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GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
#1: Mar 20th 2011 at 2:31:32 PM

Basically, we are stuck in the desert and are trying to survive, we each have a few supplies and are trying to make it to a city.

In the Kit:

1 Canteen Of Water

1 Combat Knife

1 set of cloths

5 feet of rope

1 box of matches


I guess I will start, remember we are all normal people, no superpowers.


-A group of survivors are lost in the desert after the plane crash into the desert, they know that the nearest city is 500 miles away, but the have to make there way there on foot-

Randy - Great, just great, I am going home to see my kids, and the damn plane falls out of the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkI1sTDoEg
abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#2: Jun 15th 2011 at 10:42:21 PM

This... is dreadful.

Now using Trivialis handle.
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#3: Jun 15th 2011 at 10:43:24 PM

Fuck.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
Strelok Marked One from The Zone Since: Mar, 2011
Marked One
#4: Jun 17th 2011 at 6:50:14 AM

Deja vu! I feel this has happened to me before! So, we should salvage the plane for supplies. How far is it?

Chernobyl is now a tourist attraction. great. [1]
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#5: Jun 17th 2011 at 8:55:31 AM

Well, luckily, I managed to chance upon this old smartphone in my pocket! We are... 5400km from the nearest human settlement.

edited 17th Jun '11 8:56:16 AM by Inhopelessguy

Quantumawsome Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#6: Jun 17th 2011 at 1:44:53 PM

That's a lot. We need a shelter for the day, it's too hot to travel.

MilosStefanovic Decemberist from White City, Ruritania Since: Oct, 2010
Decemberist
#7: Jun 17th 2011 at 1:57:18 PM

Do not take off your clothes, no matter how hot it is! In case your clothes don't cover the whole skin, try to salvage the plane for clothes that do. If it means robbing the dead, better go with it than join them.

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
MrNekomata You are already dead... Since: Nov, 2010
You are already dead...
#8: Jun 17th 2011 at 1:58:35 PM

Too late to start making sandcastles?

L-l-look at you, hacker. A p-p-pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you r-run through my corridors-s. H-h-how can you
MilosStefanovic Decemberist from White City, Ruritania Since: Oct, 2010
Decemberist
#9: Jun 17th 2011 at 2:02:40 PM

<puts the knife in front of Nekomata's face> LISTEN, WE DON'T NEED ANY SMART-ASSED FOOLS AROUND HERE! SHUT UP AND LET US SANE FOLK TRY TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT, OR I WILL MAKE YOU EAT THAT LONG TONGUE OF YOURS! GOT IT?

edited 17th Jun '11 2:02:59 PM by MilosStefanovic

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#10: Jun 17th 2011 at 2:13:29 PM

[up] Dude! Don't kill him yet! He may have some background knowledge that may be handy!

I suggest we attempt to... for crying out loud! It's 40 Celsius out here!

Okay. Team. We need to... we have 1.5 metres of rope. Why do we have rope? We need to take out all the electronics from the craft. Then, using the knowledge I gained in Design and Technology at school, we manage to make a super transmitter. Nothing can go wrong... oh, great. The phone I conveniently found is out of battery.

Anyone got ideas?

MilosStefanovic Decemberist from White City, Ruritania Since: Oct, 2010
Decemberist
#11: Jun 17th 2011 at 2:22:57 PM

Ehhhh... got any potatoes?

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#12: Jun 17th 2011 at 4:02:28 PM

I have cake and a GPS reciever. Any of those good?

Quantumawsome Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#13: Jun 17th 2011 at 4:56:23 PM

Someone take the knife away from that guy. No murder.

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#14: Jun 17th 2011 at 5:09:04 PM

We need rationality here. We are some considerable thousand km away from a human settlement. We can't eat each other. Our plane has crashed, but it has a vending machine onboard in the cargo bay. We won't last long on M&Ms and Wotsits crisps.

I got it!

We can use the radio on the plane to send out a distress call! There must be people looking for us.

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#15: Jun 17th 2011 at 5:15:11 PM

Who says we can't eat each other?

I know what you're planning to do.

You're going to eat us IN OUR SLEEP.

WE HAVE TO EAT YOU FIRST

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#16: Jun 17th 2011 at 5:22:05 PM

Now, now. DO NOT EAT ME! This heat is making us insane. Look! Cacti! We can get water!

We need some string and a plastic carrier bag. <grabs above poster's shoelace>. Okay, now we just wait for about... 500ml of water to coalesce into this bag in about an hour.

Dude, look! A scorpion! We can roast it and share it between us.

Quantumawsome Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#17: Jun 17th 2011 at 5:22:24 PM

Where were we flying to? Maybe we could find out where to go?

Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#18: Jun 17th 2011 at 5:27:44 PM

Let's see... we left Amsterdam about a few hours ago... we're headed to Shanghai for some reason. Which leaves us right in Northern Sahara, only a few...

HOLY SHIT WE'RE-IN-LIBYA-OHMYGAWD-OHGAWD-WE'RE-GONNA-DIE!

But in any case, we can't walk to Shanghai.

edited 17th Jun '11 5:28:29 PM by Inhopelessguy

abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#19: Jun 17th 2011 at 11:57:16 PM

What can we do with these matches?

Now using Trivialis handle.
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#20: Jun 18th 2011 at 2:54:52 AM

We could always burn ourselves to death before those armed troops get here!

Hey, wait, are those the rebels?

MilosStefanovic Decemberist from White City, Ruritania Since: Oct, 2010
Decemberist
#21: Jun 18th 2011 at 2:58:25 AM

You mean the bandits and criminals with good publicity? Run.

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#22: Jun 18th 2011 at 3:00:10 AM

Yes, okay. But the nearest town is north-west from here, and your pointing the opposite direction. But we can't go...

Oh shit. We're surrounded.

MilosStefanovic Decemberist from White City, Ruritania Since: Oct, 2010
Decemberist
#23: Jun 18th 2011 at 3:02:36 AM

Don't pretend to be heroes. Just raise your hands and wait for them to come.

Hey, what is an army doing 5400 kilometres from the nearest settlement? It's a mirage! We're saved!

edited 18th Jun '11 3:03:57 AM by MilosStefanovic

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#24: Jun 18th 2011 at 3:13:32 AM

5400km? That was supposed to be decametres. We're actually 540km from the nearest human settle...men..t..

<nervous laugh>

My GPS got screwed up in the crash.

So... they're a mirage? That's brilliant! Hey look! Water! Water! Oh, wait that's a mirage.

DAMN YE CONVECTION CURRENTS!

Wait... we have about 10l of water in the craft, and I got about 500ml in this carrier bag that evaporated from a cactus.

edited 18th Jun '11 3:14:30 AM by Inhopelessguy

abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#25: Jun 18th 2011 at 11:56:15 PM

Do you know how to properly filter water?

Now using Trivialis handle.

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