Alternate Worlds Explored Archive b/j

6/22: Volcano or Furnace & Might & Magic VII

Questions for June 22nd: If you had to secretly dispose of a dead body, how would you do it?

(Don't forget the reasons behind your decisions!)


A commercial brick furnace, an iron smelter or the active Volcano on the Hawaiian Islands. These are the most complete ways to dispose of any biological remains. Since the chance of a body disposal being interrupted in the commercial furnaces is a high probablility, I would choose as my ultimate preference an active volcano, preferrably during an active lava flow.

Of course, I would have to time the aquisition of the "body" during the opportune times of volcanic activity, but if I am premeditated enough to plan such a disposal, I could wait for the perfect time to create circumstances that would produce the body to be disposed.

Of course, there is more than likely the problem of coming into possession of an unwanted body far and away from the Hawaiian Islands and or during no volcanic activity. In which case, I'd have to risk firing up a commercial brick furnace. These furnaces get hot enough quick enough that even large mamalian bones are disintigrated to ash within a matter of an hour or two. These things burn hotter than the crematoriums which have always confused the hell out of me. But, a crematrium isn't trying to destroy evidence that a body ever existed and I would be.

So, off I'd go to any large city where bricks are made and then gaining access to the furnace and disposing of the unwanted body. The only thing I'd have to worry about would be resolving my own feelings of horror that I had actually accomplished such a thing. The police station would probably find me sitting in one of the chairs by a disbelieving detective taking my statement that several months ago I disposed of so n so in such n such brick furnace. Why? because the body came into my possession and I was challenged to dispose of it. No other reason necessary.


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If you were to inhabit the world of any video or computer game, which one would you select?

(Don't forget the reasons behind your decisions!)

Wow! Tron activated, heheheeee.

I play several RPG style video games and choosing one I'd wish to live in will depend on my chances of survivability.

I enjoy the Nintendo 64 version of Zelda and I've gotten quite good at surviving most of the challenges and figuring out many of the puzzels and clues to achieving the goal of winning the game. But I still die a lot and only by saving often am I able to progress through the game.

I also play Balder's Gate. It is pretty cool going around and killing Ogres and Hobgoblins and kobolds and bandits and Giants and at the same time find the clues about who is out to destroy your main character. Um I tend to die a lot in this one too and the only reason I have progressed so far is because I save often.

I've indulged in the strategy game called Lords of Magic and I've beaten it several times. But the game is two dimensional and boring. I'd have a high chance for survival, but I'd be bored out of my mind after a while repeating the same methodology and winning strategies over and over again.

There is a game I play which I haven't defeated yet but allows for the return to the game if you die and haven't remembered to save often. This would be Might and Magic VII. The variety of character choice in this game is fantastic. I could live as one of four races and choose my career from a wide variety of classes. If my party dies (My character is one in a group of four) then an authorative voice says, "You still have much to do." and returns you to the starting point of the last level you acomplished in the game, albeit all your gold is gone unless you've managed to put most of it aside in the local banks. But the point is, the game won't let you die until you've accomplished the set goals required to win. And if you save often, when you are returned to the game you could restart from your last saving point and relive the mistake which killed you and maybe avoid being killed by making another choice regarding the deadly encounter. This game is inherently forgiving and allows for the ulitmate wish, "Man! I wish I could relive that and do it over again."

If I chose to live this game, not only would I be resurrected often but life would be one constant adventure and fact finding jaunt after another. The combat encounters are numerous, the action never ending, the problem solving always challenging, the strategy always unfolding and the quest encounters are a multitudinous variety. No game choice is ever exactly the same even given the same initial goals to be accomplished in each game level. The variety would make my life exhausting but never boring. So if I were to choose the vid game to live I would choose Might and Magic VII created by 3DO.



Take care and may your road lead to only good places.

Deb

Compassion and the effort to try and understand some thing that was not understood before is a step toward acceptance not only of others but most importantly of yourself.

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Take care and may your road lead to only good places.

Deb

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Compassion and the effort to try and understand some thing that was not understood before is a step toward acceptance not only of others but most importantly of yourself.

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