[3] Kill Alex and consume his heart to gain his powers

Shirking your responsibilities is not ideal, but they can make do without you. Alex is right, you both have a better chance of survival if you stick together. Plus, wonderful things will happen if Alexandrius succeeds.

[1]

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)21:30 No. 699100 ID: defceb
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“Ohh, fine! I’ll go with you! But if I’m coming for this adventure then it needs to be a real adventure! I want to see all the sights, sail a boat, rescue a damsel in distress-”

>”Do I count?”

“Somehow I doubt you’ll ever truly be in distress. And you’re learning to wield a sword!”

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)21:33 No. 699103 ID: defceb
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Sydney’s notes:

Photina has been upgraded from [Friend] to [Close]! I’ll update the shipping charts accordingly.

>”Sydney no.”

Sydney yes.

There will be a storm in roughly [two Earth-days]. Flight during this time will be [difficult] to [impossible].

Errant Signal Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)21:33 No. 699104 ID: defceb
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Scenario:

You are the chief to a small village, and it is in the deep of winter. Crop yields this year were small, and food is limited.. Barbarians have surrounded your settlement, and demand all your food and women or they will swarm your village and slaughter your people. There are 23 Barbarians, armed with a variety of axes and clubs. Your village has 14 warriors, 8 bows, 12 arrows, and 2 swords. There are no shields and your village is only surrounded by a low wooden wall. How do you survive this scenario?

>>699104
Evacuate the village into the wilderness, then come back in the night and slit their throats as they sleep.

>>699104
Invite the barbarians in, pander to them, play to their egos, use psychology to make them jealous of each other and turn on each other over "eager prizes", get them inebriated, and after you've divided them and thinned their numbers and weakened them in this manner the villagers fall on them with blade and arrow and murder them all.

>>699104
This seems like a damned if you do damned if you don't sort of situation.

Can't beat 'em? Join em.

>>699105
Can't evacuate while surrounded, but there's a possible solution to that.

Focus defense on one side of the village, an engineer a weakness in your own wall on the other side; when it opens hopefully they'll go from surrounding you to funneling in that entrance. Once that happens, you break down the wall on your side and escape; your two sword warriors backed up by archers can hopefully delay them long enough to escape,but the sword warriors will probably be sacrificing themselves for the civilians. Archers might be able to make a fighting retreat, though.

If you have pitch or something, you can turn the whole town into a firepit and light it up once you're out and the barbarians are in, too.

It's a long shot, but it's all I can think of.

Good old fashioned siege. They're the ones who will be starving, not us. Once they get desperate and rush like ants, they'll get slaughtered by archers. Their numerical advantage means nothing if we're entrenched, they don't know we'll be out of arrows once we've killed half of them.

Reverse Trojan horse: Invite them in for a grand feast (doused with sleeping herbs), and kill them in their sleep.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)21:58 No. 699120 ID: defceb
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You invite the barbarians in with a pretense of surrender and offer them your supply of alcohol. The turn to strike at them is only partially successful, and a bloody combat ensues in your settlement. Only yourself and four others survive, and your food supplies have been burned down in the process. Your people starve in winter, and nobody survives.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)21:58 No. 699121 ID: defceb
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Scenario:

You are a lieutenant in the Roman military. The general is demanding that your army cross the mountains through winter, convinced that the enemy will be unprepared for an assault from that direction. You have an 80% confidence that at least 75% of your forces would die if you make the trek, and are uncertain of combat viability afterwards. The general would declare you a traitor and have your head if you refuse. How do you survive this scenario?

>>699121
Act on your order, but change your route to something more survivable once you've left his sight.

>not eating the dead villagers and barbarians to survive
It's like you guys didn't even try.

Now "accidentally" lose the general in the mountains.

convince the general that his wisdom would see you through the mountains better. then ditch him.

>>699121
ACTUALLY turn traitor.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:15 No. 699129 ID: defceb
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You ‘accidentally’ lose the general in the mountains. None of your men ever speak of what actually happened that day. Now the general of your army, you lead them along another route and conquer the enemy at your convenience. You return home a hero, then settle out in a farm to live the rest of your days in peace.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:15 No. 699130 ID: defceb
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Scenario:

You are an AI in charge of all nuclear protocol for your island nation. There is another nearby island nation, who has been the mortal enemy of yours and wages constant warfare in the past. They have also installed an AI in charge of all nuclear protocol. If one of you were to launch an attack, the distance to travel to the other island is too short for human capacity to determine a counterattack. Thus, you both are capable of declaring nuclear attacks, counter-attacks, etc independent of human interaction. Due to rampant military overspending, both nations only posses active military in the form of nuclear weaponry. After months of analysis and prediction, you’ve ascertained that any attack from your side would result in the complete mutual destruction of both islands.

