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JRWI Riptide Ep 111 spoilers
the prophetic hero
My TV comes with a bunch of super niche specific channels but we always have it defaulted to the Bob Ross channel and I will regularly just walk in on my family all mesmerized watching Bob Ross instead of what they meant to watch, it’s great
Barking rn, I love seeing Elena art, a rare treat
you’re driving me wild
photo this is based on
JRWI-tober Day 9 - Apotheosis
i have not actually listened to any of Apoth except for that very specific Angelstone supercut i giggled at for an hour straight but i feel like these are the vibes
Listening to the new riptide in a winery in Spain, the grind never stops
One thing about me is if I see you have a clear phone case I will convince you to put a Pokémon card in the back of it. I will tell you how much swaggier cooler it will make you, I will let you pick a card from my pile of extras. Whatever it fucking takes dawg
Thanatos drawing I did with my trajcpad while drhnk
These are from my catch-up on Riptide from like a month ago, I’m still soo attached to goobleck I miss him very much
+ More recent Ollie and Alphonze :3
November has left me so little time for art and I’m so excited for it to be over so I can draw more cool stuff!.!!
making pacts with the girlies! do you think niklaus would enjoy the tale of tantalus
The time has finally come, @girlsonlytreehouse !!!
Today I shall share with you the fruits of my work. But first, allow me to take you on a journey I myself have been through while counting all of this shit down.
First things first, I decided to count the rolls in the context of the characters rather than the people playing them, simply because the luck of the actual people could not be measured accurately if I only take Riptide into consideration (and also I thought it would be more fun). The guys have several different campaigns, some that I do not have access to, so I've decided to seperate all their Riptide rolls into characters they play instead, cause then we can clearly see which character is the luckiest. But ofc if you want this to be attributed differently, the data remains unchanged, so that way you all can interpret the results however you wanted and still have all the info you need on hand.
Another issue were the advantage/disadvantage rolls. When a character rolls at advantage, they roll twice and the only roll that counts is the one that was higher, while the other is discarded and the opposite goes for disadvantage. So for example if you roll at Disadvantage and you roll a nat 20 and a 2, that nat 20 technically doesn't matter. Despite that I decided to count each adv/disadv roll anyway, because despite the fact that it does not count, it was still physically ROLLED, which means it contributes to the character's overall pool of luck. I tried to separate them at first so you guys can make your own decision whether to add them or not, but in the end I decided against it cause it was insanely hard to keep up with. There were just too many and too often, which led me to believe that it was fair enough to count everything as long as they actually rolled a dice.
Which brings me to the last complication, which is of course Gillion's Prophetic Screwup. At the beginning of the campaign Gillion was able to exchange anything that he actually rolled into a nat 20, and in return the DM can change any roll he does afterwards into a nat 1. That way there was supposed to be an equal number of wild unrolled nat 20's and nat 1's to balance Gillion out back to 0, but it didn't turn out this way. In more cases than not, Grizzly would either forget or fail to find a good place to screw Gillion over, so the ability bacame much too unbalanced. So they changed it somwhere in the middle of Edison Kingdom Arc. From then on, if Gill rolled anything from 1-10 it would automatically become a nat 1, and if he rolled from 11-20, that'd be a nat 20 instead. Either way these rolls had nothing to do with luck, as he wasn't actually rolling anything, thus I decided not to count these 'artificial' nat 20's/1's. However I did keep track of them nonetheless and I'll still give you the number of those, just separately, and from then on you guys can make your own decision on whether or not you wish to count it.
OOOFFF ALRIGHT.
Without further ado, here are the nat 20's results (up to ep106):
Gillion: 52
Chip: 58
Jay: 55
Goobleck: 8
Surprised? Yeah I was as well. First things first I never expected this to be this close. And never in my right mind could I possibly predict that it would he CHIP of all people to have the highest score here. But I've seen it with my own eyes. And tell you what. Jay had this in the bag for most of the damn series. She would consistently roll good and always when you need a good roll the most. There were times when she would have such a massive lead it was unthinkable she could loose it. But then she would just kinda...stop rolling good for a bit and allow the other two to catch up. It just wasn't as visble if you don't pay much attention, but I thought it to be cute. It's as she was waiting for them <3 But she was still mostly leading. It was only the current arc that made Chip surpass her. After his terrible luck in Feywilde, he bounced back so strongly right after, that he managed to jump in front of the luck queen herself.
