Prison of Plastic

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Epithet Erased - Prison of Plastic
Author	Brendan Blaber
Illustrator	Bo Hello
Adapted From	Episode 2 - Monkey Toy Audience
Published on	December 9, 2022
Publisher	TBA
Publication order
Previous	Season 1/Winner Take All EP 5-7 Novelization (Upcoming) (Chorologically)
Next	Prison of Plastic's Sequel (Upcoming) Animated OVA (unproduced)

Epithet Erased - Prison of Plastic (Sometimes called Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic or simply, Prison of Plastic) is an upcoming novel continuation of Epithet Erased. It will be the 1^st Epithet Erased novel as well as the 3^rd chronologically.

Synopsis

One week after the events in the Sweet Jazz Museum, Molly Blyndeff tries to take some well-deserved time off at seashore with her friends. Her vacation is interrupted when the girls stumble on the freshly-beached body of Rick Shades, a bizarre "wizard" from the depths of the ocean.

The trio of girls bring Rick back to Molly's toy store in order to help him recover, but things quickly take a turn for the worse when Molly's older sister Lorelai gets involved. Her epithet, ☆Augment☆, gives her the power to create augmented realities, fantasy worlds that she refers to as "dream bubbles". Lorelai throws everyone into the store into one of her dream worlds and suddenly Molly's day off turns into an epic quest to escape Lorelai's world and rescue her friends from her sister's clutches.

Prison of Plastic is the story of two sisters living in a broken home struggling with their magical powers, themselves, and each other.

Plot

Prologue A: The Neo Trio

"Yeah! Those are... words!"

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Molly, on a rare day off, waits at a street-corner to meet with her friends, Phoenica and Trixie. She hears a scream in an alleyway and runs over to see Phoenica being threatened by a mugger. Molly tries to use her epithet to silence Phoenica and lie in order to get the mugger to let them leave, but it doesn't work. Then, Trixie appears.

They reveal that they're a Roughhouse, a family of infamous thieves, and that they're armed to the teeth in box cutters. The mugger is intimidated, and leaves. Trixie drops their act and starts crying about how scary the situation was. Phoenica joins in the crying, and the Neo trio all have a group hug.

Prologue B: The Banzai Blasters

Giovanni announces to his boys (Dark-star, Crusher, Spike, Car-crash, Flamethrower and Ben) that he is officially leaving the Banzai Blasters in Crusher's treehouse, he says that because of their unjust morals and corrupt leaders that he can't stand to work for them anymore.

Giovanni's boys become distressed, they try to stop him from leaving by reasoning with him but to no avail. Giovanni then reveals that he plans to start-up his own villain organization, however, he does not know how they'll receive funding and he doesn't have an official name yet. He then asks if his boys would like to join them or not and they all accept, no questions asked.

After his boys agreement, Giovanni sprawls out a sheet of paper onto the table in their new evil lair. On the aforementioned sheet of paper was an EVIL villain plan of their first official heist of it's own, and the deadline is Friday (or you die). However, all of his boys are busy on that specific day for some reason, that reason being Flamethrower's male-cheerleading competition and they reveal that they all bought tickets. Giovanni is touched by this and requests for someone to record Flamethrower's performance for him and Ben agrees to do it.

Giovanni thinks about which minions he can rely on now, after awhile of thinking he says that he has one more minion he can call.

Prologue C: The Rabbit Knight

Graham stands tall in a barren wasteland, a woman meets him saying her crusade will finally end. He reveals himself, calling her the Rabbit Knight. She has come to fight but Graham thinks its impossible. She's said that she has become strong, since they last met, and had acquired the sword of the Eclipse. He explains that a mere mortal is unless, as it would kill anyone who uses it, unless you are a lunarian. And he killed all of them a long time ago. The Knight reveals herself to be a Half-Lunarian, as she prepares to fight. The Knight taunts him till he strikes her, They both say they will kill the other, before using a secret technique to form a bow of light, planning to fire it at Graham. A faint voice says "Lori". Graham pleads for mercy, as the Knight continues to ready the strike. The voice, louder this time, says "Lori" once more. Just before finally releasing the bowline.

