Two Days Before a Team Event, Inami Rai Studies Endfield’s Gas Industry in a Six-Hour Stream

NIJISANJI — Inami Rai spent the second half of a six-hour Arknights: Endfield stream, which began on Oct. 27 Japan time, learning how the game’s gas-based industrial equipment works and going back over his own factory. He is due to take part in a team event for the game on the 29th.

He opened by saying the stream was not a paid project and that he was playing purely for fun. Early on he read through the event’s rules: four teams of three compete across four events, with points added up at the end. The events are a boss fight, an industry round in which each member takes one beginner, intermediate or advanced problem, a course-design race and a photo challenge. Industry appeared to be central, which worried him. “I really don’t know gas,” he said. “Not knowing is bad.” He added that he expected to end up with the advanced problem.

“I really don’t know gas. Not knowing is bad.” — Inami Rai, on reading that the event leans on industry

Before getting to that, he spent the first half of the night on the main story. A magic brush let his character draw into a world painted on a scroll and repair a damaged village from inside it. Painting water set a waterwheel turning, and he joked that a song-and-dance scene in the village felt like a stage musical. A chess-like board game match, a meeting with the main character’s past self near the end of the quest, and a stretch of running an inn, where he cooked and served customers alone, followed.

The gas lesson came after the 4-hour mark. Skipping the in-game explanations, he walked through gas pumps, converters between gas, liquid and solid, and the equipment that builds a stable environment so a recipe needs fewer parts. He then opened his own base, which he said was built on layouts he had downloaded, and rebuilt a production chain for an advanced component, working out where each pipe and machine fed the next.

He said he could not know what the problems would be until the day, but that he believed what he had practiced would help. He closed by announcing a collab stream the next evening at 7:30 p.m.