Real life Adventurers and Quests

What real life adventures and quests has Veeky Forums taken? Any adventurers in our midsts?

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Used to get into fights for shits and giggles until one guy came at me with a broken bottle.
Sliced up my hand and nearly took out my right eye.

Stopped doing that shit after that.

I once ventured outdoors , unaided, in search of tendies!

Sounds interesting. Tell us more about it.

Explored San Salvador Island for a college ecology class.

Went to Iraq to die.

Didn't. Backpacked across Europe, then backpacked across the US.

Now I'm stuck on what to do next.

backpack across asia?

I was lost in Eastern Hungary once.

I like to explore old ruins and abandoned houses. Used to also do metal detecting in old WW1&2 battlefields to search relics and even found some legitimately cool things like helmets and even a german bayonet.

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live in a part of the uk with lots of castles, ruins, forests, etc. i dress in a medieval looking tunic (swanndri bush shirt) and walk around innawoods and in tunnels, light my way with a torch(obviously have a "flashlight" in my bag) and have a torch in one hand and an axe in the other, roleplaying IRL is pretty fun

You just walk around with a knife? In the UK?

Someone explain that picture, please.

Cloak, Clasp, Cord, Ceramics and Cunt

Did you expect to be killed in Iraq?
Why did you want to die?
Were you in the military?

If you really wanted to die, you could have endangered yourself anywhere. Why Iraq?

Volunteered in rural Costa Rica for a year between high school and college. It was rough experience. I'm glad I did it, but I'd never do it again.

Bumping so it won't die in the night

Dropped out of college. Found a job. Terrified of losing the job because of no degree.

There was a French user recently who explores Paris catacombs. He's PC in the making.

I'm buying hidden stashes of drugs - sometimes it is a fucking ordeal to get the stuff, with digging in pars and shit.

All sorts..
Explored a cave full of bats behind a village in SE. China.
Worked on a squid boat when I was broke in Thailand a while back.
Disguised myself as an employee of a catering company last week to get into a fancy networking event with an ex-mayor and some pretty fancy people.
Sang the national anthem of China on TV there after a wacky misunderstanding.
Backpacked the whole Pacific Crest Trail after college.

Some people might look at my life and say that I haven't made much of myself, but I really do look at life as a means to pursue adventuring. My PCs wonder where I come up with a lot of stuff, but it's all ripped from history books and my own travels.

Currently on a working holiday in straya. Spent the last six months hauling tree branches around Sydney. Even had a random encounter one night when a meth head attacked us and threw a traffic cone at my supervisor's head

how does this work? who do you buy from? i don't get it.

Ah, meth addicts, the kobolds of IRL.

I did explore Lyon's catacombs once. Also I love exploring old ruins and cas5les in the countryside. Some urbex too.

went on a truck to Italy, knew almost no one there
slept on the streets
climbed a mount in my home town alone
explored decrepit buildings, once almost fell to my death
fell in Love, the greatest adventure of all
did 7 drugs in one night, survived

I went to China in order to complete my initiation as the chosen Dragon Warrior. Now I am 9000% stronger than ever before.

Kya!

My supervisor one-shot him with a right cross.

Sadly I was stacking logs in a truck as it went down so I didn't get any XP.

I'm living in a whole fucking campaign setting.
> Once a prosperous and glorious city now half-besieged by pretty much nazis and occupied by pretty much commies
> A few other towns and one major city in the same situation, sounds of near-by battles every night when either side doesn't feel like sticking to the treaty
> Going to the west may result in dying on a minefield, joining one of the armies, or getting arrested by !nazis.
> Going to the south you will get to resorts where you may have beach scenes, exploration of the setting's wildlife, nay also join a crew and go fishing on a ship
> Going to the north, you will get to yet aonther wartorn city, except less hi-tech looking and more industrial.
> Going to the west, you may travel in the fields and woods, a lot of exploration. May also take a shortcut and cross the border to have another travelling campaign.

Anybody climbed Everest yet?

Syria?

Colleague of mine just left to do just that.
Kinda worried for him.

Should have joined him!

Nope. Donetsk. You sound like you're not very good at geography.

I dropped it after the ninth grade, so no.

Nah, apart from needing like 600 bucks for equipment, I'm rdon't suscribe to tthe whole "climb that thing because it's there" thing.

I got a decent job and get all the excitment I need out of getting laid on a somewhat regualar basis.

>visit friend in Konstanz, on the shore of Bodensee
>basically a huge alpine lake between Germany and Switzerland
>first day is very rainy
>we go for a walk in the morning
>still hungover from yesterday
>got nothing on us but some whiskey, a bit of water and DOOD WEED LMAO
>enter path north of Wallhausen
>the path runs along the shore of the lake, with a high rising cliff on the other side, just getting higher and higher
>after a few dozen meters, it's fenced off due to heavy rainfall, landslides, and mortal danger
>"eh, whatever, it's gonna be ok again after a few meters"
Oh boy how wrong we were

The Foreign Legion sounds like the obvious choice.

Actually took two or three photos with my potato camera that day
>path is extremely narrow and slippery
>goes up and down
>sometimes we have to jump over small chasms from previous landslides
>come to a crossing after a while
>every path in every direction is fenced off with signs proclaiming danger of life
>my buddy who lives there says we should continue the path along the like, it has the nicest view
>we do it
>path just gets worse and worse
>sometimes there's literally vines hanging down the trees on which we can swing over those holes in the ground. Like in a fucking nintendo sidescroller
>pause, smoke, drink, take a little swim on the way
>discover waterfalls and other shit
>pretty great
>if it weren't for the fact that there isn't any way back to land
>thunderstorm coming
>fuck this, let's get outta here
>"the way back will probably be way longer, there should be a path back to land just up ahead"
>keep walking, jumping, swinging

>encounter another fence and a sign:
>"Tree felling going on here, don't trespass, you might get hit by falling trees and just die"
>"They're probably not working right now anyway, let's just go. The way back is too long"
>really hungry, wet, cold, and pissed at this point
>only got chucks on my feet and the ground is two inch deep mud
>we continue on
>we're a bit higher up on the cliffside now
>until the path stops and there's literally a 50 feet high mess of felled and broken pine trees
>no choice, we gotta go on
>start climbing over the fucking trees with wet and muddy shoes
>each of us almost falls down and dies multiple times
>takes like half a fucking hour just to cross over onto hard ground
>we're basically mud golems at this point
>my shoes are rekt
>reach hard ground only to discover there's another such section up ahead
>go through the same ordeal one more time
>it's raining heavily at this point
>we're all cold and hungry
>on the other side, there's finally a path back up the cliff

>only it's more like a serpentine waterfall of mud, not a path
>at every corner, we literally have to sprint and jump to get ahead
>otherwise we'd just slide back down in the mud
>we're all so pissed at this point, nobody's saying a word
>reach the top
>rain has passed
>it's sunny, flat terrain, beautiful landscape
>reach Langenrain
>wait for dial-a-ride transit for an hour
>just laying around the town square as if we were dead
>taxi driver picks us up
>sit in the back seat
>drives dangerous mountain roads at, I shit you not, two or three times the speed limit
>say nothing cause I just wanna get home and survive this
My buddy later told me I was as white as a sheet of paper at that point
>driver drops us off at kebab shop
>eat and celebrate our survival
Man that was fucking retarded