Quick, someone redistribute the votes to transform the island from a boring concrete slab into a beautiful crescent of basalt!
Edit: I've got a sudden insparation. Wanted to write something small about this place and how one unlucky angler could get lost in there.
Good evening, dear reader of this journal. If you somehow got your hands on this little book, then maybe I got out of this place or, which is more likely, you got stuck here too and found it next to my cold body. Or I've been robbed again. In any case, everything written in this log is true and describes my strange journey. I never thought, that I would write about my voyages. Usually, there was nothing worth to write in the records. But it looks like I'll have to do it now, if only for my peace of mind.
My name is Vincent Atwater, I am an angler, just like dad and grandpa were. It is 1966, April the third. My story started a few days ago, when I received newspaper with an interesting job offer. Things have not been going very well for me lately, and in the newspaper they offered a good salary and a cheap place to live. It was a small town called West Salt, which was located on an island in the Stormic Ocean. They definitely needed new angler. I became interested and literally two days later sailed on my ship to the West Salt. This place was not so far away. And from that moment things got very strange.
I was caught in an unexpected storm. This wasn't normal. Heavy clouds moved towards me and the light of the setting sun quickly disappeared into the darkness and fog. I was only ten miles from the island! Then it started to rain. However, there was almost no wind and rare weak gusts sounded eerie, as if someone was singing very far from me. The fog was somehow yellowish, slightly rusty coloured and sometimes big things splashed and floated overboard, it was something luminous. I sailed like this for about an hour. My hands clutched the helm with all their might, and cold sweat broke out on the forehead. I was horrified. I thought some evil sea spirit would take my soul right there. I think, I got a few gray hairs in my beard after this experience.
And then it suddenly ended. I was out of the fog, out of the storm. Only the sun hung high in the sky, it was warmer and the boundless ocean stretched in all directions from the sides of my ship. I had no idea where I was, and I don't know even now. There was no radio communication, no land around and no island that I should have reached by now. At some point I decided to try fishing here, but I didn't catch anything. The water was clear and completely lifeless. No animals, no algae or corals or jellyfish... It was completely unlike a normal ocean.
I sailed until evening, and then at night. There were no stars in the sky. I couldn't sleep because of all stress. I was very anxious. However, at some point, I still dozed off, and woke up when the ship shook violently. Something huge, some kind of mollusc swam under my vessel. I hid and sat like that until morning, afraid to even breathe. Only at dawn I looked overboard and saw a huge school of fish. I even caught a few! They were very meaty, slow and tasty. What a lazy fish! I called it Lazy Cod, because it looks like it, but was more, well, lazy… I also saw something strange growing at the bottom of the ocean. I think it's some sort of bamboo. Super weird.
Now I am sailing towards the island, which I noticed on the horizon. Hope I can rest there and figure out what to do next. There is plenty of fuel on my ship, but even brown oil tends to run out. I hope there will be something useful on the island and I will get out of this place alive. The island has a strange shape and it worries me. I would not want to moor to the land inhabited by some terrible hungry creatures, but the open waters also do not look like a calm and safe place for me right now.