Surf Swell Islanders

The Surf Swell Islanders are a civilization of people native to Surf Swell Island.
== Description ==
A culture oddly fixated on internet safety, the Surf Swell Islanders live in Tiki Fun Stuff Village, located on the beach on the far side of the island. Although they mainly stay in their Village, the Islanders also create canoes which they occasionally use to explore the waters around the island.
The Islanders welcome tourists into their village, often inviting them to play a game of Coconut Bowling - although this comes at a price, as Tiki Bob, the man in charge of the game, requires a payment of 20 coconuts to play. Bob will gladly give coconuts to tourists in exchange for answering questions about web safety, so this is no great inconvenience.
The leader of the Village is the Great Tiki, an islander with great knowledge of the Tiki Jewels and the legendary treasure of the island. The Great Tiki will often enlist the help of tourists to help discover the treasure, greeting them on No Privacy Beach as they arrive at the island. It would appear that he keeps a small hut on the beach to stay in while awaiting the tourists' arrival.
The ancestors of the islanders were an architecturally-skilled people, having built several impressive sites mainly for the purpose of protecting the Tiki Jewels. Among these are the ancient Temple of Tact near the Village, within which a Jewel is contained, the great Treasure Palace built into the top of Surf Swell's mountain, and a sturdy rope bridge stretching across a chasm in the mountain. The ancient islanders also created a huge dam capable of stopping the flow of Privacy Falls, thus revealing the cave behind, the hiding place of another Jewel, along with a mechanism which would allow the dam to open or close based on a sequence of levers pulled. It is possible that these ancient people also created the mainframe computer which controls the island, although this is unconfirmed.
In addition to the aforementioned sites, there is one more site important to the Islanders, that being the Print Hut, a large building in which paper crafts are made, located on the side of the mountain. The Islanders will occasionally let tourists visit the Hut, but only if they have proved their mastery of internet safety and beat the game of Coconut Bowling.
== Behind the scenes ==
The Surf Swell Islanders first appeared in 2000 in Surf Swell Island. One member of the civilization, the Great Tiki, later made an appearance in 2002 in Surf Swell Island, although the rest of the islanders were absent.
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Category:Islanders
Category:Residents of Surf Swell Island