Fall Flat

Fall Flat is the second episode of Split Object Comic. It was made by Grey, the creator of Deck and Radwaste.

The cover of the episode has Soc on it.

Opener
The comic starts with an opening bit containing Team #5. Zeppy asks her teammates, Rusty Pipe and Plasma Ball how they're doing. Neither of them talk, so they instead stare at Zeppy, Rusty Pipe with a soft smile and PB with a deadpan expression. Zeppy seems embarrased by the lack of response and instead asks Diode, her one remaining teammate. They respond that they're okay, but then wax poetic for a bit about being in a different place in the universe than they're used to. Zeppy does not know how to respond to this, so she just says it's cool so they know she's listening.

Elimination
Narrator starts the elimination with the Best Places, asking them to sit near their elimination circle, a yellow circle painted on the grass. Narrator shows off their cool bar graph, before Phoney becomes impatient and tells them to hurry up.

Radwaste frets about being eliminated, since they weren't able to properly do any of the tasks assigned to them. Phoney says that this is fair, but Narrator refutes this, telling them that Radwaste actually got no votes, and therefore is safe from elimination. As a prize for being the least voted for, they get a spork.

Narrator tells App Store they got 3 of the 14 votes, but are still safe. App Store is confused on why people would vote for her, since she was the most useful in the last challenge. Narraty presumes it must be because they prefer google.

Phoney and Strawberry Soda are the bottom 2, Phoney complains about being in the bottom, since she specifically asked people not to vote for her. Narrator says it's probably the lack of character development. Strawberry Soda kind of understands it, but is still down about it because he was literally told not to do anything by Phoney. App Store tells Soda not to worry, because bossy characters always get voted out first. However, it is revealed after that out of the 14 votes, Strawberry Soda got 7 whereas Phoney got 4.

Strawberry seems mad about being eliminated at first, but quickly accepts it. She tells Narrator to hurry up and do whatever horrible thing they're going to do to eliminated contestants, which Narrator seems weirded out by. They tell him he can just leave, and Soda does so, though confusedly. App Store seems sad that Strawberry was eliminated, but Phoney states that it was the best possible outcome.

Post-Elimination
Narrator tells the contestants to get into their teams, because the challenge is starting soon. Deck approaches Dice, telling xem that their plan to be tossed last challenge was "hardcore", and that he'd bet if she teamed up with someone equally as cool, they'd be unstoppable. Dice agrees with both of these, but doesn't initiate further, which semi-ruins Deck's approach to this. He pauses for a moment and then asks if Dice wants to form an alliance with him, to which Dice agrees. They seem hyped for this, but Soc overhears and puts in their two cents. They say alliances don't really do anything in these sorts of competitions, since they're already in teams and the voting is done entirely by viewers. Deck says they're just jealous because Deck and Dice are cool, which they reject immediately.

Soc tells them they should be preparing for the challenge, instead of just goofing off like last time, to which Deck refutes by noting that he found the flag last time. Backwards Hat interrupts, telling them that the challenge is already about to start. Soc seems confused by this, since it doesn't feel that long, but realizes they don't even know how long it's been since the last challenge. They tell their team to hurry, which none of the team members do, Backwards Hat falling back asleep.

Challenge
Narrator announces to everyone that it's time for the second challenge. Then the ground disappears and all the contestants start falling. Narrator notes this, telling them the challenge is to stop falling. The last team to do this will be up for elimination. And then the contest begins.

(wip)

Trivia

 * This is the first episode written by Grey.
 * This episode establishes the alliance between Deck and Dice, which lasts until Dice is eliminated in More Lost than Found.