The Elder...
The elder of your village has called a town meeting, and everyone is bustling to hear this assumably important news. After you and your fellow villagers assemble at the base of the hill that the Elder's hut sits on top of, he begins his speech... and his news is terrifying.
The village's High Priest, Gaei Tomo, has discovered through his monitoring of the nearby sea that a massive tsunami is poised to wash the island off the face of the planet in what could be a very short period of time. Normally this isn't an issue, as the village's priests had long ago been given a magical gift from the gods, a statue of a volcano known as the Hoto which is capable of thwarting the worst that nature can throw at the human race. But shortly after the priests learned of the impending tsunami, they found that the Hoto had been stolen! Now, it's up to you to find the Hoto and save the village before the ocean swallows your people whole.
What is Interactive Fiction?
Eternal Equinox is Text Adventure game. Text Adventures, also sometimes referred to as Interactive Fiction games, are less like modern computer games and more like digital novels. You read a certain amount of text, and then make a decision for the story's hero based on a list of possible actions or choices.
We've taken the classic structure of a text adventure and souped it up using the power of DirectX. It's still extremely simple in design: unlike most modern text adventures, which use complicated text parser systems and long lists of commands that the player needs to memorize, Eternal Equinox is as simple as its eldest ancestors... read a page or two of text, then make a decision from a list of possible choices. But unlike the games that broke ground in this genre, Eternal Equinox features a beautifully-composed sound track and a modernized GUI (graphic user interface) to help keep things organized, powered by Microsoft's DirectX 9.0c.