You travel back in time (your age^1.9) years. You must survive for 3 years.

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Current Events » You travel back in time (your age^1.9) years. You must survive for 3 years.
NintendoFanGirl
06/09/2025
10:52 PM
#1
The amount of years is rounded down to the nearest integer. For a 30 year old, this will be 2025 - 640 = travel to year 1385 .

If you are able to survive for 3 years, you will travel back to the present time that you left from and magically revert to the age that you were when you left, but keep all the knowledge you gained in those 3 years.

Can you do it?

  1. Your immune system will be magically updated to be equivalent with the average person's immune system of the time
  2. You will magically become fluent in the language of the first person you come across
  3. Your physical location upon traveling will be equal to roughly where you are right now, but in the past
party_animal07
06/09/2025
11:02 PM
#2
This is a death sentence for 90% of people. No vaccines? No modern medicine? No antibiotics? You're rolling the dice every time you leave home or even eat.
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TheFalseDeity
06/09/2025
11:06 PM
#3
I would probably just remove myself intentionally but the answer is probably death regardless of trying.

Actually thats well before insulin so the answer is absolutely death.
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Kim_Seong-a
06/09/2025
11:07 PM
#4
I'm going back to 1785.

Missed the golden age of piracy by 50 years, fuck.

Edit: wait I hit the wrong function on my calculator
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BlackScythe0
06/09/2025
11:07 PM
#5
Uh... I'm not in good physical health. I'd probably find it hard to keep up with Tribal life assuming they accepted me and I survived long enough to meet anyone back in 1071.

I don't know what percentages are but aren't most of the members of this board North American?
Kanaya413
06/09/2025
11:08 PM
#6
I die
Shotgunnova
06/09/2025
11:10 PM
#7
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PowerOats
06/09/2025
11:13 PM
#8
a weaker immune system, and no big reward = no
Dungeater
06/09/2025
11:14 PM
#9
how do i calculate to the 1.9 power

god i hate math
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Prototypic
06/09/2025
11:15 PM
#10
I'm not entirely sure what was happening in 1166 in northeastern North America, but I think it's safe to say I would be fucked, one way or the other.
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BlackScythe0
06/09/2025
11:16 PM
#11
Dungeater posted...
how do i calculate to the 1.9 power

god i hate math

Pull up your calculator on your computer go to scientific mode type your age hit this button https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f069a44a.png and then the 1.9.
Dungeater
06/09/2025
11:17 PM
#12
BlackScythe0 posted...
Pull up your calculator on your computer go to scientific mode type your age hit this button https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f069a44a.png and then the 1.9.
ty muchly
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Bishop_Hastur
06/09/2025
11:21 PM
#13
Assuming I did the math right I'd be going back to 812, which would probably make me the first white person the Chumash people ever meet. But yeah I'd die within the three years cause I've got some serious health issues.
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Distant_Rainbow
06/09/2025
11:23 PM
#14
The year 985.

I'll... probably survive.

With no records about me whatsoever, I'll probably be condemned to slavery and be forced to work like hell, but it'll probably be public/official slavery instead of private slavery, which was worse. Looking for silver linings here.

There also happens to be a terrible war coming in 993, but nobody will believe me and I'm gone in 988, so... eh.
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Rial_Kai
06/09/2025
11:27 PM
#15
I'm 41, so... what's that 2025-1159=866?

Are we still in the same location? I'm in Michigan. I don't know who or what was in this area back then. The Classic Stage of North America.
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Evening_Dragon
06/09/2025
11:30 PM
#16
NintendoFanGirl posted...


Your immune system will be magically updated to be equivalent with the average person's immune system of the time
You will magically become fluent in the language of the first person you come across
Your physical location upon traveling will be equal to roughly where you are right now, but in the past


With this, yeah, I can survive 1213 Pre Jersey.
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Metal_Gear_Raxis
06/09/2025
11:43 PM
#17
Guess it depends on whether the Native Americans at the time welcome or kill me. I'm absolutely fucked if I lose my glasses or they break, though, I'm badly nearsighted.
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Daremo
06/09/2025
11:43 PM
#18
At the time and the place I would be at, there would be me, and wolves, and not much else. Humans mostly lived quite a distance south, and the precise area I'd be in was likely underwater.

While it would be cool to speak wolf, I don't like my odds.
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Metal_Gear_Raxis
06/09/2025
11:55 PM
#19
Daremo posted...
At the time and the place I would be at, there would be me, and wolves, and not much else. Humans mostly lived quite a distance south, and the precise area I'd be in was likely underwater.

While it would be cool to speak wolf, I don't like my odds.
If the Wild Thornberries taught me anything, it's that animals, surprisingly, are relatively rational with humans they can talk to.
Time is a funny thing, you know? I guess in the big picture of my life, you were only a blip. But oftentimes, those "blips" make the biggest impacts.
MisterPengy
06/10/2025
01:01 AM
#20
Anything before like the 1500s means where I am now is 100% Native American territory, which is not good for me, being a white dude. My best hope is that due to evolution, I'm bigger than all of them. That won't mean fuck all in combat, obviously, because even if I could take one warrior, the rest would murder me. But if I was lucky they'd see I'm a huge oaf, and just give me work to do, in exchange for food and shelter.
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ReturnOfDevsman
06/10/2025
01:08 AM
#21
Hope nobody is 98 or older

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AgentCoulson
06/10/2025
01:15 AM
#23
1385, eh? I definitely can't hunt so I'd probably die.
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xMythic
06/10/2025
01:55 AM
#24
971

Im spending the better part of the first year getting the hell out of Minnesota. No way Im surviving the winters.
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pegusus123456
06/10/2025
01:59 AM
#25
1213

I live in America so I'm not sure how the Native Americans would feel about a pudgy white dude with really bad eyesight and no practical skills.
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Umbreon
06/10/2025
02:25 AM
#26
954

Um... would I get hate crime'd by whatever natives are around in North America at this time? Ironically probably less likely than if it were 1954...

