A board game, my guitar and a toothbrush.
SPF 50+ sunscreen, a towel, and my bicycle.
Three towels
You need one. Three is paranoia.
No, no, they’ve got a point here. In The curse of Monkey Island you need three wet towels to safely cross the hot beach because Guybrush’s shoes are full of holes.
Solar battery, ebike, and solar panels
1.) Toolbox with simple tools like pliers, hammers, wrenches, prybars. I don’t feel like Id have much use for modern wrenches.
2.) Compound bow. (The quiver and arrows are attatched to the bow) For those who dont know, modern archery is wild. There are bows that will move arrows, with surgical steel blades, over 100 meters a second. Accurately.
3.) A cardboard tube full of blank paper and drawing tools.
That sounds like a lot more then 3 items
Naw, one item includes everything inside it.
Which is why I pick my house as one of my items.
- Leatherman Surge v2 multitool. Tools are always useful.
- The Pocket Ref book by Thomas J. Glover
- English to Latin Dictionary
The nerd in me says a solar generator, a laptop and a book on computing. See what they come up with.
This might be too big of a technological leap for them. I say bring stuff related to Industrial Revolution era tech. They already know about steam power but they only use it as a party trick. Show someone in power what it can actually do and you might just make steampunk Rome! 😀
I should put more time into this but lets say I have minutes to decide. I would at this moment grab my leatherman, this other keychain thing that has knife sharpeners and fire starter combo (also a whistle), and for number three. mmmm. er. boy wish I had a latin to english translation book but I don’t. mmmm. ah you know what. a silicone baking sheet.
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My cat. Because there won’t be anyone to take care of her.
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A sample of copper water line and a valve - something they can study and reverse engineer to improve their infrastructure. I’ll have to explain the concept of water towers too since I probably won’t be able to actually bring one.
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A book on the history of the Roman Empire. Maybe they’ll do things a little differently this time.
Am I allowed to warn them about Pompei? They’ve got four years to evacuate that area.
If you manage to buddy-up with Domitian before he becomes emperor in 81, he’d definitely change things up.
You predicted the eruption of Mount Vesuvius so he knows you’re not a hack. So he’ll probably believe you when you tell him he eventually gets assassinated.
From there, who knows where history goes. He definitely curtails the Senate even more so maybe the Empire enters the Dominate phase of its history 200 years early?
Maybe point Trajan and Hadrian out to him if he’s looking for competent allies/potential successors. Well, Hadrian isn’t born until 76 but you probably won’t butterfly him away in 1 year.
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Glasses. Not for me, but to show the Romans that some that can’t see shit that magic glass can make them see better. Either that or a magnifying glass, so it can double as a fun trick of sunlight burning, which, hopefully, can teach them to make concave/convex glasses for people.
A sewing machine. It’s electric, but by opening it up and trying to replicate the pattern manually, those old, fully manual ones could be built.
A world atlas. Maps weren’t exactly common and, for most of human history, unreliable, so having something like that would be extremely valuable, even if it lacked some info like terrain elevation or type of environment.
Antique stores often have old Singer treadle sewing machines. Needs zero electricity to run and easy to repair.
I have a Latin text book from middle school somewhere in the attic. I suspect I’ll want that to brush up on my Latin.
I also have a Smith & Wesson 45 revolver. It’s a limited edition collectors item with 6 rounds in a case, but it would shoot and that would probably come in handy. Unfortunately, I have no other ammunition.
Probably after that the first aid kit.
Blåhaj, Blåhaj and Blåhaj. The other three will need to be adopted by my bf
A towel of course. Never forget your towel.
The internet, because I can’t live without the internet anymore.
And a game where I can take another 3 items with me…
It really depends. Either a permanent ink pen + something to write with, praying that I can make a record that will outlive me…
A waterproof kindle (or similar ereader) loaded with an offline copy of wikipedia and a solar charger + usb cable might be right up there.
Probably a good knife. A really good backpack, perhaps? A first aid kit instead?
It is challenging to decide, because here is the thing: if I am put in the middle of nowhere, I am going to be a stranger at the mercy of whoever I happen to meet first, or whoever in power happens to hear of me first. So, chances are I, foreigner who does not speak the local language, would not fare rather well. In this one, self-defense tools, such as the knife, and other camping-useable gear (covers, first aid kits, water filtration systems, etc) would be immensely more useful than other options.
If, instead, I was dropped somewhere near somebody sympathetic, or at least not bound to kill me immediately, I might manage (assuming I survive the environmental shock) to become useful enough to not kill. Here, wikipedia would certainly be useful, and at that point I might make enough to resolve the record-keeping aspect by virtue of getting compensated.
In this later case, besides the kindle + solar charger combo, I would bring my DSLR (and it would be a DSLR and not a Mirrorless, or other such cameras). I have a really neat variable travel lens that should be very damn useful for the military (either for a general or for scouts), and it should work with no batteries for seeing.
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That teach yourself Latin book I have but never read
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My rifle
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A box of ammo for the rifle
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