Balboa Island Story

[hoot hoot]

What was going on on Balboa Island? The notes combined with the "scarecrow" people and other leftovers just paints a bizarre picture I don't quite understand. Was Bruno a man who had gone insane and invented people? Or was he murdering people, such as Henry since we see actual evidence Henry might have been real?

I guess trying to follow a loose narrative in-between figuring out how to get to the signal towers and fighting all the damn bears made it hard for me to follow whatever it is that's implied to have happened.

[KtX2SkD]

Two things I'll tell you. One, the very first note (in page order) is for work shifts over the year, I recall the 3rd or 4th entry having names with the same last name, and initials A and B, suggesting Astrid and Bruno.

Two, a few story locations forward you'll find notes signed by "Grabber". The name doesn't bear relevance from my perspective, but the notes do. You'll get a better picture once you finish that whole site, but if you didn't, we can discuss then :).

[The ILT Kid]

Well it’s been 2+ years now but i just found this thread and am just now playing since it finally came out on xbox and I’m also a little confused about this part of the story. From what I understand so far, there was a dad and his sister, plus his like four kids, three boys and one girl, sister/aunt goes missing, dad starts to lose it, kids are psychos too, dad decides to leave the three brothers behind on the island to set out on a boat with his daughter and one of the scarecrows he thinks is his best bud. I’ll hold off on asking too may questions until I get to see those notes you mentioned, but How close is that?

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by The ILT Kid:

Well it’s been 2+ years now but i just found this thread and am just now playing since it finally came out on xbox and I’m also a little confused about this part of the story. From what I understand so far, there was a dad and his sister, plus his like four kids, three boys and one girl, sister/aunt goes missing, dad starts to lose it, kids are psychos too, dad decides to leave the three brothers behind on the island to set out on a boat with his daughter and one of the scarecrows he thinks is his best bud. I’ll hold off on asking too may questions until I get to see those notes you mentioned, but How close is that?

It's pretty much impossible to answer "how close you are" when it's a pretty big island and we haven't a clue where you are on it or what you've found so far.
Just keep looking it all over until you find everything you can. If you get truly lost, there's always a youtube guide to help you find that one missing piece.

Ok, so this next will just be full on with the spoilers. Fair warning.

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https://raft.fandom.com/wiki/Balboa_Island#Notes
The scarecrows you find ARE the kids. There was never more than two, real, people on that island. A pair of park rangers that also happened to be siblings.
The people meant to relieve them of duty as listed on the schedule never showed up, giving us a vague time frame of when society finally fell apart.
At some point the sister disappeared. Unknown if she made a raft and left without telling the brother, or just got eaten by a bear. Based on what we read in the notes, my moneys on the second one.
In either case this left the brother alone. If you know anything about the human psyche, this almost never ends well.
Three months later and he's hearing voices.
All those notes written by the kids? Again, there's only one person on that island.
Good news at least, this does mean that no one was (actually) murdered.