“As you pull the trigger hoping for a quick death, you feel nothing but pain as the world goes dark. The wet crimson once inside you coats your hands as you lay there for an eternity, wishing you could pull the trigger one last time”
For a couple of the electric options, and instead of saying “the Moog is magical”, I want to believe they come with a portable solar charging panel or mat on the side, with compatible charging plug, of course.
Are the DeLorean and the Castle also options? If so, I choose those.
If not, motorcycle and spices. The spices will get me some good money to live off of, and the motorcycle can be stripped to make a rudimentary electricity generator. What I would use it for, idk, but I’d have it.
Wind or water wheel most likely, just need some kind of turbine. I’d probably toy around with ethanol based fuels to try and keep the ICE going, but I certainly wouldn’t count on it
Motorcycle + Watch. Gang, although what I would do is ride the motorcycle to the middle of nowhere, take it apart and use it to build shit. You got mirrors, battery, alternator, wheels, chain, gears, rubber… A big chunk of modern materials you can use to make life easier.
I had to scroll back up to verify what the moog was. I think I’m going to try to hang out with this guy. I won’t realize we can’t play the moog until we are hours in.
Gun with bullets, then set out to change history by shooting 4 kings or something with a bullet. Then I’ll save the last bullet as a very last resort for anything.
The rockets and the gun. I can use the rockets to prove I have useful knowledge while using the gun to prove that my stuff is mechanisms not magic (by taking it apart). I’ll then set about teaching them how to make gunpowder (charcoal, sulphur, saltpeter) and once I’m truly established we can move on to basic firearms.
You might want to work on making quality steel first. Gunpowder will be on its way from China already, so the time will be better spent on some critical materials.
Since you will need funding for other major projects, like smokeless powder, you might be better served by outfitting a few armies with better armor and swords first. (Take advantage of incremental science improvements, basically.)
Even with your vast experience with magic technologies, it’s still going to take a fortune to develop the basics. A small research center is going to cost you at least a few hundred cows, a couple thousand chickens, and a few dozen horses, after all.
(You will need steel for mining operations to get enough raw materials to do anything, actually.)
I guess it depends where and when you are in the medieval era. In some places even knowing that steels properties are largely determined by its carbon content and not some other component of the regional addatives would be a valuble insight. In other places they already have metalurgy developed enough for spring steel so even with a degree it might be hard to implement improvements with the other technology available.
Can I just do the spices 2x? They seem the most useful without getting myself killed for magic or just stabbed in a mugging for having something too advanced.
I just want some spices to make my food not bland, and maybe making some dollars in the process. Not trying to get killed over my possessions. Spices, I'm sure, went for a good price but less likely to get murdered for selling some as opposed to using a motorbike, or laser pointer.
The dab pen is tempting, but with my layman's current knowledge, I should be able to work growing out. More concerned about all the infections and what not my body has no defense for. I'll take 2 vials of antibiotics over any of the other options. Or do a spice rack and a medicinal herb book.
Why does the motorcycle have to be gas? Much easier to generate an electric charge than it is to have a worthless gas engine especially since a Smith can likely help craft a rudimentary electric motor that will work with any of the windmills.
This is one of the reasons why I can’t agree with my dad saying he would rather have a gas car when society collapses. How the fuck are you going to make gasoline once the existing stock gets gooped up. It will be instantly hoarded by bandits anyway. Electricity you can make fairly easily and parts to make generators out of various motion sources are probably a good thing to keep in case of long term emergencies. Electricity is good for more than vehicles too.
Yeah I’m with you on that, but it’s kinda sad that in modern world in most countries there are little to none of fast charging stations, ev adoption would be tremendous if there were
The synth and the LSD. I'll dilute the LSD in water, give it to a while crowd and jam on the synth, becoming the either a music legend, a messiah, or both
Spices - You can become wealthy as HELL, and your modern day clothes can easily make you seem like some foreign merchant, so can get you people interested. You DO need to sell those spices fast, however, else you WILL get robbed
Motorcycle - As others have said, you can get it to run on grain alcohol once out of gas, but that's not the real prize with it. The real prize is using your new found wealth to get smiths to make more engines, using that as a blueprint, and essentially kick starting the industrial revolution. Mind, this IS going to be used for war, so prepare to become a war mongul