Episode 4: The Gravy Boat

"The Gravy Boat" is the Fourth Episode of the One Piece DnD Streams by Rustage, in this episode we watch as the crew recruits Gravy, meet Atom again, learn some of his backstory and then hire him, gamble for and eat a devil fruit in a casino under a bakery and finally begin confronting the Steam Pipe Pirates who Ragnar was looking for.

This episode was first streamed on Rustages Twitch, the VOD can be found here! It was later uploaded to Rustages Second Youtube Channel once edited, 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.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

TL:DR
In this Episode the Crew meet and invite a Navy Cook onto their Crew, his name is Gravy, they loot the marine ship he was on and head towards Krendor, where they land and then encounter Atom's ship and find out he is quite poor, William and Verona end up pissing on his bed anyway before heading into the town on Krendor. They enter the town and find a Saloon, in which they discover Atom, after assaulting him due to the events of Episode 3, they discover that Atom is actually in search of money to pay his hospitalized sisters medical bills and realizing his skills are useful for Pearl wanting to break her Brother out of Prison and to help Ragnar get revenge on the Steam Pipe Pirates, they decide to hire him temporarily. Atom then leads the crew to a casino under a bakery, in which they meet a women named Bullet, Bullet requests they gamble for the information on the Steam Pipe Pirates, if they win they get the info, but if she wins she gets Ragnar. William agrees and they play, as they play the stakes are risen by Bullet offering a Devil Fruit for Williams entire Crew, which William agrees to but ends up cheating his way into winning. This wins William a Devil Fruit and all the information he wants, after questioning Bullet the Crew gain the location of the Steam Pipe Pirates and head towards their location, William eating the Devil Fruit and finding out it is the Roulette Roulette no Mi soon after they leave the Bakery. The Group travel through the desert and eventually reach a Cave which is the hideout of the Steam Pipe Pirates, Ragnar ends up killing a sleeping guard in front and the group head down into the cave, discovering a room with various wooden houses and steam pipes at the end of some carved steps in this cave, finding various pirates and a blonde haired pirate who seems to be a High Ranking Steam Pipe Pirate, they confront this man about the location of the Captain and he informs them the Captain is not there right now, telling them to get that info they will have to take it off his body, causing Ragnar to turn into his Bear Form as the blonde haired mans mechanical arm charges with what appears to be lightning.

Summary
This episode starts off where Episode 3 ended, with Verona shooting Lt Hubris after him and Ragnar questioned him. William and Ragnar are searching around in the marine ship, they find various weapons but nothing better than they currently have. They continue searching and eventually enter the kitchen, there they find a plump man chopping some onions, humming happily to himself. Duros friendly greets the man and waits for the food to be finished cooking after the man tells him it will be done soon, Duros finds out he is making some stew for them. Duros informs the man that they have taken over the, the man isn't bothered by this saying that as long as someone eats his food he is happy to make food for them.

After Verona kills Lt Hubris, Ragnar begins to smell the stew the man is making and tells Verona about it, leading him down into the ship to find the source of the delicious smell. Verona and Ragnar enter to find Duros and the man who is this ships cook, greeting him fondly. While William finds maps of locations of the marine ships posted to collect tolls before he heads towards the kitchen. William discovers the rest of his crew waiting for food and greets the man, realizing he's a middle aged man with a bald spot in the middle of his head, messy brown hair around this bald spot and plump lovable cheeks.

As they all sit down Pearl enters the kitchen and questions is happening there, the crew explaining its a post battle meal. The Crew and the man discuss food, Ragnar telling the man his name before the man says that his name is Gravy. William then asks Gravy if he knows that all the other people on the ship are dead, and Duros tells William that he told him already. Gravy is saddened by this, saying that he didn't know they were dead, Ragnar says that they attacked them as well so its okay they killed them which Gravy agrees with.

William then explains that they were planning on burning the ship after looting it so it was lucky that they found Gravy, which he agrees to as well. William then tells the crew that they need a cook, Verona agrees they need a cook but reminds the Crew that Gravy is a marine, William asks Gravy if this is so and he says that he's just a cook for the navy that he was just hired and has worked in a variety of places before because people enjoy his cooking. Pearl brings up the point that he might not be with the marines but he might be some type of spy. William taking this into account decide to take him along anyway as he seems friendly and non threatening.

