Anachronox (Ohga Shrugs)





Anachronox is an awarding RPG series.

Plot
The story begins on Anachronox, a city planet located near the center of the interstellar Sender wormhole network. A down on his luck dective named Sly Boots is desperately looking for work so he can pay of his debt to a local mafia kingpin named Detta. Boots and his robot assistant Pal 18 accepts a job from a historian name Grumpos. Boots is also assisted by Fatima his secretary who has become quite bitter after suffering a car crash and being digitized into Boot’s PDA to preserve her personality. Grumpos believes that ancient alien relics called mystec hold dormant magical power. Thus, Grumpos wants Boots to find a piece of mystec so he can perform an experiment in an attempt to awaken the power of mystec. Boots and Grumpos find a piece of mystec but it was stolen by Detta. Grumpos then decides to go to the planet Sunder to consult leading mystec specialist Dr. Rho Bowman. Grumpos hires Boots to come along as a body guard. Shortly after meeting Rho, her equipment reveals that Sunder is about to be destroyed. Mystec is active in the process of Sunder’s destruction. Boots and company are able to escape Sunder in the nick of time. According to Rho, Sunder was obliterated by an injection of matter from the universe that existed before the big bang. Rho believes that if enough pre-big-bang universe matter is flung into the present universe, it would save the old universe but destroy the current universe. Boots’s gang intends to go to Sender Station, a large spaceport orbing Anachronox. However, due to the local worm hole generator malfunctioning, Boots’s crew are set adrift in space. They eventually land on Democratus, a planet run by a highly dysfunctional bureaucracy, whose people have learned how to shrink the planet and turn it into a spaceship. After going through a bunch of red tape to get an audience with the High Council of Democratus, Boots and company learn that the Democratus is under attack by a race of militant insects. Since the High Council cannot make up its mind about how to handle the insects, Boots’s gang ends up having to save the day. After reaching Sender Station they bump into Democratus. The High Council decided to shrink the planet and join Boots’s team, in the belief that they would severe as good body guards in case they were invaded again. Boots’s crew are also joined by Boots’s ex-partner Sara aka Stiletto. Fatima, despite being angry with Boots for the accident that destroyed her body, she has a crush on him and is jealous of Stiletto who she sees as a rival for Boots. After Stiletto joins Boots’s gang, they head to the planet Hephaestus to consult a religious leader known as the Grand Mysterium. The Grand Mysterium reveals that the destruction of Sunder was the result of a godlike entity of chaos’s attempt to escape to the previous universe. The chaos entity was trapped in this universe by a godlike entity of order. The chaos entity plans to escape to pervious universe and prevent it from being destroyed, thus nullifying the existence of all future universes and destroying the entity of order. The Grand Mysterium tells Boots’s crew to head to the planet of Limbus. On route to Limbus they are kidnaped by a space pirate. After being defeated by the pirate, Boots and company are put in the pirate’s brig with a bunch of mutants who used to work as superheroes before the comic company that chronicled their adventures went out of business. Boots tried to convience the strongest of the former heroes, Paco aka the Fist to help them escape. However, after his comic was cancelled, Paco lost the will to fight and became a drunk. Shortly after the attempt to enlist the help of Paco fails, someone opens an airlock. The inmates of the brig would have died if the High Council of Democratus hadn’t quickly reached the decision to enlarge their planet. Boots lands near the village of Whitenton where he has an adventure stopping a snow beast from kidnapping children. The rest of Boots’s gang ends up having adventures in other parts of Democratus, before they meet up with each other in Democratus’s capital city Votetown. Paco also has an adventure on Democratus, where he regains the will to fight and overcome his alcoholism. Paco then joins Boots’s team. After, their adventures on Democratus, Boots and Company finally reach the planet Limbus. Once there they are attacked by a fleet of strange ships that appear out of a portal. Boots’s team escapes from the ships and wander around limbus until they reach an underground city called Sesostris. Boots and company are nearly executed by the people of Sesostris, but Boots is able to prove that they allies. Boot’s team then play an important role in saving Sesostris from the ship that came out of the portal. After the city is safe, the King of Sesostris, reveals to Boots that the entity of Chaos is not a single demon but a godlike race of evil beings called the Chatagra. The King also says that ships that attacked Sesostris belong to a Chatagra worshiping cult called the Dark Servants. The Dark Servants have found a way into the previous universe but are as of yet unable to bring their masters there. The King of Sesostris tells Boots that the only way the Chatagra can escape to the pervious universe is by activating a portal which turns out to be located on Anachronox. The King of Sesostris also tells Boots’s gang to contact an agent of Sesostris who has been searching for the key to the portal. The agent of Sesostris turns out to be Rowdy the owner of Boots’s favorite bar. After consulting Rowdy, Boots learns that the piece of mystec stolen by Detta was the portal key. So, Boots and his crew infiltrate Detta’s fortress to retrieve the key. After gaining the key to the portal, Boots plans on destroying it, but Grumpos reveals himself to a Dark Servant and actives the portal. The game ends with Boots’s and his team chasing the Chatagra into the pervious universe.