Phone! Does his phone get him anything, like a telephony totem?

It gets him a plastic totem, with plastic powers!

… Can he do anything interesting with the plastic powers? He's guessing he cannot just create a duplicate phone.

He is in fact right. He could try creating plastic of various shapes, transparency and rigidity.

Ooh! How transparent can he get?

He can make it completely transparent like plastic film.

He tries the glass-and-seashell thing and then he's gonna need to go hunting for more smol totems.

Glass gets him glass totem, which is made out of glass.

The seashell gets him... a bone totem.

Plausibly useful if he breaks a bone! Otherwise no thank you.

He searches for totems and other assorted items!

He finds three smol totems and one archer totem. There isn't anything new among the assorted items he finds except he discovers a beehive up a tree.

Archer totem, though! Oooh!

He stays away from the beehive for now.

Yes, a second archer totem is reason to celebrate. With fireworks! Like those in the sky.

Well, that isn't so much as fireworks as a single firey-explosion up in the sky.

Fucksake.

Can he get a better view of it, does it disappear?

There is another. It keeps happening at regular intervals. If he gets to higher ground he will be able to tell it is coming from that beach ways over there.

He goes that way!

And eventually Anthony will see a young man in the distance. Wearing just a loincloth he is holding what looks like a totem and shooting at the sky.

He spots Anthony and drops his totem. "Hello?" He shouts.

"– You are the first person I have met here! Hi!"

He keeps walking closer, only very slightly cautiously.

"Dude, me too!" He shouts while running very uncautiously, then he stops abruptly, "Hey! Say something off-script! Like getting quests from a book is weird!"

"I got teleported here after getting hit in the head by a soccer ball and all the totems are weird because who the hell literally names a magical item smol with an O?"

"I hit my head while out during a snowstorm! And fucking hell yes! You are not a video game character! Or at least a convincing one... going to believe that you are real because that is pleasanter!"

"Is there anything in particular I can do to reassure you? I'm about as confident as I can get that I'm not one."

He is, however, still wearing the weird circlet. For the telepathy.

Gabe is wearing really tacky bracelets on his wrists.

"Nah, it's cool. If you are fake, I honestly don't want to know. So... how long have you been here? Have you met anyone? Person or character?"

"I haven't met anyone other than you!" he responds. "I do however have the ability to contact home because this stupid island isn't quite as cruel as it could be."

"You mean through the bottles? Or some other way?"

"… Not through the bottles, no – they do actual contact too?"