Episode 30: Memento Mori

Podcast - 1 Hour, 53 Minutes and 14 Seconds

**"Memento Mori"** is the Thirtieth Episode of One Piece D&D by Rustage, in this episode a certain character makes an honorable sacrifice, a new and powerful character shows up when he's needed most, Duros truly makes a friend, and the Crew become Nietzscheans!

This episode was first streamed on Rustage's Twitch, and the VOD can be found here! It was later uploaded to Rustage's second YouTube Channel, which can be found here! As well as being posted as a Podcast, which can be found here!

The Summary for this episode **can be found here!** This consists of a summary of the episode, a TL:DR for the episode, the story impact of the episode, characters in the episode and quotes of the episode.

## Summary

The crew fights Dominius(Duros Black) alongside Luna and Helios. During the fight, Helios goes down and due to a lack of urgency to pick him up, and Dominius finishes him with an earth tremor. As the fight goes on, Dominius's armor opens up revealing a huge mouth. The mouth sucks up Gravy and Louis and they are no where to be seen. Looking at this, Pearl goes mad and enters her full dragon mode going on an uncontrollable rampage. With everyone losing hope that they will succeed, out of no where, an Old Louis appears and reveals himself to be from the same timeline as Duros black. He reverses all the damage that has been done to the crew and Gravy and young Louis spit out from Dominius's armor. Pearl and Ragnar go back to regular form. Old Louis then dies having used all his power. They destroy Dominius's armor and Duros black begins to rapidly age and with some iconic last words dies. The crew mourns the loss of Helios and then have a coronation to make Luna emperor.

## Story Impact

Here are the main parts of this episode that have an overall impact on the ongoing story.

* Helios and Old Louis fight and die in the battle
* Duros Black is defeated and Luna becomes the new Empress of Duros
* Lyssa joins the Crew

## Featured Characters

### The Crew

* William
* Verona
* Duros
* Ragnar
* Pearl
* Gravy
* Louis Le'Cloque
* Cyril
* Lyssa

### New Characters

* Old Louis
* Various Centurions and Nobles

#### Mentioned

* The Blacksmith (Called Dio as a placeholder name)

### Returning Characters

* Duros Black
* Helios
* Luna
* Inquisitor Aster
* Blake
* Hemlock
* Tailor
* Bullet
* Trevor
* Twin Banner Marine

## Quotes

* "I am more you than YOU will ever be!" - Duros Black to Duros
* "As long as I protected people, that's all that matters" - Duros Black's last words
* "Even if you know everything about us, you don't know how I am gonna fight, because I don't even know how I am gonna fight!" - William to Duros Black before activating his fruit
* "Is he dead? Is Gravy dead?! What's going on..is he dea- AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"- Pearl going full dragon mode after watching Gravy get eaten by Duros Black's armor.
* "He doesn't even talk with his accent anymore, get out of here!" - William about Duros Black
* "You finally earned your title, Friend! I off course accept your as my own friend and you will help me aid and protect those that need to be protected. You have finally seen the light! With Benevolence and Friend at my side we will do great good in this world!" - Duros to his shield before it is purified by his wholesomeness
* "Duros! I am here!" - Friend after being purified.
* "I am not meant to rule. I have always been a knight, at service to those who rule." - Duros to Luna after she offers him to stay on the planet and rule with her.
* "Again I will mirror the same words I said to you before. You, I saw greatness in you. You have the essence of a ruler, so to say, and I always believed that you would be more worthy than me." - Duros to Luna
* "If you ever need aid, I will not hesitate to come." - Duros to Luna
* "Luna, the stars will shine upon your rule!" - Duros to Luna
* "Here's your chance to change your fate for real." - Verona to Lyssa after she asks her to join the crew
* "I think we are reading the same book, but you might be a couple of chapters ahead of me." - Verona to Lyssa after she propose they explore their feeling for each other
* "Hello Duros, my name is Ragnar and I am a bear" - Ragnar to Duros Black as he is about to attack him
* "Did someone say bear hug?" - Ragnar before he hugs Duros and Luna
* "If I could change my fate, I wouldn’t..." - Lyssa murmuring to herself after Verona asked to join the crew
* "It looks like I made it in time." - Future Louis after he arrives to save the day.
* "But I didn't die, bitch" - Future Louis to Dominius.
* "You have a lot of potential young man! Just keep working! You are not the coward you think you are. You are more than you think!" - Future Louis to regular Louis.
* "This looks...pretty good!" - Louis about The Napoleon
* "Duros, You really are a men worthy of respect, and I believe that you will do great things." - Luna to Duros after the defeat of Duros Black

## Trivia

* 'Memento Mori' translates to 'Remember you must die' in Latin