After they finish speaking Gravy comes along and hands them each a bowl of stew, William places his gun down on the table and requests Gravy try this, referring to the food which Gravy does not realize and proceeds to pick up his gun questioning how he would try it. William pushes the bowl of stew towards Gravy, telling him he meant this, Gravy puts the flintlock down and proceeds to apologize and eats the entire bowl of stew. The Crew proceed to eat the stew, loving Gravy's food, during this Verona informs William of Captain Marrows Location.

Pearl downs all the stew fast, talking about how watching people die makes her hungry. Gravy starts making another bowl of stew and proceeds to tell the Crew they will bring Gravy along with them, placing him on a 'trail' until he properly joins the crew. Ragnar suggests getting Gravy to draw them a Jolly Roger as they still need one. William goes over to Gravy and welcomes him to the crew, flipping his gun around to impress which really impresses Gravy. Gravy goes along with them, and learns Williams name, saying he'd rather join then and not die.

Ragnar then questions if Gravy can draw, and he tells them he can't, saying he only learnt to cook to get rid of his crippling loneliness. Here Gravy finds out they are pirates, no minding and saying that he used to be a cook for a bunch of casino owners. Gravy continues cooking and brings his stuff on board. On the way out the Crew loot Lt Hubris's body, William takes the wanted poster of him and Pearl, Duros takes the rest of the stuff off his body which are a bunch of axes and his lieutenant uniform. William also grabs a bunch of Navy outfits from the boat to be used for later. They also take stock and know they found 10 medkits (healing potions).

Verona asks Pearl to light this candle, referring to the ship, slowly she breathes fire on it and it burns to the ground. William mocks the ship before the Crew set off towards Krendor continuing to try and get supplies. William during this time places his wanted poster in his room and Ragnar remembers that Eustass Valve attacked that underground Village so he must he somewhere nearby. Pearl goes on about how her father, the king of the Tarako Kingdom is a horrible person who owns slaves and treats his citizens poorly. She also talks about her brother who got imprisoned for starting an uprising in the Tarako Kingdom and that is what allowed her to run away, so if they ever get the chance and go back there, she'd like to break him out of prison.

Verona suggest they could also get a Jolly Roger made at Krendor. William pulls out the maps of all the Navy Blockades nearby, finding out Lt Hubris and his group were the only one assigned to Krendor and since he is dead there is no other marines nearby there. The Crew finds out there are marines who ferry people from Lima Island to Miller Island. There is nothing other to note other than Captain Marrow heading back to the Tarako Kingdom.

The Crew continue to sail towards Krendor, as they approach they notice a small little town, it gives off a wild west town, its dusty and sandy, not like a desert and has a variety of of western styled buildings scattered across this small town near the port, the Crew decide to sail around the island a little bit, noticing another ship docked on the side of the island. It is a small ship but its covered in little bomb statues, it has a purple paint job. William brings up this might be Atoms ship and so the Crew decides to steal from it, they place the Yogi Pooh next to his ship and board.

William and Verona sneak onto Atoms ship and Atom is nowhere to be found, there is almost nothing on the ship, seems like he keeps most of his explosives on him at all times, he doesn't seem to have almost any material possessions and his food supply is very low. William notes on how his ship isn't as impressive, telling Verona that he can pick locks and goes to pick Atoms small treasure chest and inside is only a couple hundred belly, almost no money at all. Noting about how sad it is, William and Verona still piss on his bed to insult him before leaving his ship and leaving his money.

William goes back to the crew, telling them he wets his bed and that he had almost no money, Duros compliments him on doing the right thing by not taking his money. From here the Crew and Gravy go into the town the Crew say originally, Pearl putting up her cloak. The Crew walks into the town, there are not many people in the streets, there are a variety of houses and shops and a Saloon with the words Saloon on it. However this does not seem like a well off town, the Crew enter the Saloon.

Behind the bar is a busty bar maid, who welcomes the Crew inside, and as they walk in they notice Atom sitting off in the corner, his legs on the able, a drink on the table and a cigarette in his mouth, as the Crew walks in he curses to himself. Duros throws a hand axe at Atom almost immediately, the axe just hitting Atom in the side of the arm, causing him to tell Duros to calm down. The Bar Tender requests no fighting in the bar as a bunch of other people panic and begin fleeing the bar, Atom asks the Crew if he can explain himself, requesting they let him talk and don't try to fight him again. William requests a bottle of whisky so that they can have a civil conversation with Atom.

