The Outcrosses Part 1: The Exploration Dawn

The Outcrosses Part 1: The Exploration Dawn is an original 2019 coming of age adventure film, directed and produced by Solublestorm125. The film was released on the Duo Lightning Production Studios YouTube channel on June 30, 2019. The film mainly stars Solublestorm125.

The film follows a 10 year old Sylan who meets two interesting men on a perilous journey that he decides to join, but only ends up unwillingly welcomes all sorts of danger. As his new journey progresses he starts learning of the dangers and the demons associated with it. The journey eventually leads him to a life or death Skywars tournament.

The film was followed by a 3 sequels

Plot
The film starts with a city in chaos as bullets fly and people scream, and Herobrine eventually appearing via lightning which prompts the protagonist, Sylan to abruptly wake up. Sylan, still scarred from his nightmare, decides to go downstairs and get his day started. He greets his only companion, Dumbo, and heads out for the day. Sylan heads to the library to get a book and heads to the weapons market to cash out a deal he found offscreen. While negotiating with the seller, Sylan learns that the deal was only a scam to gain traffic. A random man offers to pay for the weapon but Sylan declines. Sylan tries getting to know them, having a slight distrust in them. They introduce themselves as San and Jeff and it is learned they are adventurers and looking for an ancient sword. Sylan asks to join the adventure, always having a craving for adventure, but they are skeptical. A scary threat then rampages the market, but after taking care of it they agree and tell him to be back before sunset. Sylan runs home as fast as he can. When he gets home Sylan bursts through the door telling Dumbo what happened and what is yet to come. Sylan eagerly packs. He leaves, hugging Dumbo and saying goodbye. Sylan goes into town stopping for some of the best Pina Coladas in town as a form of self-celebration. He leaves the house

and meets San and Jeff beside the sword market. After a small bit of doubt Sylan eagerly leaves Horse Valley on his new adventure with his new friends. 2 hours into their adventure Sylan starts complaining about being tired, but luckily the campsite is very nearby. After finishing setting up the camp. Sylan goes to the lake to freshen up, but spots an odd figure, freaking Sylan out. Later that night, San, Jeff, and Sylan gather around the campfire talking. San suggests he and San more formally introduce themselves to Sylan and vice versa. Jeff and San talk about their lives before their adventure and what lead them to it. Sylan Starts talking and Sylan starts getting so in-depth that it upsets him causing him to run into the tent and cry himself to sleep. He wakes up the next morning feeling a bit better. He walks outside only to find San chopping wood and Jeff reading. He notices a grave, one that happens to be familiar to San and Jeff. They proceed on with the day which leads to them finding a chest via a metal detector. After they start digging they find an ender chest with a journal that contains that Sylan dismisses as "crap". The Following night, Sylan is woken up by Jeff due to a horrible storm happening. San, Jeff, and Sylan quickly pack up and leave running through the forest. Sylan accidentally separates from the group. Scared, He stops at a tree but is struck by lightning causing the tree to fall on him. Out of the dark Herobrine overlooks Sylan’s "dead" body. That morning, San and Jeff look for Sylan only to find him under the tree without a scratch. They wake Sylan up and he seems to be fine for a person in his condition. So they continue throughout the forest and find an abandoned cabin. They settle into it and start planning their next move. On Jeff’s computer, they find tickets to a ship that can lead them to a town where an experiment on superhumans happened that can lead them to the sword. The ship is in a town that is exactly 6733 blocks from their current location. They try buying tickets but are $2070 off. Sylan and San go outside where San asks Sylan if he would like to be trained. Sylan agrees. Jeff calls them back and reveals that a nearby town is hosting a skywars competition that will help cover $1,552.5 or 75% of their remaining cost. They find they have a week until the ship departs and a few days until the skywars competition. They decide to leave the next morning. The next day, they pack up and head toward the town. En Route they discuss possible ways to cover the other 25%. As it gets dark they realize they have no equipment so instead of sleeping they start leaping from tree to tree and come across their destination. They rent a room and settle in for the night.

