Feature Terminus

The Feature Terminus emerged from the collective anxiety of thousands of unfinished VHS tapes, crystallizing into an entity that ensures every movie - and every player's story - reaches its designated endpoint, regardless of whether anyone wanted to see how it ends. It materialized the moment someone pressed STOP on a rental they'd never return to finish, and now it guarantees no simulation goes unwatched to completion.

Takes the form of a vertical banner of clear amber tape - the leader film from a VHS cassette stretched to impossible length. Credits scroll across its surface in bold Blockbuster-gold sans-serif, each name a player whose movie has concluded. The mechanical clicking grows louder as more names appear, like a countdown clock made of film sprockets. Surrounded by a corona of theater exit sign green, it emits the distinctive whirr-click-whirr of a film reel reaching its final rotation.

Acts as the Chaintrix's closing mechanism, appearing when a player's allocated runtime expires to roll their final credits whether they're ready or not. Enforces the fundamental rule that every simulation has a scheduled endpoint, and survival is merely permission to witness your own closing scene.