Hashtag50MorePistons (Part 2)

Episode 22 of Wrong Way Up starts with Texfire's eulogy for his poor banged-up fire truck. Splitsie blames a clanging piston on the drone printer trailer for causing last week's rolling accidents. Capac has forgotten where he parked his stolen plane ("Blue Cheez") but finds it on a hill. Tex points out they are approaching a narrow gully, but Splitsie starts driving with a plan in mind which involves... rotor-piston armsThey set themselves the rule not to build static bridges because that's too easy. again. Ominously, they come across the debris of one of the Jalopy's recently ejected rotor-piston arms on the ground, and a stray tree collision sets the cockpit's "potted plants" on fire. 
At the gulley, W4sted, Texfire, and DE work together and by now, they coordinate the Jalopy's steps with the ease of a landstriderLandstrider. The Jalopy is under such tension that w4sted sees nothing but clang sparks and they have to replace the whole hand subgrid of each climbing arm at each step. 
(0:30) It's W4stedspace' birthday today and all they have to offer is a cake made of alien snow. They make it to the other side of the narrow gulley remarkably quickly and Capac asks sheepishly whether he can come back now? We see a perfect Capac landing: The plane is teetering on the runway's very edge on its piston jack. They all work together to get his wheels safely back on the runway. The wheels' phasing through floors prompts a conversation about modding and collision boxes. W4sted's birthday wish is for them NOT to sing before Capac sneaks in a "happy spawn day to you!" sung in an orc voice. 
A recent mod update has left w4sted's Edward Scissorplane harder to fly, so Splitsie takes the Neon Pumpkin out to scout. After 5 seconds, he returns with a new route and crashlands back on the runway. Capac's plane seems to have lost a hydrogen engine somewhere. DE and Texfire take the sloppily repaired fire truck for a scouting ride as the landtrain makes quick progress north. 
(1:00) As the terrain narrows and slopes down, the only way north off the mountain is a 1.5km cliff -- Splitsie shows Chat the aerial view. W4sted's thoughts are: "Crash sound effects. Pause. So, I guess you are wondering how we ended up here." 
*Splitsie proposes piston-chain abseiling. 
*Capac proposes bubble-wrapping the landtrain in tyres. 
*W4sted proposes a rolled-up woodlouse technique. 
*DE wants to glide down aerodynamically. 
*Chat demands parachutes.
Splitsie almost drives over the returning fire truck while heading for a good start position for the descent. They notice they are just north of the lake where they were last week. 
They decide to build two hinge-piston tails, padded with tyres. 
(1:30) Capac states the rover looks like a fat man with tiny legs -- everyone sees it, too, and laughs. They configure the script for the climbing tails and Capac labels them R and L. They imagine a new future series, such as Wrong Way Drown, where they will traverse a water planet by boat using only paddles and sails. DE notices that every week they have succeeded with progressively stupider ideas. 
At the current rate, they won't be "caught in a landslide", but they will be the landslide... DE and Texfire want to quickly go park the fire truck on the hilltop and build a backup Survival Kit on it, but Splitsie is already driving towards the cliff. Splitsie almost drives too far and Texfire and DE secure the first climbing tail. Capac wants to lift off to escape doom but Splitsie closes the runway on him. 
Everyone is dealing with bugs or client crashes. They explain to newcomers in YouTube Chat that they set themselves arbitrary challenging limitations because otherwise, in SE, you build a brick with thrusters and, now, you're at the north pole. The sun is setting and Capac is again controlling the light turret. 
(2:00) w4sted is keeping an eye on repairing the wheels and everyone is digging away craggies as the land train descends the cliff. The climbing tails boing dramatically and DE wants that setup for the next SE golf match. W4sted admits he set up an emergency detach button in his cockpit. While the climbing tails extend, the Jalopy's tractor sometimes gets stuck on rocks, so now DE additionally steers from the main cockpit. Splitsie uses his admin powers to fast forward the low polar sun so they and the audience can see anything. Their initial dread is slowly being replaced by excitement, even though some viewers are still skeptical. Capac gets ready to stabilise any sliding with the climbing arms in the front. They are now at a 45 degree angle and it's getting hard to walk. 
(2:30) The craggies remind Capac of tyre tracks of giant rovers who have traveled down this mountain before. Capac lets a front climbing arm swing like a plumb line and it points "forward" as they approach an 80 degrees angle. They balance their weight by opening and closing the runway. The backward facing cockpit on the Edward Scissorplane is horizontal for the first time. Space Engineers has given up on calculating physics and they can do whatever they want, until they break off a corner of the runway. 
(3:00) They struggle to get over craggies and coordinate their way down. Splitsie notices that W4sted is getting ready to desert the landtrain... while climbing, Splitsie imagines a new even harder "Chinese whispers" series where they puppeteer large vehicles but must use proximity voice and first person only... 
Close to the cliff bottom, their attention lapses: The climbing tails break and they abruptly roll the last few metres downhill. DE is at the helm, steering, and thanks to everyone's quick reaction, they come to a stable halt on the ground. Seeing this, the Bots increase security on their Polar base and send an override "purge all remaining humans clone codes."The Bots are using leetspeak as encryption. in in-game chat. 
Capac lifts off and shreds an enemy Magpie that is coming in. DE lifts off as well. Splitsie gets his plane ready and drives on, but his PC crashes and the others have to take over the helm until he rejoins. 
(3:30) Two powerful enemy planes (and an Assault Segway) confront them. Splitsie and DE join the fight in the Neon Pumpkin and w4sted launches a drone. They shoot down two enemy planes. Capac accidentally loses his plane (now named GetRekt) to the autopilot, but he finds it in a flyable state on a hill and they all return to base. 
Captain Shack in YouTube chat congratulates them on the epic fight. The Bots add, if they were programmed for sportsmanship, they would congratulate as well. Judging by the snow, they are very close to the north pole and they expect the finale next week. 
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