Ship Trap Island And This Amazing Palatial Chateau

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I write to you from Ship Trap Island and this amazing Palatial Chateau. During my stay, the unbelievable happened, and not in a good manner either. This Palatial Chateau used to belong to a man by the name of General Zaroff and his personal “slave” named Ivan. Zaroff and Ivan are both Cossack, meaning they are savages if you please.

I fell off the yacht when I heard gunshots and leaned over the rail to try and get a better view of where they came from and fell trying. After the fact that I fell off, I tried to yell and swim toward the yacht, but it sailed out of reach to quickly. I swam to shore and found a place to sleep because I became exhausted. The next day I found a bedded down area where it looks like a wounded animal went to take shelter, also tracks from what looked to be a human. I made my way through the dense jungle and found the Chateau, I knocked and an abnormally large man named Ivan answered the door. I later learned that he portrayed the traits of deaf mute. When another man came into view from inside, Ivan saluted, that man’s name, General Zaroff. He made it clear that he and Ivan trained in southern Russia and Ukraine’s military, making them Cossack.
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Yes, I said humans and he wanted to hunt me. I was very scared. Given 72 hours to evade him, also knowing that death swamp awaited me in the southeast corner of the island, and if I didn’t want to play the game that, I would have to spend the day with Ivan who killed people for a living with tools he loved to use to his advantage. I chose to take my chances with

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