What skills do you have that would have...

[oggbashan]

I'd use my knowledge of solar eclipses and electromagnetism to make predictions which would establish me as a savant and medicine man.

You might do better as a maker of compasses.

 

[kotori]

I'd use my knowledge of solar eclipses and electromagnetism to make predictions which would establish me as a savant and medicine man.

I can see you doing the Connecticut Yankee gig.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I have a chainsaw.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Oh wait, centuries ago... I have a splitting maul.

 

[CandiCame]

This question, I realize now, is kinda weird. I was thinking more in terms of "if we reverted and lost a few centuries of tech for some reason". But if I had just lived a few centuries ago, say, I dunno, 4- the 1600s; I would have been taught a completely different set of skills. I would have listened to the elderly instead of just zoning out with the knowledge that I could get peer reviewed facts on Google and wouldn't need to know which herbs cured what. I've been taught on a long-bow instead of a rifle, but the tracking skills and shit would be the same. I literally live in a house that's built the exact same way that my ancestors built them, just fitted for electricity- I know this because I built it exactly like people did back in the day. Then I had to have people smarter than I was come in and fit it up with power and pluming while I annoyingly stood behind them and made them explain it to me the entire time. But if I never had it, I wouldn't miss it. I can't grow shit- I can kill weeds, but that's because I forget about them because I'm fully aware that I can go to the store and buy the same thing frozen without having to touch bugs and dirt and whatnot. Gardening cuts into my gaming time. If I had no gaming time I'm pretty sure I could raise a garden. I hate canning things only because it freaks me out- but if I didn't have the ability to google bochalism, I wouldn't know to be afraid of it. I can cook over a campfire well enough to make people think I have a kitchenette. I'm fortunate enough to have a family with a decent sized track of land- every bit of it forest. Plenty of room once it's cleared, pleanty of game when it's not. Lots of wild edible foods like blueberries, blackberries, those little green apples that are nasty until you bake them into pies- and fortunate enough to have been born into a culture that values things like trade routes and materialism. Our life expectancy was decently long, our infant mortality rate was comparatively low- though I probably would have had like 12 kids by now because condoms weren't a thing. But that would be normal enough that I wouldn't really see it as a problem- just more people to take care of the domesticated animals, do the various household chores, watch each other's backs, etc.

I could do it. But I wouldn't want to. I love air conditioning. I love birth control. I love modern medicine and drug therapy. I love a hunting rifle with an accuracy that's so much better than a bow. I love my x-box, my pc, my smartphone, my tablet, my torrents- my scientifically formulated dog food. The past sucked. I don't get why so many people forget that.

 

[butters]

as much as i don't like to admit it, i am a caretaker. children and elderly. i also cook, mediate, heal, tell stories, make people laugh and suck cock. my goal would be to strengthen my own pack, so no harm would come to me or the weak.

so wise-ish woman who tells stories to go with cake and who has a side-line in oral healing. you'll fit right in

I can kill.
For food, for protection, for retaliation if needed.
In a time of Wolves, sheepdogs and sheep, I am a sheepdog.

I can also plan.
Whatever the situation, if it needs a plan, I can come up with it. And it will be viable.

seems we've a lot of people for teh killing - so there has to be a garrison or somethin'. we could use someone with midwifery skills....

planning's awesome. *nods* cool heads and calculations, strategy and forward thinking bring in the crops.


we got any bee-keepers?

Wasn't a few centuries ago around the time we were domesticating wolves? Wouldn't you want them at your door? Because, you know, they're dogs?

I guess I have the skills to survive, but without electricity I think I would lose the will pretty fast. I'd keep going just because I'd feel like a dick to leave my kid without a generator.

that wasn't really what this thread was about :blink:

Skills.

I'm a bit of a green thumb. I love plants and shrubs. I love eating and growing vegetables. Herbs. Chillies. I love my greens. Except peas. I still swallow them whole to this day.

I know snails don't like egg shells. Soapy water can stop the blight. Sheep shit is great on a flower garden.

I have other skills but I figure that's enough for one post.

Horticulture for the win.

yay, another grower of the greenstuff. always valuable.

I'd totally be the town madam. Ruling my establishment with an iron fist and protecting my girls.

every settlement needs a cathouse

I'm a passable archer; I hunted with one for a decade. I'm also a bit of a fisherman. Once bagged I know how to kill and prepare it, as well as smoke and/or can it.

I know how to make Kimichi and kraut. I can process and tan a hide. I can make just about any baked goods from biscuits to bread loaves and cakes to pies.

I am a bit of a black smith and know the properties of common metals. I can and have made knives and swords.

I can brew beer, make wine or build a still from scratch.

