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[[https://zebulonpodcasts.wixsite.com/main/ditv ''Dining in the Void'']] is a [[ScienceFiction science fiction]] horror audio drama/fictional podcast in which six alien celebrities (and one voice-only AI) are invited to a seemingly innocent dinner party onboard the Sirius Station. They are [[EnclosedSpace trapped on the ship]] and must work together to survive. The show is a production of [[https://zebulonpodcasts.wixsite.com/main Zebulon Podcasts]], an independent podcasting network, and was created by Ali Hylton. It features a cast and crew of various genders. As of February 22nd 2019, the show has one season out with twelve episodes, each averaging around 33 minutes, and one interim episode.
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!! This podcast contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Waverly and Katie Belle, especially in episodes 9 and 10. Oh yeah, their [[spoiler:mutual confessions of love]] in Episode 11 are pretty cute too. Waverly even calls Katie Belle a dork in said episode.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[JustifiedTrope Somewhat justified in-universe]] when the guests find a mysterious note in Earth-English. Of course, there's no explanation as to whether they ''are'' all speaking in Earth-English for Mars' sake, or if they're speaking another common language.
-->'''KATIE BELLE:''' It’s in Earth-English.\\
'''GALATEA:''' Well, it’s a good thing we all can speak it.
* AlliterativeName: Gi. Her full name is Gianna Griffin Green. Her middle name is also a reference to [[Creator/McElroyBrothers your sweet baby brother.]]
* BigGuyLittleGuy
** Waverly & Katie Belle: Waverly carries Katie Belle at the end of Episode 10. Katie Belle is slightly put-off by this and retaliates (jokingly) by [[HumanLadder climbing up onto Waverly's back]].
--->'''WAVERLY:''' I want to protect you. And you’re tiny.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' ''Everyone'' is tiny to you.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' ''You’re'' the tiniest.
** Sawyer & Mars: Mars is the same size as Sawyer's daughter Gi. They remark, "You're my height," in surprise when Gi explains that she's only eight years old. Sawyer hints at his suspicion that Mars is the host in Episode 12 when he says that "[the host] isn't ''big enough'' to fight back," to which Mars denies the implication.
* CantYouReadTheSign: The door to Mars' lab in Episode 2 reads "Danger! Keep out!" But of course, the plot necessitates that Katie Belle and Mars are going to explore it.
* CastFullOfGay: Or, arguably, [[EveryoneIsBi Everyone Is Bi]].
** Mars explicitly calls themself pansexual in Episode 8.
--->"Look, full disclosure, I’m pansexual, so if we weren’t playing this game, I ''might'' be interested [in Galatea]."
** Sawyer mentions he’s married to a man when Galatea flirts with him at the dinner party. His husband and daughter [[spoiler:arrive on the ship]] in Episode 7. By extension, his husband [[spoiler:Elory]] is also MLM.
** Galatea flirts with Mars. And Katie Belle. And Waverly. She also (accidentally?) makes a very not-straight joke about working with Tala.
--->'''KATIE BELLE:''' What do you even ''do'' with her?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Mess with her files, mostly.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' That sounds vaguely sexual.\\
'''GALATEA:''' I can assure you, it’s ''not''. It’s perfectly consensual, and Tala usually feels better afterwards.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' Okay, that sounds even ''more'' like a sex thing.
** Waverly’s secret involves the [[spoiler:killing of her lover Zell]] by Will and Willa Black, her parents. (She refers to [[spoiler:Zell]] using she/her pronouns.) However, the former King and Queen are not homophobic so much as [[FantasticRacism purebred elitists]].
** Katie Belle and Waverly [[spoiler:start dating in Episode 11]] so the two are [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wlw both into girls]].
** Jo makes several sexual references throughout the show, but it’s unclear what their exact sexual orientation is, or even if they have one.
** The current exceptions to this trope are Tala and Aveline, but since neither has (explicitly) shown ''any'' kind of attraction/sexuality, they aren't necessarily straight.
* CatchPhrase: "Oh stars" or "stars" get thrown around a few times, but Aveline Lion uses it the most.
* CliffHanger: Galatea [[spoiler:shoots the host]] in Episode 12 for not revealing who they are. The episode ends with [[spoiler:the gunshot]].
* TheClimax: Season 1's big climax comes towards the end of Episode 12, when all of the guests [[spoiler:travel to the heart of the ship]] and Galatea faces off with [[spoiler:Jo]] and Katie Belle faints from [[spoiler:trying to shapeshift]]. Galatea then gives an impassioned monologue (underlined by [[ClimacticMusic appropriately dramatic music]]) and says she'll [[spoiler:shoot the host]] if they don't reveal themself.
* ClosingCredits: At the end of every episode, Piper Kilgour (the voice of R) lists the actors and crew who featured in and worked on that month's story, respectively. The exact order varies a little but the credits always begin with "''Dining in the Void'' is a production of Zebulon Podcasts."
* ColorfulThemeNaming: Most of the guests' last names are colors (Green, Silver, Black, Ivory, and Kobe). "Lion" could ''technically'' count as a color. R, Jo, and Tala do not have known last names.
* ContentWarnings: Episode 3 (and every episode after that) starts with a warning about things that may trigger listeners. Specific timestamps for more provocative triggers are included in the Website/YouTube captions/description and, occasionally, in the podcatcher description itself.
