I'd go back to 12th century Iceland and get a primo copy of the Poetic Edda, with maybe a few other lesser-known books tossed in for good measure.
Then I'd go kiss Nefertiti, and head over to check out that old Greek prostitute who had a statue of Aphrodite constructed based on herself as the model.
And finally: Pet dinosaur. Maybe something I could ride. No sharp teeth, claws, or pointy spikes though.
Personally I don't believe in the Butterfly of Doom. The idea that something as miniscule as stepping on a butterfly would affect the course of history just doesn't make sense... especially since butterflies don't have very long lifespans anyway and this one was probably destined to get eaten the very next minute.
Actually I read just recently that someone (I believe it was Robert Heinlein) actually did write a Time Travel story that took the Earth's changing position into account.
Personally, my answer would be to just make sure the time machine is capable of space travel.
The space-time-continuum is such a messy thing with all that butterfly of doom shit. Then I ask myself: What would Space Moose do? And then it came to me. I'll probably go crazy and fuck-up the universe!
I can unequivocally state that sodomizing some past (or future) version of myself would be 2nd to last on my list. Only self-negation would be lower at the rock bottom.
No, I take that back. I'd rather negate my own existence.
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
CloaknDagger wrote:Roanoke, Roswell, and JFK to start. Who, how and why of Stonehenge and who of Jack the Ripper if I could get over seas.
You know what, I'd like to do that too. Especially Roanoke and Jack the Ripper. Wasn't there also some unsolved serial killing that Elliot Ness worked on, which eventually drove him crazy cuz he couldn't solve it?
Also there was some ship (I believe it was the Mary Celeste?) where all the crewpeople just disappeared without a trace. I'd like to be on that ship.
Assuming the time machine didn't leave me stranded in space (a la CAS) I'd do pretty much exactly what I did by moving to Asia. Take my education and skills and go somewhere interesting in the past where I could live the life of Riley. I might even call myself Merlin. Who really cares about money when you can have an entire domain of adoring worshippers. L. Ron Hubbard would pale in comparison to my megalomaniacal dreams of deity. If things get ugly...I'd pop forward in time and come back with a Desert Eagle ready to lay down the law. Or better yet, Daleks!
I'd go back and get the Blumes and Lorraine Williams drunk, into extremely incriminating and embarressing positions (not involving myself in any way shape or form) and take photos of them. I would then inform them that all they would have to do to avoid the pictures being released and publicized locally was to never, ever, ever invest in a small niche game company in Lake Geneva, Wis.
A little blackmail for the good of gamers everywhere!
Eye of the Beholder wrote:I'd go back and get the Blumes and Lorraine Williams drunk, into extremely incriminating and embarressing positions (not involving myself in any way shape or form) and take photos of them. I would then inform them that all they would have to do to avoid the pictures being released and publicized locally was to never, ever, ever invest in a small niche game company in Lake Geneva, Wis.
A little blackmail for the good of gamers everywhere!
But didn't the Blume Brothers contribute to the game in a meaningful and positive way, at least early on? Gary Gygax thanks them in the foreward to AD&D.
TheRedPriest wrote:I can unequivocally state that sodomizing some past (or future) version of myself would be 2nd to last on my list. Only self-negation would be lower at the rock bottom.
No, I take that back. I'd rather negate my own existence.
Ye of limited thinking!
You seem to imply that the worst thing you can do to yourself is to sodomize or to "self-negation" oneself! But I say negate one's own existence by sodomy tops them all!
JamesEightBitStar wrote:But didn't the Blume Brothers contribute to the game in a meaningful and positive way, at least early on? Gary Gygax thanks them in the foreward to AD&D.
Whatever they contributed positively was far and away outweighed by the drunken spending that got TSR into its first financial bind, teaming up to outvote Gygax often on issues of the company's direction, and finally selling their majority share to L. Williams out of spite instead of to the man who was the heart and soul of the game.
CloaknDagger wrote: Wasn't there also some unsolved serial killing that Elliot Ness worked on, which eventually drove him crazy cuz he couldn't solve it?
Also there was some ship (I believe it was the Mary Celeste?) where all the crewpeople just disappeared without a trace. I'd like to be on that ship.
Ah yes, good call. Forgot about those, especially the Mary Celeste.
What would I do? Probably go back to August 12 and stop this thread from being started.
Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
-------------------------------- It has nothing to do with me until it has something to do with me.
