Cover of The Explorer’s Journal by Elle Michels
Book Two

A branching mystery adventure

The Explorer’s Journal

A mysterious journal holds a trail of secrets. Follow its entries, uncover the clues and decide how far into Greywake Island’s past you are willing to go.

Interactive fictionJournal mysteryClue huntingChoose your path

The trail continues

Follow what the journal left behind.

The Explorer’s Journal takes you deeper into Greywake Island. The journal gives you a trail to follow, but it is still your decisions that determine which clues you pursue and where the investigation takes you.

Entries, discoveries and locations begin to connect as you explore. Choose one route and you may uncover something useful; choose another and the island may reveal a different part of its story.

Inside the adventure

The journal points the way. You choose the route.

Read carefully, follow the trail and decide which discoveries are worth pursuing.

Follow the entries

Use the journal as a trail into the island’s mysteries.

Connect the clues

Notice the details that link one discovery to another.

Choose your route

Decide where to investigate and what to leave behind.

Return and explore

Take another path to see what the first journey missed.

Illustrated map of Greywake Island

Greywake Island

The world is getting bigger.

The journal draws you beyond the familiar routes of Black Gull Cove and deeper into Greywake Island. Every new place adds another piece to the larger mystery running through the series.

See the island on the main site

Black Gull Cove Adventures

Continue the trail.

Start with The Lost Fortune, then follow The Explorer’s Journal into Book 3, The Vanished Expedition.