Episode 38: Forged Faith

"Forged Faith" is the thirty-eighth episode of One Piece D&D by Rustage. In this episode the Crew defeat some massive robots, tell some impressive lies, save a friend from hell, heedlessly use sex appeal, and meet a surprising new family member!

This episode was first streamed on Rustage's Twitch, and the VOD can be found here! It was later uploaded to Rustage's second YouTube Channel, which can be found here! As well as being posted as a Podcast, which can be found here!

The Summary for this episode can be found here! This consists of a summary of the episode, a TL:DR for the episode, the story impact of the episode, characters in the episode and quotes of the episode.

Summary
WIP

Story Impact
Here are the main parts of this episode that have an overall impact on the ongoing story.


 * The Crew defeats four massive robots and infiltrate the Aeons
 * Trevor is rescued
 * V Jr. is revealed

The Crew

 * William
 * Verona
 * Duros
 * Ragnar
 * Pearl
 * Gravy
 * Louis Le'Cloque
 * Cyril
 * Lyssa

New Characters

 * Two Robots
 * Five Aeon Cultists
 * Jeremiah
 * Jam
 * V Jr.
 * Penny

Mentioned

 * Nathanial

Returning Characters

 * Trevor
 * Robot Hastings
 * Face Shifting Robots

Mentioned

 * Bio-Arzen
 * Na'nuut
 * The AllMother

Quotes

 * “ I have been programmed to feel pain.” - Healie to Verona after he healed him.
 * “I recognise you now! You were on guard duty. Nathaniel, right?” - Jeremia the cult member to William after he used his Panache on him.
 * ”Oh, mommy!” - Jam’s last words.
 * ”Ah, I’m in hell again.” - Trevor when he sees the Crew has come to rescue him.
 * ”I think God hates me!” - Trevor thinking back at all the times he was saved by the Crew.
 * ”Maybe one of my cuts closed up, but I think hearing this one talk is gonna open up the rest of my wounds!” - Trevor to Verona about William.
 * ”Sorry about this, but I am gonna stab you in the face now.” - William to Pearl as he is about to attack the spider robot with her face.
 * ”Louis I want you to take your sword and your French pride and stab that giant spider in the face.” - William to Louis about attacking the spire robot
 * ”Don’t worry guys, I am sure after we stopped the big one the other constructs will just stop what they are doing and blow themselves up...Shit, they are not doing that!” - William after the Crew defeats Robot Hastings.
 * ”Pearl, breath on my sword! It’s gonna be so cool!” - William to Pearl about doing a combined attack.
 * ”I can only stab it once every six seconds! You know the rules, Duros!” - William to Duros after he tells him to protect Pearl.
 * ”I believe in you, Jam!” - William to Jam as they are talking.
 * ”That’s the second thing we are gonna do here...after...you say thank you!” - William to Trevor after the Crew rescued him.
 * “I can just persuade my way into this place apparently!” - William about navigating the Aeons base.
 * ”Good job Cyril...oh, he is down!” - Duros to Cyril after he deals the finishing blow on Robot Hastings.
 * ”How dare you, you son of a gun!” - Duros to one of the spider robots.
 * ”There is gonna to be something that our Captain cannot seduce!” - Duros to Verona as he suggests William seduces his way through the Aeons base.
 * “Howdy y’all, I’m the Rifle of Injustice! Every time you animate me I get a different personality, and it gets slightly more American!” - Rifle of Injustice after Verona animates it the second time.
 * “It feels great to be American! God bless USA! I love the president, I don’t care who it is, I love them!” - Rifle of Injustice
 * ”We got this far out of William’s pheromones and sex appeal. What if we just keep doing that?” - Verona to the Crew while they discuss what they are gonna do after rescuing Trevor.
 * ”Does he experiment on pregnant women or children?” - Verona to Trevor about V’s assistant.
 * ”Everything my grandfather has put his hands on should not exist in this world.” - Verona to the Crew about V’s assistant.
 * ”Look what you did to Pearl! Oh, wait, Pearl is over there!” - Ragnar to William after he attacks the spider robot with Pearl’s face.
 * ”Who knew throwing metal at metal would work so well!” - Ragnar after throwing his javelins at Robot Hastings.
 * ”Boys, what would happen if we just camped here and did a little short rest? That would be a pretty big flex!” - Ragnar to the Crew after they defeated all the robots.
 * ”I just have my sword and my French pride!” - Louis about what he can do without his Devil Fruit.