/cyoa/ - Choose your own adventure

>>203

But rolling is enabled :^(

>>160

why aren't there more cyoa of this style? this one is special too.

>>1389

You only get one box of twinkies.

>>169

The weapons are both expensive and overkill. The fact is that a crowbar is enough to kill a zombie and the most effective equipment in preventing zombie mortalities is not limited ammo ranged weapons that make incredible noise, require training to use properly, and do nothing to save you if a zombie manages to sneak up on you (which they can somehow do in most zombie media). The most important gear in zombie-hunting is armor. This means we want the rooftop house or the shopping mall, because both are nearby sporting goods stores where we can stock up on hockey and football pads. Since the main threat posed by zombies is getting hemmed in by a horde, the shopping mall may actually be safer in that it presents a multitude of exits. One way in means one way out and zombie numbers will very likely outlast both ammo and my ability to physically hack through zombies. Even in properly bite-proofed armor, if I've fallen to the ground in exhaustion with zombies swarming over me they will eventually find some exposed skin.

For our vehicle we want the humvee or nothing at all. Noise is only worthwhile if it comes with armor, carrying capacity, and a guarantee of longterm use.

So with the humvee, crowbar, and shopping mall I can either go with the twins, take laptop because web access, even if unreliable, is going to be key to learning longterm survival skills before food runs out, and then nightvision goggles because fuck, I may as well put those last two points somewhere. Going with the scout to maximize survival odds, still want the laptop in case we encounter a survival situation the scout can't train me on, but with spare points we should definitely take the first aid kit. Sink remaining three points into binoculars and night vision.

I think I'd go with the twins build of twins/humvee/laptop/night vision, just because at least that way I actually get something out of the whole apocalypse mess. In any case, the binoculars and first aid kit can probably be scavenged.

>>169

Picking powers: C. C easily. While A comes with a neat power, it also comes with an ethically unsound means of maintenance. B doesn't seem to have a single really good selling point on it. Incredible physical power is great, but compared to what's being offered by the others it's nothing. Even if we assume Terminator-like comes with being conditionally immortal (like the other two), grants immunity to disease, and incredible resilience (which is not explicitly stated but which are reasonable extrapolations of Terminator-like), it's still inferior to C.

With C, you're going to have to be careful with your buds because #1 they have no ID, no birth certificate, etc. etc., #2 they aren't drones so you can't use them as Zerglings, and #3 their DNA is completely identical to yours (with the exception of a trivially small number of mutations) so if your DNA ever ends up in the system, you will take the rap for anything your buds do. Likewise if your buds' DNA ever ends up in the system, people will notice even if they can't attach them to a name.

Even so, you can create buds whose lives are dedicated to finding out how to fabricate new identities, and once these bold pioneers have locked that down your future buds will have fake birth certificates and photo IDs and you will have both an extended lifespan (I won't call it immortality because odds are excellent that sooner or later you will fail to live to 71) and a greater legacy than any human being has ever had. A clone family.

I am nervous about navigating the ethical quandaries of creating an intentionally dim servant class to serve a smarter aristocratic class of buds. And there's the possibility that these smarter buds will kill me out of envy because I get to live forever while they only get about thirty years. Tricky questions to answer, but the possibilities intrigue me in a way B does not, and while ethical quandaries abound, it still seems like safer waters than A.

>>169

Now let's look at the six gifts.

>A Killer's Aim

Why would I want this?

>A Lion's Heart

So I'm instantly singled out as something bizarre and supernatural and also cursed with headstrong recklessness, while my only powers are principally focused around melee combat. How about no.

>A Hawk's Feather

Now we're getting somewhere. Flight would be goddamn fun and being able to think faster and more cleverly than before is a solid advantage. But we can do better.

>A Dark God's Gift

Yipe. There's some pretty severe drawbacks to this. But necromancy presumably means skeleton minions which means I am the drone revolution. But there's a million ways that could go wrong on its own.

>A Magi's Spark

Serious powers here. It suffers a lot from vagueness, though. Is metal part of earth? Are we talking about a legit four elements thing where any substance can be created from some combination of these four things because magic? With sufficient study could I conjure laptops? It's unclear. Even on their own, earth shaping is useful for architecture and wind and water shaping together can almost certainly be used for weather control. Still, we're looking at fringe benefits until we get to…

>A Seeker's Curiosity

Hot damn now we're getting somewhere. Teleportation is the most useful power we've seen yet and that's in addition to divination and precognition. Even completely ignoring the potentially dangerous intuition power, even limited ability to predict the future can be incredibly useful. Seeker's Curiosity wins.

>>169

Rolling

nutrient paste

Centrum 2 looks free

med checkups -4creds

pool -2creds

gene upgrade -10creds

indigo loli -15creds

youth -10creds

smart -10creds

virtuoso -10creds

hyperbolic chamber -10creds

super sperger testing +10creds

US$1Billion +20creds

Time warp -50creds

+41 years +61.5creds

>>173

let me get that Green Behemoth of Worshipful Sagacity.

>>169

Holy shit, that Bearmode 5