I have a question, and it goes like this:
You are given the choice to choose one of four mysterious and powerful magical objects, and upon taking said object, you must sign a contract which assumes and assures the following:
- If you try to sell the object to any other sentient entity, you will be compelled to seek that entity out and buy it back
- If you try to dispose of the object, you will be compelled to find the object, no matter it's location
- If you destroy the object or damage it in any way that it becomes unusable, a new one will be delivered to your location within a day, and the old one disposed of by the courier.
All Mysterious, magical objects following their own logical and internal rules, and thus real-world logic does not apply to the object itself, it prefers to follow a "theoretical what-if" logic.
That being said, here is your choice of magical, wonderful objects, presented by our assistant, Cindy the Superfluous;
1. A Golden Goose that births Baby geese, which in turn lay solid 24k gold eggs. The mother goose has a life-span of 10 years, which cannot be extended, and each chick a year. The Mother goose can birth a maximum of 10 chicks a year with overfeeding (5 without overfeeding), but if it is overfed, the chicks will lay a less pure 12k gold egg. Each chick lays eggs at a rate of about 2 eggs per day. May bite.
2. A small, dusty book with a single page, accompanied by a self inking fountain pen. The book rapidly tickers every event that is happening in the time-line of history, and is able to scroll back to any event that has happend, provided you can give a specific date, and time, right down to the second, (eg 10/3/1823 12:32 Having breakfast with Lillie rutherford). If you scroll back to any event, the book will pause at this point in the timeline, and give you and opportunity to rewrite history. The pen allows you not to erase what has already happened, but you can write events before or after, given the limits of reality, free will, and what was present at that time and space, and reality will adjust accordingly. The book comes with no warranty on flying dinosaurs or space midgets from use.
3. A crate of 24 of the finest magical elixirs from the unknown ages, guaranteed to assist in building, shaping and refining your body for an hour; by disabling muscle fatigue, allowing you to push every ligament and joint past it's limit, and blocking every neuron that screams "Bloody Rape!" when you try to lift a five hundred kilogram dumbbell. What this elixir does not do, is protect you from any bodily harm, or physical damage, and thus you must suffer the consequences of your actions afterwards, to the greater extent of an unknown limits. Side effects may include genital shrinking, premature discharges, loss of hair, excessive acne, reddening of skin and popped collars
4. A small, compass sized box, with a dial inside. The dial can be turned to 8 different points which adjust the speed at which you age. The speeds available are "1x 2x 3x 4x -1x -2x -3x -4x" thus allowing you to age backwards, and forwards at up to four times your current rate. The device in question, does not affect time flow, or any fabric of reality, but instead provides you with a small injection that rewires your bodily systems ([url]http://youtu.be/UM-wKQqBBnY[/url]) to run at accelerated, or reverse speed rates. Because the effects are purely biological, you must experience the effects of ageing, including any pains, sickness, and decay at the accelerated rate.
Take your pick, it's a curious variety.
I'd personally choose the book, because even though some thinking is involved in penning in the events, and remembering what happened, I could take a photo of a place every single day for a year, and then adjust things however I wanted (so I was doing something useful, instead of taking photos..)
I'd take the old dusty book and write in it that I was still together with my ex and we were happy. :(
Ill take the box, sounds fun to play around with.
I want the book, gives a whole new meaning to What If questions
The book to prove 9/11 was an inside job. and the cia killed Kennedy.
[QUOTE=Zareox7;38494341]I'd take the old dusty book and write in it that I was still together with my ex and we were happy. :([/QUOTE]
You'd have to be pretty creative with that, because as it says, it has to be in the limit of free will. You could always write yourself giving your ex flowers every day of the week. Everyone loves flowers.
Book. Mostly because I love magic books.
I choose the book, to erase my life.
If I choose the goose, can I use the gold for the good of others?
The Box. Live forever, get infinite money by washing dishes/other safe jobs forever, retire at the end of forever totally rich and with my permanent youth.
I'd probably choose the dial.
I'd like to fast forward until I'm an old man.
I'd pretend to be crazy, and wear formal attire and a top hat everywhere.
The book, then I'd use the book to get the rest of the items.
That book sounds really interesting. Of course, I'd abuse it similar to how I'd abuse just about any similar hypothetical.
