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Early afternoon, Captain Maxim and tude dog have completed assessment of the damage to the good boat SfD, and otherwise taken inventory.
Maxim calls everybody together for a meeting.
Maxim: This is our situation here. We are not able to repair the boat, the radios are damaged and it is doubtful that they can be fixed. I ordered tude dog to take an inventory of supplies,,,tude, would you please report what we have?
tude dog: aye aye, we have four cases of Foster's beer, three liters of wine, and a fifth of Jack Daniels.
Maxim: How about food?
tude dog: Oh, something like a few cans of tuna, some corned beef hash and some spoiled mahi mahi.
headrock: What is that all about? You bring us to this island and have a bunch of booze and no food?
Maxim: You paid for a three hour tour, not a survivalist expedition.
In the meantime, I suggest that we all face the reality of our situation and remain calm. There is no reason to believe that help isn't already on the way, in the meantime we should all work together.
Genosse: Sounds reasonable, cooperation and understanding is what we need now.
twiw: Exactly, we should figure out who can do what to insure the survival of everybody.
Engineer Soldier: Sounds like a bunch of European socialist crap to me, I just want to know who elected Maxim as leader.
Hibakusha: This has to be done democratically, we must elect leaders. ES is correct, nobody elected Maxim as supreme leader!
tude dog: Can't we all just get along?
Engineer Soldier: No, we must all agree as to leadership.
Genosse: Fine, so we will have elections. Who wants to run?
(if there were crickets on the island, their voices would be the strongest)
twiw: So that is now settled, so what do you suggest we do Maxim?
Maxim: headrock and Engineer soldier will go out and scout the island-
headrock: Scout for what? I never agreed---
Maxim: Please, just go with ES and be of some help. .............................................Genosse and Hibakusha, please collect some wood for fire, and perhaps see if there is any vegetation that can be eaten.
tude dog, salvage the boat for what may be of use on land, secure anything of value.
twiw, come with me, we have to discuss administration.
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As the sun sets everybody is sitting around a camp fire. Having their ration of corned beef hash and a ration of one beer each they settle into groups.
Geonsse and twiw speaking earnestly with each other in German,
Engineer Soldier and Hibakusha giggling in a corner of palm trees
while tude dog and headrock (seems that tude dog got some extra ration of Jacks for the two of them) arguing animatedly over problems thousands of miles away.
Maxim sits alone, the fate of a leader who must stay aloft, contemplates the future.
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Will the small party of castaways be rescued by civilization?
If not, can they rescue themselves?
Can they create a working relationship?
Are they already to fractured?
Time will only tell,,,so
stay tuned for the next episode of SfD Isle, |