Faced with an even bigger threat than the Banzai Blasters, Molly must team up with their leader, Giovanni, if she wants to stand a fighting chance of escaping the museum. But there may be even more nightmarishfoes lurking in the darkened halls…
"You see, the trick of this challenge is figuring out what to do with an incomplete recipe."
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On a field trip to the Sweet Jazz City Museum, Martin Blyndeff, the chaperone, annoys the class before Molly Blyndeff, his daughter, and Mera Salamin, the tour guide get him to stop. She then continues her tour about Epithets before asking the class if any of them have epithets. Martin raises his hand to alert her to about Molly's but she misunderstands when Molly says it is "Dumb". Mera goes back to asking the class and Indus Tarbella, an employee moving boxes, says he'll show them his epithet. Mera tries to shoo him away but the kids all chant they want to know. He flexes, creating a barrier, much to the excitement of the children.[6]
Meanwhile, Martin informs Molly that she has the nightshift despite having worked the past few nights, Molly is defeated and hands him her phone when he says the tour is boring. Indus notices this and how the others are not enjoying the tour as well, so he calls the children over and begins to tell them about the Arsene Amulet before Mera stops him reminding him that the museum isn't public yet. Indus agreed, flexing, accidently throwing the box he was holding onto the ground shattering it. The kids dived into the pile of artifacts, Mera not far behind to try and stop them. She asked for help from Martin but all he does is dive in as well to get some treasure of his own. Indus tries to get their attention but fails.[6]
Molly is overwhelmed so she creates a Silence Bubble and wanders off, her father unable to hear her. She bumps into Sylvester Ashling, accidently being covered in his Weird Dandruff, causing her to collapse from exhaustion seconds later. The field trip ends, with the class leaving, Martin unaware he left his daughter behind, and Mera and Indus closing the Museum. Lastly, Sylvester managed to sneak in.[6]
Molly wakes up in the Sweet Jazz City Museum after it had closed and looks for anyone else but finds no one. She realizes she is locked in due to the doors being locked and panics and attempts to call 911 to turn herself in for being a criminal for being there after hours. However, Giovanni Potage and his team of Banzai Blasters burst in, announcing his plans to rob the museum blind. Indus apologized and Mera told him to stick to moving boxes.[6]
Giovanni gives a speech about how they are going to rob the museum and how they are cool before realizing Molly is the only one there. Molly attempts to reports them as Giovanni tries to change this into how they are cool but Giovanni knocks the phone out of her hand with a ball of his epithet.[6] However, the 911 Operator and cop, Percival King (Percy) did understand something suspicious was going on and asked the sergeant to assemble a squad.[7]
Molly figures out his epithet is soup by tasting the ball despite Giovanni trying to hide it. So Giovanni tricks Molly in turn revealing that she has one. Giovanni then grabs her by her hood and brings her over the minions, talking about how they going to rob the museum. He then assigns three of them to watch over Molly. One of the members says that he wanted to rob the museum which leads to him bring up their earlier scheduling problems caused by him. He then ties Molly to a chair with duct tape and leads the remaining Blasters to look for valuables.[6]
The Remaining Blasters argue about being left behind as Indus enters the room. Molly informs him of the situation as he helps free her from the chair. Indus then challenged them to an honorable duel. The Blasters pose, Indus takes this as a initiation of a battle of posing. When they both finished their pose they asked for Molly's verdict. Molly picked Indus and Indus charged at them, getting stuck in the wall (Although he still encouraged Molly through the coming battle) but managing to knock out one of them. The two remaining blasters set their eyes on Molly. Molly tries to block them by throwing thumbtacks on the ground to block them and at first it works before the two realize they can walk around and grabbed her. Molly used Dumb Down Intelligence on one of them, causing him to charge into the other and knock out both of them. Molly then talked to Indus who managed to push himself out of the wall. Indus then ran to help Mera when he realized there are more Blasters, while Molly runs after him, asking to use his phone.[6]
Meanwhile, Giovanni and the rest of his Blasters wander into the storeroom looking for treasure. Mera tries to mock him and point out the flaws in his plan but Giovanni is unphased before having his Blasters shoot the woman. However, Indus managed to block the bullets with his shield. Giovanni uses Teleports Behind You to try and hit Mera but his attack was Dumb Downed by Molly. Mera tells Indus to grab Molly before having Indus throw Giovanni to the rest of Blasters and knocking them out with their Dule Tech, or combo attack, Scattergun. Giovanni grieves his boys as Mera reveals she plans to rob the museum.[6]
