#riptide recap

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Hello hi I have a question and I might just be dumb

When do we get to know that Edyn made a deal with Niklaus? It's not mentioned in ep 58 when they meet her. all we get then is the fact that she was saved by him. No mention of a deal and Edyn makes that clear. So plz help me cuz I am so confused

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Just Roll With It Recap

Riptide Episode 72 - No Fey Home

- They come across a lively carnival, called Kas’s carnival. Chip gets his shoes tied together and says he’s gonna kill whoever did that. Whoever did that will remember this. They frolic for a while being incredibly cheerful. The carnival ticketmaster says that they can enter a ticket pact. They’ll lose something that they won’t miss and won’t know what it is until it’s gone. 

- Gil takes a ticket, and now he has to greet all trees with reverence. Jay takes one and now loves unicorns. Filipe takes one and a pumpkin appears on his hand. Chip wants a ticket for free and apparently an anonymous person bought him one, so he gets it. Gil says hi to a tree and it talks back. Chip is unsettled and thinks his friends have gone crazy. 

- They see a carousel with live unicorns and Jay goes feral. She tries to skip the line but a centaur woman stops her. Chip asks her if this is the feywild; it is. He wants to find someone to help with their bird. If they talk to Northwest, she can help. Chip asks why she’s like this, and she reveals that she made a deal with a hag to find her lost horse. The hag fused her with her horse. Chip wants to help her. The centaur says that if they beat the unicorn’s game, they might be able to help. Many people in the carnival also have been affected by “this” (maybe hags, it’s vague). If she says any more she might be harmed.

- Gil wants to attack the unicorns, but then realizes that the game is actually solving idioms, not fighting. They solve the idioms and the unicorns tell them secrets. Jay has successfully fulfilled her fixation on unicorns so now she has to compliment everyone she meets. She tells Chip that he’s “alright”, which is, according to Chip, the nicest thing she’s ever said to him. Gil has a flower crown that he has to water, but he’s always wet. 

- The unicorn's secrets are that there are 3 hags that rule over the carnival, and if you’re not careful, they’ll take something from you. The hags have the power to turn the centaur into not a centaur. The entrance to their domain is somewhere in the carnival. One of them lives in a swamp, another in a hollowed out tree, and the last in a mountain top theater. Gil sniffs that the unicorn isn’t evil. 

- They go talk to Northwest, the dragonfly ride clerk. They’re an excitable treant who wants stories from the outside world. Chip tell her what the ocean is and that he used to have horrible nightmares. She says that sounds amazing. Gil tries to lay an egg. 

- Northwest says that she came from Prysmir. After it got taken over by hags and a swamp, the Archfey who ruled it said everyone should leave. The owner of the carnival was there for anyone who wanted refuge, dimension-hopping away from Prysmir. 

- One dragonfly, bearing a gnome on it’s back, flies out of control. Jay catches the gnome just as he falls off the dragonfly. The mood and music of the carnival accelerates to match her rescuing him. Chip and Filipe sing A Whole New World as they ride dragonflies together. Filipe wants to join the performers and get money, and Chip thinks that’s an awesome pirate thing to say. Filipe sings [hs musical song] but Chip hasn’t watched that movie and can’t sing along, so the mood of the carnival goes down. 

- Jay compliments the gnome she saved and he immediately falls in love with her. He runs off to get a ring and she runs away. Filipe has been alive for three days, but he insists he’s a man. 

- As they approach the hall of illusions, they see a halfling man propose to his girlfriend. Suddenly the girlfriend falls into uncontrollable laughter and the man runs off into the hall of illusions in embarrassment. Jay walks over and also starts laughing. Chip tries to get her to stop laughing by bringing up all her sad memories and she starts crying through her laughter.

- Gil runs after the halfling and sees a mime, who he doesn’t trust. Gil sees himself in an illusion mirror as a child. Child Gil wears armor that’s too big for him and is a bruised. As he continues, he sees himself aging up into his sixties. But he can’t find the halfling. 

- The uncontrollable laughter wears off and the man’s girlfriend is very worried for her boyfriend. Jay says she’ll marry her instead, but she’s spoken for. The mime mimes that he also wanted to propose once, but his voice was stolen from him and now he’s very sad. He punches their tickets and they go in. 

- They see child versions of themselves. Child Jay has a doll and nice clothes. Child Chip is malnourished and has long, unkempt hair. There’s a stark contrast between well taken care of and not at all. 

- Gil sees the halfling pulled into a mirror by a little girl in a pig mask. He tries to jump in after him but bounces off. Now in the mirror is a much older version of the halfling holding the girl’s hand. The other three come up and he tells them about it. Chip does not want to deal with this and wants to leave. Jay asks the girl if she wants to play, and pulls out the trap mirror. Jay and Gil feel stunned for a minute, then suddenly see the girl in the trap mirror. They blink, and she’s gone. Pretzel is now also gone. 

