Thread 17939124

You are a man in 1812. You discover you are immortal and cannot be killed by normal means. You begin start in whichever place in the world you choose. You are 20 years old but will not age past the appearance of a 30-year-old. You will live up to the modern day. You have no knowledge of future events.
>What do you do?

>>17939124 (OP)
Idk but the first logical step would be to amass as much wealth as possible with laser like focus.

>>17939124 (OP)
>Settle in Vermont
>Run for governor
>Keep running for reelection
>Rule as immortal god governor of the best state since it has no term limits for governor

>>17939142
How would you explain the no-aging thing? Old age makeup and eventually pretend to be your own son?

>>17939142
What if people decide you are a weird vampiric demon lord and you lose an election?

>>17939124 (OP)
I'm going to duel Andrew Jackson. Being unkillable means that I should be safe, r-right?

>>17939153
He'd have to become a weird recluse, being the Govenor of a state is too high profile a position. Even in the early 1800s when most people probably wouldn't know or care much who their governor was

>>17939124 (OP)
London, I blow up the central bank

>>17939157
You will be shot, the force of the ball throwing you to the ground, but the bullet will miraculously not pierce your skin. You lose the duel

>>17939124 (OP)
guess im just wolverine
>cannot be killed by normal means
what does that mean?

>>17939161
>early 1800s when most people probably wouldn't know or care much who their governor was
voter participation actually peaked around the 1840s-50s
you can make a case it was and still is the time of greatest political interest among the general population, just a decade before the civil war

Have sex with many some to have many children
Don’t bother dealing with any of them

I'd adventure around the world, partake in whatever trouble I come across, and likely end up trying to get myself killed in some way when immortality loses its luster.

>>17939397
Basic things like knives, bullets, or bombs will simply not kill you. You are immune to disease. You will miraculously survive any accident which may happen to befall you. You do not require food or water, however you may still induldge. You still require sleep.

>>17939153
I run on a platform which constantly offends, insults, and shits on "anti-vampiric demon lord"-ism, equating it to leftism, nazism, radicalism, communism, fascism, ismism, and half a dozen other things. Folks hand over their babies for me to kiss (and drain) on live TV just to stick it to the 'libs.

My political career skyrockets and I become President by a stunning landslide.

>>17939124 (OP)
Find out what I am good at and see what 200+ years of honing a craft can do.

>>17939124 (OP)
>200 years of waiting for the internet then die

I'd rather just not, If you don't have knowledge of future events it would be really difficult to make specific plans anyway besides "accumulate money lol"
>spend 100 years collecting gold
>executive order 6102 passes and the government comes and takes all your gold

>>17939415
Where you going first anon?

>>17939450
You don't have any knowledge of future events now in the modern day, how is this different besides being in the past and being immortal?

>>17939457
>You don't have any knowledge of future events now in the modern day
Ya and I don't make plans or do anything except play video games and browse the internet, the difference in your hypothetical is there's no video games or internet so I'd just be waiting not doing anything significant or noteworthy

>>17939470
But would the knowledge that you cannot die not influence you at all to go out and do some crazy shit

>>17939474
Probably not because I would still be motivated to avoid pain and discomfort as much as possible.

>>17939480
>Anon is given a hypothetical in which basic survival is ensured and can do with his life whatever he pleases
>Remains a neet
>mfw

>>17939124 (OP)
Kill billions

>>17939124 (OP)
>You discover you are immortal and cannot be killed by normal means.
not to go off topic but would you take the immortal pill when there's always the risk of being put in a box and being dumped in the ocean.
In the future if you are EVER in a spaceship that blows up you're done, flying through space, for eternity
fuck that

>>17939553
accidental sage
bump

>>17939553
Maybe this is solved by the mortal pill which once swallowed turns you back into a mortal man

>>17939124 (OP)
Either start and help any revolts of american natives against colonizers since I can’t be killed they are bound to succeed eventually even if I’m the only one killing but they’ll have to live with barren lands.

>>17939124 (OP)
>You discover you are immortal and cannot be killed by normal means
>You have no knowledge of future events
Mercenary until I've put aside enough money to live off rents, and then just spend eternity in otium, judiciously moving around and passing myself as my son every few decades.

>>17939674
You can still exhaust yourself and tire. You're also not superhuman in any other way so there's nothing stopping a half a dozen or so men from restraining you and locking you in prison forever. But cool idea honestly. Are you an American Indian irl?

