The Time Travel Thread

[Poly]

If Hollywood has taught us anything it's that time travel is indeed possible. Now lets suppose a madman has stolen either the Phone Booth or the Delorean (your call, not both), & rigged it with a device that makes it detonate in the event a person try to use it after one final voyage into the past.

His house is next to your's. You happen to have been snooping around in his trash, like usual, as he had returned abruptly. Abrupt yet not through time, you were still kinda hungover from breakfast, it was all a blur. He demanded you pay for the Hot Pocket you found. A fistfight erupted, other neighbors were watching in amazement. You defeated your neighbor in unarmed combat. You ran into your house and grabbed either a backpack, or extra large duffel bag (See below) and began to fill it with things you may need for a journey through time! What do you feel absolutely necessary to take back?

• Backpack - carries 42 pounds/3 stones
  
• One other person
  
• One other person's backpack
  
  The Delorean
  
• Large duffel bag - carries 120 pounds/8.5 stones

In the scenario: You have either ran in grabbed a friend, who had already filled their pack prior as a usual paranoid precaution for such an occasion, or the extra large duffel as the explosives occupy all seats save the driver's. The duffel goes in the hatchback, directly below the Mr.Coffee addition from BTTF II. This is the crux of the matter: Do you sacrifice material future objects for a companion, or load up on a bunch of whozits & whatnots? You cannot load your friend's pack for them! Well unless they don't want to play, & you really want them to tag along, I guess I don't see any harm in it.

When you're choosing items be reasonable. Decide how much each item weighs and use that to determine what you can carry. The pack itself is from your last adventure when the interdimensional golf committee awarded it to you for winning a miniature golf tournament. It's was really strange how they insisted your friend have a similar backpack, but who cares! Those interdimensional beings were damn good at hosting mini golf tournaments!

I'd really like to see what, or who & what (based on how), you take where & when!

• Billet
• Compass
  
• 50 Caltrops
  
• 50 Shuriken
• Flint & Steel
  
• Thin cordage
  
• Thick cordage
  
• Bone Fishing kit
  
• Dragon Skin Vest
• Med kit
  • uppers
  • downers
  • first aid
  • painkillers
  • antibiotics
  • sleeping pills
• HK MP5 SDS with scope
  
• 20 MP5 SDS banana clips
  
• Kevlar ski mask, fire proofed
  
• Kevlar long underwear, fire proofed

I have like six different places & times I need to choose from.
I'm pretty sure Leela wants to go to Victorian England though.

[FungusA]

I'd take the big pack, carry with me: a handgun and some ammunition, A torch (Recharchable with winding), My penknife, A few books, specifically, a dictionary, thesaurus and a history book, to tell me said significant events of the time period I'd be travelling to. I'd also bring my dirtbike gear (Body armor). I'd bring night vision goggles, A pen and pencil, an eraser and a pad of A4 paper. I'd also bring some wire, candles, loose, light clothing and lots of medicines of various types. And lots of deodorants, shamppos, conditioners, bodywashes etc. That's bring me up to around about 50 pounds. That's quite a lot to carry, but it covers all I'd need.

I'd go back to near the time of christ, to meet him, and to shape the future!

I'd want the gun as defense, nothing of thier time could stand up against it, if they tried to attack me in fear.
I'd want the torch to see, make light and become revered as a god.
I'd want my penknife because, it goes everywhere with me.
I'd bring the dictionary and thesaurus to teach them words, I'd bring the history book to tell what estimated to happen around the period.
I'd bring my dirtbike gear so I wouldn't get killed so easily from stones and stab wounds, (The gear is pretty damn resiliant, it's really hard to stab through, tougher than hardened leather.)
I'd bring night vision goggles to see well in the dark, and to be revered as a god, like the torch.
The writing apparatus, to take notes, keep a diary, draw diagrams to educate people etc.
wire is useful for everything.
Candles, are useful in a lot of situations.
Light clothing, because jerusalem is a really hot place!
Medicines, to help me in case i got infections, wounds etc.
Hygeine is needed, so I'd bring shampoos and stuff.

In the end, I'd be worshipped as a god, educate people, meet jesus etc.