I don't think I'm fit enough to survive a nomadic lifestyle though.
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Scardude
06/10/2025
02:59 AM
#27
The earth and sun would not have traveled to this point in space. You would basically be sending people into a space freeze
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Purple_Cheetah
06/10/2025
03:11 AM
#28
1071

I... I honestly don't know, but I'd probably be better off mentally for a while. Depending on if we're still in the same coordinates, I could just hang out with native americans or whoever is around until I do something to piss one off.
vycebrand2
06/10/2025
03:16 AM
#29
Time and space. The Dr Who police box for example.

Anyway I think 270 in Florida. Timacuan lived in the area. I know where too. I might be able to leave quietly.
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hivebent4life
06/10/2025
04:29 AM
#30
Texas in 1501. I guess Id try my best to integrate with the first native tribe I come across, though I have no skills and am physically unfit so I doubt theyd have any use for me.
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Hexenherz
06/10/2025
04:40 AM
#31
It really just depends on how coastal tribes would treat a random skinny ass white dude with tattoos.

If I can speak a mutual language then maybe I have a chance? But shit even being fluent doesn't necessarily mean I would be able to express myself the way I want to or feel it necessary to.

And then say they do take me in then what good am I to the tribe I can't really swim and dive too well, too small to hunt, I'd be out like weaving baskets with the women all day and then the guys would probably get pissed off and kick me out to the wolves.

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Glob
06/10/2025
05:08 AM
#32
Travelling back about a thousand years and being the only white guy in Vietnam, not long after China had finally left. I dont think it would be great for me, though learning the language instantly has some appeal.

Of course, its less appealing when you consider that it would be an archaic form of it that wouldnt match up with whats spoken today.

Mistere_Man
06/10/2025
06:26 AM
#34
I think I end up in 582ad USA, no idea what was going on then honestly.
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Giacomo_Hawkins
06/10/2025
06:31 AM
#35
Hello my fellow my fellow teens, I mean Algonquian peoples. Please don't kill me, but maybe consider developing some kind of border control for the next pasty white folks your ancestors are going to see in a few hundred years. They don't have your best interests at heart.
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haarlem1982
06/10/2025
06:53 AM
#36
A quick calculation would put me in 762.

While I'd probably be able to survive 3 years technically speaking, the area I am in was a huge lake back then, so I'd most likely drown
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loafy013
06/10/2025
07:23 AM
#37
335 AD. Think I'm fucked. Who the hell knows what was going on in the Midwest America around this time.
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HighSeraph
06/10/2025
07:32 AM
#38
1106 but I'm in the middle of Indiana and who knows where any people lived around here so I likely starve to death in the woods.
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hockey7318
06/10/2025
07:46 AM
#39
Rial_Kai posted...
I'm 41, so... what's that 2025-1159=866?

Are we still in the same location? I'm in Michigan. I don't know who or what was in this area back then. The Classic Stage of North America.
I'm in Michigan as well. I'd be best off trying to float down a river to Lake Michigan while eating fish, so I might survive the summer, but I'm pretty sure winter would be the end. I doubt I'd make it far enough south to survive.
Goldenguy
06/10/2025
08:56 AM
#40
I'm back in 919.

Ehh
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darkknight109
06/10/2025
11:07 AM
#41
Nope, not happening. I live on a small island that was uninhabited less than a hundred years ago - I would have no way to secure food or water and getting off the island to get somewhere more habitable would be a significant challenge without a boat. Even if I could overcome that, winters here 1000+ years ago were cold and brutal and I would need to survive three of them with no outside assistance.

Forget three years, I'm probably not making it three weeks.
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PurestProdigy
06/10/2025
11:20 AM
#42
1212 in what is currently East Coast United States.

I'm black so I don't think I look different enough from the Native Americans for them to worship me as a God and give me free food and shit unfortunately.
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bluezero
06/10/2025
11:25 AM
#43
Am I mathing right?
53
53^1.9 = 1889
2025-1889 = 136

I'd not likely survive
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SydnieStarlight
06/10/2025
12:05 PM
#45
Early 1200s? I'm not confident I make it three *days*. Never mind all the various ways I could get killed in that time, if I had to go three years without running water, I'd probably just off myself.
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BlackScythe0
06/10/2025
12:08 PM
#46
JustMyOpinion posted...
Sounds like everyone itt is dying in this hypothetical. Fun!

The fundamental flaw is most of the board is north American. Were we European we might feel slightly more confident... but even that is really questionable since it would be really hard to fit in to a society that old.
Turbam
06/10/2025
12:10 PM
#47
1212
Heck no! That's the age of the dinosaurs isn't it?!
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W_S_C_M
06/10/2025
12:29 PM
#48
Could u?
mystic_belmont
06/10/2025
12:40 PM
#49
Any modern English speaker traveling back to anything before the 1500s is going to have a hard time communicating with anyone, unless they also know German.
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Philip027
06/10/2025
12:45 PM
#50
Or else what, I die? <snort>

Probably my inevitable (and preferred) fate anyway, considering how far back I'd be going.
vycebrand2
06/10/2025
01:22 PM
#51
I looked elsewhere in the world at my time and Romans were fighting each other and it was just 5 years after the War of the 3 Kingdoms officially ended.
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