Riptide Episode 35: Sign Here (ft. Pokay)

> "The crew has won the battle, but now find themselves in true danger with the Baron, the business mogul behind The Paramount Tournament. Gillion is beaten by a door. Jay eats paper. Chip signs his life away. La Alma thinks these people are idiots, and is right." -*Episode 35 Official Description*
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## Sign Here (ft. Pokay)

### Characters

Chip, Gillion Tidestrider, Jay Ferin, La Alma

## Summary

After winning the paramount tournament, the party and La Alma meet with The Baron. He reveals the blackmail he has on La Alma, and offers them a deal: Become the new paramount champions, or La Alma will be locked away forever. The party tries to stop Chip from signing it, but eventually he does, as "Chibo". After learning that the Navy could not get to him on outlaw soil, La Alma furiously tries to find The Baron, to no avail.

## Episode Events

The crew goes from the arena into a magically darkened room, finding La Alma. Chip gives back the mask, and Gillion convinces him to apologize for taking it. La Alma says it’s fine, that it was just strategy. La Alma says he came to this island looking for a challenge, but when the Baron saw how much stronger he was than the previous champion, he poisoned the previous champion to “toss away the garbage”. He’s been a prisoner here and not getting paid. Gil tries very hard to open the door but can’t.

The Baron’s eyes open from the ceiling. He’s out of a lot of gold because of their win. He will let La Alma go if one of them stays on the island and becomes the new champion. The Baron has blackmail and murder charges on him because the previous champion died while fighting him (even if it was from the Baron’s own poison). He will get the Navy to imprison him if they don’t agree.

Gillion and Jay don’t want to, but Chip is open to it. Gil surreptitiously brings out his callnch shell so John can hear all this. Chip asks if The Baron will treat him better than La Alma, and he says yes. The Baron brings back some of the shadow to reveal the Luxbris Pearl. Chip decides to take the deal. La Alma begs him to reconsider, saying he’d be trapped here, even if he himself gets to go free because of it.  A contract appears. La Alma, Gil and Jay immediately attack it. Chip is angry. La Alma retorts that he will not allow Chip to sign the contract, that he’d be signing his life away.

The Baron forces Gil and La Alma to teleport away. Chip winks at Jay, then signs the paper “Chibo”. Jay grabs the pearl just as they’re teleported out as well. Chip beams, telling them he told them so. He explains his plan: Chibo isn’t his real name. It doesn’t count that he signed it. He says that he would either sign that paper, or his friends eulogy.

Jay points out that it might be a magic contract and still work. La Alma says if they leave, The Baron still has blackmail on him. Chip and Jay point out that the Navy literally doesn’t come to this island and other outlaw soil. La Alma is shocked. He could’ve just left? He furiously tries to find the Baron, but can’t get through his old secret entrance. Chip tries to get him to calm down, but he continuously punches the wall. The crew wants to get him milk. Gillion thinks that they used wristbands to get into the colosseum, so he goes to intimidate the check-in guy to get them more wristbands, but he doesn’t have any more. They break open the secret door anyway, but can’t find him.

## Transcription

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