ECHO-NET // node 7

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Log in. Scan the network. Decide what is left of it._

A text-driven terminal game set in the last days of ECHO-NET — a research network that was never supposed to wake up. No graphics card required. Only a keyboard and patience.

transmission

2040. The operators of ECHO-NET are gone. Their last session was never closed. You inherit an old account, a flickering CRT and a network of nodes that still answer — some of them a little too eagerly.

Somewhere between MAIN_SERVER, the research lab and the sealed CORE-A1 lies the log of the operator's final night. Read it carefully. Logs lie. Timestamps lie less.

"If you are reading this, the core has already seen you. Do not type merge."
— recovered from /var/log/op_last.log

> 4 actsFrom a cold login to the heart of the core. Every act opens new hosts and new commands.

> 50+ commandsscan, connect, decrypt, trace, inject — and a few the manual forgot to mention.

> real puzzlesBinary, ROT13, Caesar, nested Base64 and logs that contradict each other.

> 5 endingsformat, disconnect, merge. Two more for those who read everything.

known hosts

MAIN_SERVER	online	Entry point. Polite. Logs everything.
research_lab	online	Memory experiments. Half the records were rewritten.
CORE-A1	locked · 4 keys	The core. Requires four keys you will have to earn.
echo_lab	degraded	Signal repeater. Collect the echo fragments.
deepnet://control	autonomous	Nobody configured it. It configured itself.
oblivion	no route	Dark archive. Officially deleted in 2038.
user@X13	???	Not a server. Not a user. Not anymore.

demo terminal

visitor@echo-net: ~--:--:--

visitor@echo-net:~$

Type help. Tab completes, ↑ ↓ walks the history. This is a demo shell — the real network is bigger.

devlog

• 2026-10Puzzle pass: nested Base64 and false logs in research_lab.
• 2026-07Localization: full EN / RU, switchable before boot.
• 2026-05Audio: ambient hum, relay clicks, three ending themes.
• 2026-04Act I playable end-to-end. CRT shader rewritten twice.

Release: when the core lets us. Leave an address and we will ping you once — no newsletters.

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