If you are "erased" it means that all your accounts everywhere (including your bank account) are wiped and inaccessible, your phone number leads nowhere, and all your friends, family, coworkers,etc. don't recognize you. What would you do?
What would you do if you were "erased"
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Except for the "family won't recognize you" bit I'd be thrilled because it would eliminate all of my debts! Woo hoo!
But then I'd have to worry about the GOP trying to deport me as an illegal alien even though I'm a W.A.S.P.--White Anglo Saxon Pagan.[footnote]With some Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek tossed in for good measure.[/footnote]
But then I'd have to worry about the GOP trying to deport me as an illegal alien even though I'm a W.A.S.P.--White Anglo Saxon Pagan.[footnote]With some Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek tossed in for good measure.[/footnote]
Yes debt is erased, all though it'll be a rough start since the only money you have now is in your wallet and you have no friends or family anymore (unless you befriend them again).Wenseph said:
I'm assuming this means that my identity and social are all gone to then? Well there goes being a military officer....
At that point it would seem the only legitimate option left for me would be the French Foreign Legion or some kind of mercenary outfit. A man can make a good life if he knows how to use a gun.
At that point it would seem the only legitimate option left for me would be the French Foreign Legion or some kind of mercenary outfit. A man can make a good life if he knows how to use a gun.
I wonder how many people's mind's immediately jumped to "become an assassin."
What with the whole no family ties or anything to hold you back or be a liability, and you're completely off the grid.
As for me... I guess help Arnold Schwarzenegger track down a shipment of portable railguns.
What with the whole no family ties or anything to hold you back or be a liability, and you're completely off the grid.
As for me... I guess help Arnold Schwarzenegger track down a shipment of portable railguns.
As cool as it sounds at first, in my case it would be rather awful the more I think about it. I wouldn't have much money, would not have easy access to a car, no where to go, I would probably end up in a homeless shelter trying to find some work to survive.
Now if by doing this we get a small fortune to build our own new lives the way we want to, then that is another story.
Now if by doing this we get a small fortune to build our own new lives the way we want to, then that is another story.
I would try to reconnect with some of my friends, or family. Would my kids or grand kids exist? If they would, I might watch them from a distance, and try to help them along a bit through life (kind of like what they portray old criminals doing to try to still be a part of their family). However, if I woke up and found my family wasn't in existence I would be very mad, and very sad at the same time. If I can have a target to go after, be it a power or an organization that caused my erasing I would try my hardest to either reverse the effect, or at least avenge what happened.
In the end, I figure that I will just continue on after that. Try to live on and find a new goal. If there literally is nothing to lose, then there is nothing that can really be used against me.
In the end, I figure that I will just continue on after that. Try to live on and find a new goal. If there literally is nothing to lose, then there is nothing that can really be used against me.
With no money, and presumably nothing to my name, starting life over as though I were a baby (only without parents to support me while I got a grasp on the world and I'm now an adult without the help of friends), I would probably just kill myself. What you're describing is basically life on hard mode, and I can barely make it through normal. In that instance, the only other option would be to find some minimum wage job to keep afloat, but buying things like cars and homes would be difficult ("Mr. Spanishax, we can't seem to find any records of your existence anywhere!"), so... yeah. Suicide all the way.
Now, if I had some sizable sum of money, and a place I could call home, but absolutely no recorded attachments to either, well... that's a different story.
Gun; cowboy hat; cigar; trench coat; makin' my own laws; swearin' allegiance to nobody. 'Cause I am... Off the Grid.
COMING THIS SUMMER! *Explosion*
Now, if I had some sizable sum of money, and a place I could call home, but absolutely no recorded attachments to either, well... that's a different story.
Gun; cowboy hat; cigar; trench coat; makin' my own laws; swearin' allegiance to nobody. 'Cause I am... Off the Grid.
COMING THIS SUMMER! *Explosion*
Take what I needed from "home", re-befriend the people I really liked, stab a couple of people I didn't like, maybe go innawoods. I would make a new identity for myself, too. I would just call myself "Red Line Wanderer" and backpack somewhere I could start a better life. It would be like starting a new save in a game you had already played a little.
Go home and show some chat logs to the people I like to prove I was actually a thing and that they liked me enough to tolerate me.
Fuck some government types' brains as they try desperately to figure out why they have no record of me at all while grinning like an asshole at their distress at not having control of every facet of everyone's lives afterall.
Strike a case for why they should help me start my life anew, maybe appear on the newspapers or something. Work hard at whatever thing they landed me in, build fame and fortune.
Use newly acquired fame and fortune to make the world a better place.
Fuck some government types' brains as they try desperately to figure out why they have no record of me at all while grinning like an asshole at their distress at not having control of every facet of everyone's lives afterall.
Strike a case for why they should help me start my life anew, maybe appear on the newspapers or something. Work hard at whatever thing they landed me in, build fame and fortune.
Use newly acquired fame and fortune to make the world a better place.
My first initial thought was panic. I'm very good at panic.
But then I read some of everyone else's responses and I realized it doesn't have to mean the end.
So I'd probably just bounce back. Because a second chance is good, I figure.
But then I read some of everyone else's responses and I realized it doesn't have to mean the end.
So I'd probably just bounce back. Because a second chance is good, I figure.
It depends on how thorough the erasing has been. It'd be pretty hard for my parents to explain away the contents of my bedroom, or my workplace and university to explain the vacant positions that have been filled by no-one and yet magically generating work/marks. Or people who don't remember me having photos of me. In this case, I think it'd be pretty easy to re-establish basically the exact same life.
Otherwise, probably wander around and die of exhaustion/thirst or come to the attention of authorities, who would assumedly set me up with basic paperwork and whatever, but be unable to explain how I exist.
In a magical scenario where I don't lose my fucking mind, I use my spare keys, take the handgun from the safe in my house and ammunition (this is Australia), and a mobile phone, and a supply of batteries (basically rob my own house, assume I get all the essentials) and try to get in with some sort of organised crime. The police wouldn't have anything to go on.
Otherwise, probably wander around and die of exhaustion/thirst or come to the attention of authorities, who would assumedly set me up with basic paperwork and whatever, but be unable to explain how I exist.
In a magical scenario where I don't lose my fucking mind, I use my spare keys, take the handgun from the safe in my house and ammunition (this is Australia), and a mobile phone, and a supply of batteries (basically rob my own house, assume I get all the essentials) and try to get in with some sort of organised crime. The police wouldn't have anything to go on.
Steal and steal some more. Then with all my burglary money I'd go to bar and drink myself to death.