Crew Chief w4stedspace

In episode 11 of Wrong Way Up, we learn more about the background story as Splitsie, Capac, DE, and W4stedspace encounter a mining outpost. After parking near the outpost, DE and Splitsie lift off to scout without asking the tower (Capac) first, so DE teaches everyone the rule "Aviate, navigate, communicate!" But DE's plane doesn't pull fuel, and Splitsie has forgotten to load canvas for the dragchutes, so DE makes an emergency landing on the ground next to the Jalopy, and seconds later, Splitsie pancakes hard on the runway in a way that crew chief W4stedspace calls "not ideal." Splitsie is lucky that w4sted has no office where he can dress pilots down. Instead of modded acid rain, they now get inferno sandstorms, which is better.

(0:30) Even Chat is by now annoyed/amused by the dance Splitsie performs to enter Elon Thrust's cockpit without using crosshairs. Capac has refitted the Benedict Cumberbus with a survival kit and O2/H2 Generator. Splitsie gets the Elon Thrust off the runway so that DE can land, but the storm blows DE sideways and he has to perform tacking manoeuvres. DE admits he makes fun of other people's workarounds in airplane design but now uses the same workarounds. Capac suddenly says "oh dear..." and refuses to elaborate. W4sted vaguely hints they'll build a fourth trailer with better cargo access from the ground. After an almost crash landing, DE's second crosswind landing on the runway succeeds. W4sted loses "Gyro Minesweeper" and has to repair more than he intended. Splitsie puts a beautiful painting on an LCD in the hangar -- and laughs as Capac has done the same on the last trailer.

(1:00) Splitsie helps w4sted get his plane wheels on firm hangar ground again. After *one hour*, the four of them *finally* drive to the enemy base. -- Two seconds later, they have to dig the wheels out of a crack because Splitsie was taking screenshots while driving... At least when *Capac* drives off the side of a mountain, he knows what he's doing... Kanajashi is found spying in the YouTube stream chat.

Capac goes into the outpost first and reports an emergency beacon. They break down the door to find dead bodies, and shoot one human survivor in self-defense... He carries a message stating that violent Bots are cloning humans, that he was heading for the offworld beacon at the north pole, and that he considered cooperating with the protagonists. Splitsie steals all the rifles for disassembly and Capac returns from the mineshaft reporting "something blue" (Magnesium). Suddenly, they hear shots in the fog and a gunfight against unseen enemies breaks out. w4sted drives the escape vehicle to check in on the Jalopy right when DE respawns, and flings him off. They repair the Cumberbus, steal a constructor truck, and load the trucks up with loot such as Yield Modules.

(1:30) Back at the Jalopy, Capac is suspicious of a flash of pink between the wheels, but it's just w4sted doing a root rock running montage for his stream. While lifting up the truck, Capac and Splitsie argue amusingly over piston speed. Chat warns Splitsie not to offload loot *into an ejector*. As Kanajashi's spyplane and a FlybyKnight pass them, Splitsie's Elon Thrust is the only fighter ready. One of its thrusters gets damaged, but despite limited mobility, Splitsie scores some hits. Capac has found the world seam landmark.

After the dogfight, Elon Thrust is a rover on the ground. As Splitsie limps back without any thrusters, w4sted offers him the future tail gunner job on a plane that "looks like Subnautica". A Warthog II bomber flies by and Capac escapes in the Jalopy while W4sted and DE perform pitstop repairs on Splitsie's grounded plane. Elon Thrust flies once more, but soon collides with the Warthog and both crash. Both Splitsie and Kanajashi Bot survive and argue whether that was rear-ending or brake-checking. Eventually, they defeat a nimble Kanajashi in a ground shoot-out. W4sted is okay with scrapping Elon Thrust after it went down in a blaze of glory.

(2:00) Capac drives the Jalopy closer to the wreck while Splitsie salvages it. W4sted is amused by the "whacky waving non-inflatable" fuel boom. Splitsie spots an ugly "like & subscribe!" poster on an LCD and grinds it down in passing. Capac points Splitsie to the closest survival kit and Splitsie says, "you are my (guide)" and Capac deadpan interjects "spirit animal!"

W4sted is already busy welding up a new plane (LL Cool Ray?) for Splitsie, and DE regrets not having more magnesium for the six gatlings in his Toblerone IV. The audience informs Texfire in YouTube chat that the protagonists never got to using his salvage crane. Splitsie is concerned to learn that his future aircraft can fly sideways "like a skipping stone." Nobody gets DE's airplane mechanic jokes. :( Splitsie destroys another ugly "like & subscribe!" poster near the Jalopy's cockpit and is "punished" by the game with a crash. For Splitsie, the wings of the new plane don't render right, and while he restarts a second time, DE moves the Toblerone to the runway in case they have to intercept the incoming CraterMaker that Capac spotted.

