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[thelingering]

:DDD!!!

Trueee! no clue where that came from, surely it must've been my imagination XDD

THE HEEE!!!! <3

ooOOoOo... rockstar empress... that's such a fantastic character on Grizzly's part, who would think to put a rockstar in little ol' Riptide? I certainly wouldn't lol-

FOR REALLL I love that that continues throughout the series XD Jay is The Fighter

Lollll XD I thinkkkk he just rolled a normal 1 for attack? cuz he was just tryna wake her up XD actually i'm pretty sure it was like performance or something loll

Yeahhh :c luckily Gillion and the Tidestriders cheered her up c: which actually led to i think it was satasha asking if they always give life advice to the villains they beat up loll XD (LOLL I love that idea sm, bring back the Good Cop, Bad Cop: But Gillion Is Angy- fantastic)

OHHHH YIPPEEE YOU'RE RIGHT :00 dprrrr band of all time fr (you're always excused on relevancy if it's a tie-in like that, I love it sm, you're right as well, it's such a good song :3)

YIPPIEE SONGG!!!!! Awww I love that lol, they really aren't :DD that sounds like a great post lol- do they write more songs for their guys later in the campaign :0? (GASPPP omigoodness I didn't consider that the song would be the foreshadowing you mentioned :00 I'm gonna be sure to go back and listen closer to the lyrics once I've finished that other fandom we mentioned :3)

:D! OK SO AK YOU SAID THIS AND I READ THIS and I had the thought: does the eastern sea have anything to do with niklaus?? 'cause the black ooze being his cause is immediately where my mind goes and then this entire time I had been thinking like, "oo more black ooze cool, that's like the oneshot c:" without ever making the connection to niklaus that you just brought up (loll)

Ok yay!!! I am toooo :0 I keep seeing something about a paramount tournament like 2 episodes further when I look at the episode list

:D! Ohhhh ooooo!!! Chip development!!!!! I'm even more excited :00 I gotta finish like. 20 minutes worth of episode 25 (i am but halfway through 😔 /silly) and then I'm at that episode eeee

Loll yeye :D ooOOoOo, that's good to hear, silly little bits that also advance the plot sounds like it must be really fun to watch lol- All very good points, I can definitely see that :0 I'm really excited to watch the next arc, I love what you've told me so far :> I really hope it's Liz that we get to meettt they started looking for her right after Loffinlot ^-^

yippie!! cya ladle too :3!

*cracks knuckles* alrighty! took a second longer than I anticipated, but here beith your thoughts :3

where did I last leave off... oh yes! they had just slid down the hill and were in the empress's castle :3 Gill had just left us off with the fantastic one-liner: "Ice to meet you"

hoo boy, let's hope my memory serves:

The empress then greeted them, and it was Chip RIGHTTT away with the negotiating lolll, and in a way that makes poor Gill need to cover his ears with his hands (aka chip was uuuhhh twisting the truth a tad bit XD)

EARL GETS FREED VERY IMPORTANT PART THAT I ALMOST FORGOT :DDDD we love earl <3

but anyways negotiating; during said negotiating chip tries to tell the empress that the albatrio actually know and work with niklaus, which sets off a very surprising prompt from the empress: she is ANGGYYYYY at niklaus, cuz he made it so she's a massive rockstar but her music turns people to stone D: at which point I started to feel kinda bad for her ngl-

and then the albatrio kinda can't figure out if it's her fault for turning the people of the island to stone, but they end up battling her nonetheless, which was kinda funny because Jay prePARED for that keyboard whip, and fired a deadeye arrow into it the instant it turned around

then they go to battle against the empress and the sisters (minus Aslana, thank goodness) :OO I think it was chip? who told Maria about the sisters' dad, which in turn made her pause for one turn, then turn to the trio's side on the next :DD unfortunately Satasha can't exactly read with no eyes (that was a funny little bit, Jay shoots the empress, turns a book open in front of someone with no eyes, then shoots the empress again), so she's unaffected by the whole book/dad thing

the battle continues, the empress gets absolutely destroyed (like she actually stood no chance somehow, the trio was landing every shot reallyyy well), and then jay is finally the one to take her out. via a literal punch. lolllll

