![]() This isn't sounding good I suspect we'll be dead before I can finish mapping. As I reach the west end of the beach, SUDDENLY, THE ISLAND BEGINS TO TREMOR. The western part of the beach contains a bottle of suntan oil. I think I've explored the eastern side of the map now, so we'll check out the western areas. But EXAMINE BEACH reveals that what I thought was a starfish surrounded by some white sand is in fact a SAND-DOLLAR, which we can GET. It looks like there's another ungettable starfish here, and to my surprise DIG is not a recognized verb. The beach runs east/west along the northern edge of the forest, it appears, and the area immediately east of our starting point indicates that SEA LIFE OFTEN WASHES ASHORE HERE. ![]() We can explore east through a very humid part of the forest, but there's not much to do here aside from traveling north back to the beach. ![]() North of the monkey is an area with trees (snake-infested again) and vegetation. It becomes apparent we're not really lost in the jungle, as these locations still map consistently. LOOK MONKEY reveals nothing of interest, but TALK MONKEY yields surprisingly coherent advice from our fellow primate: "IF I WERE YOU, I WOULDN'T MONKEY AROUND ON THIS ISLAND! IF THE SNAKES DON'T GET YOU, THE VOLCANO WILL!" Restoring again, I start exploring east and west of the main strip, finding myself immediately LOST IN THE FOREST with a chattering monkey as I head east at the southern edge of the forest. We can travel south onto the active volcano, but are engulfed with molten lava on the next turn as THE ISLAND'S VOLCANO ERUPTS VIOLENTLY. Restoring (the game supports named SAVEs to a separate data disk, though I'm using the AppleWin emulator's save states here) and trying again, I continue to the southernmost part of the forest, where an active volcano is visible to the south. We can CLIMB TREE here - to encounter a poisonous snake that SINKS IT'S DEADLY FANGS INTO YOUR SKIN! And we're dead, of course, so that was a bad idea. I'm in initial mapping mode, so I'll continue south into the Middle of the Forest, surrounded by trees covered with vines. LOOK TOUCAN reveals that HE IS PREENING HIS MOLTING FEATHERS, and we're free to GET FEATHER we'll do so, as these sorts of things tend to come in handy in adventure games. Continuing south, we can enter the forest where a toucan is perched. To the south, we find a vast tropical rainforest, with some apparently erupting volcanoes in the background. Our INVENTORY is empty and clumsily presented at the moment - YOUR GOODIE BAG CONTAINS A: - so we'll try wandering around. THERE IS A LARGE MAN EATING SHARK HERE, though, so we'll make haste back south. We can't GO WATER or SWIM, either, but if we travel N as suggested, we find ourselvs snorkeling over a coral reef. The sign is immovable, and so is the starfish, and we can't LOOK MOUNTAINS or LOOK SKY. READ SIGN yields "BEWARE OF SHARKS!" in case we hadn't noticed the fin. The text description tells us that the ocean lies to the north, but doesn't give us any other detail, so it seems we're going to have to pay attention to the pictures to figure out what objects are available. The initial image is of a beach with a sign, a starfish, and an animated shark fin passing by. We are asked to sign the Divers Logbook as the game begins, though it's not clear whether our name will come into play at all.
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