-->"The following episode contains [[spoiler:loud screaming, kidnapping, torture, and minor character death.]]"
* ContrivedCoincidence: Many characters that go exploring happen to find things on the ship that are relevant to either the plot or to each other's secrets.
* CreepyChild: Jo, in their first appearance, pretends to be a child to scare Mars, who asks [[MediumAwareness "what other horror tropes (they)'re going to rip off"]]. When Mars later meets Gi (for real this time), they have a [[FlashbackCut flashback]] to Jo's initial appearance.
* DeadlyGame: Episode 3. However, the only death that comes up is one that has already happened, and the game is more violent than deadly.
* DontAsk: Name-dropped in Episode 10 when Galatea helps Sawyer walk into a room, but then she immediately tells Waverly and Katie Belle what happened anyway.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' ''[after the door opens and she sees Sawyer in pain]'' Galatea…?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Don’t ask. Our interrogation of Jo went horribly wrong.
* EnsembleCast: Right from the initial dinner party onward. The main seven characters are in every single episode.
* EverybodyLives: Despite the numerous death traps reported to be on the ship, and the whole [[spoiler:torturing Galatea]] business in Episode 3, no one has died yet. (We're not sure yet about [[spoiler:the host]] at the end of Episode 12, though. That remains a mystery.)
* EveryoneIsASuspect: Episode 1 does this pretty explicitly. Despite everyone [[NotMeThisTime claiming they're not the host]], Galatea says, "Someone's lying."
-->GALATEA:''' It's got to be one of ''you'' people, because I ''know'' it's not me.\\
'''MARS:''' Well, it's not me, I doubt I could even ''afford'' this.\\
'''AVELINE:''' Same goes with me, I could never afford my own station and pay off my student loans.\\
'''SAWYER:''' Well, we know this isn't mine, I already own a station back in the Iris sector.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' And I couldn't be bothered to stay so far away from everyone.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' My stations are either closer to my home or larger and open to the public, I don't see why I would need one so far out.
* FacialHorror: In Episode 5, Mars and Aveline find [[spoiler:the corpse of someone who looks like Katie Belle]] with its face melted off.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The violence jacks up in Episode 3, when Jo forces Sawyer and Mars to [[spoiler:play a game of Truth or Dare]] and, when they refuse to participate for ethical reasons, Jo [[spoiler:partially cripples Galatea.]]
* FictionalDisability: [[spoiler:Phoenix's]] disease in Episode 3.
-->[[spoiler:PHOENIX]]: There’s no cure for this, there’s no cure for Mortemlux C.
* FightScene: Episode 10. As Galatea puts it, their interrogation of Jo goes "horribly wrong." Jo [[spoiler:tackles Galatea to the ground,]] but Galatea [[spoiler:gets in a few good punches]]. Jo then [[spoiler:throws Sawyer back into the wall,]] but other than feeling dizzy and [[spoiler:needing Galatea's help to walk]], he's fine. Somehow.
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Katie Belle and Waverly]] in Episode 11. It's followed by a returned (second) kiss, and then a third.
* ForgotHeWasARobot: Tala forgets to mention the lab, to which Katie Belle asks: "Can AI actually forget?" and Mars says they've "never heard of it happening before." Unexplained memory loss is usually more common in living creatures than in robots.
* GenderIsNoObject: Two of the named characters use they/them pronouns: Mars and Jo.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' Did you get Mars to check it out?\\
'''AVELINE:''' Yeah, ''they'' said I should be fine.\\
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'''MARS:''' Where did ''they'' [Jo] go?\\
'''SAWYER:''' Who knows--(coughing) who knows, but ''they’re'' long gone by now.
* GivenNameReveal: The speaker in Interim Episode 1, [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/interim-episode-one-a-winners-farewell/id1337551590?i=1000430423448&mt=2 "A Winner's Farewell."]] There's technically two of these: the first happens when the speaker reveals what her girlfriend Adley said to her.
-->"And then she said, I remember this really clearly, she said: [[spoiler:'Tala...']] because only she could call me that..."\\
"When the galaxy hears from [[spoiler:Talanova]] again, it will be from within a tin can."
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Basically the premise of "A Winner's Farewell". The speaker [[spoiler:(Tala, back when she was alive)]] says goodbye to the people who loved her before [[spoiler:converting herself into a robot body]].
* HasTwoMommies: Sawyer and Elory are Gi's fathers. Sawyer's husband and daughter are referenced a few times, even before [[spoiler:they are heard over the radio]] in Episode 6 and later [[spoiler:board the station]] in Episode 7.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: In Episode 5, the guests hear a strange "host prompt" (as Tala calls it) and read a mysterious poem. Sawyer realizes: [[spoiler:"We weren’t brought here for a dinner party. We were summoned to play a game."]] They all speculate what the station was originally used for with this revelation in mind.
* HiddenVillain: The host who has trapped the guests. Fans have speculated about [[HiddenInPlainSight which of the guests]] [[RightUnderTheirNoses is the host]], with others suspecting that the host has not yet been introduced.
* HumanoidAliens: All of them, except for Mars, who's the [[TokenHuman Token Human]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sawyer [[spoiler:compromised some morals to get funding for a project,]] but he doesn't say exactly what. However, since Jo thinks it's enough cause to force him to spill it as a secret, it can't be good.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Katie Belle and Mars in Episode 1.
