A group of mismatched adults are accidentally marooned on an offshore island in the tropics. Left to their own devices for 10 days or so, with neither supplies nor a means of communication, the veneer of civilization is quick to rub off.
They are, truly, provably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization.
An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier & were very nearly one of its founding societies, decid...