Movie Night!

[myblueskies]

Who: Romeo, Tidus and YOU (You may mingle!)
Where: Cinema carriage
When: Grasshopper day 2, evening
What: Sports anime movie night with popcorn!
Warnings: There shouldn't be! But I will add if anything comes up

POP, POPPOPPOP...

As announced by Romeo earlier that day, the cinema car has been prepared for a night of anime sports. There isn't much different at first glance, but by first whiff, those who recognise the smell of freshly popped popcorn may detect the new addition to the carriage before they see it set up on a table by the back wall.

There's a soft whirring with the faint pop, poppoppop of the corn kernels, which thankfully isn't that intrusive to the ears as most popcorn machines. Salt and sugar shakers sit next to bowls for people to take and dish out their own popcorn, as well as bottles of cinnamon and mixed (sweet) spice. Also, there's even paprika and hot chilli bottles right next to each other. Who put those there? Please shake sparingly. Or don't. It's your tastebuds on the line.

Jugs of juice from the kitchen have been set out with plastic cups for those looking for a drink, as well as a simple collection of chocolate chip cookies. There may or may not be enough for all, but probably not.

The entertainment won't start right away, so take this time to chat with one another!

BORN TO REVIEW

For this 'sports night', 4 episodes of an anime called Born To Blitz are being played, a comedy movie called Swing-It Like Seccam, and to finish it off, a sports-themed mystery of the beloved franchise Magical Detective Heartlines!

Born To Blitz is your standard sports highschool anime, but with a diverse extraterrestrial species and set on a 'coastal city' where all the buildings are domes. It's quick to lay out the story of its hero, Fax Qincan, who is trying out for the school's competitive blitzball team so that he can get a reputation and one day be a real blitzball professional. He gets a spot by the second episode (unfortunately, beating out his best friend for a place on the team), and now he must start his vigorous training before the school competitions start!

The live-action Swing-It Like Seccam is a similar deal, if less intense and offering more laughs! Follow Arla as she inspires to become a professional ping-pong player like her hero Seccam, but also as she has to deal with a disapproving family who don't take her dreams seriously. Touching towards the end, it can be confusing now and then due to a lot of pop culture references popular in Miyoon in the year 6k20nb.

And last but not least is Magical Detective Heartlines: Goal In Life, an anime movie of the beloved Heartlines as she solves her latest case in all her 80s style anime glory! Famous hoverball player--a sports played on hoverbikes that also bash around the animated balls into goals--Missie is being threatened to throw in their biggest game yet, or risk the life of their snatched beloved! It's up to Heartlines to find the culprit--but can she do it before the end of the match?

Of course she does, but not without suspense and the game being stretched out at the risk of Misse's life as well! And with a bop of a soundtrack, and plenty of glittery sequences. And let's not forget the magical girl transformation scenes. Romeo will show you the moves.

END OF FILM REEL...

And with that, the Sports Night is over with, and what you do is ultimately up to you. Talk about the selection? Something else? Are you the sort of person who can't imagine leaving a mess, or are you rushing off with familiar faces?

Or maybe it'll be nice to go for a watch to stretch your legs, even get a drink. It's late, but the coffee and tea machines are what, only twenty-five carriages away, surely.

Just remember not to stay up too late! Got to avoid the void sickness.

( OOC: It's a fun little mingle! Have your characters bring their own food and snacks, cause some mischief, complain or be too loud. :) There will be small breaks between each showing and the blitz anime will be the same length as the movies altogether (so about 20 mins a piece).

Also full disclaimer, Ree wrote this! All credit goes to her!)

Comments

Popcorn hand out

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel was looking forward to this, mostly for the social aspects, rather than the actual shows, but he hoped that he would find them entertaining as well.

"Oh, if I'd known, I would have been willing to melt the butter and keep it warm for you. It's isn't hard for me. Pun intended," he said with a bit of a grin.

"I've not had this before. How do you recommend it?"

[blitzcheer]

"You gonna turn your body light on and keep the butter warm?" he throws out, a jest, but turns to the shakers on the table.

"You a sweet tooth kinda guy, or you know if you like cinnamon? We can sprinkle a little on a popcorn, see how you like it that. ...Sugar and salt might be harder though," giving those two shakers a look. Well, the salt would be...

[laurefindil]

"It works," Glorfindel said, in his defense. He was very good at melting things, actually. He was usually banned from the kitchens when they made ice cream in the summers to his dismay, but he was always popular in the colder months.

"Elves do tend to have a sweet tooth," he admitted. "But I am intrigued by the idea of cinnamon with the sugar. May I have a mix of the two?"

[blitzcheer]

Glorfindel's first answers get a small laugh out of Tidus anyway, but he's not going to designate the elf as the official Butter Warmer, anyway.

"Sure. I don't know how you're supposed to mix these, buuut..."

But Glorfindel will see, once Tidus gets going. He puts the popcorn bowl on the table, shakes on the sugar first more generously than he then does the cinnamon, which coats the upper popcorn in a chestnut colouring.

Except coating--and overcoating--a top few of popped corn isn't going to work here, and that's where Tidus picks up a plastic lid. Some random plastic lid taken from the kitchen, who knows from what. What matters is that it fits over the bowls they've brought out well enough, so that Tidus can pick them both up and give them a shake!

And after a few seconds of that, he takes away the lid and offers the nicely coated popcorn to one elf.

"Try it!"