CHOOSE WISELY.
Which of these scenarios would you prefer to be in?
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I made a similar-ish thread a couple of years ago, and it got an awesome response, so I decided to rekindle it in a slightly different way. Lemme explain the choices...
Zombie apocalypse
You're hearing about this on the news. It isn't near you, but it's only a matter of days (they are slow zombies). There'll be a mad scrum to prepare, or perhaps flee, but you can set yourself up however you like. However, there will be loads of them, they're highly contagious, and it isn't the nicest way to go.
Alien ground invasion
Them invading us or us invading them, your choice. They can be fairly weak but their tech will naturally be more advanced than us (sorry, that's just how sci-fi rolls). What that does mean though is getting to use some badass armaments...one of which has been abandoned in your very garden. Will you stand and fight, or go quietly into the night?
Dinosaur rampage (I made it sound a bit too deadly)
Scientists make dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat scientists. Hilarity ensues. Again, they're coming to your town, flying buggers and all. That said, there won't be loads, and they will be avoidable. Do you have what it takes?
Survivor post-apocalypse
Putin proves who's the bigger man, and the world plunges into a darkness from which you and a handful of others emerge. These are Russians we're talking about, so this could be nuclear destruction or viral outbreak (nuclear destroys stuff, but viral leaves rotting corpses). Are you brave enough to venture out and forge a new world?
Stranded on a desert island
You either fall out of a boat and wash up on a deserted tropical island, or wind up there on a broken boat with a few friends. You're not really sure; it was a long night. What's certain is that this isn't one of those fancy electric islands. Can you craft an idyll, or are the toils and troubles your idea of hell?
Medieval Rambo
This inevitably requires the most explanation. You wake up in your car, smack bang in the middle of 12th Century England. You don't know how you got there, but you do know that you have your gun of choice, some medical supplies and a trunk full of ammo. You also have a wind-up charging laptop (they do exist) with some encyclopedia software bollocks. Basically, a giant treasure trove of modern knowledge and gear. You can do whatever you want, but you will have to live in the god awful conditions of 12th Century England without a proper doctor (though you could probably make sure that a lot of disease ridden crap never comes near you). Fancy a kingship?
I would personally go post-viral apocalypse. Tough, but the infrastructure is there to be utilised, and you can forge a new world by your own standards.
Zombie apocalypse
You're hearing about this on the news. It isn't near you, but it's only a matter of days (they are slow zombies). There'll be a mad scrum to prepare, or perhaps flee, but you can set yourself up however you like. However, there will be loads of them, they're highly contagious, and it isn't the nicest way to go.
Alien ground invasion
Them invading us or us invading them, your choice. They can be fairly weak but their tech will naturally be more advanced than us (sorry, that's just how sci-fi rolls). What that does mean though is getting to use some badass armaments...one of which has been abandoned in your very garden. Will you stand and fight, or go quietly into the night?
Dinosaur rampage (I made it sound a bit too deadly)
Scientists make dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat scientists. Hilarity ensues. Again, they're coming to your town, flying buggers and all. That said, there won't be loads, and they will be avoidable. Do you have what it takes?
Survivor post-apocalypse
Putin proves who's the bigger man, and the world plunges into a darkness from which you and a handful of others emerge. These are Russians we're talking about, so this could be nuclear destruction or viral outbreak (nuclear destroys stuff, but viral leaves rotting corpses). Are you brave enough to venture out and forge a new world?
Stranded on a desert island
You either fall out of a boat and wash up on a deserted tropical island, or wind up there on a broken boat with a few friends. You're not really sure; it was a long night. What's certain is that this isn't one of those fancy electric islands. Can you craft an idyll, or are the toils and troubles your idea of hell?
Medieval Rambo
This inevitably requires the most explanation. You wake up in your car, smack bang in the middle of 12th Century England. You don't know how you got there, but you do know that you have your gun of choice, some medical supplies and a trunk full of ammo. You also have a wind-up charging laptop (they do exist) with some encyclopedia software bollocks. Basically, a giant treasure trove of modern knowledge and gear. You can do whatever you want, but you will have to live in the god awful conditions of 12th Century England without a proper doctor (though you could probably make sure that a lot of disease ridden crap never comes near you). Fancy a kingship?
I would personally go post-viral apocalypse. Tough, but the infrastructure is there to be utilised, and you can forge a new world by your own standards.
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luinthoron
High Priest of Loli
I'll take the deserted island. Best chances of actually surviving. Post-apocalypse comes a close second, though.
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Zombie apocalypse for me. I have high school of the dead to thank for my survival then. I just need to make sure I can get to the nearest workshop though.
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What many games and films mention, but often neglect to include (until it suits the storyline), is that the blood is infectious, and you'll be spraying blood everywhere by killing them with most weapons.
They are slow zombies, but the biggest number of any of the options...and they're super hungry. Seems the easiest and most fun, but you'd have to be on the lookout 24/7.
They are slow zombies, but the biggest number of any of the options...and they're super hungry. Seems the easiest and most fun, but you'd have to be on the lookout 24/7.
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Flaser
OCD Hentai Collector
Frankly I was going to go with Survivor Post-Apocalypse, because that would mean a lot of people with expertise needed to survive would still be alive. (Nuclear/bio war can't kill everyone... humans are too fare spread for that). Also there wouldn't be any paranormal, out of this world shit (zombies) or anything else that would just flat out own you (dinosaurs, aliens, etc).
By the way, skills! I don't know jack-shit about them! Hey you! Yeah! I'm talking to you, city dwellers just like me. Do you know how to fucking slaughter a pig? Harvest some crops? Not die within a year, for squandering your meager food supply? Though so... me neither.
