Monday, October 5, 2009

Rock Island - The Premise

While on a three hour excursion off the coast of Hawaii, your boat capsizes during a freak storm. All seven passengers manage to swim to safety on an uncharted island. Some supplies, such as fishing poles and an ample supply of water, also wash up on shore. More importantly, you manage to seal your 2GB MP3 player* (and the headphones) in a waterproof plastic bag before the ship sinks. Unfortunately, the charge is low and you have only a few hours of playing time left. Fortunately, one of your cruise-mates is a very smart man (perhaps even a professor, but you're not sure), and he informs you that he can use supplies from the wreckage to convert your MP3 player from USB-powered to solar-powered.
*I'm sure most of you have MP3 players with much greater capacities, but where's the challenge in deciding on 500 songs if you can carry thousands with you? And I also realize a 2GB player most likely won't hold 500 songs, but it's a nice round number to work with.
Now that you have food and water, you hope your taste in music will help keep up the spirits of the other passengers until you're rescued. Of course, no one knows how long that will take.

To be continued...

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