Northward Bound

Episode 6 of Wrong Way Up starts with Capac's celebratory gunfire and Splitsie repairing the aftermath of acid fog. W4stedspace tells the story behind his Youtube name while they are driving through the polar region of Perseii. Splitsie quizes DE about lift design, and Naburine in chat follows up with an important question: "Directed Energy, how are you so absurdly attractive?" Tex notices the new Floppy Jaloppy looks like a sassy robot with its hands on its hips. From this episode on, they will control all turrets manually.

W4sted encounters the bug that his small grid, maglocked to "the fourth subgrid on the fifth trailer", takes control over the whole rover... Capac plays his new air raid siren as surveillance planes and a blizzard pass by. DE regrets that, without a GPS mod, you actually have to oldfashionedly go to a place to tell someone where it is. Texfire teaches us how to use "y'all".

(0:30) W4sted exchanges his planned scouting flight for a dogfight as a Warthog and a Fly-by Knight drop bombs. Splitsie follows w4sted's "Troublemaker" heroics in Spectator Mode while the others man the turrets. When w4sted returns to refuel, his landing is disrupted by invisible trees twice. They spot an enemy Antonio Vanderas sneaking around and Capac discovers that the unexploded "bombs" were decoys. Splitsie almost sabotages w4sted's plane by refuelling the wrong inventory. DE has built "wild wacky tube" refuelling tentacles in the hangar. With the bots chased off for now, w4sted scouts out the path ahead while Capac builds his own plane. Splitsie suggests Capac add a tail gunner seat to his plane. Splitsie is sceptical seeing Capac used solar panels as wings, but DE reassures him that they actually generate lift. W4sted realises that his plane's air time is so low because he never rebuild the lost hydrogen tanks... They chat about Dune while they navigate the terrain. Due to an accidentally active "Change places!" redeem in the Twitch Chat, Capac is worried that redeeming it means the *trailers* have to switch places... Splitsie is needlessly suspicious that if DE helps Capac build, Splitsie's seat will be an eject seat.

(1:00) They build anti-acid mudguards over the wheels when Capac sounds the alarm to warn of a passing surveillance plane. Splitsie admits being sleep-deprived and sounds more salty than w4sted. Texfire's sleepiness is also Splitsie's fault because Splitsie prompted Tex to build submarines on w4sted's SE server yesterday. Capac's plane gets fold-up wings. They agree that listening to Splitsie would not have prevented the crash last episode. Capac clarifies he always does what he is supposed to do because doing nonsense is his job and Splitsie knew what he was getting into. Capac walks up on the roof and an Unknown Signal falls right into his hands. Lacking a ground raid siren, Splitsie makes a "bok bok!!" chicken warning call that leaves Capac baffled. W4sted's Teamspeak disconnects and they fend off the next bot attack without him. When w4sted returns, they discuss small-grid plane design.

(1:30) Splitsie walks into an invisible tree and grinds it down. Suddenly everyone around him speaks in tree puns for solid 5 minutes.

When Splitsie stops driving due to dense fog, DE takes the opportunity to finish a plane of his own (Toblerone) in the hangar, and Splitsie helps Capac weld up his plane. W4sted and Splitsie critisise Capac's plane's flappy bits, high weight, lack of symmetry, lack of wheels, wrong center of lift--Capac says it will be fine. Tired Splitsie returns to driving and snaps his own mining drill off... The hostile surveillance drone is back, and Capac's air raid siren (that Splitsie admits having modded in) prompts a conversation about w4sted's Escape From Mars streams where there was a Wedgey who is like a Capac that knows what he's doing in SE but doesn't care. W4sted's helpful scouting flight is disrupted by more thick fog (Capac: "Thog!") and they accuse Splitsie of orchestrating the bad weather for drama. Splitsie promises that the only drama he adds deliberately is (the others immediately guess it) Capac. They make plans to build a new trailer with a crane.

