Deserted Island Scenario

[Swordfish941]

I have a little scenario for you guys: you're stuck on a island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Luckily for you, the ship of the shipwreck is near the coast, but it has taken heavy damage and cannot be sailed.

You have to tell what kind of shelter you're going to live in, what supplies you would rumage from the ship, what animals and plants are on the island, and a way to get a source of fresh water. You are allowed to have three firearms with you, but they are limited to pistols, rifles, and shotguns.

My shelter would be a hut made out of palm trees. it would be 8 feet tall and 6 feet long on each side. The roof would be a thacted roof made out of palm leaves that have been thicken with wet sand. My bed would be a small pile of palm leaves.

For my food supplies (gotten from the ship) would be two sacks of potatoes, five pounds of dried mutton, a keg of rum, seven loaves of bread, a ten pound bag of rice, and a wedge of cheese. My tools would be a hatchet, a hacksaw, and a jack knife. Other things include three large boxes of matches, a three large pots, a skillet, a tin cup, a compass, a small first aid kit, and a digital watch.This all would be on one side of the hut.

The most common animal on the island would be goats. They're a nice source of meat and they're are many uses for thier hides. There would also be small fowls that are hard to catch, but have a sweet tasting meat. Plant life would include bannanas, dates, and figs.

My source of water would be rain water. Every time it rained, I would leave the three pots out to fill up with rain water. I would then store it in the empty keg.

Now what would you're suvival plan be like?

[S&Wshooter]

Shelter: Whatever I can build using the boat and the nearby trees
Supplies: A bottomless box of food
Weapons:My Winchester 88, My 20 Gauge double barrel shotty, My 686+P (all w/ unlimited ammo and magically clean themselves)
Tools:Everything I could possibly need
Aid: A pill that made me permanently uninjurable and temporarily unkillable (until I got home)
Plant life: nothing poisoness, Pears, peaches, pineapples
Animal life: Goats, no insects (fuck spiders, I hate 'em), zombies (In a cordoned off area that they could not possibly leave)
Water source: Whatever I can purify with my Water purifier (that never goes bad)
Entertainment: A laptop with perfect Wi-fi and a hand crank generator

[Excalibur]

Anyway, I would use the ship itself as shelter. If it's a small boat, I would try to pull it closer to shore and use local palm tree leaves and branches to construct a home build around the ship itself. This ship will be my makeshift home, but I would go deeper inland and look for a cave and set up another shelter in case of storms since this is an island out in the ocean. Depending on what time of the day it is, I'd build my first shelter before night fall.

Tools would be anything I can find, including home made spears for hunting, but if i had to choose.

My tools I would have would be an E-tool http://www.uscav.com/productinfo.asp...d=9237&tabID=1 , A machete, an axe, and a K-Bar knife.

I'd find a box of water proof matches, at least one large flashlight, an oil lamp and several containers of gasoline that was for fueling the boat. Now it'll be used for other applications like lighting a fire or getting a fast smoke signal ready. Several rolls of toilet paper, several towels of various lengths. There is also boots for hiking, diving gear, rugged gloves, a vest with all sorts of pockets, and a backpack. In the medkit would be things like shots against malaria, morphine, sunlight protection cream and bandages, etc. I'd also find a raincoat.

There should be a radio I'd be trying to fix and a hand crank radio to see if I can listen in on anything.

Food from the boat would most likely be salted pork and dried beef, a sack of potatoes, and several cases of bottle water. Also some bottles of whiskey and brandy, but it is mostly for cleaning wounds than drinking myself drunk.

I'd find a first aid kit with the barest essentials that any boat would have.

Weapons, I'd have a Springfield XDM in 9mm with a surefire light attached, 2 spare magazines with a couple boxes of 100 rounds each, so that's 200 9mm hollow points. A Benelli M4 with at least 40 00-buck, 10 slugs, and a handful of bird shots also with a surefire light attachment. For a rifle, I'd have a Remington ACR, chambered in 6.8 Rem. 4 spare magazines and about 100 extra rounds plus an ACOG and a vertical grip/surefire light attachment. I would also have an weapons case where I can store my weapons I am not taking out and keep them airtight so I can keep the salty sea air from ruining them and always clean my weapons one at a time daily.

At first light, I'd start setting up traps for any wild life on the island, first with a perimeter around my base camp. I'd dig trenches around the area and start clearing out the trees surrounding my camp and bushes as much as possible to ensure if there are large predators, they would have less area to hide, the closer they approach my camp, so I'd also start making a fence compose of wooden spikes I'd fashion out of the local trees and try to make a rope alarm system.

Fresh water source would be a river within the island the empties into the ocean for easy access connect to a fresh water lake fairly close to my ship wreck so I can bath

Plant life would be coconuts, melons growing from trees, wild onions and edible mushrooms, not the kind that would send you on a drug trip.

Animal life would be wild hogs deeper inside, goats uphill and non-poisonous or large anaconda like snakes. No large spiders or poisonous spiders, various kinds of fishes and besides the wild hogs, no other large predators around. Also rabbits.

If I am lucky, there are natives on this island that I can befriend and mutually benefit with them.

I'd bring a ruggedized laptop with me and hook it up to the boat's power generator. The generator is also run by the containers of fuel I found and rationed. I'd most likely have several hundred gigabytes worth of entertainment on my laptop and also porn to stave off loneliness, unless there's that native tribe I can try to get myself a lady friend from.

All the while, I'd try to create a large SOS sign on the beach for people up high to see and smoke signals and try to keep a large bonfire as a signal and as a source of heat.

[k9870]

When I started sinking id use the (legally required) marine radio and broadcast on channel 16, which is always monitored. If sunk, the EPIRB would send my position to a sattelite. Then if that doesn't work the uscg would be out running search patterns in my last known location. I doubt id stay long.....

[Excalibur]

But you have to think fiction an worse case scenario. The most reality situation would be call in the radio and hope that you'll be found in a couple days, but this is for what would you bring if you are stranded like a cliche Castaway and what would you bring if you get to pick and of course it being fictional and less creative, you can't just say, I got a sat phone and it happens to work like it should unlike in movies where the stranded guy is left with nothing and radio's broken kind of situation.

Come on, man, be creative. I would have said I'd use the radio and broadcast right away, but let's say you are stuck in a storm and it was so bad, you got tossed around and your radio broke.

[S&Wshooter]

Can there be zombies? I'd get pretty bored shooting goats and coconuts

[AdAstra2009]

I think allowing 3 guns and no limit on ammunition is being too generous.

The constraint should be 1 gun and 400 rounds of ammunition.......
...just like Christopher McCandless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless

[k9870]

Letys just say that guy did not plan well.....

[Excalibur]

So I guess no one else wants to play Desert Island

[S&Wshooter]

I'd rather play "Stay at Home and Not Die Due To My Lack of Survival Skills"