At your computer now, your transported to the year 1380

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Well, I would appear to be deep in the rain forest, with a whole bunch of computers, printers, phones and a microwave (I'm at the office). Lucky me.

My immediate concern is defending myself against angry wildlife. I'm screwed if a tiger shows up.

Throw a fax machine at them lol?

[Lancer]

Rufus," try and construct a weapon, can you manufacture a sort of crude lathe?"

Not an exact quote, but can anyone guess the movie?

[Verto]

Galaxy Quest

[Verto]

BTW, not a guess...KNOWLEDGE.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[LotC]

I think I have enough here to become a God-King to the Coast Salish people. Not far away from a few Musqueam villages, I arrive with the following:

2 cats, a very comfortable couch, chair, and bed, a fully charged UPS ,a digital camera with two sets of rechargeable batteries and charger , a bunch of plants, a lamp, cat scratch post, lot of empty beer bottles, table, coffee table and chairs, not much food but a full pound of coffee and a coffee maker, a bike, tube repair kit and tire pump , lots of shoes and a pair of titanium alloy toed work boots, various shiny things, crystals, and stones, some leftover fireworks, a pellet gun with a few hundred pellets and several CO2 cartridges, and 6 gelcaps of (so far untested) Ecstasy .

With just that I'm sure I could at least have a lot of fun trying to vanquish the natives and even document it with pictures. I wonder what the neighbours have? I would get 2 suites up, the one on my left, half of the two across the hall, and the whole laundry room and handyman's storeroom. My next door neighbours are cool, so I would definitely enlist their help. The other ones would probably meet a swift and bloody end, especially the ******* upstairs that always spits and throws cigarette butts into my yard. Oh yeah, that reminds me, I also have 3 packs of smokes.

Hmm...that makes me wonder if I'll keep the next door neighbours. They are really good people, but they probably have more smokes, some booze, and pot. And food.

As to what my other neighbours have, who knows? Hopefully a real gun and a big pile of coke.

I would fashion some pipe bombs out of fireworks and if a real gun happened to make its way with me I would make CO2 bombs as well. My plan would be to do a bunch of drugs, mount up with helmet, boots, and some makeshift cookie sheet and muffin tin armour, and head off towards the village at Stanley Park. After burning, raping (not really) and pillaging, I would set the few slaves I captured to making me a fortress in my strategically defensible location. Then I would trade a good portion, though not all, of my empties for yummy Sockeye salmon and more women for my harem. Gotta leave some bottles for liquid storage.

The next few days, weeks, and months would be spent conquering all that I see, craving cigarettes, trying to keep my cats from eating fish bones, and wishing I had bought a larger UPS. In my spare time I think I would see if I could disassemble and reassemble a washer and dryer.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Actually, I didn't even think about the fact that I might get to keep people in a 50-foot range. In that case, I'm joined by a female office mate who's hobby is wilderness trekking. I feel better already.

[LotC]

And I didn't really consider the fact that I have a whole buttload of copper wire, including 8 gauge running to all of the electricity meters for the suites in the building just beside my bathroom, several rare earth magnets, and at least 6 motors, thereby enabling power generation and distribution. I feel better already too!

The tough part will be getting it to run at 60Hz and measuring voltage without a voltmeter. I suppose I could solve the latter by making a crude one out of known-value resistors and calibrating it with the output on my UPS.

[Blake]

Btw if you want to play a cool trick on the natives, try this.

Take a camcorder or digital camera. Now take a photo or video of the chief. Now show the chief the LCD and see "Look, I have trapped your soul in this cage! If it is destroyed, you will instantly die! Only I have the power to free your soul! Do as I command!"

And the chief will be all like "Wtfpwned" and do your bidding .

Or he'll just stab you in the head and enjoy his cool new toy (until it runs out of batteries).

[LotC]

I like that idea! I think I'll make a shock collar as a backup just in case though.

[Lancer]

Galaxy Quest, yes!

Little late.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Actually, I didn't even think about the fact that I might get to keep people in a 50-foot range. In that case, I'm joined by a female office mate who's hobby is wilderness trekking. I feel better already.

You're in an office, any books other than accounting? The boss keep a library full of Foxfire Books? History of the Pacific Region? How about crochet, the natives will certainly get off on that. Weapons? Marines? Gotta have something, it's gov!

[Provost Harrison]

I'd end up in the middle of fields. I do have an ironing board and iron handy though

[Lancer]

A towel? Only One had a towel so far.

[Seeker]

MY towel is currently wrapped tightly around my head, with a single eye-hole.

So I'm well prepared for come-what-may.