She hears a loud "Lorelai". The voice is actully Molly Blyndeff. She is now complaining at the Rabbit Knight, Lorelai Blyndeff that she didn't do the dishes. Lorelai screams at her. And then it is explained how their epithets work and how she can create Dream Bubbles, and that Molly is the only one that can combat her power. She found her very annoying for always nagging and asking for her to work, unlike her father who encouraged it. Molly was giving a speech about how Lorelai made her feel overwhelmed. She asked if they could just ask Dad about her work schedule, Molly pointed out that he always always takes Lorelai's side, Lorelai counters that maybe he just likes her more. Molly ran off, sad and hurt by what was said. The Summons looked awkwardly before Graham tried to continued, badly, Lorelai is disappointed before deciding that they should stop because the mood was ruined. She tried to pretend that it was everyone else's fault that she felt bad.

Prologue D: The Instructor

We start off at one of the many STEM research facilities scattered across the city. We come to learn that STEM doesn't actually stand for anything but aside from that we also learn that STEM was popularized for it's research in plants, specifically for their invention of a plant that can grow in any season and that it is an organization that values actual skill over simply being an epithet user, which is apparently quite rare in the modern day. In fact, they see out competent mundies to hire who were turned down by other jobs. This may be because the CEO, Naven Nuknuk is also a mundie.

Cut to a rather pissed-off doorman. The reason he's so pissed is because of his job, which is to stand at the door for the CEO of STEM. He's not even a chauffer, he just stands there.

Suddenly the elevator behind him begins to ding, hitting the floor with a loud *THUD* before the CEO's actual chauffer made her way out of the elevator. She spun on her heels and turned to look towards the CEO who had barely survived the elevator ride, low and behold, Naven Nuknuk meagerly made his way out from the facility on uneasy feet and apologized to the doorman as he made his way into the car.

Seeing Naven as the CEO of a massive corporation was somewhat sad. He was known for his silver tongue, charisma and the fact that he clearly knew what he was doing, but seeing him in real life made him seem like an entirely different person. Naven was definitely not confident, quite the opposite actually, couple that with his unimpressive height, his sickly nature, him being overly empathetic towards mundies. The Valet watched as the Chauffeur bolted through the city.

In fact, he's way too empathetic towards them. The reason he went down that elevator was because he offered to be an interpersonal communications teacher for a little girl. It doesn't help that the aforementioned little girl asked him to help her friends too. But it was fine; they had come a long way since they had first started and one of them was showing a lot of potential.

Chapter 1: Fish Out of Water

Molly finds a dead body (Rick Shades), at least it appeared to be one. The rest of the Neo Trio catches up to her and they argue about what to do before he stands up and introduces himself. They scream before arguing about what he could be, before the corpse says he is a wizard. Phoenicia then introduces herself and explains she needs to assemble of group of magical girls to save the world, and asks if he would like to be one. This leads to an argument about if you need magic to be a magical girl between Trixie and Pheoica. Molly, realizing the man is likely dangerous, grabs her friends and attempts to drag them away from the strange man.

The man manages to catch up to them and gets Phoenicia to shake his hand, forming a 'pact' by becoming friends, in a swarm of black lighting. Molly and Trixie attempts to get Phoenicia to flee but instead she stayed and he attempts to explain his epithet after some confusion. He says it's "Soulmates" and Phoenicia gets flustered by his name before he explains it simply means keeping his friends in his soul. And then, explaining by example by using Phoenicia's book-smarts on her homework. Phoenicia is then appalled because he used her knowledge to complete his homework, which is cheating, due to this she no longer considers him her friend, breaking the 'pact'.