(2:00) Splitsie messes with Capac's plane's conveyor system while DE frees his plane from under Capac's plane. They suspect a hostile base nearby, and to escape the fog, W4sted decides against landing and keeps scouting. They get snagged unevenly right when the acid fog starts. W4sted returns to help with defense when Kanajashi's Warthog attacks. Splitsie races down a steep slope but they make it. They stop to watch W4sted dogfight Kanajashi in the Warthog. Kanajashi cleverly but unsuccessfully tries to lure W4sted into the turrets of an enemy base! They drive on, navigating bad terrain through acid fog.

(2:30) W4sted has emergency landed on a slope and drills ice to refuel. Tired Splitsie threatens to disassemble Capac's plane to rebuild the drill needed to mine ores needed to assemble new planes! Naburine and others in Chat say the mudguards make the Jalopy look like a picnic table. Capac's plane doesn't fit on the lift and w4sted compares it to NCIS' Agent Gibbs building boats in his basement, while the Bots are plotting in in-game chat. Capac realises he will have to actually *fly* his plane and Splitsie realises that his gunner turret points at his gunner seat... W4sted has trouble flying due to glitches and his plane's acid damage. Splitsie secretly renames Capac's plane The Dead Weight.

(3:00) To scare off a surveillance drone, Capac launches off the side of the hangar: The Dead Weight noses down, races into the side of a hill, and flips, while Splitsie laughs hysterically. A grounded Capac spots a passing Danger's Own while repairing, and Splitsie fails to be a wing gunner on DE's new Toblerone. They shoot down the attacking planes and debris falls on the Jalopy and Capac.

    On closer inspection, Jexsam's plane's wreck looks like a grinning gray&pink shark and the other wreck is a winged car. W4sted has repaired his plane and is back in the air. DE nicely lands the Toblerone and uses the lift to the hangar. W4sted aborts his first landing, and for the second, they all line up on the runway which inspires him to land perfectly--and hit Capac. The episode ends with them now having two functional planes (and non-streamer Tex getting shot for ironically saying "Now ring the bell and mash that like button!").

Next week, instead of the next episode, there will be a Christmas special, A Ho Ho Hole in one for Christmas.

## Best of Tree Puns

(1:30 to 1:37)

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> Tex: [Between Splitsie and the trees], no treaty has been signed.
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> Splitsie: ... TREEty?
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> DE: I wasn't sure you were going out on that LIMB?
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> W4sted: You can take it or LEAF it.
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> DE: Are we gonna stay on this path or BRANCH out to other puns?
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> W4sted: Once they have taken ROOT, I don't think you can move on.
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> Tex: I need to learn how to use my puns more DECIDUOUSLY.
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> W4sted: I HEDGE my bets and get back into the plane.
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> Tex: I feel a little BUSHed?
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> Splitsie: Chat says this discussion is starting to feel WOODEN...
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> Capac: I don't wanna even attempt to navigate a THICKET this dense.
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> Splitsie: I'm pun impaired, so it just doesn't faze me one bit if you guys go all pun NUTS...
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> W4sted: Oh well, I'm STUMPed.
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> Tex: [A guy in Chat says] our puns were getting a little ACORNy.
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> DE: We'll have to throw him into the TRUNK for that one.
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> W4sted: A lot of people started LICHEN this stream but then things went downhill. It's alright, we can SPRUCE things up a bit!
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> Tex: These puns are GROWing on me.
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> DE: They are PINING for better jokes.
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> Tex: I feel like tree puns are EVERGREENS.
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> W4sted: I like how, from a single SEED, it GERMINATED into all of this wonderfulness!
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## References

1. ↑ "Y'all" casually refers to (rarely, the one, or) a few persons directly addressed ("Y'all wanna go to the movies?"). "All y'all" demands the attention of several persons or the whole addressed group ("All y'all, I need your attention."). "Alls y'alls" has more urgency that includes everyone within earshot (as in, "Alls y'alls gotta leave the theatre because it's on fire!")
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube\_man
3. ↑ Splitsie recommends the post- and pre-flight checklist SEAT script by Whiplash141
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/Wedgehog950
5. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deciduous