(2:30) Driving north in bad weather takes them closer to the Bots' airbase. They detect signals of a Raptor, a Sunderbird, and an Experimental Bomber, so they drive in a canyon out of range of the Bots' defenses. DE lifts off in the Toblerone the other way because only half of the battle-damaged hinged runway has opened. DE whoops as he engages two enemy fighters! w4sted fixes a mishap to his plane in the hangar while Splitsie and Capac man the turrets. They down two enemy planes and Splitsie fights the Bots on the ground. DE flies over the airbase and the Bots cut his fuel lines but he survives. w4sted is completely desynced and is excused from fighting. DE accidentally breaks his Toblerone II in half but doesn't mind scrapping it because he already has plans for III and IV, and he's happy today's dogfight was so successful.

Despite facing a lot of laggy clanginess, each fighter has had its great dogfights, Capac's driving saved them more often than not, and Texfire's crane was brilliant. Splitsie fixes the missing wheels that were sabotaged by the Bots while W4sted was frustratingly desynced.

(3:00) Capac comes back in a stolen Danger's Own and gets it damaged spying at the enemy airbase. They loot ammo from the wrecks while DE introduces them to his school of "melee air combat" and shows off another Jexsam-designed wreck (Sunderbird?) that looks like a bird. W4sted steals the Bot's script from the Bomber's programming block and Capac lands the stolen plane on the runway with a 270 degree spin.

After some repairs, Splitsie starts driving on north. All passengers scream/die/get seasick, respectively, including Texfire, who isn't even logged into the game today. The ignored Bots hint strongly that attacks will now continue from this *unraided airbase*, and the protagonists tease back, if only the Bots had any planes left!

Turns out the direct path north is too steep. They crack Snowrunner winch jokes while Splitsie makes an expert 180 degree turn after deciding to go back to the airbase and ask the Bots for directions. Capac promises to not use his DMing powers for evil when someone else is the DM, but if he ever played D&D with Splitsie, Capac would keep Splitsie on track by leaving a trail of Treants!

(3:30) The Bots confirm via in-game chat that the best way out is indeed through their airbase, and if Splitsie tried harder, he could go crashland back on the moon where he came from! They pause and work a long while on attaching the projected hinges for the foldable wings of w4sted's scout plane, Edward Scissorplane. Splitsie recharges Capac's stolen plane and Capac feels patronised and stubbornly claims he was using *lunar* panels. At w4sted's first wing folding test, one third of the wing surfaces falls off...

(4:00) Capac dies jumping on the elevator platform and Splitsie dies the same way, twice, as an empirical test, which means he respawns without grinder to destroy DE's newest "Like & Subscribe" poster, so Splitsie exchanges the ugly poster for Capac's self portrait (and then excuses himself for a minute because his dog has been sick). W4sted recommends the player parachute mod so they (and the Bots) could paradrop, and DE dreams of extending the elevator and hangar.

In W4sted's plane, Splitsie gets the second, unpiped cockpit, and Capac and DE come along as wing gunners. Splitsie instinctively opens Ansel to take screenshots instead of controlling the turrets. During their flight, the wing gunners scare away the Bots' surveillance plane and they discover a lake as next week's target. When W4sted has reached his flight ceiling, Capac asks to detach a wing segment so he can surf back down. -- They end the scene in mid air.

## References

1. ↑ Likely Capac spotted an LCD by DE with a silly picture?
2. ↑ It's a painting created by Capac IRL as seen in Capac channels Bob Ross.
3. ↑ They have reached the southern latitudinal seam which marks roughly one third of the way. A World Seam is a straight-line edge in the planet's 3D cube model at the edges where the six maps are stitched together. There is one latitudinal seam around each polar region, and four longitudinal seams.
4. ↑ Splitsie refuses to beg his audience to "like and subscribe", so fellow streamer DE "helps" him with that.
5. ↑ The iconic shark-faced gray and pink plane designed by Jexsam
6. ↑ In a Dungeons & Dragons game, the story teller is called Dungeon Master (DM). The Bots are the DMs in this series, meaning, they insert story pieces for the protagonists to discover. Capac understands how annoying it'd be for the DMs if the protagonists skipped exploring the airbase, so they turn around.
7. ↑ Splitsie drives over trees, and Treants are sentient trees in the Dungeons & Dragons world.
8. ↑ Splitsie said in episode 14 they tried the mod off screen but it didn't work for them.