Atom tells them to keep Pearl away from him, not wanting to deal with her again, clearly scared as he calls her a monster. He tells them that hes afraid of Pearls powers, the Crew threaten him that if he talks any more shit about Pearl they will hurt him, Atom says that Pearl will be bad luck on his crew and William pulls out his bounty poster which he has added a couple extra zeros to, showing it to Atom who notices immediately and Atom says that he is lucky Pearl is on his crew, otherwise he would've been his next target, causing William to shoot him in the shoulder.

Atom begins to explain himself about how he just needed money, telling them that he doesn't care about them their own history, that he is only money driven. He continues to explain himself, hoping they won't kill him, he explains to them that his sister is in hospital and he needs money for her surgery, telling them he could live a good life if it wasn't for that but that's why he wanted their bounties. William knows that he isn't lying, appearing as if he's being honest and seeing that he looks like he's annoyed he has to tell them this, explaining that it really wasn't anything to do with them. Atom explains he didn't want to kill Pearl, only take her back unconscious, saying he didn't expect her to turn into a dragon, which the Crew also agrees they did not expect.

William gets up and holds Atom down while the rest of the Crew discusses what to do with Atom, William deciding to leave it up to Pearl, Pearl says that she doesn't remember the events well, telling them he could be useful, not for him joining the Crew but he could be used for something. The Crew walks over to Atom and tell him that they aren't gonna kill him but they are gonna punch him in the face, Duros punches him and then William asks Atom where his sister is, finding out she is on the island in an unconscious state right now.

Atom says that he isn't looking for their help and that he'd be willing to do anything, so that they, specifically Pearl, won't do anything to him. Ragnar brings up the idea of hiring Atom for the upcoming battle with Marrow and the King of Tarako Kingdom, Pearl also brings up the idea of getting Atom to break out Pearls brother. William suggests this to Atom and he agrees, agreeing that the Crew gives him one punch in the face each before they are all even. Gravy goes first, lightly touching his face, Verona quickly punches him in the face and William says he is saving his punch for later, while Pearl jumps up and spin kicks him in the face.

William then tells Pearl she is the MAD G of the Crew, the Martial Artist Dragon Girl, an unusual position but a position nonetheless, we also find out Pearl can rap somewhat. The Crew then ask Atom if he knows about the pirates Ragnar is after, Atom says they are the Steam Pipe pirates and he knows some place where they would have information on them. Atom tells the crew about a casino where they gamble for information, telling them to head to the Bakery and talk to the Bun Man, Atom says he can help them get in if needed.

Ragnar with his improved sense of smell guides the Crew to the Bakery, they enter a nice small Bakery and a jolly man welcomes them inside and asking if they would like any buns, he has a large white beard and woolen clothes. Atom walks up and asks for Meat instead, the man laughs and says of course before leading the Crew to a door at the back of the Bakery, opening it and leading them inside. William also buys a toasty nice bun for everyone accept Atom, Gravy giving Atom half of his bun.

As the Crew goes through this door they follow the Bun Man as he walks down some stairs, hearing faint music in the distance as William brings up the fact that the baker seems like he has killed someone before and Atom confirms that he has, saying he's seen him do it. The Bun Man opens the door for the crew and inside is a dingy looking place, there are a few wooden tables, a bar in one corner and a paino in another, it has quite dim lighting and there are various people about playing different games. Ragnar requests Atom to guide him towards a woman sitting in the corner, she has dark black hair in a pixie cut with a single earring hanging from one ear, on her face is a scar that runs across her nose, she has four guns strapped to her thighs, a pair of boots and black gloves.

The Crew can see her playing with some cards in her hands and they watch as she seems to collect weapons from a man in front of her, as if she had just won a gamble of some kind. Ragnar walks up to her table and stamps the Steam Pipe Pirates flag down onto the table, Ragnar tells her he is looking for information, they greet one another and she says that they can play a round of cards for that information, William requests he takes Ragnars place for that information. The woman questions what type of Captain he is after William introduces himself as Captain William, William pulls out his wanted poster again saying he doesn't want to brag as he shows it to her.

