So What Would You Do If...

Thermopylae

The Change in Dies the Fire happened to you? :D It's March 17th, 1998, 7:15 PM RMT, and suddenly all modern technology stops working! :eek:

What do you do next?! :cool:

(Note: I doubt this will get anywhere, but it'd be cool if this could be a serious discussion, actually. :D )
 
Thande

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I think this would be better in ASBs. I know it's based off a published book so you'd think it would go here, but more people are likely to reply if it's in ASBs.

As for me - don't know, haven't read the book yet :p
 

WilyBadger

David bar Elias said:
I'd gather as much food as possible and flee to the San Juans.
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The islands in cold, rainy Puget Sound? :confused: Why on EARTH would you want to be there?

I think I'd get myself to my family's farm over in Oklahoma. Sure, staring at the ass-end of a horse for the rest of my life doesn't sound like fun, but neither does starvation.
 

David bar Elias

Remember in the whole "Dies the Fire" series, the isolated islands do the best. I'd flee there, only because they're more accessable.
 

Thermopylae

I think I'd get myself to my family's farm over in Oklahoma. Sure, staring at the ass-end of a horse for the rest of my life doesn't sound like fun, but neither does starvation.
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You'd better get there quick. While many people wouldn't have the common sense to seize farms and start raising subsistence crops, you'd still have raiders blowing through your area.

Would you bring some friends along, to help make the farm more defensible?

Remember in the whole "Dies the Fire" series, the isolated islands do the best. I'd flee there, only because they're more accessable.
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Large islands with a wide variety of resources. The small San Juans might not have such a wide variety of food. Never been to the San Juans myself, is there deer? How's the fishing?

As for me, the first thing I would do as soon as I realized firearms don't work is get a bunch of my friends together and raid any location that would have bows and crossbows (along with the obligatory arrows).

While raiding for useful weaponry, I would take as many energy bars as huimanly possible (I would gut Sports Authority). Would I have to use strongman tactics? Sure, but this is the end of modern civilization we're talking about here.

At the time I was living in Maryland, so I'm not entirely sure where I would flee. My family doesn't have an ancestral farm. No, my family owned part of the Shipyards down here in Virginia, but then it was seized by the Northerners. That's when my family trekked West to the Seattle area. So fleeing to a farm is not an option.

I myself don't have horseback riding abilities, so this journey to wherever is going to have to be made on foot. Given our lack of mobility, we'd probably have to join with a larger group. I guess mine would be the life of a mercenary initially...
 

David bar Elias

For me, it's either the San Juans, or try to hike to Vancouver Island (not a great idea, with all those starving Victorians rampaging around).
 

Thermopylae

David bar Elias said:
For me, it's either the San Juans, or try to hike to Vancouver Island (not a great idea, with all those starving Victorians rampaging around).
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Myself having lived in the Seattle area for a few years, I would think that it would be best to wait it out on the coast, in a remote location. I know, that's a long LONG way (yeah, I'm talking about THAT coast. The Pacific one.) If it weren't the Change we were dealing with here, I would say the Cascades, but that's too flippin obvious. Whereas going to the coast, preferably at the mouth of a small stream, that might have potential.

Or a small island, depending on the food available...
 

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Die. Hopefully in some meaningful way, but more likely fighting over a can of Van de Camp's.:p
 

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Raymann said:
I already got the guns, just gotta load up on as much ammo as I can. :)
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Hate to break it to ya'...

Guns no longer work.:eek: Neither do engines, electricity, explosives, steam engines of any kind, including sterling engines, or any technology invented after about oh... 5,000 B.C.

Torsion power (e.g. catapults), rebound power (bows), water power (from wheels), kinetic power (rock drops for slings or to pull items to a set height), & animal power (including human slaves) is about it.

Might want to see if you can find a crossbow or a decent recurvebow, bolts/arrows, broad head hunting points, a bowyers guide book & a couple of decent knives and steels to replace the 9mm.

Damn, almost forgot....

Grab as many pairs of underwear still in the plastic as you can handle & hide them. They seem to be more valuable than gold after about ten years without factories. With the general lack of food, I'd avoid the XL rack.:p
 

Count Dearborn

I'd much rather have a senario like what happens in Magic Time. Similar to what happens in Dies the Fire, but magic returns to the world.
 

WilyBadger

Count Dearborn said:
I'd much rather have a senario like what happens in Magic Time. Similar to what happens in Dies the Fire, but magic returns to the world.
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Returns? From where? What, was it on vacation the last several million years? On holiday in the south of France perhaps?! OR MAYBE IT JUST NEVER EXISTED AT ALL! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*wanders off muttering vaguely*

;)
 
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