Then I realized how bad that shit could be, how the most likely people to survive would be the religious nuts, and the radical right as these people have the numbers, the organization and willingness to kill any other fucker who dare 'look wrong. They're also intolerant, bigoted and irrational... so a they'd quickly put my white, suburban, commie ass out of commission.
So yeah... it could be good, but chances are it'd be pretty bad.
So what's the next best option?
The Medieval Rambo scenario. There'd be a functioning society out there, there'd be law and order... and frankly the medieval people were a lot more sophisticated and cultured then what we give them credit for.
Heck, actually I wouldn't even need a gun - that laptop right there is the more potent "weapon": a nine hundred years of knowledge, skills, technology all there to be transcribed and disseminated.
The most difficult thing would be learning the language (it's nothing like English today), then I'd have to ingratiate myself with the powers that be. Take small steps and focus on the practicalities rather than lofty ideals.
By the way, skills! I don't know jack-shit about them! Hey you! Yeah! I'm talking to you, city dwellers just like me. Do you know how to fucking slaughter a pig? Harvest some crops? Not die within a year, for squandering your meager food supply? Though so... me neither.
Then I realized how bad that shit could be, how the most likely people to survive would be the religious nuts, and the radical right as these people have the numbers, the organization and willingness to kill any other fucker who dare 'look wrong. They're also intolerant, bigoted and irrational... so a they'd quickly put my white, suburban, commie ass out of commission.
So yeah... it could be good, but chances are it'd be pretty bad.
So what's the next best option?
The Medieval Rambo scenario. There'd be a functioning society out there, there'd be law and order... and frankly the medieval people were a lot more sophisticated and cultured then what we give them credit for.
Heck, actually I wouldn't even need a gun - that laptop right there is the more potent "weapon": a nine hundred years of knowledge, skills, technology all there to be transcribed and disseminated.
The most difficult thing would be learning the language (it's nothing like English today), then I'd have to ingratiate myself with the powers that be. Take small steps and focus on the practicalities rather than lofty ideals.
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Room101
Waifu Collector
I'm torn between Alien invasion and Medieval Rambo.
I like stuff blowing up. I like fancy lights. Plus, alien invasion offers you a chance to go off with a nuclear bang against a flying saucer. What do you mean that it isn't awesome?
But then again, the chance to become a Merlin-esque power behind the throne in Medieval England is equally appealing. Plus, you won't get fried by microwave lasers of some space crab.
But you can be burned at stake though...
In the end, I will go with Medieval Rambo.
I always wanted to wear on of those medieval period costiumes, and have my own knight. And a castle.
And nobody said that gunpowder wouldn't be, say, "accidentally" discovered sometime earlier...
I like stuff blowing up. I like fancy lights. Plus, alien invasion offers you a chance to go off with a nuclear bang against a flying saucer. What do you mean that it isn't awesome?
But then again, the chance to become a Merlin-esque power behind the throne in Medieval England is equally appealing. Plus, you won't get fried by microwave lasers of some space crab.
But you can be burned at stake though...
In the end, I will go with Medieval Rambo.
I always wanted to wear on of those medieval period costiumes, and have my own knight. And a castle.
And nobody said that gunpowder wouldn't be, say, "accidentally" discovered sometime earlier...
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I choose "other."
Fucking put me in fallout 3. Dos is a nice bra, so I'm sure there could be some leniency here and I would be able to start from Level 10.
Fucking put me in fallout 3. Dos is a nice bra, so I'm sure there could be some leniency here and I would be able to start from Level 10.
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As much as I love zombies, I would fuckin' hate to be in a zombie apocalypse. It'd pretty much be a life of hiding, sneaking around, living off of small amounts of food you could find, and rarely sleeping. Also the smell of rotting flesh everywhere you go and the chance of being eaten alive doesn't help.
I'd go with Dinosaur rampage. Now I know that I said the chance of getting eaten alive was a reason I didn't pick zombie apocalypse but I think I'll be fine with that if I got to punch a dinosaur in the face before it happened. What a baller way to go out.
I'd go with Dinosaur rampage. Now I know that I said the chance of getting eaten alive was a reason I didn't pick zombie apocalypse but I think I'll be fine with that if I got to punch a dinosaur in the face before it happened. What a baller way to go out.
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Rbz wrote...
I choose "other."Fucking put me in fallout 3. Dos is a nice bra, so I'm sure there could be some leniency here and I would be able to start from Level 10.
Level 5, Endurance/Agility/Perception, melee only. And no shishkebab, because it would not work irl. Prove me wrong, guys.
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Survivor Post-Apocalypse
I wanted to choose Zombie Apocalypse because it's badass but then I was like "Lolnothat'ssofuckingstupid". Chances are, the zombies wouldn't stop fuckin' trying to bite my shit. And there'd be like, hundreds of 'em. My chances of survival would be virtually non-existent.
Dinosaurs terrify me so the Dinosaur thing wouldn't work.
The alien invasion thing sounds kind of boring.
And I haven't watched Lost so I don't know what one is supposed to do on a deserted island. Make a coconut bra, perhaps?
I wanted to choose Zombie Apocalypse because it's badass but then I was like "Lolnothat'ssofuckingstupid". Chances are, the zombies wouldn't stop fuckin' trying to bite my shit. And there'd be like, hundreds of 'em. My chances of survival would be virtually non-existent.
Dinosaurs terrify me so the Dinosaur thing wouldn't work.
The alien invasion thing sounds kind of boring.
And I haven't watched Lost so I don't know what one is supposed to do on a deserted island. Make a coconut bra, perhaps?
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Zombie apocalypse. A few days to prepare is more than enough to assemble people and set up a defense.
No room for any error, though.
No room for any error, though.
