Immortality - Off-Topic

#1 Edited by JackAs (412 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Random Omnipotent Being comes to you and tells you that you have the chance to live forever, but that immortality comes with a price. What do you choose? You can only choose one.

Life Draining - ROB requires that you kill other humans in order to drain their life force. Each person that you kill extends your immortal life for one month. This requires merely a light touch and the victim dies of what seems to be natural causes. As long as you continue to kill in this way, you will not age, get sick, or die from anything less than violence. Furthermore, if you drain someone's life force, it heals you of any physical injuries you might have at the time, including life threatening injuries.

Lichdom - ROB turns you into a Lich. Your physical body immediately dies and starts to rot, eventually becoming nothing more than a skeleton with glowing lights in empty sockets. You become highly resist to injury and even if your physical body is destroyed, it will reform next to your phylactery - a small enchanted object which stores your soul. You can also learn spells, any spell from 3rd Edition D&D, though it takes the spell's level squared in years of study to learn most spells except for Necromancy spells which take a month times the level squared. On the down side, you look like an undead monstrosity. Also, you can no longer feel, taste, or smell - your hearing and sight are also slightly impaired in that everything you see seems to be rotted and old while all sounds are muffled or grating.

Unbreakable - ROB makes it so that you cannot be harmed by any means. No blade can pierce your flash, no disease can infect you, and you don't age either. You could be at ground zero of a nuclear blast and remain unharmed. No don't need to breath, eat or drink. Nothing can harm you. You will live forever. On the downside, you'll live forever. You cannot die, meaning you could get trapped in some location and stay there for millennia. You'll still be fully alive and conscious even after the sun has burned out and there is no earth. At some point, you're bound to get bored.

Living in the Moment - ROB makes it so that you cease to age, but you only way he can do this is to take time from earlier parts of your life and use it to extend your life. The practical effects of this is that you have no memory of your past. The oldest that any memory can be is a year old, you remember nothing from more than a year ago - no words, no classes, no people, no happy or sad events. As time passes, you forget more and more of your past. If its been more than a year since you played an instrument, you have forgotten how, if its been more than a year since you saw a friend, you have forgotten them. Aside from not aging or getting sick, you are still physically human and can die from violence or accidents.

#2 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

i choose life draining and the unbreakable one... hmm.. i always thought it be fitting if me and the roaches were the last one standing at then end of the U.

#3 Edited by JackAs (412 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

You can only choose one, bud. But me, I'd probably not take anything. I'd like to grow old for once lol

#4 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

i still get carded to watch rated R movies im 29. -_- if i shave and get rid of my beard i might get picked up at night and driven home by cops....

#5 Posted by hdorman1 (4662 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

unbreakable
then i would hit the gym
become a world class merc

#6 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

ironic that we dont care that our immortality is our curse.... :)

#7 Posted by hdorman1 (4662 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@castleking said:

" ironic that we dont care that our immortality is our curse.... :)
"

its only a curse if you let it
enjoy it
become the futures history

#8 Edited by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

i could see myself floating in space on a chunk of rock like in the movie the fountain

#9 Posted by hdorman1 (4662 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@castleking said:

" i could see myself floating in space on a chunk of rock like in the movie the fountain
"

or mr immortal

#10 Posted by The Sadhu (853 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable!

Thou I would get bored very easily after some time...

#11 Edited by CATMANEXE (17045 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Life Draining = i would be incarcerated, and/or restrained and executed after my time frame of immortality was up.

Lichdom = i think this one points out itself why one wouldnt want this. my ability to interact with the world would be over, with the exception of The World Weekly News

Living In The Moment = the loophole here is that a human life is very short. i would run out of moments to use to extend my life quickly,
and even more assured by the fact that i would be draining my own mentality significantly.

Unbreakable = this one differs in that i dont have the choice to die, though realistically i could sleep for ages after training myself to do so over my unlimited time frame if i chose to, in essence simulating what some believe to be the afterlife (not bothered by life at this point).
the big plus here is if my body reacted in such a fashion everything else would be retroactive to me. in other words, i could pretty much do whatever i want. as long as i was tactful about this, humanity wouldnt catch on and figure out they needed to BFR me. i also am to assume using simple math that after a huge amount of time passed, i would grow beyond all notions mentally (since my brain would physically not get affected negatively, it would always grow), including that of boredom. if forced to choose, this is the one i will.

#12 Posted by Superparody (2011 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

unbreakable...with all the time on my hands...I would put togather a big company and make space ships...so when the planet explodes...ill go explore the universe

#13 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

I wouldn't take any

#14 Posted by Aronmorales (9329 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable.

#15 Posted by Constantine (15840 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

I would most likely walk away but if I had to choose it'd either be Life Draining or Unbreakable

#16 Posted by joshmightbe (19500 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

immortality would suck after awhile after youve done everything you could possibly want to do a few hundred times youd be bored out of your mind

#17 Posted by Son_of_Magnus (15259 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Superparody said:

" unbreakable...with all the time on my hands...I would put togather a big company and make space ships...so when the planet explodes...ill go explore the universe "

Exactly

#18 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@joshmightbe said:

" immortality would suck after awhile after youve done everything you could possibly want to do a few hundred times youd be bored out of your mind "

nonsense if that were true i would have bn done with sex yrs ago

#19 Posted by Static Shock (47330 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Immortality is a curse. Nobody sane wants to live forever.

