Shipwrecked Discussion

Funny, I can only get to this page from home. So, the story in this thread is:

1. Some passengers from a cruise ship washed ashore in their leaky life raft. I'll leave it up to the tropers if they knew each other from before whatever calamity befell us - maybe they played some game on the cruise ship before hand or just recognized them from walking around. Safe to say, we're all strangers, though. The remains of the life raft is fairly large, semi-rigid and has remaining provisions for a few weeks.

2. The island is located somewhere in the South Pacific.

3. It's fairly small but has some trees, various shrubs and the concrete remains of some sort of building that has yet to be investigated.

4. I haven't closed it off to other survivors just yet, as the possibility that others washed up singly has not been ruled out, but the majority managed to stick with the raft.

5. It aims to be fairly serious, with no fantastic elements. Just keeping our wits in such an environment will prove to be challenging enough; as is becoming evident in at least one survivor.

6. I ask that 'new arrivals' post up a brief description, age, gender and a name they want to be referred to as.

edited 31st Aug '10 12:47:43 AM by pvtnum11

7. I found an island that will work for purposes of holding us all, being large enough to have some trees, and not terribly off hte beaten path so it is conceivable that we neded up there: Mauphiaa

8. The life raft came to rest on the southern tip of the eatern islet. Lots of sand there. Hope that helps people visualize things.

9. DAY 2: Two new survivors discovered, both female. Total survivor count is now eight, all in fairly good health, one with a broken arm. Shelter construction at the first campsite commences, with a tarp gong up, coconuts being gathered and eaten, and the grim discovery of arson further north. A jet plane was heard in the afternoon, but in an indeterminate direction. The water purifier works, and is able to desalinate salt water into fresh, by some chemical filtration means. Crude toilet facilities located on the west shore, opposite from the east-facing shore where the group washed ashore at. The camp is inbetween.

10. It is apparent that the island was inhabited in times past: A faded trail runs north away from where the survivors set up camp. A crumbling concrete and stone foundation is where one of the females set up her camp briefly before finding the rest of the group. This is where the fire took place, for reasons unknown.

edited 1st Sep '10 1:42:23 AM by pvtnum11

Current survivors include- (pardon handel speling erors pleaze)

marioguy128 starring as Marty

gentlemanorcus starring as Scott 16-17/M

yarrunmace starring as Bones/Todd 16/M

pvtnum11 starring as Egon (old nickname of mine) 33/M

Midnight Velvet starring as Jay 18/M

Quantumawesome starring as (no name yet) teen/M

a crack in time starring as Charlotte/Charlie ?/F

Amylove starring as (no name yet) ?/F

rifflet, starring as Billee, 14/F (been on island already for a time, backstory unknown)

edited 2nd Sep '10 2:12:47 PM by pvtnum11

Charlie is 22 years old.

Okay, I'll say Scott is officially 16 years old.

edited 2nd Sep '10 2:43:13 PM by gentlemanorcus

I'm not comfortable using my real name on the internet, so just call me "Quant" or something.

^ Charlie isn't my real name. Just make a name up.

Well, seems we have us a wild pig now.

Anyone feel like roast pork for dinner? j/k - no clue how that'll end up.

INJURIES!

The group finds a plantation house to avoid getting the crap rained out of them by an approaching thunderstorm, only to have a survivor trigger a boobytrap and get totally messed up.

So much for an idyllic paradise island, yeah?

The thread has been derailed.

Am investigating whether or not it is possible to simply move it with a Mod's help, or to start a fresh thread.

Or, taking a third option, to let it die an ignoble death. Doesn't matter to me much.

All better now. Newcomers, feel free to post up your background and stuff.

edited 2nd Sep '10 9:20:05 PM by pvtnum11

Found more info about the island. It is visited on occasion, this blog details a trip in 2008. Yeah, I like research.

http://blog.mailasail.com/anahi/154

For the purposes of the thread, the people living there have either left or are dead due to a series of unfortunate events.

edited 2nd Sep '10 9:57:48 PM by pvtnum11

Ooookaaaay.

After giving it some thought, I have come to the following conclusions:

It would be totally smurfy if everyone more or less acted out what they would do, if they actually were in a situation like this. Yes, we can take some artistic license, to a degree, and even I draw blanks and some of those in the tread have been putting out some nice ideas.

However, I'd like to avoid having the thread spawn god-modding. IN the traditional sense, as I understand it, and in the sense of your knowledge and skills.

Some know CPR. I'm rusty at it. I used to fix radios, but that's only with a full tool-chest, test set and a box full of spare parts. That was also ten years ago for me. I won't be having myself fixing any radios in the thread, unless it's a simple matter of reattaching the antenna, or finding some batteries for it.

