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Hey everyone! I just wanted to quickly inform you that Survival Island Ep. 2 (Hook, Line, & Sinker) is out for members! No demo for non-members though. Plus, the PHB’s Survival walkthrough covers both episodes 1 & 2!
There is some good news for non-members as well – Mission Atlantis Ep. 1 (Into the Deep) is out for all! If you need help on the island, feel free to use the PHB’s guide, which has lots of pictures! Hope it helps! 😀
So, members, how is your fishing going? And non-members, what have you found under the sea? Take the poll below, and tell us what you think of these islands in the comments or on the official PHB chat, the PHC! 🙂
Hey everyone! Now, I’m pretty sure Survival Island – Episode 2: Hook, Line, and Sinker is coming out this week, because the Creators said last week that Mission Atlantis – Episode 1: Into the Deep would be coming out to everyone this Thursday!
Last time when Survival Ep. 1 was released to all, Mission Atlantis Ep. 1 was released to members. So, I’m thinking the pattern will be the same: this Thursday, Survival Ep. 2 will be released to members, and Mission Atlantis Ep. 1 will be released to all. (UPDATE: The Creators’ Blog just confirmed that I was right!) Also, the Survival tour page has been updated with a new printable poster for Episode 2, which should mean the next episode is coming very soon!
Stay tuned to the PHB to know as soon as the new episode comes out! We will also have a guide up as soon as possible, so be ready. For more details about what the next episodes of Survival will entail, check out HP’s post, “Survival Files: more on the story” and BT’s post, “A look ahead: who is Van Buren?” for some exclusive insights! 🙂
Since we already covered most of the back story of Survival in the last file, I decided to make the rest of the files all about the upcoming episodes and give sneak peeks for what’s coming next.
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First of all, the items for the second episode of Survival: a fishing pole, some grubs, another handbook (it’s different this time), handbook pages, a fishing costume, a hook, some pill bugs, 2 shoelaces, worms, and the island medallion. In total, there are 10 items in the quest. From the looks of it, you’ll be experimenting with different types of bait in order to get some fish.
The forest is approaching spring in the episode, and things are starting to melt (if you don’t remember, Survival 1 was set in a winter theme). This allows you to fish around and get some food in order to survive.
With no help in sight, your hunger threatens to overtake you. Can you catch your next meal under the ice — or will you become fish food?
The episode’s game play involves assembling a working fishing pole and obtaining a sufficient bait. Along with that, a suspicious character whom we don’t know the name of will cross paths with you on the quest, and from the looks of it, he’s quite superstitious and perhaps a fisherman.
But Survival 2 isn’t where the story starts to get interesting — it’s the third chapter that the events lead up to the rumored Van Buren character — and I’m here to say that Van Buren is real.
They’ll probably take a different route with the story this time — Van Buren rescues you, but the more that you learn, he’s actually an evil poacher. I really like how the story is going, and it’s becoming my favorite out of the two, even though I was leaning toward Mission Atlantis previously. I have a good feeling about the Survival series. 😀
._. What? No, I don’t mean the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, thank you very much.
I’m talking about Poptropica’s upcoming character for Survival, Van Buren, his household, and a prediction as to what may be coming up in this island.
Okay, let’s start by looking at some Daily Pops…
Tuck in: Time for a long night’s sleep.Hail to the Chef: Cleaver? I hardly know her!Welcome Home: We’re rolling out the red carpet for you.Log Files: Always be sure to keep a back-up.Fish Story: But this one is actually true.Motto: Strength rejoices in the challenge.Hot Stove: Let’s not put this adventure on the back burner.Chop Chop: Get to the choppah!
There are a few more Daily Pops, but these are the major ones. From these, I can determine the following:
Van Buren seems to be a big game hunter who just so happened to take residence in the same woods that you and your blimp crashed on. He seems to be pretty talented at his sport. He’s even rich to have a cook with him and own a nice log cabin and all.
However, I have the strangest comparison that’ll not give this character a good name:
Van Buren kinda reminds me of General Zaroff.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: Who the heck is General Zaroff? Well, he was a rich and essentric Cossack hunter who took up residence on the island another hunter named Rainsford ended up washing up on in the 1924 short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Zaroff has a bulky servant named Ivan as well. Zaroff shows Rainsford his achievements in the hunting buisness, but lends him on with a dark secret: he had grown bored of hunting ordinary animals and decided to go bigger, to hunt the most dangerous game that comes to his island, and the only animal that can reason: humans.
He offers Rainsford to join him in his hunting, but he refuses. Zaroff tells him of the game he plays with whoever comes to this island, where the victims have to go around and gather supplies, and most importantly, not get killed by Zaroff, Ivan, or his hounds. Rainsford, desperate to get out of this island, makes a deal with Zaroff: He will be the next person to take part in Zaroff’s game for three days. If he wins, Zaroff lets him go, and if he dies… well, he dies. If you want to read it, here’s the full story.
I noticed that both Zaroff and Van Buren have a stocky-looking servant- Van Buren with that chef and Zaroff with Ivan. They’re both well-accomplished hunters. Although I doubt Van Buren would follow Zaroff’s man-hunting ways since this is a kid’s game, it doesn’t stop him from having the ability to be villainous in another way… (although I have no idea why the heck the stand-in looks like a corpse in the “Hot Stove” Daily Pop).
We know well of the binoculars that spied on us at the end of Crash Landing. We know well that the Distress Signal’s description warns to “beware of who might be listening”. Well, no matter what Van Buren’s goal is, I have a feeling it won’t be good. Besides, sleeping with a dagger underneath your pillow sounds rather uncomfortable.
Hey everyone! The Creators just announced that Mission Atlantis (Ep. 1): Into the Deep has been released on the iPad and iPhone. Wait, they said iPhone? I looked, and sure enough, it’s true, and they have a trailer for it! The new Poptropica app is now available for iPhone/iPod touch for free!
To download the app, click here or search “Poptropica” on the App Store. The icon is the yellow blimp.
Also, the newest update to the Poptropica app fixes a bug that was causing some users’ progress to be overwritten when they installed a new update. So if you’ve got a saved game from the previous version, you can update to the new version without fear.
The official Poptropica game app works on iPad 2 and above, iPhone 4 and above, and iPod touch, so you’ll need one of these devices to be able to play it!
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