Wrong Way Down - Part 3

Episode 3 of Wrong Way Down starts with the surprise that today's special guest is... Texfire! The heroic Texan firefighter is HALO dropping in and does a superhero landing. Capac will join later today.

Splitsie observes the desaster from last week and starts repairs. Splitsie considers calling the rover "(Paul) Bunyan" and shares his plans to use platforms on pistons to push the rover out of the crater.

Out of nowhere, a drone attacks and both have to respawn. Splitsie spots a *Space Pirate Observer* nearby -- they must disable it or it will send endless drones. Immediately, the next drone attacks but this time they take it down. Splitsie adds a bigger turret just in time before the next drone blows up Texfire's starter rover. They fly to the Observer by jetpack and again, drones attack. Splitsie warns Texfire about booby-traps and then resorts to trench digging. Texfire takes out the enemy defences.

(0:30) While the hostile NPC bases go into peace mode they have a chance to salvage and deactivate the closest Observer. Splitsie takes out the second enemy base while Texfire gets booby-trapped while looting the first.

(1:00) Capac is on his way to join. Chat is generally in favour of letting players use admin mode to get their backpack if it falls through the world due to a bug. Splitsie now wants to rename the rover from "Paul Bunyan" to "Ox" and paints it blue. They need to focus on getting out of the crater. The lifting platform works even though Splitsie falls into the crater.

Capac joins and is immediately blamed and praised. The next wave of drones almost destroys the lifting platform. Splitsie builds a counterweighted grabber arm while Texfire and Capac are sent to deal with the last hostile Observer.

(1:30) Splitsie rights the rover while Capac and Texfire fight a futile battle against both an Observer and a Fighter base. Splitsie engages a very angry Catspur drone whose wreck crashes into the rover. They are eager to build more turrets and move on quickly. Capac is torn about the new modded decoys that look like him.

(2:00) Capac finds the silver needed for spare medical components. Time to go! Their way south will take them past the Fighter base though. Splitsie likes Chat's idea of spidermanning the rover on pistons and landing gears, however, fragile mechanical arms/legs are destroyed by drones too easily. Instead they add drills to the front. It's too dark to see anything and the terrain is craggy.

Splitsie finally completes a sentence that he left unfinished in the very beginning -- Remaarn wrote them a mod that tracks their path by creating GPS markers automatically. Capac helps pathfind and gets run over.

(2:30) They have reached an ice lake. Intercepted drone wrecks are dangerously raining down on them. At sunrise, they park the rover on the ice and jetpack into battle against two NPC bases. After respawning a dozen times, they suddenly respawn at the north pole... The drones got their Survival Kit.

This counts as another failed attempt. While Splitsie restarts the server and deletes the too-high-level enemies, Capac entertains the audience with cheeky punchlines: Chat: "A Catpac, a Texfire, and a Flipsie walk into a bar...?" - Capac: "Two of you *drive* into a bar and one of us *walks* into a bar coz I got no hydrogen and you've driven off without me." ... They realise that wasn't a joke. Splitsie stops and builds a ramp to let him back on. They replace the battle against the overpowered bases with an attack against another Observer. Splitsie gets himself crushed by a falling part of the base. There is an ongoing issue with backpacks despawning after deaths.

(3:00) They disarmed the last Observer, made a grand total of 5 km today, and gained a pet Fleeting Rival... Chat renames the show to *The Adventures of Splatsie, Decapacitated, and Lagfire*...

(They end early to join the public test beta of SE's economy update with Captain Shack.)

## References

1. ↑ "Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore. His tall tales revolve around his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal." -- Wikipedia
2. ↑ A community member, Kham, created the custom decoy mod in July 2019 after hearing about the idea in episode 2.