I'd get by.
alcohol! a must *nods* the rest are great transferables, too, but alcohol is a given


Comshaw

I'd use my knowledge of solar eclipses and electromagnetism to make predictions which would establish me as a savant and medicine man.

laurel's advisor *smirk*

Oh wait, centuries ago... I have a splitting maul.

take two aspirin . . . or go see neci for the appropriate healing bark

This question, I realize now, is kinda weird. I was thinking more in terms of "if we reverted and lost a few centuries of tech for some reason". But if I had just lived a few centuries ago, say, I dunno, 4- the 1600s; I would have been taught a completely different set of skills. I would have listened to the elderly instead of just zoning out with the knowledge that I could get peer reviewed facts on Google and wouldn't need to know which herbs cured what. I've been taught on a long-bow instead of a rifle, but the tracking skills and shit would be the same. I literally live in a house that's built the exact same way that my ancestors built them, just fitted for electricity- I know this because I built it exactly like people did back in the day. Then I had to have people smarter than I was come in and fit it up with power and pluming while I annoyingly stood behind them and made them explain it to me the entire time. But if I never had it, I wouldn't miss it. I can't grow shit- I can kill weeds, but that's because I forget about them because I'm fully aware that I can go to the store and buy the same thing frozen without having to touch bugs and dirt and whatnot. Gardening cuts into my gaming time. If I had no gaming time I'm pretty sure I could raise a garden. I hate canning things only because it freaks me out- but if I didn't have the ability to google bochalism, I wouldn't know to be afraid of it. I can cook over a campfire well enough to make people think I have a kitchenette. I'm fortunate enough to have a family with a decent sized track of land- every bit of it forest. Plenty of room once it's cleared, pleanty of game when it's not. Lots of wild edible foods like blueberries, blackberries, those little green apples that are nasty until you bake them into pies- and fortunate enough to have been born into a culture that values things like trade routes and materialism. Our life expectancy was decently long, our infant mortality rate was comparatively low- though I probably would have had like 12 kids by now because condoms weren't a thing. But that would be normal enough that I wouldn't really see it as a problem- just more people to take care of the domesticated animals, do the various household chores, watch each other's backs, etc.

I could do it. But I wouldn't want to. I love air conditioning. I love birth control. I love modern medicine and drug therapy. I love a hunting rifle with an accuracy that's so much better than a bow. I love my x-box, my pc, my smartphone, my tablet, my torrents- my scientifically formulated dog food. The past sucked. I don't get why so many people forget that.

erm, not really - it was a question about what skills do you possess NOW that could transfer to keep you fed, housed, and alive if you were suddenly transplanted back a couple of centuries with the lack of modern technology etc we have at our disposal today.

 

[CandiCame]

erm, not really - it was a question about what skills do you possess NOW that could transfer to keep you fed, housed, and alive if you were suddenly transplanted back a couple of centuries with the lack of modern technology etc we have at our disposal today.

The ones that I mentioned in my previous post. I can build a functioning log cabin, I can cook on an open flame or rudimentary stove, I can hunt, I can raise livestock, I can kind of sort of garden, I had people try to teach me basic medicine. I can sort of speak Cherokee; I have a blood right to a tract of land, etc. etc.

I still don't want to do any of that.

 

[Recidiva]

I have a lot of them.

But if the pharmacies are not open, I'm afraid I'm down for the count. Migraines would make me beg people to cannibalize me early and avoid the rush.

 

[CandiCame]

I have a lot of them.

But if the pharmacies are not open, I'm afraid I'm down for the count. Migraines would make me beg people to cannibalize me early and avoid the rush.

I know how to grow weed and Valerian and whatnot. I'll hook you up.

 

[Recidiva]

I know how to grow weed and Valerian and whatnot. I'll hook you up.

There was a tea that was made out of lady slippers and it was absolutely vile, but it helped, but lady slippers are rare and mostly extinct. Eventually I couldn't get it. I'm on about five different things that in combination over time help, but I am not going back to the "not helped" place.

Weed would probably help a little with the time between migraines. Valerian is stinky but otherwise useless, alas it appears migraineurs process drugs differently.

I used to think that Vicodin must be really cool because look what it did for House. I got some after surgery. Worked a little like ibuprofen but didn't do anything else.

Thanks though. You can have pick of my internal organs.

 

[CandiCame]

There was a tea that was made out of lady slippers and it was absolutely vile, but it helped, but lady slippers are rare and mostly extinct. Eventually I couldn't get it. I'm on about five different things that in combination over time help, but I am not going back to the "not helped" place.

Weed would probably help a little with the time between migraines. Valerian is stinky but otherwise useless, alas it appears migraineurs process drugs differently.

I used to think that Vicodin must be really cool because look what it did for House. I got some after surgery. Worked a little like ibuprofen but didn't do anything else.

