Riptide Episode 46: Robot Rumble

> "The Albatrio makes their great escape from Edison Castle! Chip takes a leap of faith. Jay discovers her royal blood. Gillion loses a part of himself." -*Episode 46 Official Description*
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## Summary

The party escapes the king's palace with King Leon and his retainer. They lose and regain Puddle the water horse.

## Episode Events

Jay uses the spell Disguise Self to look like the king. Gillion unbubbles Abdul and throws him in the wardrobe, props up himself and the retainer on the wardrobe, and throws Leon under the bed to look like everything is normal. The horse doesn’t know what a horse sounds like. Chip and Ollie shovel gold into the briefcase.

A warforged bursts into the king’s bedroom. It speaks into Jay’s mind “What is happening here?” then raises it’s hand and magically paralyzes Gillion. Jay (as the king) indignantly asks why he would do this to an esteemed guest of the undersea. The warforged explains that it is only activated when the king's life is in grave danger.

Gariath slips from Gillion’s paralyzed grasp. Jay urgently shouts that while the king's life is not in danger, Gariaths is, because he fell down and hit his head. The warforged says that it senses two other life forms in the area. It asks to inspect the room, and Jay says no. Gillion breaks free from the paralyzation. Chip and Ollie hear another warforged running towards them. Chip discovers a good credit card. They help each other onto the horse and it runs past the warforged.

Abdul shouts to be let out of the wardrobe. The warforged commands the king must come with them immediately. Gillion fails to punch a hole in the wall. The horse jumps out a window. The horse thanks Chip for giving him a destiny, and wonders what it means to feel pain. Ollie falls off the horse. The warforged psychically attacks Chip. Abdul bursts out of the closet and grapples Jay. The warforged touches him and his skin begins to turn gray. Gillion tells Leon that it will be okay, then grabs him and Gariath and runs out the door. The warforged rolls a natural one and doesn’t notice. Gillion jumps out the window. Chip throws Ollie the briefcase and he falls into it, avoiding taking fall damage. Chip catches the briefcase with his sword.

A warforged teleports in front of Gillion. Leon tells him that it’s asking if he’s in danger, and Gillion responds that they’re not. Gillion uses gust of wind to slow the king and Gariath’s fall. The warforged doesn’t do anything. The warforged in the king's bedroom touches Abdul again and he disintegrates. Chip pulls Ollie out of the briefcase and puts him on the horse. The horse barely survives falling and decides that if it can survive, it can carve it’s own destiny. It begs Ollie to not let it die, and to name it so it can be remembered. Ollie names it Puddle.

Jay feather falls out the window. Puddle is fading fast and asks Chip and Ollie to put him down after this. They escape the warforged but run into the town guard. The outside warforged sees there are two kings and tells them both that there is an imposter among us. Gillion commands it to Eject and it jumps out the window. Chip tells the horse to run off to convince the guard to follow it away from them. Ollie and Puddle share a tearful goodbye then it runs away. They sneak to the train station as Ollie cries. When they get there they see the guards chasing Puddle to the edge of the city. Puddle shouts that he’s dying not for destiny, but for his friends. He asks Ollie to remember him, then does a backflip and flies into a cloud, returning to the water cycle.

Jay and Gillion escape the warforged and run into the town guard. Gil casts Wall of Water on them then freezes the water around them. They all meet at the train station and jump onto the train. They’ve escaped the crown district. Gillion heals Gariath. He’s very worried about the king. Leon is in awe of being outside, as well as the upside-down mechanisms of the train car. Ollie tearfully apologizes for Puddle’s death. Gillion is distraught and he, Chip and Ollie start crying. Gillion summons Puddle again. Ollie rushes up and hugs him. Gillion can’t understand the horse because it speaks celestial, so Ollie translates. They have a happy reunion as father and son.

## Transcription

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