#riptide recap

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Riptide Episode 45 - The Perfect Crime

- They all jump and throw things in the air trying to figure out the reversed gravity. Abdul, the frogtopus racer Gil brought, explains that the trains make people have opposite gravity. He also explains they have commoner clothes and will look suspicious. Chip and Jay make the plan that Gil is the undersea king, and they’re his escorts. 

- They buy royal undersea clothes for a king and his attendants. Most people believe that Gil is king. The next day, they plan their heist. Gil and Abdul fraternize with the guards. He finds out that a lot of guards are warforged, and there’s a charging station in the palace. They also have security cameras on the second floor. There’s an extreme measure of security that comes into play only when the king is in danger that’s not mentioned. 

- Jay tours the first and second floor of the castle. She finds out that the third floor is the king’s quarters, and the king’s council meets up every day, but the king hasn’t been attending recently because he’s sick. There’s only one way to get upstairs. Chip plans a route out of the castle and to the train. 

- The next day they strike a match and begin their planning session. Gillion points out he can make a horse, and he and Ollie really want the horse to be part of the plan. Ollie suggests lots of good ideas, which makes Chip proud of him. He’s hesitant to sneak past security with Chip, but Chip reassures him that it’ll be fine. 

- Abdul thinks that the king being sick is the perfect time to kill him, as no one would notice him being gone. They all tell him to take it down a couple notches, but he’s adamant, urgently reminding them that if they don’t kill the king tonight, the Blossom Boss will kill them.

- They decide that Gillion will arrange a meeting with the king (speaking Primordial so he doesn’t have to lie) and Jay will be his translator. Meanwhile Chip and Ollie will sneak in, steal all the gold, and escape loudly on Gillion’s horse. Alphonse and Abdul will sabotage the warforged charging stations. During the final day of planning, Chip teaches Ollie how to climb buildings. 

- The day is here. Alphonse and Abdul convince the guards to let them in and disappear from sight. Gillion arrives at the palace door, shouting to the guards about how much he wants to kill the king in Primordial. Jay “translates” that Gillion is the King of The Undersea and needs a meeting with the king. Jay gets a natural 20 on deception, and a bishop comes up and ushers them in enthusiastically.

- Chip and Ollie begin to scale the palace walls. Chip falls halfway through but Ollie saves him. Chip lockpicks open a window and they sneak into a lavish room just as Gillion, Jay and the bishop walk into the room. They successfully hide. 

- The bishop leaves and they meet the king’s retainer. He nervously says that they’re not allowed to go in because the king is sick. Gillion picks up the retainer and walks down the hall. Chip and Ollie whisper to each other, Ollie saying that this would never work if he was still small. Chip tells him he’s proud of him when Ollie finds a dark, vault-looking hallway.

- Jay and Gillion enter into the king’s bedroom, seeing a small boy in the bed. The boy guardedly asks what’s going on here. The retainer introduces the small boy as the king, Leon Edison, and himself as Gariath Watts. Gillion uses divine sense, smelling that Leon is not evil. Gillion introduces himself in common, asking what ails the king. Gariath realizes that Gillion was never a king after all. 

Leon: “I’m not sick. I’m just not supposed to be seen.”

- Gariath interrupts, saying that he is sick, but Gillion tells him to let the boy speak. 

Leon: “I’m not supposed to be seen, because I’m not supposed to be the king. Isn’t that right, Mr. Watts? I hear it all outside of my door.”

- Leon explains that his father died recently without appointing an heir. The council is running the show now, because if the people knew a kid was the king, they’d never take him seriously. Gillion asks if Leon wants to be the king. He says that where he’s from, he has a council, but they walk among the people. He would not call a council that hardly knows the people a council.

Leon: “Is this a diplomatic visit?”

Gillion: “In some ways it can be. But mostly I just want to help.”

- Leon says that he’s not allowed to and never has been outside the castle. 

Gillion: “Have you seen the layers beneath?”

Leon: “I don’t really go there.”

Gillion: “Do you know what they do, what the people here look like, act like, what their lives are like? Did your father know? Do you know, Gariath?”

- Gariath knows that there are questionable decisions in the council, but he is not a part of it. He thinks this meeting is irresponsible and immature. 

Gillion: “You speak of it being irresponsible and immature to bring a boy down into those layers below, but is that not what happens every day in this city? When a life is brought into it, they don’t choose it. You didn’t choose this. And I have a feeling, Leon, if you saw the council’s decisions and their ramifications on those your age and younger below us, you would not sit idly by. I sense good in you. You shouldn’t be trapped here. You should see for yourself what your kingdom is.”

- Leon says that he’s only the acting king because his brother is away at the moment. Gillion still thinks he should see the lower levels. Gariath wants to have a moment alone to speak with Leon. Gillion insight checks him, seeing that he feels fatherly towards the king. Gariath whispers to Gillion that he wants to keep the king out of these matters because he’s too young. Gillion responds that no one asks for responsibility, but should Leon accept it, he would be a great man. They let them have a moment alone. 

