Robinson's Diary Fragments
A four-piece Legendary collectible set told through the diary of a shipwrecked castaway named Norman, left behind by his companions Bram and Mitchell after they decided the ruins were haunting him. Includes a separate List of Essentials detailing the boat supplies his friends gathered before abandoning him.
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Robinson's Diary Fragments are a four-piece Legendary collectible set recovered from a single shipwreck survivor's camp. Three of the items are dated diary pages written by the castaway, known only as Norman; the fourth is a practical supply list drawn up by his companions before they sailed away and left him behind.
The set pairs as a companion piece to Exquemelin's Notes. Where Exquemelin is a lucid chronicler watching from the edges, Robinson's diary is a first-person descent into isolation: three survivors come ashore, the ruins get inside one of their heads, and only one is left by the end.
The Four Fragments
Image | Fragment | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Diary Fragments (Day 1) | First day after the shipwreck. The three survivors are on the beach in the rain. Bram wants to shelter in the ruins. Norman warns that the ruins are cursed; Mitchell laughs, Bram refuses to believe him. |
Diary Fragments (Day 8) | Eight days in. The nightmares have started. Norman dreams his friends are dying, their skin hardening into bark. He carves protective charms for them; they throw them into the mud. At night he hears them whispering about the boat. | |
Diary Fragments (Day 105) | The handwriting has degraded. Norman cannot remember whether the hundred-and-fifth day was two weeks ago or three. Bram and Mitchell have left him. He has buried their belongings where they can find them if they return. He hears their voices even in daylight. | |
| A dry, practical checklist in a different hand: nails, planks, rope, a patched sail. Enough for a boat. Signed off with the remark that Norman can stay and die. |
What it Tells Us
The ruin effect on Norman is the same progression described in the Clay Tablets: nightmares, bark-hardening flesh, slow loss of identity. The ruins are not abandoned; they are still doing what they did to the Senkamati.
Bram and Mitchell's escape is left unresolved. Neither name shows up elsewhere in collected lore, suggesting their boat either drifted or never made it out of the archipelago.
The "belongings buried where they can find them" line rhymes with Exquemelin's "tree marked with a red cloth." Leaving a cache for the people who abandoned you is a common castaway motif the game reuses.
How to Obtain
Recovered from a single shoreline camp and the adjacent ruins where Norman took shelter.
The pages are scattered: one inside the ruins, one in a small cache, and two in a collapsed tent.
Not a world drop. Clearing the camp in full is required.
All four pieces are Legendary-tier collectibles and read as a single set: three dated diary pages from Norman plus the supply list left by Bram and Mitchell. Like the other written-lore sets they are kept for the story rather than for crafting, so there is no recipe use; the value is in completing the camp and reading the full descent. The set reads best alongside Exquemelin's Notes, which covers the same ruin curse from an outside observer's point of view.