She says she used to do some jobs for them back in the day, saying she knows where they are located and due to her liking Ragnar she offers that if they win they get info on the Steam Pipe Pirates and if she wins she gets to take Ragnar, Verona turns and asks if she wouldn't want this plump man instead, referring to Gravy, who is recognized by this woman which causes Gravy to tell the Crew that this was the casino he previously worked for. The Two begin chatting, where Gravy says her name is Bullet.

After this William makes sure that Ragnar understands what is at stake with this gamble which he does joking about worst case scenario Ragnar having to kill her. William and Bullet then play some type of card game, William cheating in the middle of the game swaps some cards into his hands, easy taking the cards to help him win. In the middle of the game Bullet says she wants to raise the stakes, saying that he has a lot of other strong looking crew-mates she'd be interested in, William says that he isn't gonna gamble his entire crew but then Bullet pulls out a small little box and opens it up, inside is a small cherry devil fruit covered in question marks.

Bullet asks again to up the wager and William does but also requests she raises it for him, saying that if he wins they get all the information they want, which Bullet agrees to as well. William now having managed to cheat without her noticing shows his cards, revealing that he has won, surprised that she lost, annoyed she says a deals a deal and slides over the devil fruit, which appears to have a roulette wheel like pattern across it. Ragnar asks bullet where Valve is, saying that Valve is on the island, that deep in the desert is a cave where their base is, saying that they stay on this island because everyone isn't that great off and that they don't know about the casino so they think there is nothing to steal. Ragnar gets irritated upon finding out they are on the island saying that he is heading there right now, Bullet marks the location on their map.

William then questions about the Tarako Kingdom before going after Ragnar, she tells them about how she sells slaves to the Tarako Kingdom to make a lot of money, Duros requests not to bring up any information here. William then asks about Marrow, talking about how when she goes to Tarako Kingdom, Marrow always wants to attack her ship but once she arrives in Tarako Kingdom he stops coming after her, she informs them hes quite a dangerous person and William agrees, telling Bullet they came across an associate of his a few days ago.

Turns out Bullet hated Hubris and wanted him dead, not being able to kill him due to Captain Marrow, William claims he killed him but forgets Verona actually killed him. William starts taking a liking to Bullet here, forgetting the slave part for a minute before remembering it. Atom then tells the Crew that this is why getting money is so hard for him, everything involves immoral actions so its hard for him to make a lot of money without doing something immoral. William asks about the Devil Fruit, Bullet saying she knows nothing about the devil fruit.

Leaving the Casino the Crew head out of the Bakery, thanking the Bun Man for his buns and once they are outside of town William pulls out the Devil Fruit and begins talking about how they used to say they were rare but they've found so many recently, Atom says its luck and that not just any pirate crew would so easily come across so many Devil Fruits. Atom talks about how he has seen that devil fruit before and that he never thought anyone would beat her. Before William goes to eat the fruit, Verona speaks up and talks about how there is a man he seeks to kill, talking about how he isn't strong enough to kill this guy yet and how a devil fruit would increase his chances of getting the strength to kill this man but despite that he has realized that with strong friends to support him they can all take this man down together, saying that he doesn't mind who eats the fruit in that case.

William says he agrees with Verona, but he has a crew with a Bear and a Dragon and he only has a gun, Pearl also says that William won the Devil Fruit and Verona says that he did tell himself he'd never eat a devil fruit. So William as the Captain says he should be as strong as the rest of his crew, and that if they find another devil fruit, since they seem to be finding a lot lately, Verona can have that but he is gonna eat this one, William saying that they will take care of everyone business in due time, before eating the Devil Fruit, finding out it is the Roulette Roulette no Mi, a devil fruit giving William the ability of all devil fruits, this allows him to create a roulette wheel on his body which he can spin per day to gain a random devil fruit ability for a couple minutes at a time, although William almost throws up once eating it due to its disgusting taste.

William then explains the Devil Fruit to his Crew, saying that he thinks he just got every single devil fruit ability in one. Verona notes that with that Devil Fruit he could become King of the Pirates, William says he isn't interested in that and that he couldn't live up to Roger anyway, saying that its setting the bar to high, instead he says he'll become King of the Gamblers and work his way up from there. Then the Crew decides to head towards the Cave Base of the Steam Pipe Pirates. They walk across the desert with Gravy carrying the supplies, the huge party of 7 people walking through the desert for about a day or so.

