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Its the 14th century and you've had no time to prepare, after you're done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?

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[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

...yeeks, man: fourteenth-century texan wilderness amongst warring indian tribes, starting from just my boxers and t-shirt to survive?..i'd have a tough go of it, no doubt, and i'm hard-pressed to consider anything i know relevant to contemporaneous civilisation: give me a couple weeks to prepare and i'd binge primitive technology first, or least pick up a fresh weatherised ipad with some solar chargers and download wikipedia, some regional foraging guides, plus all his videos...

...ideally: books, books, and more books to bring with me...

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I would warn the Native Americans about the Europeans

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'd write the harry potter series from memory. And all the star treks.

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[-] zlatiah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Try to use some type of boiling water technique to invent drinkable sanitary drinking water that doesn't get me drunk (might not be necessary in some parts of Asia)

Most parts of the world that is not North America: try to convince some wealthy persons and bar owners to sponsor me to getting a bunch of bread molds and rats/mice, possibly even pigs, to conduct antibiotics and vaccine research, otherwise I might die from random sources...

Not sure if I could reasonably do those given my limited biology knowledge, but I guess they are worth trying. Besides that I'd just try to be less blunt/offensive so I don't get sent to jail and try to live my best life I guess

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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

Well, I know about hygiene about various diseases, and even how to treat them. I'm also running for my life to the nearest forest, as I don't have any way to prove I'm not a Vagabound or invader, and I can't communicate.

There's no choice but to try to hide deep inside a forest, and try to find a river or lake. I would eventually be forced to drink dirty, risking parasites, unless I get lucky enough to find what I need to purify it.

As soon as that is taken care of, I would focus on covering up my tracks, digging some sort of shelter to hide from medieval people, my next step would be to ensure a food source like fishing, or finding plants I recognize as edible, which might be where I mess up and die (A lot of plants look similar to poisonous ones, mushrooms too).

Next step would be making bog iron, finding copper, and so on, to make life easier at first, but then to defend myself against being discovered.

[-] TheFANUM@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Slowly and with plenty of witnesses invent the toilet. But like out of wood pieces like a barrel or ship. Rain barrel on the roof for water. Start suggesting more contained sewage.

Should be just enough to not get dead for heresy or something but live comfortably and help a shitty situation.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Human urine was collected and used for many things (mostly the ammonia). Human feces was used as fertilizer in a lot of the world until very recent times and collected in certain areas.

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Probably not the answer you thought, but succeed by knowing there are wild animals that could easily kill me. It's either I die by that, or wait until the lack of my blood thinners kills me, sl I'd definitely take the quicker death than the slower one.

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