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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Pleasure Planet

Here is the beginning of a Twine game I'm working on called Pleasure Planet. It is set in a familiar science fiction universe which I shall not name here, but which rhymes with Start Rek, and is based on a short story in that setting called The Procrustean Petard (Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, 1978).


Pleasure Planet places you in the role of Cadet Holt, a young cadet in Starfleet, on board a passenger vessel on your way back to your sophomore year at Starfleet Academy. En route, the passenger vessel is attacked by pirates and driven into the orbit of a planet that was once home to a long-vanished civilization. Around this planet, the alien civilization had left behind an usual trap for visiting ships. One by one the passengers and crew are beamed off the vessel and onto the planet's surface. In the process of transport, everyone's gender is reversed!

When Pleasure Planet is completed, your task will be to escape the planet and return to the Academy, where you will find everyone much intrigued about the changes you have undergone. Your Academy instructors hope you will assist in the investigation of this strange new technology and to help track down and identify the pirates who attacked the passenger ship.  Starfleet brass are interested in the possibilities of using this technology in the field of espionage. And some of your fellow students think you look very good in your new skin . . .

Cadet Holt may begin as a male (and turn female), or begin as a female (and turn male). You may select any starting orientation, and select a new orientation after you are transformed.

Pleasure Planet version 0.28a