After a sob story and an apology they made up, reforming their 'pact'. He then attempted to learn the other two's powers, and after failing, he simply declared that he ill befriend them eventually. He then recalls them discussing winning, and asks about it. Trixie explains, what he is talking about. He then explains he has not eaten in days, prompting the three to try and find some food, failing, only finding some lip balm. He goes to do the task to win as they discuss whether or not lip balm is editable. Molly explains what Lip balm is and gives it to him, before he eats it. Everyone panics looing for a solution as they also learned he had drank nothing but sea water for the last three days. Trixie finds a potion in her bag and Rick goes to eat it before they stop him. He confirmed that they were friends before the man collapsed.

Chapter 2: Vincent Murder

to be added

Audiobook

Cast

See Also: Prison of Plastic/Full Credits

Main:

• Dani Chambers as Molly, the overworked protagonist.
• Bryn Apprill as Phoenica, Molly's fluffy friend. Has a lot of money.
• Elsie Lovelock as The Wolf, a mugger after Phoenica's money.
• Siv Ryan as Trixie, Molly's gremlin friend. Can see ghosts.
• Kyle Igneczi as Giovanni, the up-and-coming criminal mastermind.
• Caleb Yen as Crusher and Flamethrower, Giovanni's most passionate minions.
• Meg McClain as Spike, the scariest of Giovanni's minions.
• Cyrus Rodas as Dark Star, the most mysterious of Giovanni's minions.
• Wyatt Baker as Car Crash, the unluckiest of Giovanni's minions.
• Keith Silverstein as Graham, a giant dragon made of s'mores.
• Tiana Camacho as Lorelai, Molly's frustrating and magically-gifted older sister.
• Sarah Weidenheft as The Chauffeur, a hyperactive driver.
• Ray Chase as Rick Shades, your friend.
• Zack Maher as Sylvie, the child psychologist.
• Marissa Lenti as Stink, the worst.
• Paul Guyet as The Spelling Bee, one of Lorelai's creations.
• Kent Williams as The Scaregrow, one of Lorelai's creations.
• Brendan Blaber as Naven, Molly's teacher, as well as the book's Narrator.

Supporting:

• To-be-confirmed as Ben
• Scott Frerichs^{Citation Needed} as Valet.
• Marissa Lenti as Ogre

OST

See Main Article: Prison of Plastic OST

Kickstarter Stretch Goals

Stretch Goals $Funded$ ($30,000) – Audiobook "The audiobook will be produced!" $Funded$ ($40,000) – New Opening Song "A new full-lengthed OP from Sapphire" $Funded$ ($50,000) – New Outro Song "A new outro theme, complete with visual!" $Funded$ ($55,000) – Full Music Track "Audiobook scored with all new songs!" $Funded$ ($70,000) - Anime Campaign 1-2 "Okay fine, I'll edit these and release them" $Funded$ ($80,000) – Hardcover Prints "It's crazy how much hardcovers cost!!!" $Funded$ ($90,000) – Full Color Images "Illustations in full color! Also Expensive!" $Funded$ ($130,000) – Animated Opening "We'll get a studio to animate the new OP" Stretch Goals 2 $Funded$ ($200K) – Molly+Gio Sing! "A cover of "That Beautiful Sound" from Beetlejuice" $Funded$ ($210K) – New Poster Prints "A new 24X36" print to match the S1 poster" $Funded$ ($220K) – Extended S1 OP "A full version of "Deadline" by Sapphire" $Funded$ ($230K) – Extended Cowboy ED "A full version of "Great at Cowboy" $Funded$ ($240K) – EP 1-4 Novelization "This will help put the series on retail shelves!" $Funded$ ($250K) – Giovanni Lullaby "A full song of Giovanni singing to Molly" $Funded$ ($260K) – Phoenica Plushie "The Neo Trio will be reunited in doll form!" $Funded$ ($270K) – EP 5-7 Novelization "See below for details Re: More Novels" $Funded$ ($280K) – Great At Crime Extended "We can call my mom" $Funded$ ($290K) – Digital Art Book "Behind the scenes of all the art from S1 and PoP" $Funded$ ($300K) – Zora Villain Song "An all new original song for Ol' Stinky" $Funded$ ($310K)– Doll + Hoodie "Decided by Kickstarter Backer vote" $Funded$ ($320K) – Another Book! "Prison of Plastic's sequel is guaranteed!" $Funded$ ($330K) – Epithet TTRPG Book "A polished rulebook with illustrations" $Funded$ ($350K) – Giovanni Villain Song "A full song of Giovanni singing to Molly" $375K – Doll + Hoodie 2 "Either a Molly hoodie or a Banzai hoodie!" $400K – Mera Villain Song "All the bad guys get a song!" $450K – Animated OVA "A fully animated episode! See below for details"

