Relay beta-tests a desert island
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Okay, well.

I love you, hope to see you shortly.

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Anthony sighs and looks back in the chest.

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The chest is just how he left it! Except the shark bait is glowing again.

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Does it do anything if he pokes it this time.

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He sighs at the description, removes it from the chest, and leaves the message-in-a-bottle in its place.

I'm gonna go for a swim. Be sad you're not here.

(He strips off his shirt and jeans.)

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… I assume you have not just forgotten the shark.

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Nope! he responds, quite cheerily.

Then he pulls the lid off the jar and throws some of the contents into the water. Far away from the shore as he can get it.

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The shark advances on it!

...instead of Jaws, it's now producing a tune that sounds like a knock-off version of "under the sea" from The Little Mermaid.

The water is perfectly nice for swimming. Despite all the weirdness, he manages to reach the other shore without trouble.

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Please tell me you didn't get bit by a shark.

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Not even slightly.

So what's on this island. He has the rest of the shark bait with him – put the lid back on before he came – but may need to swim back and grab the other stuff from the chest if he plans on staying here.

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Getting back to the chest? You mean the chest that is in the shore right next to him?

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He pauses and makes sure he didn't just accidentally swim in a circle.

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That would be a hard mistake to make. He can see the other, much tinier island from here, there is no pirate chest in there, but the skeleton looks undisturbed.

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… He decides to walk around the island a bit and see what's on it, then.

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The island contains: sand, dirt, trees, rocks, some sort of stone altar by the beach over there with a second skeleton and a second pirate chest, bushes...

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He goes to inspect the second skeleton and pirate chest.

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"Another tragic scene. But wait, what are those things that the departed is holding?"

There is a book in the skeleton's left hand and... something else in the right one. The right arm is stretched altar-wards.

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"You have got to be kidding me."

Anthony pulls the book away from the skeleton and looks more closely at the other hand.

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When he touches the book, the head-voice announces. "Jones' journal. It must have valuable survival information."

The other hand contains a small stone figurine, round but obviously in the semblance of a person. "It's cute because it's so smol!"

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He rolls his eyes.

Does the book open?

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"You read the last page."

The voice in his head changes again.

"This will be my last message. I am sure. Unless I manage to escape this island. Which I am not sure. I hope that whoever finds this journal sends my regards to my beloved Maribelita or at least has better luck than I did while uncovering the mysteries of this place."

Anthony is actually looking at the first page, but it does contain the entry he just read. A bookmark suddenly appears and glows.

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He pokes the bookmark.

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