![]() ![]() ![]() First, the Message in a Bottle is such a desperate ploy for help that a character really has to be scraping the bottom of the barrel to even try it. Lucky thing the odds of this happening are a Million-to-One Chance, or else this wouldn't be much of a storytelling device.ĭespite the obvious problems with this trope, it still retains a fair amount of popularity, due to some advantages that it confers. Take a bottle, put in a hastily written cry for help and hope that somewhere, someone, somehow manages to find the bottle and lend a hand. In this desperate situation, the only hope possible is a futile grasp at straw. A character is trapped somewhere terrible, usually an island in the middle of an ocean, a slave ship, or somewhere that it just plain sucks to be and there's no way to get a message to anyone.
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