ENTIOX-22

Milestone Seven - ENTIOX-22

Our character is a space traveller whose ship got damaged after colliding with a cloud of space trash. Trying to avoid more serious damage the character got under the influence of some unknown planet's gravity resulting in the ship's system shutdown and a rough landing on the planet.

Believing that the techincal issues were caused by the collision with the space trash cloud, the character decides to go out to the planet's surface. The natural landscapes here are stunning, but our character has no time for tourism hoping to get back on the route as fast as possible.

Damage evaluation reveals that the ship needs some minor repairment, but the tricky part is that the character has to find certain resources for it exploring the unknown planet.

Following the path, the character keeps finding the needed items, but the night comes fast. Considering the risks and the absence of knowledge about the planet, the character decides to spend the night by the campfire, although the cozy evening turns into a violent acid thunderstorm causing even more damage to the traveller's ship and space suit. Luckily the cave nearby becomes a safe harbour in this hurricane.

The disaster is wilding the whole night and the next morning our character faces its excruciating consequences. A wave of hopelessness and homesickness falls on him, but he shakes it off and looks around the cave finding more useful items.

The character doesn't know the damaged suit doesn't protect him from the planet's toxic dust anymore. Influenced by the toxine, the character hears a voice welcoming him to the planet and promising to lead him to the village where locals will help him repair the ship. Startled by such a turn of events, the character has no choice but to follow the voice's lead.

Soon the character arrives in the local village. The place seems friendly and everyone there is working hard growing food and taking care of the domesticated animals, but something is off. All the locals are of different race as if they are some kind of refugees from other planets, but somehow there are no kids. Having talked to some locals the character finds out about the so called Master who is some kind of a god on the planet, and the village works hard preparing offerings for this entity in exchange for protection from dangerous space invaders. They believe the Master is kind and almighty so they will send their kind assistance and repair the traveller's ship for him to go back home.

But to talk to the Master our character needs to prepare an offering first.

When he finally makes it there he finds himself in an enormously spacious yet dark and humid cave.

The Master absolutely doesn't seem to be kind and friendly to our character, instead the entity poses a threat to the character's life. Fighting against much stronger creature than he is, the character hears the omnious voice in his head say:

"welcome to my planet, stranger! this is the place where you will be safe forever!.."

The Master destroys the character's memory and he becomes just another local from the village with no chance to be saved.

In the final moments of the game the gamers hear the sound of another space ship crashing onto the planet Entiox-22* surface...

EASTER EGGS =)

The name of the game is the name of the planet where the story begins, and it contains several easter eggs: 

1. The word "entiox" is an anagram of "no exit", implying the absence of any positive ending. The letters can also be rearranged into "toxine", which is the reason why the Master can communicate with the main character telepathically; 

2. The number "22" is a reference to "catch-22", meaning a dead end or a no win situation. 

The numerical cypher underneath the name stands for "no escape" and also is the planet's location.