Episode 48 - Constipated Emotions

Episode Description
The Crew are getting ready to meet up with the pirates and they start exploring their relationships amongst each other. Emotional trauma ensues.

Summary
The episode begins in the tavern in the Sun village. Theran tries to convince Eric he's a doctor, by virtue of having reattached Z's leg. He announces it to the tavern, and Z uses the opportunity to sneak behind the bar for a drink. She gets caught, but Edmund gives her some Mentaru firewhiskey on the house. Theran and Eric go back to the ship. A female dragonborn whose daughter the crew saved hits on Rell, who is characteristically awkward, but manages to extricate himself. Theran, meanwhile, gives Eric a tour of the ship, highlighting Martle's underwear theft and his miraculous restoration of Z's leg. He tells Eric he can sleep in Zarial's room, which is still pink from when Juniper lived there, telling him it belonged to a former crewmate. The others return, and Zarial is very pleased to hear of Theran's prank. He walks in on Eric taking off his armor, though Eric is still mostly clothed. Eric walks off in a huff and Martle settles him into an actually empty room.

Martle tells Theran to grab a bottle of the elvish wine and come with her. She says she feels dead, that her only goal is to kill the Inquisition, and that the one time she found someone she connects to, the one time she tries to feel alive, he hates her. Theran tells her Eric doesn't hate her, because someone who hated her wouldn't drop everything and board her ship; he's just sulking. He also brings up the fact that with 10 years and a pirate fleet, Lelia never found the two of them, implying that she doesn't care about them as much because she wasn't really looking. Then he gives Martle the bottle and both glasses and sends her to Eric.

Z, meanwhile, did not return to the Torog, and instead is ranting to Edmund about Martle not returning her affections. He tries to give her some sound advice, but all Z walks away with is the idea that Martle won't date crewmates, and now that Eric has joined them, he's out of the picture datingwise.

Rell has been sitting in the cockpit. He has a flashback of his old deacon showing him constellations by the fire. He's an ancient elf with two cybernetic arms and a cybernetic eye. He tells Rell, who is ten years old, the legend of Arjuna, the god king, and the importance of oaths.

We go back to before Zarial returned to the ship, when he's selling the gold bars he stole from Iverson. He goes to a pawn shop and is offered 1500 credits per gold bar. He tries to grift the owner by asking for an additional 20,000 credits for the location of more gold, but is unsuccessful. He sells the three gold bars for 4500 credits. He asks about the helmet, and is told it belonged to a signet battle suite armor suit. On its own, it will help his aim and check his health status during battle.

Martle goes to see Eric and removes her elf disguise to reveal her tiefling appearance. She asks him if Theran's analysis is accurate. He says he doesn't hate her and he is happy to see her again, but he is angry with her for ruining his career. Not only was he fired, he's not allowed to run a business anywhere in Parliament. They drink some wine and olive brine and discuss the upcoming job. The episode ends with Martle reflecting that she might be emotionally constipated because her first family was drowned and her second murdered.

New Information

 * The Torog is very messy. Rell is supposedly the one who cleans, but "hasn't gotten around to it yet," and Martle cleans up after herself and only herself.
 * Z enjoys being yeeted, and interprets it as a sign of affection.
 * Rell's first name is Cirin. He was taken in by the order when he was a baby.
 * Olive boy carries around a thermos of olive brine.

Memorable Quotes
Eric: This is your room, isn't it. Zarial: Well, it could be our room.

Theran: The guy's emotionally constipated! Martle: Oh no, that makes two of us! Theran: That's why you should hang around him, dumbass.

Theran: He's sulking in the engine room because his feelers are hurt, but he's still here. He likes you a lot lot.

Martle: I don't like this! Theran: You're not supposed to!

Rebecca: Math is fake. Mitch: Numbers are hard, gimme a minute.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode Jason did the intros.
 * Zarial's new helmet gives him a +10 to hit once per day, and if he's below half his max hit points he can use a warlock spell slot to gain 10 temporary hit points one per day.
 * Theran got two of his five crewmates to yell his name infuriatedly.
 * This is the first episode with Rell's deacon.