It does say within the limits of reality/what was present in time and space, but since you can scroll back as far as you want you can subtly manipulate things until they provide the right conditions. I would use it to manipulate spacetime until I could use the book to force a traversable wormhole to open leading to a specific universe. Then I would obtain a device to open wormholes whenever/wherever I want without all the work involved in using the book. This is assuming the many worlds interpretation is correct.
Though even if we weren't to assume that, I could still manipulate history until the world became more to my liking, speeding up the progression of technology for instance.
[QUOTE=Crimor;38495602]The book, then I'd use the book to get the rest of the items.[/QUOTE]
You have a point.
[QUOTE=Spherithex;38495487]If I choose the goose, can I use the gold for the good of others?[/QUOTE]
There is no rule against that, the gold is a byproduct of the goose and it's babies, and the babies a byproduct of the goose. You can give the babies to other people, but not the original goose itself, as that is the magic object.
[QUOTE=koaand;38495841]There is no rule against that, the gold is a byproduct of the goose and it's babies, and the babies a byproduct of the goose. You can give the babies to other people, but not the original goose itself, as that is the magic object.[/QUOTE]
Alrighty, I choose the goose. I give people eggs sparingly, however, so as not to fuck the economy over.
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The book.
I could see what really happened at every questionable event in history.
I probably wouldn't attempt to change anything drastic at risk of fucking up the world, but small things like "I didn't miss that train" or "I didn't forget to get milk from the store" would be usefull.
Book
Go back to my childhood, get rid of someone who ruined my life, live happily in the future.
The book, so I can fix all of the stupid little mistakes I've made.
The book to then go to the future, make clones of me, use the book, clone the book, take the goose, clone the goose, make more me, back to the past, hide the goose, use book to steal cloning machine, back home, send my clones on mars, hope that I'm not the clone itself, go back home, become secretly rich while maybe sometimes donating for charity and stuff.
The book and pen, shit sounds fun
The book, I want to see what it was like all those years ago.
History is the only subject that interests me in school.
[QUOTE=koaand;38494737]You'd have to be pretty creative with that, because as it says, it has to be in the limit of free will. You could always write yourself giving your ex flowers every day of the week. Everyone loves flowers.[/QUOTE]
Flowers wouldn't work unfortunately. Well I could easily write myself completely happy with the relationship since I'd be writing my own intentions, I wouldn't be changing somebody else's free will, just my own. As for her, I'd imagine a comfortable relationship would have made it all better.
I wouldn't take anything.
Definitely the book. I'd try to unfuck the world's energy situation with it.
The box with the dial- who would want to pass up the chance of immortality?
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;38508796]The goose is bound to die, making it a short lived thing. Sure, you would have money, for a short while. But wont people get suspicious of you selling golden eggs?
Using the book to change anything is bound to erase you from history, or make it to were you never came in contact with the magical items. Looking in the past might be useful, however. I would hide the pen if I were you.
The elixirs are downright dangerous to use. There is a reason out bodies have alarms in them. You could tear every artery in your leg trying to run fast, and you wouldn't even know it.
And the box. Obviously no-one would use it to age forward, only backwards. However, problems such as cancer cannot be stopped, as you still absorb radiation throughout your life. Aside from radiation, rapid biological anomalies will happen. You WILL get cancer at some point using this.
All in all, it depends on if you are selfish or not. How? If you are selfish, then you probably will take the goose. You will earn money quickly, abit suspiciously.
You might choose the book, if you think you can fix the world, you likely only have one shot. However, if you change something after you are born, you can write in notes to yourself on what you changed, or some self preservation advice. You can help the world by stopping WW3 from happening, but you have to be careful.
If you are selfless, you might want to choose the elixirs or the box. If taken to the right people, you might be able to change the world. Imagine if either of these biological agents could be replicated, the perfect anesthesia, reverse aging, ect. Though, this is not a guarantee. They might be made of unknown elements, impossible shapes, or something of the sort.
All in all, these all are far more limited than they seem. The book seems like the best choice. If you think you have the self control to not remove hitler from history or accidentally let one of your fathers sperm cells die through your indirect actions on the past, you might just make it work.[/QUOTE]
This is one of the types of answers I very much enjoy reading. A lot of thought put into each choice and it's consequences.
Thumbs up to you sir.
that was actually a great read even though its a question thread. artistic x1, well deserved.
i'd go for the book so i could do stupid shit and then erase it from history after it happened.
i could have fun with it.
You could always only edit history after you get the book, that way there isn't really a way for you to lose it easily.
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