-->'''KATIE BELLE:''' Yeah, well, I'm going to grab another drink. I have the feeling we will be stuck here for a while.\\
'''MARS:''' I'll join you.
* InterspeciesRomance: Episode 11, with the relationship between [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]].
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: Invoked by Waverly in Episode 1, who says, "I have a feeling this party is just getting started."
* LoveConfession: There are two, both in Episode 11: [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] confess their love for each other, both saying "I love you" word for word.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Katie Belle brings up in-universe how a particular object makes basically no sense. Twice.
-->"Who in their right minds puts a door on the ceiling? On the ceiling? It’s totally useless! You cannot step into a ceiling! That makes no sense!" (Episode 3)\\
"Of all the things on this ship that make no sense, this makes the ''least'' sense. Why isn’t [the vent] just on the ceiling?" (Episode 9)
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Elory and Sawyer, with Sawyer being the working/masculine parent and Elory being the domestic/feminine parent.
* NastyParty: No one ''dies'' at the party, but getting trapped with a bunch of strangers isn't exactly their idea of a good time.
** To be fair, Mars and Aveline find [[spoiler:the body of Katie Belle Silver]] in Episode 5, so the trope was about four episodes late.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Though it doesn't come to blows, Sawyer disarms Galatea when she threatens the other guests with a knife.
-->"Now, now, let's not threaten the other guests, just let...let go of that knife. (He struggles to disarm her, the knife clangs on the table.) Thank you."
* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Appears in Episode 10. Aveline corrects Mars when they say "fuck it" in front of [[spoiler:Sawyer's daughter]], but they randomly guess that Sawyer has sworn in front of her before. [[spoiler:Said daughter]] reveals that he ''did'' in fact swear in front of her before he left for the party, including fifteen instances of the word "shit." Galatea is delighted by this, and Sawyer is (rightfully) embarrassed but doesn't deny it.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: Basically all of what happens to Galatea in Episode 3.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Characters make several references to stuff that happened off-screen that would've made for some interesting on-screen drama, including a pretty dramatic moment where [[spoiler:Gi [[ParentalSubstitute chooses to follow Mars over her own father]] ]].
* OpeningNarration: Though less direct than other uses, a mysterious voice recites an original poem with melancholy, existential statements that set the tone (and sometimes the plot) for the episode. (This is also an example of the Epigraph trope, but the page doesn't seem to work.) So far, none of the guests are aware of the voice's existence.
* PosthumousCharacter: Phoenix in Episode 3. We hear her voice in flashbacks. She dies of [[spoiler:the fictional disease Mortemlux C]] in the same episode.
** Also, technically [[spoiler: Tala]].
* PowersThatBe: The host, but also [[spoiler:the Family,]] who seem to have control over life and death.
* QueerRomance
** An established gay relationship is mentioned in Episode 1, when Sawyer references his husband, who later [[spoiler:arrives on the ship]], and the two are completely adorable.
** Galatea's secret has to do with her two lovers, whose genders are never mentioned. However, she doesn't say two girlfriends or two boyfriends, so it's possible they were not the same gender. ([[AmbiguouslyBi Whether Galatea is bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, etc. is still a mystery.]])
** Waverly gets revenge for her [[spoiler:dead lover Zell,]] who's referred to as "her", by [[spoiler:staging her own death]] but instead causing [[spoiler:the death of her parents]].
** [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] start dating in Episode 11 after [[spoiler:Jo nearly stabs Waverly]].
* RaceAgainstTheClock: At the end of Episode 11, Tala cheerfully announces that the guests have two hours to get to the heart of the ship or [[spoiler:Jo will drive the station into the sun.]] She then switches to a countdown, which for some reason [[MagicCountdown starts at 118 minutes.]] The episode's title itself spoils the appearance of this trope.
* RedStringOfFate: The concept is referenced when Aveline, Katie Belle, and Waverly explore a room covered in threads connecting [[spoiler:various pictures of all the guests]]. However, it's not red thread, it's blue.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' These threads are threads of fate. All these notes, these pictures, they’re connected, we’re connected.\\
'''AVELINE:''' Threads of fate? What do you mean?\\
'''WAVERLY:''' There was this ancient Trillian legend about the Five Fates, and how some people were connected by a blue thread. It’s usually thought of as romantic, for soul mates, but it also explains why mortal enemies can’t stay away from each other.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shapeshifter/main antagonist Jo first appears as [[spoiler:Gi Green]] and briefly as [[spoiler:Elory Green]] before settling on a main form (voiced by Rhea).
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Jo morphs into [[spoiler:Elory]] in Episode 3 and taunts Sawyer by asking, [[spoiler:"Don’t you tell your husband everything?"]] When that doesn't work, they instead guilt Mars by turning into [[spoiler:Phoenix.]]
* ShipTease: Arguably Galatea/Tala, in Episode 10. It all starts with Galatea accidentally (?) making a euphemism about working with Tala. (Or rather, "working".) Of course, Tala's none the wiser, and Galatea changes the subject pretty quickly.