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Just Roll With It Recap

Riptide Episode 73 - Oath of Vengeance

- Chip and Felipe hang out. Felipe thinks The Millennium Chipper is the better name for the party’s ship than The Albatross. They walk up to the Memoraze and the clerk tells them that if they beat the maze they can talk to anyone, alive or dead. Felipe wants to talk to Ashley Tisdale and is shocked when Chip says he’s never seen high school musical.

- Gillion sees that Pretzel is gone from his tank and is immediately distraught. He tries to attack the mirror and it shatters, making the mood of the carnival go down. He laments that he fell for the candy-coated traps of the carnival, and vows to find who took her and take them apart. The glittering mist around him turns black. He puts on the dreadhelm.

Gillion: “I made an oath in the undersea to protect the creatures of it and to protect that world. But I didn’t protect a creature of it; my friend, my pet, Pretzel. And this Jay, isn’t my world. The plan is to turn my moisture to malice. My restraint into retribution. And by destiny into vengeance. And I will get my vengeance.”

- He is now an Oath of Vengeance Paladin. Gillion sees the mime and makes a mimed baseball bat to threaten him with it. A couple carnival hands come up asking them not to do violence, and lead them to Lost Items after hearing about the lost frogtopus. Jay pulls out a mimed gun and one carnival hand pisses his pants. 

- The first test in the Memoraze is making rhymes. Chip spits fire and they are allowed through. Chip aces the maze, dodging all the traps and tricks expertly. He admits to Felipe that he’s a bit nervous to talk to who he wants to talk to. The next test asks them to show their strength, so they flex and arm wrestle. Chip accidentally pops Felipe’s arm from his socket. 

- Gillion and Jay arrive at lost items, seeing a blue furred cat with butterfly wings playing with children. Gillion tells him that a child took his frogtopus, and the blue furred cat admits he had his cub stolen as well. The blue furred cat has a duty to protect these kids and can’t go find his cub. He says that the party should find Kas, but he is in his tent and can’t be seen before the Extravaganza. He tells them his cubs name (Star), and that it was taken by a girl in a pig mask. 

- Gillion disappears in a black mist. The blue furred cat reaches out to Jay. 

Dirlagraun: “Please find Star. I cannot forgive myself. If they ask, my name is Dirlagraun.”

Jay: “We won’t rest until we find Star, and Pretzel.”

- He says many of those who are supposedly protected by the carnival have had things stolen from them. Gil returns and asks why nothing has been done about this. Dirlagraun says that someone named Bingo who guards the staff area might know more. 

- Chip and Felipe walk into a room with a giant bird who asks them to guess how many feathers it has. 

Chip: “You want me to guess how many feathers you have? I mean, look, I’ll be completely honest. I’ve got a really important person to talk to, and I can’t really do that without your help right now. I don’t normally ask sincerely, but… I could use some help.”

- The bird starts crying and says it has 354 feathers, letting him go forward. Chip walks into a room with a clear lollipop.

- Jay and Gil walk into the staff area of the big top tent. They corner a pixie and a weasel, shouting at them to tell them where Pretzel is. The pixie starts crying out of fear. Gillion asks what the weasel is and the pixie says it’s name is Peanut Butter, which makes Gil turn from aggressive to incredibly upset because it reminds him of Pretzel. He explains that he’s looking for his stolen frogtopus. 

- The pixie explains that Kas won’t come out until after the Big Extravaganza. In one hour there’s a big performance, and after, Kas asks the crowd if they want to perform. If the party does a performance and does well, they’ll get his attention. Gillion disappears in a puff of smoke and Jay follows him. They decide to go find the best parts of the carnival to bring into their show.

- Chip steps up to the lollipop and thinks of the person he wants to speak with. The surface shows Edyn Tidestrider talking to a shadowed figure wearing a navy uniform. He gathers that the figure is feminine and very old. He starts talking to Edyn and she freezes up. The person whispers in her ear, and she turns and walks away. Without Edyn’s mouth moving, Chip hears:

Edyn: “Who is this and why are you in my head?”

- Chip says that it’s him, and that he wants to talk about a message he sent that he thought didn’t represent him. Edyn remembers him as Gillion’s friend. He says that he can see her and that she was talking to someone, asking who they were. She says she doesn’t know what he saw, but whatever it was, he can’t tell Gillion. 

Edyn: “I don’t have time to explain right now. Chip you have to promise me-”

Chip: “Edyn, that was Navy.”

Edyn: “Yes, that is what it looks like, but it is not- there is more to it, I do not have time. And I can’t be seen looking this worried.”

- Edyn says that she did get his message. She asks him again to promise not to tell anyone, and Chip responds that he already promised Gillion not to lie to him. He tries to ask why she was talking to a Navy soldier, but the mirror’s reflection fades away. He leaves the memoraze and runs into Jay and Gillion.

- Chip lies and says he talked to Ashley Tisdale. Gillion tells Chip and Felipe that Pretzel was stolen and that they have to do an improv show to get her back.  Chip takes Jay aside to “get some props” and asks her if this is the best way to help Gillion.