>>17939124 (OP)
The INGVAEONIC MAN is the epitome of male dominance and masculinity

>>17939553
>would you take the immortal pill when there's always the risk of being put in a box and being dumped in the ocean
Yes. Your mind would become mush after a while anyway, so it's not any different from the worst kind of prisony real people might experience.

>>17939124 (OP)
Much as I liked that movie, the casting was just silly

>>17939124 (OP)
If I have no knowledge of future events then how would I know what I would do?

>>17939684
No, I just want to help fellow mongoloids. They lost enough as is.

>>17939124 (OP)
I want to maximize my power and influence in the world. There are two paths I could go down. One, play it safe, try to avoid changing history as much as possible, and just lay low until the present. Two, amass as much wealth and power as I possibly can and let the chips fall where they may. I think two is more interesting.

London is the best starting point. Unfortunately, I have nothing but the clothes on my back. Fortunately, being literate and knowing math could fairly easily get me a job as a scribe, tutor, clerk, etc. I just need enough money from this job to purchase materials and file my first patent: the chemical match. Red phosphorous for ignition, potassium chlorate as the oxidizer, glass powder or sand for friction, charcoal or sulfur for fuel, and starch or acacia gum as the binder. Grind then mix CAREFULLY, dip your sticks, and let dry. All of this should be readily available except for the red phosphorous, which would need to be made by baking white phosphorous without oxygen.
Commercializing this process will take me a year or two, and it should make me a very wealthy man.

From there, I get into the import business. I should be able to buy a ship, or rent space on one. I import sugar, spices, tea, textiles, etc., making sure to diversify my routes and products. The goal is to scale hard and buy as many ships, warehouses, etc. as I possibly can. Travelling on ships myself is too risky, though. I will need trusted business partners. But not too trusted. Can't have anyone figuring out my secret.
This business will be my main focus for the coming decades, but if I need cash or fall on hard times, I could always make more "inventions".

The next step is to start a bank. I would use my great wealth to invest in gold, key real estate, art, important patents, and companies and ventures that I know will be wildly successful.

>>17939715
I should be able to accomplish the above by the 1850's or 1860's, barring serious problems. The bank should slowly expand into THE institution of global finance. From here, I start a privately funded research institute and subtly nudge them in the direction of future tech. I make my best attempt to avoid any military technology - it's unnecessary and I'd just be putting myself in a worse position.
It is also around this time that I need to consider my own death. Dying and reappearing as my own son is the obvious choice. Of course I need to lay the groundwork for that. I would make plans to have "my son" take official ownership of the company 5 or so years before I plan on faking my death. My holdings would be put under a trust, and from the point of my death onwards the trustees would be the public facing owners.

After that, I need to set up contingency plans. Escape routes, fortunes held in completely separate places under different names, retreats and safe havens, stashes of liquid assets just in case. As recordkeeping gets more advanced, I will also need to further obfuscate my identity. Shouldn't be THAT hard, being the richest man alive. And I have all the time in the world.

Besides that, I don't really "have" to do anything else. My power is more or less secure. If any dangerous figures arise, I would just pay to have them assassinated, or pay them to fuck off. The one thing that could actually fuck me up is nuclear armageddon, and I will do my best to make sure that never happens. And if it does, I will do my best to set up recovery plans.

>>17939718
All that aside, in my personal life I'd learn a lot of languages and skills. Especially traditional skills that have been lost to time. And I'd collect and document historical artifacts, there should be more of em around in the 1800's. And once my plans are complete, I would travel a lot.

If I didn't want to risk doing all of the above, I'd just make a bit of money then travel the world. Even if you only went back to 2012, you would be able to become the richest man in the world pretty easily.

>>17939722
>meets you at a high society party
>"Why, hello there Mister Anon. I'm the world's other most immortal man! Oh nooo I don't care about money or status or any of those things. I just love the sport of fighting and killing! And I've finally found you! Believe you me sir you are not an easy man to find heheh! Now we can finally fulfill my dream of fighting to the death for all eternity! Can't wait to get started lad!"
What do you do about this?

>>17939754
Get my goons to lock him in a cage and bury him as deep as is physically possible. Problem solved.

>>17939769
what if he jumps out the window before your goons can catch him?

>>17939793
Out of sight out of mind

>>17939794
Lol he's just gonna hunt you for eternity and lure you into a trap or just catch you when you're vulnerable

>>17939805
He wants to fight to the death, not trap me
I don’t care

>>17939124 (OP)
I would travel the world trying to figure out how to kill myself. Immortality is a curse.