Production

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• May 31, 2021 - On Twitter, a preview detailing the Blyndeff Family Relationship in the past was released.
• November 26, 2021 - A video was released on Jello's channel announcing the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter. He also released a preview of the first chapter.
• December 26, 2021 - The Kickstarter finished, unlocking an audiobook, New Opening Song, New Outro Song, Full Music Track, Anime Campaign 1-2, Hardcover Prints, Full Color Images, Animated Opening, Molly+Gio Sing, New Poster Prints, Extended S1 OP, Extended Cowboy ED, EP 1-4 Novelization, Giovanni Lullaby, Phoenica Plushie, EP 5-7 Novelization, Great At Crime Extended, Digital Art Book, Zora Villain Song, Doll + Hoodie, Another Book!, Epithet TTRPG Book, Giovanni Villain Song.
• January 7th, 2022 - On Twitter, it was announced The audiobook finished recording and they had begun to edit it.
• March 1st, 2022 - It was announced that the Illustrations are coming along smoothly.
• March 5th, 2022 - On twitter, it was announced Four illustrations were released on patreon. Showing one of them in the tweet.
• May 30th, 2022 - On Twitter, and Kickstarter, he announced that the first pass for audiobook's first 16 chapter were complete. Some lines needed to be re-recorded as well as 12 & 13 needed to be edited. He also announced that their main composer was focused on the score. As for the Illustrations, Only 2 or 3 of the 16 left. They also, announced that the poster will be modified version of the cover, or a specific illustration from chapter 12, either way it still needs to be finalized and touched up. He also released a new illustration from the book.
• June 7th, 2022 - after listening to the first mix of the audiobook he confirmed how emotional it is to the point of joking they should rename it "make me cry", Saying they are similar to the bonding scene between Mollly and Giovanni in "Bear Trap" and the fire scene from "The Doctor is In".
• July 4th, 2022 - On Kickstarter he released an Update, explaining a lot of delays as well as pushing past/expand the release date for patreon backers from July to summer. The good news, the audiobook is on its second past, getting any lines they missed. After that Jello and the lead engineer will listen through it. There is only one illustration left.
• July 20th, 2022 - On Twitter he announced he would finalize the audio this weekend before adding the music. He also released clip where Pheonica meets Giovanni/Vincent Murder with Molly.
• July 22nd, 2022 - On Twitter he released two clips, one titled "Giovanni lesson of the day" and one about the dynamic of Giovanni and Naven.
• August 12th, 2022 - On Twitter, it was further explained that, Molly Blyndeff, Giovanni Potage, Phoenica Fleecity, Trixie Roughouse, Lorelai Blyndeff, Rick Shades, and Naven Nuknuk will be major characters, and that Slyvester Ashling and Yoomtah will be minor characters.
• August 14th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan announced that he will start releasing a clip everyday, one from each chapter, including one from Prologue B (2) about how Crusher is not a baker.
• August 15th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip from Prologue C (3), that answers if Lorelai watches anime. (The anime is yes).
• August 16th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip from Prologue D (4), that revealed what Yoomtah sounds like.
• August 17th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip from the first Prologue, that showed off Elise Lovelock.
• August 18th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip from the first Chapter, that was an exchange between Feenie and Rick.
• August 20th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan explained that he missed posting as clip yesterday because he was busy with finishing up Chapter and that it is 45 mins long.
• August 20th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip from the Chapter 2, showing Giovanni's and Lorelai's dynamic , which is Lorelai has a crush on Gio.
• August 21th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released another clip from the Chapter 2, That showed Vincent Murder's reveal.
• August 22th, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan explained that he lost a whole chapter of music placement and retiming, meaning he's been set back a day or two.
• August 26, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released another clip from the Chapter 4, That showed Naven after being kidnapped by Lorelai.
• September 12, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip from Chapter 5, about how the Party was playing a game with Spelling Bee, and Trixie broke the rules by using a made up word.