[Poly]

50 pounds is eight pounds over! ^

You also have to translate what they say, do you speak Arabic?

[FungusA]

I brought the duffel bag

And I wouldn't need to speak arabic, They'll start to worship me pretty soon.

[Poly]

If you took the duffel bag/Delorean, you've got plenty of room for more stuff.

[FungusA]

I'd probably pick stuff up along the way though.

[Thlaylie]

Time travel actually works more like the Langoliers movie, without the Langoliers and the deadening of everything.

The Hitch is if you change something in the past, you have to stay in that time line to be able to profit from the change. Returning to your own time will not have the change in effect because you have basically split off another time line at the point of your change.

You can however mine time for stuff you once had or wanted and have seen throughout your life: Want that favorite toy that's now worth a gazillion dollars? Go back a few times so you have spares! Want that lost GF back? Go back and retrieve her when she loved you! (You can also have spares, I recommend keeping them separated, not because of time destabilization, but because.. well if I have to explain that you are in no shape to time travel.)

Also, all functioning time machines are built into large Motorcycles (It's the gyroscopic stability) with extendable loot cages.

[Poly]

Answer my question
Otherwise it would seem you didn't read it, Thlaylie.
What, or who & what (based on how), where & when?

Aug 23, 2010 20:37:24 GMT Thlaylie said:

Also, all functioning time machines are built into large Motorcycles (It's the gyroscopic stability) with extendable loot cages.

For the purpose of this exercise, it's a Delorean or a Phone Booth.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

[Thlaylie]

OK I upgrade the Delorean from a studio prop to a functioning time travel device by cutting a Motorcycle shaped hole in the middle and using it as a loot cage within your specifications. (The Motorcycle would replace the drive train so not use up any extra space.)

I take the large dufflebag:
12 gage shotgun with lots of goose rounds.
Good sized med kit.
Crank flashlight
Hockey Mask
Machete
My friend Death

Only traveling within my lifetime, I have some.. things to make right again assuming time worked like in BTTF.

[Poly]

Aug 24, 2010 6:45:30 GMT Thlaylie said:

OK I upgrade the Delorean from a studio prop to a functioning time travel device by cutting a Motorcycle shaped hole in the middle and using it as a loot cage within your specifications. (The Motorcycle would replace the drive train so not use up any extra space.)
ings to make right again assuming time worked like in BTTF.

You know you have to stay in the past anyway, remember the explosives?
Oh you ripped out the flux capacitor? WHAT?

After rereading your post, your vehicle sounds a lot like this.

[salamut2202]

what is this? i'll bring marry poppins bag - duh!

[Thlaylie]

^ Ah no Poly, that would be the exact opposite of what a true Time Traveling Device (Motorcycle) is.

A Flux Capacitor is a made up lighted device to keep the monkeys happy with technology outside of their comprehension.

True Time Traveling Devices have Tachyon Turbines instead of made up devices. They also rely on massive coolness which only Motorcycles can provide.

Now I've modified my original post to keep with your scenario, please don't insult me with gayness. (The cartoon)

Sal is my official Officer of Gayness and all such proposals should be forwarded to him.

[Magical Baker]

I'd bring my keys. That's all.
Then I'd go back 5 years and prevent my old bike from getting stolen.

The machine therefore does not matter, nor my means of package. I get my bike, I couldn't care less about history.

Cheers!

[psychichobo]

I'd use the car, and bring a portable time machine.

Do I get points for being a smartass?

In all seriousness, I will come up with a better answer later. I'm just pretty tired atm. But yeah, someone had to be the first smartass...

[Poly]

Aug 25, 2010 22:38:39 GMT psychichobo said:

I'd use the car, and bring a portable time machine.

Do I get points for being a smartass?

In all seriousness, I will come up with a better answer later. I'm just pretty tired atm. But yeah, someone had to be the first smartass...

Simpsons did it!

Er- Thlaylie did it!


Leela and I have talked over where & when we will travel to.
We want to go the Salem Massachusetts during the witch trials.
We want to just show up and say, "We're witches. Come get some!"
After all the paranoid fuckers are dead we'll live as representatives/bodyguards for the Natives.