Jay: “Who would I be if I didn’t enable him in his time of need?”

Chip: “I dunno, like a good friend?”

- Chip tells her what happened with Edyn. He rambles about how he needed to show that the message he sent in episode 71 wasn’t representative of his character and Jay calls him a dweeb. Jay thinks the Navy soldier Edyn was talking to might be her aunt: Fay Ferin. She says that if they were going to tell Gillion, now isn’t the time. 

Chip: “What do I tell Gil? I just lied to him, I told him I wouldn’t lie to him.”

Jay: “Little white lies are sometimes okay.”

Chip: “Okay, but if he figures out- You said that. And you don’t white lie about white lying. And you’ll own that. And you’ll say that that was okay.”

- They pinky promise on this, though Jay tries to cross her fingers several times. Gillion thinks he’s eating a live gummybear man, but it’s not alive. He pinky promises with Felipe because everyone else is doing it, to throw down their lives for each other in their time of need.

- Felipe learns that they need pixie names to enter the Pixie Kingdom, one of the carnival attractions. Gillion’s pixie name is Springkill You. Chip’s is Chip n Dip. Jay’s is Jorts. Felipe’s is Doritos Locos Tacos. They all become tiny pixies. 

- They steal a flying pug named Winx and a pixie for their improv show. They all split up to find more props for it.  Gillion goes back to the pixie kingdom and tells them the same thing, and they turn him big again without holding a grudge. He heads to the Bubblepop Teapot and gets a bundle of leaves from a grumbling goblin. He enters the teapot and gets enveloped in a bubble that floats above the carnival. When he’s finally alone with his thoughts, he starts crying. 

- Jay goes to Lost Items and persuades Dirlagraun to give her a small keg that dispenses infinite apple juice. It’s giant to her, so she struggles to push it all the way back to the big top. Chip goes to pixie kingdom and gets turned normal, then goes to a tent called Deal or No Deal. A mysterious man guesses his name correctly, then offers him a Deck of Many Things, for a price. He shakes his hand, and the man says that that was the price. Chip takes the cards. 

- He then goes to the Hall of Illusions and hears a voice from inside, telling him he can come in. Inside he sees a man wearing distinguished showman attire. He reveals his name is Kas. Chip accuses him of taking Gillion’s frogtopus. 

Kas: “You know, my carnival is quite sad. And I gather it’s because of your friend. And you.”

- Kas assures him he hasn’t taken Pretzel, and Chip rolls insight to see that he’s genuinely concerned and kind. He offers them to meet him after the Big Extravaganza. Chip asks him who gave them free tickets, and he says he might have an inkling, then walks away. 

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Just Rolled With It Recap

Riptide Episode 1: Starting From Zero

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- A match is lit in a dark room. The light shines on the faces of Chip, Jay, and Gillion. They’re in the middle of a heist to steal from a navy outpost in the island of Zero, and have rigged the tower to explode with gunpowder. Chip gives Gillion a barrel of gunpowder to carry. Chip lights the fuse, runs out the door, and immediately crashes into a navy officer. 

Chip: “Oh man, that wasn’t the bathroom!”

Gillion: “No, it was the room where we lit all the explosives!”

- Chip runs away. Gillion looks at the navy soldier’s name tag and sees his name is John.

Gillion: “There is much evil in this world, Big J, and too long this crew has run rampant. Do not let yourself sink to the bottom of the depths along with this dark vessel. Join us.”

- Jay grabs Gil and runs away. The room explodes. The rest of the navy is alerted and start chasing after them. Chip steals some navy people’s food as he runs away. They jump out the window and run atop the roofs. Gil keeps shouting at John, trying to convert him to goodness. Chip and Gil fall off the roof onto the streets. Throughout the chase, they’re all throwing the barrel back and forth between each other.

- Gil asks why they’re fighting the navy in the first place. The DM, Grizzly, explains that they’ve been quartering people's houses, taking their resources, and being an oppressive presence in their lives. Chip, however, says “They’re the bad guys!”

- Gil keeps telling the soldiers what the party is about to do so they “have a fair advantage” He makes a wall and a half-pipe out of shape water. Chip crashes through someone's window. He accidentally grabs someone's baby and gives it to a random guy. He also pickpockets while running. A bluebird nests in Gil’s head-coral.

- Gil stops to give a speech to a crowd of townspeople

Gillion: “People of Zero, I am Gillion Tidestrider, and with my companions, Chip and Jay, we have toppled the tower of your oppressors… I’m sorry John. But the people must rise.”

- The people are inspired by Gillion. They riot against the soldiers. 

- They get to their ship, but John and one other soldier caught up to them. But John winks at Gillion and throws the other soldier into the sea. The party successfully escapes.

- They realize that they didn’t actually get any treasure out of this. They only have the gunpowder. A bluebird stayed along with Gil. Chip tries to convince Gil to feed it gunpowder, but Gil eats the gunpowder instead. 

- Chip tries to convince Gil to not explain the party's entire plan to the navy. Gil refuses. They do a keg stand together.