Lothbook

The Italian Experience

2017 | English | Game pitch | Full

Cover Art

(*) Image by Max Pixel, licensed under CC0 Public Domain.

Details

  • Year: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Word count: 339
  • Type: Game pitch

Text

Join Jax, short of Jaqueline -but don’t call her that, she hates it-, a young space mechanic in the ordinary planet of One III, where spaceships almost never stop, either because of the food or the confusing name (probably the food), and her robotic cat Dr. Yes -recently upgraded to the pessimistic personality software v31.4.1.5.9, free bundle of doomsayer (beta 3) included- in their quest to find financial relief and a clean toilet among the stars!

The proud owner of the “Le Salvage” repair shop, a couple of vintage sneakers and a debt of a thousand credits -or as she like to say, “one million million million picocredits”- the only legacy her late father left is an alien multitool lovingly named Sir Fix-a-lot, that requires the almost-impossible-but-not-quite mysterious material known as Unobtanium™ to perform its miracles.

One day, a queer, self-conscious narcissistic fellow named Duke Ducus Deux, or D3 for short, arrives on an old, vaguely dog-shaped rusty spaceship called the “Malasombra” in need of repairs, and offers Jax passage out of 1-Three as payment. Coincidentally, the same day Bob Fetus, the infamous bounty hunter that may or may have not survived the fall into the jaws of a giant alien beast in a remote sand planet, shows up with a bunch of failed clones of himself as backup -AKA the Ugly Dozen- with clear intentions of getting the prize on Jax’s head.

Learning that creditors have put a bounty on her, Jax reluctantly and against the better judgement of the little Doctor accepts using one of her last three charges of Unobtanium™ to repair the flying dog-can and join the crew of D3 as “person in charge of repairing things that are broken, may break or will break”, where she will jump from planet to planet buying and selling people for profit (D3 turns out to be a voluntary-slave trader) while trying to learn the identity of her vengeful creditor, which is totally not her not-really-dead-father-trying-to-teach-her-a-lesson-about-personal-finance-and-commitment, I promise.