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Go Right

After briefly consulting your map, you decide the best path to take is the one heading across the beach to your right. It’s a long, desolate stretch of pure sand, which looks white in the moonlight.

It takes several hours to cross the beach, and before you are all safely hidden by the far jungle the sun has begun to rise. You know it will not be long before Captain Black realises you are missing, and that once the sun has risen he will be able to spot you in an instant if you are still on the beach.

All three of you make a mad dash across the last bit of sand, and are safelt hidden in the trees before anyone on the ship could have seen you.

Relieved not to have been spotted, you decide it’s time for breakfast. But where are the food packs? Too late you realise that you left them beside the rowboat back on the beach.

What do you do?

Go back for the food packs
Look around for plants to eat
Look around for animals to eat

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