Christian lets you all stay on Tahiti just ten days, long enough to pick up fresh supplies and twenty-eight Tahitians before sailing back to Tubai to try and seize control of it from the Natives. He builds a Fort which he calls Fort George and tries to man it against all comers. When the Natives attack they are repulsed again and again and sixty-six of them were killed, the only casualty on your side being Seaman Thomas Burkett who is speared through the side. Finally, Christian allows a vote between returning to Tahiti or staying on Tubai. The Pirates vote 16-9 to return to Tahiti. Christian sighs.

"Gentlemen, I will carry you and land you wherever you please. I desire none to stay with me but I have one favor to request: that you will grant me the ship, tie the foresail, give me a few gallons of water and leave me to run before the wind and I shall land upon the first island the ship drives to. I have done such an act that I cannot stay on Tahiti. I will never live where I may be carried home to be a disgrace to my family."

"We shall never leave you Mr Christian," Midshipman Edward Young promises him. "Go where you will!"

After just three months in Tubai Christian sails the Bounty back to Tahiti. There the sixteen men who voted to remain there disembark the ship while Christian remains aboard with eight other companions. You have a decision to make now: you can remain on Tahiti knowing that it will probably be the first place the Royal Navy looks for you and your companions (if they look for you) or you can join Christian in sailing into the unknown to find the most obscure island possible, knowing you will probably never see England again.

You sail on into the unknown

Fletcher Christian sets sail with the ten of you Mutineers, twelve women and six Tahitian men (including three discovered hiding on board) and spends three months trying to find an island isolated enough to avoid discovery. He finally settles on Pitcairn Island, an isolated little island spotted once twenty-three years ago. Best of all you discover the island has been mis-plotted by around two hundred miles making it impossible to find until a ship sailing outside the usual routes actually comes upon it.

You like the island, a pleasant little grassy spot with a few hills, and begin unloading the Bounty Just eight days after arriving a very drunk Matthew Quintal sets fire to the ship to prevent any of you from changing your minds and leaving. The twenty-eight of you gather on the shore and watch the ship burn and sink beneath the waves. For better or worse you are on Pitcairn Island for good now.

A New Life

Three years pass quietly on the island but a few accidents mar the peace.

Soon after you arrive one of the women falls to her death while gathering eggs from the clifftops, soon after Fletcher Christian's wife gives birth to the first child born on Pitcairn. The year after a second woman dies of an illness. Previously each of the Mutineers had one female partner each while the six Tahitian men had just two women to have sexual relations with. In the summer of 1793 you and the other Mutineers decide to take the two remaining women from the Tahitian men and give them to John Adams and William Brown respectively, the two men whose wives have died.

Trouble erupts when four of the Tahitians take the two women and go to live elsewhere on the island. You and the other Mutineers give one of the remaining Tahitians, a tough character called Menalee a musket and send him off to kill the leader of the rebellious Tahitians, a man called Talaloo. On the first day of August Menalee finds him and shoots him dead. The following day he is sent off again and kills a second man called Oho. The two remaining men return and for a time it looks like all has settled down: Adams and Brown have their wives and the four remaining Tahitian men seem suitably chastised.

One day in September you are in your hut when you hear a few gunshots somewhere nearby. You think nothing of it and a short time later you hear more gunshots. You assume someone is hunting. A short while later you hear loud and excited yells followed by even more gunshots and prolonged shouting. You are now growing concerned and step warily out of your hut. You wonder what to do.

You go down and investigate the gunshots

You stroll down through the village to see what is happening and encounter the four Tahitian men coming the other way. Each are armed with a musket and others weapons such as axes and rocks. You call out to them, asking what the noise was. In response the Natives raise their muskets and fire a volley of shots at you. Two bullets hit you in the chest and knock you down, before you can rise they beat you to death with axes.

You are one of the six mutineers to die on what will ever after be known as Massacre Day.