1. How old will you be when The Great Cataclysm comes?
2. Where do you think you will be? (This should be based on that you have no idea it's comming).
3. What do you think your survival chances are to survive the first 24 hours?
4. Assume you survive: What one ability or physical change would you like The Great Cataclusm to give you if you had a choice? (EX: Cast magic, gills, fly, supernatural stength, please let me stay human, etc., etc., etc.)
1. I will be 123 years old. By modern medicine the odds are against me surviving this long. By canon Rifts/Chaos Earth medicine, I would still be alive and relatively able. I would expect that I would have bio-system eyes, lungs, kidneys, heart, skin, throat and mouth. Possibly other organs as well. Most of my joints are likely to be artificial as well.
2. I would expect to be semi-retired. So I would be in the army reserves, with 35+ years of regular force expereince. Maybe more if they push back the retirement age to accomodate new life expectancies and increased abilities at advanced age.
I would be living in Northern Ontario in a modern cottage. Probably about 20 miles outside a city such as Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sudbury or Ottawa. Because I was part of the military response to the Ice Storms in Northern Quebec and Ontario, my cottage would be equipped with a diesel generator, a fire place, a wood stove (probably in the garage for heat), a BBQ, extra propane and diesel, a AM/FM radio, possibly a HAM radio or military surplus radio, and tons of canned and preserved foods. I particularily tend to hoard food in the winter. Because I like to hunt, there would be, as a minimum, a shotgun, a 30.06, a .22, a compound bow and loads of ammunition. First aid supplies would also be present.
The 'cottage' would be set up for year round living because it's my retirement home. I would want a well, solar panels and whatever else I could get to be as self-sufficient as possible for as long as possible. Although these would all be redundat systems as I would also want to be plugged into the infrastructure of whatever community I was near. I just like having back ups in place. That's what the ice storms taught me. This pretty much reflects my current retirement plans.
Because it's the Christmas season, my whole family will be with me. What better place to celebrate a winter holiday than a northern cottage? The younger generations will be critical for long term survival as I pass on my hunting skills, military skills and technical skills as fast as I can.
3. I would expect to survive the first 24 hours with little difficulty. That part of the world, as it turns out, doesn't really see many of the natural disasters that the rest does. The trick will be weathering the long winter, which could last between 2 years if I manage to be far enough south, to 80 years if I turn out to be too far north. Although northern Ontario isn't as far north as much of the rest of the country so I would expect to be fairly well off. Still, even under the best circumstances, I'd expect long winters for the rest of my life.
4. I would want telemechanics or the psionic abilities of either a psionic operator or a psi-tech so that I could salvage technology for the survival of my family and our allies. I see technology as the best chance to let my family survive against the demon hordes that will eventually come.
One important decision I would have to make if I was in the army reserves would to either abandon my position to be with my family or stay in my post. If my post was to serve locally, then it could be that staying on might actually be in the best interests of my family. But there would be no doubt, all my decisions would be based on ensuring the survival of my family.
I would actually expect to serve locally. Reserve units are deployed where they are needed in times of crisis. If they're needed everywhere, then they may as well stay in the communities where their families are. And if in that time I actually made it to CO of the unit? Then yeah, we'd be staying put. Ottawa can make all the orders they want, they'd have no real way to enforce them at this point.
I was raised to beleive if you can't say something nice about a person, say nothing at all. This has led to living a very quiet life.
Someone who tells you what to think is trying to control you. Someone who teaches you how to think is trying to free you.
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That covers about everything I think.
