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Author Topic: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?  (Read 14622 times)

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #30 on: August 22, 2015, 08:15:50 AM »
Start a post apocalyptic gang!  We'll be a bunch of 40 year olds who ride in on BMX bikes with crossbows.

Since the original questioner raised the point 5 years ago, and I'm fairly sure has long since moved on, your suggestion may fall on deaf ears.

But that may well be a record-breaking piece of threadomancy!

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Offline YPU

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #31 on: August 22, 2015, 04:57:00 PM »
But that may well be a record-breaking piece of threadomancy!

I'd suggest some sort of ribbon, but the arms race that might encourage would not be a pretty one.
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Offline nic-e

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #32 on: August 22, 2015, 10:19:10 PM »
Assuming i survived, i'd head straight to swithland woods quarry.There's a dive center built into the solid slate and its a deep old quarry in the middle of a dense forest. The stone should keep me pretty shielded, and hopefully the water will be covered enough by the forest canopy (provided it isnt on fire) to keep it just safe enough to not kill me straight away.

If the actual local area was hit then i'd be dead from radioactive beans pretty soon, but if Leicester wasn't directly hit but reasonably damaged, i'd stick to the country side for foraging and hunting.

(or realistically, die horribly)
(or shoot myself with a bow because i can't face a world without tea)
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Offline Faust23

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #33 on: September 21, 2015, 03:21:08 AM »
I'd strut about with my new rack of antlers proudly sprouted from my head, firing radiation from my eyes (all three of them) while reloading my fusion gun astride my hoverbike while my robo-servitors swarmed your position.

yeah, I play Gamma World.... lol
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Offline Muzfish4

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #34 on: September 21, 2015, 03:29:58 AM »
Australia is already there. We have the worst cricket captain on earth, a team with no direction and we're being belted by a triumphant English team in the Ashes.

Believe me, it doesn't get worse. Cormac McCarthy knows nothing about existential despair.

And congratulations to England - a better team playing well is a wonderful thing to watch - through the weeping and gnashing and hurling of dogs at the TV.

In context for our American cousins, imagine Canada crushing you senseless at any given national sport you both play.

Or for European football fans, the realisation that Brasil has rediscovered its mojo and just wants to jump up and down on your head for a decade or so.

Meh. It's a game with a bat and ball. I'm still going to the Sydney Test. Masochism is its own reward.

Five years later and the despair remains... :'(



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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2015, 07:49:48 PM »
I can't believe I'm the first one to say this:
Become a cannibal on the spot, of course!

Offline HerbyF

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #36 on: September 22, 2015, 03:10:55 AM »
I don't think I will need to be much concerned about the aftermath. I am practically just outside the gates of one of the largest & most active military bases in North America. Probably a ground zero first strike target.  :(
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Offline Mr Vampire

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Re: Post-apocalyptic wasteland: Now what?
« Reply #37 on: September 22, 2015, 11:03:30 AM »
I can't believe I'm the first one to say this:
Become a cannibal on the spot, of course!

Good plan. It's like being trapped in the snow, if you don't get rescued in the first fifteen minutes you should get in first.

 

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