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You are continuously hounded by your future and past selves, all seeking your help for some reason or another. It's getting really annoying.

In fact, you believe you may have stabbed yourself to death once by accident due to your honed reflexes - look, it was dark, alright? Since you obviously don't remember being stabbed to death by anyone, you believe it was a future self. How far in the future of your personal timeline, you do not know - damn de-aging clinics.

You decided once it would be fun to see how far you could travel forward, after maxing out the time machine you arrived in the year 500 B.C.E and have since concluded that time is cyclical.

In fact, you seem to remember killing future versions of you multiple times, each completely accidental, with one time including a rather funny (if gruesome) incident involving a grand piano and a fifty story building. You suppose that this means either that paradoxes aren't as universe destroying as most people thought, or maybe you just cloned yourself... a lot. (if the quoted definition doesn't end up being true, only pay attention to the paradoxes/cloning part.)

You've met some other time travelers, some who are quite nice but there's a few who are complete jerks.

Tha can always come later. Besides, a companion like that might be a constant power drain, which is something we absolutely don't need right now.

I'll advise a set of armor, something hybrid between a biker's jacket and aztec gold/jade traditional armour. With a reptilian hide cape. Infused with power to enhance resistance and stuff. Improve and permanently bind the bow to a gauntlet, so you can invoke it for free. Do the same with an aztec obsidian mace (the bow can be left gauntlet and the mace the right). Five points in armor and mace, and four for the bow since it had one invested already. Use the last point to stabilise a trophy. Then continue hunting.

Worst case, everyone into the nearest strong tree. Bears can't climb.

Old men in a zombie apocalypse are just a liability. They're slow, got diseases, need lots of toilet breaks, can't run properly, low stamina in melee fights, easy to go insane, most likely harboring a hundred of his family who are now zombies in the nearby barn...Etc, etc.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 23, 2013, 09:11:14 am

...Harry, manatees are tropical creatures.

And there's a little pond called the Arctic Ocean which most large Arctic animals rely on to some extent.

As to your first point, he isn't a manatee, but a manatee-man, who can survive in harsher climates due to the ability to make fire and tools. Humans also once lived mostly in hot climates, but their adaptability allowed them to move to new places that they formerly could not inhabit. So I find it entirely reasonable (or at least possible to ascribe to stubbornness) that a manatee-man could survive in the tundra.

As to your second point, and I mentioned this already, we apparently live in the tundra, not the immediate Arctic, as evidenced by the presence of rabbits, elk and wolves. And you don't necessarily live near (a Stone Age, not a modern age interpretation of near, mind you) an ocean in the tundra, do you?

EDIT: Well, you would actually need to be fairly close to the ocean in the tundra, at least on Earth and not Improbable Tundra Planet, which this very well may be. There's always the taiga next to it for the consummate hydrophobe, I suppose.

If anything, him being a Manatee-Man would probably help him due to their fat stores, so they wouldn't be as affected by the cold, and could survive longer with little food. Until the fat stores go away however.