>>17939808
He wants to trap you so he can fight you anon it's not that complicated

>>17939124 (OP)
>Start in England cause no speaky Frenchy
>enlist in the Napoleonic Wars
>"sacrifice" myself numerous times, become highly decorated, almost a living legend
>collect decent military pension for decades while fighting and looting in India
>reinvent myself as a nabob once the pension folk get suspicious
>begin investing in colonial ventures, only guy who can't die from malaria so get years on everyone else
>eventually become colonial governor
>all the meanwhile keep BLEACHing native women, build up horde of secret children whom I can mentor and resettle to work for me
>by 1900 can gain some marginal colony in Africa Rhodesia-style, Nyasaland or Walvis Bay or something
>move dynasty there, rule it as my personal fiefdom
>invite Whites to settle and marry my offspring for further BLEACHing
>gain enough Whites to create a second Rhodesia
>by 1960 can navigate the Winds of Change through my personal power and wealth alone
>my White/mulatto-run country manages to shore up Rhodesia and Poortugal
>cannot be assassinated or overthrown, international community reluctantly accepts me
>spend rest of my days doing fun African dictator things

Realistically, the only moral thing to do in this situation is dedicate your life to the pursuit of biological/spiritual/chemical knowledge to try and understand your own immortality so it might be shared with the rest of humanity.

>>17939822
This guy has the right idea

commit bio terrorism on the world by constantly introducing destructive invasive species everywhere while simultaneously investing heavily into petrochemicals and pesticide technology.
develop bio chemical weapons decades ahead of time and hopefully steer mankind into accepting their use as weapons of war.
gas all jews

>>17939124 (OP)
Idk, undermine the cotton industry in the south so slavery ends sooner or something

>Start in France
>fight in the Napoleonic Wars, and distinguish myself through acts of bravery knowing I cannot be killed
>Obviously attempt to sleep with as many women as possible while on the campaign
>Get my heart broken via correspondence with my sweetheart back home (she's French she never loved me)
>Battle of Waterloo
>"MERDE!" mfw
>Fight until completely exhausted an collapse assumed dead
>Awake to find all my friends and comrades dead and the French Empire finished
>Devastated I grow despondent and tired of life in Europe as I've lost everything
>Book passage on a ship headed for America
>Start new life in the American continent, working as a mercenary on ships or a guard for settlers to protect them from Indians, anything I can leverage my immortality into wealth for
>Disappear into the wilderness for weeks at a time to hunt/rape Indians for sport in my misanthropic state
>Find a reason to live again and head to New Orleans (seems a fitting choice as they've fought against the British while I was fighting them on the continent)
>become a famous prize fighter "he can never be knocked out"
>Use my newfound fame and wealth to purchase a stately manor in the city
>Fuck my timid slave girls and Southern bells all across the south
>As more time passes disguise myself to appear only slightly older and appear in public less often
>Use the "Yellow death" in 1853 to fake my death and leave my estate to my "son"
>Fight for the Confederacy and lose everything once again after the Civil War
>Presumed dead
>Fall back into obscurity
>Attempt to live a simple life with a sweet young girl out west
>As she grows older my secret becomes impossible to hide and nearly destroys us
>She dies in childbirth
>I never truly loved her

>>17939124 (OP)
>use my eternal youth and abundance of time to ammass wealth
>privately use that wealth to hire scribes to study death and any possible ways to kill me
>continue to preserve and build on existing research for centuries until someone finally manages to find a way to kill me
Living forever is a curse and you faggots have no idea what you're asking for.

>>17939896
>Become a bounty hunter
>Kill/rape lots of Mexicans and Indians
>skip town and change name if I get caught
>Visit the far east, China/Japan to work as a mercenary
>fuck and kill all over the orient
>Sick of living and too stupid to grow wealthy on my own
>Find a rich railway tycoon or oil baron and reveal my secret to him. Offer to be his bodyguard in exchange for wealth and status
>By the early 1900s I'm rich again but empty
>Decide to embark on a spiritual/scientific journey around the world to discover the source of my immortality
>Meet with famous scientists and religious leaders
>Likely find nothing but rediscover previously discarded Catholicism (I am French after all)
>devote my time to seducing heiresses and housemaids across America and my hated Britain
>Become fascinated with airplanes during the first world war
>Crash constantly "miraculously survive every time"
>Become a Masked Vigilante in the 1920s and 30s fighting gangsters and solving crimes
>Fight in the Second World war out of natural hatred for Germans
>Fake my death again
>Continue fighting crime as a vigilante through the late 40s

I know how to make modern firearms and I know the future. Bolt action rifles would be easy. I would use this knowledge to turn the tides in the Napoleonic wars and ensure France conquers all of Europe and executes all monarchs. Obviously I would be the chief advisor to Napoleon, and the real power behind the throne. I would groom his lineage as the evil advisor, taking control of the world in all but name. Then I’d remake the internet so I can shitpost some more.