-->'''GALATEA:''' I’m going to work more with Tala.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' What do you even ''do'' with her?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Mess with her files, mostly.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' That sounds vaguely sexual.\\
'''GALATEA:''' ''[mostly joking]'' I can assure you, it’s ''not''. It’s perfectly consensual, and Tala usually feels better afterwards.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' Okay, that sounds even ''more'' like a sex thing. (teasing) Go have fun with your robot friend, okay, Gal?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Ugh. ''Don’t'' call me Gal.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' Heh, have fun with Tala!\\
''[Tala comes online]''\\
'''TALA:''' Did someone say my name?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Oh, don’t listen to them. Just lead me back to your control room.
* ShoutOut
** In Episode 2, Tala mentions a door with [[Podcast/Wolf359 the number 359]] on it.
** Another shout-out to a more well-known podcaster comes when Gi, Sawyer's daughter, reveals her middle name is Griffin. Griffin as in, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvwz1809v94&ab_channel=dogparties banana vore boy]] [[Creator/McElroyBrothers Griffin Mcelroy]].
** Yet another shoutout, though this one a bit more subtle, comes in Episode 4, when Tala mentions that "there's always a need for [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inkwyrm/id1204629419?mt=2 AI caretakers]], especially on Earth."
** Tala claims to have [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "a brain the size of a planet"]] in Episode 10.
* StarcrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] are this trope, in a way. Jo calls them this because A) [[spoiler:Waverly's parents mistrust shapeshifters]], and B) they're ''literally'' starcrossed, being from different planets.
-->"You’re one of the Cruchakk, aren’t you? I mean, heh, talk about star-crossed lovers, right? [[spoiler:Trillia]] ''hates'' shapeshifters like you, and your cousins the Koprezz." (Jo, Episode 11)
* StellarName: The Sirius Station is named after the star system Sirius, one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky. Mars is also named after the eponymous planet.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Some of the guests might know each other, but overall their personalities/lifestyles clash. (See Episode 5 for some of the worst of it.)
-->'''GALATEA:''' The only reason I didn’t outright ''kill'' you was because I’d like to make it out of here alive. (Episode 3)\\
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'''SAWYER:''' Katie Belle just wants to sit and play with her stupid cups instead of doing literally anything else. \\
'''WAVERLY:''' Hey, let her live! Katie Belle just wanted to do something that wasn’t investigation. (Episode 5)
* ThankingTheViewer: Starting around Episode 4, the closing credits end with Piper Kilgour (the voice of R) saying, "Thank you for listening."
* TitleDrop: Each episode title comes from each episode's epigraphic poem. However, later in the season, the titles will sometimes show up in the actual dialogue.
** Jo calls the game show "The Games Children Play" in Episode 3 [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment of the same name]].
** In Episode 10, "Survive," Aveline, Galatea, Mars, and Waverly all say some variation of 'survive' (Waverly actually gets two after Katie Belle [[spoiler:nearly chokes to death on a mysterious gas released into her helmet]]).
** In Episode 11, "Count Down," R's poem does say 'count down' twice as a phrase and not the one-word concept, but towards the end, Tala announces that [[spoiler:the station is driving into the sun, and the guests have two hours to stop it]]. She wishes them all good luck and says, "I’m switching to the countdown...now."
* TokenHuman: Mars. Weirdly enough, most of the "alien" characters have American accents, but Mars' is Scottish. (Then again, Katie Belle's actress is from the Middle East, so the trope isn't watertight.)
* TortureTechnician: Jo claims not to be the host and yet knows [[ColdBloodedTorture what kind of torture]] will best get them the information they want.
* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The show becomes this in Episode 2 when we meet Jo, a shapeshifter who presumably lives on the ship and wants to [[DeadlyGame play a game]] with them.
* TriumphantReprise: The piece "Where No Light Escapes" uses the leitmotif from the show's theme, "Midnight," to underscore the final scene of Episode 12, where everything comes to a head. (See the entry for "Climax" above.)
* VoiceChangeling: Jo. They have had three voices/been four separate people so far:
** Themself, voiced by Rhea;
** [[spoiler:Phoenix,]] also voiced by Rhea,
** [[spoiler:Gi]], voiced by Vivian Faye (also credited as Vivian C),
** and [[spoiler:Elory]], voiced by Cedric Reeve.
* WalkAndTalk: Important conversations tend to happen when characters are walking down hallways.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Waverly runs into Jo towards the end of the shenanigans of episode 3. Jo promises to come back later. They [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Foreshadowing&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwj4gs6dmIrdAhVVNH0KHWVyDk8QFggEMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=006443654034974345143:kc4pt9dnkle&usg=AOvVaw1QB2HXmrp19xFv2uw_ryDh make good on]] [[ThePromise this promise]] in [[spoiler:Episode 8 and 9]].
-->'''WAVERLY:''' Who are you?!\\
'''JO:''' We’ll talk later, darling. Right now, gotta run.
* WelcomeEpisode: Episode 1 becomes this after Aveline [[spoiler:nearly dies when her ship explodes]] and boards the station. The characters get introduced one-by-one, although they're not quite a coherent group with plot-relevant allyships yet.
* YouDidntAsk: Tala drops this in Episode 2 when Mars' lab comes up, much to Waverly's chagrin.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' Tala, why didn't you tell us!?\\
'''TALA:''' You never asked. I thought you’d, you know, spring into action or something. \\
'''WAVERLY:''' You still need to tell us these things! You’re supposed to be on our side! \\
'''TALA:''' I am, but I’m programmed to be non-intrusive.
