What would you do if you were the last person on earth?

[Kyriakos]

I am currently continuing a story on this theme. It is not exactly post-apocalyptic though, since it is argued even inside of it that it may all be a vast dream, during a comatose state, or something similar to that.

It takes place in an empty Thessaloniki, and the main character (myself) is spending most of his time breaking into apartments to collect food, and then has also a quest inside one apartment in one of the most prestigious parts of town.

Although electricity was supposed to have been killed off, there is a sole electric light operating in a room. There something happens, and now the main character has to spend time away from the light.

But the thread is supposed to be a more general question. What would you do if you were the last person alive in your area? No internet, no media of communication, you can only travel to where your own feet get you.

In the story it is argued that when one has only some weeks of life (until the food supply runs out, OR something else happens) he can focus more easily on the important questions of his left-over existence. The story is about deciphering life as a dream, whether one is in a dream, or not.

 

[Dachs]

1. Cry
2. Masturbate

 

[Murky]

There would be no way to know that you were the last one.

 

[bathsheba666]

nevermind

 

[Kyriakos]

There would be no way to know that you were the last one.

True, but for all intents it would be like you were indeed the last one.

Of course you could harbor the hope you are not, so i suppose in that case you would set out to find others?

In my own story the character does not try to do that at all. He is mostly horrified, but not of the prospect of dieing alone. He is afraid that he is dreaming, and there is no way out of the dream.

 

[Mise]

I would break my glasses.

 

[Murky]

If I thought I was the last one, I would make a time capsule that could last until the Sun went Super Nova. The hope being that the next intelligent race on the planet would find it and learn about us.

 

[Kyriakos]

If I thought I was the last one, I would make a time capsule that could last until the Sun went Super Nova. The hope being that the next intelligence race on the planet would find it and learn about us.

Very noble

 

[GoodGame]

1. Cry
2. Masturbate Save Myself

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Play video games until the power runs out. Then, just randomly explore buildings for neat stuff.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some more background on what is going on in my version of the end of the world:

-There is a dark creature seen far away.

-The narrator wants to believe the creature is in his imagination.

-The narrator wants to think the creature is not symbolic though, since he suffers from a series of lucid dreams, and he wants to distance himself from anything revealing to him his state. He is horrified at the prospect of being in a dream, but many things seem to show that he is indeed in one (not least the fact that he is alone in the vast city)

-A symbolic dark being can be an image of the narrator, who is surrounded by darkness, both physically, but also mentally, due to his possible repression of the memory that he is dreaming, and of life before he was found on his own.

 

[warpus]

1. Locate a supply of fresh water, canned food, medicine, and vitamin/mineral supplements.
2. Try to get my hands on some sort of a weapon so that I can defend myself against animals
3. Try to get a power generator working somehow.. I would try to figure out how to get electricity.
4. Locate a source of pornography. I will need to destress from time to time.
5. Raid a beer store, hopefully use a fridge to keep it cold.
6. Take the time to beat Skyrim, if a source of electricity was found.
7. If no electricity, I would read a lot and go for joyrides in abandoned vehicles.

 

[Kyriakos]

Play video games until the power runs out. Then, just randomly explore buildings for neat stuff.

The power has already run out. There is no electricity to be found anywhere. You survive from breaking into houses and eating what you can find, and have light from matches.

 

[Crezth]

I'd read every book without breaking my glasses.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The power has already run out.

Someone blew up the power plants? In any case, there are portable generators, you know. Unless fuel suddenly magically disappeared too.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

No internet, no media of communication, you can only travel to where your own feet get you.

So it's not just that everyone has vanished, but that cars/electronic devices are not allowed to work anymore? What is the point of such an hypothetical (besides fitting the narrative of your story so you can shamelessly promote it under the disguise of a general hypothetical I mean ).
Anyway I would
Cry,
destroy stuff and scream to release my emotional distress,
get a dog,
see the magical vanishing of everyone else as well as the magical dysfunctionality of all the electronic devices as a sign that there might be an magical afterlife after all, which would hopefully shield considerable comfort. Strengthened by this prospect, I would try to make an adventure of the rest of this life and I think I would be able ot do so pretty decently. You know, build a HQ, explore the world, break into every house remotely interesting (it would be pretty cool to explore all those different homes and compare them), read books in between. Maybe I at some point would try to have sex with an animal.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I would find my portable CD player & headphones, raid the stores for batteries, and listen to music and dance until I died from exhaustion.

 

[Kyriakos]

So it's not just that everyone has vanished, but that cars/electronic devices are not allowed to work anymore? What is the point of such an hypothetical (besides fitting the narrative of your story so you can shamelessly promote it under the disguise of a general hypothetical I mean ).
Anyway I would
Cry,
destroy stuff and scream to release my emotional distress,
get a dog,
see the magical vanishing of everyone else as well as the magical dysfunctionality of all the electronic devices as a sign that there might be an magical afterlife after all, which would hopefully shield considerable comfort. Strengthened by this prospect, I would try to make an adventure of the rest of this life and I think I would be able ot do so pretty decently. You know, build a HQ, explore the world, break into every house remotely interesting (it would be pretty cool to explore all those different homes and compare them), read books in between. Maybe I at some point would try to have sex with an animal.

You are partly correct, but you should not blame me for wanting to share the story. Promoting it is rather a jest on your part i guess, since anyway it won't be available in english even if a) it survives, and b) it becomes printed in some form here.

But come to think of it i should have rephrased the hypothetical. It would bring things closer to my own preoccupation with writing it. So you can reflect on this:

If you were found to be seemingly the last person alive, everyone else has vanished, in the big city/town/area you live in, and you had reason to believe it was so strange that it probably was a dream/nightmare, what do you think you would be encountering in that (possibly being a ) dream?

Of course if people want to they can answer the question in the OP instead

edit: if you want to take into consideration the large timeline of the dream. Of course it can still be a dream, just a very big one, but then again it might also be something else.

 

[ArneHD]

At this time of year? Probably find some place warmer to stay.

After that, I don't know. Your options are limited without a society to back you up.

 

[kochman]

I am currently continuing a story on this theme. It is not exactly post-apocalyptic though, since it is argued even inside of it that it may all be a vast dream, during a comatose state, or something similar to that.

It takes place in an empty Thessaloniki, and the main character (myself) is spending most of his time breaking into apartments to collect food, and then has also a quest inside one apartment in one of the most prestigious parts of town.

Although electricity was supposed to have been killed off, there is a sole electric light operating in a room. There something happens, and now the main character has to spend time away from the light.

But the thread is supposed to be a more general question. What would you do if you were the last person alive in your area? No internet, no media of communication, you can only travel to where your own feet get you.

In the story it is argued that when one has only some weeks of life (until the food supply runs out, OR something else happens) he can focus more easily on the important questions of his left-over existence. The story is about deciphering life as a dream, whether one is in a dream, or not.

Like... ALL alone? Or, "I Am Legend" last person?

1. Cry
2. Masturbate

1. Cry
2. Masturbate
3. Cry at the realization I will only be able to masturbate from here on in...

There would be no way to know that you were the last one.

Assuming you didn't know, which you possibly could know... then I believe I would add 4 to the list...
4. Search for other people
This would of course take a backseat to 2.