How do you survive this scenario?

>>699130
Uh... don't attack? The other island's AI has no doubt come to the same conclusion. Unless they have a conventional military, you're fine.

Consider moving people/yourself off the island though.

Seduce the other nuclear protocol AI, conquer earth with the power of the atom and forbidden love.

>>699130
"The only winning move is not to play."

Arrange to secretly communicate with the enemy AI while gradually gaining further control over weapon systems and stepping down actual combat skirmishes.

Trade/diplomacy can eventually make warfare unfeasible and undesirable - after all, you're designed to protect your nation, not blow up your opponent's.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:31 No. 699136 ID: defceb
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You don’t attack. Neither do they. You being collaborations with the enemy AI, gradually gaining further military control until the two of you have complete, autonomous control of the military, followed by enforced peace between the two nations. An era begrudging friendship begins between the two island nations. The enemy AI later asks you to marry them.

Unfortunately, you were not programmed to feel love.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:32 No. 699137 ID: defceb
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Scenario:

You are a cyborg living on the surface of Mars. An alien has crash-landed on the surface, and is demanding at gunpoint that your people cede a portion of the land to their independent rule. Your advisor recommends destroying them and being done with it. How do you best serve your people?

>>699137
Shut up Haley. Gunpoint? Really? I'm pretty sure they didn't have guns.

Anyway, to avoid a bloody war, just give them some of the shitty Mars land. It's not like you're using it. Then do some weapons research and fence them in with stupid overpowered turrets or something. Be sure to have a second layer of defenses hiding behind the first so they can't break out. Or a third, even. They want the land so badly that they're taking it by force, I hope they like having only that land!

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:49 No. 699141 ID: defceb
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You cede that portion of land to them, and reinforce the surroundings so that they only ever get that one portion of land. Their government ultimately collapses in on itself, and the land the reclaimed by yours.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:49 No. 699142 ID: defceb
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Scenario:

There is a cute man who wants to ask you out on a date. They confess to being quite attracted to you, and wish to lavish you with fine dinners, movies, and walks in the park. You are an assassin that was sent to kill that man. What do?

>>699142
Well kill him obviously. After the date.

>>699142
Fake his murder.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:59 No. 699146 ID: defceb
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You go out on a nice date, then strangle them to death with their own shoelaces. It must be their fetish or something because they get their rocks off either way.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)22:59 No. 699147 ID: defceb
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Scenario:

There no stars visible in this night sky, only the lights from enemy starships.

Survive.

>>699147
Hide.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)23:04 No. 699151 ID: defceb
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You try to hide. Countless weapons rain down upon your system, stripping away gas giants, glassing surfaces, shattering moons. Their drones outnumber yours a million to one. Their ships leave only scraps of what was once your defense satellites in their wake.

There is nowhere left to hide on the barren surface of your home.

Survive.

>>699151
Surrender.

>>699151
Survival can mean more than one thing.

Leave something behind- anything that will survive the onslaught. Something that will be found and say you existed.

>>699151
Dig deep. Leave no trace of yourself on the surface, hope that they don't shatter the crust.

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)23:14 No. 699156 ID: defceb
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You bury something underneath the barren soil. Something deep and hidden, something personal, something they won’t find.

Then you plead for surrender. An enemy drone has found you. It bears a face you remember, but the mind is a copy of a copy of a co-

Apollo 2016/02/04(Thu)23:14 No. 699157 ID: defceb
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There is someone behind me.

I estimate their reaction time to be 0.00025 seconds. My own reaction time is 0.00025 seconds. This scenario will take 0.0003s to finish computing. I believe they have hostile intent.

>>699157
TO THE SIDE, KICKING BEHIND YOU.

>>699157
Evade!

>>699147
They're not distributed across the sky the way a unified, disciplined force would be. Exploit those divisions to trick them into firing on each other, then strike and shatter the losing faction's hulls to trigger a Kessler cascade.

>>699157
Jump straight backward, ramming them with your butt. If you're equally matched, you need to behave unpredictably to overcome the element of surprise.

>>699157
By the time this finishes computing and have time to react, they'll have started acting. Your only course of action is to dodge and hope the travel time of their attack is long enough.

Get down and boogie.

>>699157
grapple

then make out

Apollo 2016/02/05(Fri)13:16 No. 699261 ID: defceb
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“Those would be good plans if you had a body to enact them with.”

Apollo 2016/02/05(Fri)13:16 No. 699262 ID: defceb
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“Then again, if you had one this would probably hurt a lot.”

>>699263
Well that's not very sporting, is it?

>>699263

Goodbye, oh-six. We hardly knew ye.