ok the bloke on the box CLAIMED to have killed dead man in self defense. says mr dead was a pirate and that i can have his stuff. and i can ALSO have the booty in the chest. AND i can have a raft that is just offshore. its quite clear that this bloke is a rapist/murderer and that he is attempting to butter up his next intended victim: ME, so i am getting the hell out of here
am off to that distant island on me new raft
inventory: some logs, bits of stone, a sword, some gloves (which i have tried and failed to put on), 4 gold pieces, and some other bits & sundry. plus a book and a key (?) found on mr dead
obv i cant read the book, but i asked the rapist about it before i left. he said it was orders from a 'captain buffbeard', telling mr dead to pillage booty and then meet him on 'a nearby island with wood stumps and orange tinted grass'
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there's been a terrible development. apparently you have to manually input **** on your map, and my sense of direction irl is absolutely shambolic. have spent the last few mins in game trying to work out which way is north from the motion of the sun and i'm having no luck at all
so, you can click on the map to put an island down, and then you can select an icon which i guess tells you what's there. this is likely to go exceptionally poorly
i shall worry about it later. gonna get off rapist island, no time to waste