A) Nothing, just totally naked
B) What you’re wearing and anything you carry with you (even if you’re not carrying it right now) like a bag
C) What you’re wearing, what you carry with you, and the contents of your home (it will be teleported within a few hundred metres on the surface in an accessible location, but obviously won’t be connected to any services like electricity or water)
A. Dead. It’s freaking Peru and I’m a tubby weakling from the swamps. The elements will strike me down.
B. Fine. I got an alpaca wool poncho so I won’t be that out of place. I’ll bring some survival books and a bug out bag.
C. New World Order. “Ok fellas you see all these funky looking codices on multiple shelves? Some of them have your future and the future of the peoples living on the continent north of you. See these maps, accurate to the finger length. All yours for the price of making friends with the altepeme around Lake Texcoco and killing anyone with my skin color immediately for the rest of time.”
Dj PeachCobbler?
Nah but I’ve seen his videos. I’m a Mesoamerican history nerd (if you click on my profile you’ll see Tezcatlipoca) and I do possess a few books about South America. If I’m going to be fucking up the timeline I’m sure as Hell going to be giving the aboriginals a heads up.
Hell yeah, fuck the Conquistadors.
A) totally fucked
B) pretty fucked, but if the wildlife doesn’t get me I might stand a chance
C) gonna be a learning curve but should be good to go really
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If I have the contents of my home, then I probably have enough scientific knowledge in the form of books to start my own scientific revolution provided I can get enough people to listen to me.
BURN THIS NERD!
HERETIC!
LOUD NOISES!!!
SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER! SHUUUUUN! SHUUUUUUUUNNNNAH!
The world is littered with the unmarked graves of explorers from the Age of Exploration who had: D) every piece of equipment that money could buy and experience could suggest.
The ones who survived being stranded in remote environments did so not by virtue of their possessions or preparations, but by throwing themselves on the mercy of the local inhabitants.
Bit of a mixed bag here: Reading about some of Fridtjof Nansens expeditions is absolutely wild. These are people that wintered in the arctic without support, where no local population exists.
The story I think is the wildest is when two guys got stuck on Franz Joseph’s land for an entire winter, with minimal supplies. The following summer they began travelling towards land using kayaks they built, and were found by a British expedition.
Besides being some awesome stories, I’m pointing this out to emphasise just how extremely resourceful and resilient some people can be. These guys survived for months, with very little resources, in conditions that can literally kill you in hours.
Of course, in general, the best survival tactic is probably to try to find local populations and hope for help.
Yeah—I was basing that claim on Joseph Henrich’s survey of expeditions in The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter.
Sounds like a good read, maybe I’ll check it out :)
Dead Dead Dead
I have a kidney transplant and require medication to live.
Bro, you should have thought of that before you went to Peru in the 1300s. Totally preventable.
A) I’m very resourceful and have formal wilderness training, but naked and completely foreign environs… Probably not going to do so well, especially if the weather is harsh.
B) Pretty well. My backpack is my bag of tricks and my daily loadout includes my multitool, an IFAK, some clothing layers, and two water bottles. But it’s still going to be a challenge because of completely foreign environs.
C) Perfectly awesome, living my best life. My home is my sailboat with solar, 40000Wh battery storage, water makers, extensive first aid, dried food and spices, and more books, movies, and video games than I could possibly finish in my remaining years.
You win.
A) No, I like my jacket too much. Also I’d just die.
B) Also no. All I carry with me is phone, keys, wallet - all of which are useless on their own.
C) I think I’d like to give this a go. I have a couple of weeks of food in the house, I’ve got all my books. Kinda sucks not having electric once the batteries die - we have solar panels but they’re on a shed roof so all I’d get to take is the batteries and inverter! I’d expect to find potatoes in Peru which I could recognise and know how to turn into food, plus I know (in theory) how to test which plants are edible. My main concerns would be not speaking the language and not having the right skin colour. But I often think about whether it would be fun to live in the wilderness in prehistoric times (or I guess 1300s Peru…) and if I get to keep my books too, that sounds great! I’d probably die in a couple of years, especially if I try to stay alone, but why not try it?
A. Dead within a day unless helped by a stranger
B. Probably still dead soon but at least I have clothes, I normally carry nothing of use
C. There is a chance I live long enough to learn how to survive with knives, a handgun, and some amount of food and drink. If I get the tools from my garage I guess I can build a makeshift shelter. Probably still a betting favorite to die within a week unless I can find and somehow ingratiate myself to some locals by giving them cool stuff.
I’ll be okay with it. Dead soon obviously, but I wouldn’t be too bummed.
Dead you introduce diseases and they introduce diseases from each other and you can’t give them immunity. Almost like time travel is just 1/4 of time travel
With all of them I’m at a real disadvantage due to not speaking any local languages, considering you basically need the locals for long term survival that puts one on the wrong foot to start off with.
Surviving A would require a lot of luck, B would be a bit more achievable as that would give me some clothes and a multitool but still very hard going as I know nothing substantial about the local bush food and dangers.
C is where I might actually have a chance as I have a lot of tools, camping gear, some food, and some books which might help (albeit nothing specifically on Peru except whatever’s in the Encyclopaedia Britannica). Given luck I could probably manage solo for a while with this. What’d probably happen is the locals come along and make off with everything though so I wouldn’t give good odds on long term survival.
At least with C I have a bunch of hand tools, camping gear, rope, life straws, water filters, medical kits, and alcohol. So I could feasibly live life as a hermit in a self built cabin.
A & B I’m totally fucked. I’ve watched all of Alone, I think I starve to death in weeks.
In all those situations I don’t speak any of their languages to defend or explain myself, so I’m fairly sure the locals will murder me.
For C are the belongings in a cave or hut or just left outside in the rain?
I have a lot of books, clothes and things to cook with so that would be nice.
I’m naked right now so all of these options leave me naked.
A) Probably okay-ish? I was in the scouts and I’m not completely incompetent at being outdoorsy.
B) Overnight bag probably isn’t much help. At least my breath will be minty.
C) Enjoy the new timeline bitches, because I am now the 14th century’s most powerful military.