Eventually as they get closer Ragnar smells gunpowder, shouting about how they are close before shooting off and following the smell to a cave, it is about evening now and sitting in front of the cave is a pirate asleep, he has his eyes closed and is sleeping. Ragnar runs straight up, swinging his great-axe and slices the pirates head clean off, killing him in his sleep. William manages to run up right as Ragnar kills the pirate, telling him they should be more stealthy which Ragnar agrees to as he has some questions to ask them.

The rest of the Crew then come up behind William, learning that Gravy was beat up as a kid and has almost no combat experience, so William requests he stay outside of the Cave and Gravy agrees, pulling out a foldout table and beginning to cook some lettuce, saying he will make a salad for when they return. William tells him if they are not back in 10 hours or so he may leave, and so the Crew enter the Cave, just wandering down these stairs until they enter a room with various wooden houses and steam pipes covering the walls and buildings.

Inside there are no many pirates, but they are all wearing a steampunk like pirate uniform and up stands one of the pirates who was just eating, he has spiky blonde hair and sharp eyebrows. He has very pointed features and his whole right arm is mechanical. The man questions why they are here and Ragnar calls out that they want to meet the Captain. The man tells them that he isn't here right now and asks if they are there for work or does he have to take care of them himself. As he says this his mechanical arm starts to move and charge with electricity.

Pearl tells Ragnar to calm down, telling him that this man could be useful. William then tells the man that he really should show them to the Captain or else and then the blonde haired man asks them and what army, causing Ragnar to turn into his Grizzly Bear form and begin towering over the man. William says they don't have a traditional army but they do have a bear. The man says that he won't go down without a fight and they'll have to take the information off his dead body, which William says can be arranged before the blonde haired man calls out to the rest of the pirates who run out of the nearby wooden houses and surround the group. The Blonde Haired Man raises up his mechanical arm and what appears to be lightning seems to appear across it.

Story Impact

 * In this Episode the Crew gains a cook, something they had needed for a long time, which adds to their crew and adds another member to the party.
 * Here we find out more about Atom and his past, turns out hes a bounty hunter so he can collect money for his dying sister, the Crew also teams up with Atom, gaining his explosives expertise so they may break Pearls Brother out of prison and take down the Steam Pipe Pirates.
 * Verona seeking out a man for revenge similarly to Ragnar.
 * We also find out as dropped by Briggs at the end of the Episode, that Valve killed his wife.

The Crew

 * William
 * Verona
 * Duros
 * Ragnar
 * Pearl

Met

 * Gravy
 * Busty Bar Maid
 * Krendor Saloon Bar Tender
 * Bullet
 * Unnamed Guarding Steam Pipe Pirate
 * Commander Volt

Mentioned

 * King of Tarako Kingdom / Pearls Father
 * Pearl's Brother
 * Atom's Sister

Met

 * Atom

Mentioned

 * Lt. Hubris
 * Captain Marrow
 * Eustass Valve

Quotes

 * "The Fortune Favors the Cooks" - Gravy.
 * "People love my cooking, especially that Lieutenant, what was his name? Pubris? Hunris? Huge nips?" - Gravy.
 * "Huge nips, lets go with that!" - William.
 * "The Gun? How do I try this?" - Gravy to William placing his gun on the table.
 * "Watching people die really makes you hungry" - Pearl.
 * "Don't talk to Gravy like that!" - Verona to Atom.
 * "BY THE WAY, THIS IS GRAVY, SAY HELLO TO GRAVY!" - William to Atom.
 * "Hello Gravy nice to meet ya!" - Atom to Gravy because William told him to say hi to Gravy.
 * "There is somebody I need to kill, and the more I continue on this journey and encounter new foes, I'm beginning to realize I'm simply not strong enough. And something like this Devil Fruit could greatly increase my chances of achieving the necessarily power to achieve this goal, but I've also come to the realization that with strong friends even if I'm not strong enough myself, we can take him down in due time. So if one of you want to eat the fruit, I fully support your choice!" - Verona when the crew is deciding who gets the Roulette Roulette no Mi before they find about it is the Roulette Roulette no Mi.