- Chip and Ollie find a metal door with a red glowing symbol. Jay whispers into his mind, asking what he’s doing. She leaves two magic stones in the bathroom that make it seem as though she’s shitting, then goes to help him. She says that if the symbol is destroyed, they can get through the door. Chip tells Ollie that sometimes, he has to take a risk, so Ollie scratches it away. They open the door, seeing a huge trove of treasure. 

- As Jay and Gillion walk back they hear a scream from the king’s room. They rush in to see Gariath knocked unconscious and Abdul holding a gun to Leon’s head, his hands shaking.

Abdul: “I have to do this. We have to follow through on the mission. If this is the king, then the king has to die. That’s what the boss said!”

Riptide Episode 44 - Blossoming Trust

- Jay throws Chip a casino chip with a recorded message, telling them to disguise themselves. Chip disguises himself as a grandma. Warforged bouncers burst in and restrain the mercenary, but fail at restraining Jay. Gil casts fog cloud and they all escape with it, except the mercenary (he is never seen again). 

- They bump into another warforged that says they have to come with him, or else. The Blossom Boss requests them. Gil tries to convince the warforged to stop working for an evil man and do the right thing. The warforged says that this is his current job and he’s just a freelance bodyguard. If Gil pays more, sure. 

- They agree to go see The Boss. Chip persuades the warforged to let him and Ollie go as an unrelated grandma. They ride within a telephone booth onto a private train. Chip and Gil lose their sense of direction on the train ride, but Jay resists and makes mental notes of the route. 

- They enter a huge mansion and find The Boss. He’s happy that they came willingly, but perplexed by the grandma. Grandma Chip offers him a caramel, but he’s diabetic, so he punches Chip in the face. Gil is enraged and tries to attack, but the warforged holds him back. Gil also doesn’t realize that the grandma is Chip. At The Boss’ command, the warforged named Alphonse heals Chip. 

- Blossom Boss says that he owns all the businesses that they caused a ruckus at, which cost him money. Gil takes this to mean that he’s the source of all the evil and they should fight him, but Chip realizes that he wants them to do something for him for compensation. Chip reveals that they’re going to steal from the king, so they can give him a cut. And Gil wants all the Blossom Boss’s future products to be ethically sourced. 

- This is in line with Blossom’s interests, but he needs something so he can trust them to honor a bargain. He says that Blossom and Chip will both cut off their pinkies and get them back at the end of the job. Chip wants Ollie to cut off his pinky, but Gil steps up and immediately does it. Chip drops the act to scream in pain. Gil realizes that it’s Chip now. Jay cauterizes his wound. 

- Blossom wants them to kill the king. Gil won’t unless the king deserves it. Blossom tries to convince Gil that the king is evil, what with letting people be in poverty and being bad at exporting strategies. Gil wants him to promise to put someone good in his place, and also use sustainable plastics. 

Riptide Episode 43 - City of Steam

- The party sees a paper boy being jostled by a bustling crowd. Gil thinks the boy is being attacked and forcibly takes him away. At first the boy freaks out but senses that Gil doesn’t want to hurt him. He wants to sell them a paper - the money is to help out his orphanage. Gil suggests that he should tell the people he’s trying to sell this.

Isaac: “Like, ‘One silver, all proceeds go to… nobody fucking cares about the slums, I dunno.”

Gil: “What do you mean nobody cares about the slums? I care about the slums!”

Isaac: “Well it’s down here for a reason.”

- Isaac explains that there’s the slums, and then on the second level of the city is a rich person area. Another boy steals Gil’s briefcase but he takes it back quickly. This boy is also stealing to get things for the orphanage. Chip asks why he doesn’t steal from the richer area, but the boy explains that he can’t even afford to enter. They let him go. Chip gives Isaac two gold for helping catch the other boy and he’s ecstatic. Chip wants to steal from the rich people.

Chip [excitedly]: Gil, you’re always talking about how you wanna help people and how you have to save them. Well these kids at the orphanage need saving. They need heroes to free them from the shackles of poverty. They need pirates!”

- Chip encourages Ollie to come along, saying this is his own adventure. Gil wants to overthrow the government. Chip gives Jay puppy dog eyes until she agrees to the heist. They go to the second level and Gil immediately senses evil from some of the shops. 

- They go to the post office, run by an evil old bird woman. Gil demands to know what she’s done. She admits she shits in people’s packages. Gil threatens her into changing her ways and adding gifts to packages instead. Chip asks how she drops off mail, and she tells him there’s a package-chute from the second to the first level. Chip says he’ll be back. 

- The next evil building is a brothel. Adultery is canonically evil now. Gil defenestrates all the people having sex while Jay and Chip walk away to mind their own business. Gil turns Jay into a half-crab. 

- The last evil building is a casino. Jay talks to a mysterious man who wants to catch the party (he doesn’t recognize her because she’s a crab) and says she’ll help him catch them. Chip sees Karina, a waitress from the Blue Royale Casino. Karina gives Ollie a mysterious flash drive which he gives to Chip. Karina wants to meet Ollie after this but Chip says no, and gives him The Talk.