Some may notice that my character (really, myself) is showing signs of stress. I can't imagine anyone, in those circumstances, no showing signs of stress. As a father and a husband, I can guarantee you I'd be pretty edgy given the circumstances. Which is why I try to stay busy in the island. Gets my mind off of missing my family, and more concerned about making sure the other survivors are okay.

I don't know... I guess I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see what people would envision themselves doing if they found themselves marooned on an island, without their families or close friends, with a bunch of strangers. Maybe a little learning experience - not just a bunch of 'look at how awesome my better self is' sort of thing. Trust me, given enough stress in the story, you'll see me snap.

Anyway, just more random thoughts. Maybe I'm taking it a bit too seriously. But boy, it was getting fun...!

To any concerned, yes, there is a plot point coming up.

I was hoping to let the group congeal more, but I may spring it in the near future. Still have to figure out how the newcomers fit in the scheme of things.

And it's only the third day...

Marty is 16 and wears a T-shirt and green hat.

Here's a checklist of supplies. I'll update it from time to time.

Supply Checklist

2 weeks supply of coconuts

9 mangos

5 pieces of breadfruit

5 boxes of energy bars*

6 cans, each containing: kidney beans, tomato sauce, Spam, Vienna Sausages, beef stew and corned beef hash.*

(* don't expect me to be able these kinds of stuff on the island)

Propane cylinder, full Two 2-D call flashlights, no batteries folding chair that works can opener (manual type) 10-lbs of dehydrated beef stew powdered milk, enough for 5 gallons 7 rolls of toilet paper (there was more, but the rest was pretty *rotten) 3 serviceable buckets 4 worn blankets (two are pretty beat up) gallon of isopropyl alcohol five pounds of dried spagetti noodles a small locked olive drab metal box. (it will contain pistol *ammunition once someoen figures out how to open it without a key analog multimeter with no batteries 54-piece metric toolset half a roll of dut tape binoculars, left lens is cracked two frisbees

edited 14th Sep '10 3:22:48 PM by Marioguy128

Groovy, man, I appreciate the help.

In addition to the edibles lited above, we have (or did have at one time) the following:

4 five-gallon containers of fresh water (one of which is mostly empty now)

Water desalinator filter device

A hatchet (I forget who has this now, whoever was opening coconuts)

Survival Knife

One working flashlight, one non-working flashlight (but it has good batteries)

200 feet of nice rope, some cut into smaller sections

Various scraps of rope and tarp from atop the raft

Three plastic 12-quart buckets

A compass

Two parachute flare cartridges for a flare gun (but no flare gun)

Fire extinguisher (probably left at initial camp?)

EDIT: Forgot, each life jacket hsa a whistle and a little flashy beacon thing attached.

Small selection of water-logged books, recovered from beach

Portin of a notepad

Pocket knife

And finally, whatever personal effects you would reasonably have on your person when we were evacuated onto the raft to begin with 9wallet, purse, ID, some money, credit cards, pictures of family, iPod, pocket knife, that sort of thing.

The outer beach was littered with bits of trash, so items that have a reasonable chance of being washed ashore may be found.

Feel free to PM me if any one has questions.

edited 3rd Sep '10 1:17:56 PM by pvtnum11

My character's now snapped. He isn't going quite in the direction most probably think he is, however.

My character is trying to fit in as the "big sister" role, to make herself feel better about being a bitch to her younger brother.

My character can genrally survive quite well on her own. However, not really much of a people person, slight threat of snapping and trying to murder everyone due to all the stress.

The time of year is late December, 2010:

I picked that time, due to the presence of numerous adolescent survivors being amongst us. It was that or sometime in the summer. Back in my day, we got three months of goof-off time, but many school districts dont' do that anymore - but nearly all do two week winter breaks.

For whatever and with whoever, all the adolescents managed to find themselves on the cruise ship, and like myself, have been separated from their families in the utterly FUBAR evacuation that was performed.

I also picked that time, due to the fact that it works for the weather patterns I'm detailing out. Normally, this time of the year over there is cool and dry, not wet and hot.

Side note, if it really was December, my second child would be about two months old, and my first would be turning four. Minor hand-wave...

Scott was on the cruise on a school-funded trip with his choir class, who he is the star member of. When the ship crashed, none of the other choir students made it out alive.

Nice LOTF reference. Now, if I can only tackle you before you do something really stupid...

Okay, Scott's dysfunctional past has been revealed. Look here.

edited 3rd Sep '10 5:20:06 PM by gentlemanorcus

I noticed the exposition. Nicely done.

If anyone else didn't notice, the pilot guy is handy with making electrons go where he wants them to go.

Fusch is 22 (I'm actually 17, but that's nowhere near old enough to be a qualified pilot), male, has spiky brown hair and wears a red Doctor Who T-shirt, a green zip-up hoodie and black jeans.

edited 3rd Sep '10 6:37:08 PM by FuschlatzOReilly