#20 Posted by Son_of_Magnus (15259 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Static Shock said:

" Immortality is a curse. Nobody sane wants to live forever. "

#21 Posted by Sparda (15795 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Static Shock said:

" Immortality is a curse. Nobody sane wants to live forever. "

Well, hell, sign me up then!

Nah, just kidding, but if I had to choose it'd be unbreakable, because it's the only one that wouldn't ruin me in some way.

#22 Posted by Static Shock (47330 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Son_of_Magnus: Exactly my point. The Lazarus Pits have intensified his insanity, too.

#23 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Static Shock said:

" Immortality is a curse. Nobody sane wants to live forever. "

well, my only life goal aside, if i'm not able to fulfill that then Immortality is the only way of fulfilling my goal #2, knowing everything. (Or at least as much as possible)

#24 Posted by glforthewin (2355 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

unbreakable all the way

#25 Edited by inferiorego (19306 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Remember , there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die

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#26 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

dont mind me saying that being remembered and being told about carry along the same way...

#27 Posted by Ziccarra_Liafador (48926 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

If I was Immortal I'd purposely try to die lol.

#28 Posted by Static Shock (47330 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Voidheart said:

" well, my only life goal aside, if i'm not able to fulfill that then Immortality is the only way of fulfilling my goal #2, knowing everything. (Or at least as much as possible) "

How do you plan to achieve the impossible?

#29 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

by taking small series of probable steps and continue until you reach the goal as closely as possible remember you have all eternity

#30 Posted by King Saturn (211177 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable easy

#31 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Static Shock said:

" @Voidheart said:
" well, my only life goal aside, if i'm not able to fulfill that then Immortality is the only way of fulfilling my goal #2, knowing everything. (Or at least as much as possible) "
How do you plan to achieve the impossible? "

Impossible is the limit to your mind, if your insane, you don't have that limit ;)

#32 Posted by Static Shock (47330 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Voidheart said:

" Impossible is the limit to your mind, if your insane, you don't have that limit ;) "

How do you plan to achieve this goal?

#33 Posted by TheJuggernautpunch (6134 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable .

#34 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Static Shock said:

" @Voidheart said:
" Impossible is the limit to your mind, if your insane, you don't have that limit ;) "
How do you plan to achieve this goal? "

never said it was possible, just saying that I'll strive towards doing so if #1 fails me ;) I mean look at all the inventions the world brought out, most of these were made in the fact that the rest of the world believed it impossible, and yet, things like electricity, Nuclear energy, and even the goddamn toaster were invented...

#35 Posted by Tyler Starke (4409 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable I never want to die

#36 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

oh and being Immortal would up your chances on surviving earths death, whereafter you can swim through space because your virtually indestructable, etc.

#37 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Tyler Starke said:

" Unbreakable I never want to die "

well, would you like see the rest of the world do so as time passes by? until theres nothing left, no animals, no flowers, no humans, no tv, no i-net... just you, alone in the cold, deep, space?

#38 Edited by Tyler Starke (4409 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Voidheart said:

" @Tyler Starke said:
" Unbreakable I never want to die "
well, would you like see the rest of the world do so as time passes by? until theres nothing left, no animals, no flowers, no humans, no tv, no i-net... just you, alone in the cold, deep, space? "

Sure I have no problem with that, besides how do you know how it all ends, who knows how far our technology will take us.

#39 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

you just answered my reason for being immortal ;)

#40 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

dont seem so bad to me.

#41 Posted by The Devil Tiger (1263 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable, easy.

Go beyond humanity doesn't bother me, because humanity die only if I don't care, after all, I will not be passive, stand and watch people die. I ultimately do something, and as the song say : "Time is on my side !"

#42 Posted by EdwardWindsor (13189 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

unbreakable , then just hire myself out as govermnetaly payed assasin easy when you cant be harmed, eventually be worlds richest man and then invest in space travel and then explore the universe

#43 Posted by CosmicSpiral (5461 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable. I would periodically go into hibernation for hundreds of years to relieve boredom.

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#44 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

you know how monkeys pass boredom?

#45 Edited by Yaujtapool (7568 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable FTW .

#46 Posted by warlock360 (24794 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@castleking said:

" you know how monkeys pass boredom?
"

fap fap fap

#47 Posted by JackAs (412 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

That's what the japanese did in the meji era.

#48 Posted by OblivionKnight (3169 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Unbreakable, if I had to choose. I could do whatever I want, train my mind and body to the peaks. I could test out any idea I could think without worrying about my well-being. Travel the universe, theres so much to do. Annd, as others said, I would just sleep for extremely long periods of dream-like states so I could be happy. But eventually I would start missing people that I loved.

#49 Posted by MrDirector786 (41465 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

I would go with the unbreakable one. The others you can still be killed by assaults on you or something. You also don't have to kill or forget anything to keep your immortality. And it would be cool to eventually wander the universe long after Earth has expired. I could also use my invulnerability to shield others and do greater good with it.

#50 Posted by Chane (539 posts) - 3 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

unbreakable. I can't see a downside.