And now I bet you're curious about the other side of the coin. Give it up for natural 1's!:
Gillion: 55
Chip: 53
Jay: 52
Goobleck: 1
You see, I kind of expected it to be Gill, but I need you guys to know that this wasn't the case at all times. Jay? Yes. If there is one thing that's consistent is that she had the lowest amount of natural 1s at all times almost, but the person that was suffering from nat 1 curse for a long while was Chip. In the Feywilde Arc he would be so far ahead of everyone, that I was genuinely sure that there is no way anyone catches up to him. But then he popped off in the next arc with nat 20's and Gillion? Oh my gosh, Gillion didn't disappoint. I've never seen a man fail this much let me tell you XD He ended up with the least nat 20's as well, but I thought the difference would be much higher until he didn't roll 4 fucking nat 20s in ep 100 and then this double nat 20 attack roll in the Black Sea whduihdius AND HE CAUGHT UP AS WELL, more or less.
Idunno, maybe this is just how luck works, but it truly seems that the trio shares their successes and burdens almost equally. They support each other and in return fate has their backs as well. Honestly I couldn't have hoped for better results. Also can we give shout out to Goobleck, the true MVP? He's been on the show only for a while but look at this nat1 - nat20 ratio!!! Go goop man goo!!!
So now for the additional stuff that I also counted just for fun:
*Prophethic screwup nats:
Before the rules changed Gillion replaced 8 of his rolls into natural 20s, and in return Grizzly replaced 3 of his rolls into natural 1s.
After the rules changed he only got high enough number for 4 nat 20s, and a low enough number for 7 nat 1s.
So that together makes additional 12 nat 20s and 10 nat 1s from the prophetic screwup alone. I don't think they should be added, but the numbers are there so feel free to do whatever you want with them :)
Downs and death saves:
Throughout the campaign Gillion went down 14 times and rolled 8 death saves.
Chip went down 6 times and rolled 4 death saves.
Jay went down 4 times and rolled 3 death saves.
No shocker here, Gillion dies a lot XD
Knights:
In their journey Gillion knighted 4 people: Julien Booker, Clorton, Garrieth and Duke.
Corruption score:
Thus far each character has the following amount of corruption points (Black Sea):
Gillion: 0
Chip: 2
Jay: 3
Queen: 1
Gryffon: 2 (i think, unsure abt that one, may edit later XD)
Earl: 1
That is all I have for now. I may be clinically insane :)
Good day to everyone and I hope you found this data interesting. Take care <3
People always say they ‘watch’ jrwi, am I the only bitch who listens to this podcast.
la alma could easily bench press clorten and he would break in half like a stick
i’ve been meaning to rewatch riptide to check but i’m wondering if you noticed, did chip or gillion have the curse from Kuba Kenta longer? i assume gillion from how bad it got but i was wondering if you knew
ooh, hmm i wasn't keeping track of it, but i think chip actually had it for longer? like, he started having nightmares after they left all-port, and then they sailed for a while to grim's island, and then they spent a couple days there, and then they went to liquidos which also took a while i imagine, and by the time they got to the church chip was still walking by himself and feeling more or so fine. with gillion they only really went from all-port to canella with a brief electrodon stop, and after one day in zero gillion was super fucked up already.
i think what might've made the difference was the fact that chip slept more, willingly or not, and managed to not get nightmares a couple times? whereas gillion just straight up didn't sleep and when he did it got very bad very quickly? like, if i remember correctly chip had two nightmares: the burning and the drowning, and gill had three: with edyn, cabin and price, and after the third one he was done. i think? might be wrong tho.
maybe the trip to zero somehow took longer than the entire chip saving operation. i think they said at some point that canella was pretty far from all-port. but i would assume that liquidos is also pretty far? and its not like gillion was more cursed, they both got scratched twice...
maybe chip is just built different, idk
This is my fav canon trans Gil evidence
WHY, for the love of god, is charlie just hammering home the fact that gillion tidestrider can lay fucking eggs
why is he like this 😭
variations of slimecicle (Happy birthday to the gunky man himself!)
Live, laugh, love Kian Stone
Jay x literally any woman in the campaign on my mind rn
they've evolved <3 crazy what 4 months on a boat with a bunch of idiots can do to a person
the code monster has the opportunity to do THE most fucked up thing
I cannot stop thinking about how perfect Grizzly’s current hair would be for a Rumi cosplay, like please cosplay Rumi Grizzly, it would be so good, the apotheosis fans would go feral
finished this old drawing I did of Jay from Grimm's party. It's a very weird amalgamation of traditional and digital.
I've always struggled immensely with digital art, but I've been giving it a shot again and trying to color some drawings digitally, so here's a riptide drawing I did for practice.