I’m including !hypotheticalsituations in a game I play with myself sometimes. The bolded parameters were all assigned using a random number generator.
Don’t worry about how you were convinced of it, but you know for certain that you will be transported to 17 August 1888 in exactly one week from right now. This is a one-way trip.
Luckily, you will be able to bring some things with you. You will be able to bring back 2 m3/72 ft3 worth of stuff. For reference, that’s about what can be stored in the bed of a standard pickup without going over the bedrails. Let’s say that you’ve been provided the appropriate number of steamer trunks to fill.
What are you going to do for the next week, what are you bringing back with you, and what will you do once you arrive?
You may bring people/pets back with you, but you must subtract their approximate dimensions from your baggage allotment. You will arrive in 1888 in the same geographic location that you’re in next week.
Hey, returning to this thread to post this amazing author I just found, who’s definitely going in my truck bed for any period before 1900 or so (and definitely before 1800): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery
It’s cool someone made these exact books I was thinking about writing some day. Well, not exact, it sounds like he’s assuming some basic tools and available scraps, while I want to be able to go from sticks and stones. Anyway, if you have to rebuild technology this would be very helpful.