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[[https://zebulonpodcasts.wixsite.com/main/ditv ''Dining in the Void'']] is a [[ScienceFiction science fiction]] horror audio drama/fictional podcast in which six alien celebrities (and one voice-only AI) are invited to a seemingly innocent dinner party onboard the Sirius Station. They are [[EnclosedSpace trapped on the ship]] and must work together to survive. The show is a production of [[https://zebulonpodcasts.wixsite.com/main Zebulon Podcasts]], an independent podcasting network, and was created by Ali Hylton. It features a cast and crew of various genders. As of February 22nd 2019, the show has one season out with twelve episodes, each averaging around 33 minutes, and one interim episode.
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!! This podcast contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Waverly and Katie Belle, especially in episodes 9 and 10. Oh yeah, their [[spoiler:mutual confessions of love]] in Episode 11 are pretty cute too. Waverly even calls Katie Belle a dork in said episode.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[JustifiedTrope Somewhat justified in-universe]] when the guests find a mysterious note in Earth-English. Of course, there's no explanation as to whether they ''are'' all speaking in Earth-English for Mars' sake, or if they're speaking another common language.
-->'''KATIE BELLE:''' It’s in Earth-English.\\
'''GALATEA:''' Well, it’s a good thing we all can speak it.
* AlliterativeName: Gi. Her full name is Gianna Griffin Green. Her middle name is also a reference to [[Creator/McElroyBrothers your sweet baby brother.]]
* BigGuyLittleGuy
** Waverly & Katie Belle: Waverly carries Katie Belle at the end of Episode 10. Katie Belle is slightly put-off by this and retaliates (jokingly) by [[HumanLadder climbing up onto Waverly's back]].
--->'''WAVERLY:''' I want to protect you. And you’re tiny.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' ''Everyone'' is tiny to you.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' ''You’re'' the tiniest.
** Sawyer & Mars: Mars is the same size as Sawyer's daughter Gi. They remark, "You're my height," in surprise when Gi explains that she's only eight years old. Sawyer hints at his suspicion that Mars is the host in Episode 12 when he says that "[the host] isn't ''big enough'' to fight back," to which Mars denies the implication.
* CantYouReadTheSign: The door to Mars' lab in Episode 2 reads "Danger! Keep out!" But of course, the plot necessitates that Katie Belle and Mars are going to explore it.
* CastFullOfGay: Or, arguably, [[EveryoneIsBi Everyone Is Bi]].
** Mars explicitly calls themself pansexual in Episode 8.
--->"Look, full disclosure, I’m pansexual, so if we weren’t playing this game, I ''might'' be interested [in Galatea]."
** Sawyer mentions he’s married to a man when Galatea flirts with him at the dinner party. His husband and daughter [[spoiler:arrive on the ship]] in Episode 7. By extension, his husband [[spoiler:Elory]] is also MLM.
** Galatea flirts with Mars. And Katie Belle. And Waverly. She also (accidentally?) makes a very not-straight joke about working with Tala.
--->'''KATIE BELLE:''' What do you even ''do'' with her?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Mess with her files, mostly.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' That sounds vaguely sexual.\\
'''GALATEA:''' I can assure you, it’s ''not''. It’s perfectly consensual, and Tala usually feels better afterwards.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' Okay, that sounds even ''more'' like a sex thing.
** Waverly’s secret involves the [[spoiler:killing of her lover Zell]] by Will and Willa Black, her parents. (She refers to [[spoiler:Zell]] using she/her pronouns.) However, the former King and Queen are not homophobic so much as [[FantasticRacism purebred elitists]].
** Katie Belle and Waverly [[spoiler:start dating in Episode 11]] so the two are [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wlw both into girls]].
** Jo makes several sexual references throughout the show, but it’s unclear what their exact sexual orientation is, or even if they have one.
** The current exceptions to this trope are Tala and Aveline, but since neither has (explicitly) shown ''any'' kind of attraction/sexuality, they aren't necessarily straight.
* CatchPhrase: "Oh stars" or "stars" get thrown around a few times, but Aveline Lion uses it the most.
* CliffHanger: Galatea [[spoiler:shoots the host]] in Episode 12 for not revealing who they are. The episode ends with [[spoiler:the gunshot]].
* TheClimax: Season 1's big climax comes towards the end of Episode 12, when all of the guests [[spoiler:travel to the heart of the ship]] and Galatea faces off with [[spoiler:Jo]] and Katie Belle faints from [[spoiler:trying to shapeshift]]. Galatea then gives an impassioned monologue (underlined by [[ClimacticMusic appropriately dramatic music]]) and says she'll [[spoiler:shoot the host]] if they don't reveal themself.
* ClosingCredits: At the end of every episode, Piper Kilgour (the voice of R) lists the actors and crew who featured in and worked on that month's story, respectively. The exact order varies a little but the credits always begin with "''Dining in the Void'' is a production of Zebulon Podcasts."
* ColorfulThemeNaming: Most of the guests' last names are colors (Green, Silver, Black, Ivory, and Kobe). "Lion" could ''technically'' count as a color. R, Jo, and Tala do not have known last names.
* ContentWarnings: Episode 3 (and every episode after that) starts with a warning about things that may trigger listeners. Specific timestamps for more provocative triggers are included in the Website/YouTube captions/description and, occasionally, in the podcatcher description itself.
-->"The following episode contains [[spoiler:loud screaming, kidnapping, torture, and minor character death.]]"
