that all she can do now is her best, and whatever happened before is in the past. She doesn’t need to keep running and he believes shes strong enough to face them head on. Jay worries about her facing her problems leading to her adventures with the crew ending. Gillion responds by saying “I think this is the first time I’ve lived” and Jay agrees. Gill promises to be by her side when she has to make her choice. Chip teases the two as they hug. Him and Jay then shoot each other several different flavors of middle fingers from a distance. Gillion flips Chip off… with his ring finger.

They finally head inside the orphanage to talk with Yasenia, the owner. While they’re talking, Chip nudges the king to give the rest of the money to her. The king pulls out every single gold coin from the briefcase and piles it onto the table. Yasenia asks the trio about where the gold came from. She makes them take back half the gold into the briefcase. Gillion gets in the bathtub to sleep. Chip goes and walks around the orphanage, taking a look, and eventually heads up to the roof. Jay sees him up there and join him, and Gillion joins after Pretzel makes him. Apple stays with Jay most of the time! The trio talk about Chips past as an orphan and how that’s affected Chip as his life carried on. Chip clearly feels incredibly guilty about what happened to Ollie. Chip says that the compass could get them to Arlin and that Arlin could captain the ship. Gillion and Jay are concerned about Chip living solely for Arlin when he might not even be alive. They agree to co-captain to ship. They make their oath and make their pirate crew name as the Riptide Pirates!!

## Transcription

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## Trivia

* Gillion recieves two new titles this episode; "Horse Tamer" and "Walking Fish"
* The oath was made up by Chip and is as follows: “I, Captain [name], do solemnly swear to fuck shit up, to help those in need, and to be the best goddamn pirates anyone has ever seen”