Poll: You now have your own Death Note...

[TheGuiggleMonster]

You're walking home by yourself on a quiet afternoon and there is no one around when a book falls from the sky onto a hedge near you taking no damage. The sky is completely blue and there are no aeroplanes/helicopters in sight. You pick up the book and and it says "Death Note" on the front. It is full of blank lined paper. There are rules on the underneath of the cover saying that you can right someone's name in while thinking of their face and the specifics about their death among many detailed rules as to how they can die and what consequences can happen from their death. At this point you have no idea about whether or not these rules are true or if this book can kill people but it actually can. It has enough blank paper for you to write several thousand names.

What do you do after arriving at home with your book? Do you test it? Who on? What do you do after finding out that it works?

 

[Gunner_Guardian]

I'd hide it and keep it for a rainy day.

Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

 

[DocBalance]

Test it on Qadaffi. If it works, assassinate every world leader ever and take over in the chaos by killing all possible opponents in hilarious clown-related accidents. Then write in it that I will rule happily for 70 years before dying of a disease known only as "awesomeitis", in which the victim simply contains too much concentrated greatness for this world to contain him any longer.

Yeah. I think that about sums it up.

 

[cairocat]

Take over everything. Ever. If you really want I can email you the elaborate as hell what-if document I have in my laptop on what I'd do in this exact scenario.

 

[Palademon]

I have a replica Death Note.
I'd probably be tempted to test it out, then became a more useless version of Light, then getting caught and going more insane than he did.

 

[cairocat]

Test it on Qadaffi. If it works, assassinate every world leader ever and take over in the chaos by killing all possible opponents in hilarious clown-related accidents. Then write in it that I will rule happily for 70 years before dying of a disease known only as "awesomeitis", in which the victim simply contains too much concentrated greatness for this world to contain him any longer.

Yeah. I think that about sums it up.

Death Notes don't work on owners of other Death Notes, this includes Shinigami and, I believe, yourself.

 

[ShatterPalm]

I'd test it out on Sarah Palin. And glen beck. and O'Reily.

 

[TheGuiggleMonster]

Test it on Qadaffi. If it works, assassinate every world leader ever and take over in the chaos by killing all possible opponents in hilarious clown-related accidents. Then write in it that I will rule happily for 70 years before dying of a disease known only as "awesomeitis", in which the victim simply contains too much concentrated greatness for this world to contain him any longer.

Yeah. I think that about sums it up.

I'm pretty sure there's a rule saying that the time from when you right their name in the Death Note to them dying can be from 40 seconds to 2 weeks. I'm also pretty sure that you can't use it to kill yourself.

 

[TheGuiggleMonster]

Take over everything. Ever. If you really want I can email you the elaborate as hell what-if document I have in my laptop on what I'd do in this exact scenario.

okay then guiggle@hotmail.co.uk

 

[Dango]

Well if I'm not mistaken, according to the rules of Death Note, a human who finds one must use it at least once before relinquishing it, so I would kill someone already sentenced to death, then relinquish it.

 

[Gigano]

Wonder how on earth a piece of merchandise from a well known anime could drop out of the sky like that?

...Then write down the name of a criminal already scheduled for execution specifying a later date, and see whether the execution is postponed until then. If yes, keep it around just in case.

 

[DocBalance]

Death Notes don't work on owners of other Death Notes, this includes Shinigami and, I believe, yourself.

If you haven't seen the last episode and intend to at any point in the near future, don't read the spoiler'd information below.

Spoiler

Ryuk used a Death Note to kill Light at the end of the series. Technically, L was also a Death Note Owner but he was killed by Death Note as well. You just have to have the real name of the person, and their face.

That answers the above statement, though.

I'm pretty sure there's a rule saying that the time from when you right their name in the Death Note to them dying can be from 40 seconds to 2 weeks. I'm also pretty sure that you can't use it to kill yourself.

Again, spoiler'd, read at risk of knowing major plot information.

Spoiler

That was a rule Light made up before his incarceration so that it would prove his innocence. It was completely fake/planted in the book, and later debunked by an unknown Shinigami that lost his Death Note to Ryuk.

 

[Napierdalac]

Where's the "Use it for shit and giggles" option ?

I know a special type of people on the freeway that i would use it on....

 

[cairocat]

Take over everything. Ever. If you really want I can email you the elaborate as hell what-if document I have in my laptop on what I'd do in this exact scenario.

okay then guiggle@hotmail.co.uk

lol ok... *goes to post email address on /b/*

(not really, I'm not an ass)

 

[Wintermoot]

first ponder if I should use this power without it corrupting me (the power to kill anyone I know is pretty dangerous in anyones hands)
I would probably use it to clean up the world (get rid of criminals in a similar way as Light)
I would destroy it if I would turn into a megalomaniac

 

[Zorg Machine]

Oh hell yeah! I will rule this puny world!

or not...it sounds like a lot of work...

What I will do is kill a few people and have them write stuff on the walls. something along the lines of, "the next victim will be (insert name of next victim). the world will be purified in fire and the chosen ones will rise in it's wake"...or something similarly sinister.
I will hint that doomsday is getting closer and closer until finally, I will have someone write, "lol, had you going for a second" acompanied by a giant troll face.

 

[cairocat]

Death Notes don't work on owners of other Death Notes, this includes Shinigami and, I believe, yourself.

If you haven't seen the last episode and intend to at any point in the near future, don't read the spoiler'd information below.

Spoiler

Ryuk used a Death Note to kill Light at the end of the series. Technically, L was also a Death Note Owner but he was killed by Death Note as well. You just have to have the real name of the person, and their face.

That answers the above statement, though.

oh god ok it shows the spoiler when i click quote so i have to write this looking away because i dont want to risk snipping. anyway i hope you can at least tell me if im right or wrong as I am yet to complete the series but i want to know.

 

[Zechnophobe]

Take over everything. Ever. If you really want I can email you the elaborate as hell what-if document I have in my laptop on what I'd do in this exact scenario.

okay then ****

For the love of... remove that e-mail address, are you really that interested in getting trolled? What, are you, like 10?

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

The chance to kill anyone I want without a chance of getting caught and all I have to do is think of their face and write down a name? Damn, I'm honourablen but that is way to tempting. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't kill EVERYBODY but the phone book would get a WHOLE lot smaller.