• September 13, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip, where Trixie explained what's in her holy water.
• September 13, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip, about the editor's reaction to Ray Chase being cast as Rick, and releasing a zany clip with his performance in the tweet.
• September 14, 2022 - On Twitter, it was announced that although he would like to have the trivia eyecatchers, it may not happen because each illustration adds a significant amount of money to the printing fee.
• September 14, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip featuring Ogre, who he says is the most powerful character in Epithet Erased. The clip is about the Orge first meeting the neo trio and how he is baffled by them as they ask questions
• September 15, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip where Molly and Lorelai have a serious conversation where Lorelai explained why she freezed someone, saying how as an added bonus she gets to look at his butt. Molly is baffled by this.
• September 17, 2022 - On Twitter he explained his plan is to, in the next 2 weeks to finish the musical version of Prison of Plastic and send it off the SFX guy, then finish the lyric video for Great at Crime Extended Version, then get the audiobook back and "finish it once and for all".
• September 19, 2022 - On Twitter, Brendan released a clip where Trixie gets trapped in cookie dough and has to be slowly eaten out of it by Pheonica as a being approaches.
• September 20, 2022 - In a Kickstarter update, Brendon explained that once he finishes adding music to all the chapters he will go back through and fine tune the timing while adding notes for the SFX person in a spreadsheet and then send it to him.
• October 12, 2022 - He announced he was about two days away from being 99.9% of the audiobook.
• October 14, 2022 - He announced he was now 99.9% of the audiobook Also explaining the next step was putting the SFX in the audiobook and get a distributer for both digital and hard copies, reformat the book, and find an audiobook host. All the creative work is done now is just bureaucratic work. Further saying that he's going to begin reaching out to distributers this weekend, saying he wants at least the digital version out before the holidays. Also asking for anyone who knows a good print shop to message him.
• November 3, 2022 - In a Kickstarter update, he explained that he had secured a release platform for the audiobook, planning to not use audible at all. And will be looking more venues as well. He currently ahs two publishers interested with publishing a physical book, but due to how the industry works it will take a few more months before they are made. He also explained he is planning to release the digital copies in the first half of December.
• November 11, 2022 - On Twitter, it was explained it should be releasing in early December.^{Citation Needed} And he announced that the audiobook was 100% secured and that he has a failsafe self-publish option but he is still talking to publishers.
• November 22, 2022 - On Twitter, it was announced it will release on December 9, 2022.
• November 22, 2022 - On in a Kickstarter update, the Audiobook will be released on Soundbooth Theater, but first they will do a cast-wide read through tomorrow. It will also be published on Self-Publishing ingramSpark, it should have all the promised features it won't have any of the personalized features he wants, due to the site being very generalized. But he does have an interested Publisher, although it will take about 10 Months for the book to be published by them, so about Summer 2023. Due to having to everyone already having to wait quite awhile, he's going ahead with releasing on Dec 9, 2022. Soundbooth has agreed to hand out keys to backers. Backers can choose to get the self-published or wait and get the published version. He notes that the self-published version should still be good quality, but since he hasn't gotten a test copy, he feels uncomfortable about praising it.
• November 29, 2022 - On Twitter, Jello said he was exporting the finalized versions of the audiobook to send to Soundbooth Theater.
• December 4, 2022 - In a stream to promote Prison of Plastic, it was revealed Marrissa Lenti plays Ogre, that early version had too many exclamation points and it includes two in jokes with his friend Arim, The line "it's dough that gets thrown into the sun" and Pheonica being described as uniquely terrible.
• December 8. 2022 - The audiobook will cost ~$13, the ebook will cost ~$10, the hardback will cost ~$50. He is also currently working on a paperback alternative due to the hardback's cost. Later he said the retail version may not be available till the next week.