Mera explains to her that she plans to find the amulet and steal her epithet. Mera tells Indus to bring the intruders to the Desert Exhibit. She brings the five and throws the five behind a large barrier, creating a makeshift cell. Indus wonders off to look at the dinosaurs. Giovanni and Molly end up forming an alliance once he convinces her to not give up her epithet and Molly pointed out that he was minion-less, making her his new minion, giving her the alias: Bear Trap. The two manage to trick Indus into letting them out of the "cell" by exploiting his honor-bound personality. During this Giovanni encouraged Molly through her social anxiety and they also told him 1000 more minions were after Mera, tricking him into running to protect her. Now freed, Molly attempts to trick Giovanni into letting her have his phone but Giovanni manages to convince her that her actions make her a criminal as well. Giovanni bids his unconscious minions farewell before going to make a secret base.[8]
Meanwhile, Mera searched for the amulet when Indus returned and explained to her that he decided to let them go. While she yelled him, Sylvester appeared and Indus, thinking he's one of the 1000 minions, charging at him, but was knocked out by his Weird Dandruff. Sylvie explained he was a psychologist also after the amulet, wanting to study it. Mera realized she could use him, sending him after Molly and Giovanni, promising him a look at the amulet if he defeats them.[8]
Meanwhile, Giovanni constructed "Fort Cool Guy" out of the fake bears in an exhibit. Giovanni said they were part of their team when Molly questioned it so Molly decided they needed uniforms too, beginning to sew a BB in a bandana. They have a conversation about their shared love of crafts causing Molly to realize he is actually nice. With the fort complete, he explains to her how Banzai Blaster membership works, leading to him learning about Molly's rough home life and taught her the powerful lesson of saying no.[8]
Sylvester appeared, realizing they are the Banzai Blasters who are after the Arsene Amulet, raining down Weird Dandruff from above. Molly recognizes him and and the power so Giovanni uses Demon Energy Aura to disperse the dust. Giovanni informed Molly of his Critical 13 ability before Sylvester sends a wave of Counting Sheep. He threw two Lava Grenades at the horde, but they didn't do enough to make a real dent. Giovanni asked Molly to attack them but she doesn't have a weapon, so Giovanni gave her his Banzai Blaster Peashooter. The Counting Sheep than swarmed them, doing chip damage. Giovanni hit them till he reached 13, doing a crit on one of them, but realized that wouldn't work. Molly realizes that she use Hushabye on the sheep, dispersing one of them.[8]
One of the sheep then explodes on Molly's face, making her drowsy, so Sylvester then uses Nightmare Fuel on her, making her see her greatest fear, the room burning around her. Giovanni is angered by Sylvester distressing Molly and uses Teleports Behind You to get on top of Fort Cool Guy. He then comforts Molly. Sylvester uses Nightmare Fuel on Giovanni, bringing The two bears to life. The two think of using a ball of yarn from Giovanni's sewing kit, building up hits on Molly, before firing a Critical 13 hit on Sylvester. Sylvester uses Dream big, passing out, Molly and Giovanni return the ground just as he transforms into Dr. Beefton.[8]
While they attempted to figure out a plan Dr. Beefton charged at them and missed. Giovanni tired hitting the knife tapped to his bat at Dr. Beefton, doing nothing, and when Giovanni asked for it back, Dr. Beefton just threw it at him. Molly figures out that he was summoned by Sylvester being asleep, Dr. Beefton fearing her intellect, charged at her, knocking her to the ground. As he was about to stomp her, Giovanni used his red cape to trick him to charge at him, hitting the wall. Giovanni then used some of the lights that came loose to try and wake up Sylvester that way, however, Dr. Beefton covered Sylvester up with his cloth. Dr. Beefton then picked up the bears and began walloping Giovanni with it. Giovanni backed off and healed with his Ancient Potion, but Dr. Beefton just started beating him again when he stepped forward. However, Molly had managed to activate the fire alarm, the blaring sound waking Sylvester up.[7]
Molly was promoted one rank and she explained to Giovanni that she does not have enough money to pay the $100 a month subscription to the Banzai Blasters. When Sylvester woke up they explained that it was Mera who was after the Amulet not them, and Molly recruited and befriended him. As Giovanni and Sylvie bicker, Molly points out that the police are coming due to the fire alarm, meanwhile Mera is freaking out as well. She wakes up Indus and yells at him and Indus apologizes before the two get back to digging through boxes. Indus continues his apologies but is interrupted by Mera when she finds the Arsene Amulet.