Thanks though. You can have pick of my internal organs.

There's probably some kind of herb that would help... I bet my grandma would know, but as we live in a world where we don't need that information, I'd keep attacking it with chemicals.

 

[Recidiva]

There's probably some kind of herb that would help... I bet my grandma would know, but as we live in a world where we don't need that information, I'd keep attacking it with chemicals.

I spent years and years learning herbalism of every stripe and flavor. Many icky stripes and flavors that don't help.

I am not a denier of herbal power, I learned to fix lots and lots of things. Just not migraines.

I hated modern medical science for its ignorance and horror and mistreatment of poor me right up until I got Imitrex and then I was on board entirely.

 

[CandiCame]

I spent years and years learning herbalism of every stripe and flavor. Many icky stripes and flavors that don't help.

I am not a denier of herbal power, I learned to fix lots and lots of things. Just not migraines.

I hated modern medical science for its ignorance and horror and mistreatment of poor me right up until I got Imitrex and then I was on board entirely.

See, I have a strong disdain for herbal medicine because my grandma swears by it. And it's fucking annoying. No, I don't want nasty ass tea, I want a goddamn asparine.

 

[Recidiva]

See, I have a strong disdain for herbal medicine because my grandma swears by it. And it's fucking annoying. No, I don't want nasty ass tea, I want a goddamn asparine.

I pick and choose. There are gradients of illness and gradients of treatment.

If I can handle something early with herbs, then I will. But if I try an herb and is has no effect, I will try it a few times and then decide it doesn't work for my body type and circumstances.

They probably put me on 43 different things for migraines and all of them did much more horrific things with nasty side effects, but I was convinced that if I didn't try "everything" then I certainly wouldn't find the answer. I'd already tried all the herbs in my repertoire and scoured all the botanicas and Chinese healer shops.

If it had been a magical berry that had to be pulled out of the butt of an antelope during the full moon, I would have stocked up on that.

It wasn't. But I also learned a lot about nutrition and I'm otherwise pretty healthy, and so are my kids.

I think the main problem of modern medical is overuse and misuse of antibiotics to trash immune systems and strengthen bugs, and overuse of medication to treat something that will probably just fix itself given time.

I never took my kids to the doctor to treat a cold and never put them on antibiotics for something that was viral. If they developed an infection (maybe once for them in their lifetimes) I was happy for the antibiotics. I just didn't overuse.

Aspirin is white willow bark. The tea would work. It'd taste like shit, but it'd work if aspirin also worked. I'm sure you know this. I'd rather have the aspirin too because you don't have to taste that crap going down.

 

[neci]

so wise-ish woman who tells stories to go with cake and who has a side-line in oral healing. you'll fit right in

i also herd cats and can make medicines from plants. when are we moving?

 

[Noor]

I sew, cook/bake, grow herbs well, sell, good with kids, write, book making, sing-basically the same ones I use if the wolf is at the door today.

 

[Silverlily]

how are you with explosives?

Qualified.

 

[Deafening]

http://up.xhamster.com/000/038/808/588_1000.jpg

I have my nipples pierced.

Do you want to see them?

 

[beetlebum]

none.

this century:

i can plug my telecaster to the vox amp with the volume at 11, stomp on the fuzz pedal and unleash a tsunami of buzzcocks riffs... it'd be the nastiest, noisiest, rowdiest and most mediocre sounding racket that shitheel wolf has ever heard in his shitty wolf life and he'd lightning-dash the fuck back into the woods never to show his trespassing bitchfaced snout ever again.

 

[CandiCame]

i can plug my telecaster to the vox amp with the volume at 11, stomp on the fuzz pedal and unleash a tsunami of buzzcocks riffs... it'd be the nastiest, noisiest, rowdiest and most mediocre sounding racket that shitheel wolf has ever heard in his shitty wolf life and he'd lightning-dash the fuck back into the woods never to show his trespassing bitchfaced snout ever again.

It'd be awesome if it just started howling in time tho.

 

[cfuhrer]

we got any bee-keepers?

One generation back.
I've got equipment and books.

Hubbs won't let me have bees right now.

I can build bird and bat houses.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

...kept the wolf from the door a few centuries ago?

I can vomit at will. That probably wouldn't have been helpful during the middle ages, but now it gets me out of a lot of traffic tickets for speeding.

 

[Noor]

Con artist

 

[the_kuntess]

I work well with others.
I'm a facilitator. I help others see their strengths, understand their weakness and get their shit happening.

I would have been a 'go to' in the local tribe.

Dogs get my vibe as well.

 

[SkAoUt]

I've a short fuse and a penchants for violence. I can also add rather handily and grovel at will. Pretty sure I'd be a shoe in for thee tax collector.