Whatever I can to exterminate India.

>>17939918
It doesn’t say you will live forever. It says you will live until modern day. Which means you can’t even kill yourself until then.
It also says “You cannot be killed by normal means”, which implies you can be killed by abnormal means.

Unless you are currently suicidal and will be forever, immortality isn’t a curse for, bare minimum, hundreds of years. I don’t know where this dumbass meme comes from. I guess people just need to find some way to cope with aging and dying.

>>17939920
>Try my hand at starting a family again
>Be classic 1950s dad
>My kids grow up to be shitty hippies in the 60s but I still love them
>My family knows my secret and help me to hide it
>Through the 70s and into the 90s watching my family grow old and die is the most painful thing I have lived through
>Start seriously contemplating ways to die
>Do whatever kind of work and odd jobs I want, I don't need the money
>If I can't find a way to die, I'll just have to wait until we get Star Trek ships in the future, and I find some omnipotent alien being who can remove my immortality

Become the king or the pope or some shit and take over the world. Then start researching space ships and cat girls

>>17939938
>Last thing I see is a vision of myself, sitting at the bow of the ship I sailed to America upon so many hundreds of years ago

>>17939934
>guess people just need to find some way to cope with aging and dying.
It's amazing that you probably thought this was some epic redpill when in reality it only affirms the view of immortality being a curse. You know what the worst part of getting old is? It's not the aches and pains. It's the gradual understanding that what little you attained in life will eventually leave you or rot away. At some point you'll stop having children because you can't bare to see them die. Your relationships will be meaningless. You have to watch society warp into an increasingly alien state. Every 40 years you'd have to retrain yourself to fit into a completely different social order. All for what? So you can continue to work forever? You must be very young anon. Only a young person would be this optimistic and idealistic about life.

>>17939979
Guess what retard? All that shit is going to happen anyways. You will lose everything you worked for, your children will die, you will outlive your loved ones, you will see the world pass you by, and everything you have ever done will be erased by the passage of time.
Except worse because you will also turn into an Alzheimer-riddled incontinent retard.

I don’t know why you think babby’s first existential crisis is some revelation that takes a lifetime to understand. Most people figure this out by the time they’re 12, not 35.

I would become the pirate king

>get into/pioneer the drug trade
>reinvest/diversify into medicine
>use wealth and influence in the field of medicine to promote eugenics
>euthanize all the jews

>>17939124 (OP)
idk, I guess I become a super soldier that will appear on numerous historical photographs (liberation of Constantinople, Tatar genocide, entry of dixies in Washington, Rape of London, German conquest of America) with only schizo faggots on /x/ noticing.

>>17940081
>get into/pioneer the drug trade
Anon, that market has always been cornered by jews.

>>17939124 (OP)
>start in Europe
>watch all the kino wars unfold
>for centuries historians will argue about the myths of an immortal man strolling across the battlefields of Napoleonic wars watching them die like some cruel spectator of sports
>take a ship to the Americas around 1825 and avoid the bloody wars of independence
>live peacefully in Mexico (my country) for many decades, sparsely populated and undeveloped country means easier to hide my immortality
>join Santa Anna's army on the march north during the Mexican American war
>become a turncoat and join the Alamo defenders
>we get btfo anyway and I "die" or escape
>get annexed by America in 1848 and become an American
>try to get rich in California as soon as I hear about the gold rush
>fight for the Union in the civil war in exchange for homestead on the frontier
>chill for a few decades innawoods until some greedy railroad or freeway jew tears up my land to build Just One More Lane™
>go back to Mexico and live there until the 1970s
>move to Caribbean and stay there for the rest of my life

>>17939397
>guess im just wolverine
this, your grand plans would get boring and after you outlive the first women and comrades you love you'll just end up lifting and drinking waiting to die

>>17939124 (OP)
>>What do you do?
In 1812? Destroy the offices of East India Company, arrest all their employees, jail them, and have sex with their spouses.

>>17939124 (OP)
Immediately learn all possible techniques of escape, jailbreak etc, otherwise you're fucked. Also learn how to disguise and impersonate other people. Also take your time to master all occult arts and become the Emperor watching over mankind.

I would become a mercenary