she's knocked out now, and the sisters are freed :DDD and gill does a thing where he traps all but the empress's head in ice and then proceeds to try to wake her up, so they can ask her how to free the peeps

except he tries to wake her up by hitting her in the face with a book

and rolls a nat 1

poor gill lol

so chip eventually point gill in the right direction and they wake her up :0 and she's really sad :c like she just doesn't want to be alive at that moment :cc luckily the trio finally convince her (due to the good ol' good cop bad cop (which surprisingly was gill being the bad cop?? and chip being the good one???? actually that kinda makes sense 'cause chip would totally be the one trying to be good /pos)) to tell them the formula for the little elixir, which uh. involves two ingredients: her blood and a lil water flower :/

gill very promptly goes to fetch some flowers, while the rest of the trio (and earl we love earl) debate whether or not to draw the blood and end up killing her (and also Satasha calls John which was really awkward and Gill was furious the entire time lol)

THEN the empress breaks free :0000 and she just like. walks over to Maria and rips out her heart???? and then she gives the trio (and earl <3) their instruments back, and she has them play her a songgggggggggg!!!!! they start off with hot cross buns during which they only missed a couple dozen notes but then they make a songg!!!! :OOO I have been waiting for this episode with such intrigue lol, 'cause on the spreadsheet you mentioned that they make a song, but I couldn't tell if you meant that in rp they made a song, or if they actually did, though I was hoping for the latter :3 SAFE TO SAY THEY MADE A SONG LOL, that was fantastic, Gill not knowing half the lyrics he's singing XDD

and then the empress sits down, black ooze seeping from her eye sockets, and she became stone :ccc luckily! the heart was still beating :0 and so they were able to take the heart up, with the help of Aslana collecting water flowers and Maria flying Gill up (Gill was so normal holding the heart mhm yep yep I'm glad they gave it to him forrrr sure) up to the big bowl that's the source of all the water :DD and I cannot believe myself but I left off halfway through the episode. literally right when they put the heart and flowers into the bowl and gill stirred it with shape water (AND NOT POOR PRETZEL THAT POOR THING WAS THE BACKUP DDD:)

so yea :D! my thoughts so far, but I'll probably be back with another ask once I watch some more >:3 I hope to do that within the next two days, but even more hopefully today! and then they're back at sea woahhh :0 and a whole new arc is about to start :000 I think you were right when you said that this arc felt a little long, I'm not sure why it did but it just felt that way lol /lh

alrightyy!! thanks for letting me ramble to you, and I will most certainly be back soon :DD actually I have yet to watch your ramble, so that'll probably be an ask in your lovely ask box soon!!

I hope you're having a great day, I'll see you around :DD!!! <33

yippieee!!!

Whattttt what are you talking about! Chip has never lied in his life ever XD

EARL!!!!! <3

Ohhh, I forgot that they go for that angle- yeah no she’s a literal rockstar lol

Jay absolutely carries in battles and it’s incredible

Nooo rip Gill XD did he use his prophetic thingy and then roll the one or just normal attack?

Aww, poor Stella :c (LOL they should do that bit again later in the campaign, it would be so funny… that’s incredible)

*dirt poor robins voice* IT TORE YOUR HEART OUTTT (not all that relevant but it’s one of their more upbeat songs :3)

YESSS HOLE IN YOUR HEART!!!!! Theres a cute post about this I have saved but the jrwi gang is not afraid to write silly little songs for the guys :DD (this one also ended up being foreshadowing kinda :333)

yea! wow crazy that there’s two characters now that have had that black ooze once their arc is over… wonder why that happens….. (pfft oh no)

You’re all good dude!!! I’m excited for you to get to the next arc though :0

yes yes! :O WAIT this next bit at sea is a chip character development kinda!!! I suppose it gets rather erased later on but like still a whole thing for him heheheee

Lol glad you agreed with me- later on they get a bit better at having their silly bits actually advance the plot or characters, but for this first bit it feels a bit unfocused? Probably a side effect of the main story not having much connection to the pcs actually 🤔 Worry not though, the next arc has someone veryyy relevant to some character backstory :33

yippie!! cya ladle! :D