:INFO
Keeper of the Tarn Light
You are the relief keeper at Tarn Skerry, alone for the first time. It is the third night of a storm the mainland swore would pass by now. At 2 a.m. the main lamp stutters and dies. The logbook of the keeper before you ends in the middle of a sentence. Every fork below is yours. Read the situation, choose, and live with what the sea does next.


:POLL
The lamp is out and a trawler's running lights are somewhere off the rocks. What do you do first?
Climb to the lantern room and relight the wick by hand
Fire the emergency rockets to warn the trawler off
Crank the foghorn and buy yourself time to think

:NOTE
Whatever you chose, the wind takes the south door off its hinges while your back is turned. Cold floods the stairwell. The spare oil for the lamp is down in the store, and the store is now open to the sea.


:POLL
Saltwater is rising in the store where the spare oil is kept. Go down for it, or hold the light?
Go down into the flooding store for the oil
Stay in the lantern room and nurse the last of the wick
Signal the mainland and admit you cannot manage alone

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:from the keeper's log]
Light is not the job. The job is to be the one who did not leave. The light is only how they know you stayed.
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:POLL
Dawn is two hours off and the trawler has gone quiet. What do you write in the log?
The truth, exactly as it happened, mistakes and all
Only the facts that keep the next keeper calm
Nothing yet, because the night is not over

:LINK
https://www.google.com/search?q=lighthouse+keeper+history+isolation
On the keepers who stayed