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| The Bombastic Buzzard |
Previously featured on day seventeen, Bucket of Bolts is a solo journal RPG by Jack Harrison of Mousehole Press. Even without playing through the journaling part of the game, Bucket of Bolts is handy for coming up with ships and backgrounds in a hurry. The implied setting is vague enough for these ships to fit in many space games. The core assumptions are that space commerce is common enough for private ownership of spacecraft. And that spacecraft about the size of modern aircraft can operate independently.
Bucket of Bolts includes software that generates a name and picture of a ship. There are also rules in the book for naming and drawing a ship, but a mouse click is the kind of minimal effort that I can get into. That stated, some of the images generated by the software feature ship parts that don't seem attached to the ship. They just float nearby. It's easy enough to fix - just generate another ship image.
Figuring out three traits for the ship mostly involves staring at the picture until words came to mind. In this case: rugged, reliable, and outdated.
Finally, the backstory:
Hera Quixada gazed over the inventory languishing in the back of the spaceship lot. Tucker was busy hitting the salvage yards looking for a hulk with some life in it. Neither held out much hope, but there was no other ticket off this rock.
Quixada's eyes lighted in a crude looking brick of a ship. The model name and number escaped her, but she recognized the design. It was built to hold up to rough handling and frontier conditions. The systems were a generation out of date, but they were easy to maintain and spare parts were plentiful.
A ship like this is exactly what they needed. She spoke into her communicator, telling Tucker to drop what he was doing and rush on over. He would be able to size up the ship. Then they could make a deal in the lot offices.
In the meantime, The Bombastic Buzzard waited.
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