Trivia

• Each chapter will have one illustration
  • Despite this it seems there will only be 16.
• It has 93,000 words with 17 chapters.
  • It is unclear if this includes the 4 prologue chapters
  • He also said there will be 18 chapters.
• It will be the first Epithet Erased book to be produced but it could be the third chronologically because of the EP 1-4 and EP 5-7 Novelizations.
• One of Brendan Blaber favorite cut moments from the book is an improvised nonsense song sung by Phoenicia to Trixie to snap her out of a panic attack. It is based on "Yan tan tethera".
• On Twitter, some (joke) alternate titles were released, including,
  • "Epithet Erased: Molly is Tired of Being Nice, Molly Just Wants to Go Apeshit"
  • "Epithet Erased: Giovanni Is Your Boyfriend and He Bakes You Cookies ASMR [11 hours]"
  • "Epithet Erased: Phoenica Fights a Bee"
• On Twitter Jello revealed that in the original google do of Prison of Plastic, with an interaction where Molly says, "I think I know how we can beat my sister." with a note that said "With a pipe! :)"

Audiobook:

• The first chapter of the audiobook was released on YouTube.
  • They also did a live reading on Twitch of the four prologue chapters.
  • The audiobook finished recording on 1/8/2022. Despite this there still needed to be some editing, scoring, and re-recording by 5/30/22.

Kickstarter:

• Most of the editing to the first two anime campaign episodes are to salvage the audio quality.
• It was decided on twitter that a full version of Great at Crime will be produced before Epithet TTRPG Rulebook, Anime Campaign 1-2, and a full version Great at Cowboy.
• The only goals that were not reached are Doll + Hoodie 2, Mera Villain Song and the Animated OVA.

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Videos

• File:Epithet Erased - Prison of Plastic -Kickstarter Announcement!-
• File:Epithet Erased - Prison of Plastic -Chapter 1 Preview-
• File:Epithet Erased- Prison of Plastic - Promo Animation
• File:Epithet Erased SEQUEL - Out Next Week!

Promo Trivia

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Images

Book

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  A Book Illustration Released on Twitter.

Promo Infocards

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External Links

• Twitch:
  • Prologue Live Reading (Out of Order)
• Twitter:
  • "Best Line Read" Clip
  • "Vincent Murder" Clip
  • "Giovanni-Naven Dynamic" Clip
  • Giovanni Lesson of the Day Cilp (Taken from Prologue B: Banzai Blasters)
  • "Not Baker Crusher" Clip (Taken from Prologue B: Banzai Blasters)
  • "Answer to the question: Does Lorelai watch anime?" Clip (Taken from Prologue C: The Rabbit Knight)
  • "Yoomtah Voice Reveal" Clip (Taken from Prologue D: The Instructor)
  • "Showing Of Elise Lovelock" Clip (Taken from Prologue A: The Neo Trio)
  • "Feenie and Rick Exchange" (Taken from Chapter 1: Fish Out of Water)
  • "Lorelai's and Giovanni's Dynamic" Clip (Taken from Chapter 2: Vincent Murder)
  • "Vincent Murder's Arrival" Clip (Taken from Chapter 2: Vincent Murder)
  • "Naven Kidnapped" (Taken from Chapter 4)
  • "Made Up Words" (Taken from Chapter 5)
  • "Trixie's Salty Holy Water"
  • "Ray Chase's Talented Performance"
  • "The Most Powerful Character" (Taken from Chapter 7)
  • "A Conversation Between Sisters" (Taken from Chapter 7)
  • "Jello's Two Favorites" (Taken from Chapter 9)
• Prison of Plastic Kickstarter
• Patreon:
  • Prologue A: The Neo trio
  • Prologue B: The Banzai Blasters
  • Prologue C: The Rabbit Knight