Episode 4 - Horizontal Pilot Command

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### PC's

Rick Shades (Jay)
Stan Goldstein (Keen)

Noah Finway (Chula)

Sylvester Ashling (Majin)

Tripwire (Arim)

### NPC's

Giovanni Potage, Milly Blyndeff, Molly Blyndeff, Howie Honeyglow, Delta Caprone, Charles Foxtrot (Boss), Echo Rivers, Sgt. Colors (mini-Boss), Night Terror (mini-Boss), Sierra Saxton, Crackerjack, Guile Manning, Lunt, Lord Nezzer, Don Infusio, Abbot Arbuckle, Vertical Troy, jOe, Zora Salazar, Xerxes Roughhouse, Naven Nuknuk, Yoomtah Zing, Haboo Snakehole

## Episodes

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This adventure is a bunch of newsies at an card game tournament, and they have to figure out which one of the competitors is SECRETLY A BAD GUY!!! It’s a CARD GAME WHODUNNIT!(part 4 tumblr announcement)

## Episode Information

Part 4, titled "Horizontal Pilot Command", was the fifth session of Anime Campaign. It was streamed on September 11th of 2016 and had a total runtime of 8 hours and 21 minutes. This part had an "Episode 0" RP session that preceded the actual session and streamed on September 6th of 2016 with a runtime of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

## Summary

Noah Finway lines up to join the Horizontal Pilot Command. Meryl Lockhart calls her to remind her that she’s undercover to search for the Apple Corps Officer. Naven Nuknuk and Yoomtah Zing receive a ticket. There is only one ticket left, so Stan Goldstein groups himself with Noah, Rick Shades, Tripwire, and Sylvester Ashling.

Each receive their pilots respectively: Rubbernecker, Coffee Break, Hat Trick, Ohmyra and Lambcelot. Vertical Troy explains to the party about the HPC rules. The party meet Delta Caprone, Crackerjack, Echo Rivers and her pilot Awere. Charles Foxtrot introduces herself to everyone.

The party have matches against Sgt. Colors, Night Terror, Charles and Crackerjack (who is later replaced with Guile Manning), and Delta. Naven, Yoomtah, Giovanni Potage and Milly Blyndeff have been watching. Naven reveals himself as Bliss Ocean’s leader to Giovanni and Milly. He offers them a place in BO. He plans to use Augment so that his Epithet Flashback can spread throughout the world. That way, everyone will forget about Epithets.

Naven shows Milly a flashback of her mother Minnie. Milly agrees to join and tells Naven to take care of Molly. After Delta’s match, Giovanni recognises Delta because he’s the Bushido Blasters boss. Delta beats Giovanni up, which blows their cover. Naven calls the BO spy to erase all physical evidence: Charles. Naven mind wipes everyone in the building. The party fights Charles and defeats him. After it, Naven reveals Bliss Ocean to the world.

## Featured Player Characters

Keen - Stan Goldstein

Chula - Noah Finway

Jay - Rick Shades

Arim - Tripwire

Majin - Sylvie

## The Details

* Stan, Noah, Rick, Tripwire, and Sylvie enter the Horizontal Pilot Command tournament as a team. It is not a team-based tournament. They each have 1/5th of the health pool as a typical competitor for their Pilot cards.
* The Pilot Command monsters assigned to each of the player characters are:
	+ **Stan:** Rubbernecker
	+ **Noah:** Coffee Break
	+ **Rick:** Hat Trick
	+ **Sylvie:** Lambcelot
	+ **Tripwire:** Ohmyra
* Other competitors that the party faces throughout the tournament include Sgt. Colors, Night Terror, Crackerjack, Delta Caprone, Echo Rivers, Charles Foxtrot, and Sierra Saxton

## Trivia

* Stan Goldstein was previously played by Keen in an Unforgotten Realms game titled “Spook Campaign!” that was run by Jello and Will in January 2016. Other players in this game were Arim, Majin, Chula, and Siv.
* Characters from Jello’s webcomic Cornucopia cameoed as NPC’s in this episode
* As of December 15th, 2019, all Anime Campaign streams were removed from the Surprise Round twitch channel as part of Jello’s wish to limit the spread of spoilers for potential future seasons of Epithet Erased. At the time of removal, there were approximately 23,000 views on the Anime Campaign Part Four stream and 9,000 views on the “Episode 0” RP twitch stream.