Sylvie, Molly, and Giovanni begin their walk to the Storeroom, debating ways to defeat Mera, when Molly's dead mother comes up. This prompts Sylvie to offer to be her therapist as well as Molly giving him the business card for the Blyndeff Toy Emporium.
Indus intercepts the party and exclaims he is there to retrieve Molly. He also says his Epithet is "Barrier" to the confusion of Sylvie as he says it is strategic suicide to reveal your Epithet to strangers. Nevertheless Sylvie is let past to face Mera as Giovanni attempts to keep Molly away from Indus. Giovanni says that even if Molly is to timid to defend herself, he will defend her. This inspires Indus so much that he agrees to face Giovanni in one on one combat. After Giovanni looses immediately, Indus tells Molly that Mera wants her Epithet to quell her unending pain caused by her powerful Epithet, "Fragile".
Indus tries to grab Molly but she throws sand from the desert exhibit into Indus's eyes, apparently the third worst place for sand to be. She uses this opportunity to escape and use a dinosaur from the dinosaur exhibit to climb onto the barrier imprisoning three of Giovanni's boys. After tricking Indus into lowering the barrier, Molly climbs onto the Apatosaurus and, with minor interruption, escapes into an air vent.
After scootch scooching past a vent that showed Indus being arrested by Percy, she arrived above Sylvie and Mera fighting. After Mera throws Sylvie around for a while, he turns into Br. Beefton. Dr. Beefton breaks through Mera's crystals and nearly breaks her in two. After giving a horrid one liner, Mera takes out a chunk in the ceiling and crushes Dr. Beefton. Molly falls out of the ceiling, having been in a ceiling vent, and is captured by Mera. Before Mera steals Molly's Epithet, she steals Sylvies Epithet "Drowsy" due to him being an annoyance. Mera then uses Nightmare Fuel to encircle Molly and herself in blue flames. After Mera gives a monologue, she realises she cannot hear anything before being struck by Molly and Giovanni's Dule Tech, Silent but Deadly. An attack where Molly silences Giovanni so he can hit a Critical 13 without being noticed. This knocks Mera out but also alerts Percy and the rest of the police to their location. Before they arrive, Sylvie is given back his Epithet.
Percy unsheathes her real-ass god-damn sword upon her arrival and frightens the Banzai blasters. Giovanni pretends Sylvie and Molly are his hostages to preserve their innocence in the eyes of the law. After Molly swears to show she is being corrupted by "bad guy proximity", Percy makes her fellow officers stand down whilst Giovanni and the rest of his boys escape into his new ability, Fog of Lost Souls, a fog made of soup steam.
Molly checks on the injured Sylvie as he is being caries into a stretcher and tells him she meant it when she said they could be friends, she also promises to send him get-well-soon toys. Molly goes over to see Mera being shoved into a police car with Indus as they look glum and defeated. She uses her Epithet to make Mera feel no pain whilst squished in a police car with likely all of her bones broken. For the first time in many years Mera feels no pain.