* ContrivedCoincidence: Many characters that go exploring happen to find things on the ship that are relevant to either the plot or to each other's secrets.
* CreepyChild: Jo, in their first appearance, pretends to be a child to scare Mars, who asks [[MediumAwareness "what other horror tropes (they)'re going to rip off"]]. When Mars later meets Gi (for real this time), they have a [[FlashbackCut flashback]] to Jo's initial appearance.
* DeadlyGame: Episode 3. However, the only death that comes up is one that has already happened, and the game is more violent than deadly.
* DontAsk: Name-dropped in Episode 10 when Galatea helps Sawyer walk into a room, but then she immediately tells Waverly and Katie Belle what happened anyway.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' ''[after the door opens and she sees Sawyer in pain]'' Galatea…?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Don’t ask. Our interrogation of Jo went horribly wrong.
* EnsembleCast: Right from the initial dinner party onward. The main seven characters are in every single episode.
* EverybodyLives: Despite the numerous death traps reported to be on the ship, and the whole [[spoiler:torturing Galatea]] business in Episode 3, no one has died yet. (We're not sure yet about [[spoiler:the host]] at the end of Episode 12, though. That remains a mystery.)
* EveryoneIsASuspect: Episode 1 does this pretty explicitly. Despite everyone [[NotMeThisTime claiming they're not the host]], Galatea says, "Someone's lying."
-->GALATEA:''' It's got to be one of ''you'' people, because I ''know'' it's not me.\\
'''MARS:''' Well, it's not me, I doubt I could even ''afford'' this.\\
'''AVELINE:''' Same goes with me, I could never afford my own station and pay off my student loans.\\
'''SAWYER:''' Well, we know this isn't mine, I already own a station back in the Iris sector.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' And I couldn't be bothered to stay so far away from everyone.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' My stations are either closer to my home or larger and open to the public, I don't see why I would need one so far out.
* FacialHorror: In Episode 5, Mars and Aveline find [[spoiler:the corpse of someone who looks like Katie Belle]] with its face melted off.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The violence jacks up in Episode 3, when Jo forces Sawyer and Mars to [[spoiler:play a game of Truth or Dare]] and, when they refuse to participate for ethical reasons, Jo [[spoiler:partially cripples Galatea.]]
* FictionalDisability: [[spoiler:Phoenix's]] disease in Episode 3.
-->[[spoiler:PHOENIX]]: There’s no cure for this, there’s no cure for Mortemlux C.
* FightScene: Episode 10. As Galatea puts it, their interrogation of Jo goes "horribly wrong." Jo [[spoiler:tackles Galatea to the ground,]] but Galatea [[spoiler:gets in a few good punches]]. Jo then [[spoiler:throws Sawyer back into the wall,]] but other than feeling dizzy and [[spoiler:needing Galatea's help to walk]], he's fine. Somehow.
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Katie Belle and Waverly]] in Episode 11. It's followed by a returned (second) kiss, and then a third.
* ForgotHeWasARobot: Tala forgets to mention the lab, to which Katie Belle asks: "Can AI actually forget?" and Mars says they've "never heard of it happening before." Unexplained memory loss is usually more common in living creatures than in robots.
* GenderIsNoObject: Two of the named characters use they/them pronouns: Mars and Jo.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' Did you get Mars to check it out?\\
'''AVELINE:''' Yeah, ''they'' said I should be fine.\\
--\\
'''MARS:''' Where did ''they'' [Jo] go?\\
'''SAWYER:''' Who knows--(coughing) who knows, but ''they’re'' long gone by now.
* GivenNameReveal: The speaker in Interim Episode 1, [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/interim-episode-one-a-winners-farewell/id1337551590?i=1000430423448&mt=2 "A Winner's Farewell."]] There's technically two of these: the first happens when the speaker reveals what her girlfriend Adley said to her.
-->"And then she said, I remember this really clearly, she said: [[spoiler:'Tala...']] because only she could call me that..."\\
"When the galaxy hears from [[spoiler:Talanova]] again, it will be from within a tin can."
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Basically the premise of "A Winner's Farewell". The speaker [[spoiler:(Tala, back when she was alive)]] says goodbye to the people who loved her before [[spoiler:converting herself into a robot body]].
* HasTwoMommies: Sawyer and Elory are Gi's fathers. Sawyer's husband and daughter are referenced a few times, even before [[spoiler:they are heard over the radio]] in Episode 6 and later [[spoiler:board the station]] in Episode 7.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: In Episode 5, the guests hear a strange "host prompt" (as Tala calls it) and read a mysterious poem. Sawyer realizes: [[spoiler:"We weren’t brought here for a dinner party. We were summoned to play a game."]] They all speculate what the station was originally used for with this revelation in mind.
* HiddenVillain: The host who has trapped the guests. Fans have speculated about [[HiddenInPlainSight which of the guests]] [[RightUnderTheirNoses is the host]], with others suspecting that the host has not yet been introduced.
* HumanoidAliens: All of them, except for Mars, who's the [[TokenHuman Token Human]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sawyer [[spoiler:compromised some morals to get funding for a project,]] but he doesn't say exactly what. However, since Jo thinks it's enough cause to force him to spill it as a secret, it can't be good.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Katie Belle and Mars in Episode 1.
-->'''KATIE BELLE:''' Yeah, well, I'm going to grab another drink. I have the feeling we will be stuck here for a while.\\
'''MARS:''' I'll join you.
