You open your eyes. All you remember is a crunching sound, a violent knockdown and then... darkness. You open the hatch of your ship, The Exploration, and stare into an endless series of strange creatures milling about below. What do you do?
[[Say Something]]
[[Walk down the ramp]]
You shout 'Hi!' The creatures mill about without paying any attention to you.
[[Try Again->Annoyed Aliens]]
[[Walk down the ramp]]
You walk down the ramp. The creatures pay you no attention as you walk into their midst.
What do you do?
[[Scan Creatures]]
[[Shoot one of them with your laser pistol->Killed by Aliens]]
You shout again. This time, you detect something resembling annoyance flash across the aliens' face, before they regain their indifferent state.
[[Try again->Killed by Aliens]]
[[Walk down the ramp]]
You whip out your scanner and swipe it over the nearest alien. This evokes no response from the creature. The scanner screen flashes and displays the following text allong with a slowly turning 3D rendering of the alien:
"Katchadorians. Discovered by a military patrol on their native planet, Xanos, in 3006. They are barely sentient, with the IQ level of an unintelligent hominid. They dislike loud noises and have a strong herd instinct. Though peaceful by nature, they are fearful fighters when provoked."
So that's where you are. Xanos.
What do you do?
[[Leave the creatures and your spaceship and explore-> Explore]]
[[Retreat into your spaceship-> Peaceful death after years]]
The aliens snarl and charge you, claws extending from their hands. You shoot a few of them, but they overwhelm you, clawing at you and gnawing your bones clean. Your remains are never found for your funeral 8 months later. However, your badly battered spaceship is found floating listlessly across space, pilotless.
[[Restart->The Crash]]
You abandon your spaceship and walk away. You see trees with strange rainbow leaves, caves with crystals as bright as a million suns and yet harmless to the eyes, and a strange type of animal with a head on each of its 10 limbs and a single long horn protruding out of its headless neck. Finally, in the distance, you see a small dot. You can't be sure, but it seems like a village or a town. A sign of civilization.
What do you do?
[[Walk towards the dot->The Village]]
[[Keep Walking]]
You retreat into your spaceship. Once inside, you can never muster your courage to go out again. The creatures soon leave, losing interest, but you stay inside, afraid of what's out there. You spend your days living off food and water you procure from HQ vaults using the teleporter and writing a journal. You live to a ripe old age and die in your bed. A military patrol finds your ship and, along with it, your journal. Tales of your cowardice are told throughout the galaxy. The human race and your family loses face on a galactic scale. As inglorious end to an explorer.
[[Restart->The Crash]]
You walk towards the dot. It appears that your observation was correct. It seems like a small village. FIve tents are arranged around a small central fire. The fire is oddly emrald in colour. The tents are made of some kind of hide with the horns of the animal you had seen before providing it structure and support.
What do you do?
[[Go to the Village Center]]
[[Enter one of the tents]]
You ignore the dot and keep walking. A few hours later, you're met with an astounding sight. A spaceship, almost twenty times the size of your own, and alien in origin, is buried in sand.
What do you do?
[[Enter the Spaceship]]
[[That dot is starting to look real good->The Village]]
You go to the central hearth. There are a few logs of the same wood you saw on those trees circled the fire. A metal pot hangs over the fire, with some strange meat boiling away in an equally strange liquid. You quietly whisper, "Is anybody there?"
[[Continue-> The Chieftan]]
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You walk to the spaceship. The door has a pneumatic seal, same as Terran spaceships, but more advanced. Nevertheless, you force it open with a little more effort than what is normally required. You enter. The spaceship's hallway is made of a strange blue metal that shimmered in the light, which was emitted by thin veins of some bright sapphire-coloured material. It was unusually bright. The Engine room is just ahead.
What do you want to do?
[[Go to the Engine Room-> The Engine Room]]
[[This is too creepy!!!->The Village]]
You cross the hallway and enter the engine room. The walls, ceiling and floor is of the same type as the hallway you left behind. The room is gigantic. And every inch of it is crowded with some ancient plasma engines. These are not as advanced as the modern ones, but much more sleek in design. Furthermore, one of them has a strange seal etched on it. On closer inspection, this turns out to be a button.
What do you do?
[[Press it -> The Button]]
[[Too much tension!!!->The Village]]
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