Percy gives Molly a ride home as her father is unable to be contacted. Molly considers working her shift but decides against it, she has learned the confidence from her Boss, Giovanni, that night to be able to go to bed at a more reasonable hour and not to let herself be pushed around. She will remember that lesson forever.
A shadowy figure stands outside of the museum. We see them wearing all white dyed by the nights shadow. The only illumination coming from electricity coming off of their pink hair and cheeks ad=s well as her phone screen. A text thread is seen that shows the odd figure comunicating with their Boss that they failed to get the Arsene Amulet, and they will have to send Zora out on a manhunt to catch Giovanni Potage.
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Brendan Blaber, when he started working on this arc, was trying to keep it a tournament arc like the Anime Campaign episode it is based on, but quickly switched it to be set in a museum. It also included Dan Gansley before he was cut prior to him starting to work on the Episode 4 script. He also explained that it is written "whole cloth" from scratch.[Citation Needed] Despite this is it still serves the purpose of the AC episode. It took three drafts to write.[9]
Differences between Episode 0 - Regional Below Ceremony and Epithet Erased[edit source]
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The Epithet Erased episodes and the Anime Campaign episode they are inspired by are vastly different, to the point that Brendan Blaber considers it not be a adaption due to it mostly being written "whole cloth". Despite this mainly core things carry over between them. However, the differences are:
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Instead of it being set in the Sweet Jazz City Museum, it is set in the Regional Below Ceremony, a tournament. As such being a "tournament arc".
Several names are different including: "Gemeni Necklace" instead of "Arsene Amulet" and "Bushido Blasters" instead of "Banzai Blasters".
Several characters appear that are not in the Epithet Erased version: Moxie Roughhouse, Charlotte Scarlet, Gulie Manning, Devinia, Allison McGillicudy. Dan Gansley, Chuck Jones , Abbott Arbuckle. (Although Dan Gansley was in early drafts.[Citation Needed])
It being a "tournament arc", the arc is a lot more stuctured. It going from backstage to the annousment, to 4 1v1 matches, an interrupted 2v2, and finally a "clusterfuck" final battle.
Molly goes there intentionally to promote the store, instead of a field trip, and accidently becomes a fighter.
Moxie Roughhouse, Charlotte Scarlet, and Gulie Manning are characters on the first group alongside Sylvester Ashling who is twelve and is not there because of the necklace. Somewhat similar to Epithet Erased Sylvie ends up seeing Mera as a mentor due to her knowledge of Epithets, and feels similarily betrayed when her true nature is revealed.
Toliet Apples, Anime Campaign's version of STEM, a company that sells apple flavored in Toilet waters, is the sponsor.
Instead of Giovanni Potage having a whole team of Banzai Blasters, he has two other members with him, Devinia and Allison McGillicudy. They make up the second team along with Molly.
Instead of it being Molly who reveals Giovanni's epithet as "Soup", its Moxie during their fight. He is similarly embrassed, allowing Moxie to win the battle.
Molly is only a supporting character in this, facing off against Gulie in a match but managed to convince him to help her promote her store.
During a 2v2 matche: Arbott Arbuckle, charges in, telling them something shady is going on. And after defeating him it is revealed he is right.
Mera is person running the tournament and already has the necklace. She was the winner of the first year and killed the person running it. She has at least two other epithets including: “Bughouse” and “Eventual”. She also killed their owners.
The chaotic fighter ends with, like Epithet Erased, the Bushido Blasters have the Gemeni Necklace, however unlike Epithet Erased, Mera and Indus manage to escape.
Differences between Epithet Erased and EP 1-4 Novelization[edit source]
The Anime Campaign episode this arc is based on, Episode 0 - Regional Below Ceremony was not archived and as such the only way to experience it is through the google doc,Anime Campaign - Adventure 0 Recap, which is a plot summary of the episode.