* InterspeciesRomance: Episode 11, with the relationship between [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]].
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: Invoked by Waverly in Episode 1, who says, "I have a feeling this party is just getting started."
* LoveConfession: There are two, both in Episode 11: [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] confess their love for each other, both saying "I love you" word for word.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Katie Belle brings up in-universe how a particular object makes basically no sense. Twice.
-->"Who in their right minds puts a door on the ceiling? On the ceiling? It’s totally useless! You cannot step into a ceiling! That makes no sense!" (Episode 3)\\
"Of all the things on this ship that make no sense, this makes the ''least'' sense. Why isn’t [the vent] just on the ceiling?" (Episode 9)
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Elory and Sawyer, with Sawyer being the working/masculine parent and Elory being the domestic/feminine parent.
* NastyParty: No one ''dies'' at the party, but getting trapped with a bunch of strangers isn't exactly their idea of a good time.
** To be fair, Mars and Aveline find [[spoiler:the body of Katie Belle Silver]] in Episode 5, so the trope was about four episodes late.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Though it doesn't come to blows, Sawyer disarms Galatea when she threatens the other guests with a knife.
-->"Now, now, let's not threaten the other guests, just let...let go of that knife. (He struggles to disarm her, the knife clangs on the table.) Thank you."
* NotInFrontOfTheKid: Appears in Episode 10. Aveline corrects Mars when they say "fuck it" in front of [[spoiler:Sawyer's daughter]], but they randomly guess that Sawyer has sworn in front of her before. [[spoiler:Said daughter]] reveals that he ''did'' in fact swear in front of her before he left for the party, including fifteen instances of the word "shit." Galatea is delighted by this, and Sawyer is (rightfully) embarrassed but doesn't deny it.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: Basically all of what happens to Galatea in Episode 3.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Characters make several references to stuff that happened off-screen that would've made for some interesting on-screen drama, including a pretty dramatic moment where [[spoiler:Gi [[ParentalSubstitute chooses to follow Mars over her own father]] ]].
* OpeningNarration: Though less direct than other uses, a mysterious voice recites an original poem with melancholy, existential statements that set the tone (and sometimes the plot) for the episode. (This is also an example of the Epigraph trope, but the page doesn't seem to work.) So far, none of the guests are aware of the voice's existence.
* PosthumousCharacter: Phoenix in Episode 3. We hear her voice in flashbacks. She dies of [[spoiler:the fictional disease Mortemlux C]] in the same episode.
** Also, technically [[spoiler: Tala]].
* PowersThatBe: The host, but also [[spoiler:the Family,]] who seem to have control over life and death.
* QueerRomance
** An established gay relationship is mentioned in Episode 1, when Sawyer references his husband, who later [[spoiler:arrives on the ship]], and the two are completely adorable.
** Galatea's secret has to do with her two lovers, whose genders are never mentioned. However, she doesn't say two girlfriends or two boyfriends, so it's possible they were not the same gender. ([[AmbiguouslyBi Whether Galatea is bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, etc. is still a mystery.]])
** Waverly gets revenge for her [[spoiler:dead lover Zell,]] who's referred to as "her", by [[spoiler:staging her own death]] but instead causing [[spoiler:the death of her parents]].
** [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] start dating in Episode 11 after [[spoiler:Jo nearly stabs Waverly]].
* RaceAgainstTheClock: At the end of Episode 11, Tala cheerfully announces that the guests have two hours to get to the heart of the ship or [[spoiler:Jo will drive the station into the sun.]] She then switches to a countdown, which for some reason [[MagicCountdown starts at 118 minutes.]] The episode's title itself spoils the appearance of this trope.
* RedStringOfFate: The concept is referenced when Aveline, Katie Belle, and Waverly explore a room covered in threads connecting [[spoiler:various pictures of all the guests]]. However, it's not red thread, it's blue.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' These threads are threads of fate. All these notes, these pictures, they’re connected, we’re connected.\\
'''AVELINE:''' Threads of fate? What do you mean?\\
'''WAVERLY:''' There was this ancient Trillian legend about the Five Fates, and how some people were connected by a blue thread. It’s usually thought of as romantic, for soul mates, but it also explains why mortal enemies can’t stay away from each other.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Shapeshifter/main antagonist Jo first appears as [[spoiler:Gi Green]] and briefly as [[spoiler:Elory Green]] before settling on a main form (voiced by Rhea).
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Jo morphs into [[spoiler:Elory]] in Episode 3 and taunts Sawyer by asking, [[spoiler:"Don’t you tell your husband everything?"]] When that doesn't work, they instead guilt Mars by turning into [[spoiler:Phoenix.]]
* ShipTease: Arguably Galatea/Tala, in Episode 10. It all starts with Galatea accidentally (?) making a euphemism about working with Tala. (Or rather, "working".) Of course, Tala's none the wiser, and Galatea changes the subject pretty quickly.
-->'''GALATEA:''' I’m going to work more with Tala.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' What do you even ''do'' with her?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Mess with her files, mostly.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' That sounds vaguely sexual.\\
'''GALATEA:''' ''[mostly joking]'' I can assure you, it’s ''not''. It’s perfectly consensual, and Tala usually feels better afterwards.\\
'''WAVERLY:''' Okay, that sounds even ''more'' like a sex thing. (teasing) Go have fun with your robot friend, okay, Gal?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Ugh. ''Don’t'' call me Gal.\\
'''KATIE BELLE:''' Heh, have fun with Tala!\\
''[Tala comes online]''\\
'''TALA:''' Did someone say my name?\\
'''GALATEA:''' Oh, don’t listen to them. Just lead me back to your control room.