After another Herobrine nightmare, Sylan wakes up in horror. He goes outside only to find San and Jeff signing up, while this happens Sylan explores the town and finds where the skywars competition takes place, finding hundreds of bodies lying around the field. In service he buries them. Hours after his work, he returns to the room tired and sapped. San asks if Sylan would like to start training tomorrow. Sylan agrees. He quickly falls asleep. Sylan wakes with a start and finds a note from San telling him to meet him outside. They start training with Sylan having to find the special in himself while meditating. Next, he learns how to find the weakness in an enemy and outsmart them. They end with Sylan having to solve a riddle: “What is a fatal weakness.” The next morning, Sylan wakes up and overhears Jeff telling San how he is not ready to die not until his life’s journey is finished. Sylan then pretends to wake up. He takes a walk to the beach. San walks behind Sylan and tells him that it is time for a test. He brings Sylan into a forest where it abruptly turns into night and a perilous wither skull resides. San implies that Sylan must vanquish it, but vanishes before instructing Sylan. Sylan attempts to jump the wither skull only to fail, leaving him in doom.

San and Jeff talk about the Skywars competition back at the house where San reveals that they underestimate Sylan, as Sylan walks in with the skull in his hand. Sylan gets upset and leaves, but unable to find a place to sleep he sneaks back in. Sylan wakes up finding a note from San telling him he apologizes, and they will see him after the competition. Sylan rushes to the shop, taking an invisible potion without a second to spare he rushes to the teleportation Cube with San and Jeff just teleporting. Inside the cube, Sylan’s invisibility wears off, revealing him. San and Jeff, surprised, but wary about his bravery allow it. They discuss their plan of action is to stay at the island until a majority is dead, then they make a move and pick off the remaining teams, the cube then opens and the games begin.

Sylan, Jeff, and San collect their items after Sylan accidentally drops his backpack so they descend into the bunker to collect items. San notices a player and Sylan throws a shuriken at him. They quickly resurface but get in an arrow shootout. An arrow comes at Sylan, but he dodges it, however, the arrow hits an unfortunate target: Jeff. The arrow causes him to fall back into the void as San and Jeff sadly and helplessly watch as he disappears into the void. Sylan screams an inaudible scream, trying to control his sadness. Inspired by Jeff’s Death, Sylan and San advance throughout the map. Sylan then breaks down revealing that he overheard Jeff. San tells Sylan they will mourn later. With 5 players left including San and Sylan. They then take out one player. After the 4th to the last player is vanquished, they find the last team. The last team happens to contain Bagneb and TTAM, the most famous players ever. Sylan takes Bagneb, using his lessons Sylan gains a slight upper hand. He learns Bagneb underestimates everyone he comes across. Meanwhile, San fights TTAM. TTAM distracts San. Taking advantage of this he stabs and kicks San into the Void. Sylan watching as San’s life leaves him Sylan unwittingly vanquishes Bagneb, in a feeling of pain and anger Sylan feels an unnatural type of adrenaline. Sylan is then faced with TTAM. He runs toward TTAM with an unnatural speed. Unmatched with TTAM, Sylan enacts parts of his training and inadvertently beats TTAM. Sylan starts disappearing and lands back in the town. He runs to find a lying San with a sword in his torso and lying on a pool of blood on the root of a tree. Jeff is on the ground with an arrow in his heart. Sylan runs towards Jeff. In his final words, he makes Sylan promise to continue his journey as Jeff’s journey ends. Sylan then runs towards San. San apologizes to Sylan for underestimating him. San asks Sylan if he ever solved the riddle. It is revealed it is to never overestimate an enemy, but he reveals it is also fatal to underestimate an enemy. San tells Sylan they are not friends they are family. San takes his last look of the world as the world takes its last look at him. A grief-stricken Sylan lets his emotions run. The skywars committee gives Sylan his money and prize. The committee leaves as Sylan climbs the mountain overlooking the ocean deciding to finally accept his destiny as he closes his eyes remembering his family. Sylan returns and buries San and Jeff on the beautiful mountain. He gives a speech about their lives and their soon-to-be-completed mission. He lets himself cry as he decides to rest with them as the film ends.

Cast
Solublestorm125 as Sylan

Production
Filming for the Outcrosses Part 1 began on November 26, 2017, but many delays such as the instillation of mods, set design, actor availabilities, etc hindered the progression of the project. Due to Solublestorm125's introverted personality, he had trouble asking for help the quality of the project payed the price. Production ended on May 31, 2019 and was released on June 30th, 2019 officially starting Duo Lightning Production Studios.

Trivia

 * Sylan originally had the last name of storm, but it was written out in order to leave room for a better one later on
 * The death of Jeff was mainly based off of the death of Derp in Black Plasma Studio's Skywars series
 * On the last day of production the Skywars map was blown up, an act that Duo Lightning Production Studios later regretted when they learned the original footage was corrupted
 * So far the longest film in the series
 * The only film in the series to be a roleplay
 * Solublestorm125's first acting role