The First Test
Open with Protagonist already under immediate pressure. Deliver "bankruptcy auction" through action, conflict, or reveal. Use Key Relative or the key relationship line to complicate the protagonist's read of the situation.
Novel
After losing his oxygen union slot, ex-rigger Jace Rowan buys a damaged battle frame at a bankruptcy auction and discovers it still contains the legal memory of a murdered engineer Built for royal-road readers with very-fast pacing and pilot-then-expand delivery.
Story Units
Open with Protagonist already under immediate pressure. Deliver "bankruptcy auction" through action, conflict, or reveal. Use Key Relative or the key relationship line to complicate the protagonist's read of the situation.
Open with Protagonist already under immediate pressure. Deliver "combat frame upgrade" through action, conflict, or reveal. Use Key Relative or the key relationship line to complicate the protagonist's read of the situation.
Open with Protagonist already under immediate pressure. Deliver "seventy-hour duel timer" through action, conflict, or reveal. Use Key Relative or the key relationship line to complicate the protagonist's read of the situation.