* ShoutOut
** In Episode 2, Tala mentions a door with [[Podcast/Wolf359 the number 359]] on it.
** Another shout-out to a more well-known podcaster comes when Gi, Sawyer's daughter, reveals her middle name is Griffin. Griffin as in, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvwz1809v94&ab_channel=dogparties banana vore boy]] [[Creator/McElroyBrothers Griffin Mcelroy]].
** Yet another shoutout, though this one a bit more subtle, comes in Episode 4, when Tala mentions that "there's always a need for [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inkwyrm/id1204629419?mt=2 AI caretakers]], especially on Earth."
** Tala claims to have [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "a brain the size of a planet"]] in Episode 10.
* StarcrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Waverly and Katie Belle]] are this trope, in a way. Jo calls them this because A) [[spoiler:Waverly's parents mistrust shapeshifters]], and B) they're ''literally'' starcrossed, being from different planets.
-->"You’re one of the Cruchakk, aren’t you? I mean, heh, talk about star-crossed lovers, right? [[spoiler:Trillia]] ''hates'' shapeshifters like you, and your cousins the Koprezz." (Jo, Episode 11)
* StellarName: The Sirius Station is named after the star system Sirius, one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky. Mars is also named after the eponymous planet.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Some of the guests might know each other, but overall their personalities/lifestyles clash. (See Episode 5 for some of the worst of it.)
-->'''GALATEA:''' The only reason I didn’t outright ''kill'' you was because I’d like to make it out of here alive. (Episode 3)\\
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'''SAWYER:''' Katie Belle just wants to sit and play with her stupid cups instead of doing literally anything else. \\
'''WAVERLY:''' Hey, let her live! Katie Belle just wanted to do something that wasn’t investigation. (Episode 5)
* ThankingTheViewer: Starting around Episode 4, the closing credits end with Piper Kilgour (the voice of R) saying, "Thank you for listening."
* TitleDrop: Each episode title comes from each episode's epigraphic poem. However, later in the season, the titles will sometimes show up in the actual dialogue.
** Jo calls the game show "The Games Children Play" in Episode 3 [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment of the same name]].
** In Episode 10, "Survive," Aveline, Galatea, Mars, and Waverly all say some variation of 'survive' (Waverly actually gets two after Katie Belle [[spoiler:nearly chokes to death on a mysterious gas released into her helmet]]).
** In Episode 11, "Count Down," R's poem does say 'count down' twice as a phrase and not the one-word concept, but towards the end, Tala announces that [[spoiler:the station is driving into the sun, and the guests have two hours to stop it]]. She wishes them all good luck and says, "I’m switching to the countdown...now."
* TokenHuman: Mars. Weirdly enough, most of the "alien" characters have American accents, but Mars' is Scottish. (Then again, Katie Belle's actress is from the Middle East, so the trope isn't watertight.)
* TortureTechnician: Jo claims not to be the host and yet knows [[ColdBloodedTorture what kind of torture]] will best get them the information they want.
* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The show becomes this in Episode 2 when we meet Jo, a shapeshifter who presumably lives on the ship and wants to [[DeadlyGame play a game]] with them.
* TriumphantReprise: The piece "Where No Light Escapes" uses the leitmotif from the show's theme, "Midnight," to underscore the final scene of Episode 12, where everything comes to a head. (See the entry for "Climax" above.)
* VoiceChangeling: Jo. They have had three voices/been four separate people so far:
** Themself, voiced by Rhea;
** [[spoiler:Phoenix,]] also voiced by Rhea,
** [[spoiler:Gi]], voiced by Vivian Faye (also credited as Vivian C),
** and [[spoiler:Elory]], voiced by Cedric Reeve.
* WalkAndTalk: Important conversations tend to happen when characters are walking down hallways.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Waverly runs into Jo towards the end of the shenanigans of episode 3. Jo promises to come back later. They [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Foreshadowing&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwj4gs6dmIrdAhVVNH0KHWVyDk8QFggEMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=006443654034974345143:kc4pt9dnkle&usg=AOvVaw1QB2HXmrp19xFv2uw_ryDh make good on]] [[ThePromise this promise]] in [[spoiler:Episode 8 and 9]].
-->'''WAVERLY:''' Who are you?!\\
'''JO:''' We’ll talk later, darling. Right now, gotta run.
* WelcomeEpisode: Episode 1 becomes this after Aveline [[spoiler:nearly dies when her ship explodes]] and boards the station. The characters get introduced one-by-one, although they're not quite a coherent group with plot-relevant allyships yet.
* YouDidntAsk: Tala drops this in Episode 2 when Mars' lab comes up, much to Waverly's chagrin.
-->'''WAVERLY:''' Tala, why didn't you tell us!?\\
'''TALA:''' You never asked. I thought you’d, you know, spring into action or something. \\
'''WAVERLY:''' You still need to tell us these things! You’re supposed to be on our side! \\
'''TALA:''' I am, but I’m programmed to be non-intrusive.
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