It's good to finally be able to stretch your legs after the interminable flight from Terra del Fuego, with nothing to see out the airplane window but clouds, ice and more ice. The world around you is still mostly white, though, as you watch the Cessna fly away. The pilot was determined not to stop and turn off the engine in case he couldn't get it started again -- at a temperature of 25C below, he was in no mood to take risks.
In fact, your teeth are already chattering. Of course you knew very well it'd be like this, and you're dressed for the cold. A stay of four months at the Norwegian Troll Research Base in the Antarctic is the opportunity of a lifetime for a young PhD researcher like yourself, and you're determined to make it work.
Shivering, you hoist your backpack onto your shoulder and wave to a figure sitting on a snowmobile in the distance at the end of the airstrip. As the snowmobile approaches, you can see that a young woman is driving it.
The young woman brings to snowmobile to a gentle stop next to you. "Hello! You must be Ruben." she says, her breath coming out in a little cloud. Glancing at the sky she adds, "Don't you love the weather? We'll need to get a move on, because there's a storm coming."
She blinks. "Sorry, my name's Agnes Haugland. But you knew that already since I'd be here to pick you up, right? Hop on, and we'll drive down to the base."
Antarctic aims to be a long, well-written text adventure game with graphics, developed in Tads3.