Cinema

[voidtreckermods]

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CINEMA

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This carriage is as tall as a double carriage, but has only the one floor. Instead, it features sloped seating. To enter the carriage from the sleeper carriage side, you must first go upstairs. You enter at the top of the carriage, in the centre aisle, with paired seating sloping downwards on either side. On the opposite wall there is a large screen and there is a door to the left of the screen once you get to ground level, to allow you into the next carriage.

There are some spider web hammocks at the back, allowing for lounging without being too in the way of viewing.

On the right of the screen there is an ICP and in this carriage it has a catalogue of films and TV series. There are hundreds to choose from.

Given the variety of footage available, you can decide what you want your characters to watch. Bear in mind, nothing is going to be quite what they know from home. Actors will be different (many won't be human). They might find a couple of familiar films, but most will be different, new and somewhat strange. Beware the fourth wall! Use your common sense; a good rule of thumb is the more likely characters from a film are to be in roleplay, the less the film in the cinema can be anything like the original.

So for example, whilst there are no doubt many superhero films in the catalogue, any featuring existing superheroes will not be. Broad story themes can be similar, but make your own superheroes up! Likewise there may be a space opera, it might even have laser swords, but that is as close to Star Wars as it will get.

Films that are very unlikely to have characters showing up can be shown a bit more true to themselves. There is also the option of course to make a completely new film up!

For the most part, you can just go with whatever, but if you have a great idea or want to share a film that you've thought of, feel free to post story/plot ideas here.

Starting from the month of Quicksand (March 2022), documentaries are available. These are an eclectic mix, from sports documentaries to 'how it works' pieces on different technology, to histories of random worlds. There is a little on the void - on the history and basics of void travel, and you can assume if there is a book in the library about a subject, they can find a documentary about it! There is nothing about the Voidtrecker's homeworld, or the Voidtrecker Express itself.

Here are some examples to start you off:

MOVIE EXAMPLES: (Click to show)

Sing Cat Sing!

An animated film about cats flying fighter jets and engaging in epic karaoke battles. The songs are annoyingly catchy and there are even dance moves to copy! The plot is a bit... non-existent. But it is a lot of fun.

Silence Without

A high-tension horror film about the final hours of a doomed space station. Three friends desperately try to escape their fate as systems fail and the hostile realities of space set in.

Tilt of an Eye

A period drama, silent and in black and white. Very pretentious, clearly won a lot of whatever its origin world's version of Oscars were. It tells the story of forbidden love between two members of warring factions of a psionic insect species.

Merry Little Voidtrain

The adventures of everyone's favourite green and magenta train and her best friend Kheli the rabbit! This bright children's cartoon runs for 26 seasons and has five feature length films. Kheli and her voidtrain travel the multiverse to help people and make new friends. All the people on all the worlds are animals. It is the type of children's cartoon that is very watchable by adults, it has strong but simple plot lines and its messaging is clear without being hammered home. Be kind, have adventures and do small things to make the worlds better. It does however have an incredibly annoying and catchy theme song, which cannot be skipped.

Star Hunter

A well-written series about a detective who chases criminals through the multiverse. Lydi is a detective who started off a simple space cop, until one case changed things. Soon she is world hopping, trying to solve the case of her life.

Bees on a Train

Despite the spoofy name, this is a disaster horror film. Set on a world that seems to have a mix of different human and nonhuman people, it is set on a regular land train travelling across a vast country.

Unfortunately for everyone, one of the passengers is a smuggler and is transporting a hive of Zanti bees he has brought in from off-planet. Zanti bees are a rare and endangered species from a far distant planet. They are a protected species and their honey is said to be fit for gods. They are also extremely deadly.

The bees get loose, chaos ensues. The train is sealed to prevent the bees escaping. The film cuts between the passengers, trying to fend off and hide from a swarm of bees on a train that refuses to stop, and an emergency meeting between decision makers trying to solve the problem.

Do they allow a train full of people to die? Do they risk harming a protected species of bees? Do they allow the bees out into the world? Can they be contained?

Meanwhile a train-load of people are being hunted by eighty thousand bees.