Cliffhanger Edition

Episode 19 of Wrong Way Up starts with Splitsie showing off his new interior design of the Jalopy's tractor to Capac, DE, Texfire and W4stedspace. The decorations include drawings by Blackshadow5738: one of Splitsie petting a Ca*t*pac and one of a space engineer in a mankini, and Chat goes wild. The biggest off-screen improvement is that the mountain climbing arms built last stream now use Trekker's PARK script, and with Capac's "Johnny 5" spotlight head, the three-part Jalopy now looks like a mantis battlebot. DE stuck tyres under the runway as terrain buffers. Capac reports a Ryan Renault and a fire truck signal, and Splitsie and w4sted start climbing the Jalopy uphill.

(0:30) Splitsie amends the clanging climbing steps with terrifying gyroscope overrides. The mechanical forces have reached a point where simply unlocking magnetic plates vaporises them as a micro-sacrifice to Klang. Capac reports a Mariah Camry vehicle approaching but they can't tell what the Bots are up to. Splitsie's next piston-arm step emits clang sparks, and releasing the maglock gently makes the piston-arm slam into the side of the runway... The mountaineering mood changes to a cheerful "It can't get any more stupid, what's it gonna do, blow up!?" Chatting about hamburgers, Texfire is reminded of the vibe in his fire truck and they feel an IRL roadtrip together could be fun. The Bots, on the other hand, say they feel icky after a software bug made them experience "empathy and tolerance." DE exhibits a new skill of on-the-fly maglock welding and naming them Bruce.

(1:00) They continue their steep climb and Capac is hit by vertigo. W4sted dies of "walking" again and respawns *on* the medbay because of the steep incline the Jalopy is on. The Bots' Mariah Camry has reached flat terrain nearby, so DE suggests to launch drones and shoot the spy plane and spy trucks down. The Bots advertise metal body parts in in-game Chat and Capac wants to know more.

Each step uphill is more of a struggle and causes more tilting until finally a terrain collision detaches the rear trailer (drone printer etc.) and destroys the runway trailer's plane launcher. It's W4sted's turn to see Clang sparks. DE sighs and salvages his plane wreck (Panther) to help restore Splitsie's recoverable plane (Neon Pumpkin).

(1:30) While salvaging components, DE, Splitsie, Texfire and Capac are all taken aback by W4sted giving them snark. An April Fools' prankster has replaced the suit voice with w4sted sound clips! As DE casually grinds down ammo and explodes, Kanajashi Bot decides to stop and watch the self-inflicted disasters unfold instead of attacking. Capac and Splitsie use the opportunity and chase off the spy plane, but their Neon Pumpkin makes a hard emergency landing at the edge of the polar region. W4sted sneers at Splitsie's cute belief that the audience is here to watch them recover from unexpected outcomes -- Recovery is just a necessity to get to the next explosion! Looking for spare parts reminds them that "Splitsie hates fun" and has put them on a resource-less planet. Splitsie meanwhile taxis his plane back on two wheels.

Attempting to safely drive it to flat ground, Texfire accidentally flips the detached rear trailer.

(2:00) W4sted tells the story how he spent two streams recording snarky voice lines before noticing that the game doesn't have oxygen warnings. Splitsie shoots a plane-stealing Kanajashi Bot and fixes his plane's wheels to taxi back.

DE helps a dejected Texfire to get the rear trailer drivable again, and Capac comforts Tex saying that he has not reached Capac levels of disaster yet. Speaking of disasters: By repairing a thruster that's still on override, Splitsie makes his plane flip. Meanwhile, the others right the rear trailer in the most convoluted way possible, and Capac's spotlight tower almost collides with W4sted's parked plane. Splitsie makes it back to the Jalopy to watch W4sted fail to launch the last remaining drone.

(2:30) During a team effort of trying to define the concept "crash" and blaming each other, Splitsie barely makes his landing on the runway. Texfire and DE build their own grabby piston arm to pull the detached rear trailer closer to the roadtrain. They come up with new cartoony sounds to add to the suit voice mod. Splitsie grinds down an LCD with a cheerful "like and subscribe" cartoon and positions the front part of the roadtrain for the incoming rear trailer.

(3:00) They successfully reattach the rear trailer and Splitsie ironically attempts to reach Capac's level of obfuscation. They finally start driving again and brainstorm how to cross the next cliff, e.g. reaching down with piston-arms while stiffening all hitches (also known as the fad of planking). Capac claims he can deal with warp in hinges as long as there is enough power in the Gellar fields, which prompts w4sted to call him a nerd, but it takes one to know one! Which leads straight to a Star Trek conversation. The downhill planking idea was not a joke: After stiffening the hitches, the tractor is lifting the two trailers and faceplants downhill, damaging one of its arms. The Bots can predict the Jalopy will unfold its runway as counterbalance.

(3:30) All work together and combine unnatural suspension strength with unnatural grabby piston arms to slide downhill in a controlled fashion. As soon as most wheels are touching solid ground, they unstiffen the hitches, and make a last few piston-arm steps to flatter ground. W4sted is jealous of DE enjoying a nice meal in the middle of Splitsie panically recompiling the arm control script while it is in use... Capac is talking back at the suit voice and w4sted has to identify himself as the real one. The Bots suddenly notice that their suit voices were "hacked" as well.

After all that team effort, the Jalopy can finally drive freely again. By the snow patches they can tell that they have crossed into the polar region, the last stretch of their journey to the north pole. They laugh at the thought that at this pole, instead of another planet to fall up to, there could be a deep hole to fall into to an inner planet...

(4:00) They are passing the crashed spy plane. Racing across the snow at walking speed, they reminisce streams where they were driving off mountains with parachutes -- and agree on not doing that here. As they reach a hilltop, Capac has stolen the upside down, smoking, bullet-riddled spy plane and scares Splitsie with a fly-by. From the air, Capac spots a fire truck and a rescue station to explore next week, and Texfire and DE spot two Mustang planes. They park the Jalopy on the hilltop and Capac does an impressive physics-defying pancake landing.

## References

1. ↑ A mesh-up image of a space engineer, Sasha Cohen's mankini stunt, plus the "paint me" couch scene from Titanic.
2. ↑ Piston And Rotor Keybinds script
3. ↑ Snarky Sounds Mod
4. ↑ Splitsie refuses to say "like and subscribe" so the others "help" him by doing it for him.
5. ↑ Their self-imposed rules disallow the use of thrusters or building a drivable static slope.
6. ↑ A reference to Warhammer 40K.